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P42 THE HEAT IS ON—IN FEBRUARY! Sample gourmet food prepared by 16 of the top restaurants in the area. Watch a heated Iron Chef competition among 10 of the finest Lowcountry chefs. Mingle with Southern authors and purchase autographed books. That is the recipe for the 4th Annual Cooks & Books.

P56 ONE SUBSTITUTE TEACHER’S VIEW OF HIS JOB AND WHY IT NEEDS A TITLE CHANGE I want to be a teacher. At least, I think I want to be a teacher. My first day subbing was nothing short of my worst fears coming true.

P14 BOB BROMAGE: COLD CASE FILES At first glance, he is your typical cop.

Cop hair. Cut short, a sprinkle of salt among the pepper. Cop shirt. Cop tie. At second glance, Captain Bob Bromage is all business.

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ICE AGE This Valentine’s Day, melt her heart with diamonds.

P27 BUT IF DIAMONDS AREN’T IN THE BUDGET...

A few other gift suggestions for the love of your life.

P28 JONATHAN GREEN: THE ARTIST FROM GARDENS CORNER With his vibrant depictions of Gullah life, Gullah people and Gullah ways, his impact on the world of art has been more than just significant. Museums and collectors of his work span the globe.

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36 P34 STRAIGHT FROM THE HEART FOR CRF On Saturday, February 13, hundreds of local residents, former residents and their guests will gather at the Crowne Plaza Resort to have a ball and benefit the Children’s Relief Fund.

P36 C2 EXCLUSIVE! AN INTERVIEW WITH JOHANN URB, STAR OF 2012.

Our fashion photographer, Krisztian Lonyai, travels to LA for an exclusive shoot and interview with Hollywood’s up-andcoming star, Johann Urb.

P62 GET HITCHED ON HILTON HEAD! A peek at some of the couples vying for the ultimate Hilton Head Island wedding.

P67 DEA SERIES: PART 3 In the final installment, we travel to Afghanistan where the war on drugs is being waged, undercover.

P73 HEALTH NOTE Can chiropractic care help an upper-respiratory infection?

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BUSINESS PARTNER SPOTLIGHTS

P52 AMERICAN WOOD REFACE When your Kitchen Needs a Face Lift

P79 CELEBRATION EVENTS The Learning Kitchen—a new venue for your next birthday party. Everyone gets their hands dirty!

Everything Else

P19 HE SAYS, SHE SAYS This month’s topic: Reality Television

P46 WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT...

Money, Money, Money. What value does it REALLY have?

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EDITOR’S NOTE. Love is such an ambiguous word.

CHRIS LANE’S SURVIVAL GUIDE Single? No worries. You, too, can survive Valentine’s Day with these helpful hints and a bit of perspective.

GOLF 101 Putting and Eye Positioning

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AND THE WINNER IS...

Congratulations to Armando Framarini, who was the lucky recipient of Mattress Firm’s $3000 Tempur-Pedic Mattress Giveaway!

C2 AFTER DARK Who’s playing where and when, along with trivia nights, and other reasons to stay up past 10 p.m.!

DISCOUNT CARD AND 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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>>> BEHIND THE SCENES Last month, after some finagling with a publicist, our fashion photographer Krisztian Lonyai got the green light to fly out to LA for an exclusive photo shoot and interview with Johann Urb, a rising Hollywood star. We figured he would be excellent eye candy for the ladies in our Valentine’s Day issue!

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Publisher / Editor-in-Chief: MAGGIE WASHO Art Director: KELLY STROUD Art & Production: CATHERINE DAVIES Director of Sales: MORGAN HODSDON Advertising Sales: HELENE STEPHENS STAN WADE ASHTON KELLEY Contributing Writers: DR. RENATO FRANK DUNNE JR. PAUL DEVERE LINDA S. HOPKINS CRAIG HYSELL KEITH KELSON CHRIS LANE PAULA MAGRINI COURTNEY HAMPSON PETE POPOVICH KATHERYN WALL LEW WESSEL JEAN WHARTON Contributing Photographers / Artist: JONATHAN GREEN PHOTOGRAPHY

BY ANNE JOHN BRACKETT PHOTOGRAPHY

Ahhhh....Love.

“Love” is such an ambiguous word. It can take on many different forms, depending on whom you ask and what situation you speak of. In reference to Valentine’s Day, one most often associates love with romance. With the onslaught of Cupid’s yearly pilgrimage to our general vicinity, I find myself mulling over past relationships. It’s amusing to me how much my view of romantic love has changed with each man I encountered. Did I learn a few things along the way? You bet I did. I give you a brief history...

FIRST LOVE Nothing can compare to it. He had beautiful brown eyes and a warm smile.

We met on a camping trip. I was sixteen, he was eighteen. For awhile we didn’t live in the same state so there were love letters (neither one of us had cell phones so texting was not an option), large phone bills and lots of doodling and daydreaming. It was a beautiful thing. Until we grew up and it was over.

THE OLDER MAN There is so much to learn when you date an older man. You find that your musical interests are completely different when you are born in different decades.

Generally, a more mature person has a different outlook on life because they have already experienced more of it than you have. This can be a good thing. I learned a lot, specifically, that dating more in my age group was better for me.

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THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY The conversation was stimulating. We traveled a lot. My friends loved him and his friends loved me...well, all except for one.

He was extremely intelligent, outgoing and had unlimited energy for new projects. He pushed me to be a better person, for which I am forever indebted. When I look back at this relationship, I think it is exactly what I would like to find again. I just wasn’t ready at the time.

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PETER PAN It’s a common ailment here in the Lowcountry – the boy who doesn’t want to grow up. He was the life of the party and boy did we have fun. But eventually the

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fun has to end- or at least be limited to one or two nights a week. This relationship ended on relatively good terms, however, so I still enjoy Peter Pan’s company as a friend.

A COMPLETE DISASTER This dangerous liaison can be summed up with one word...T.R.O.U.B.L.E. Chemistry was the operative influence in this doomed-fromthe-beginning association. Different world views, opposing morals and religious views...we couldn’t even really agree on a restaurant. But chemistry is a powerful drug and sometimes blinds one to bad decisions. Lesson learned? No chemistry is worth the utter chaos it can wreak in your life...or is it? Hmmmm...

Which brings me back to where I started. Single.

But absolutely, positively still in love with “love.”

Happy Valentine’s Day!

M. Washo Publisher/ Editor-in-Chief

m.washo@celebratehiltonhead.com

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C2 CONTEST

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WINNER IS...

DON’T HATE SOUR PUSS, CONGRATULATE

ARMANDO FRAMARINI OF MOSS CREEK!

In December, C2 paired with Mattress Firm to give away a $3000 Tempur-Pedic mattress to one lucky winner. Armando’s mother entered him in to the contest (which he laughed at because “I never win anything!”) Boy was he surprised!

FEBRUARY CONTEST YOU DIDN’T THINK WE WOULD LEAVE YOU HANGIN?

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ENTER TO WIN A WINE COOLER (FULLY STOCKED!) This month’s contest is sponsored by Dave Miller of Superior Heating and Air. Enter by logging onto WWW.SUPERIORHEATINGANDAIR.COM by February 28th, 2010.

The winner will be announced and photographed with their new wine cooler in our April issue!

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Article by Courtney Hampson Naughton // Photography by Anne

BoB Bromage:

Cold Case Files

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t first glance, he is your typical cop. Cop hair. Cut short, a sprinkle of salt among the pepper. Cop shirt. Tan not white.

Cop tie. Tan and green—no contrasting colors.

At second glance, Captain Bob Bromage is all business.

In his twentieth year with the Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office, Bromage is Criminal Investigations Branch Commander, responsible for all detailed and technical criminal investigations not assigned to the Enforcement (Uniformed) Patrol.

Originally from Connecticut, Bromage entered the Army after High School and was stationed in Savannah, where he became familiar with the Lowcountry and Beaufort County. After leaving the Army, he moved back North and began his search for a position in law enforcement with the Connecticut State Police. At the time, however, available positions were few and far between, and a job posting would attract 2,000 applications. Rather than waiting to be the needle found in the hay stack, Bromage journeyed south

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once again and was hired in 1990 as a patrolman for Beaufort County, working the midnight shift.

As most crime happens under the cover of darkness, the midnight shift was “pro-active patrol,” meaning Bromage would be at the scene of the crime oftentimes not long after the crime was reported. And that is where he got the bug—the investigative bug.

Since that time he has risen through the ranks and held positions handling traumatic death investigations, working with the coroner’s office, working surveillance (in an oceanfront villa for three months, the view perhaps a bright spot in the often dismal reality of what he sees every day), and even working with Court TV on a re-enactment of one of his solved crimes, where he tells me the director made him get in and out of his police cruiser 15 times because he “wasn’t doing it right.” “I know how to get out of my car,” he quipped sarcastically.

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Impressively, bromage is a 2001 graduate of the FbI National academy, a distinction that less than half of one percent of all law enforcement officers hold.

In addition to FbI training, the FbI National academy also serves as a learning and research center, an advocate for best practices throughout the global criminal justice community, and a place where law enforcement professionals worldwide are able to forge relationships and share experience and knowledge—all a bonus for the residents of beaufort County. (It’s nice to know that our local law enforcement has connections around the world.) In addition, for the past two years, bromage served as president of the South Carolina Chapter of the FbI National academy, with his term ending December 31, 2009.

Today part of his responsibility The work is noT easy. Bromage has as Criminal Investigations branch Commander includes the cold case seen horriBle Things—Things ThaT files, of which there are 15 in beaufort would keep mosT of us awake aT County, dating back to 1972. a case becomes a cold case when the leads nighT—images ThaT would haunT dry up and the momentum stalls. Cold our dreams. BuT Bromage is maTTer cases are still active, and as there is no of facT. “you have To desensiTize, statute of limitations in South Carolina for major violent crimes, bromage flip The swiTch,” he said. and his team continue to work these cases day in and day out. This is the stuff television dramas are made of, but bromage isn’t a fan of made-for-TV police work. “Most of what you see on TV is not accurate. It takes more than 60 minutes to investigate and solve most crimes,” he said.

Cold case files are tougher than most. “you have to create your own luck and know that persistence pays. There is somebody out there who knows exactly what happened in each of these cases,” bromage said. “How do they live with themselves?”

So, he is on the road a lot—interviewing witnesses, combing over the files repeatedly, reviewing the evidence—looking for that one clue, that one person that will re-ignite the case.

The work is not easy. bromage has seen horrible things—things that would keep most of us awake at night—images that would haunt our dreams. but bromage is matter of fact. “you have to desensitize, flip the switch,” he said. There are the good days, like when he gets to knock on a front door and tell a family that the case has been solved. The bad days are more frequent. “They are stamped in your mind,” bromage said. His worst day was in 2002 when the Sheriff’s Department lost two officers, Corporal a.J. Coursen and Lance Corporal Dana Tate, who were responding to a domestic dispute and were ambushed. both died at the scene and left wives and children behind. The shooter was arrested about a mile away after a large manhunt.

He was convicted of murder and sentenced to die by a beaufort County jury. He sits on death row today. “you remember the first fatality you saw, the most recent scene, those that make the largest impact. The rest … you try to forget,” said bromage. but how?

“I exercise a lot, I focus on my daughter, alexandra, and I seek a healthy balance.”

Probably easier said than done when you develop a personal connection to each case (bromage easily spoke from memory about every victim in the cold case files), and to each victim’s family.

In contrast, he must also make a connection and build a rapport with suspects. How does he stomach that? “Trickery, ruse, and deception—the tools of investigation,” bromage said. He has to be part actor and part psychologist, because where normal emotion should prevail, he has to shut those feelings down to be an effective interrogator.

Interrogation skills aren’t the only skills that bromage finds key to his success. “you need passion, common sense, street savvy, adaptability, and a very good working knowledge of forensic science and the technology that is available and ever-changing.”bromage credits his mentors, beaufort County Sheriff P.J. Tanner, former Deputy Director of the FbI Deke DeLoach, retired Major David randall of the beaufort County Sheriff’s Office, and his own father for showing him the importance of all of the above. and, he humbly hopes that his legacy includes passing on some of the same—creating good, well-rounded investigators.

His job is “a surprise a minute,” and while he does get frustrated, bromage will never give up. He loves his job—so much so that I had a hard time uncovering any personal information. However, since he educated me on the proper techniques of 16

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interrogation, I turned the tables, used a little trickery, ruse and deception of my own and was able to uncover the real man and some answers to our deepest questions: Starbucks drink of choice? Coffee, bold and dark, chased with water.

Starsky or Hutch? Hutch.

Favorite police drama? Miami Vice.

Whereabouts on the night of December 31, 2009?

Command duty.

Powdered or glazed donuts? Powdered.

Why no copstache? No tattoos, no facial hair.

Sunglasses of choice? Oakley.

When eating in a restaurant, does he sit where he can watch the door? Normally.

Is gum chewing an essential job function? Rarely.

Does he always carry a gun? No. Streaker. Watch or apprehend? Apprehend, every time.

(Note: there was a definite pause before this answer.)

While his job is no joking manner, I did discover a down-to-earth cop, who still takes the time to laugh, to have a good time, and to find balance. And I … have a little bit of a crush.

ABOUT THE COLD CASE FILES

The Beaufort County Sheriff’s Office has made cold case files accessible to the public at www.bcso.net/coldcases. php in the hopes that someone might come forward with information that may have yet to be uncovered. No matter how insignificant it may seem, any information offered in reference to a cold case could prove to be the missing link needed to solve the case. If you think you might have any information regarding a cold case, contact Captain Bob Bromage at (843) 816-8013 or via email at bbromage@ hargray.com.  FEBRUARY 2010

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fter more than 53 years on the air, As the World Turns will be signing off for good this year.

CbS has announced that it will not renew As the World Turns for the 2010/2011 television season.

The long-running soap opera that my mom, grandmother and great grandmother watched will air its final episode in September.

The network cites the program’s low ratings and the network’s need to tighten its belt in these tough economic times. In other words, viewers can look forward to more hours of reality television. I hope they’re not expecting me to come along for the ride. I’d rather watch my 20-year-old VHS tapes of Mid-atlantic Championship Wrestling. Most reality television is garbage, and while there are exceptions, the norm is hot garbage. you’ve gotta hand it to those network executives. They make con men like bernie Madoff look like choir boys. They promote reality television as gritty, zany unscripted fly-on-the-wall type shows where the viewer is watching real people. Just pretend not to notice that most of the real people on these shows tend to be either struggling actors trying to break into showbiz or has beens like Lorenzo Lamas trying to get their names back on the a-list. a quick check of the Internet Movie Database will prove that the phrase, “reality television” is one of the best examples of an oxymoron. you know, like “honest politician” or “jumbo shrimp.” you’ll find that the average reality show has writers, a director, a producer, and the people being filmed are referred to as a “cast,” which is what actors in a dramatic or comedic production are usually called. The truth of the matter is that the loyal television viewer is being duped into believing that the traditional television shows that are scripted are phony and that “reality television” is gritty, hard-hitting real life television. Nothing could be further from the truth. you want the truth? Most reality television shows are nothing more than boring, low-budget situation comedies or docudramas, featuring rigged game shows without a studio audience.

They can be made in a hurry, are cheap to produce and, because the stars are either glorified nobodies or has-beens that people have forgotten about, no one raises a fuss if the show has low ratings and has to be cancelled. When a reality show fails to live up to expectations, it simply vanishes and the conveyor belt in Hollywood churns out another one.

When a show like As the World Turns is cancelled, however, there’s bound to be a letter writing campaign from the fans.

Sooner or later, the other networks will start circling the skies like vultures anticipating a meal. They’ll send some hot rising star reporter to interview the cast of the soon-tobe-cancelled show, and they’ll make sure to interview the show’s most vocal and weirdest fans. The lady with 45 cats who bakes cakes emblazoned with the likenesses of the show’s February 2010

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deceased cast members will get at least 10 minutes of screen time.

The networks love this cycle and refer to it as the circle of life, because it’s the ultimate win/win situation for them. They’re still in the business of storytelling, but they get to pretend that they’re not and can act like they’re offering the viewer something brand new that’s never been done before. Their competition gets to do various entertainment pieces on the demise of yet another beloved show; Mary Hart gets to do some interviews and everyone goes away happy. except people like me who know the truth. everyone should know by now that the overwhelming majority of reality shows have scripts that are followed to the letter and are edited to enhance various situations for dramatic or comedic effect. Sound familiar?

Like say, a soap opera or a situation comedy? but the main difference is that real professional actors and writers tend to belong to unions or guilds and usually tend to strike right around the same time that the professional baseball players do. That’s also a circle of life type deal.

Most of the actors on reality television shows, however, can barely string two coherent sentences together and are way too busy trying to find out which nightclub will let them in for free. They don’t have time for complex labor issues, and it’s because most of them are nuts. Quiet as it’s kept, having a production crew with cameras documenting your every move nonstop is far from glamorous and it just ain’t normal. One of the reasons most reality stars are nuttier than the average fruitcake is that being around that many cameras and not being named Zsa Zsa will drive the average person bonkers. Imagine the damage being done to the brain of someone desperate enough to believe that being on a reality show will jumpstart their career.

Now, I’m an average guy, and I don’t really require much when it comes to entertainment.

Sure, I occasionally watch Masterpiece Theatre, but as I pointed out earlier, I also enjoy watching professional wrestling. Just because it’s wrestling doesn’t mean it’s not quality entertainment. Why, the production values, storylines and the performance of the wrestlers during Mid-atlantic’s heyday dwarfs anything that modern reality television has to offer. back then, professional wrestling or “wrasslin” as it was called by all the neighborhood mechanics, wasn’t sports entertainment. It was an honorable, noble profession in which former professional football players could make a name for themselves while entertaining millions of people. ernie “The big Cat” Ladd and Wahoo McDaniels come to mind, as they excelled on both the gridiron and inside the wrestling ring.

It’s ironic that when I was a kid, there were loads people always yammering on and on about how professional wrestling was staged—how it was phony and it wasn’t real.

They were the same people who couldn’t wait to let you know Santa Claus wasn’t real

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a man’s point of view and that the easter bunny and bugs bunny weren’t related. I wonder where those people are now that the airwaves are saturated with “reality television.” How come they’re not shouting from the rooftops about how VH1’s Flavor of Love isn’t real? also, I remember that MTV and VH1 used to be music channels.

Where did all the music videos go? Did they stop making them, or does abC’s news magazine 20/20 air them now?

I’ll say this: If you’re parked in front of a television set watching drivel like Jersey Shore or some other reality program that doesn’t have “Nature boy” ric Flair and ricky “The Dragon” Steamboat squaring off for the heavyweight title, you don’t know what you’re missing. I also have to point out that bugs bunny and the easter bunny are indeed related. They’re third cousins. I hear the easter bunny may do a reality show featuring his stint in rehab as he tries to kick his addiction to marshmallow peeps.  www.celebratehiltonhead.com 19

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s I pen this month’s article, I’m watching the premiere episode of the new season of The Bachelor (subtitled: “On The Wings of Love,” because the “bach” is a pilot). I cringe as one of the ladies makes an embarrassingly forward move (says something to the effect of wanting to be his “co-pilot in life”) and surrenders her questionable character in order to tell him that she is really here for true love. eck! I know it is awful, dreadful pseudo-reality television garbage, but I can’t turn away. This is the television equivalent of peeking into the bearded lady’s tent at a carnival.

The gig is up with reality TV. I don’t think any viewer of sound mind could accept for one minute that any of the countless shows, spanning all genres of life, are, in fact, real in any way. One quick gander at the list of producers, story editors and directors on one of those shows is a tell-tale sign that reality TV is about as authentic as a soap opera. This is a modern day circus side show, and there is no reason to expect reality TV to pack up and go away.

There are gag-reflux-inducing reality television shows that do little more for humanity as a form of art or entertainment than say, cockfighting or public executions. Those shows that seek to humiliate participants, glorify the worst aspects of human nature and exploit the self-esteem challenged, should find their way into the television history books. There is enough aCTuaL humiliation and exploitation in the world that we don’t need to contribute to it by creating 20

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more for the sake of entertainment.

It is also important to note that the newest genre of reality television, the celebrity reality, is equally as humiliating and exploitative. any person famous for his or her actual merits, achievements or character should appreciate the recognition in their given field and continue down their chosen path. Football players don’t need their own show about how they are trying to find a woman.

Singers don’t need cameras following them around as they go through rehab. are we so bored and uninteresting that we’d rather watch a washed-up actor try to restart his career with a reality show than go out and create our own realities? Somewhere along the line, the american viewing public gave television producers the power to create celebrities out of thin air, like Geppetto made Pinocchio.

People are egocentric and narcissistic. Seeking notoriety, fame and infamy is not a human trait that is specific to our modern civilization.

The Pharaohs wanted to live forever; the Greeks wanted to be worshiped as gods; and now we have everyday people wanting to be treated like Oscar winners because they appeared on a reality TV show.

I do actually like the game show-inspired types of reality TV. Globetrotting races, culinary challenges, design competitions, weight loss battles are what they seem and don’t need to try to be more. People on those types of shows actually exhibit some talent, creativity and skill as opposed to sitting around a hot tub getting drunk at the Jersey Shore. reality TV could actually have a positive effect on our culture, contribute to change in the world and create artistic snapshots of life during this time on earth. There are some socially conscious shows that do seek to hold a mirror up to the viewer regarding difficult issues (drugs and alcohol abuse, poverty, environmental issues, etc.). There could be more humanitarian profiles and reality TV programs that show the very best of the human experiences—more documentaries about our successes as human beings, rather than inflated problems, weaknesses and faults as a civilization.

I write in full acknowledgment of the many lost hours of my life, more than I care to admit, sitting on the sofa watching strangers’ lives edited for content, enhanced with theme music and dramatized for entertainment. I recognize that it makes me a cog in the wheel of reality television’s power in our culture. Sadly, I know that in some small way I’ve participated in George Orwell’s vision of our time. I just hope that my TV isn’t looking back at me...

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FISHING LINE

JONATHAN GREEN

THE ARTIST FROM GARDENS CORNER JONATHAN'S ARTWORK C AN BE FOUND ON HIS WEBSITE AT WWW.JONATHANGREENSTUDIOS.COM OR LOC ALLY AT MORRIS & WHITESIDE GALLERY.

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n May 6th, artist Jonathan Green will be in Columbia to receive the 2010 Elizabeth O’Neill Verner Governor’s Awards for the Arts Lifetime Achievement. It’s the highest honor the state gives in the arts. With his vibrant depictions of Gullah life and Gullah people and Gullah ways, his impact on the world of art has been more than just significant. Museums and collectors of his work span the globe.

But for the kid who grew up in Gardens Corner, South Carolina, another award may be more treasured. Green related the story. “In school, when they noticed my talents, the teachers and then the students asked me to do drawings and help them out with their projects, so I was drawing all of my life. I don’t remember being without drawing,” he said.

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>>> THE YOUNG ARTIST WENT ON TO ROBERT SMALLS MIDDLE SCHOOL WHERE HE EXPERIENCED HIS FIRST FORMAL ARTS SETTING.

“Back in those days (early 1960s), we used to have Friday programs in the auditorium at Dale Elementary school. I did most of the bulletin boards in the classes I was in. And my work was entered into the county art fair. I won first prize. That gave me a big boost.”

The young artist went on to Robert Smalls Middle School where he experienced his first formal arts setting. He continued to be active in the arts at Beaufort High School, spending his summers on Parris Island. “I worked in the ceramics department there. So I got an opportunity to paint a lot and work with glazes. There was a variety of wonderful people from around the country and around the world there, wives of Marines stationed on Parris Island. I had an opportunity to dialogue with people from different places and got a lot of feedback about my work,” Green said.

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the military he went to a vocational school in East Grand Forks, Minnesota where he concentrated in textile design. But his teacher there really wanted Green to go to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. And it was in the Windy City that Green and his brush blossomed, as did his idea about the subject matter that would be a life long focus.

At the time, the Art Institute was a combination museum and school. The museum, one of the most respected in the world, is known for its collection of 19th-century French Impressionists (Claude Monet) and 20th Century European and American art (Grant Wood’s American Gothic, and Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks).

The school has had the same kind of recognition and reputation since its founding in the late 1800s. Some artists who were young students there include Georgia O’Keeffe, Thomas Hart Benton, Grant Wood, Ivan Albright, Ed Paschke, Halston, LeRoy Neiman, and David Sedaris. It was this world the young FEBRUARY 2010

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man from Gardens Corner entered. It was at the Institute he discovered a hole in the soul of american art. “as a young african american student at the art Institute, in the museum, there was only one image by an african american, that was a Jacob Lawrence,” Green said. Lawrence developed his talents in the 1930s in the Works Progress administration, or WPa. His best-known works are his series on historical and social themes, such as Life in Harlem and War series, a homage to WWII soldiers.

“I was always perplexed by that.

In looking at the continent of africa and looking at 20th century art which came from africa, I just couldn’t understand why the facial image of the african american person was problematic for most people. you didn’t see the images in homes, with the exception of the afri-Cobra movement. Many an african american artist, from the 18th and 19th centuries, were not allowed to paint, to depict their own imagery. They could only do landscapes and floral painting.,” Green said. He discovered that all changed with the WPa. Once you’ve been in a traditional art school and you’ve studied all the masters, you get lots of good information about

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the art world. The ways they painted, what they painted. I found, consistently, what was lacking in terms of my visual exposure were the imagery of african american people. and I thought I had a great opportunity to depict some of that imagery. after school, I found and started studying the WPa artists and the history of the WPa movement. I became very active in research about the WPa and started collecting painters and sculptors from that period,” Green explained.

He felt he had another perspective, another vision. In many of Green’s paintings, the point of view is often from the back of the subject, not portraiture, not face on, but from behind. “My work, in terms of my early attempt to become a painter, well I wanted to paint from of the earliest perspective of a child, the child being myself. Most children remember the rear of people in the country, that’s how we’re taught. We’re taught to follow adults in the rear. That way you’re protected, they know where you are. and you’re much more observant from the rear,” Green explained. In so much of his work the viewer is, indeed, looking at the world of the Gullah through the eyes of a child. There

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a child. There is an innocence, a childlike optimism, a sense of hope. And in many an outrageous sense of color. Those vivid hues, Green said, are “factual.”

“If we look at the fashion world, especially from the 40s and 50s, that was a time when many primary colors were used in fashion design.

Clothing that I saw as a child was clothing that was reflective of the 40s because many of the people had hand down clothing. Cords, heavy silks, heavy cotton, those types of fabric, were very strong in color. Fabric sold in shops (around Gardens Corners) were older fabrics. People from my community still maintaining their African-ness.

They were attracted to those colors and those patterns. Their attraction, aside from its vividness, was also a way of confusing the spirits, the evil gods. They felt the more vivid and elaborate they dressed in patters and colors and layers, the better chance they had to ward off evil spirits,” Green said.

With all his travels, Green said he has three homes: the Lowcountry, Chicago and

Naples, Florida where he spent the last 25 years at his gallery there, painting the vision of his first home and his people. He has moved back to the Lowcountry and has opened a studio on Daniel Island, just north of Charleston (appointment only). But this month, he will return to one of his other homes, Chicago, for a short time. On February 27, Off the Wall and Onto the Stage, Dancing the Art of Jonathan Green at the Harris Theatre will be performed. It is a ballet that brings 22 of Green’s paintings to life and through dance, music and fine art, tells the story of the Gullah culture. There will also be an exhibit at the South Side Community Arts Center of a collection of posters Green has produced for a variety of events.

In 2002, Green was awarded the Order of the Palmetto for the Arts by the State of South Carolina. In 2009, Green received the Key of Life Award from the NAACP for his “contributions and achievements in the visual fire arts.” The list is long and deserved. But that one the little boy from Gardens Corner got from Beaufort County so long ago, well, as he said, that one gave him a “boost.”  WHISPERING BREEZE

Straight from the Heart Valentine Dinner Dance Benefits CRF Article by Linda S. Hopkins

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n Saturday, February 13, at 6:30 p.m., hundreds of local residents, former residents and their guests will gather at the Crowne Plaza Resort to have a ball. It’s the Children’s Relief Fund’s 14th annual Valentine dinner dance and auction to raise money for area children who suffer from various physical, mental and developmental disabilities.

But don’t think this is a maudlin occasion. According to CRF founder, Rose Fotia, the formal (black-tie optional) event is a gala celebration and a grand reunion for supporters. “We do the whole Valentine experience, from roses to chocolates,” she said.

Activities include a gourmet

surf and turf dinner (including hors d’oeuvres and wine) as well as live and silent auctions, featuring exotic trips, fun parties, restaurant certificates, golf outings, art and a variety of other goods and services from businesses throughout the community. And then there’s the hot dance band…

This year’s entertainment will be provided by Intensity, a high-energy, seven-piece band that delivers a powerpacked, fully choreographed show guaranteed to keep the dance floor packed. Intensity’s extensive song list includes hits from every musical era.

The band will cruise through the best of R&B, Motown, funk, disco, dance and beach music.

“This has evolved into a really wonderful evening,” said Fotia, describing the energy

About Children’s Relief Fund Children’s Relief Fund (CRF) is a non-profit organization founded in 1991 by Rose and Frank Fotia.

The group consists of volunteers who raise money to help fund therapy, equipment, summer programs and other activities for disabled children in the Hilton Head Island and Bluffton area.

Working on a volunteer basis only, Rose Fotia and her son Gregory. board members include a local pediatrician, speech and language pathologist, physical therapist assistant, social worker, local business people and parents.

Children’s Relief Fund has been the source of funding all or in part to our local Special Olympics, four summer camps, cheerleading programs, and a variety of social activities and educational opportunities. For more information regarding programs and available benefits, to volunteer or make a donation, visit www.thechildrensrelieffund.org or call Rose Fotia at (843) 681-7668.

and diversity of the crowd, united in the spirit of love.

A love story

“It started because I had a little boy [Gregory] who was disabled,” said Fotia. He had a very rare seizure disorder called West Syndrome which left him unable to do anything for himself, she explained.

He was tube fed, wheelchair bound. “We took him all over the country to various doctors.

Nobody could tell us why.”

Fotia and her husband, Frank, were fortunate in that they could afford to provide for their son, she said, but they met many families who couldn’t.

And in 1989, there were no programs for these children.

The Fotias decided they were either going to have to move or do something about it. They chose to stay and create a nonprofit organization called the Children’s Relief Fund.

Gregory passed away in 2000, just shy of his 12th birthday. “What’s so cool is that his legacy lives on through this event [the Valentine dinner dance]. It’s a huge celebration of his life,” said Fotia. “People come back every year—some who have disabled children and some who don’t—people who have been touched by our family or others who have

children with disabilities and just want to be a part of this.”

Fotia says it is out of her pain that her life purpose has been revealed. “Gregory wasn’t expected to live beyond age five. When he lived to be almost 12, that was a little miracle in itself,” she said. “When he died, continuing [with CRF] was a natural. It was never just about Gregory. It was about helping others. The way I look at it, it’s a way to keep his work alive.

It’s his memory. That’s what keeps me going. It’s almost like he’s here cheering me on.”

Her faith has helped her put it in perspective, said Fotia. “When I sit back and look at the whole story, I know it was all planned out. God knows what he’s doing. Now that I look back, I think what a wonderful life this child had. If you could measure your life by how much you were loved… he was the most loved person.”

According to Fotia, her oldest son, Frank, was particularly close to his brother, taking on many care-giving responsibilities and including Gregory in his circle of friends.

Today, as adults, Frank and many of his friends return to Hilton Head Island to remember Gregory and participate in the event honoring his life.

“Gregory’s life was short

February 13, 2010, 6:30 p.m. • Crowne Plaza Resort • To support the Children’s Relief Fund in their efforts to aid families of children with disabilities • $125 per person, includes dinner, wine and a full evening of entertainment. Call Rose at 681-7668.

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but very meaningful,” said Fotia. He was this beautiful little boy. You couldn’t be in the room and not feel the love that this child had.”

The greater gift

While nobody ever wants anything to be wrong with their child, Fotia says that her personal tragedy has proved to be a blessing in many ways.

“When you spend time with these children, you take away something that you can’t take away from anyone else. Their purity—their genuine love—is just so precious. It’s amazing.

They don’t have any ulterior motives. It’s unconditional.

They are sick, yet despite the struggle, they go about their lives every day with a smile on their face, and they’re happy.

Just watching these kids makes me know that this didn’t all happen for naught.”

Photos from the 2009 Children’s Relief Fund’s Annual dinner dance

Although Fotia is the founder of CRF and continues to work tirelessly toward the cause, she is quick to credit her board of directors and all of her supporters. “It’s a huge group of people who work with this who are all so committed to helping these wonderful kids,” she said.

The annual Valentine dinner dance is Children’s Relief Fund’s only major fundraiser.

The organization is strictly local, contributing approximately $200, 000 per year to the community. “We serve children in the Hilton Head Island and Bluffton area, so all the money we raise stays here,” said Fotia.

“We’re all volunteers. Nobody makes any money. It all goes to the kids. It’s tangible—something that you can see. Look at how much better their lives are because of this fundraiser. This is what makes it all happen.” 

here are an infinite number of paths in life, yet all are the same in one respect: they are what you make of them, no more, no less. The choice between optimism and negativity, between doing and watching, between giving and indulging, between challenging yourself and living in your comfort zone are all just that: a choice. What you do with your life—all of it—is up to you, which is pretty freakin’ cool, if you ask Johann Urb. The 33 year-old actor, probably best known thus far as the pilot in the mega-action flick, 2012, has been acting since he was 20 years-old, but his pursuit has become larger than landing movie roles. Acting has allowed Urb to pursue a path of self-discovery through a medium he truly enjoys. “I’m in a perpetual state of learning,” he says of his life. “I’m always in awe of my surroundings. That’s why I love art. It doesn’t always necessarily make sense, but it’s in a constant state of child-like being and openness.”

However, if you think Urb spends all his time swaddled in robes, burning incense and chanting mystic “Om’s” you have largely mistaken the man. Each way is made up of many paths. Urb loves the outdoors and spends a lot of his time jogging along the trails and among the trees near his home in Topanga Canyon—inside the Santa Monica Mountains along the western side of Los Angeles County, California. He hits the ocean, practices Krav Maga and CrossFit. What’s CrossFit? It’s the most intense, most functional and most fun exercise program ever invented for specializing in general, inclusive fitness. CrossFit trains people to be as prepared as possible for the unknown and the unknowable.

What’s more open-minded than that? “It’s amazing how simple and effective that stuff is,” said Urb. “And how challenging.” And that just about sums up Urb’s personal philosophy: a mindset geared toward simplicity, effectiveness and challenge. How complicated.

Born in what was the then Soviet-occupied country of

Estonia, Urb remembers being “interviewed” by the KGB as a child. His father was even imprisoned by the Russian government for playing music. A letter from Urb’s influential uncle to Mikhail Gorbachev is the only thing that got his father released. After that, the Urbs left the country or his father risked being removed “permanently.”

Urb moved to Finland at age 10 and then to the United States at 17. He is now a U.S. citizen. That kind of intense childhood can harden a person, but Urb is about as far from stoic as Richard Pryor. He is relaxed, confident and at ease with himself. Not too bad for a guy who makes a career of putting himself on film for the world to judge. In fact, he’s so honest, the following interview just may surprise you: C2: Having been born in a Soviet occupied country, do you feel like you appreciate America more than maybe, say, some of us who were born here?

Johann Urb: For me, it’s the land of opportunity. It’s the land where everything’s possible, where you can really achieve things. I think, for those people who haven’t traveled, you don’t realize how good you have it and how available everything is. You’re not stuck in a social class. You can achieve anything here. You really wish people might go abroad more so they can appreciate what they have here.

C2: Do you still take acting classes?

JU: Yes. Acting has become my spiritual path. I’m studying with a master right now. I’ve found somebody who constantly inspires me and allows me to discover more parts of myself and life, who is also, himself, on a path of perpetual discovery. He’s the first to say he doesn’t have all the answers.

That’s so rare to be in the presence of somebody who is such a good example. He’s a master, yes, but he’s continually learning himself. Continually in awe.

C2: What do you feel it takes for a person to be successful at achieving their dream?

JU: I heard a story from a guy who worked with Marlon

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Brando once. He’d asked Marlon Brando, “What’s the secret to success?” Brando said, “Stick around, kid. Just stick around.” I think what’s really important is perseverance. I’ve heard another guy say, “An overnight success in Hollywood is 10 years in the making.” That applies to a lot of things. If you’re passionate about something, just keep doing it. Don’t get bitter. Be strong. Don’t give up. Don’t talk yourself out of it. Believe in yourself. That’s my understanding.

C2: If you could be any superhero in the world, who would you want to be?

JU: Wow, that’s a good question. It’s tough. Superheroes are always so lonely. They’ve got it tough, you know? They’re always out saving people and stuff. Um… I might be like Yoda or something. Yoda would be good, right? Because then you’re just chilling; you’re by yourself a lot in nature, teaching people how to be awesome all the time.

C2: What is the most important virtue or asset that an actor can have?

JU: Honesty.

C2: In your life so far, what have you found that’s been overrated?

JU: I don’t know. Nothing comes to mind. I think it’s possible to find something amazing in everything. It all comes down to your own expectations of something.

How Zen. Johann Urb can currently be seen in 2012 and Strictly Sexual as well as guest starring stints for CSI: Miami and Entourage. For those of you who want to cruise your DVD files, look for him in Zoolander as Mugatu’s bodyguard. He’ll be the really, really, ridiculously good-looking one (other than Ben Stiller). What you won’t see is that Urb, no matter what his most likely stellar acting career will bring, was a success long before most of us ever heard his funky sounding name. 

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ample gourmet food prepared by 16 of the top restaurants in the area. Watch a heated Iron Chef competition among 10 of the finest Lowcountry chefs. Mingle with Southern authors and purchase autographed books.

If this sounds like the perfect recipe for curing the midwinter blahs, join the crowds at the 4th annual Cooks & Books celebration, February 21, from 11:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., center court at the Mall at Shelter Cove on Hilton Head Island. Sponsored

by Friends of Literacy Volunteers of the Lowcountry, this highly anticipated event draws locals and visitors alike to an afternoon of food and fun for the entire family.

Foodies have come to anticipate the iron chef competition “The Heat is On,” staged right at center court. Aficionados of the culinary arts can observe the techniques of their favorite local chefs as they race the clock to prepare their finest dishes from an array of “mystery” ingredients presented to them just before the competition begins. A panel of experts will judge the results from two preliminary rounds before the winners are pitted against each other in a final race to be named the Lowcountry’s ultimate iron chef.

This year’s entrants promise a spirited competition. Chefs participating include Stephen Stewart of TidePointe, Keith Josefiak of Old Fort Pub, and Yuri Gow of Antonio’s along with Luke Lyons of Frankie Bones, Aram Hartunian of Sandstone Catering, and Ryan Alpaugh of Alligator Grille. Giving them a run for their money will be chefs Rob Britton of Charley’s Crab, Eric Seaglund of Aqua Grille & Lounge, Russell Keane of Wise Guys, and Kenny Ballard of Kenny B’s French Quarter Café.

Cooks & Books will also feature a variety of authors who either live in or write about the Lowcountry. Scheduled to appear are Patti Callahan Henry, Karen White, Jackie K. Cooper, C.J. Lyons, Mary Kay Andrews, Sallie Ann Robinson, and Kathryn R. Wall, along with a few surprises. Authors will be available to autograph their books purchased at the event from 12:30 to 2:30 p.m.

Pat Ward, chairperson of Cooks & Books, is delighted with the lineup. “Featuring great local authors along with the best food in the Lowcountry seems like a perfect fit. Literacy Volunteers is about helping people to improve their communication skills on all levels, and it’s a cause writers are passionate about. Over the years I’ve been associated with Cooks & Books, I’ve heard

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nothing but enthusiasm from the authors who’ve participated. and the folks who attend the event are always excited to meet and chat with the authors of some of their favorite books.” barnes & Noble of Hilton Head is in charge of securing the authors’ books and offering them for sale to attendees of the event.

Advance tickets are $15 per person, $20 at the door and include unlimited tastings from such local favorites as Frankie bones, Tapas, antonio’s, and Old Fort Pub. also offering samples from their fabulous menus will be redfish, CQ’s, alligator Grille, aqua Grille & Lounge, bistro 17, Ocean Grille, Charley’s Crab, Kenny b’s French Quarter Café, French bakery, Sandstone Catering, Wise Guys, and Cookies by Design. Water, soft drinks, and beer and wine will be available for purchase. attendees have the opportunity to vote for the People’s Choice award for their favorite among these outstanding presentations.

Tickets are available at burke’s Pharmacy on Main Street and Le Cookery at Wexford Village Shoppes, Hilton Head; Markel’s Cards & Gifts in Kittie’s Crossing, bluffton; or at Literacy Volunteers’ offices: 4 Oak Park Drive in Hilton Head, 1-b Kittie’s Landing Way in bluffton, or 1403 Prince Street in beaufort. Or you can purchase Cooks & books tickets online at www.lowcountryliteracy.org.

In addition to the Sunday festivities, you can kick off this weekend of celebration of the culinary and literary arts at the Cooks & books Preview Party to be held on Friday, February 19, from 6 to 9 p.m. This gala event is held annually at TidePointe, a Classic residence by Hyatt, on Hilton Head Island. It features a lavish buffet prepared by executive chef and iron chef competitor Stephen Stewart and is served in

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TidePointe’s newly renovated and spectacularly redecorated clubhouse. a silent auction with a wide range of offerings may be enough to tempt attendees from the fabulous array of desserts as well as the chance to mingle and chat with some of the authors and chefs slated to appear at the Sunday event.

Tickets are $75 per person in advance, and space is limited.

Contact Literacy Volunteers at their bluffton office at 815-6616 or purchase online at www.lowcountryliteracy.org. and it’s all for an excellent cause. Literacy Volunteers of the Lowcountry has been serving beaufort County for more than three decades, bettering the lives of area residents through their basic adult literacy and eSOL programs. Nancy Williams, executive director of LVL, sums up the agency’s impact: “Since its inception 36 years ago, Literacy Volunteers of the Lowcountry has equipped more than 8,000 area adults with the reading, writing, speaking, and math skills they’ve needed to become self-sufficient members of our communities. With the help of more than one hundred volunteer tutors, we offer high-quality literacy services for a modest fee, enabling our students to become better parents, employees, and citizens.”

Celebrate the literary and culinary excellence of the Lowcountry February 19 and 21 and help contribute to the continued growth and excellent work of Literacy Volunteers of the Lowcountry. For Cooks & Books and Preview Party tickets or more information, call (843) 815-6616.  Kathryn R. Wall is the author of ten Bay Tanner mysteries set in the Lowcountry, including Canaan’s Gate, which will be released on April 27. She is also a member of the board of directors of Literacy Volunteers of the Lowcountry.

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can’t stand Andy Rooney. You know, the old guy with the ridiculously bushy eyebrows who ends every 60 Minutes show with a three-minute babble on a topic, usually as fascinating as designer toilet paper. I mean, three reporters have just given us 57 minutes of hard-edged stories, interviews or exposés on matters of national and international import—stories that will generate their own headlines on Monday—and this guy sits in his musty, dusty office all disheveled and ready for the attendant to take him back to his room once he finishes boring us to death with his “Ever wonder why…” bit about basically nothing. How much does this guy make anyway?

Nevertheless, I’ve decided this month to channel Andy Rooney and just ruminate on a topic that fascinates me: Money.

Let’s face it: Money does seem to hold a fascination for just about everyone. A “money” GOOGLE search brings up almost a billion hits—974 million to be exact. This compares to 588 million for sex, 478 million for God and just 6.6 million for Brittany Spears. On a brighter note, “love” brings up 2.3 billion hits, so we’re not all bad.

The U.S. dollar doesn’t buy you anything for breakfast in a small village in the middle of France, as I found out on one trip a while back. Take away the arbitrary value we put on it as a society and the subjective value we imbue it with as individuals and you’ve basically got printed paper.

YOU CAN’T EAT IT

One thing for sure is that, for the truly wealthy among us, the value of money in not primarily its power to buy stuff. Once you have accumulated all the toys an adult can dream of plus a few totally worthless knickknacks like “the watch that you don’t own but pass on to the next generation” (give me a break!) what’s left to buy?

Only prestige or power or just winning the “game.” Money, for the

The point is, we all think a great deal about money. It has a huge influence on our day-to-day lives. Arguments focused on it are the leading cause of divorce. We die for it and we kill for it. Yet, in the end, it’s a fiction. It has no intrinsic value. It won’t feed you on a desert island; it won’t fend off a shark when you’re scuba diving.

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IT’S PERSONAL

OK, to be perfectly fair, money—at least “legal tender”—does have worth in that it CAN buy stuff. And LOTS of it can buy LOTS of stuff. True, on one level, money has an objective, concrete value even as it floats up and down against other currencies. But, in the end, the same amount of money has such a unique impact on every individual that its worth really has to be seen as subjective and fully tied to that person’s circumstances and personality. This is why financial planners cannot say X amount of money will guarantee a comfortable retirement or Y is a great investment for everyone.

Money and what you do with it is deeply PERSONAL.

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Here’s a fun tHing to do witH your spouse next time you’re on a long road trip: Buy a soutH Carolina powerBall lottery tiCket, Hopefully wHen tHe jaCkpot is sometHing like $150,000,000 and tHen disCuss leisurely, But seriously, wHat you would do witH tHe money.

hedge fund manager, Fortune 500 CeO and other fortunates, is simply a way of keeping score. That’s why they argue so fervently for the extra million in bonus: “Gosh darn it! bob, over at XyZ company, made 52 million last year and I’m better than bob!”

Be careful what you wish for

Here’s a fun thing to do with your spouse next time you’re on a long road trip: buy a South Carolina Powerball lottery ticket, hopefully when the jackpot is something like $150,000,000 and then discuss leisurely, but seriously, what you would do with the money. My wife and I did this and came to the conclusion that it would be a total

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disaster for us and our family. Here’s how we figured it might unfold: at first, our family and friends would be ecstatically happy for us and the calls and visits would be nonstop. We thought we might celebrate for a few days, maybe even blow a million or two on a Venice visit via chartered jet with our family and entourage (posse?). Now sobered up and back in the uSa, we would have a few decisions to make.

Stop writing my articles for CH2? Never!

What should we give the kids? How about 5 million each to set them up for life? Great! except that they all are at the beginning of what look like promising and fulfilling careers.

Will they quit? Will they still be as hungry to

succeed? Will they stay grounded? How will their spouses and friends react? Problems…

How about our parents and brothers and sisters? What’s a brother worth, gift-wise?

How about our nieces and nephews? How about the close friend who’s having all kinds of financial problems; maybe we should pay off his debts? and so on.

The sad fact is that wealth, particularly sudden wealth, as in winning the lottery, is often a nightmare for people. an online article from bankrate.com related a number of truly horrible stories about mega lottery winners, including the tale of one winner of $16.2 million who, like so many others, eventually went broke; but, not before a former girlfriend successfully sued him for some of the money, several siblings hounded him into a disastrous business investment and one brother was arrested for hiring a hit man to kill him so he would get some inheritance.

I’ll keep buying the occasional Powerball ticket, but I truly have mixed feeling about the outcome.

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You can afford it

The interesting thing I’ve found with many, if not most, retirees is that no matter how much money they have, they worry that they are going to run out of it before they die. The mindset is this: My money pile is now FINITe; it’s only going to get smaller. Sure, interest and dividend payments are coming in along with Social Security, but the paychecks have stopped and the hope of future raises is long gone.

They feel boxed in financially. Couple that psychology with the disastrous and wild stock markets of the last decade and you’ve got even millionaires seeking out every early bird dinner special that offers a free glass of merlot. For many retirees, the fear of running out of money is completely rational, and in previous articles, I’ve talked of possible solutions to the problem. but for others, the retirement psychology is needlessly keeping them from enjoying the fruits they have labored for all these past decades. My most satisfying experiences as a financial planner have been giving these clients the permission to go out and spend their money.

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talk about it

Money affects all of us, and it’s something we should all talk about more. The conversation doesn’t have to be personal, as in: “How much do you make?” but, answers to questions such as “How much is enough money?” or “How would an extra $1,000 or $10,000 change your life?” or “If you had bill Gates’ money, would you ever look for a golf ball again?” might tell you something about how the responder thinks. For politicians and voters, the answers to “How much is enough” or “What amount of money do you have to have and/or make to be considered rich” are critical to policy decisions on tax rates and structures.

Perhaps most importantly, conversations about money may just make us more moneysmart. I’m convinced that a large part of our nation’s financial problems in the past decade was simply due to our collective financial illiteracy. Millions of us, through just plain financial ignorance, got ourselves into mortgages we could not afford, invested our money in totally inappropriate portfolios and entrusted way too much our money to slick parasites such as bernard Madoff. We need to get financially smarter and there’s no time like the present to start. 

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et’s say you just had one of those popular granite counter tops installed in your kitchen. It’s beautiful, stylish, even dramatic. And it makes your cabinets look, what’s the word? Shopworn? Not quite up to the classy look that slab of granite added? On the other hand, new cabinets would be a budget buster in these “interesting” economic times.

There is an option. Islander Karen Couser found it. “We are thrilled with our kitchen redo!

Bruce and his team did an incredible job of turning our white builder’s grade cabinets into a stunning high-end kitchen. It now looks like it could grace the cover of a magazine,” Couser said.

The “redo” Couser referred to was a refacing of her kitchen cabinets by American Wood Reface, a company that serves northeast Ohio, Charlotte, North Carolina, and as of the fall of last year, Hilton Head Island and surrounding communities.

The company’s showroom is located in Sheridan Park in Bluffton.

“Anything you can think of in custom cabinets, we can do with refacing,” said Bruce Zaidman, one of the company’s principals. “We also make modifications. We can build custom cabinetry, glass doors, shelving. If the customer needs new drawer boxes, we can do custom made, solid wood dove tail jointed boxes with full extension glides,” he added.

While refacing cabinets has been an option for homeowners for quite some time, it wasn’t looked upon too favorably. The refacing material was usually a very thin veneer. But the big difference with American Wood Reface, Zaidman said, is the material used combined with the craftsmanship. “It’s the beauty of the whole system. We cover all the end panels, the bottom

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Special thankS to Michael & Shirley Sigler (of SiglerS rotiSSerie in Bluftton) for letting uS invade their kitchen! photography By John Brackett of the cabinets and, the frames with quarter-inch furniture grade plywood. That’s exclusive to us. Doors are attached with a full european hidden adjustable hinge. every door gets a soft close feature. We replace shoe molding, add light railing under the cabinets” he said.

“There are several advantages to refacing,” Zaidman explained. “There’s generally a significant cost savings. When you compare it to the cost of new, high-quality cabinets, the price can be less than half in some cases.”

The customer selects the type of wood, the finish, and new handles and pulls to be used. at that time, the customer can also select upgrades, like adding a Lazy Susan, trash bin, wine rack, trim moldings, valances and decorative shelves. even the height of the counter top can be adjusted if new flooring was put in. Once the project is decided upon, it takes about 30 days to fashion the materials in the company’s facility. but when the materials arrive, another advantage kicks in.

Installation takes one to three days. “The kitchen isn’t ever out of commission during the process,” Zaidman said. “at the end of the day, everything is cleaned up and out of the way.”

The reasons people choose refacing are not only the age of the original cabinets. Zaidman said he had worked with a developer who was trying to sell a very expensive new home and had a couple ready to buy. The one problem holding them back was the kitchen cabinets. “They hated them. (The developer) wasn’t going to rip out 30- or 40-thousand dollars of brand new cabinetry. He had us reface the kitchen and the house sold,” said Zaidman.

Similar situations occur in newer homes where, to cut costs, relatively inexpensive or simply plain kitchen cabinets are used. Zaidman stated that refacing gives new homeowners an abundance of choices. “We do all the different species of hardwood and any style of door, raised panel, shaker, mixed wood. We have the new glazed look. and we have 30 stains for cherry. When you walk into the kitchen, you cannot tell it’s been refaced,” said Zaidman. “The thing I like to say is the quality is good enough to go into a million-dollar home, but it’s reasonable 54

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enough to go into a $100,000 condo. We do both.” american Wood reface opened its doors in 1979 as a familyowned business just outside of akron, Ohio. Zaidman became involved in 1988 and opened the Charlotte office in 2000. He then chose the Lowcountry because it seemed like a perfect fit, both because of the age of the homes and the trend to add value to a home through remodeling. “It definitely was the right place,” he said.

“The Thing i like To say is The qualiTy is good enough To go inTo a million-dollar home, buT iT’s reasonable enough To go inTo a $100,000 condo. We do boTh.” Other than the materials and craftsmanship, Zaidman said that what appeals to him and his customers is that the company specializes in kitchens. He doesn’t do decking or siding, just kitchens. “We offer a lifetime warranty for everything we do,” said Zaidman. “Our carpenters and craftsman have an average of 25 years in the business. I also like to say that what we do is an upgrade that’s not major, but it’s definitely a major change. It only looks expensive.” as to the quality of the work, Zaidman said, “We don’t have to make service calls.” but homeowner Karen Couser may have said it best: “I want to be in the kitchen all the time now, just to look at it!”  For more information, visit www.woodreface.com or call (843) 815-6700.

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One suBstitute teAcHer’s View Of His JOB And wHy it needs A title cHAnge

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tHe Bell rAng. My clAss Of HigH scHOOl sOpHOMOres And JuniOrs wAs Hustling Out tHe dOOr. i OVerHeArd One Of tHe students lOOk At Her friend And sigH, “we HAVe A suB in tHird BlOck, tOO.” “Are we tHAt BAd?” i Asked. “nO,” sHe sAid witH A sMile. “it’s Just BOring. we dOn’t leArn AnytHing.” ugH.

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want to be a teacher. At least, I think I want to be a teacher. However, at 34 years of age I’ve tried a great many things in life, jumping in with both feet often only to realize that my immediate and full commitment was not the best decision. I have never been afraid of work; I’m afraid of working at something I inwardly despise for the entirety of my life. In the veins of patience, experience and semi-maturity, I thought I’d try substitute teaching before I made the commitment to get an alternative teaching certification and become licensed to teach.

Becoming a substitute teacher isn’t really that difficult of a process in Beaufort County, but it is a bit time consuming. I filled out the necessary application online, passed a background check, took a five-hour class at the Technical College of the Lowcountry to prepare me for what I was getting myself into (it was a help), had an interview, filled out a W-2, got an I.D. number and, BAM, I was a substitute teacher. As a substitute in Beaufort County, you can pick when and where you want to sub.

Since I wanted to be a high school English teacher, I

chose to work at the two closest high schools, bluffton High and Hilton Head Island High. My first day subbing was nothing short of my worst fears coming true.

My alarm clock went off at ten minutes to six in the morning. I got ready and got to one of the local high schools by 7 a.m. The teacher I was supposed to sub for had actually showed up to work, so I spent the day observing various classrooms and teachers. In the second period, a student

On numerOus OccasiOns i witnessed students Openly challenging their teacher’s ability tO cOntrOl them. i was shOcked by their audacity and perhaps a bit Outraged by their arrOgance. literally got up out of her chair in the middle of her teacher’s lecture to come over and read my name tag. I found her actions completely disrespectful and asked her if what she was doing was appropriate. She huffed at me and went back to her seat.

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Secondly, aS individualS, i have honeStly never

are locked into a classroom with their peers. Irving Janis coined the term “groupthink” in 1972 and states that this phenomenon occurs when a group makes Something happenS once theSe Same StudentS faulty decisions because group pressures lead to a deterioration of “mental efficiency, reality testing and are locked into a claSSroom with their peerS. moral judgment.” In every class in which I introduce myself, this is spot-on behavior. These individually irving JaniS coined the term “groupthink.” pleasant students get brazen, brash and even boorish in a group of their peers. They show off for one another, each student (but not every student) trying to top the last one’s comment or action. and it’s not like I have tough rules in my classroom. I have two: 1) When I speak, I ask that everyone else is quiet.

Throughout the day the 2) If a student has a question, I ask that student to raise his or her hand. These rules are insubordination became more not unreasonable or illogical, and I enforce them. and more prevalent. On numerous From an individual standpoint, it is completely unlike them to be so irreverent and occasions I witnessed students openly disrespectful. Perhaps what is most ironic is that the kids who create the biggest disruptions challenging their teacher’s ability to inside class are usually the first kids outside class to say hi to me in the hallway or say “No, control them. I was shocked by their sir” and “yes, sir,” when I ask them a question. It’s surreal—a psychologist’s dream. With audacity and perhaps a bit outraged these kids, it’s never personal, because I’m not a person to them. I’m a sub. a substitute by their arrogance. I have no problem teacher is an entity, not a human being. Witnessing this groupthink behavior firsthand, I can with a student asking a teacher a now honestly understand when a parent proclaims, “There’s no way my child could have challenging question, but what I saw done that.” That’s true, but your child in a group is not his or her normal self. was not an effort at furthering intellect.

Finally, substitute teachers are not teachers in a traditional sense, and the title These students were being brats, completely misleads the student. Contrary to what some of us may believe, the majority of and the more they were treated like students I have come across actually want to learn, and anything they view as a disruption brats, the more they acted like brats.

Personally, I thought that a few of them just needed a good kick in the pants. but you can’t do that anymore. Maybe teaching wasn’t for me. I didn’t want to go back the next day. but I did. and I kept going back.

I can’t tell you why, because I don’t know why. I’m stubborn, I guess. but, I realized a few things over the next several weeks.

First, they’re just kids. I don’t say this to underestimate them or belittle them, because that would be both dangerous and ridiculous. Nevertheless, as children on the verge of adulthood, they say things they don’t mean, even if they believe they know exactly what they are doing or saying. (Didn’t we all at that age?) They can be challenging, relentless, disrespectful and even formidable, but it is merely misplaced subversion. They test us because they are trying to learn, trying to find their own two feet on which to stand in this world. They challenge the forum of the classroom because they are in it every day, and they challenge the authority of the substitute teacher because it’s easy. The sub doesn’t know them and the students most likely won’t have to see the sub the next day to reap the repercussions of their abrasive actions.

Secondly, as individuals, I have honestly never seen a nicer, more polite bunch of kids. but something happens once these same students

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of that is met with mostly latent hostility. They know “busy work” when they see it; and instead of using it as an opportunity to learn more about the subject matter that might not have been available to them otherwise, they view it as an impediment to the progress of the curriculum and, therefore, a waste of time. I can’t really blame them—they’re teenagers.

Teachers cannot really offer anything outside of “busy Teachers cannoT really offer work” to substitutes either. ultimately, it is the teachers anyThing ouTside of “busy and the teachers alone who are responsible for the students’ work” To subsTiTuTes eiTher. progress. It is their reputation, their responsibility, their job ulTimaTely, iT is The Teachers that is on the line, not the and The Teachers alone who substitute’s. From a purely curriculum-based standpoint, are responsible for The anything a substitute teacher goes over, a teacher is going to sTudenTs’ progress. have to readdress to make sure the students grasped the lesson.

In that regard as well, it is difficult for me as a substitute to explain the intricacies of Newton’s Three Laws of Motion in a classroom when I have only gotten the lesson plan 20 minutes before the bell rings. My brain operates linguistically and grammatically, not mathematically or Newtonianly.

So what is a substitute teacher? I get different classrooms with different classroom personalities and different individuals every day. I am tested thoroughly by each class—four to five classes a day—every day. a good day for me is simply

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managing the classroom effectively so the students can complete their “busy work.” That’s it. I am a classroom manager, nothing more; and if the kids knew me as merely this instead of a substitute teacher, perhaps their attitude towards this stranger in the room, whom they don’t know and don’t trust (and I don’t

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know them or trust them), would change. Perhaps they would know that the busy work is there to enhance the lesson instead of expecting the sub to teach. Perhaps they would be more apt to shelve the groupthink and get down to business if they knew that I was there to manage them instead of to teach them. Perhaps all that is needed is this simple title change. Or, perhaps if each department had its own subs, trained in the subject matter, there could be more curriculum enhancement instead of classroom management. Perhaps… but who would pay for it?

I do not enjoy subbing, but I enjoy the faculty and I really enjoy the students (when they’re not reverting to groupthink!).

Once they settle down, once they trust me, they are a treat. but this only happens if I have the same classes for an extended period of time, and they always miss their teachers and can’t wait until they get them back anyway. They listen to me instead of test me, because they have begun to trust me, and I do get to teach them in a roundabout fashion. I have no doubt that I would enjoy teaching them for a living and, to that end, subbing has given me what I was hoping it would: an answer.

On the students’ end, learning is a discipline and there must be discipline to learn. Too much and your students quit on you.

Too little and they quit on themselves. That’s a hard rope to walk for a substitute teacher who gets 45-90 minutes with students he or she might not ever see again. I once asked a class how I ranked as a substitute teacher. Their response was not what I expected. “at least you care and keep us quiet,” was the answer.

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Why do you want to be married on Hilton Head Island? I have worked in the travel industry since college, and I have always heard of what a beautiful place Hilton Head Island is, so when we started talking about a destination wedding it was the first place that I thought of. I love the beauty of the ocean, mixed with the charm and elegance of the south.

In 100 words or less, please describe what makes your story unique. Why are you most deserving of an all-expenses paid wedding weekend? I feel like our story is unique because in spite of all of the obstacles that life has thrown our way we have never given up on wanting to be

together. We were twenty years old when we were set up on a blind date, and neither of us were looking for a relationship.

Our connection was so strong, that we decided we were gonna make it work in spite of the distance. When Jason was deployed to Iraq in 2005, he said he would understand if it was too hard for me, but again it made our love stronger. When he returned we started talking about getting married, but then my job transferred me out of state. After nine months away, we decided that we had spent enough time apart and were ready to spend our lives together. Right now we are saving for our first house, and having this dream wedding would be the perfect way to start our life finally TOGETHER! Name: Bradley MIrkovich Significant Other: Debbie Almy Entry From: Waynesburg, PA How long have you been together? 2 years When you first met, what was the most memorable quality of your significant other? I was annoyed with her because I was trying to pay attention in class, but she kept talking to me. I really needed to get a good grade, but could not pay attention to the professor. Now I realize

that I will always want to be "annoyed by her". If she wants my attention, she has it.

Why do you want to be married on Hilton Head Island? I have grown up going to HHI. I have been going there all my life, and know how wonderful it is there. What a great way to share HHI with my wife to be, and we can start our life together with HHI in our life. I want to take my children there, like my parents took me.

In 100 words or less, please describe what makes your story unique. Why are you most deserving of an all-expenses paid wedding weekend? We meet while we were cadets at West Point Military Academy. We will graduate in May, and will be married the following weekend, before we are assigned to our post. We are both going to be in the Military for many years, and HHI would be a great place to start our life together. We won't get to see our families very often, and a celebration with all of our families on HHI would be perfect.

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Why do you want to be married on Hilton Head Island? We have been there several times and find it to be comfortable and relaxing. It is our home away from home.

In 100 words or less, please describe what makes your story unique. Why are you most deserving of an all-expenses paid wedding weekend? even though we met when I was 17, we did not start dating until I was 21. On our first official date, I told her I was going to marry her one day. We have been through a lot since then. During her first year of law school she had several ulcers on her left eye and lost vision in that eye.

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her vision, she did not lose her drive, and eventually enrolled back in law school.

She just graduated and it was finally the right time to propose. even though we do not have much money, I want to give her the wedding of her dreams. She has worked so hard, and she is the most strong, amazing woman I have ever met. She deserves this gift, and I hope I can give it to her.

Why do you want to be married on Hilton Head Island? It is the most beautiful place we have ever visited, with its great beach sunsets, the moss hanging from the trees, and the fine white sand. It would also be a great experience for our families, who would not have to travel far to enjoy our special day. Throughout our relationship, Hilton Head as been a place we have visited and grown closer together as we walked the beaches.

Name: Kelsea Swails Significant Other: Kyle anson Entry from: Iowa City, Ia How long have you been together?

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In 100 words or less, please describe what makes your story unique. Why are you most deserving of an all-expenses paid wedding weekend? I first met him in gym class in junior high. He asked me to be his tennis partner but I turned him down because I already had another partner.

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When you first met, what was the most memorable quality of your significant other? His determination. In Iowa, wrestling is a big deal and he wrestled and wanted to be a state champion. I noticed that nothing would stand in his way and he didn't let anything get to him (except me :) ) and he won the state championship three times while in high school and we were dating!

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Name: Crystal buckler Significant Other: Jeffrey bishop Entry Form: Lakewood ranch, FL How long have you been together? 3 years

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When you first met, what was the most memorable quality of your significant other? Well..I asked Jeffrey and he said that the way I treat my friends and family and the closeness we have is what attracted him to me. I saw through working with Jeff how unconditionally generous and giving with others and the way he goes out of his way to make others happy is what made me start crushing on him. (Which I denied to all of my friends for months)

In 100 words or less, please describe what makes your story unique. Why are you most deserving of an all-expenses paid wedding weekend? The love of my life resides in Ireland and I the uSa. We’ve had to struggle through a long distance relationship and after being forced to live apart for so long we are going to get married and finally be together. I’ve always dreamed of a beautiful wedding but the cost of international travel has forced us to endure a financial strain. The only possibility for me to have the wedding I’ve always dreamed of would be for us to win this all expenses paid wedding. I’m so blessed to have stumbled across this opportunity and would be so thankful.

Why do you want to be married on Hilton Head Island? We took our first trip to Hilton Head around our one year anniversary. We stayed at the Sea Pines and completely fell in love deeper than I thought was possible. We love the Salty Dog, and taking walks to the Lighthouse, and everything about the whole island. every year since then we have taken at least one trip back, and that is why we decided to do a destination wedding there. My parents, and my maid of honor, my brother, his girlfriend, my aunt, and the two of us are driving up next weekend to look around for the wedding and start planning!

In 100 words or less, please describe what makes your story unique. Why are you most deserving of an all-expenses paid wedding weekend? This would make our entire lives. We are blessed to have amazing families and friends so our wedding would be just as fun if we did it in our backyard, but Hilton Head would be the ultimate wedding for us.

We would like to make it very special for my Grandmother who passed away a few years ago, as she was a Wedding Cake maker her entire life. She used to ask me all the time when I was getting married and I know she would love to know that we have the wonderful relationship that we do. Thank you, Crystal and Jeff (and our puppy Neiman) who would have to be in the wedding as well :) Name: Kara Significant Other: Kieran Entry From: Schenectady, Ny How long have you been together? one year

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Why do you want to be married on Hilton Head Island? It would be the storybook ending that our lovestory needs.

Name: amy aikens Significant Other: brad Helms Entry From: Matthews, NC How long have you been together? 1 year When you first met, what was the most memorable quality of your significant other? He still made me laugh like he did back in middle school when we dated!!

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In 100 words or less, please describe what makes your story unique. Why are you most deserving of an all-expenses paid wedding weekend? It all started back in the 7th grade when brad asked me to be his girlfriend. We had the best time together, going to the skating rink every weekend. Then time went on and we grew apart. Twenty seven years later, we found each other on Facebook and planned to meet one night. I ended up running into him and a friend at a restaurant the day of our planned date.

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Article By Frank Dunne, Jr.

Operation Jihad DEA [Part 3] Last spring, it was my pleasure and privilege to interview former U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agent, Larry McElynn, and share my account of those conversations— Larry McElynn’s Stories from the DEA, in CH2’s May issue. This past October, Larry introduced me to several of his former colleagues at the Association of Former Federal Narcotics Agents (AFFNA) annual conference, held at Hilton Head’s Westin Resort. This second part of a three-part series taken from my interviews with those outstanding people takes a look at DEA’s battle to dismantle the infamous Colombian cocaine cartels in the 1980s, with perspectives from Bob Nieves, who served as DEA’s Director of Major Investigations during much of that time. Many thanks to Larry, Bob, Jack Lawn, Richie Fiano, John Costanzo, and Chuck Gutensohn for their contributions.

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t was dangerous. It was politically sensitive. It was bold.

And it set the stage for DEA operations that continue today and have since evolved into parallel missions with the U.S. Military and Intelligence services.

In 1986 DEA Special Agent Richie Fiano headed to Pakistan to assume the number two position at DEA’s Islamabad office. The mission: cripple the heroin trade originating in that country and neighboring Afghanistan. “A lot of the opium was being grown in Pakistan, but the processing labs were all in Afghanistan, particularly in Kandahar and Helmand,” said Fiano, “areas that now are all Taliban infiltrated.

“They usually would be out there (in the labs) for 30 days at a time, and they’d process whatever heroin they had. Then they’d pick everything up and drive it out – usually south – and bring it across into Turkey by way of the tri-border area of Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Iran for distribution throughout the Europe and the U.S.” Around 1987-88 the chief of the Islamabad office, Chuck Carter, decided that DEA would go after those heroin labs. There was one major problem, though. The Soviet Union’s invasion of Afghanistan was going on at the time. If caught, an American agent would most likely be tried for espionage. Certainly an unpleasant prospect for the agent, not to mention the effect it would have on the era’s tenuous U.S. – Soviet relations.

DEA would go in anyway, and the initiative became known as Operation Jihad.

“Chuck went to the Administrator, Jack Lawn, and they devised a plan to use local mujahideen as informants, and go into Afghanistan to hit those heroin labs,” said Fiano. “We’d send the informant in with his network and we’d give him a GPS. They’d

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We went in with all the provisions that we needed and one live goat.

get the coordinates for heroin lab locations and bring them back to the U.S. embassy in Islamabad. We’d have the intelligence community verify by satellite that something was actually there, then we’d go in.”

Using Quetta, Pakistan as a staging area, Fiano, Carter, and 60 Afghan mujahideen would cross the border in the dead of

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night and spend two or three weeks at a time attacking the targets. “We’d go out with AK-47s dressed as mujahideen,” said Fiano. “I looked like an Arab and Carter looked kind of like a Russian. So we fit in pretty well. They just said, ‘let us do the talking,’ if we ever got stopped by border police or anything like that.”

In those days, there were no cell phones. There was no way to track the agents’ locations. Only DEA headquarters, the embassy (Islamabad) intelligence staff, and the ambassador knew that Fiano and Carter were out there. Except for the informant, not even their mujahideen cohorts knew they were U.S. federal agents. “If we ran into trouble, we had no tracking devices, no medevac. We were on our own,” said Fiano. “We went in with all the provisions that we needed…and one live goat.” The goat, as you might have guessed, was for food. The meat would go rancid in the hot sun, but there aren’t many choices in the Afghan desert. “You’d get pretty sick, but we ate it anyway.”

On this operation, Fiano and Carter were not out to make arrests or confiscate drug shipments as they might in U.S. based cases. The job here was to knock out the means of production. “When we hit a heroin lab, we’d go in there and seize the lab, make the operators sign a decree stating that heroin production violates the Quran, and warning them that if they got caught again, they would be subject to harsher penalties…even the death penalty,” Fiano said. “We took a kilo sample of heroin and burned the rest. Then we’d put RPG rounds through the lab and any vehicles that were there. In all we took out about 25 labs.”

when their chopper went down as they returned from a firefight with Taliban drug traffickers in western Afghanistan. They were part of a joint anti-drug operation between DEA, the U.S. Military and Afghan forces.

The Pizza Connection

Special Agent John Costanzo worked heroin cases from the other end of the pipeline. Going undercover in Europe, the United States, and South America, Costanzo infiltrated organized crime syndicates involved in drug distribution to the U.S. market. In contrast to Richie Fiano’s desert raids, Costanzo’s exploits read less like something out of a Tom Clancy novel and more like a good mob story.

During the late 1970s and 1980s, most of the heroin manufactured in Afghanistan and smuggled through Turkey made its way into either Germany or Italy. “It was at that time that the mafia started to get back into the heroin business,” said Costanzo. “They were sending heroin to the U.S. right from Palermo, Sicily.”

The kingpin in Palermo was one Gaetano “Don Tanino” Badalamenti.

Known as the “boss of bosses” of the Sicilian mafia, or the “godfather of heroin,”

Badalamenti controlled a $1.65 billion operation that used pizzerias throughout the Northeast and Midwest as fronts to distribute drugs and launder money. Aptly enough, this case was called the Pizza Connection.

“They sent it in by all kinds of shipments,” said Costanzo. “Cars, cruise ships, fly it into JFK in suitcases.” The drugs were also smuggled into the country in shipments of cheese, olive oil, or tomatoes. “We’re not talking thousands of kilos. With just a hundred kilos you can make a lot of money because the price is astronomical.

“All these Sicilian immigrants would open up pizzerias. You’d have a Sicilian guy, doesn’t speak a word of English, and he opens a pizzeria in West Virginia.

They’d bring the heroin in, sell it through the pizzerias and send the money back to Palermo.”

American mobsters referred to these Sicilian “entrepreneurs” as “zips.”

A member of the Bonanno family was once quoted as saying: “The zips were clannish and secretive…the meanest killers in the business.” Many of them were Badalamenti’s nephews.

At the time Costanzo was stationed in Europe, working mostly on cases involving

The zips were clannish and secretivethe meanest killers in the business.

DEA still runs operations in Afghanistan, but today they are called Foreign Advisory Support Teams (FAST), and they work side-by-side with the U.S. Military. FAST teams of 15 to 18 agents go in with helicopters, sophisticated communications equipment, and a bit more firepower than Fiano and Carter had during Operation Jihad. Their targets are the kingpins who help to finance Taliban and al Qaeda terrorist campaigns with drug money.

The perils of this mission became painfully apparent last October. DEA special agents Chad Michael, Forrest Leamon, and Michael Weston were killed FEBRUARY 2010

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Turkish and Lebanese traffickers called a young turk,” who were bringing in the said Costanzo, which southwest asian heroin. His Italian l o o s e l y t ra n s l a te s to ancestry and language skills made “ i n c o r r i g i b l e yo u t h .” him the perfect fit for undercover Sollena was the big work posing as an Italian. “I looked talking, fast living, rulesthe part,” he said. don’t-apply-to-me kind Working undercover like this of guy who gave the oldis more than looking the part, school mafioso types speaking the language, and using a lot of headaches. He a fake name, though. you have to got away with it for a create an entire persona – an alter while, though. His uncle We got 40 kilos. He ended up in a ego – complete with a fabricated was a pretty important garbage bag. The rest went to jail. p e r s o n a l h i s t o r y, a m u s i n g g u y… D o n Ta n i n o anecdotes that make you sound badalamenti. like you’ve “been there, done that.” you can’t just drop names, Costanzo and his fellow agents had just walked through you’ve got to know people, or at least have somebody who can the front door of the Pizza Connection. vouch for you. an undercover agent actually lives in the world “We met Salvatore in atlantic City. He was always in he is trying so hard to destroy. The bad guys have to believe that atlantic City,” said Costanzo. “We go into the casino and he’s you’re one of them. at the baccarat table. He’d spend $50 thousand a pop. He’d “We ingratiated ourselves with a bunch of Italians in Germany been warned by other members of the family to stop that and started developing a relationship with a guy in Munich,” said because he was drawing a lot of attention, but he didn’t want Costanzo. “We start talking to him. We were creating some bona to hear it. So he continues on like a wild man.” fides…establishing who you are.” eventually, Costanzo and his associates negotiated a deal Once Costanzo and his “crew” had built the necessary with Sollena to buy five kilos of heroin. Of course, they had credibility, a case started to develop. The subject in Germany to spin a story explaining why they came all the way from wanted to introduce them to some connections in Cherry Hill, New Italy to New Jersey to buy stuff that was coming from Italy in Jersey, just outside of Philadelphia. “Loaded with pizzerias and the first place. “We just told him that we were in the country loaded with Italians,” Costanzo said. “So we go to New Jersey.” doing business with some people in Cleveland and it was for The connection in Cherry Hill turned out to be a fellow them,” said Costanzo. Good enough. They headed home to by the name of Salvatore Sollena. “He was what they Milan after making the deal.

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Meanwhile, other Dea agents from New york were also en route to Milan with an informant. They had been working a heroin trafficking case of their own, and it was also tied in to the Pizza Connection ring. In an operation with the Italian police, those agents seized a 40-kilo shipment headed for New Jersey. Costanzo’s five-kilo deal with Sollena was part of the shipment. Now, Costanzo had to play it like he was wondering what happened to his delivery.

“We called him up. ‘Salvatore, what’s going on?’”

“It’s very cloudy in the mountains. I can’t see the light,” Sollena replied.

Obviously, he was saying that something had gone wrong, but Sollena wasn’t only upset that a shipment had been lost. He had been told by his superiors in Palermo to expect a 10-kilo delivery. apparently, they did not trust him to handle the full 40 kilos. Solleno saw it as an insult – a slap in the face – and his ego got the better of him. “He finds out it was 40, when he thought it was 10, and he starts mouthing off,” said Costanzo. He got brave. I am who I am because of my uncle and all that stuff.”

The family had had enough and decided to shut Sollena’s mouth for him.

“They decided that they had to silence him because he was being such a pain in the ass with the gambling and incidents like this one. you know…it’s bad for business,” Costanzo explained. “So what do they do? They take him down the Garden State Parkway, put two in his head, then put him in a garbage bag and

I looked like an Arab and Carter looked kind of like a Russian. So we fit in pretty well. dump him by the side of the road. Three days later, they get his brother, put two in his head, take him down the Parkway in a garbage bag and dump him about half a mile from his brother.”

In 1987, after a 17-month trial, badalamenti and some two-dozen co-conspirators were convicted under rICO conspiracy laws. Of course, badalamenti denied any involvement until the end. “Drugs are bad for business. The money was never worth the risk. Only greedy pigs touched drugs. Not men of honor,” he was quoted as saying. He got 45 years anyway, and died in prison in 2004 at the age of 80.

Costanzo, who testified three times in the case, is pleased with the outcome.

“We got 40 kilos. He ended up in a garbage bag. The rest went to jail.”  February 2010

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FLU SEASON IS THIS STILL

TREATING UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION

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our child is, flushed, listless, has no appetite, has diarrhea, vomiting, and a runny nose, is congested and sounds like a Saint bernard. Is this still the flu?

We hear this every day. Some people take comfort in that other children are also afflicted. There seems to be some kind of safety in numbers. The other thing that we as a society have been taught is that this child is sick. There is no question. This is “sickness.” but wait. Let’s look at this: your child has a fever, and that is a good thing! It is his/her body’s way of “burning” the bug. It is also the result of all the necessary body activities kicked into high gear to fight for survival. all this extra work produces extra heat—fever. It is that simple. at the same time, the eyes take on a glassy appearance—the result of being continually washed with tears to cool down the cornea, which is very heat sensitive. In its wisdom, your child’s body may want to get rid of this germ really fast, thus diarrhea and vomiting may start. There isn’t a quicker way! This is good!

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YOUR CHILD HAS A FEVER, AND

THAT’S A GOOD THING!

It is his/her body’s way of “burning” the bug. It is also the result of all the necessary body activities kicked into high gear to fight for survival. all this extra work produces extra heat—fever.

your child may have increased breathing. It is simply another portal of exit for the germs that have invaded his/her body. as breathing and respiration also increase, your child literally exhales the invading organism faster. you’ll notice that the skin is moist and clammy—another method of exit for the bug. you notice that your child has no appetite, even for McDonald’s. The reason is that the body’s energy is geared towards survival and is on emergency standby. There is no energy wasted digesting food.

There you have it—the logic behind the scenes. Pretty amazing isn’t it? In case you didn’t know this, your nervous system, that amazing computer complex that runs all of you, is responsible for all this wondrous activity. It is the system that causes your immune system to spring into action to protect you any way it can. This is not “sickness.” It is an expression of health. It is your body doing exactly what it needs to do in order to regain your health.

When a child is feeling like this, parents have the compulsion to intervene with this process unknowingly: cough suppressants, anti-fever medications, antibiotics, etc. We have been carefully taught that a child needs these drugs to be healthy. NOT SO!! your child simply needs no interference.

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There are a number of things you can do, however, to help your child while his/her body is “doing its thing”: • Have your child checked by a chiropractor to make certain his/her nervous system is functioning optimally so it can handle this “sickness.”

• High doses of vitamin C. For a young child, I recommend 1000-2000 mg/day for a week. For adults, 5000-7000 mg/day.

• Lots of liquid! Water is best, but getting kids to drink lots can be difficult. you can use diluted fruit juice as well.

• Lots of rest.

• echinacea in drop form in a bit of juice, for a week.

• Zinc lozenges.

In the event that your child is not improving on his own in a week, it means that his immune system is weak and crisis care may be needed. Call for more information.  DR. GERALD C. RENATO is a licensed chiropractic physician and has a local practice in bluffton (Patient First Chiropractic and Wellness Center). 843.706.2378

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hefs Andrew Borgmeier and Glen Barroncini prepare culinary masterpieces for Celebrations Catering and Events. But when they’re not pleasing palates at the company’s numerous wedding, reunion and corporate engagements, they take time to teach the trade they know and love at Celebrations’ Learning Kitchen on Capital Drive.

A new fully-equipped state of the art professional k i tc h e n w i t h a d j a ce n t meeting facilities, the Learning Kitchen allows cooking students to learn

CALL (843) 689-PLAN (7526) OR VISIT OUR WEB SITE AT WECELEBRATEYOU. COM/LEARNINGKITCHEN

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10TH @ 5:30 PM: MARDI GRAS, $65

As they say in New Orleans, “Laissez le bon temps rouler” or “Let the good times roll.” Featuring a blend of Cajun and Creole, join Chef Andy and Glen to make a Mardi Gras feast!

interactively—they can participate in the preparation of the featured dish while discussing technique with the chefs. Then they’re invited to remove their aprons and savor the meal they’ve created in the adjacent Gathering Room.

Wi n e, b e e r a n d o t h e r beverages are compliments of Celebrations.

“The Learning Kitchen offers hands-on instruction,” said Chef Andrew. “There’s no need to b e s hy a b o u t yo u r skill level. Everyone can participate in the process in some capacity.” Borgmeier and Barroncini welcome as many as 20 students per class on Wednesday

evenings. Each class has a theme of its own, such as soups and stocks, classic Italian cuisine or as featured in the photos, kids’ birthday fare!

Chef Glen recently engaged a group of ten five- and six-year-olds in a new trend: a children’s class featuring instruction for building fruit kabobs and designing your own pizza.

The ambitious young cooks even prepared their own ice cream in honor of the birthday girl! “There was so much for the girls to touch, roll, smell and sample,” Barroncini explained. “It made them realize that cooking really can be fun and exciting.”

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24TH @ 5:30 PM: BEST OF FOOD NETWORK’S CELEBRITY CHEFS, $65

Are you a Food Network junkie? We can’t seem to get enough of celebrity chefs around here. Join Andy and Glen as they featuring cuisine inspired by Tyler Florence, Paula Deen, Giada, Emeril Lagasse and more!

TUESDAY, MARCH 9TH @ 5:30 PM: BACK TO BASICS, $55

Even the experienced chef needs to take an occasional trip back to revisit the culinary basics. Starting with a basic rule that the most dangerous item in a kitchen is a dull knife, Andy and Glen invite you to bring all your knives to be sharpened. Then they will guide you through a knife skills lesson leading into preparation of seasonal soups and stocks.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 24TH @ 5:30 PM: ITALY— NORTH VERSUS SOUTH, $65

Chef Glen’s Italian classes have become a repeat request from our students. This time Glen and Andy will take sides and put the Italian, “Boot” to the test. Join the fun as Northern Italy and Southern Italy compete for the title of “Real” Italian Cuisine.

Hurry, the aprons are flying off the hooks!

CHEF GLEN’S “EASY KIDS’ PIZZA” 2 1/2 cups flour 1 tsp sugar 1 tsp salt 2 tsp olive oil 1 pkg dry yeast (equivalent to 1 3/4 tbsp) 1 cup warm water 1 jar favorite marinara

sauce 2 cups shredded mozzarella cheese 2 favorite toppings… such as pepperoni, mushrooms, bacon, peppers, your choice!& grilled

Mix yeast and warm water, let stand for 5 minutes, then add to first four ingredients.

Allow to rise in a warm place for 20 minutes.

Divide dough into 4-6 portions and knead each portion with fingers. Use hands or rolling pin to flatten dough into 4- to 6-inch circles. Place flattened dough on greased pan. Spread marinara sauce evenly over each dough circle. Sprinkle with mozzarella cheese and favorite toppings.

Bake at 400 degrees 8-10 minutes until crust browns and cheese melts. Remove from oven, cool and cut into slices. Mmmm…belissimo!

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FEBRUARY UPCOMING EVENTS

This Month’s BIG EVENTS That Should Be On Your Calendar Too!

Picture This Gallery Art during our Lifetime: 1940’s to 2010 Guest Speaker- Gabriele Hoffmann Wednesday, February 3rd 5:30-6:30pm Boeing-Boeing Feb. 3-21 Arts Center of Coastal Carolina Tickets: $27-$43 A successful architect juggles three international stewardess fiancées, until unpredictable circumstances brings them all together for a madcap weekend at his Paris suite. The Wall Street Journal called it, “The funniest play to hit Broadway in ages!”

Contact: www.artshhi.com ; 843-842-ARTS

Guest lecturer Gabriele Hoffman will discuss Art During our Lifetime: 1940’s to 2010, at Picture This Gallery on February 3rd from 5:30 to 6:00 p.m. “Contemporary art reaches us fresh and unedited; it has not stood the test of time yet. Do we embrace contemporary art or do we fear the shock of the new?” asks Hoffman. This class will present a selection of who made history in the art world and who’s trying to make his/her mark for the future.

To reserve placement, contact Picture This Gallery: (843) 842-5299

Celebrations “The Learning Kitchen” 12 Capital Drive Wednesday, February 10th @ 5:30 PM: Mardi Gras, $65 Surrender to Nature Art Exhibit & Reception The Art League of Hilton Head Gallery February 9, 2010 The Art League of Hilton Head Gallery presents Surrender to Nature by Linda Sheppard opening with an artist reception in the Pineland Station Atrium on Tuesday, February 9, 2010. The exhibit runs through Saturday, March 7th. The public is cordially invited.

Call 843-681-5060 for details.

Habitat Hop February 12, 7:00pm-11:00pm Shoreline Ballroom, Hilton Head Beach and Tennis Resort Cost: $25 per ticket Hilton Head Regional Habitat for Humanity is having its 2nd Annual Habitat Hop, featuring Deas Guyz for your dancing and listening pleasure. Additional events for the evening include a silent auction.

Specially priced dinners are also available for sale.

Net proceeds from this event will benefit this year’s Women’s Build project.

For additional information please visit www.habitathhi.org or call 843-757-5864.

As they say in New Orleans, “Laissez le bon temps rouler” or “let the good times roll”. Featuring a blend of Cajun and Creole, join Chef Andy and Glen to make a Mardi Gras feast!

Wednesday, February 24th @ 5:30 PM: Best of Food Network’s Celebrity Chefs, $65 Are you a Food Network junkie? We can’t seem to get enough of Celebrity Chefs around here. Join Andy and Glen as they featuring cuisine inspired by Tyler Florence, Paula Deen, Giada, Emeril Lagasse and more!

Call 843-681-5060 for details.

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An intimate concert with Singer / Songwriter ANGIE APARO. For more information, please visit www.bigbamboocafe.com or call 843.686.3443

Hospice, Hearts and You February 11, from 6:30 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Windows on the Waterway, Hilton Head Plantation Join us for an evening of wine, hors d’ouvres and the opportunity to pamper yourself. Consult with local professionals & explore option to enhance the natural you…from head to toe! Tickets include wine and hors d’ouvres. There will be door prizes and silent auction featuring dates with some of CH2’s bachelors from the ‘Bachelor of the Year’ contest. All proceeds from the event will go toward patient care programs at Hospice Care of the Lowcountry.

For tickets or more information, call 843.706.2296.

14th Annual Valentine dinner dance February 13, 2010, 6:30 p.m.

Crowne Plaza Resort

Beaufort International Film Festival February 18-20.

Beaufort, SC

To support the Children’s Relief Fund in their efforts to aid families of children with disabilities Cost: $125 per person, includes dinner, wine and a full evening of entertainment.

For ticket information, call Rose Fotia at (843) 681-7668.

Awards gala on the 20th is free and will honor actress Blythe Danner and novelist Pat Conroy. Beaufort Film Society members get front of house seating and discounted movie tickets at Sea Turtle cinemas.

For more information, please log onto www. beaufortfilmfestival.com.

Take Flight, A Fundraiser February 20, 5:00pm Hilton Head Island High School VPAC Cost: $20 Adults/$5 Students/$5 Auction only Take Flight launches at 5 PM with an impressive silent auction and antique consignment sale. View the complete catalog at www.ospreyvillage.org. Catered tapas available for a nominal charge. The variety show begins at 7 PM and features a harmonious variety of talented local musicians. Performers Target, Sarah Burns, the Island Treasures Barber Shop Quartet, Outof-the-Blue, Lavon Stevens & Louise Spencer, Teri Rini Powers and the Hilton Head Vocal Jazz Project.

Net proceeds will apply toward a matching seed grant awarded to OSPREY Village by the Community Foundation of the Lowcountry.

For tickets and additional information, please visit www.ospreyvillage.org or call at 843-368-9379.

An evening with Angie Aparo Big Bamboo Café February 6, 10:30pm-1:30am

Cooks & Books February 21, from 11:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.

The Mall at Shelter Cove Sample gourmet food prepared by 16 of the top restaurants in the area. Watch a heated Iron Chef competition among 10 of the finest Lowcountry chefs. Mingle with Southern authors and purchase autographed books. Advance tickets are $15 per person, $20 at the door and include unlimited tastings.

To benefit Literacy Volunteers of the Lowcountry.

For Cooks & Books and Preview Party tickets or more information, call (843) 815-6616.

Save the Date!

“Bid for PAL” Palmetto Animal League Online Auction PAL is hosting its first ever online auction to raise money for its first ever Adoption Center in Riverwalk Business Park off of Highway 170. Get your paws on your computer to bid for hundreds of items large and small. Auction dates are April 8-11.

Go to www.pal.dojiggy.com or www.PalmettoAnimalLeague.org to start bidding on April 8!

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Chris Lane’s

Survival

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The Single’s Guide to Surviving

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P h o t o g r a p h y

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Wearing a Snuggie is like getting a never-ending hug from a friend who is made of fleece.

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inter can be a difficult time of year for single people. First, we have to deal with the holiday season alone, and then, just to rub it in our noses, we have to deal with a holiday that celebrates the exact circumstance that is lacking in our lives: love.

Fear not, legions of island singles! I am going to tell you how to survive the gauntlet of paper-shaped hearts and diaper-clad, winged infants in this, my first “How to Survive” column.

Some critics might say hateful things like, “Chris, you can barely survive a Tuesday,” or “Chris, you cried all eight times you watched Free Willy, so how can you tell others how to survive complex life situations like holidays?”

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G GUIDE The simple response to criticism like this is that I am qualified because I have a column and my critics do not. History has shown that this is more than enough to justify giving self-righteous advice that was never asked for in the first place. Consider the curious case of Dr. Phil. He has a TV show and doles out psychiatric advice. What qualifies him to do so? A hypnotic mustache, a penchant for Texas similes, and, yes, the fact that he has his own show and his critics do not.

Now that we have established my limitless qualifications, let’s discuss a survival strategy for the commercial piece of crap that Hallmark calls, “Valentine’s Day.” If you are anything like me, most of your Valentine’s Day evenings are spent in a Snuggie in your boxers eating Lean Cuisine microwavable dinners while watching reruns of The Office.

However glorious my ritual may sound to the average person, many singles feel pressure to have a date that particular evening. In fact, weeks before Cupid’s cattle call, millions of young men and women scramble for a date to ensure that they are not alone on Valentine’s Day (and yet I still can’t get a date…I feel a session with Dr. Phil coming on…but I digress). This is unnecessary stress. There are several reasons why my Valentine’s Day rituals are better than a traditional date.

1. Wearing a Snuggie is like getting a never-ending hug from a friend who is made of fleece. Blazers and dress shirts are as comfortable as a sandpaper pillow.

2. Most restaurants require pants. Most living rooms do not. Game. Set. Match.

3. Lean Cuisine = a) Delicious, b) Nutritious, c) Cheap. And these little $2 miracles can be prepared in the comfort of your own home. Why go anywhere else? Unless your date will agree to dine at a place with a dollar menu, then score another point for

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the Lane Plan. (If she DOeS agree to go to a place with a dollar menu, go buy a ring, propose, and pay no mind to the remainder of this life lesson.)

4. Steve Carell is probably funnier than your date. Plus, when there’s an awkward moment, you can just turn off a TV. your date will just sit there. Staring at you. Judging you. In terrible, terrible silence.

Still not a believer in the Lane Plan?

Then consider this: your Valentine’s tryst may end up in a long term committed relationship. I have watched enough sitcoms to know that this can have disastrous consequences. The scenario plays out like this: Husband/ boyfriend engages in lighthearted nincompoopery, perhaps playing golf instead of mowing the lawn, or maybe he’s trying to juggle the Super bowl party with the guys and a dinner with the in-laws. One thing leads to another; our lovable protagonist gets caught red-handed and then proceeds to get a tongue-lashing by the hyper-dominant wife/girlfriend.

Guys, do you want to get yelled at a la Everybody Loves Raymond every time you want to slip in a round of golf and blow off your in-laws?

Ladies, do you want to have to deal with sitcom-style shenanigans all your life?

Guys, do you want to get yelled at a la Everybody Loves Raymond every time you want to slip in a round of golf and blow off your in-laws?

Of course not. So don’t buy in to the pressures of this commercial holiday. be confident in who you are alone, and understand that Valentine’s Day is the same as any other day of the year; it just happens to be the one that big Greeting Card and big Candy have designated as Profit Day. I know that this advice may sound cynical, but I really do know what true love is. Her name is Snuggie. and we almost never have awkward moments.  February 2010

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AFTERDARK Monday

Friday

Boathouse II / Marker 13 843.681.3663 Jeff beasley 6pm to 10 pm Remy’s Bar & Grill 843.842.3800 big b Karaoke 9:30pm Street Meet 843.842.2570 Late Night Food until 1am Mellow Mushroom Pizza 843.686.2474 beer Club - Free Membership Join anytime

The Electric Piano 843.785.5397 Live entertainment: 2/5: Sterlin & Shuvette 2/12: Disco Fever 2/19: Permanent Tourists band 2/26: Shake & bake Brick Oven Café 843.686.2233 Chris & Christian Live Casey’s Sports Bar & Grille 843.785.2255 Karaoke Jock’s Bluffton’s Sports Bar & Grill 843.815.7474 rockit entertainment, (Mellisa), DJ/Karaoke Big Bamboo 843.686.3443 The beagles play the beatles Kingfisher Seafood, Pasta & Steakhouse 843.785.4442 Jazz & blues with earl Williams Wild Wing Café 843.785.9464 or 843.815.9453 2/5 rock Candy (Hilton Head) 2/5 btown Playaz (bluffton) 2/19: Joystick (Hilton Head 2/19: Moonshine Jenny (bluffton) 2/26: Moonshine (Hilton Head) 2/26: btown Playaz (bluffton) XO Lounge 843.341.8080 LIVe entertainment Street Meet 843.842.2570 Late Night Food until 1am Kanaley’s Pub 843.686.5123, LIVe entertainment 9:30pm-until

Tuesday Wild Wing Café 843.785.9464 or 843.815.9453 Trivia Night (Hilton Head) Casey’s Sports Bar & Grille 843.785.2255 Ladies Night, Karaoke Quarterdeck 843.842.1999 Harborside Café 843.842.1444-Live Music Street Meet 843.842.2570 Late Night Food until 1am

Wednesday Jock’s Bluffton’s Sports Bar & Grill 843.815.7474 Tommy Sims Live 9pm Boathouse II / Marker 13 843.681.3663 Thomas Claxton 6pm to 10pm Big Bamboo 843.686.3443 reggae Night with Patwa Prana International 843.785.7762 Cheese Factory– Classics- 70’s, 80’s & 90’s Wild Wing Café 843.785.9464 or 843.815.9453, F&b Night with big b!

(Hilton Head) XO Lounge 843.341.8080 LIVe entertainment Brick Oven 843.686.2233, Singer / Songwriter Night Street Meet 843.842.2570 Late Night Food until 1am Electric Piano 843.785.5397 Starting Feb. 24th - Sterlin & Shuvette

Thursday Kingfisher Seafood, Pasta & Steakhouse 843.785.4442 Classic rock with David Wingo Wild Wing Café 843.785.9464 or 843.815.9453 Late Night DJ! (Hilton Head) 2/4: Vampires of Hollywood (bluffton) 2/11: The Design (Hilton Head) 2/11: Gary Pfaff & The Heartwells (bluffton) 2/25: radio Cult (Hilton Head) Boathouse II / Marker 843.681.3663 Jim Harper 6pm to 10pm XO Lounge 843.341.8080 LIVe entertainment Jock’s Bluffton’s Sports Bar & Grill 843.815.7474, WII bowling & Dart Tourney Street Meet 843.842.2570 Late Night Food until 1am Electric Piano 843.785.5397 Starting 2/24: Christian young & Charles Funk

Saturday The Electric Piano 843.785.5397, Chris & Christian Jock’s Bluffton’s Sports Bar & Grill 843.815.7474 DJ Tanz - all request XO Lounge 843.341.8080, LIVe entertainment Wild Wing Café 843.785.9464 or 2/6: Skinny (Hilton Head) 2/13: Leghorn (bluffton) 2/20: Silicone Sister (Hilton Head) 2/20: Joystick (bluffton) 2/27: Silicone Sister (bluffton) Big Bamboo 843.686.3443 aboriginals 2/6: angie aparo Brick Oven 843.686.2233, rotating Live Music Street Meet 843.842.2570 Late Night Food until 1am Kanaley’s Pub 843.686.5123, Karaoke with big b 9pm-until

Sunday Brick Oven Café 843.686.2233 Jessie Watkins and Friends Wild Wing Café 843.785.9464 or 843.815.9453, Football Street Meet 843.842.2570 Late Night Food until 1am Mellow Mushroom Pizza 843.686.2474 7th Super bowl Party

We want to know what you’re doing tonight! email info to

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 Golf Tips From a Pro Pete Popovich, Golf Performance Academy

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n the game of golf, putting is an art unto itself. It is often academy, we disagree with this perception. Why? because, in referred to as the “black art,” because attempting to reality, there are four eye positions you should be aware of if you improve your putting without proper guidance can lead wish to be an improved or even a great putter. you down dark roads where you can become totally, and often permanently, lost.

The eyes of The beholder There have been many studies conducted, books written The eyes are the cameras to the brain. The images our and tests invented regarding how to putt accurately and eyes receive are transferred from the eye to the optic nerve to consistently. Most revolve around conventional theories divided the back of our brain and the occipital, parietal, and temporal by subtle personal twists that actually make it difficult to lobes. Within these lobes, perceptions of auditory, visual and separate what contributes to great spatial awareness are processed putting from what contributes to and determined, and messages are poor or mediocre putting. sent to the front of our brain and at the Golf Performance the cortexes (prefrontal, premotor, academy, we believe that we differ and supplemental motor area). The The eyes are the from nearly all conventional golf cortexes are where the brain tells cameras to the brain. instructional schools. Why do we the body which muscles to use and The images our eyes believe so? because we believe that how to use them; i.e. which muscles receive are transferred to permanently solve a problem, we fire first, second, third; how much from the eye to the must first identify the inner or root strength/force to use, and so on. cause before we can work outward When we read a putt from behind optic nerve to the to gain the desired solution or effect. the ball and look at the hole, we get back of our brain and Often we are asked, “How do you an idea or a picture of the path the the occipital, parietal, know how to identify the cause, ball will take to the hole and how and temporal lobes. while most others can only relate forcefully to stroke it to make it to effects?” The response is simple: travel the prescribed distance. When fundamentals! we stand over the ball and look at The putting stroke, much like the the hole, we get another view of the full swing, is dictated by set-up; and it is critical to remember hole. If the image of the ball’s path from above the ball does that set-up determines motion. If the set-up is not correct, then, not match the image of the ball’s path from behind the ball, we regardless of whether your stroke is straight-back- straightget two different images. Two different images will cause the through or an arc stroke, errors occur. brain to give the body two different messages regarding which It is generally agreed that the most important part of your muscles to use and when to use them. because the body and set-up, as it pertains to putting, is the position of the eyes relative brain are not working together, the putting stroke will suffer and to the ball. It is also generally agreed by most instructors that a missed putt most often results. that position is “eyes over the ball.” at the Golf Performance usually, when caught in this dilemma, a golfer will sense

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something “doesn’t feel right” and will either putt anyway or start to second guess his read. He does not realize, because no one has shown him that the read was not the problem but that the placement of the eyes, that distorted or conflicting images was the problem.

In order to become a great putter, a golfer must have his eyes in the proper place and position to give a consistent and correct image of the putt’s path and where the hole is located.

Done properly, then, and only then, can he become a great putter.

The four eye positions, or eye factors, that have to be considered are 1) eye dominance 2) eye tropia 3) eye gaze 4) eyes over the ball.

If you would like to know more about how these eye positions affect putting and how you can become a great putter regardless of your perceived skill level, please contact the Golf Performance academy of the Low Country at www. golfacademyhiltonhead.com/ or call us at (843) 338-6737. 

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ulligan’s Golf balls and More was Nicole Carmany’s bright idea. In early 2008 she convinced her somewhat skeptical father, Mike Miller, to open a golf store specializing in “experienced” (translation: used) balls.

Mike Miller recalls thinking “Let me get this straight. you think we should open a golf store that will compete with large chain stores, in the middle of a recession, and sell “used” golf balls too?” Despite his initial misgivings, Mike did indeed open such a golf store in bluffton.

Since then, the father -daughter team have been offering superior customer service, quality products at reasonable prices aND experienced golf balls to the Lowcountry. Mulligan’s has now been open for just over a year now and they credit their success to valued customers (friends, really) for loyally shopping with them.

Mulligan’s Special Pricing on Golf Balls: Titleist from $9.95 ProV1 from $19.95 Nike from $8.95 Pinnacle from $6.95 Volvik Crystal from $8.95 February 2010

They also carry a wide variety of NCaa, MLb and NFL golf products and custom, order hard-to-find golf products.

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