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Volume 4, No. 17, January 19, 2005 On the Cover: Images of Sandy Riggin at various ages; photo illustration by Brandon Blatcher

News Cover Story

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The harrowing story of Sandy Riggin

Jane Fishman 10 The beauty is in the telling Feedback 10 Letters to the Editor City Notebook 11 Notes from around town

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Community 12 Wheels of Justice Tour Blotter 13 From SPD reports Non Sequitur 13 Our favorite cartoon News of the Weird 14 Strange but true Earthweek 15 The week on your planet

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Music Interview 16 Lauren Lapointe Music Menu 17 Local gigs a la carte Connect Savannah

Connect Recommends 19 Good taste, and good for you Good Show 20 Will travel Soundboard 22 Who’s playing and where

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What: The occupation of Iraq and Palestine comes to Savannah in the form of a renovated school bus that now holds a peace center. The tour brings first-hand accounts from Iraq and Palestine to challenge and educate Americans on the effect of war and occupation both on people abroad and Americans at home. The Savannah event will feature Mike Miles with a presentation on Iraq, Dave Lippman with a multi-media presentation on Palestine, plus an appearance by Lippman’s alter-ego, George Shrub, the world’s only known singing CIA agent. Other speakers and a short film also will be presented. The event is a collaborative effort of the Savannah Fellowship of Reconciliation, Code Pink, Savannah Global Video Theater and The Sentient Bean.

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Lecture Tracing Oglethorpe: Georgia Sites in London What: Dr. Edward Cashin will discuss sites in London associated with Georgia and will incorporate the architectural and artistic links between the two places to come to a more complete understanding of Georgia’s colonial history. When: Thursday, Jan. 20 at 6:30 p.m. Where: Orleans Hall, 201 Barnard St. Cost: Free. Call: 525-7187.

Lecture on Rising Anti-Americanism What: Ambassador Theodore H. Kattouf will speak to the Savannah Council on World Affairs on anti-Americanism. Kattouf is the president and CEO of America-Mideast Educational and Training Services, Inc., which works to strengthen mutual understanding and cooperation between Americans and the peoples of the Middle East and North Africa. He has served in Kuwait, Beirut and Baghdad during his career, and he currently serves as the ambassador to Syria. When: Thursday, Jan. 20 at 8 p.m.

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Participants include 45 Bistro, Aqua Star, B. Matthew’s Bakery-Eatery, Belford’s Seafood & Steaks, Boar’s Head Grill & Tavern, Chef Nick Mueller & Company, Cobblestone Cafe, Creative Catering, Creative Events & Marketing, Derst Baking Co., Doubletree Hotel Historic Savannah, Hilton Savannah DeSoto, Hyatt Regency Savannah, Johnny Harris Restaurant, Kehoe House, Moon River Brewing Co., Mulberry Inn, Olde Pink House, Paul Kennedy Catering, Pepper’s Cantina, Professional Chefs Service, River Street Sweets, Savannah Sand Gnats, Savor Savannah Catering by SMG and Southern Comfort Catering. Awards will go to Best Appetizer, Best Entree, Best Dessert and Best Booth Presentation. Taste of Savannah is presented by the Tourism Leadership Council, and proceeds will benefit the programs and activities of the TLC, Where: Savannah including a scholarship fund. When: Friday, Jan. 21 from 7-10 p.m.W Cost: $40 in advance and $45 the day of International Trade and Convention Center.C Call: 356-1223 for tickets or information. the event.C

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City Lights Theatre Company Presents The Last Five Years What: This production was written by Jason Robert Brown, a playwright/composer who won a Tony Award in 1999 for best original musical score for Parade. It stars Michelle Meece and Michael Zaller, who also perform in the cast of Jukebox Journey, as a couple who is trying to find out what has gone wrong with their marriage. The production is directed by Jody Chapin. When: Friday and Saturday, Jan. 21 and 22 at 8 p.m. and Sunday, Jan. 23 at 3 p.m. Where: The Savannah Theatre, 222 Bull St. Cost: $22 to $15. Call: 234-9860.

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Masterworks from the New Britain Museum of American Art What: The Telfair Museum of Art will present a lecture on masterworks from the New Britain Museum of American Art in Connecticut. The lecture is being held in conjunction with the exhibition Strokes of Genius: Masterworks from the New Britain Museum of American Art, which can be seen through March 20. The presentation will be made by Dr. Douglas Hyland, director of the New Britain Museum, who will talk about the museum’s collection, which spans 250 years of American art history.

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REEL Savannah Film Group Presents Seducing Doctor Lewis What: This is the charming, funny tale of a ragtag fishing community on an impoverished island trying to persuade a young Montreal physician to live in their town so they can qualify as the location of a new factory. During a one-month trial period, the villagers try to satisfy his every need and convince him that their town offers all the charms of a thriving metropolis. In French with English subtitles. When: Sunday, Jan. Where: Lucas Theatre, 32 Abercorn St. at Wright Square.C Cost: $6.

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Wednesday, Jan. 26 Psychotronic Film Society Presents Tom Waits’ Big Time What: This incredibly rare film has been unavailable for more than a decade, and rumor has it the original negative was accidentally destroyed, which has thwarted plans to reissue it on home video. Considered one of the finest and most bizarre concert films ever made, it captures the legendary songwriter during his 1987 tour at Los Angeles’ Wiltern Theatre.

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The harrowing yet ultimately uplifting story of Sandy Riggin

To call Sandy Riggin’s book Forbidden Memories: A Journey of Healing “gripping” is an understatement.

When I first picked it up and glanced at the title, I thought to myself, “Oh, great — another Southern female writer glorifying her dysfunctional childhood.”

I flipped to the middle of the book and read a bit, expecting to confirm my suspicions. Thirty-six hours and two boxes of tissue later I read the last lines, then sat there in a fog.

My husband looked at me and said, “Are you okay?” I nodded yes. And I was.

I had cried over the horrible things Sandy had been put through, at the terrifying things she had put herself through, and at her inability to love herself and find others to love her. But most of my tears were from the joy I felt when she finally started to feel better for good.

Her story doesn’t glorify anything.

I’m a sensitive person and this book hit me at all my weak points. But it also got me asking questions about these weak points. My dad used to have me write out “who, what, where, when, why, and how” before I left the house. Sandy’s book has inspired me to ask the same of many things that make up my personality today. But that’s another story....

Forbidden Memories is an account of an abusive childhood and the destructive adulthood that follows. It’s about a psyche damaged beyond all available means of repair. It’s about the complexity of human relationships and the innate need to feel and give love. It is frank, bold, and honesty is at its core.

“I certainly don’t have any skeletons left in my closet!’

Sandy laughs during our recent phone interview.

The former Savannahian now lives in Sautee, Ga., and is working on a second book, due out this year.

“It didn’t start out as a book,” Sandy insists, explaining how Forbidden Memories began as a tool she used during her ongoing search to permanently heal her wounds from the past and live a stable and spiritually fruitful life as an adult. In short, her quest to be a happy person.

“While in therapy I was not able to connect with my feelings as an abused child. That’s very common with abuse survivors,” she says, explaining that, in what seems to be a subconscious act of self-preservation, those who have been abused form a seemingly unbreachable emotional detachment from the painful events of their past.

Getting in touch with those feelings is, according to Sandy, the cornerstone of healing.

“I thought if I could express feelings about those events through writing, I could begin to get better,” she says. “I also thought that if I could share my story with other abuse survivors they may feel more comfortable talking about their own experiences. You know the old saying, ‘You’re only as sick as your secrets.’”

If Sandy sounds astute for your average dysfunctional person, that’s because she’s a therapist herself. She actually graduated from what was then Armstrong State College with a degree in psychology in 1988.

Yes, she was a local girl for a time. Experiencing some of the good and a lot of the bad that Savannah of the ‘80s and ‘90s had to offer.

Through all her suffering and attempts to bury her not-too-distant past with drugs, alcohol and starvation, she managed to put herself through school, hold down demanding jobs -- at least for a while -- and get married to a kind and gentle man — at least for a while.

Her achievements are a testimony to her refined ability to hide that the essence of her existence was anchored in shame and self hatred. The fact that she survived and continued to seek help is evidence that at the core of her being was a person not willing to give up the fight.

Sandy remembers first learning about physical violence from an unlikely source — her grandmother! It is her grandmother who provides her with one of her earliest horrifying childhood memories.

Sandy is only a young child when she witnesses her pregnant mother getting beaten with a broom by her grandmother, who after beating her mother into a corner turns to Sandy and pushes her down a flight of steps.

Her father apparently is no better. He was a cop with a propensity to violence of which he is very proud. He is later fired from the police force for brutality. As his daughter discovers, his need to use physical force is not exclusive to his job.

Sandy, her mom and her two brothers are very often on the receiving end. Sandy learns early to tiptoe around her father and to be her mother’s protector, a role she assumes for life.

Sandy loves her mother more than anyone, and says she’s spent the better part of her life hoping that someday that love would be returned. While her mother is credited with getting her children away from their father while they were all still in one piece, she turns around and married Gene, a man who turns out to be equally abusive.

This time is different though, and more complicated.

Now Sandy’s mom turns on her, and Sandy’s torment escalates to a vicious cycle of protecting her mother and brothers from Gene, protecting herself against her mother, fearing Gene’s next bedroom “visit” -- and having utterly no one to turn to.

But it is Sandy’s sense of loss of love from her mother that gives her the most devastating and lasting blow.

During these years Sandy forms the dehabilitating psychological problems of deep insecurity, loneliness, and self-hatred. It is during these years that her emotional development is arrested.

ONE NIGHT I WAS ALREADY IN BED because it was a school night. I must have drifted off to sleep for a short while before I was suddenly awakened by sounds of horrifying screams and crying. Panicked, I jumped out of my bed and bounded downstairs to see who was getting hurt, and why. With each step down the long wooden staircase, I heard Mom’s angry voice become louder and louder, and was followed by deafening slapping sounds. At the bottom of the stairs, I carefully peered around the banister to see the bathroom door slightly ajar. I saw Mom standing in the middle of the bathroom, but I couldn’t yet see who she was yelling at. I could sense the tension in the air as I meekly walked toward the bathroom to see what was causing such a commotion. Approaching the door, I saw my brothers standing in the bathtub, naked and wet. They were crying and holding their hands and arms in front of them while Mom ferociously beat them with a belt. I instinctively knew that I had to do something to make her stop, so I ran into the bathroom and begged, “Mom, please stop hitting them! Tell me what's wrong.”

She swung around and looked at me with rage in her eyes. She looked as if she were out of control. All of a sudden, she seemed to forget that my brothers were in the tub, and in a menacing voice she commanded, “Take your shirt off.” When I understood her words, my heart drowned with embarrassment that my brothers would see my naked ten-year-old body. My breath grew shallow and momentarily stopped out of fear of what Mom was about to do to me. But I obeyed her by slowly removing my shirt and gently placing it on the floor.

“Turn around and grab hold of the sink,” she continued. With my hands and arms violently shaking, I reached for the cold porcelain basin and grasped it for dear life as I anticipated the first blow to my back with the thick leather belt, still wet from the strikes against my brothers’ bodies. When the belt landed firmly on my back, I tried not to cry, but the tears came anyway. With each blow, I could hear my brothers crying in the tub and somehow it gave me a sense of relief because I knew that now she wasn’t hitting them.

We all wore long-sleeved shirts to school the next day so that no one could see the welts and bruises that marred the surface of our small bodies. But nothing could hide the pain hidden in the depths of our hearts. I dared not look at anyone that day, especially my teachers.... ◗

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Thankfully, most of us don’t have stories of abuse and personal destruction that come close to Sandy’s. But everyone that reads her story will be enlightened in some way.

Maybe you will better understand a friend or loved one’s addictions or self destructive cycle. Maybe you’ll understand that extreme dysfunction is not the stuff that Jerry Springer shows are made of.

Maybe you’ll pay closer attention to the clues of a person who is desperately crying for help.

Maybe you will find that that person is really you, and that those insecurities that hold you back over and over again are not personality flaws, but repairable damage done early in your life.

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dysfunction. But Sandy’s suicidal tendencies do not release their grip. David’s process only works at the surface.

He doesn’t give up on Sandy. She convinces him to allow them to explore other methods that accessed her past.

Through exhaustive effort, coaching and infinite patience from David, Sandy learns to reach her deeper wounds and understand how to break the cycle of self hatred and destruction. Sandy learns how to act and react like an adult, not an adolescent victim.

Sandy is now working on a second book that will outline the “counseling paradigm” that she found was the key to her recovery.

“It’s a holistic approach. It looks at the big picture” she explains. “The concept of the ‘inner child’ is the most important aspect of the healing process.”

Riggin says the inner child approach “is not utilized often because most therapy sessions are limited to five months because of insurance, and it takes about nine months to a year to access and heal your inner child. But when you factor in the fact that most all five month patients return to therapy at least once, taking the time to really heal the first time

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When Sandy makes a recovery from drug use she finds other methods of self destruction: She becomes anorexic, bulimic and an obsessive runner.

The core of Sandy’s dysfunction is so deeply buried that most therapists can’t access it. Sandy learns to control it for a short time here and there, but it inevitably returns to take over.

Years of self-destruction culminate in what Sandy expects to be her final attempt at suicide. She ingests 180 muscle relaxers. She witnesses, for a few minutes, her body shutting down. To her horror she awakes from a coma five days later in a hospital. Miraculously she escapes death.

This is the point where the book takes the reader from a high-drama page-turner to Sandy’s step-by-step process of healing. This process takes her and her therapist, Dr. David Bailey, into unchartered territory that begins with cognitive therapy — currently a popular method whereby essentially Sandy is given the tools to relearn how to think about the painful memories of the past and reassess how she chooses to feel about them.

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Her coping ability remains that of a victimized child. This makes her an easy target for sexual abuse outside the family.

In an effort to suppress her shame and dissolve her pain, Sandy discovers the anesthetizing effects of drugs and alcohol early in her teenage years.

But it takes a lot of drugs and alcohol to block out all the ugliness in Sandy’s life, and she becomes seriously addicted in short order.

She also finds another secret comfort, suicide. It’s always an available alternative, and never far from the forefront of her thoughts.

She ends up in a drug rehab facility in Savannah after being arrested for possession of drugs. Here she quickly learns to work the system, making friends who work in the facility who can hook her up with practically any drug she wants.

She spends the next ten years in and out of hospitals, drug rehab facilities, in AA and NA programs, and with a variety of therapists, many of whom she becomes close friends with. Most of her therapists make some headway with helping, or at least stabilizing Sandy, but the recovery is always short-lived.

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‘Indefensible prejudice’ against Christians Editor, Much of Jim Reed’s “Connect Recommends” for 1/5/05 is devoted to telling us why we shouldn’t like local band Showbread. He does finally admit that their latest CD is “one of the most impressive slabs of brutal, high-energy metalcore that’s ever come from our local music scene.”

But the rest of his “Recommendation” is “Yeah, buts” that are mostly (and unabashedly) based on conjecture.

Evidently, their sin was Christianity.

I’m not saying I know more about music than Jim does. Jim regularly knows more about the musicians he discusses than their own parents do, and frequently knows more about music and the business than the musicians do.

But something went wrong this time.

He clearly made no attempt to interview anyone associated with the band, or do any research whatsoever — openly admitting his ignorance about their beliefs, music, and motives.

Instead, he lumped them in with what he derisively called “stealth Christian” bands, all of whom he thinks believe, not in Christ, but simply that “professing an abiding love for Jesus was a quick and easy shortcut through the often inhospitable — and unprofitable — world of indie touring.”

Something’s really wrong here. I’m not saying no bands have done that (I can’t even say for sure that Showbread didn’t do it), but to make those kinds of accusations while confessing ignorance about the alleged offender is just indefensible prejudice.

At least Jim could have found out something that I do know: “Showbread” is the Old Testament term for the Jewish bread of offering to Yahweh.

And “Yahweh,” by the way, is the title of the closing song on the latest CD by U2. Are they a bunch of no-talent frauds too?

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The beauty is in the telling Books are still the best distraction -- and occasionally, edification STILL IN THE SPIRIT OF NEW YEAR’S RESOLU TIONS, people are crowding the lanes at the Aquatic Center, circling Daffin Park. But in the past two weeks I’ve also heard of two book clubs starting up.

Reading, it appears, at least in January, ranks a close second to exercise.

Everyone’s looking to improve. I mean, let’s face it, how many people have you heard say: “My New Year’s resolution is to watch more television”?

Not that I don’t watch the boob tube.

Even with rabbit ears, I can still pull in “King of the Hill” when I have to, “Sisters,” to fill that occasional 7 p.m. dead hour, and, of course, our beloved “West Wing.”

Everything else is dreck, that wonderful Yiddish word Leo Rosten translates as, “excrement, trash, junk, garbage.”

But for good old-fashioned distraction, diversion, amusement and the occasional edification, books are better.

They feel good to the touch, especially hardcovers. They travel well. And on a wall, folded into a bookshelf, their bindings make up a beautiful mosaic.

A few years ago, I started writing down the name of each book I read for the year, partly as reward (“Good girl!

Look what a smart girl you are!”), partly so I could keep track.

As I look back on last year’s list, I noticed five out of the14 books I read were repeats, books I deliberately chose to revisit. Each read as though it were our first time together.

Most of the time I didn’t even remember the ending -- not because of my memory, which is no great shakes, anyway -- but because the beauty of these books was and is in the telling.

Still, how could I have forgotten the evil and nasty ways of Paris Trout in Pete Dexter’s book of the same name? Dexter doesn’t pull any punches with this one, already 16 years old (and a movie, too).

It’s a thriller from the beginning to the end, a novel of murder in the small Georgia town of Cotton Point just after World War II. There’s no big thrills, no big plot, in Peter Taylor’s A Summons to Memphis, another reread this year, another Southern setting. Just some major machinations and manipulations from two middle-aged and unmarried sisters

toward their widowed father who wants to remarry and their brother who moved to Manhattan. Written in 1987, it’s a juicy book of interior intrigue family dysfunction.

Then there’s Virginia Woolf’s To The Lighthouse, which I drew from my bookshelf and read all the way through one rainy Saturday. On the first page, an earlier owner’s name is written in beautiful penmanship, “John E. Dewey, May, 1927,” the year the book was published.

Above that, in pencil, was the price I paid: $1.

The syntax is slightly wooden but the feelings are modern. “Had there been an ax handy, or a poker, any weapon that would have gashed a hole in his father’s breast and killed him, there and then, James would have seized it. Such were the extremes of emotion that Mr. Ramsay excited in his children’s breast by his mere presence...”

I don’t understand all that Woolf writes, but her fragile grip on reality and her conflicted, interior voice speak to me.

So does Carson McCullers in The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter and William Maxwell in They Came Like Swallows, another gem of yet more family dysfunction, circa 1937.

For new books, I went to my first John Grisham, The Last Juror. Talk about a great fantasy. A 23-year-old kid, straight out of journalism school, buys a small town newspaper in the South, gets involved in a story of rape and murder committed by the son of the town’s outlaw family and sees it through to the end.

Equally creepy and possibly prescient was Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake, a futuristic tale told by a man living in a tree who because of some major miscalculations by a few large biotech corporations -- whose employees live in gated communities -thinks he may be the last man left on earth.

It’s a story of how the world fell apart.

It’s bleak. It’s a page-turner.

I guess I like bleak, because Jeffrey Eugenides’ The Virgin Suicides came next. I loved his Middlesex, which won the Pulitzer Prize, but this is different -- macabre, quirky, readable, also a movie, I am told. I’m ready for his next book.

For a dinner club I belong to, where we cook and talk about a different country each month, I came across Corruption, by Tahar Ben Jelloun.

The country was Morocco. Imagine my surprise when I called the research desk of the public library to ask for names of Moroccan novelists. Without missing a beat, the woman on the other line gave me a list of six.

Never underestimate talking to another human being instead of Googling everything.

It’s the story of what happens when a city engineer in Casablanca -- who up until then had been Mr. Perfect, Mr. Morality -- finally succumbs to the bribes he’s watched everyone take. Since all I knew about Morocco was the movie Casablanca -- and the fact that Morocco was the first country to recognize the fledgling United States of America - it was good to read of a real human from such a faraway place plagued with guilt and temptation.

A more modern version of this temptation and a book I never would have picked up if I hadn’t have been in Detroit the week it came out -- and never would have read if I hadn’t have gone to elementary school with the author, Suzy Farbman -- was Back From Betrayal: Saving a Marriage, a Family, a Life.

Though not my style of book, it reads fast and fairly honest.

The only other two nonfiction books I read were The Secret Life of Lobsters by Trevor Corson, a great read in the heat of Savannah’s summer, and Rigel Crockett’s Fair Wind and Plenty of It, a modern-day tall ship adventure.

The lobster book, curious and strange and maybe a little more than I wanted to know about their eating habits and sex life, sure puts another spin on Johnny Harris’ weekly Wednesday “lobster night.”

Crockett’s book was delightful, even for a non-boating person such as myself. He writes about a round-theworld voyage on a tall ship out of Nova Scotia.

Crockett, who lives in Savannah, tells a good tale of what it means to be a sailor and how tough it is to share quarters with others for nearly two years.

My first book for 2005 is The Life of Pi, by Yann Martel. Playful, preposterous and bizarre, it’s so good I don’t want it to end. Know what I mean?

So many books, so little time. ◗

Jane Fishman writes a weekly column for ConnectSavannah. She can be reached at gofish5@earthlink.net. To comment in a letter to the editor, e-mail us at letters@connectsavannah.com

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It will be the world’s largest gathering of sea turtle researchers.

Topics presented at the symposium will include population biology, pathology and disease, nesting beaches, genetics, technology, public education and policy, social and cultural issues, fisheries, and management.

“Sea turtles are the best barometers of the health of our seas,” said Dr. Thane Wibbles, president of the International Sea Turtle Society, which is presenting the symposium.

For the second year in a row, Memorial Health University Medical Center has been named one of the country’s “100 Best Companies to Work For” by Fortune magazine, ranking number 48 for 2005.

Companies are scored in four areas: credibility (communication to employees), respect (opportunities and benefits), fairness (compensation, diversity), and pride/camaraderie (philanthropy, celebrations).

“This is an honor not only for Memorial Health, but also for our city, county, and region.” says Memorial President and CEO Robert A. Colvin.

Memorial Health is the only healthcare system in the country to be named to the Fortune list.

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Painting lost, then found A valuable painting stolen from Candler Hospital was found last weekend in an Effingham County dump.

Joe Bowler’s painting of Mary Hoyt Paschal went missing from the Special Care Nursery of the Mary Telfair Women’s Hospital on Derenne and Reynolds The portrait of Mary around New Paschal in happier times Year’s..

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State Sen. Eric Johnson (RSavannah) was re-elected Senate President Pro Tempore last week by his peers in the upper chamber of the Georgia General Assembly on the first day of the 2005 session.

“This is a part time job State Sen. Eric Johnson with full time responsibilities. said Johnson to fellow senators. “Don’t let it consume you. Be honest. Your word is the only currency you have here.”

Despite the fact that Republicans now have a majority in both houses of the Georgia legislature for the first time since Reconstruction, Johnson still counseled patience.

“There are no easy answers to higher test scores, better health, or traffic relief.

The issues are complex.”

Johnson also made a stab at bipartisanship.

“Be civil. We are not enemies. Make friends across the aisle. We will have two to three ‘partisan’ issues, but also five to six emotional ones.”

But from Savannah’s perspective, Johnson’s most influential role will be on numerous committees. Johnson was named to the Appropriations Committee, the Ethics and Finance committees, the powerful Rules committee, and will be an ex-officio member of the Natural Resources and the Environment Committee.

“My voice on the Natural Resources and the Environment Committee will be heard as we ensure the protection of our forests and our beautiful swamp land.

Coastal Georgia can only benefit by having a representative on these influential committees,” he said.

“The many issues concerning sea turtles globally include the numerous hurricanes that impacted the Caribbean and Southeastern United States in the summer and fall of 2004 and the tsunami in Southeast Asia in December,” he said.

Wibbles said that as many as 25 to 30 percent of the loggerhead nests in Florida were wiped out by the hurricanes and an even greater percentage of the green turtle nests in Florida.

The public is invited to learn more about sea turtle conservation at the Hyatt from 1-6 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 20.

You can see a live Loggerhead sea turtle, a full-size turtle excluder device used by shrimp boats to prevent incidental capture of sea turtles, and more than 20 vendors and exhibitors at “Sea Turtle Square.”

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The Wheels of Justice Tour heads to Savannah for a four-day visit beginning Jan. 22 WHEN THE WHEELS OF JUSTICE wanted to be with the Iraqi people Tour rolls into town, people take notice. through it all.”

The full-sized school bus is covered Miles visited Palestine a year ago as with bright colors and peace slogans. part of a humanitarian relief campaign.

“It’s a 1979 school bus we converted “We talked to everyone we could about into a rolling peace resource center,” what was going on there,” he says. says Mike Miles, one of the coordinators The founder of Anathoth Community of the tour.

Farm, a center for the study of nonvioThe Wheels of Justice lence in Luck, Wis., Tour is a five-year-old Miles has been nationwide educational outinvolved in the reach program. The tour peace movement brings first-hand accounts for 25 years. His from Iraq and Palestine to the activism started in general public.

1975 while he was The bus will be in attending a semSavannah Jan. 22-25, and will inary in Chicago. end its visit with a special “I was in a event on Tuesday, Jan. 25 at 7 youth ministry The ‘Singing CIA Agent’ p.m. at The Sentient Bean. program and wanted The visit is a collaborative effort of to become a youth minister,” Miles says. the Savannah Fellowship of “I had a great professor who had a class Reconciliation, Code Pink, Savannah called The Biblical View of Oppression.

The message was, if you’re involved in Global Video Theater and The Sentient Christianity, you must pursue justice.”

Bean. The Jan. 25 event will feature a At that time, the Cold War was still presentation on Iraq by Miles, a multigoing on and nuclear weapons prolifermedia presentation on Palestine by Dave ation was a major worry. With the fall of Lippman and a short guest appearance the Berlin Wall, Miles turned his attention

by Lippman’s alter ego George Shrub, to the MIddle East. the world’s only know singing CIA agent, Over the years, Miles has paid a plus other speakers and a short film. price for his views. He has been arrested Miles has been to Iraq three times dozens of times, and has served more since 1997 through his work with Voices than a year of time in jails and prisons. in the Wilderness, a group of people who Wheels of Justice is jointly suphave studied the situation in Iraq by ported by Voices in the Wilderness, the going there. “During the whole period of Palestine Right to Return Coalition, the sanctions, we would take medical supMiddle East Children’s Alliance and affilplies to Iraq to the hospitals,” he says. iates of the International Solidarity “It was against American law to do Movement. that,” Miles says. “The penalty is 12 years The event at The Sentient Bean will in prison and a $1 million fine for taking not be entirely serious. Lippman is a medicine to children.” comedian, and will bring some humor to Miles knows this because he called the presentation through his anti-folk the Department of Justice to ask. But songs and interventionary anthems in his the risk was worth it, he says. role as “Cultural Director of the In March 2003, the war in Iraq Department of Homeland Security.” started, so visits were no longer an Lippman traveled in Palestine and option. “We do everything we can to go Israel last year. He will present his all over the country to meet everyone we impressions of the conflict there through can to talk about Iraq,” Miles says. a song and picture piece, Star of Goliath.

“When you go over there, you see all The Wheels of Justice Tour makes the struggle that is going on,” he says. stops only where it is invited. “Before we “You see children in the hospital dying start out on tour, we send notices to the right in front of you and you see the areas we will visit,” Miles says. “People parents’ grief.” start getting back to us.”

Miles would like to go back to Iraq, Miles particularly enjoys visiting stubut knows it would not be safe. “The dents. “We’ve done everything form people who are over there say it is too kindergarten to post-graduate classes,” dangerous, not only for us, but the he says. people who host us,” he says.

“This morning, one of our people is “I became a prisoner of war of the at the University of South Carolina,” Iraqi people,” Miles says. “They have capMiles says. “We also will visit a Junior tured my heart.”

ROTC class at the high school. We Some members of Voices in the always go where we are invited. We go to Wilderness were trapped in Iraq when schools Monday through Friday.” the war started. “We had eight to ten Even if no classroom sessions have members who were in Baghdad during been planned, the bus can be rolled into the shock and awe bombing,” Miles says. the middle of campus. “We set up a “They felt so strongly about this that they display,” Miles says. “We have a TV to

show VHS tapes. It really starts converfully, discuss the issues across party sations with people who aren’t even lines,” Hall says. thinking about the Middle East.”

“A group like Voices in the Lots of churches invite the Wheels Wilderness, that has been to Iraq and of Justice Tour to visit, too. “We go to a Palestine, offers a perspective that intelot of potluck dinners,” Miles says. grates the impact on civilians, and Although Miles feels compelled to places the current war in a historical keep touring for peace, sometimes the context. In my view, these are crucial eleconstant travel gets to him. “I would ments missing from much of our media much rather be at my farm,” he says. “I today.” coach track, I have a life, but I can’t get Kathy Bush is a member of Code away from this. You really do get conPink, a grassroots organization that also sumed because you know solving is involved in bringing the Wheels of problems through war doesn’t have to be Justice Tour to Savannah. like this.

“Code Pink is an international organ“Here’s what our take on the world ization of women who are working for is,” Miles says. “‘Here’s the info, if you peace,” Bush says. “My son recently want to go farther with this, come on.’ returned from Iraq. When I joined Code We’re trying to say we can do better.”

Pink, my son was not in Iraq, although he Local activist Molly Hall, a member was already in the service.” of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, is The group seeks change through helping organize the Wheels of Justice non-violence. “I don’t think violence is visit. “They’re ever a solution,” Bush says. very organized,” “We teach our children not she says. to be bullies on the play“They’re doing ground, yet it’s foreign this regionally. policy.”

“They’ve Bush feels the govbeen in the area ernment has not been before,” Hall honest with the public says. “They about the war in Iraq. Her have big plans son enlisted in the Air The Wheels of Justice Bus for Columbus, Force in 2000 when he was and they’re going 17, yet he was deployed with to Athens and Hilton Head. They plug is the army. “This is another indication that wherever the community wants them to.” there is a back-door draft,” she says.

Hall is as dedicated to the peace “My son was a construction movement as Miles is. “The Fellowship of engineer, so he was not shooting at Reconciliation is a group that comes to people, although he had people shooting peace work through the belief that war at him,” Bush says. “He says his tour in should be unthinkable,” she says. “A lot Iraq has left him with a heavy heart. He of the organization is done through says the Iraqi people have so little and churches. A lot of our members are Americans have so much that everyone members of the Unitarian Universalist should be grateful for what they have.”

Church,” Hall says.

Bush declines to name her son, as “I was always kind of an activist,” he is still in the military. “There is so Hall says. “When I was in my 20s, I was much he is not able to talk about, but he more of an angry feminist. I was living in does have a heavy heart,” she says.

New York downtown on 9/11. A combiCode Pink is closely following the nation of things changed me -- seeing case of St. Kevin Benderman, who has everyone come together and the perrecently filed for conscientious objector sonal shock, trauma and terror I felt. It status at Fort Stewart. “I understand his laid the groundwork for something more struggle,” she says. urgent.”

Bush has not yet seen the Wheels of While seeing Americans draw Justice. “I’m very excited to see it,” she together in the wake of the attacks was says. “I have looked at the pictures of heartening, the declaration of war in Iraq the bus on their website. It is gorgeous. was horrifying, Hall says. “Seeing what “I hope this is a great opportunity for came out of 9/11 -- the need for revenge people to come see it and think,” Bush -- so saddened me.” she says. says. “I refuse to call myself a protester. I “This is an event we hope attracts work for peace. I don’t think you should people of every political stripe in have to protest for peace.” ◗ Savannah,” she says. “The country The tour will be in Savannah Jan. 22-25, remains divided about the true motives and will end its visit with an event behind the war -- this leads to different Tuesday, Jan. 25 at 7 p.m. at The reactions to the growing cost in blood Sentient Bean. For more information call and treasure.

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Police were dispatched to a Waters Avenue apartment after the manager reported “she heard a man and woman arguing while she was passing out memos.” The victim told police her boyfriend became angry and “began boxing her in the face and head.” He also threatened her with a knife. She said the man was still in the apartment, but when police checked, he was gone. The woman was taken to a local hospital for treatment of a laceration and bleeding nose.

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Is It Safe Yet? The head of security at Boston’s Logan Airport revealed in December that travelers continue to appear so unfamiliar with restrictions that, three years after 9-11, his screeners still seize 12,000 prohibited items per month. Nationwide, the total since 2002 is nearly 17 million, including 2,200 guns, 79,000 box cutters and 5 million knives.

And in December, a Republican congressman blasted the Department of Homeland Security for making “a joke” out of President Bush’s 2003 order to compile a comprehensive list of potential domestic terror targets. The list so far (of 80,000 sites) is termed by critics both too large (unlikely targets inexplicably included) and too small (imaginable targets inexplicably left off).

City Council Tedium In December, a California appeals court ordered a re-hearing on a zoning case because the petitioner, who was denied an extension of business hours, had not had a fair chance to argue to the Los Angeles City Council. A videotape of the hearing showed that, during petitioner’s presentation, council members talked on the phone or among themselves, wandered around the room, and read their mail, and the appeals court ruled that “due process” requires them to pay attention.

And Councilman Dennis Pate of Eagle Lake, Fla., said in January that a formal rule was needed to prohibit spitting at meetings, in that a former city manager allegedly tried to unload on at him at a December session (but she denied it).

Scenes of the Surreal Following the Dec. 5 Newtown, England, charity Santa Claus race (in which 4,000 Saint Nicks in full costume competed), police had to use noxious spray and nightsticks to break up a brawl of about 30 Santas when the festive spirit got out of hand.

Researchers at the Royal Veterinary College in Hatfield, England, told New Scientist magazine in December that they’re studying why ostriches are able to run so fast (about 20 mph) even though they are heavy (over 200 pounds)

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and awkward-gaited. The team’s work: They observe 15 ostriches running on treadmills.

Finer Points of the Law In Durham, N.C., in December, gang member Robert D. Johnson was sentenced to 15 years in prison for shooting off the genitals of a fellow Blood who was trying to leave the group. The jury rejected an even harsher penalty, for “malicious castration,” settling on “nonmalicious castration” because of evidence that Johnson actually shot the man in the leg but that the bullet just happened to exit his thigh and hit his penis.

The Litigious Society Mr. Jerry Colaitis of Old Brookville, N.Y., died of complications from spinal surgery in 2001, and the next year, his family filed a $10 million lawsuit blaming everything on the Benihana Japanese restaurant chain. Benihana hibachi chefs engage in colorful hand acrobatics while skillfully slicing and grilling food at tableside, and on the night in question, Colaitis flinched at a shrimp the chef had tossed his way. The flinch jarred two vertebrae in his neck, which eventually required surgery and then a second surgery, after which complications developed, leading to Colaitis’ death. In November 2004, a judge cleared the case for trial.

In February 2004, two 11-year-old boys cut classes at the Ronan Middle School in Ronan, Mont., found some alcoholic beverages, and hours later died of hypothermia in a snow-covered field.

In November, the parents of the two filed a lawsuit, asking $4 million in damages from the local public schools for not preventing the truancy. School personnel should have known, according to the lawsuit, that the kids were of Native American heritage, with a high rate of alcoholism in the community, even though neither boy had any alcoholrelated incident on his record.

Ladell Alexander, serving a 16-year sentence for molesting a child in a public library in South Bend, Ind., filed a lawsuit in 2004, asking for $4 million in

damages, charging that his predicament is actually the fault of the library’s security company because officers should have seen him with the boy in a staff-only area of the building and kicked him out before he could do anything bad. (A federal judge dismissed the lawsuit in December.)

In February 2004, a 20-yearold woman stole OxyContin and Xanax from The Medicine Shoppe pharmacy in Wood River, Ill., and gave some to her boyfriend, Justin Stalcup, 21, who died of an overdose the next day. In December, Mr. Stalcup’s family filed a lawsuit against The Medicine Shoppe, claiming that the reason for their son’s death was that the pharmacy didn’t safeguard the drugs from the thief.

The Entrepreneurial Society Victoria Pettigrew started VIP Fibers three years ago in Morgan Hill, Calif., and according to a December 2004 report by the Knight Ridder News Service, has an enthusiastic clientele of pet owners who pay her to make specialty items (blankets, pillows, scarves) from their animals’ hair (“Better yarn from your pet than a sheep you never met”). For example, client Bob Miller of Carmel, Calif., brought in enough collected sheddings of his golden retriever for a blanket, two couch pillows, a small teddy bear, a scarf and a picture frame.

Pettigrew has also created items from the hair of cats, sheep, alpaca, bison, rabbits, hamsters, cows and horses.

Least Competent Criminals Floyd Elliot, 22, was charged in December in Independence, Mo., with filing a false police report by claiming an assailant carved the vulgar slur “fag” on his forehead. Police were immediately suspicious because the letters were backward (as if made by someone looking in a mirror). Also in December, when Nicholas J. Valeri, 19, was arrested for allegedly passing a counterfeit $20 bill at a Wendy’s restaurant in Hempfield Township, Pa., he claimed innocence, saying that he inadvertently acquired the bill shortly before, while selling $240 worth of marijuana.

Recurring Themes Several times over the years in News of the Weird, bad things (including death) have happened to drivers who make the poor decision (usually while inebriated) to stop along the side of a highway at night to urinate but then fail to deal properly with the various dangers. Usually the dangers involve wandering out into traffic or falling over an embankment, but in November, Henry Turley, 77, started to exit his pickup truck to urinate near Kingsbury, Ind., and when rescue workers arrived 20 minutes later, Turley’s truck was in a ditch, and Turley was lying on his back with his left foot caught between the wheel well and the left front tire and his right foot caught between the driver’s side door and the front seat. (A nearly empty bottle of whiskey was on the passenger side.)

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In December, a wheel from a tractortrailer on Interstate 84 in Idaho (glowing hot from an overheated bearing) came off, rolled across a frontage road, and started several fires after it crashed into the home of Charisse Stevenson.

According to a report in the Times-News (Twin Falls, Id.), Stevenson, seeing her 10-year-old son trapped by flames on the second floor of their home and separated by the red-hot wheel, moved it out of the way (though it weighs 250 pounds), scooped up her son (135 pounds), and carried him to safety.

Afterward, of course, Stevenson was found to be unable to lift either the wheel or her son.

Unclear on the Concept Dr. Mary Holley, an obstetrician who heads Mothers Against Methamphetamine in Albertville, Ala., offered this assessment of meth at a December task force meeting in Chattanooga, Tenn. (presumably intending to discourage use of the drug): “The effect of an (intravenous) hit of methamphetamine is the equivalent of 10 orgasms all on top of each other lasting for 30 minutes to an hour, with a feeling of arousal that lasts for another day and a half.” (But after about six months’ use, the effects turn negative, she said.) ◗

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Guinea-Bissau’s main export crop of cashew nuts is threatened by large swarms of locusts that are descending on the West African nation.

Government spokesman Filomeno Lobo de Pina said that Guinea-Bissau has insufficient resources to combat the locust threat, which began in December as the crop-devouring insects arrived from neighboring Senegal. The U.N. food agency warned the locust plagues that have hit northern and western Africa since early last year remain “serious,” and urged donor nations, and those affected, to remain vigilant in controlling the insects.

Tropical Cyclones The island nation of Vanuatu was buffeted by high winds and pounding rain as Cyclone Kerry passed through the archipelago. The storm later lost force as it moved just to the west of New Caledonia.

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Guatemala declared a state of alert after three volcanoes became active, almost simultaneously, for the first time in 31 years. Pacaya, Santiaguito and Fuego forced those living nearby to evacuate as the trio spewed lava, ash and rocks in what were described as low-magnitude eruptions.

• Mexico’s famed Popocatepetl Volcano sent a large plume of ash soaring high into the sky southeast of Mexico City.

The mountain became active in 1994 after many years of relative quiet.

• International aircraft were warned to steer clear of Anatahan Volcano, which produced another eruption in the Northern Mariana Islands. A plume of ash soared 15,000 feet into the North Pacific skies.

Vietnam announced the fifth suspected fatality from a reemergence of bird flu in the country. All of the victims were said to have had direct or indirect contact with sick poultry. Avian influenza has killed 24 people in Vietnam and 12 people in Thailand over the past year.

The outbreaks have prompted warnings that the virus could mutate into a form that could cause a global pandemic similar to the deadly Spanish flu outbreak of 1918, which killed millions worldwide. The announcement from Vietnam came as the World Health Organization said it was increasing surveillance for bird flu, SARS and other diseases across Southeast Asia, especially in areas affected by the Dec. 26 tsunami.

Bushfires Australia’s most deadly bushfires in 20 years killed at least nine people as they swept across South Australia’s Eyre Peninsula. The firestorm razed the beach township of North Shields, trapping most of the victims in their cars as they tried to escape. Hundreds of firefighters, supported by water-bombing aircraft, fought wildfires that rushed across 200,000 acres of bush and farmland.

Earthquakes Strong aftershocks continued to rock Indonesia’s Ache province, and the Andaman and Nicobar island chain of India.

• Earth movements were also felt in the southern Philippines, central Vietnam, northern and central Japan, northern Iran, southwest Turkey, northeast

Crow Hazing The New York town of Auburn is so fed up with a population of wintering crows that it has instituted a “hazing” program aimed at driving the pesky birds out. Scientists from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the state Department of Environmental Conservation were called in to harass the crows, which outnumber Auburn’s human inhabitants, with hand-held lasers, fireworks and amplified crow distress calls. “They are beautiful creatures, and we don’t want to hurt them. We just want them out of our downtown,” said Mayor Timothy Lattimore. More than 50,000 crows began to spend the winter months in Auburn about 15 years ago, and residents complain the birds are a noisy nuisance that soil the city with feces and drive off other songbirds. ◗

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Lauren Lapointe celebrates the release of a new CD THE FIRST TIME that budding songstress Lauren Lapointe opted to put her original words and music down for posterity, she did what many upstart locals have done over the past few years – take advantage of the studio facilities housed at the Savannah College of Art and Design.

It’s a cheap and easy way to produce a basic audio recording to use for demonstration purposes. However, working with student engineers for free can be likened to having your hair cut at a barber school.

You know you’re in for a good deal, but the back might be a little crooked.

And so it was with her first release.

That self-titled CD-R collection of sparsely arranged ballads and laments (all centered around her wistful vocals and rudimentary acoustic guitarwork) was a serviceable document of a performer just beginning to find her sea legs.

However, rough as it may have been in spots, it got her out of the house and onto the stage. It also helped her nab a spot at one of those bohemian songwriting retreats where veteran artists offer enthusiastic newbies one-on-one encouragement and the chance to network with other attendees from around the country.

Before long she was becoming a familiar face on our restaurant and coffeehouse – where solo guitarists with crowdpleasing repertoires are in high demand.

But despite an ongoing and enviable surfeit of live engagements at a variety of area venues (at her busiest, Lapointe works as many as four nights a week),

which allows her to pursue music full-time – Lapointe knew she was nearing the second phase of her nascent career.

And so, she decided to hunker down and craft a second album. Only this time, her game plan would be a bit different.

She planned to have the disc professionally packaged and replicated, and she hoped to use a full-fledged studio.

Furthermore, she was lucky enough to have an experienced producer on board who was familiar with her work.

That producer was guitarist and songwriter Kyle Shiver, known to many around town as “Georgia Kyle.” Before settling down in our area, he paid his dues on the Northeastern folk circuit, cutting some impressive records of his own and singing backup for no less than the Grammy-nominated roots-rocker Shawn Mullins.

“Kyle’s always been my mentor,” explains Lapointe. “He moved to Savannah a couple years ago and immediately took me under his wing. He said to me, okay, you wanna be a singer/songwriter? Here’s what you do. He’s been influential and helpful in so many ways.”

Lapointe says the fact that Shiver had been an active part of the acclaimed Boston folks scene – which she rightly calls “a hub of acoustic artists in our genre”) spoke volumes to her of his abilities to helm her biggest project to date.

“Collaborating with another person opens you up to so many new things,” she enthuses. “I was really ready to hear what someone else might want to do with

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In the end, the singer scrapped her plans to use an existing studio, instead spending her budget on “a really good microphone” and computer-based recording gear. This freed them from the financial and scheduling constraints normally associated with such projects, but kept them from capturing more than two channels of audio at once.

This mixture of liberty and limitations found the sessions dragging on for almost a solid year (in fact, production was halted for three straight months when an adjoining townhouse underwent major – and noisy – renovations).

However, the results are several steps beyond her first release, and at times are indistinguishable from the average lowbudget album cut in a traditional manner.

Lapointe says she is very proud of the finished results, and hopes people enjoy the finished product, Beautiful Shadow, but has no desire to rest on her laurels.

“I’ve talked to so many musicians who say by the time you finish a CD, you’re ready to start another one, and that’s so true! I already have a new batch of songs, and I can’t wait to record them.”

While she still plans to remain based in Savannah, she is hopeful this new CD will help her join the songwriters’ touring circuit, where quality trumps quantity.

“I really want to be able to play more places known for original material,” she says, “so I won’t have to rely as much on cover songs to please the crowds.”

In addition to her high hopes for the new disc, Lapointe is equally jazzed about her upcoming release party, which finds her accompanied by Shiver – a rarity given their often conflicting schedules.

“I think it’s gonna be great fun,” she smiles. “It’s a real celebration of all this work that people have been waiting so patiently for.”

“There’s no cover. We just want people to come out and listen, and hopefully they’ll buy a CD.” ◗

Lauren Lapointe and Kyle Shiver play a free, ALL-AGES show at The Sentient Bean, Saturday at 8 pm.

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Alberti played with Les Brown’s Band of Renown, and worked with Bob Hope.

Tucker was an in-demand session bassist in the 1960s, who’s penned over 300 songs. They play vibrant jazz..

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Solo acoustic show from one member of The Courtenay Brothers, a local duo playing pop, rock and country hits. Wed., 7 pm, Driftaway Café (Wilmington Island).

The Courtenay Brothers The whole enchilada. Thurs., 7 pm, Tubby’s (Thunderbolt) + Fri., Fiddler’s Crab House + Sat., 7:30 pm, Go Fish.

Michael Amburgey One half of the acclaimed local acoustic blues duo Amburgey & Hanson, this roots-oriented guitarist now enjoys a standing monthly gig at this venue, where he may be joined by unannounced guests. Thurs., 8 pm, The Sentient Bean.

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Bluesonics Long-running and popular local trio offering tried-and-true, danceable electric blues shuffles and party tunes. Fri., 10 pm, Mercury Lounge.

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The Robbie Ducey Blues Band Solid guitarist and singer (with roots in Savannah) playing unpretentious modern blues that’s informed by the work of Curtis Mayfield and ace crossover acts like Robert Cray. Sat., Savannah Blues.

Frank Emerson Popular acoustic covers and traditional Celtic tunes from an established guitarist and singer on the River Street nightlife scene. Wed. - Tues., Kevin Barry’s.

Entropy Excellent Southern jam group heavily influenced by vintage James Brown grooves, George Clinton’s P-Funk clan, and more modern hip-hop and worldbeat.

They make a mighty, mighty ruckus, and they know how to land heavy on the one. Flagpole Magazine named them the “Best Soul/R & B/Funk Band in Athens” a few years back. Sat., Locos Deli & Pub.

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Solo set from the guitarist/frontman of Perpetual Groove, a psychedelic jam band that is quickly gaining a foothold on the national touring scene. Wed. - Thurs., Locos Deli & Pub.

Like to get whipped? Like for other people to watch? This toned-down showcase for exhibitionists and voyeurs gives average folks a chance to pretend they’re living inside an episode of HBO’s Real Sex. Endorsed by scenemaker Chris Cook, this resurrected weekly event has even brought Savannah’s old-school goth figurehead DJ Elgie out of retirement.

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R & B, jazz and Motown hits from some of the island’s best players. Sun., The Jazz Corner (Hilton Head).

“Hard and primitive” blues from a local band featuring guitarist Ray Lundy, bassist Mike Walker, and harpman Marty “Lockjaw” Ellis. Drum The latest blues/rock/calypso Bottles & Cans duties are split groove project from this guitarist between Jason Gecik and singer who’s previously been a feaand Jamie Gillespie. The group describes tured member of both Souled Out and their sound as more T-Model Ford than TBluesonics. Sat., 10 pm, Mercury Lounge.

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The Norm Gagne Quartet Regional group, led by pianist Gagne, who specializes in mainstream, bop, hard bop and cool jazz. Fri. - Sat., 7 pm, Jazz Corner (Hilton Head). continued on page 18

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“Progressive Groove Rock” act from Atlanta that formed in 1996, but recently began touring in earnest. They lean heavily on improvisation based around classic and jam rock, and feature a 6-string bassist, and a classically-trained keyboardist. Sat., JJ Cagney’s.

Fiery guitarwork, impassioned vocals, and a set of originals and classics from the likes of Buddy Guy and Freddie King. Tues (hosts Open Mic) - Wed., Mercury Lounge + Thurs., JJ Cagney’s.

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Kristin Gustafson This classically-trained concert harpist breaks tradition by offering solo renditions of popular songs as well as her own compositions. Sat., 11 am, Café Mucha.

See Music Interview. Sat., 8 pm, The Sentient Bean.

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Extremely popular regional alternative trio offering polished and atmospheric college rock with hints of Southern twang and Americana hidden amidst the radiofriendly fuzz.

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Long-running variety band playing pop, rock and dance tunes from the past several decades. Sat., 7 pm, Baja Cantina (Skidaway Village Walk).

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Determined Atlanta indierockers who get high marks for their manic live shows, and graced one of Deep Elm’s prestigious comps. Sat., The Jinx. ***

Part of local acoustic trio The Back River Ramblers, and a veteran of the Boston folk scene, Gail Thurmond Shiver’s blues and folk-based material is quite above average. Wed., Fiddler’s Crab House + Sat., 8 pm, The Sentient Bean.

Electric blues and R & B The Courtenay Brothers (both covers and Hilton Head-based cover band originals). Wed. specializing in rambunctious funk, & Fri., Savannah Blues + Thurs., Locos soul and rock hits. They’re a favorite on Deli & Pub. the private party and convention circuit.

Fri. - Sat., Fusion/The Monkey Bar.

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Acoustic duo offering well-known country and rock tunes, in a jam-friendly format. Thurs., Fiddler’s Crab House.

The David Keller and Jackson Evans Jazz Duo Local act featuring a veteran bassist who’s worked with “Gatemouth” Brown,

fessional musician for the past 22 years.

She’s lived in Atlanta, Nashville, Austin and San Diego, and has released two indie albums and opened for everyone from the Indigo Girls to Danielle Howle. She’s known for a formidable voice and a unique approach to the acoustic 12string guitar. Thurs., 8 pm, The Sentient Bean.

G.E. Perry & James Gay Potent blues duo of Perry’s jazz and rock-influenced guitar and Gay’s soulful harmonica. Wed., Fusion/The Monkey Bar + Sun., 8 pm, Jazz’d Tapas Bar.

Rene Russell This openly gay singer-songwriter from Columbia, South Carolina, has been a pro-

Randy "Hatman" Smith Solo artist playing beach, boogie and danceable blues hits with sequenced backing for what he calls “a full band sound.” Fri., 9 pm, The Oyster Bar (Wilmington Island).

The Soundmen See Connect Recommends. Fri., JJ Cagney’s.

Solo cover artist whose setlist boasts over 200 popular songs from the ‘50s to now. Thurs., Fusion/ The Monkey Bar.

Gail Thurmond Piano jazz and show tunes from a true downtown fixture. Tues. - Sun., Planters Tavern (below The Olde Pink House).

Voodoo Soup Killer hard rocking and soulful jam he Greg group featuring members of Th Williams Band and The Permanent Tourists. They give greasy funk and soul nuggets a workout. Wed., JJ Cagney’s + Tues., Fiddler’s Crab House.

The Whole Fantastic World See Connect Recommends. Thurs., The Jinx.

WormsLoew Young locals offering spirited takes on Widespread Panic, The Drive-By Truckers, Neil Young and Skynyrd, as well as originals heavily influenced by their heroes.

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While it’s true that they occasionally paper’s circulation – hell, anyone in the let fly with guitar tones and fretboard world, really – can tune in to a live tactics that betray a working knowledge webcast of Greg’s showcase for free. of the sort of metal and hard rock genres The brainchild of Paul Kulak, his that have come in the wake of Soul Woodshed is an independent venue Brother Number One’s initial heyday, and focusing solely on acoustic music, and which The Godfather of Soul would likely primarily performing songwriters. It’s not have no truck with, by and large, The a bar. They don’t serve alcohol. They do Soundmen fly the straight-up funk flag have coffee, tea and soft drinks, but they with a fervor rarely heard these days – expect you to help yourself. even from Mr. What they do Dynamite. have is a profesIn fact, here’s a sional multinote to JB himself: camera video Put down the comb, recording studio grab the best horn with room for men from your road about 50 band, give the rest of audience the group a 3-week members. The vacation, and hole up whole thing in the studio with this operates on energetic, inspired private donaand muscular outfit. tions and volunTell vocalist and harteers who pitch monica player Will in for the love of Gordon to pipe watching – and down, look sharp documenting – and stick to the harp. live original Then grab a mic, sit music.

Greg Williams your ass down behind And, in a city the Hammond B-3 – like you did in the where hype and cash are kings, this mid-’60s for Smash Records – and humble little place has struck a chord. proceed to cut the LP all your devoted Among the hundreds of folks who apologists have been begging you to have played there over the past few years make for the past 15 years. You can pay are a few fistfuls of acclaimed songme later. Natural facts. writers and musicians in a variety of Fri., JJ Cagney’s. genres. Some of the more notableinclude guitarist Dylan sideman Barry Goldberg, The Byrds’ Chris Hillman, The Knack’s This noted pianist and vocalist mainDoug Fieger, The Tubes’ Fee Waybill, tains a hectic schedule, playing Guns N’ Roses’ Gilby Clarke, Michelle throughout the Southeast both as a solo Shocked, The Plimsouls’ Peter Case, act, and as leader of both this popular John Waite, and alt.country sensations I jazz and pop trio and a bigger band, 88 See Hawks In L.A..

Keys and The Swing Cats (who were Now add Williams’ name to that list. chosen to appear at a major festival in A prolific artist whose music is based Russia a few years back). in the late ’60s and early ‘70s rock scene He’s had some success as a com(with nods to the folk blues revival), poser, but is best known as an outWilliams has released 4 impressive indie standing interpreter of standards as well CDs of contemporary pop that’s at times as obscure gems from such venerable raunchy and raw, yet maintains a artists as Johnny Mercer, Harold Arlen, reflective and poetic quality of the sort Rodgers & Hart, Cole Porter and others. found in much of the work of Tom Petty He’s also known to pull out more contemand John Hiatt. porary faves by the likes of The Beatles, To view this live show as it happens (a high-speed internet connection helps), go Billy Joel, Elton John, and Ray Charles.

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Friday January 21

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‘Images of Southeast India’ -- Photographs by Nigel Law at Rec Arts on Broughton Street through February.

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Andrew Saftel - Exhibition features mixedmedia work such as watercolor and collage, and new sculptural work. At the Pinnacle Gallery, 320 E. Liberty St. through Feb. 5.

‘Office Work: An Installation by Summer Wheat’ -- This installation of drawings created with Post-it® notes and register tape is the artist’s response to the changing atmosphere and passing events at her desk in a busy office space. Through Jan. 21, at the Orleans Hall Gallery, 201 Barnard St.

‘5 to Collect for 2005’ -Hospice Savannah presents this exhibit through Feb. 28. This year's artists are, Betsy Cain, Allen Fireall, Larry Levow, Monica James and Meryl Truett. 1352 Eisenhower Dr.

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‘Mark Uzmann: Not Just Visual Typology’ -- SCAD presents this exhibit through Feb. 15, at May Poetter Gallery, 342 Bull St. It features black and white portraits taken in Spain and Mexico.

‘Decoy’ -- Landscapes by photographer and SCAD student Adam Kuehl, through Jan. 27 at Gallery Espresso, 234 Bull St.

‘Spatial Awakening: The Fine Art of Chinese Painting’ -The AASU Department of Art, Music & Theatre hosts visiting artist Lampo Leong, professor at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Leong's exhibit is in the AASU Fine Arts Gallery through Jan. 27.

‘Weave a Dream’ -- Portraits of local health advocates by John Zeuli are at the Starfish Cafe (formerly Bread & Butter Cafe), 719 E. Broad St., through February. Mon.Fri. 11:30 a.m.-2 p.m., Saturdays 9 a.m.-1 p.m.

‘Re-Defined: Found Objects’ -The exhibition of mixed-media work by SCAD students, faculty, staff and alumni explores both the idea of what an object is in art and what the word “found” truly means as it is applied to art. Through Feb. 1, at the Red Gallery, 201 E. Broughton St.

Several local artists are on display at Hospice Savannah

Gallery 209 January artist -- Jewelry Designer Shirley Daniell is the featured artist at Gallery 209, 209 E. River Street, in January 2005.

Hurn Museum opens -- The Hurn Museum of Contemporary Folk Art, presents its inaugural exhibition, “A Retrospective, 1975-2004” by Rudolph Valentino Bostic. Corner of Whitaker and Park Avenue, on Forsyth Park. Tues.- Sat. 11-4, Sun. 12-4, closed Mon. Admission $4 adults, $3 students, under 12 & members free.

Evening with Richard Weisman -- SCAD presents this event with world-renowned contemporary art collector Richard Weisman on Thursday, Feb. 10, 2005, 7 p.m. at the Red Gallery, 201 E. Broughton St. Weisman will speak on his life in the arts, both as a collector and friend to luminaries such as Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol.

Selections from Weisman’s personal collection, including pieces from Warhol’s “Athlete Series, 1977-1978,” will be on display at the Pinnacle Gallery, 320 E. Liberty St, Feb. 10-Feb. 14, 2005. Weisman will sign copies of his recent book Picasso to Pop, a chronicle of his art collection from the 1960s to 1980s, Friday, Feb. 11, 2005, 4:30-6:30 p.m. at the Pinnacle Gallery.

‘Uncommon Knowledge: When the Meadows Became Benjamin Van Clark’ -- Through January 29 at Gallery S.P.A.C.E., 9 West Henry Street. The Department of Cultural Affairs opens an exhibition that charts the development of the Benjamin Van Clark Neighborhood featuring nearly 50 historic photographs and items drawn from collections. Hours are Monday through Friday, 9 to 5 p.m. Free. ◗

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Age appropriate Gadget makers approach baby boomers carefully YOU’VE SEEN THEM at the and see the ads for memory suppledepartment store, holding a sweater at ments.” arm’s length so their middle-aged eyes It’s not just middle-aged memories can read the price tag. that need help, said Beth Bryant, Aging baby assistant director at boomers may not the Center for be able to see the Assistive price, but they Technology, a can sure pay it. research center for Boomers — the Georgia Tech those born College of between 1946 and Architecture. Until 1964 — make up recently, assistive 24 percent of the technology has population but been geared toward account for 55 Circuit City’s June Stiles (right) helps customer Eric the severely dispercent of all disabled and aged.

Shorter navigate the myriad selections of LCD TVs cretionary “Now there’s a spending, said Candace Corlett, principal booming area of research relating to the at WSL Strategic Retail, a top New York fact that there is going to be a City marketing consultancy. tremendous number of people who are It is a market that represents a aging but not old.” potential — but mostly untapped — Baby boomers, she said, want to be bonanza for retailers. able to open a jar of pickles without “Big? It’s going to be a whole gigantic using a pair of pliers. niche,” said Corlett.

Bryant, who set her own age as “over But for the most part, the products 40,” said, “I use some of the grip devices aren’t there. in the kitchen. And I think we’ll see an “Gap gets it,” she said. “They plan to incredible outpouring of them over the open a new retail format for shoppers. next few years.

The advertising will set the tone that Gadgets with a middle-aged twist — bodies sure change but they can sure digital assistants with larger and easierlook good.” to-read screens; cellular telephones with Consumer electronics marketers are buttons large enough for fumbling way behind the curve, creating ever-more- fingers; and digital cameras that make complicated gizmos with buttons that sense to the pre-PC generation. seem to get smaller and more confusing “It’s not just our parents and grandwith each new generation of products. parents anymore,” she said. “It is Other than a few telephones with big working-age people who need these buttons and alarm clocks with giant, devices to do their job.” easy-to-read numerals, there aren’t many Circuit City knows that, said Steve gadgets designed for this lucrative demo- Mullen, a spokesman for the chain. graphic group.

“A few years ago, digital cameras were “The electronics industry is so in love hard to use, but now they’re easier. And with youth,” Corlett said. “They had so we have tried to make things easier, too, much success with digital cameras and with home theater installation and in-store the iPod that they haven’t had to look computer installation.” beyond. They are missing a huge growth Radio Shack also understands “the opportunity.” impact of the middle-age consumer,” said The products and a marketing blitz tar- spokeswoman Kristin Peaks. geting the boomers is coming, said “We have flip phones and clamshell Robert Bach, director of market analysis phones for the younger audience. But at for Grubb & Ellis Co. the same time, we have big buttons and “But it has to take into account the bigger screens for others.” countervailing trend of the boomers of That approach may be the secret to staying young despite their years. The success with the middle-aged, said products can’t evoke the specter of Corlett. Products designed for the aging losing our youth.” can cross over to wider audiences.

The secret will be marketing the Take, for instance, the wide and easygadgets that the middle-aged need to-hold handles on the popular Oxo line “without making them look like they need of kitchen tools. them,” Bach explained.

“They were designed for geriatrics, but Still, there’s no doubt that products they’ve been embraced with open arms that take direct aim at the middle-aged by everyone. The magic word these days are coming. is ageless.” ◗ “It will be a major factor,” Bach said.

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A favorite of critics and cultists alike, 1976’s Assault On Precinct 13 was a nifty little “B” flick that John Carpenter helmed before hitting the big time with Halloween. Propelled by an excellent music score (composed by Carpenter) and economical in its use of settings, dialogue and character development, the film concerns itself with the members of an LA street gang who descend upon a nearly abandoned police station with the

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First, The Incredibles comes along and pushes the message that it’s OK — even advantageous — to be exceptional in America instead of conforming by dumbing down. And now here’s Coach Carter to nudge a similar theme about the importance of a solid education over all else, even (gasp!) sports. Coach Carter works the usual underdog cliches fairly well as it tells the true story of Ken Carter (Samuel L. Jackson), a high school basketball coach in California who manages to turn a team that won only four games during its previous season into a statewide powerhouse. But at the height of their success, with an unbroken string of victories, Coach Carter elects to bench the entire team

Released in Los Angeles and New York at the tail end of 2004 to qualify its stars for Oscar bids, both movies have proven too low-key to cause even minor ripples.

Yet anybody in the mood for a downbeat drama anchored by a sturdy lead performance won’t go wrong with either film. Nixon, inspired by actual events that occurred during the mid-70s, centers on an ordinary joe (Sean Penn) who’s a failure both professionally — he’s barely holding onto his job as a salesman — and personally — his separation from his wife (Naomi Watts) is clearly going to turn into a divorce. Tired of constantly getting beaten down by life, he decides to murder Nixon, the man he feels best exemplifies everything that’s wrong with America. The Woodsman, meanwhile, casts Kevin Bacon as a former convict trying to adjust to life on the outside after spending years in prison for molesting young girls. He does his best to stay clean, but discovers it just might be a losing battle when those around him aren’t even willing to give him a chance to start anew. Nixon focuses on a man succumbing to sickness while Woodsman centers on someone who’s trying to escape it — both films dole out the will-he-or-won’t-he? tension in comparable doses.

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once he discovers that most of his players are performing poorly in their classes. All pertinent points are made after a full two hours, yet the picture drags on for another 20 minutes simply so viewers can be treated to a climactic Big Game. Ultimately, Coach Carter’s sincerity gets trumped by its savvy at milking the sports formula for all it’s worth.

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Talk about a house of flying daggers: The multiplex is filled with them once Marvel’s blade-wielding superheroine springs into action in this spin-off of 1993’s Daredevil (in which she appeared in a supporting role as the sightless superhero’s romantic interest). But while this lady in red often kicks it into high gear, the movie surrounding her rarely moves beyond a stroll. It’s a blown opportunity, because Jennifer Garner has proven (through 13 Going On 30 and TV’s Alias) that she’s an ace at layering her physical prowess with emotional resonance. Yet here she’s basically required to walk around sporting a scowl, and attempts to explain what led to this dour disposition result in poorly conceived flashback sequences that further deaden an already lifeless film. Apparently taking place after the events of Daredevil, this film finds the assassin-for-hire balking when her latest assignment requires her to kill a single dad (Goran Visnjic) and his precocious teenage daughter (Kirsten Prout, whose annoying performance does the film no favors). Elektra elects to protect them instead, which in turn pits her against the members of an evil organization known as The Hand. Inexplicably, no one ever deadpans, “Talk to The Hand,” but then again, a sense of humor is noticeably missing throughout. There are several intriguing villains (Typhoid, Kinkou, Tattoo) tossed into the mix, but they aren’t defeated by Elektra as much

sole purpose of wiping out everyone inside. That the protagonists never learn the reason for the siege (though we do) adds to their sense of discombobulation, and the brutal death of a little girl in the early going remains one of the most disturbing (and unexpected) acts of homicide ever committed on screen. In this flashy update, there’s no little girl, no bloodthirsty street gang, and certainly no kick-ass Carpenter score. Instead, we get a competent but entirely generic action opus in which it’s a group of rogue cops who attack the precinct in order to kill a captured crime lord whose testimony would put them behind bars.

Laurence Fishburne plays the coolunder-fire kingpin, who reluctantly teams up with an honest officer (Ethan Hawke) to ensure his own survival. Bucking the trend of cinematic puritanism that Carpenter himself helped jumpstart with Halloween (in which the heroine was a virgin while her victimized friends were all sexually active), this movie switches cultural gears by allowing the nympho (Drea De Matteo) to be more heroic than the bookworm (Maria Bello); beyond that, expect no surprises from yet another needless remake.

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Forget all that talk about dead people: I see dead careers, beginning with those of actor Michael Keaton and director Geoffrey Sax (a TV vet making his feature film bow). White Noise asks viewers to accept Electronic Voice Phenomenon (EVP) — the method by which the dead communicate with the living through such household devices as televisions and radios — as fact, and then proceeds to spin a fantasy yarn that can’t even get its own story straight.

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For all its apparent insincerity, Writerdirector Wes Anderson’s movie keeps us watching. Bill Murray is Steve Zissou, a Jacques Cousteau-style oceanographer who’s having, shall we say, a run of bad luck. His nautical documentaries have fallen out of fashion; his ship’s equipment is so antiquated that he stoops to stealing supplies from a well-equipped rival (Jeff Goldblum) and his marriage to a brainy aristocrat (Anjelica Huston) is showing signs of strain.

THE AVIATOR ✰✰✰1/2

Rather than trying to cram an overstuffed life into one motion picture, Director Martin Scorsese and writer John Logan instead have chosen to focus on Howard Hughes’ anecdote-rich period from the

late ‘20s through the late ‘40s. This time frame allows Scorsese ample opportunity to bask in the glow of his movie memories, as this was the period when the billionaire industrialist (played by Leonardo DiCaprio, whose emotional intensity makes up for his less-than-commanding physical presence) decided to try his hand at making movies.

Sandra Dee (and later divorced her, though the movie conveniently omits this fact on the way to a happy ending) and even emerged as a respected, Oscarnominated actor. Spacey is 45 years old, yet here he’s playing Darin from his late teens(!) up until his death at the age of 37; the effect is at once creepy, comical and utterly impossible to digest.

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This adaptation of the Broadway smash draws its strength from the performances of the three principal actresses: the classically trained Emmy Rossum is affecting as Christine, the Phantom’s obsession; Minnie Driver hams it up beautifully as obnoxious opera star La Carlotta; and Miranda Richardson adds authority as Madame Giry, the only person who knows the Phantom’s secrets.

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Kevin Spacey serves as actor, co-writer, director and producer — and probably caterer, key grip and best boy, if we search the closing credits hard enough — on this misguided vanity project. The problems start with the casting of Spacey as Bobby Darin, whose life was a series of peaks and valleys as he fought a crippling illness since childhood, became a beloved singer, married popular actress

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As Count Olof, a villainous actor who seeks to inherit a fortune by knocking off three intelligent orphans, Jim Carrey delivers a disappointing performance, the sort of calculated turn we had come to expect from Robin Williams until his recent dramatic awakening. Luckily, other elements come to the rescue. Jude Law provides the voice-over narration as writer Lemony Snicket, and his moody musings make up the bulk of the best lines in Robert Gordon’s screenplay.

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The movie’s true star is a newcomer to American cinema, celebrated Spanish actress Paz Vega. Vega delivers a luminescent performance in the movie’s largest part: Flor, a Mexican immigrant with brainy 12-year-old daughter Cristina (Shelbie Bruce) in tow. Flor lands a job as housekeeper for Debbie Clasky (Tea

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Viewers not interested in shifting through the rubble of the four main characters’ immorality in an effort to locate common truths will have no use for this picture, surely the most divisive film about modern relations since Eyes Wide Shut. Others willing to dig deeper will be rewarded with some choice dialogue and a quartet of finely etched portrayals. Set in London, the movie centers on two British males and two American females — all strangers when the story opens.

Dan (Jude Law) is a caddish obituary writer who falls for sweet-natured stripper Alice (Natalie Portman); Anna (Julia Roberts) is a moody photographer who ends up attached to dermatologist Larry (Clive Owen, nailing the film’s most complex role).

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Californiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s successful, family-owned Benziger Winery started going biodynamic in the late â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;90s, a few years behind France.

Winemaker Mike Benziger states on his website: â&#x20AC;&#x153;A biodynamic vineyard is free to draw complexity, flavor and character from its roots below and abundant sunshine above. As a result, biodynamic vineyards can produce a totally unique wine with boundless charisma.â&#x20AC;?

Other notable wineries employing some form of biodynamics in their vineyards are Bonterra Vineyards (CA), Robert Sinskey Vineyards (CA), Domaine Alfred (CA), Yorkville (CA), Frey (CA), Araujo Estate (CA), Josmeyer (FR), Domaine Leflaive (FR), M. Chaputier (FR), and Quintessa (CA).

But some winemakers doubt the benefits. Fred Payne is a winemaker at Michel Schlumberger Winery in Sonoma Valley, California. Payne calls the practice, â&#x20AC;&#x153;state of the art farming, circa 1920.â&#x20AC;?

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THE PHRASE â&#x20AC;&#x153;ORGANIC WINEâ&#x20AC;? freaks out most Americans, summoning up images of pot-smoking hippies living in sin. But wait until they hear about the souped-up, black magic version of organic: biodynamic winemaking.

In an effort to re-capture the pure, pesticide-free soil of yesteryear, a silently growing revolution of winemakers is emerging across the globe. They use holistically inspired growing techniques to pump up produce and soil quality. And high-profile winemakers are beginning to embrace the practices.

About 50 years back, before Big Chemical began influencing farmers, organic wine was all you could buy. But the introduction of -cides created bigger crops with less work, and more profit. The chemicals stripped the soil of valuable natural nutrients, creating a cyclical dependency on pesticides, herbicides, fungicides and fertilizers. Now, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re seeing a slow move back to the Way Things Used to Be. Biodynamic winemaking began with the teachings of Austrian philosopher Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925). He viewed the farm as a living system, and emphasized diversity in the vineyards -- growing a variety of plants to attract insects and raising animals to provide manure for fertilizer.

Biodynamics also involves applying special mixtures to crops. One concoction is created by fermenting manure in a cow horn over the winter, then spreading it over the vineyard in the spring.

Another method is applying oak bark fermented in the skull of a domestic animal. It sounds whacked out, but diehard biodynamic farmers believe these practices fix problems with pH and salinity, help fight soil diseases, and increase beneficial microorganisms.

Application of these compost mixtures is planned according to the phases of the moon and planetary movement.

Biodynamic thinking tries to balance the four influences on the vineyards: water, earth, air and fire, harmonizing the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s energies with the grapevines.

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Local group meets regularly the third Tuesday of the month at 6 p.m. at the Sentient Bean Coffeehouse, 13 E. Park Ave. Call Raymond at 898-3506.

Speak Up! Local activist group focused on protesting the illegality of the war in Iraq. Contact Richard DiPirro at 441-7167 for more information.

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meets on the second Monday of each month. at 6 p.m. For information, call Rex Templeton, chair, 598-1834 or 356-1111; Jim Gross, secretary at 236-0313.

Calling all actors, rappers, dancers and slam poets. The Phoenix Project of Union Mission Inc.’s Theater Education Program will hold auditions for the coming year. College students from all walks of life are sought to participate in the HIV/AIDS Hip-Hop Theatre Education program. Stipends will be provided for all selected cast members.

Auditions will be held Jan. 28 from 5-7:30 p.m. and Jan. 29 from 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at the J.C. Lewis Health Center, 125 Fahm St. Contact Davena Jordan at 231-0123 for information.

Chatham County Democratic Women will meet Thursday, Jan. 20 at 6:30 p.m. at Democratic Headquarters, 143 Houston St. Plans will be made for the coming year. All women interested in Democratic politics are invited. For information, call Maxine Harris at 352-0470 or 484-3222.

Fellowship of Reconciliation The oldest interfaith peace and justice organization in the United States meets on the second Tuesday of each month at 6 p.m. at The Sentient Bean, 13 E. Park Ave.

Food Not Bombs Feed the hungry and the homeless Sundays at noon in Franklin Square as part of a worldwide effort to encourage kindness in the place of violence. Cooking starts around 10 a.m. at The Blue House, 410 W. Duffy St. To volunteer, call 233-4461.

League of Women Voters The Savannah-Chatham chapter of the League of Women Voters meets on the first Monday of the month at 5 p.m. in Room 3 of the Heart and Lung Building at Candler Hospital. The league is a statewide, non-partisan, non-profit, multi-issue organization that encourages citizen participation in government and takes action on public policy issues. membership is open to any citizen at least 18 years old.

Libertarian Party of Chatham County Whatever happened to your Liberty? Regular weekly meetings are held Mondays at 9 p.m. at Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 7804 Abercorn in Oglethorpe Mall. Call 308-3934 or visit www.nodebts.com/chathamlibertariansga.html.

Savannah Animal Rights and Welfare Group A chapter of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, or PETA. Call Jolee at 925-2710 or Dianna at 898-1080.

Savannah Peace Coalition Keep up with current events every Tuesday night on Yahoo Chat around 7 p.m. Send an e-mail to schmalk@yahoo.com to receive an invitation to join the chat.

Savannah Republican Club Meets every 2nd Tuesday of the month. Call 927-7170.

Sierra Club Regular meetings held on the 3rd Thursday of each month at 7:30 p.m., at the First Presbyterian Church, 520 E. Washington Ave. 351-7436.

Lowcountry Ensemble Company is looking for actors, writers, directors, producers, musicians, poets and those who want to be. The Lowcountry Ensemble Company is in the process of creating, developing and maintaining a company of actors. For information, call 220-1014 or send e-mail to negroensemble@comcast.net.

Classes & Workshops ASE Certication Tests for automotive professionals will be conducted at Savannah Technical College.

Registration will continue through Feb. 13.

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Adult Education The Women’s Center of Wesley Community Centers in collaboration with Royce Learning Centers and Hope House of Savannah offers tutoring every Tuesday and Thursday from 6:30-7:30 p.m. in basic literacy skills, GED preparation and computer training. Call 447-5711 or stop by the center at 1601 Drayton St. to register.

Adult Pottery Classes Don’t just re-glaze pre-made pottery, learn how to make and glaze your own personalized functional pottery or sculpture in these seven-week sessions. Classes cover hand building and glazing techniques and introduce historical and contemporary ceramic artists for inspiration. Small class size offers maximum attention and encouragement. Instructor is an established artist exhibiting her work internationally who formerly taught at Ohio State University and Denison University. Beginners, experienced, SCAD students and faculty all welcome. Call Krista at 313-5442 to register for morning or evening classes.

Baby sign classes Savannah Speech & Hearing Center is offering Baby Sign classes for babies aged 6-12 months and their parents.

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The cost is $50, which includes materials.

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Babysitters training class St. Joseph’s/Candler Childhood Injury Prevention Program offers a class for boys and girls 11-15 who want to become babysitters. The cost is $35, which includes lunch and a training manual, plus certification on completion of the class.

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Basic computer class Eastside Concerned Citizens Inc. at 803 E. Park Ave. offers basic computer classes every second and fourth Saturday from 10 a.m. to noon. 232-5280.

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Classes meet on Saturdays from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. or Sundays from 1-4 p.m. The cost is $40. To register, call 232-5513 or visit Coastal Scooters at 418 W. Broughton St.

Discover Success Coaching Free Discovery Sessions are being offered

by Savannah Success Coaching at the International Center for Leadership and Coaching. Call 236-5051 to schedule a free session.

Eastside Concerned Citizens, Inc. Project Tomorrow Inc. is offering several classes and workshops.

The list includes sewing, crocheting, computer training, CPR and more. 232-5280.

Basic handgun training

The Economic Opportunity Authority

A 4-hour self-defense handgun course includes firearms safety and self-defense shooting at life-sized paper silhouette targets. Taught by a Georgia certified firearms instructor. $30, plus ammunition.

Various Saturday dates are available. 9215754.

is offering free computer classes for beginners in Computer Basics Level One plus the study guide program software for the Georgia High School Graduation Test.

Call Gloria Ferguson at 238-2960, Ext. 153.

Beginners quilting classes are held every Tuesday at 10 a.m. at the Wesley Community Centers of Savannah, Inc., 1601 Drayton St. Register by calling 447--5711 or stop by the center.

Boat Captain’s Class The College of Nautical Knowledge, Sea School, has announced a new course schedule for this area. The 54-hour course and test classroom schedule is conducted weekdays during the evenings and daytime on weekends, is a Coast Guard-approved program. The class will start Jan. 28. Call 1800-237-8663 or log onto www.seaschool.com.

Building a Home The UBuildIt office in Savannah invites you to attend a free seminar to help you learn more about building your very own dream house. Call 236-1211.

Career Achievement Program St. Mary’s Community Center, an affiliate of St. Joseph’s/Candler, is offering a program to help adults with math, reading and writing skills. Participants learn through a computer software program, small group and individual tutoring and study books. Participants can choose their hours between Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The center is at 812 W. 36th St. Call 447-0578.

Chatham County Aquatic Center offers swimming lessons for all ages.

Classes are held Mondays and Wednesdays for ages 3 to 5 and 6 to 8. Adults and ages 9 to 12 meet Tuesdays and Thursdays. A variety of times are offered. Call 351-6556.

Coastal Scooters Classes Coastal Scooters is conducting classes that focus on road skills, safety and the proper maintenance of scooters. Classes are limited in size to provide personal assistance. Each rider is equipped with a TGB

Financial Workshop for Individual Investors will be presented Jan. 25 through Feb. 15 at Edward Jones, 24 E. Montgomery Crossroad. Classes meet on Tuesday from 5-7 p.m. The workshop and materials are free. Call Timothy Beers at 925-6608.

First Steps parent education program This parent education and support program is based at St. Joseph’s/Candler. To find out how you can help, call 819-6910.

Free Coaching Session and Assessment Free session for personal, career and professional development. Call Executive Leadership Coaching, 443-9860, or send email to Vicki@excellentcoach.com.

Free computer classes St. Joseph’s/Candler African-American Health Information and Resource Center offers free computer classes. Call 447-6605 for times, days and registration information.

Space is limited.

Free Private Music Lessons Free lessons for most instruments are given once a month. Move at your own pace. Call Diane at 234-0949.

Gentle Introduction to Statistics Savannah Free College offers this free minicourse beginning Feb. 3. It will run five weeks on Thursdays from 6-7:15 p.m. at the Bull Street Public Library. To register, call coordinator Jack Star at 233-4288 or visit www.gocollegetoyou.org.

Irish Session will meet Sunday, Jan. 23 and 30 at 5:30 p.m. at the Folk Traditions Store, 414 Whitaker St. We will be getting ready to play on the Main Stage at the Irish Festival on Feb. 20 and need to rearrange our play list. Free for store members, $2 for non-members. Call 341-8898.

The Live Oak Public Library offers free classes on using computers to access information at the Bull Street Library.

Call 652-3662.

31 Optimizing Cash Flow for Profit and Growth is a class that will be offered Thursday, Jan. 20 from 6:30-8:30 p.m. at the Small Business Assistance Center, 111 E. Liberty St. the cost is $30 and pre-registration is required.

Call 641-3200.

Parent and Teen Driving Course The Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police Department will present a free two-hour parent/teen driver’s course the last Thursday of each month at 6:30 p.m. at Calvary Baptist Day School, 4625 Waters Ave. Call 651-6653 or send e-mail to ccamire@savannahga.gov and request a registration form. The course is designed for 14-16 year olds and their parents.

Advance registration is required.

Parenting the preschooler is a course offered by Telfair Women’s Hospital at Candler. Call at 819-3368 or visit www.sjchs.org.

Savannah Area Tennis Association

Savannah Art Association

at 801 E. Gwinnett offers business and computer classes. Pricing Your Product or Service to Make Money will be presetned Jan. 24 at 6:30 p.m. The class is free.Call 652-3582.

Tybee Island Marine Science Center offers hands-on classes for students of all ages from pre-kindergarten through adults.

Classes include microscope labs, squid dissection, guided beach walks and tours of the Science Center. Call 786-5917 or visit www.tybeemsc.org.

UGA Marine Education Center and Aquarium presents outreach programs that are interactive, with live animals, costumes and fun activities. Contact Stephanie Edgecombe at 598-2335 for reservations. "Turtle Tales" is a 60-minute outreach program that combines science and art for pre-kindergarten and kindergarten students. Call Edith Schmidt at 598-2447.

Basic Ballroom Classes The Savannah U.S. Amateur Ballroom Dancers Association will offer basic ballroom classes Jan. 22 from 1-3 p.m. at the West Broad Street YMCA at 1110 May St. The cost is $1 per class per person.

Beginners and singles are welcome.

Contact Lora Wong at 925-7416 or visit www.savannahusabda.org.

Belly Dance Classes will be held Wednesday nights with beginners from 6:30-7:30 p.m. and advanced beginners from 7:30-8:30 p.m. and Sunday afternoons with beginners from 2-3 p.m. and advanced from 3-5 p.m. Small classes, lots of individual attention, mirrored studio on East 53rd St. Cost is $10 per class. Call Layla at 354-5808.

Benefit Concert Dance Shag-Beach Bop Etc. Savannah presents the Joe Pope Tams in a benefit concert/dance on Friday, Jan 21 at the Alee Temple on Eisenberg Drive. DJ Bobby ”Mr. Beach” Malphrus will play from 7-8:30 p.m.

The band will take the stage from 8:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. The deejay will play during band breaks and afterwards. Tickets are $20 through Jan. 10 and $27 after Jan. 10.

Reserved tables for 8 or more. Call 927-4784 or 398-8784 or visit online at www.shagbeachbop.com.

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Shag-Beach Bop-Etc. Savannah hosts Magnificent Mondays from 7-9 p.m. at Double’s, Holiday Inn/Midtown, 7100 Abercorn St. Free swing dance lessons are offered the first two Mondays and free shag lessons are offered the third and fourth Mondays. Call 927-4784 or 398-8784 or visit www.shagbeachbop.com.

Swing Dance Savannah meeets the first two Mondays of the month from 7-9 p.m. at Double’s, Holiday Inn/Midtown, 7100 Abercorn St. A new swing dance club is forming. Call 927-4784 or 398-8784 or www.shagbeachbop.com.

Inside Moves Hatha Yoga Eight classes are $80 and the first class is free. Classes are held Tuesday and Thursday from 5:30-7 p.m. at the Unitarian Church on Habersham. Call 238-1785.

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A balanced life Student massage and yoga classes are offered at the Savannah School of Massage Therapy, Inc. Cost ranges from $20 to $30 for a one-hour massage and sessions are instructor supervised. Call 355-3011 for an appointment. Multi-level yoga classes are offered Monday and Friday at 5:45 p.m. Cost is $10 for drop-ins, $40 for a package card of five classes. Walk-ins are welcome. The school is located at 6413B Waters Ave. www.ssomt.com.

Center for Wellbeing Hatha Yoga classes are offered Monday and Wednesday from 5:30-6:30 p.m. in Suite 203 of the Candler Heart and Lung Building, 5356 Reynolds St. Cost is $30 for four sessions or $50 for 8 sessions. 819-6463.

Chopra Center Yoga Classes are held Mondays at 6:30 p.m. and Fridays at 5:30 p.m. at the Chopra Center and Thursdays at 6:30 p.m. in Richmond Hill. The cost is $36 a month or $12 for walk-ins. 3502467.

Inside Moves Yoga/Pilates/personal training are available from Bobbie Kraft, 238-1785, e-mail address bwill01@bellsouth.net. Eight classes of yoga/Pilates is $80, four classes is $45 or drop-ins are $12 for a 1 1/2 hour session.

Classes are offered Saturdays, beginning Jan. 15, from 10-11:30 a.m. at the Unity Church, 2320 Sunset Blvd. Drop-in rate is $10 adults and $8 for students or 10 classes for $80, $70 for students. All experience levels are welcome. Call Jeff at 352-7057 or send e-mail to jadelotustaichi@yahoo.com

The Jewish Education Alliance will offer the following health and fitness classes: Yoga- Join Amy Levy at 9:45 am on Friday’s for yoga. Fee is $35 per month, Water Aerobics, Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday at 10:30 am. Fee is $42 a month for up to 16 sessions, Step Aerobics will be offered at the JEA on Thursday’s at 6:15 am.

Cost is $35 per month. Call Drew Edmonds at 355-8111.

Ladies Living Smart fitness club provides nutritional education and exercise to encourage lifestyle changes at the St. Joseph’s/Candler African-American Health Information and Resource Center, 1910 Abercorn St. at 5:30 p.m. Call 447-6605.

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Ongoing Classes at Ballet South Adult Beginning Ballet, Mondays at 10 a.m.

Stretch/placement Thursdays at 6 p.m. 5501 Abercorn St. Call 691-2900.

Personal training is $50 for a 1 1/2 hour session.

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At Islands Dance Academy. All levels welcome, including beginners. Challenging, rewarding, and fun. $10 per class, Mondays at 6:30 p.m. & Thursdays at 7 p.m. at 115 Charlotte Road on Whitemarsh Island. Call Sue Braddy at 897-2100.

The West Broad Street YMCA, Inc. presents its Instructional Dance Program in jazz and ballet for kids 4 to 18. $30 per month for one class and $35 per month for both classes.

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Drawing sessions will be held the first three Tuesdays of every month from 6:30-8:30 p.m. at the Savannah Art Association (located in City Market upstairs over Belford's). Bring your own drawing supplies.

Sign in for three sessions at $7 each ($5 for students) or $10 each on walk-in basis. Call 897-5612.

Adult Ballet Classes

Youth Dance Program

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weight than any other method. Call the Alpha Institute, 201-0071.

Pilates Classes are offered at the St. Joseph’s/Candler Center for WellBeing, Suite 203 of the Candler Heart and Lung Building, 5356 Reynolds St. Four sessions are $30, eight sessions are $50. Pre-register by calling 819-6463.

Tai Chi Classes are offered Mondays and Wednesdays from 10:30-11:30 a.m. and Tuesdays and Thursdays from 5:30-6:30 p.m. in Suite 203, Candler Heart and Lung Building, 5356 Reynolds St. Four sessions are $30 or eight sessions are $50. Call 819-6463.

Water aerobics at the JEA The Jewish Educational Alliance is offering aquatics classes. Call 748-2393.

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Yoga The City of Savannah, Leisure Services, Recreation Services Department, offers a yoga class on Saturday from noon to 1 p.m. at the Windsor Forest Center, 414 Briarcliff Circle. The fee is $10 per month for ages 14 and over. Call 921-2105 or 651-3650.

The Yoga Room Hatha Flow Level I Thursday from 10-11:30 a.m. and Friday 6-7:30 p.m., Hatha Flow Level II Tuesday 6-7:30 p.m. and Sunday 56:30 p.m., Open Flow Thursday from 6:30-8 p.m., Power Yoga Saturday 9-10 a.m. and Thursday 6:30-7:30 p.m.., Mommy and Me Yora on Monday 4-5 p.m. and Wednesday 46 p.m. and Baby and Mommy Yoga -- call for the schedule. 115 Charlotte Rd., Whitemarsh Center. Drop-ins $12 to $75 for eight classes Call 898-0361.

Yogalates Classes are offered by St. Joseph’s/Candler for WellBeing on Thursdays from 5:45-6:45 p.m. in Suite 203 of the Candler Heart and Lung Building, 5356 Reynolds St. The cost is $30 for four sessions or $50 for eight sessions.

Call 819-6463.

Health

are conducted at three locations within St. Joseph’s/Candler. From 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and 5:15-7 p.m. every Tuesday and Thursday, checks will be offered at the St. Joseph’s/Candler African-American Health Information and Resource Center, 1910 Abercorn St. Call 447-6605 to make an appointment. Checks are offered every Monday from 10 a.m. to noon at the Smart Senior office, No. 8 Medical Arts Center. No appointment is necessary. Checks will be offered Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at St. Mary’s Community Center at 812 W. 36th St. Call 447-0578.

Free hearing & speech screening Every Thursday morning from 9 a.m.-12 noon at the Savannah Speech and Hearing Center, 1206 E. 66th Street. Call 355-4601.

Gastric Bypass Surgery Session Memorial Health Bariatrics presents free informational sessions every Wednesday at 6 p.m. in the Medical Education Auditorium with Dr. John Angstadt and other staff members, who discuss obesity and the surgical process. Free. Call 350-DIET or visit bariatrics.memorialhealth.com.

Got a drug problem? Need help?

Call the Narcotics Anonymous Helpline at 1800-334-3322.

HIV/AIDS and STD awareness training My Brothaz Home, Inc., a local nonprofit HIV/AIDS organization, offers free HIV/AIDS and STD awareness training, risk reduction counseling and prevention case management to individual males and groups of males. Upon completion of the training, a monetary incentive and educational materials will be given to each participant. Call 231-8727.

Health Screening The African-American Men’s Health Initiative, St. Joseph’s/Candler and 100 Black Men are sponsoring a health screening on Saturday, Jan. 22 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the W.W. Law Center, 909 E. Bolton St. Call 819-3438.

Keeping at risk individuals healthy

Colon Cancer Genes is a free community health seminar that will be presented by Dr. Timothy J. Yeatman on Jan. 26 at 9 a.m. in the Marsh Auditorium at Candler Hospital. To register, call 891-3368.

Community Health Center The Community Health Center provides free health care for those patients who live in Chatham County, are under 65, who do not have primary medical coverage, and who do not exceed certain financial thresholds. The Center is located at 310 Eisenhower Drive Medical Center. Call for an appointment at 692-1451.

Dual Recovery Anonymous This 12-step program addresses all addictions and mental health recovery. Persons who are recovering from an addiction and a mental health problem can send e-mail to katkope@netscape.com for information.

Free blood pressure checks and blood sugar screenings

A Union Mission Inc. program that provides HIV/AIDS education and outreach through the use of free workshops, seminars and peer education. Free needleless testing is provided. Services are free to churches, clubs and shelters. Contact DaVena Jordan at 231-0123 or send e-mail to djordan@unionmission.org.

La Leche League Are you breastfeeding or planning to?

Information, education, encouragement and support are available free of charge to all women who are interested in breastfeeding through monthly meetings and over the telephone from La Leche League of Savannah.

Call the LLL of Savannah Help Line at 8979261. All series meetings are held in the Candler Professional Building, 5354 Reynolds St, Room 508A. An enrichment meeting, Money, Money, Money , about stretching the family budget, will be presented Jan. 12 at 10 a.m.

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Mammograms St. Joseph’s/Candler will be performing mammograms to screen for breast cancer in its mobile screening unit on Jan. 20 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Chatham County Health Department, 1602 Drayton St. For appointments, call 354-9357. Mammograms also will be given Jan. 26 from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the Bryan County Health Department in Richmond Hill. Call 912-756-2611.

Memorial Health blood pressure check are offered free every Tuesday and Thursday from 7:30-9:30 a.m. at GenerationOne. 350-7587.

Memorial Health CPR training FitnessOne provides American Heart Association courses each month to certify individuals in infant, child and adult CPR. The cost is $30. Call 350-4030 or visit www.memorialhealth.com.

Memorial Health group meditation sessions are offered free to the public every Tuesday from 5:30-6 p.m. on the third floor of the Center for Advanced Medicine.

Open Meditation

Planned Parenthood Hotline

Preventing Birth Defects

Project SAVE The Savannah Health Mission, the Georgia Eye Institute and the local chapter of the American Diabetes Association are joining forces to implement Project SAVE, Screening and Vision Education, for people with diabetes. The program provides eye exams, education and care to those who have no health insurance, are unable to pay for care privately and meet certain qualifications. The clinic meets Thursdays by appointment. Call 352-2032.

The Sacred Journey is a seminar offered Jan. 24 from 6:30-7:30 p.m. and Jan. 26 from noon to 1 p.m. in the St. Joseph’s/Candler Center for WellBeing

by Chaplain Don Marlar as part of the Spirituality and WellBeing Series. The cost is $10. Pre-register by calling 819-6463.

St. Mary’s Community Cardiovascular Clinic Is offered every Wednesday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. except for the second Wednesday of the month, when it is 1-5 p.m. The center is located at 812 W. 36th St. Call 447-0578 for an appointment.

Sankofa Counseling Center offers specialized therapy groups, individual therapy, family therapy, couples therapy and training and retreats. There is a sliding fee scale and a $25 fee per group. Located at 8111 Waters Ave. Call 352-2611.

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The Casual Poets Society holds an open poetry reading the second Saturday of the month at 4 p.m. at The Casual Reader bookstore, 1213 Highway 80. on Tybee Island at The Shops at Tybee Oaks. Call 786-7655.

Circle of Sister/Brotherhood Book Club meets the last Sunday at 4 p.m. at the center, 1910 Abercorn St. 447-6605.

Inspirational book club Wesley Community Centers offers weekly book discussions of life situations and complexities every Monday at 6:30 p.m. at 1601 Drayton St. All women and teen-aged girls are invited to attend. Stop by the center or call 447-5711.

The Islands book group discusses thought-provoking literature with a different theme monthly the second Monday at 7 p.m. at the Islands Branch Library, 125 Wilmington Island Rd. 897-6233.

Lunch bunch book group

Moondance Center Book Club Explore and discuss a new spiritually based book each month the third Monday of the month from 7-8 p.m. in Moondance Center.

236-9003. www.moondancecenter.com.

Page turners book group meets monthly to get the scoop on what other adults are reading at the Ogeechee Branch Library, 1820 Ogeechee Rd. Call 232-1339.

Poets open mic night All poets are welcome to Gallery Espresso’s open mic night, hosted by Vaughnette Goode, the 3rd Wednesday of every month.

Poets should sign up to read by 7:45pm.

Original work only please - at it’s best, a high energy event that encourages the readers and listeners to push their limits. 6 E. Liberty Street. 233-5348.

Thursday, Feb 3rd at 7:30 p.m.

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Reader’s theater meeting every other Thursday from 4-5:30 p.m. at the South Effingham Library in Rincon. This performance group is a free program for middle and high school students. Call Linda Bridges, children’s coordinator at 826-2222.

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Tea time at Ola's is a new book discussion group that meets the fourth Tuesday at 1 p.m. at the Ola Wyeth Branch Library, 4 E. Bay St. Call Beatrice Wright at 652-3660. Bring your ideas and lunches. Tea will be provided. 2325488 or 652-3660.

Tongues of Fire: erotic poetry will be held the third Monday of each month from 8-11 p.m. at 800 E. Derenne Ave. Poets should stop by by 7 p.m. The fee is $5 general admission and $2 for poets. All are welcome regardless of race, sexual orientation or class. For directions, call 354-1678 or 352-2134.

Religious & Spiritual

Researchers at the University of Iowa combined 600 studies covering 72,000 people and found that hypnosis is the most effective way to stop smoking. For more info, call the Alpha Institute, 201-0071.

Christian Businessmen’s Committee

Wanted: CPR and First Aid Instructors

Do church in a casual and relaxed setting on Saturday nights. Fellowship begins at 6

The Savannah Chapter of the American Red Cross is looking for smart, motivated people interested in giving back to their community.

to benefit the American Red Cross

An open book discussion the fourth Wednesday at 1 p.m. at Barnes & Noble.

Participants can talk about any book.

meets for a prayer breakfast every Tuesday at 6:30 a.m. at Peggy Lynn’s Country Cooking, 3718 Ogeechee Rd. Call 964-4297.

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p.m., praise and worship at 6:30 p.m. in the BSU building on Abercorn between the Publix Shopping Center and the Armstrong campus. Call 596-4077.

Mediation Learn how to access your inner peace through weekly guided meditations every Sunday at 10 a.m. at Moondance Center in City Market. 236-9003. www.moondancecenter.com.

Quakers (Religious Society of Friends) meet Sundays, 11 a.m. at Trinity United Methodist Church, 225 W. President St., Savannah. Call Janet Pence at 652-3496.

Woodlawn United Methodist Church Join us on Sundays. Sunday school is at 9:45, worship at 10:50 a.m. and 6 p.m. 2502 Highway 80, Garden City.

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Savannah Shamrocks women’s rugby team

of the Skidaway Island Methodist Church, 54 Diamond Causeway. Visit www.savannahalz.org or call 598-9905 or 598-8460.

Open to all patients who have had a limb amputated and their families or caregivers.

Call 355-7778 or 353-9635.

Open to families of children or adults with autism, mental retardation, and other developmental disabilities. Meets monthly at 1211 Eisenhower Drive. 355-7633.

Wheelchair Basketball

Bariatric/Gastric Bypass Support Group

Coastal Empire Polio Survivors Association

BlazeSports Club of Savannah, a program of The Rehabilitative Institute at Memorial Health Medical Center, sponsors wheelchair basketball. Practices are held each Monday.

Beginners and intermediate players practice from 6-7 p.m. Advanced players practice from 7-8 p.m. Basketballs and sports wheelchairs are provided. Call 350-7268.

for past and potential obesity surgery patients and their families. For information, call Cheryl Brown at 350-3644.

meets the fourth Saturday of the month from10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the Candler Heart and Lung Building, second floor, Room 2. Call 352-8383 or 927-8332.

Support Groups African-American Women Overcoming Depression and Bi-Polar Disease

Better Breathers support group meets quarterly, March 18, June 17, September 16 and December 16, at noon, Conference Room 2, Candler Heart & Lung Bldg. 5356 Reynolds St. Contact Lisa Summerford, 819-7340..

Bulimia Support Group

Al Anon Family Groups

CASA Support Group

Novice, intermediate and advanced Junior players -- get on court with SATA Junior Tennis and Rallyball tournaments - The Landings Jimgle Bells Tournament on Dec. 11. Call 961-9862 or e-mail ctcsavannah@prodigy.net.

A fellowship of relatives and friends of alcoholics meets Monday at 12:30 p.m. and 8 p.m., Wednesday at 1:30 p.m., Thursday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 8 p.m. at 1501 Eisenhower Dr. and Tuesday at 8 p.m. at Goodwill on Sallie Mood Drive. Call 5989860 or visit http://all-anonsavannah.freeservers.com.

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Alcoholics Anonymous

is available at the Chatham County Aquatic Center, 7240 Sallie Mood Dr., next to Lake Mayer. Levels are Beginner, Fitness, Triathlete and Competitive. Times are Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 5:306:45 a.m., Monday, Tuesday and Thursday from 6-7:15 p.m. and Saturday from 7-8:30 a.m. For information, call Scott Rabalais at

If you or someone you know has a problem with alcohol, call 354-0993.

For parents and extended caregivers whose child or children have been involved with DFCS and/or returned to your custody after being in foster care, or who have been given custody of a family member’s child. The group will meet the first Thursday of the month from 6-7 p.m. at Youth Futures Family Resource Center at 705 Anderson St. For information, call Madison at CASA at 4478908 or send email to madison@savannahcasa.org.

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Amputee Support Group

meets the third Thursday of the month at the Bull Street Library. For information, call JoAnne Wright at 236-0027.

at the Women’s Center of Wesley Community Centers. Call 447-5711 or stop by 1601 Drayton Street.

family or friends. For information, call 5072592.

Practices are every Monday and Wednesday at 6 p.m. in Forsyth Park near the tennis courts. Call 404-449-5875 or send e-mail to savannahrugby@yahoo.com.

meets the third Tuesday of each month at Scrap Happy on Wilmington Island. For anyone who is not ready to come to a meeting but would like to talk to someone confidentially, call 898-9610.

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927-7016 or visit www.savannahmasters.com.

Alzheimer's Disease Caregiver’s Support Group for caregivers, family members and friends of persons affected by Alzheimer’s Disease or other dementia-causing illnesses meets the first Monday and third Tuesday of each month from 10:30 a.m. to noon in Room 111

Cancer support group meets every Wednesday from 11 a.m. to noon in the board room located on the first floor of St. Joseph's Hospital. 819-2475.

Celiac Support Group

Compassionate Friends Support Group offers friendship and understanding to bereaved parents. It meets the first Thursday of the month from 7-8:30 p.m. in the Candler Heart & Lung Building, Conference Room 2, 5356 Reynolds St. 9259549 or 925-5195.

Crohn’s and Colitis support group meets the fourth Tuesday of the month from 7-9 p.m. in Conference Room 3, Candler Heart & Lung Building. Call Bill McCoy, 2368840.

Depressive/Manic support group Open to persons diagnosed with depression. Meetings are held in classroom B in the Surgery Center Building of Memorial Hospital every Tuesday at 7 p.m.

920-0153 or 927-2064

Diabetes support group meets the third Thursday at 6 p.m. at Memorial Health in Conference Room A. Call Robin at 350-3843.

Domestic violence community support group SAFE Shelter provides a domestic violence support group every Thursday from noon to 1 p.m. at the Senior Citizens Building at 325 Bull St. Call Brenda Edwards, 629-8888. ◗

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Saturn in Cancer transits Retrograde Motion from November 8, 2004 to March 22, 2005, while Elatus in Cancer transits Retrograde Motion from November 2, 2004 to March 22, 2005. What happened to the unstoppable American economy? The naked truth is: the most sophisticated investors in the capital markets of the U.S.A. knew as early as September 1998 that the technology sectors of the American economy were

ARIES - While childhood nemeses expect you to realize that, “Those who don’t study history are condemned to repeat it,” they themselves will honor the principle, “Those who do study history will try to scam others with such knowledge.”

Lightning strikes a second time only after it misses a beat!

TAURUS - Those who cite what they

focus upon achievement rather than mere survival.

gather strength because you are lazy.

LIBRA - It is your duty to apologize for the CANCER - Chant, and reflect upon, the seed mantra of Kundalini Yoga, Sat Nam (“true identity”). Realize that how people or society view you has nothing at all to do with your relationship with, and duty to, God.

believe to be little known facts about American history know less than they assert. American history, while admittedly brief, is nonetheless too complicated for anybody to master. Start with basics, such as the dates when states were admitted to the Union, to give yourself a broader, more orthodox worldview.

LEO - You now know how much you

GEMINI - One positive lesson of recent

assert at face value still support you.

However, these allies know that you can win such debates even with such handicaps. Rivals need to challenge you, but you remain almost completely unapproachable. Don’t allow adversaries to

financial hardship is that you now know how to live cheaply. Continue to live cheaply. Save money in different types of interest-bearing accounts so that you can

already saturated, but they used the cash-cow of Y2K throughout 1999 to extract as much money for themselves from the stock market as they possibly could. Those who now suffer should learn not only how they could have prevented the damage of the early 21st century if they had acted more responsibly, but also how they can prevent future damage by taking responsibility now.

underestimated what was really at stake professionally in the year 2000. Don’t forget the hard lessons that you learn now – you will need to apply them constantly during 2005 & 2006, if not well into the future.

VIRGO - Allies who accept what rivals

corrupt actions of certain colleagues & employees. This does not mean that you are to blame – except insofar as, of course, that you, like them, suffer from original sin. (Ultimately, that is why you are apologizing, “Sorry, God.”)

SCORPIO - Because you expect loyalty from friends more than you believe in God, the early 21st century has proven to be utterly traumatic. For that reason, your “Scorpionic sting” is no longer a superficial insult. Now you know that other peoples’ bad faith carries significant karmic consequences; now you know the appropriate way to respond.

SAGITTARIUS - Refuse to tolerate histrionic displays of emotion of family & neighbors. Communicate clearly to those who create needless turmoil, “Drama is for the stage.”

CAPRICORN - You cannot blame anybody without making yourself extremely vulnerable to harsh judgment. Accusations around or by you gather like a storm above your head. Communicate “sunshine” so that light will break through the clouds.

AQUARIUS - Transcribe the details of successful experimental recipes with ethnic cuisine or exotic mixed drinks. Then, test variations upon these recipes. Be grateful for your more abysmal mistakes – that is where you will make the most progress.

PISCES - Ned Rise, fictional street urchin of late 18th century London in T. Coraghessan Boyle’s Water Music, enjoys astounding romantic luck as he is about to be either arrested or hung. What does this teach you about love? That people romanticize those who show us how fragile & fleeting our lives really are. ◗

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SAVANNAH DOWN UNDER Savannah’s premier nightclub located on 317 W. River Street is now restaffing and is looking for experience bartenders and cocktail waitresses. Interested persons please apply in person on Wednesday or Thursday between 9p and 11p.

Help Wanted Immediate opening for front desk coordinator to assist busy real estate office. You should be an organizer, a positive person, a good communicatorboth written and verbalexperienced with high standards of customer service, have a good sense of humor, be a fast learner with a quick mind, and be willing to work hard and smart.

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Handsome salary! Call Rev. Kent at 912-355-4704

Mature Babysitter/Nanny needed to care for my 1.5 & 3 year old children in my home 3 days/week. Must have transportation. Light housekeeping required.

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Pets Pure preed Siamese Cat. Free to good home, Neutered Male, shots, 6 yrs old,loving lap cat, well cared for. Great with pets and children. call 484-8059.

Miscellaneous Items For Sale FOR SALE: 95 red Rodeo Isuzu in excellent condition, stick, leather seats, tape deck and disc, radio, power everything, and loads more.

90,000 miles. New tires and clutch. $3200 Call 507-9800.

Ibanez Roadstar II electric bass w/ case for sale. Red body/black pick guard, $250. Call Jay @ 308.0156.

Killer drum set for sale!!!

4-piece Ludwig clear Vistalites. Good condition. $500.

Call Jay 308.0156.

Want to buy or sell AVON? Call Amy 912.352.1669 Indian Restaurant For Sale. Owner is selling a profitable Asian-Indian restaurant in Savannah, GA due to relocation.

Interested parties call 301.869.4185.

FURNITURE Elegant hand-carved dining room table and leaf Gorgeous lighted hutch and buffet, with all 6 chairs. All NEW and unused, still boxed.

Sacrifice. $1950. Can deliver. 912-966-9937

PILLOW TOP MATTRESS A Brand NEW deluxe queen mattress and box spring set with warranty. Sill NEW in original factory bag. Sell $150.

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CLEARANCE SALE MATTRESS SETS KING SETS....$295 QUEEN SETS....$195 FULL SETS....$150 WHILE THEY LAST! 912-604-8523

$75 Queen Mattress and box spring set. NEW in plastic. 912964-1494

$100 King Mattress Set King Size Set, all new still in factory plastic.

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DINING ROOM SET BRAND NEW!! Table with leaf. 6 chairs and curio cabinet. Still NEW and in its original boxes.

Suggested List $5000.

Selling for $900.

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SLEIGH BED Cherry-Solid-headboard and footboard with side rails. All Brand NEW. Still in its original box, never opened. Sell $275.

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SLEIGH BED Cherry-Solid-headboard and footboard with side rails. All Brand NEW. Still in its original box, never opened. Sell $275.

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MATTRESS Full size plush set with box spring, new in plastic. Sell, $120. Can deliver. Call 912-964-1494.

Complete Bedroom Set Gorgeous Sleigh bed with dresser and mirror.

Chest and nightstand.

Brand NEW, Still in boxes. Retail $2,000. Must Go at $800. Can Deliver.

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VISCO MEMORY FOAM MATTRESS SETS KING SETS....$699 QUEEN SETS....$499 FULL SETS....$399 Compare to TempurPedic at 1/4 the price.

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BEDROOM SET Cherr y & chrome, 5 piece set. All NEW. Still in boxes. Sacrifice. $550. Call 912-966-9937

KING SIZE-PILLOW MATTRESS SET King Mattress & springs, still in factory bags, new with warranty.

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Paint & Body Work Reasonably Priced Insurance Claims We buy wrecks

355-5932 Red Rodeo Isuzzu 1995, 5 speed stick, automatic ever ything, Tapedeck, radio and CD, leather interior, 91,000 miles and loaded with extras. Excellent condition and new tires. $3200 call 912 507-9800.

1994 HONDA ACCORD for sale. Excellent condition. CD player, power ever ything. Asking $3,000. Please call 912232-745 4 or 912-667-2032.

1978 MERCEDES BENZ. 300 C.D. Needs floor boards. Runs good, lots of spare parts, wheels, trim etc.

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1984 27’ SEA RAY Sundancer. 350 engine $5000 OBO. 912-687-5700

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Cozy 3 Bedrooms, 1 1/2 Bath Bungalow

with Hardwood Floors throughout. Separate Living Room and Dining Room with Large Kitchen.

Detached Garage, cute garden with Pond and Picket fence in back. $210,000. For more information Call Dianne Kessler@663-2417

522 E Charlton Lane

Adorable historic cottage with over 1000 sq. ft. of space. There are two bedrooms, 11/2 baths. The cottage has one of f-street parking space and a rear garden. Priced at just $149,000.

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1311 E 51st St

Adorable Parkside ranch in immaculate condition w/fully equipped kitchen, large fenced yard, offstreet parking, & carport. This home has new thermal-insulated windows, Pergo floors, 1.5 beautifully renovated Baths & 3 bedrooms.

Just $155,00.00 2401 Habersham St. Victorian-style duplex located in the Thomas Square district. Fully restored and owner occupied. Generous size apartments, each with new ch/a, electric, and plumbing systems. This is a wonderful light filled residence with very special finishes and priced reasonably at $235,000.

Call Don Callahan 441-4416 Mopper-Stapen Realty 250 Rice Gate $145,000

This 3 bedrooms 2 baths low country home features a bonus room that could easily function as an office or play room. The home also offers a private fenced backyard and the interior has recently been painted. All this and its close to Richmond Hill schools and shopping!

Call Dianne @ 663-2417 at Tri County GMAC Real Estate for more i nformation!

Charming 3 bedrooms, 2 bath brick bungalow in Ardsley Park. The home features new heating and air, a beautiful slate roof and oversized bedrooms. The home also offers a floored attic that could easily be converted into several rooms.

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124 Preakness Point Guyton

Secluded 5.63 Acres Can be your private sanctuar y With 4 Bedrooms, 2 Baths Separate Dining and Living Room. $95,000 For More Information Call Sherrene Sears @ 844-3941 5416 Flemington Road Ellabell

Convenient to Savannah & Statesboro. Spacious 3 bedrooms, 2 bath home on 7 acres with deck and screened porch. Upgrades include hardwood floors in kitchen and Jacuzzi tub in Master bath. Of fering at $130,000. Call Rich Brown @ 667-2867 for your private showing!

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13 Calico Ct. Liberty County

Beautiful new construction. Crown molding in ever y room, custom oak cabinets, new appliances with smooth top range. Quiet neighborhood with beautiful backyard.

Minutes from Ft. Stewart.

Call Anthony Pitts @ 659-4788 for more information!

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729 E. 51ST STREET Cozy 3 Bedrooms, 1 ?

Bath Bungalow

With Hardwood Floors throughout.

Separate Living Room and Dining Room with large Kitchen.

Detached Garage, cute garden with Pond and Picket fence in back $199,900 For More Information Call Dianne Kessler @ 663-2417 @ Tri County GMAC Real Estate.

524 Nicoll Craig Daughtry $290,000

Newly built in 2002 duplex 3br, 1bath in Historic District. Off street parking, brick paved courtyard, refrigerator, stove, dish washer. Fully carpeted. W/D connection.

Excellent SCAD rental.

Call Craig Daughtry for more information @ 655-8876 520 Pointe South Drive

Excellent Condition Home with 3 Bedrooms 2 Baths with the Downstairs Bedroom having Bonus Room off of the Master Fenced backyard in a desirable neighborhood $165,000 For More Information CallVic Jarvis @ 398-8678

544 E. Harris Street is in the heart of the historic district on a great

street with great neighbors. In the process of completing this new construction.

Buy now and pick the finishing touches. 4 bedrooms/ 4.5 baths, porches, deck off the master bedroom and 3 stories high with high ceilings and wood floors on the main level. Exterior is hardyboard. Also included is a state of the art kitchen, fenced yard and of f street parking. Too many extras to mention. $474,000 Mopper Stapen Realtors, Rhondda Netherton 507-9800 629 Seiler Ave, $115,000.

Cute 2 bedroom home on a family street in great condition.

Central heat/air, electric and plumbing updated in 200 4, beadboard on walls and ceiling, cute kitchen with seperate dining room, and has a basement! 115,000.

Call Rhondda Netherton at Mopper Stapen Realtors 912 507-9800 Historic District and over 3400 sq.ft. of new construction, looks historic. Exterior is hardyboard with 3 stories, 4 bedrooms, 4.5 baths plus 3 fireplaces. Hi Ceilings, hardwoods down and carpet up. 2 porches, deck of the master and fenced courtyard with room to build a carriage house and garage. $485,000 Mopper Stapen Realtors, Rhondda Netherton 507-9800

Mopper Stapen Realtors, Rhondda Netherton 507-9800 425 East Bay Street

in the hear t of Savannah's Historic District.

Offered at $925,000.

Federal era home restored as the residence of Mills B. Lane. Over 4329 square feet. Elevator ser vices all three floors and has a full basement.

Call for your private showing.

Mopper Stapen Realtors, Rhondda Netherton 507-9800 Tybee Island 2 bedroom/2 bath condo with loads of charm and only one block from the ocean! Walking distance to stores, restaurants and the pier.

Totally furnished with everything you need, including phone, cable and washer/dryer/dishwasher. High ceilings, porch, and soooo much more. Available beginning in March for $85 per night with a minimum of 3 nights. Cleaning is $75.

Call 912 236-3095 or 507-9800.

9 17th Place For rent on Tybee at 17th Place near the pier and stores, resturants, 1 block for the ocean and 2 bedrooms/2 baths. Furnished beautifully. Hi celings, carpeting, sleeps 6 and $1200 per month, month to month lease.

Has a porch and view from the porch. No pets, no smokers. Call 912 507-9800 or 2363095.

912-352-2747 Midtown/Eastside: 2136 Texas Ave. B- 1 bed, 1 bath, living room, eat-in kitchen,gas/water/sewer includedNO PETS- $465.00-KEY 623 Seiler Ave.- 2 bed, 1 bath, very nice brick homeNO PETS $650.00 1120 E. 71st Street- 2 bed, 1 bath, washer/dryer hookups, new paint, carpet- pets OK- $625.00 1616 Anderson Street- 2 bed, 1 bath, large backyard- pets OK-$750.00-KEY 14 Little Country Place- 2 bed, 2 bath, central H/A, large yard, on quiet cul de sac- Available 1/15/05-$650.00-APPT.

Thunderbolt: 2610 Whatley Ave.-Unit 10-Mariner’s Square Apartments- 3 bed, 2 1/2 bath, hwd floors, bonus room- pets OK $1,000.00-KEY

Islands: 103 Oyster Shell- Unit D-2- 3 bed, 2 bath, upstairs, end unit at Bull River Shoals next to pool and tennis courts, All amenities provided- $995.00- APPT. Commons on Cromwell Apt D-6- 2 bed, 2 bath- back unit w/ wooded view- new carpet, paint, tile, appliances$900.00- KEY 218 Hampshire Road-3 bed, 2 bath in Wilmington Park Subdivision- 2 car garage, pets OK- available 2/1/05 $1,400.00-APPT. 5 Sea Palm Circle-4 bed, 2 bath, fireplace, garage, nice yard in quiet neighborhood, pets OK-available 1/30/05 $1,200.00-KEY 5 Sea Palm Cove-3 bed, 2 bath, 2-car garage, fireplace, nice yard in quiet neighborhood, pets OK- $1,250.00-KEY 13 Ropemaker Court- over 2,000 sp ft, two-story home in Battery Point- 4 bed, 2 bath, huge living room, fenced backyard, pets OK- Available 3/1/05 $1,150.00-APPT. 32 Mapmaker Lane-3 bed, 2 bath home in Battery Point with fireplace, fully furnished and washer/dryer hook-up$900.00-APPT.

Tybee: 153 Lewis Avenue-3 bed, 2 bath, dock & floating dock on Horsepen Creek- $950.00-KEY.

Westside: 147 Darling Street-2 bed, 1 bath- APPT. $450.00 21 Stonelake Circle- OFF 17- 2 bed, 2 bath (master has whirlpool) 1250 + sq ft home built in 2003 overlooking lagoon- $950.00-KEY 90 Stonelake Circle- OFF 17- 2 bed, 2 bath (master has whirlpool) 1250 + sq ft home built in 2003 overlooking lagoon- $950.00-KEY 306 Bonnybridge Rd.- 3 bed, 2 bath brick home in Port Wentworth, carport, fenced yard-NO PETS- $850.00-APPT

Southside: 12502 Apache Ave. Unit #23- The River House at Bell’s Landing- Incredible 3 bed, 2.5 bath upstairs-downstairs townhouse, huge master suite, fireplace-NO PETS$1,500.00-APPT 14 Pointer Place- Quailrun Townhouses- 2 bed, 2.5 bath, fireplace, small fenced-in backyard with storage area- NO PETS- $795.00-KEY 145 Greenbriar Court- 3 bed, 1.5 bath, new ceramic tile and carpet, nice neighborhood, very large, shady, fenced backyard, pets OK- available 2/1/05-$900.00-KEY

Commercial: 3249 W. Bay St-Approx 1500 sq. ft. divided into 3 lg rooms, full bath-$750.00- SEE DANNY PETS: There is a $500 non-refundable deposit for up to two pets on all properties allowing pets.

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217 E. 49th Street $279,900

Beautiful home in Great Neighborhood!

Owner is a licensed realtor in the state of GA.$188,000 Call Chris Carbery @ 5968311 for more information!

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516 E. 56th Street

Ardsley Park bungalow of fered at $205,900.

3 bedrooms/2baths plus den. State of the art kitchen with all appliances top of the line and included.

Unfinished cottage and shed in back yard.

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New condo conversion.

Gracious entrance foyer to three residential units with 1 BR each.

Separate street entrance to commercial unit with attached living space. High ceilings, multiple fireplaces, w/d, dishwasher, hardwood floors, ch /a, private porch and offstreet parking. Priced from $135,900.00.

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A typical new home weighs in at about 339,000 pounds, or more than 150 tons. What accounts for all that weight? Building materials, appliances, cabinetry and more, including 46,000 pounds of lumber, 16,000 pounds of drywall, 13,000 pounds of plywood, 750 pounds of plumbing piping, and 200 pounds of nails.

In fact, more materials go into building ahouse today than in the past because today’s new homes are larger and filled with more amenities than ever before. More fireplaces, two-car garages and nine-foot ceilings mean more materials are required to build a home.

According to Housing Facts, Figures and Trends published by the National Association of Home Builders, many different materials are used in a 2,082-square-foot home. The list includes the obvious-18 windows, two garage doors and one fireplaceand the less obvious, such as 13,837 board feet of framing lumber 16.92 tons of concrete and 11,550 square feet of sheathing.

Nearly 14 tons od cement is used in constructing a typical home, including 12 tons of poured concrete, one ton of concrete block, and one ton of masonry and mortar.

The 3,061 square feet of insulation is installed mostly in the ceiling and roof (1,500 square feet), the exterior walls (1,200 square feet) and in the floor joists (361 square feet).

The 2,082 square feet of flooring material is made up mostly of carpeting while the rest is vinyl flooring, ceramic tile or wood plank.

And there’s much more, including: 3,011 square feet of exterior siding material; 226 linear feet of ducting; 2,841 square feet of roofing material; 5,550 square feet of interior wall material; six closet doors, 12 interior doors, three exterior doors and one patio door; 14 kitchen cabinets and four other cabinets; three bathroom sinks, three toilets, two bathtubs and one shower stall; one washer and dryer; and one range, refridgerator, dishwasher, garbage disposal, range hood and kitchen sink.

It takes an average of 5.6 months for a team of about 20 specialty contractors including roofers, plumbers, drywall installers, carptnters, ect. under the builder’s watchful eye to turn these materials into someone’s dream home.

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4 bedrooms 2.5 baths , bonus room Mike Farmer Realty 912-429-3431 119 W. Whatley Street, Pooler

418 East 52nd Street:

Open Sunday from 35 PM. 3 BR 2 BA brick bungalow, with the best Ardsley can of fer.

Beautiful hardwood floors, new kitchen with custom cabinets, black granite counters and stainless appliances.

Fully renovated in 2002 and ready for occupancy!

UNDER CONTRACT $315,000.00 Shelley Carroll Lowther Re/Max Savannah 912-604-8177

105 West Congress Street Suite B. Second floor unit in unique commercial condominium. Features hardwood floors, high decorative ceilings, DSL, exposed brick walls and more. Class A office space at an af fordable price. $199,000.00 Shelley Carroll Lowther Re/Max Savannah 912-604-8177 savannahrealtor@comcast.net

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7 Mallor y’s Cour t Fabulous 3 BR 2.5 BA Georgetown home awaits you. Open and spacious, this home offers Pergo flooring, LR/DR combo, finished bonus with separate HVAC, 2 car garage and a large fenced lot.

Priced to sell at $175,000.00 Shelley Carroll Lowther Re/Max Savannah 912-604-8177 savannahrealtor@comcast.net

$154,900 Mike Farmer Realty 912-429-3431 1932 Greenwood Street, Savannah

Remodeled, Updated bungalow -- 2/1 Close to schools, easy access to downtown and islands $69,500 Mike Farmer Realty 912-429-3431 New construction

in Bridgewater to be completed end of February, 2005. Four bedrooms, 2 baths, a family room, a formal living room, a formal dining room, a bonus room, $209,050.00 Buy now and pick colors.

Amber Skaggs Remax Crossroads 748-8141 656-3029 New Construction

in Bridgewater 4 Bedrooms, 2Baths, a formal dining room, and great room. Will be completed in January, 2005. Buy now and pick inside colors. $196,075 Builder will contibute $3,000.00 towards buyers closing costs.

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For the LARGE family…MBH has 4 bedrms, 2 ba, adjoing suite to master bedrm could be used as nursery, office, or sitting area. Formal living rm, bookcases, and fireplace. Call LaTrelle Pevey ERA Adams-Pevey Realty 826-2550 or 658-7777 H-3993, $122,900.

A package of superlatives…Super location, only minutes from schools and shopping, Good construction, well maintained, easy living all wrapped up in this neat 3 bedroom, 2bath, home.

Entertain in this great room equipped with fireplace, or come on in to the kitchen featuring a breakfast bar, and pantry, situated on large lot .59 acres.

Call LaTrelle 6587777 ERA Adams-Pevey Realty 826-2550 H-4075 $144,900.

118 Marshview Rd.

Charming, comfortable, and cozy 3 bed 2 bath home is looking for a family to call its own. Of fers a countr y kitchen, hardwood floors, boat shed, 2128 sq. f t, access to boat dock, near the water, and corner lot. Call LaTrelle Pevey ERA Adams-Pevey Realty, 658-7777 H-3919. $275,000.

Gorgeous brickranch home w/great private yard. Features 3BR/2BA, LR/DR combo w/hdwd floors, den, breakfast area, laundry room, lots of closet space & storage. Ceramic tile in kit., laundry, & BAs. 2-car covered carport & amazing covered in-ground swimming pool w/marsh view: $269,900. Kevyn Withers:Mopper Stapen -912-547-4342

2309 Whitaker St.

Grand Victorian in the heart of the Thomas Square District! Walk through the back door into a huge gourmet kitchen w/granite countered island! The DR features a fpl. &pocket doors leading into the LR w/yet another fpl.

The MBR boasts a romantic balcony & MBA w/double showers, double vanities & a porcelain claw-foot tub. 2nd BA also has a claw-foot tub! There are 2 more BRs w/flps. & yet a 4th BR downstairs. Home is completely internet/cable ready.

Gorgeous hdwd floors w/tons of trim & details. Delightful front porch & covered back patio!- $299,900 Kevyn Withers:Mopper Stapen -912-547-4342

503 EAST MCDONOUGH STREET LOWER 1 bedroom, 1 bath apartment, tile kitchen with electric stove, good cabinet space, living room, washer and dryer. Pets OK. $700/mo.

602 LINCOLN STREET PARLOR UNIT 2 bedroom, 2-1/2 bath townhome. Living room, dining room, eat-in kitchen with JennAir stove, dishwasher and trash compactor. Laundry room with washer and dryer. $1600/mo.

12 WEST TAYLOR STREET APT#2A 1 bedroom, 1 bath apartment near Monterey Square, Kitchen, Living room. $800/mo.

1600 HABERSHAM PLACE #28 2 bedroom, 1 bath apartment. Furnished kitchen, living room, tile floors, washer and dryer connections, central heat and air. $500/mo.

212B WEST HALL STREET 2 bedrooms, 1 bath, living room, kitchen, total electric. $800/mo.

203 WEST WALDBURG STREET Parlor apartment. 2 bedrooms, 1 bath, off street parking space, fireplace, combo kitchen, living room, washer and dryer connections, central heat and air. $800/mo.

214 A WEST PARK AVENUE 1 bedroom, 1 bath with clawfoot tub, furnished kitchen, hardwood floors, washer and dryer shared. No pets. $600/mo.

304 JEFFERSON STREET 2 bedroom, 1 bath apartment, large kitchen with electric stove, dishwasher, combo living and dining room. $750/mo.

327 Columbus Dr.

This immaculate 4,000 sp. ft. home features 4BR/3.5BA, foyer into huge sep.

LR/DR, gorgeous kit., den, upstairs office/dressing room w/2 huge cedar-lined floor-to-ceiling closets, MBR upstairs for suite or apt. w/additional LR & kit. 2CG, hdwd floors, great corner lot w/great offstreet parking! $335,000. Kevyn Withers:Mopper Stapen -912-547-4342

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3602 MONTGOMERY STREET Renovated 2 bedroom, 1 bath duplex, central heat and air, washer and dryer connections, all new appliances, carpet with off street parking. $750/mo.

1330 EAST 54TH STREET 3 bedroom, 1 bath home, living room, dining room combo, garage, hardwood floors, fireplace, stack washer and dryer, gas heat, central air, fenced back yard. Pets OK. $725/mo.

421 EAST ANDERSON STREET UNIT A 1 bedroom, 1 bath apartment, living room, kitchen, central heat and air, washer and dryer. $525/mo.

24 EAST LIBERTY STREET #24 2 bedroom, 1 bath apartment in the Derenne. Galley kitchen, living room, approx. 933 sq.ft. Not Pets. Short term lease available. $1000/mo.

1504 BARNARD STREET 3 bedroom, 1 bath, renovated apartment.

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105 West Congress Street Suite A. Basement unit in new commercial condo conversion offers exposed brick walls, decorative ceilings, secure entry, and location, location, location! Priced to sell and cheaper than rent!

Only $119,000.00. Shelley Carroll Lowther Re/Max Savannah

Mike Farmer Realty 912-429-3431 6127 N. Hwy 119, Pembroke

3 bedroom, 2 bath MBH on over an acre of land. Offers den, dining, living, 1680 sq.ft, and more. Call about Lease purchase information.

Home has Home Warranty!

Call LaTrelle Pevey ERA Adams-Pevey Realty 658-7777 H- 4058. $89,000.

Enjoy the comforts of home in this brilliant 3 bed 2 1⁄2 bath home located in Springfield’s ver y own Cedar Creek Subdivision.

Spacious 1972 square ft. home includes great-room, dining room, and laundry room. Come see for yourself. H3934, Call Latrelle 658-7777 $164,900.

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105 West Congress Street Suite C. Third floor unit in Congress Street condominium is zoned BC-1 and ready for your home or office.

Restored in 2000, it is light and bright with wood floors, decorative ceilings, and exposed brick, and located just steps from City Market. $215,000.00

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Call Amber to view this awesome home. $159,300.00

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Horse farm -- 17 acres, stalls, corral.

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2 miles from I-16

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Wonder ful tabby bungalow in Parkside area features 3 BR 2 BA, LR, DR, eat-in kitchen, wood and tile floors, architectural details and more. 2 car garage, fenced yard, fireplace, for under 160K. Run, don’t walk, this one will sell!

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3 bedrooms, 2 Baths 1200 sq ft Convenient to schools and shopping large deck on back Priced to sell -$79,500

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3 Schroeder Ct.-$369,900 This fabulous home on Skidaway Island at The Landings is situated on a lagoon lot with golf course view. It features 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, spacious living and dining room combination and 2 sunrooms. The rear of the home has glass sliders in all rooms to enjoy the gorgeous views and professionally landscaped yards. The roomy kitchen features a cooking island, pantry cabinets and breakfast area. Come see why Dianne says “The Good Life starts with a Great Home!” Call her today at 663-2417."

1431 Dale Drive Mayfair $298,000 This immaculate 4 bedroom 3 full bath home features an in ground pool along with a sprinkler system, hardwood floors and an office that could easily function as an office or a 5th bedroom. The home also offers two fireplaces and an additional bonus room! Call Pam Finocchiaro @ 713-6612 for more information.

132 Grove Point Island Road Southside $950,000 This secluded deepwater estate on Grove Point Island is situated on 2.9 acres with a large family residence, guest house at the dock, floating dock and boat hoist slip. The views of Grove River are breathtaking at any time of day. This quality Troy Buoy built home features 3 bedrooms,2.5 baths, spacious living and dining room combination with exposed beams and high ceilings and fireplace plus front and rear porches. The guest house at the dock could be a family member's separate residence or superb entertaining space.

This home was built for entertaining and enjoying all river-front living has to offer. Come see why Dianne says “The Good Life starts with a Great Home!” Call her today at 663-2417."

4 Levee Road-$315,000 Coffee Bluff This spacious Low Country Home in the desirable Coffee Bluff area is perfect for the growing family with 4 bedrooms, 2.5 baths, and unfinished bonus room. This 3048 Sq.Ft. home has two fireplaces, one in the large rear family room and one in the front LR/DR. The kitchen has new corian counter-tops, built-in appliances, and ceramic flooring.

New wood floors have been added to the family room.

Call Dianne at 663-2417 to see why she says “The Good Life starts with a Great Home!”.

507-A W. 9th St. Approx. 86 acres for your enjoyment! This beautiful custom-built home w/all the details & over 2,500 sp. ft. Features 3BR/2BA, gourmet kit. w/Vulcan oven & stainless-steel counter tops. MBR w/huge sitting area.

Guest cottage w/2BR/1BA, den, kit../LR & screened porch. Also has pool, pool shed, potting shed & horse pasture/riding circle. $1,499,000. Kevyn Withers:Mopper Stapen -912-547-4342

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This enchanting low country home in gated community features 4br/2.5 ba, living room w/ fireplace, open kitchen w/island, formal dining, & study. Great wrap around porch and gorgeous heart pine wood floors throughout. Wonderful lot on lagoon with great view! $449,900

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Desirable Cof fee Bluff Area, 3 bdrm/2 bath, w/private fenced-in backyard, fireplace, and 2 car garage- no pets$1,100 monthly, call for deposit info: Mike @ 657-9549

Historic District 2BR/1BA, CH/A,

washer/dryer, hardwood floors, high ceilings,corner of Drayton and Anderson, available now, Pets OK. $700.00 (484-3986)

Beautifully renovated 2BR/1BA

4BR/2BA, CH/A,

Formal dining room, refinished

washer/dryer on site, hardwood floors, high ceilings next to downtown Kroger, Available Now. Pets OK.

heart pine floors, ceiling fans, new bathroom & kitchen w/ceramic tile floors.

Seperate laundry room and private courtyard.

C/H/A, total electric, security system.

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513 E. WALDBURG ST. Spacious, newly renovated with lots of storage, Washer/dryer, dishwasher and Central heat/air. A must see. $1100/monthly. Call James at 233-5908 or email barrantm@att.net

24 EAST 41st STREET 3 bedroom, 1-1/2 bath, central heat/air, $1200/month. Nice clean home.

Call 912-659-0322.

Southland Realty 1511 Rosewood Dr. 4-bedroom, $850/month.

105 Marsh Edge Dr. 3-bedroom, 2-bath. $850/month

Call Southland Realty 912-355-5150 Apartments For Rent NEW RENOVATION!!

2 bed, 1 bath, $795/month Midtown at 521 E. 37th. All new! DW, W/D, Central H&A. 8’x20’ deck. Parking.

SCAD welcome.

Beautiful street.

Toll free 1-888-246-5652 Ext. 1. Ask for Chris 116 EAST ANDERSON ST

Upper. 3 Bedroom, 1.5 bath, washer/dryer, central air, of f-street parking. $900/month. Call 912-713-1072 VERY PRETTY RENOVATED

2 bedroom apar tment.

Security, Satelite dish with 27” T V. dishwasher, washer/dryer, jacuzzi tub, new kitchen, marble/hardwood floors, fireplace, rooftop deck. Near SCAD. Good area, $825/month, low deposit. Call 912-596-2585 or 631-9516

GREAT 2BR APT 2 bath, $850/month (water included).

Hardwood floors, central heat/air, washer/ dr yer, of f street parking. 22-1/2 East 39th Street. No dogs. 912-658-8550

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2-bedroom, 1-bath, hardwood floors, dishwasher, washer/dr yer, alarm system, of f-street parking, pantry, plenty of closet space.

Oversized Living room, w/nice light. $1100/month, $1100/security deposit. No pets. Call Kathy, 912-713-7860.

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Fantastic location near Forsyth Park.

Newly renovated duplex, Top floor, 2-3 bedroom, 2 bath, LR, Fully furnished kitchen, washer/dryer, H/W floors, Cen H/A, 2 F/P, Large back Porch, Shared cour tyard, and Offstreet parking. $990.00/month , Contact: 912-220-1020

Cottage for Rent Cottage for Residential or Commercial Rent.

900 Sq Ft, Full Bath and Kitchen, CH/A, Cour tyard w/Zen Garden and Water Fe a t u r e s . W / D , Non-smoking, no pets (1 cat Ok w/pet deposit), gorgeous wall finish, ceiling fans, French doors and walk in closet.

Off Street parking, Midtown. Move in Feb. 1st. $700 monthly.

Call 236-3660

Unfurnished Home for rent in Ardsley, 3 Bedroom, 2 1/2 Bathroom, pool, deck, central heat & air,alarm system, carport and fireplace. $1500 1-2 year lease. Available May 10th. Call Dr. Boyd 236 3660

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House or Rooms for Rent! Historic District 4-5 Large Bedrooms, Hardwood Floors, W/D. All New Appliances. Large Front and Back Yard, Second Floor Rear Deck. Security System and Privacy Fence.

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