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Severstal, Paccar, StarkAerospace, KIOR - the list goes on.o the average citizen, these namesoen become just a blur, but over the
past several years, Lowndes Countyhas become home to many majorcorporations. And whether or not thecommunity as a whole understandsthe extent o the growth o our littlecounty, it is a act that we have grownby leaps and bounds when it comes toindustry.
In the very near uture,Lowndes County will soon have thehighest assessed value o industryin Mississippi. In a community thatoen has an ineriority complex aboutits own greatness, this is a stagger-
ing act. But the cold reality is thatmany regions would love to tradeplaces with Lowndes County andexperience our areas success. As JoeMax Higgins, the undeniable leadero the LINK, states, With the largeindustrial base that was already inLowndes County, plus the additionalinvestments made over the last ewyears, Lowndes County has moved upsignicantly in the assessed-valuationranking o Mississippis counties.Soon we expect to be ranked numberone.
Industrial growth is notwithout its concerns, however. At theAug. 6, 2012, Lowndes County Boardo Supervisors meeting, it was an-nounced that Silicor would not meettheir Sept. 2 deadline or startingtheir project. Joe Max was obviouslynot amused and asked that Silicor begiven a conditional extension. TeLINK wants to give any corporationan opportunity to succeed; however,the company needs to meet guide-lines, Higgins stated.
Higgins continued, I willnot be back to ask or another exten-sion. I you want to, that is ne, but Iwill not be back to ask or one. Tedeadline or the start o work hasbeen moved to Dec. 31, 2012. Whenquestioned urther about the situa-tion, Higgins makes his point clear:So much time and eort goes intothe recruiting and landing o a projectthat a ew months extension is rea-sonable. What is not reasonable is tocommit resources or a long period otime and lose other opportunities.
Recently, aer spending twohours in the LINK ofce speakingwith Joe Max Higgins and his sta, itwas easy to see how many people eelthat what happens at the LINK is amystery. Siing through a plethora o
numbers and projects, a person couldsoon glaze over just trying to under-stand the complexities o a majorcorporate deal.
Using a myriad o charts,math computations and maps, Hig-gins explained how a deal is complet-ed and the importance o understand-ing how the taxes generated romthese projects benet the local schoolsystems and our local economy.Without a doubt, Higgins is a manwho loves his job and demonstrateshis passion in every word he utters.He is blunt, brassy and condent, butunder his bravado he realizes that noteveryone understands what the LINKdoes when it comes to economic
development.But, at the end o the day, the
goal o the LINK is getting industryto locate here and creating better livesor the people o Lowndes County. AsHiggins reiterated several times, Peo-ple oen ask me what I l ike about my
job. Te answer is quick and simple:When I see a person that was workingas a clerk at a local store get a great
job at the steel mill, paying two orthree times what they were making,it makes my day! Tat also rees upa spot where someone else can startmoving through the job network, andwe are all better o than we were.
Troughout the entire con-versation, there was one concern romthe LINK ofce that should be sharedby the entire community, and that isthat the business o business shouldnever be compromised or politicallydriven. Te LINK, though account-able to the entire community, shouldnot be blown east or west by the po-litical winds o the day. Te LINK andthe success o industry should not be
held hostage at the whim o politics.Tis is a difcult task whenbillion-dollar projects hang in thebalance. However, every eort shouldbe made to ensure that this does nothappen, as it would result in the com-munity being cheated both out o jobsand the economic impact it wouldotherwise receive. In short, politicsand dogma should not triumph overour communitys uture.
In talking to many citizensover the years about business andindustry, it is easy to see that some
people are skeptical. In a countrywhere capitalism is supposedly king,many people in America have a hardtime trusting industry or anythingthat they think is Big Business.Right or wrong, some olks, even here
in Lowndes County, will never trustwhat they see as rich guys gettingricher.
But the real deal is as simple
as this: Without industry, there are nojobs, no retail and no uture. Everyonewants a job, but jobs do not sprout outo the ground by some kind o magi-cal process. Unortunately, because othe prolieration o government jobs,many Americans think they do. But itis industry and private-sector busi-nesses that drive the economic train.
In that case, it is impor-tant that Joe Higgins and the LINKcontinue to try to educate the generalpublic regarding what is occurring inour area. It may be tough to reduce a
quantum physics-level business dealto a concept that average men andwomen can understand, but it needsto be done. People are smart; they justneed to learn the language o the arto the deal, and they will understandthe importance o industry in ourcommunity. Tat may seem like adaunting task, but it must be under-taken. Aer meeting with the LINKlast week, it is clear that they under-stand this concept.
However, the people alsoneed to understand that many proj-ects must remain, at least or a time,wrapped in a veil o secrecy. A major-ity o the projects brought to our areaare projects that are still being devel-oped and cannot be discussed untilthe deal is sealed. Many people maynot like this idea, but to kill a projectby talking about it too soon couldcost our towns hundreds o jobs andmillions o dollars in taxes, and that isnot prudent. o be blunt, it is dumb.
Not everyone is going tolike industry. Tey will see it as just
a bunch o rich guys getting richer.But that is short-sighted. Mississippineeds jobs. Lowndes Country needs
jobs, and Columbus needs jobs. Pe-riod!
So, i you drive down theroad and wonder why there is no ar-get, why there is no this store or thatstore, you must understand that thesebusinesses come to areas that have acertain population base. And whenbusinesses say population base, theymean people with money and jobs.Te only way that can happen is or
people to be employed. Without jobs,an area is just a vast wasteland onothingness.
You may not like industry,but you had better like jobs. Withoutthem, our uture will perish.
editorsnoteby Joseph B. St. John
Editor-in-Chief
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contributors
Joseph B. St. John is the Editor-in-Chieand Publisher. You can reach him at
[email protected]. He isa man who understands that everythingthat appears bad is not bad and every-thing that appears good is not good.
Melinda Dufe is a certifed personaltrainer, with additional expertise innutrition counseling and lie coaching aswell as a bachelors degree in business.E-mail reaches her at [email protected]
Meagan M. ONan is a trained and ex-perienced lie coach, award-winning au-thor o the book, Creating Your Heavenon Earth, blogger, poet and supportero the underdog. She has a lie coaching
practice in Columbus. Meaganonan.org
Clare Mallory, L.Ac., M.Ac., holds amasters degree in Acupuncture andOriental Medicine. She is the owner oNorth Mississippi Acupuncture in Co-lumbus. Visit her website atwww.claremallory.com
Paige Canida-Greene is a senior com-munication major (theatre minor) at
Mississippi University or Women andlives in Columbus.
Brenda Minoris the Sales Manager atTe Real Story. Please contact her ormore inormation on ad rates and sales.u
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Portrait o Te Artist:Melody Vydas
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A Few Surprises At Colum-bus City Council Meeting
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Lie Enrichment Program
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Te Real Story RibbonCutting
regular features2 .................. Editors Note4 ............................ Politics
6 ................... Ask Meagan
7 . Points For Your Health
10 ........... Financial Focus
11 ................. Community
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18 .... Culturally Speaking
18 ... Portrait o the Artist
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About the Coverreal story reader\r(-)l str- r-dr\
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Joe Max Higgins from the LINK.
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A Few Surprises At Columbus City Council MeetingThe Real Story Staff Report
e shell game. Even if youvenever seen it in person, you haveprobably seen it portrayed on TV orin the theater. It involves three cupsand a ball. e overturned cups aremoved back and forth, to and fro,
with the ball being underneath oneof them. e problem is that the ballends up being under the cup that youleast suspect.
So it was at the ColumbusCity Council meeting of Tuesday,Aug. 2, 2012. e nights o cialagenda listed three speakers on theCitizens Input portion: Larry Goldenof Club Hideho, restaurateur GlennBaldwin, and Connie Jones-Brooks,who was to speak on the renamingof Fourth Street South. Based on pastexperience and local media reports,
you would probably be inclined tothink that the most likely sources ofcontroversy would be either Golden whose club seems to be a magnet forunruly behavior and police attention or Baldwin who has been quite
vocal in his disappointment over notbeing considered, much less ap-pointed, for a Columbus Convention& Visitors Bureau board seat. On thisnight, at least, you would be wrongon both counts.
e meeting began innocent-
ly enough, with the normal minutiaeof city government: the adoption ofminutes, a mayoral proclamation andthe approval of a consent agenda.
en came the main event the Citizens Input Agenda.
Golden, who was expected toair the latest act in his never-endinglitany of complaints against city of-cials, was a no-show. No excitementthere.
Baldwin, who owns two localrestaurants, appeared in search of anexplanation as to why his name had
not come up for a vote in regards to arecently lled CCVB board position(Bernard Buckhalter was reappointedto another one-year term). Baldwininitially directed his questioning atCouncilman Kabir Karriem, who inreturn took oense at being singledout, both at the council meeting andin the local press. Karriem explainedthat he had made a motion to reap-point Buckhalter because he calledand asked for my support. Whoknew it was this easy? Apparently, norecitation of previous accomplish-ments or plans for the upcoming yearwas required which is a good thing,because Buckhalter would have beenhard pressed to provide either.
In the end - and despitea brief back-and-forth among thecouncil members about what pro-cedures for approving new boardmembers were available to them thecouncil managed to stonewall Bald-win, who le with no clear resolution.
e last citizens to speakwere members of the Jones/Karriem
family, who came to request that theone-block section of Fourth StreetSouth between Main and CollegeStreets be renamed Sallie Mae JonesCatsh Alley (now theres a mouth-ful).
Laura Jones-Chalmers, one offour family members to address thecouncil on this issue, made a long, el-oquent recitation of Sallie Mae Jonesmany contributions to the African-American community of Columbus.
She was joined in this eort by KamalKarriem, Connie Jones-Brooks andHelen Karriem.
is request was met witha surprisingly well-reasoned rebufrom Mayor Robert Smith, who sug-gested that the city should seek input
from the other businesses on theblock that would be aected by thisname change. e mayors statement
was met by apparent surprise andfrustration from the family mem-bers, who then cited various eorts,including the circulation of a peti-tion (with no specics on wording ornumber of signatures gathered) andattempts (apparently unsuccessful) tocontact the other business owners.
It soon became clear thatmore than one of the councilmenagreed with Mayor Smiths suggestionto delay a decision so that input couldbe obtained. Smith actually upped theante by suggesting that people other
than those operating businesses onthe block in question be consultedabout the decision.
Councilman Charlie Boxsuggested that naming the block aer
an individual would set a precedent apparently unaware of the numer-ous examples that can be found witha cursory review of a local telephonedirectory.
It was at the tail end of the
discussion that the real reworkserupted. Citizen Dempsey Faulkner,who appeared to be keenly interestedin the proceedings, requested and wasgranted permission to speak beforethe assembly. Faulkner basically re-peated Boxs argument about settinga precedent. en, aer some resis-tance from the Jones/Karriem family,he dropped an apparent bombshellby saying, Dont make it a problemwhere nobody eats there [Jones Res-taurant].
is elicited an immediate
and angry response from a number ofpeople, forcing the mayor to bang hisgavel and admonish all in attendancewith Lets have some order!
Smith then quickly called fora motion. Councilman Box made amotion to table the matter and wasseconded by Councilman Bill Gavin.e vote resulted in a 3-3 tie whichwas, by rule, broken by Mayor Smith,who cast the deciding vote to tablethe matter.
e council then proceeded
through the remaining agenda itemsin fairly short order and then quicklydeparted to attend the evenings Na-tional Night Out activities, leavinganger, hurt feelings and frustration intheir wake.
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Dear Meagan,
I have a very basic question. Iwasnt raised in a religious home, butI do know that spirituality is some-thing that is important to me. Howcan I eed mysel spiritually i Imnot religious? Sincerely,
Grateful
Dear Grateful,
Tank you or writing in, andthat is a great question! I think it isimportant or us all to take the timeand gure out what eeds us andallows us to eel a close connectionto Lie, the Universe, God, whateveryou choose to call It - whatever label
you want to put on your spirituality isne. Being connected to that which isbigger than you is what allows you totrust lie more and eel more in touchwith your own purpose on earth.
Everyone is dierent, andeveryone can eel inspired in variousways. Begin to pay attention to whatinspires you and what makes youeel connected to lie. Inserting thosethings into your lie more oen (pre-
erably on a daily basis) will give youan opportunity to go with the fowo lie more easily and nd solutionsto your problems in a way that is notorced or conusing.
Some people like to meditateor pray on a daily basis, but meditat-ing and praying are just two ways toeed you spiritually. I have made a listor you below, and you can try eachout to see what ts or you in act,eel ree to mix and match. Tereis no right way or wrong way to beinspired or to eel at ease with lie;you just have to nd what is right oryou and what works or you. I youdont like structure, dont do the samething every day. I you like structure,
do it at a time when you are able toollow through; in other words, dontplan on meditating at night whenyou know you are probably going to
just all asleep because you are tired.Make your spirituality something youcan look orward to.
Here are some ideas or whatyou can do on a daily basis to eedyoursel spiritually: Incorporateapassionof
yours into each day (playing music,dancing, writing, singing, gardening,knitting anything that connects youto the bigger you). Doing what youlove to do will only bring joy intoyour lie. Meditateorpray.Youdont
have to do this the old-ashioned way;put on some good music and read aninspiring or challenging book. Sit insilence, i you choose, with a cup ocoee. ake time or you. Connectwithnature.Idont
know about you, but I love sunsets,and I love being near water, so asimple solution or me would be towalk down to the Riverwalk each dayatsunset.Youcancombinethethings
you love and the things that inspireyou. Nature represents the bigger parto who we are, so being out in naturewill always give you a breath o reshair. Journal.Tisisagreatwayto process what is going on in yourlie. Make the journal or your eyesonly, so that you dont eel pressurearound sharing it or not saying some-thing you really want to say. Write
about what is troubling you, and al-low your emotions to come orward.Releasing your emotions on paper is
very therapeutic, and it will give youclarity.
Tese are just a ew waysto eed you spiritually. Tere are amillion more ways. Some people eelinspired and connected by beingaround people. Be the observer oyour lie, and pay attention to whatmakes you eel like anything is pos-sible. Whatever that is, do it everyday.
Meagan ONan
Do you have questions about your life,career or relationships?
Ask Meagan!
E-mail reaches her at [email protected].
Personal information, such as yourname, will NOT be divulged.
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Why, sometimes Ivebelieved as many as six impossiblethings beore breakast! - Alice inWonderland
I love this quote. I used tothink it was silly, when I was younger,but I know better now. I have gainedwisdom as I have grown, and, ironi-cally, oen the sillier something is themore wisdom there is in it.
We all think impossiblethings beore breakast. We think o
how we wish our lie were, and wedont believe its possible or us. Wethink o what would make us happy,and we dont believe it can happen.And, silliest o all, we see other peo-ple with what we want or ourselves- evidence that those things are, in-deed, possible - but dont believe we,ourselves, can attain the same thing.Tats the world we live in - a worldwe dene by our lack o imagination,by the story we have each written.We have no problem thinking o
impossible things, but thats whereit ends - with the thought, the beliethat they are impossible. But what i,instead, we chose to do the opposite,to believe the thoughts instead o just
thinking them?Teres another quote rom
Alice in Wonderland (rom the mov-ie, anyway), that goes, Te only wayto achieve the impossible is to believe
its possible. We live in a world thatis a result o minds that thought thisway. Who would ever have thoughtit possible or a large piece o metalcarrying thousands o pounds totravel through the air? Or that youcould fip a switch and there wouldbe light? Who would have thoughtthat by moving an object on a desk (amouse) you could access millions o
bits o inormation in split seconds?Someone did, and now we all do.What do you believe impos-
sible?Justforfun,whatifitwerepos-sible? What i you allowed yoursel a
ew moments each day to imaginethat your lie could be dierent? Weare so set in our ways that we eareven that - we call it daydreamingand brush it o as such, conrmingto our brain that it isnt reality.
I believe Lie is compas-sionate. It refects back to us whatwe believe. Sometimes that doesntseem compassionate to us, but Lie isalways doing what we order it to do- creating a reality out o what we be-
lieve, whether possible or impos-sible. When we choose to believe theimpossible - just as with the pos-sible - it responds. Tings show up.People show up. Weird coincidenceshappen. We draw that impossibilitycloser and closer until we dont evenremember when we believed it im-possible. All o us have experiencedthis to some degree.
oday, I challenge you tobelieve the impossible, on a personallevel. I challenge you to think o six
things in your lie that you would liketo be dierent, and to believe thempossible. What are your dreams? Andwhat do you believe is impossibleabout them? What i they werent
impossible? What i they were givento you or the very reason that theyare possible?
We are born alone, and wedie alone, and we so oen spend allthe time in between living in a world
o others belies, others stories. Whati you were to change that, to startbelieving the impossible or yoursel?Whats the worst that could happen?We create our own lives - thats howpowerul we are, and we can chooseto see obstacles or opportunities inany given moment. We are made inthe image o God, and yet we believeLie supports others but not our-selves.
Our problems are sel cre-ated - we create them in our minds,
and we can move past them when wemake that choice. Impossible? I dontbelieve so.
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ere is a saying in ChineseMedicine: As above, so below. isis an ancient concept that feeds theidea not only that man is a reectionof his Maker but also that he (man)reects his environment. In fact, thissame concept applies to the bodyitself and is the basis for various ap-proaches in acupuncture as well astherapies such as reexology (wherethe foot and hand serve as microsys-tems of the entire body).
When one approaches lifeand health in this way, some of theadvances in modern food technol-ogy become concerning, to say theleast. When we have food that ischemically processed and geneticallymodied, it isnt any wonder that wehave such high rates of diseases suchas cancer - which is what? - simplyspeaking, a (negative) modication of
how normal cells behave.e purpose of this article
isnt to argue the association betweencancer or other diseases and geneti-cally modied or processed foods;there is plenty of research availableon the subject via a simple Internetsearch. Rather, on a more simpli-ed level - and appealing merelyto common sense - food that isntfood anymore probably shouldntbe treated as food. Employing the as
above, so below concept, food thatisnt food will serve not to nourishbut rather to harm the body, as youare giving the body something whichit, by its nature, isnt made to process.e fuel of the body is FOOD.
While there is no law (yet)that genetically modied foods needto be labeled as such (our Mississippisenators are in support of such a law,thank goodness), here are some basictips you can follow until legislationon the issue does change:
Buy organic. If its organic,
its not genetically modied. is
goes not just for fruits and vegetables(see below), but especially for grains,including - and especially - wheat,corn and soy. Most wheat and cornare genetically modied (the formeraccounting, many believe, for the re-
cent rise in gluten sensitivity over thepast decade or so), and soy that isntorganic should, plain and simple, notbe eaten.
For fruits and vegetables,
theres a quick and easy method toknowing what youre buying. Youknow those little stickers on theproduce in the grocery store? eyhave numbers on them that are anextremely helpful code. Here are thenumbers you want, in order of prefer-ence:
A ve-digit number begin-ning with 9: is is organic - equalsbest. ink: I dine on 9.
A four-digit number be-ginning with 3: is is transitional,which means it is in between con-
ventional (see below) and organic; inother words, it isnt certied organic,but it also isnt loaded with the regu-
lar pesticides of conventional pro-duce, either. ink: 3 times 3 equals9 (equals good).
A four-digit numberbeginning with 4: is is conven-tional, which means its still realfood but has been grown with a tonof pesticides (which are not food).You should wash all your fruits and
vegetables anyway, but if you arent inthe habit, at the very least, wash 4s.
A four-digit numberbeginning with 8: is is geneticallymodied. Never buy these - they are
not food. ink: I hate 8. If you are buying processed
foods (which are loaded with pre-servatives, many of which, by theway, are not food), get in the habitof reading the ingredients: If theycontain wheat or corn, you may wantto look for something else, as chancesare extremely high that they aregenetically modied. If they containsoy (including soy lecithin, a by-product of soy which is in numerousfoods and cosmetics), make sure itsays non-GMO. If it doesnt, again,chances are high its genetically modi-ed.
And, of course, the bestadvice is to stay interested in yourfood. It is what fuels your body andkeeps you healthy or unhealthy. Learnwhat is in your food, pay attention tohow your body responds to dier-ent foods, and, above all, make sureits food: We wouldnt put sand in acars gas tank and expect it to func-tion optimally (or at all), and yet weconsistently put unnatural things in
our bodies and then wonder why wefeel bad and get sick.
Remember - taking charge ofyour health now will save you a ton oftime, money and misery in the longrun!
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We wouldnt put sand ina cars gas tank and expectit to function optimally(or at all), and yet we con-sistently put unnaturalthings in our bodies andthen wonder why we feelbad and get sick.
Ever hear the saying, calo-ries in, calories out? is means thatif you take in the same number ofcalories that you expend, you shouldtechnically maintain your weight.And if you take in less than youexpend, you should clearly be losing
weight. It sounds like such a simpleidea - almost too simple, in fact. Imean, why would America, and ourState of Mississippi, for that matter,have an overweight epidemic if its assimple as following just one rule?
Lets say the typical normal-weight American should be consum-ing 2,000 calories of energy per dayto maintain their healthy normalweight.* If its all about calories in,calories out, then it shouldnt mat-ter where those 2,000 calories come
from, so long as youre expending atleast 2,000 calories during the day tomaintain the balance. But lets dig a
little deeper.Lets go radical. What if you
ate 2,000 calories worth of dough-nuts? ats just 10 or fewer uy, de-licious, original-brand, sugary rings.Eat all 10, and youre at your dailymaximum number of calories, withno need to eat anything else to sus-tain your body weight. For our ownsimple purposes, lets say thats all youate for the day. According to calories
in, calories out, if you burned morethan 2,000 calories that day, youwould lose weight! You mean, we canhave our doughnuts and lose weight,too? What wonderful news, especiallysince theres a new Krispy Kremecoming to town!
But thats only theory
In reality, food is not just ameans of taking in calories. Its pur-pose is so much more than providingenergy; it makes all of the essential
processes of the body occur. Foodis our make-it-or-break it way oftreating the body, and every time weeat, we either make it healthier or webreak it down toward sickness.
When you eat food, yourbody goes through a hormonalresponse as well as hundreds of otherphysiological changes. ose hor-monal responses are what can help
you to either gain or lose weight - notthe calories in, calories out. If youreingesting 2,000 calories of doughnuts
versus 2,000 calories of fresh veg-etables, fruits and lean meats, youreplacing a huge stressor on your bodyssystem because the body is not de-
signed to digest processed and renedfoods. When that happens, hormonessuch as cortisol and insulin arereleased, causing a stress response.e stress response is the fat-storingresponse.
If youre ingesting real foods(dened by me as most foods thateither grow or have a mother), thenyour body recognizes the foods as areal source of energy. is eliminatesthe stress response and the signicantrelease of the fat-storing hormones.When your body eats real foods -mainly the ones that grow from theground - it knows exactly what to
do, and it e ciently digests the realfoods in whats called a fat-burningresponse.
So if youre a believer incalories in, calories out, I urge youto rethink that theory. e bodyfunctions in more ways than one, and2,000 calories of junk may essen-tially cause someone to gain weight,whereas 2,000 calories of real foodsmay cause someone to lose weight,assuming both folks are equally ac-tive. Choose which system youd liketo create in your body, and choose
foods that your body recognizes asreal so that you can begin yourtransformation, creating a healthy,normal, fat-burning machine.
*e typical number ofcalories a normal weight, healthyperson should consume varies widely,depending on factors such as age, sexand activity level.
When Is A Calorie Not Just A Calorie?By Abby Malmstrom
Food is our make-it-or-break it way of treatingthe body, and every timewe eat, we either make it
healthier or we break itdown toward sickness.
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Sept. 4-9, 2012, marks thedates of the 11th Annual Tennes-see Williams Tribute and Tour ofVictorian Homes. e tribute drawspeople from all over the globe and isgrowing bigger and bigger every year.
ere are approximately 15 events,with many being free to the public.is festival would not be
possible without the passion and per-severance of Brenda Caradine. She isone of the founders of the TennesseeWilliams Foundation. Her fortitudehas created an event that attracts anarray of talented performers, scholarsand artisans from all over the worldas well as from the local community.
Claude Simpson, anotherfounder of the Williams Foundation,said, I think that the Tennessee Wil-
liams Tribute is important to the cityof Columbus for a number of reasons,among which are that it gives thecity of Columbus a world-recognizedcharacter to use as an attention-getter for our city. Aside from that, itprovides an educational mechanismin the theater arts for the youth in ourcommunity to be exposed to, as wellas an outlet for local citizens inter-ested in expressing themselves in theperforming arts.
is years featured play ise Rose Tattoo, which won the1951 Tony Award for Best Play.
e extensive cast for thisincredible play includes: David Hintzas Salvatore; Caroline Hintz as ViVi;Lily Cate Gray as Bebe; Dorothy Por-ter as Assunta; Kathryn Hintz as RosaDelle Rose as a child; Emily Mortonas Rosa Delle Rose as an adult; CherriGolden as Serana Delle Rose; PaigeCanida-Greene as Estelle Hohengar-ten; Donna Forrester as e Strega;Mara Gray as Giuseppina; MelissaDuncan as Peppina; Giulia Hintz as
Violeta; Warren Nybo as Father DeLeo; Holly Jeter as A Doctor; JenniferBeneke as Miss Yorke; Gwin Edie asFlora; Laura Beth Berry as Bessie;Shane Tubbs as Jack Hunter; PhillipBarrett as e Salesman; and DanielTalley as Alvero Mangiacavallo.
A production of this magni-tude requires the toil and dedicationof a number of people lling vitalbehind-the-scenes roles. Local theaterlovers who are working to make thisyears play a success are: Sound andLighting Designer Steve Kuykend-
all; Stage Manager Donna Forrester;Costume Designer Kay Manzolillo;Props Mistress Hallie Massey; PropsMistress Assistant Rachel Guerry;Italian Voice Coach Deborah John-son; Sound and Light AssistantsJames Jones, James Wright and MarkIseley; Director Melanie R. Hintz; andProducer Brenda Caradine. Deserv-ing of special recognition is ClaudeSimpson, who is in his fourth seasonas set designer and master carpenter.
Manzolillo and Massey alsowish to acknowledge Beverly Norrisfor her assistance in providing props,as well as the Miss. Department ofeatre for their help with costumes.
Performances are scheduledfor Sept. 4, 5, 7 and 8 at Mississippi
University for Womens Rent Au-ditorium. All shows begin at 7:30p.m., with the exception of the Sept.8 performance, which will begin at8:00 p.m. General admission ticketsare $15, $10 for senior citizens and
military. Students with school ID willreceive free admission.Commenting on the broad
appeal of the annual play, Simpsonstated, e plays attract people fromall over the world to Columbus andenhance the cultural prole of ourcommunity.
Renowned Williams scholarDr. Kenneth Holditch will speakon his life as a Mississippi native, aswell as on the life and literature ofWilliams. is free presentation willbe held at the Columbus-Lowndes
Public Library on Sept. 5 at 11:30 a.m.Holditch is a founding scholar of theannual Tennessee Williams events inNew Orleans; Clarksdale, Miss.; andColumbus, Miss.
Holditch said, I met Tennes-see in 1978. He was a Southern gen-tleman, and I was overly impressed.Hes one of the best playwrights of20th century. He compares to Shake-speare, George Bernard Shaw, ArthurMiller and others. He was so proudof being Southern and proud of beingfrom Mississippi. He was great PRfor the state. He said the South had awonderful way of life that was lost; hewas very devoted to his background.One of the most important thingsabout Tennessee is that he was veryspiritual. He wasnt religious in thathe went to church every Sunday, buthe was close to God.
Holditch will also be awardedthe rst annual Tennessee WilliamsScholars Medal on Sept. 7 at a tick-eted noon luncheon. e ceremonywill take place at the 1848 antebel-
lum mansion Errolton. is is theformer home of the late Mr. and Mrs.Douglas Bateman, who hosted Ten-nessee Williams and his grandfatherwhen they visited Columbus.
Sculptor Angie Jones is creat-ing the medal that will be awardedto Holditch. She is the art teacher atMississippi School for Mathematicsand Science on the MUW campus.
Another dont-miss event ise Moon Lake Party on Sept. 6 at7:00 p.m. Guests will enjoy a South-ern Soul Food Supper at the Colum-
bus Country Club. Aerward, theworld premiere of the musical eTennessee Williams Songbook willmake its debut before it heads to NewYork.
is musical production hasbeen arranged and will be directed byDavid Kaplan, curator of e Prov-incetown Tennessee Williams Festi-
val. e selection of songs, includingIts Only a Paper Moon, will be per-formed by Broadway singer AlisonFraser, who will be accompanied byclassically trained piano virtuoso Al-lison Leyton-Brown as well as a duoof local musicians. Reservations andadvance tickets are required for thisevent.
Promising to be as exhilarat-
ing as ever, the third annual StellaShouting Contest will be held onSept. 7 at 5 p.m. All ages are welcome!Registration is free.
Hollyhocks Gi Shop ownerGloria Herriott hosts this playful
homage to Williams characters Stellaand Stanley Kowalski from the playA Streetcar Named Desire. ewinner of the coveted Stella trophywill receive a dinner with Stella played by Allison Leigh Phillips - onthe Herriotts balcony, followed by acarriage ride to the evenings perfor-mance of Rose Tattoo, with ticketsprovided by the Tennessee WilliamsTribute. Musical entertainment willbe provided during the event by ePriest and the Saint.
Movie bus take note: A
free screening of the lm e Ro-man Spring of Mrs. Stone, starringVivien Leigh and Warren Beatty,will be held at 9 a.m. on Sept. 8 inMUWs Nissan Auditorium. Williamsscholar Dr. Stuart Noel will presenthis paper based on the play, which heintroduced last year at the TennesseeWilliams 100th birthday conferencein France.
Following the movie, atnoon, a catered box lunch will be of-fered at the Puckett House on MUWcampus. Tickets for the luncheonmay be purchased in advance or atthe door. A vegetarian option will beavailable.
A free matinee showing ofthe screen version of e Rose Tat-too, starring Anna Mangani and BurtLancaster, will take place at 1:15 p.m.that day, also at the Nissan Audito-rium. Following the lm, Dr. ColbyKullman will lead an audience discus-sion.
Poetry lovers are invited toattend Of Roses, a tribute to Wil-
liams as a poet. Young people of Co-
lumbus will recite Williams poems,accompanied by live music, song anddance. is unique event will takeplace at the Columbus-Lowndes Pub-lic Library on Sept. 9 at 1:30 p.m.
Poet Elizabeth Simpson, who
is the organizer of this event, said thatWilliams was an extraordinary writerwith such depth; that his poetry islively, rich, incredible and quite mis-chievous. She went on to say that theselection of poems to be oered willbe appropriate for a Sunday aer-noon.
Kelsey Collins, KesslerBrown, Cody McClanahan, TylerMcShan, Tori Ronaldi and KathrynHintz will be lending their voices tobring Williams poetry to life.
St. Pauls Episcopal Church
will host a special Williams-inspiredservice on Sept. 9 at 10:30 a.m. eReverend Anne Harris will preach asermon based on e Rose Tattoo.is is the church in which Williamswas baptized on June 11, 1911, by hisgrandfather, the Reverend Walter E.Dakin, then the pastor at St. Pauls.
Members and visitors mayenjoy a free continental breakfast atthe church beginning at 7:30 a.m.
Caradine would like toextend heartfelt thanks to the Colum-bus Convention and Visitors Bureau;Billups-Garth Foundation; Missis-sippi Humanities Council; individualdonors; and dedicated volunteerswho contribute to the success of theTennessee Williams Tribute and Tour.
Other exciting events on tapare: Breakfast with the Scholars;the Second Annual Streetcar Run;a double decker bus tour of locationsrelated to Williams life; and the 11thAnnual Tour of Victorian Homes.
Visit www.muw.edu/tennes-seewilliams for a complete schedule
of events and more information.
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communityThe Life Enrichment Program: It Is That Time Again!
By Dick MahoneySuccess breeds success! I any
proo is needed, consider this: Enroll-ment in Mississippi University orWomens Lie Enrichment Programhas increased every semester sincethe programs inception.
Now in its ourth year, thisintellectually stimulating programoers a broad spectrum o coursesdesigned to enrich the lives o peoplewho are interested in increasing theirknowledge o specic subjects. O-ered in a casual, interactive atmo-sphere, the program provides anadditional opportunity: establishingnew riendships. For those who re-member the pressure o exams, thereare none involved here.
While the above statementscover a lot o ground, there is a
simple bottom line: Learning is un!Education is a lietime pro-
cess, and the rewards are immeasur-able. Do you have areas o interest inwhich you would like to increase yourknowledge? Perhaps you have always
harbored a curiosity about certainsubjects you would like to explore.Te Lie Enrichment Program (LEP)could be just the ticket to greaterknowledge, interesting experiencesand the rewards o meaningul socialinteraction.
I you are not already a-miliar with the LEP, you are invitedto consider this enriching programoered at MUW. Most classes areheld on campus, with several beingheld at course-appropriate venues o
campus. Tere are 31 very interestingcourses oered in Columbus, cover-ing a wide variety o subjects. In ad-dition, there are seven courses oeredin West Point this year.
Te 2012 all semester willkick o on Sept. 17 and extendthrough Oct. 27. Te subjects aretaught by volunteer instructors withexpertise in each area. A sampling othe oerings includes: basic computerapplications; investment programs;estate planning; various cras; autorepair; conversational oreign lan-guages; health; history; art; sports;and the reality o law enorcementand personal saety. Tere is literallysomething to satisy everyones inter-ests.
Classes are held during
the day or early evening, Mondaythrough Tursday (one course inWest Point will meet on Saturdaymornings), and meet once a week orsix weeks, with each class period last-ing one to two hours.
o top it all o, you have tolike the price. For a ee o only $35,you can enroll in up to ve courses.Tere is a $10 extra course ee orenrollment in each course beyondve. Tere are nominal $10 materi-als ees or the Jewelry Making andSel Deense or Women courses. Formore detailed inormation, includingcourse descriptions, dates, meetingtimes and places, as well as instruc-tor proles, the program catalogue isavailable by visiting www.muw.edu/lep. Brochures are also being distrib-uted at various locations throughoutColumbus. Additionally, individualsmay contact the LEP ofce at (662)329-7150. Dr. Barbara Moore is theprogram coordinator.
We encourage you to experi-
ence this marvelous opportunity toshare and be enriched.
Dick Mahoney is a boardmember and instructor in the LieEnrichment Program.
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Lef: Glenn Lautzenhiser, the guest speaker at the Columbus chapter o AARP,discussed Mississippi University or Womens Lie Enrichment Program.
Elizabeth Simpson, who is scheduled to teach a couple o LEP classes, also at-tended the August meeting o the Columbus AARP on behal o MUWs LieEnrichment Program.
Bill Meyers and Margaret Evans review the materials provided by guest speakerGlenn Lautzenhiser o the Lie Enrichment Program.
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When you own stocks, youknow their prices will always uctu-ate. o help ease the eects o this
volatility on your portolio, you couldadd other types o investments, such
as bonds. Yet bond prices will alsorise and all. But there may be - inact, there should be - a big dierencein how you view the ups and downso stocks versus those o bonds.
Any number o reasons cancause stock prices to go up or down.But in the case o bonds, prices goup and down largely, though notexclusively, or one reason: changes ininterest rates. Suppose you purchase abond that pays 4% interest and then,a year later, newly issued bonds pay3%. You could now potentially sellyour bond or more than its ace val-ue because it provides more incometo investors than the new bonds.Conversely, i newly issued bonds pay
5% interest, the value o your existingbond would drop because its unlikelythat someone would pay ull price ora bond that provides less income thannewer bonds.
When you own stocks orstock-based investments, you wanttheir price to rise because you prob-ably plan on selling those stockssomeday - and youd like to sell themor more than you paid or them. Butits not so cut-and-dried with bonds.While some people may indeed pur-chase bonds in hope o selling themor a prot beore they mature, manyother investors own bonds or otherreasons.
First, as mentioned above,owning bonds can be a good way tohelp diversiy your portolio. Sec-ond, and probably more importantly,people invest in bonds or the incomethey provide in the orm o interest
payments. And heres the good thingabout those interest payments: Teyllalways continue at the same level aslong as you own your bond, except inthe rare case o a deault. (Although
deaults are not common, they canoccur, so you do need to take a bondscredit risk into account beoreinvesting.) Tus, i you plan to holdyour bonds until they mature, youdont have to worry about a possibledrop in their value. But i you need tosell your bonds beore they mature,the price you receive will depend oncurrent interest rates.
You cant control or predictinterest rates, but you can help soentheir impact on bond prices by build-ing a ladder o bonds with varyingmaturities. Ten, i market interestrates rise, you can sell your matur-ing short-term bonds and purchasenew ones at the higher rates. And i
market rates all, youll still have yourlonger-term bonds working or you athigher rates. (Usually, but not always,longer-term bonds pay higher ratesto compensate investors or incur-
ring ination risk over time.) Keep inmind, though, that the investmentswithin your bond ladder should beconsistent with your investment ob-
jectives, nancial circumstances andrisk tolerance.
Whether you own yourbonds until maturity or build a bondladder, you can do something to pro-tect yoursel rom price movements.And that type o control can prove
valuable to you as you chart yourcourse through the investment world.
Tis article was written or use by yourlocal Edward Jones Financial Advisor.For questions, please contact Ryan Mun-son at [email protected]
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East Mississippi CommunityCollege trustee Rupert L. RudyJohnson was elected treasurer orthe Mississippi Association oCommunity and Junior Collegerustees in July, putting him inline to serve each ofce up toand including chairman.
Under the rules govern-ing MACJC ofcers, Johnsonwill serve two years as treasurerbeore moving on to serve twoyears as secretary, two years as
vice chairman and two years aschairman.
He was elected treasurerby the combined trustees o allMississippi community collegesduring the MACJC annualmeeting on July 14 in unica.His term began immediatelyupon election.
Johnson has repre-sented Oktibbeha County on theEMCC Board o rustees since2010. He is ormer associate
director o EMCCs Golden rianglecampus (1980-1990) and currentlyserves as executive director o the
Golden riangle Planning and Devel-opment District.
Some o my avorite workexperience was as assistant directorat EMCC, and my Holmes JuniorCollege days were my best days incollege. I really believe the commu-nity college system is a very viablepart o education in Mississippi. Imexcited to serve our community col-lege system in yet another capacity,said Johnson.
Johnson is the second EMCCtrustee elected to hold an MACJCofce. Je Jolly,
who representedNoxubee Countyon EMCCs Boardo rustees, heldofce in the 1990s.
Rudybrings a great en-thusiasm and loveor our commu-nity college systemto everything in
which he is involved. EMCC is ortu-nate to have a local trustee serve as anofcer at the state level, and our statecommunity colleges are ortunateto count Rudy as an advocate, saidEMCC President Dr. Rick Young.
Johnson joins ellowMACJC ofcers Chairman JohnnyMcGlown o Coahoma CommunityCollege, Vice Chairman David Gard-ner o Jones County Junior College,and Secretary Dr. Jimmy Holling-sworth o East Central CommunityCollege.
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Organizers o the Stella Shouting Contest pose on the balcony rom which
"Stella" will entice the shouters below. Pictured, l-r are Marthalie Porter, en-nessee Williams ribute committee liaison; Leigh Allison Phillips, who will play"Stella"; Steve Rogers o WCBI and the event's MC; and Gloria Herriott, ownero Holly Hocks Gif Shoppe. Te event will be held on Sept. 7 as part o the en-nessee Williams ribute. For inormation about registration as a contestant, call662-329-0025.
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On ursday, Aug. 9, theColumbus Exchange Clubs meetingwas highlighted by a presentation bye Real Storys own award-winningauthor, Meagan ONan. ONan, aprofessional life coach, captivated thecrowd with her warmth and charm asshe discussed the tools needed to livea satisfying life. As a result of ONansuse of humor and good-naturedstorytelling, the crowd enjoyed the20-minute presentation at the Co-lumbus Country Club.
ONan shared her four prin-ciples for success in living a happyand fullling day-to-day life:
1. Get to know what youwant and why you want it.
2. Be willing to let go of what
you want and hold on to the why.3. Remember who you want
to be in the world and be that person.4. Watch the magic happen.
Following her unique agenda,ONan reiterated the importance ofpeople understanding what they wantout of life. More important than that,she stressed, is the need to under-stand why they wantit. Once the whyhas been completelyanswered, the personhas a clearer under-standing of their truemotivation.
e mostimportant part ofONans presenta-tion was watchingthe magic happen.Relating a magnicent story based onher own personal experience, ONandazzled the crowd with details of an
adventure from her rst book sign-ing.
She was stuck in an airport,due to her connecting ight being
cancelled as a result of severe weather,and was sure that she was going tomiss this very important event in herlife. Rather than getting upset, shedecided to listen to her heart, which
was telling her to gowith the ow and beextra nice to every-one. is decisionpaid o, as she endedup on a ight to a citynear her nal desti-nation and made it tothe event on time.
So you see -miracles can happen.I see it all the time
with people who are following thesefour steps. I went from being stuck inan airport with a plethora of canceled
ights and no money and ended upon my own private passenger planethat got me to my destination earlierthan my originally scheduled time.
Would it have happened if I hadntworked through those steps? Prob-ably not.
e story resonated with theaudience and struck a positive chord.Life is magic, and people oen forgetthe possibilities. On ursday, ONanreminded the audience of the powerof the magical delight of life. As thecrowd was leaving, many were heardsaying, Watch the magic happen.And ursday aernoon magic didhappen. It was Meagan ONan.
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During the course o ourlives, we are certain to be presentedwith a multitude o opportunities.Some are relatively simple: Do I have
chicken or sh or dinner; do I wearthe blue suit or the grey one? Oth-ers require more deliberation: DoI accept that job oer; do I marry
this individual? However, it takessomeone with vision to recognize anopportunity where seemingly noneexists.
Deborah Lampkin alls intothat last category.
Lampkin, a native o Colum-bus, had spent the previous 11 yearsin Atlanta, working in computer op-erations and programming. Ten, oneday while driving to work, she wasinvolved in an auto accident whichresulted in a neck injury requiringcervical usion. In an attempt to alle-
viate the unrelenting pain, she sought
treatment by a massage therapist; thisprovided the rst relie since the ac-cident.
Ten one day, she had anepiphany: She would become
a massage therapist so that shecould help others the way thatrst massage therapist hadhelped her. I elt called to dothis, she said recently. In 2008,that vision became reality as shegraduated rom upelos HealingArts School o Massage.
Upon entering Perect Bal-ance Massage Terapy, whichis located at 413 Fourth AvenueSouth #16, you nd yoursel be-ginning to relax already. Lamp-
kin has gone to great lengths tocreate a soothing atmospherewith warm colors, comort-able chairs and relaxing musicthroughout.
August 15, 2012, actuallymarks Lampkins one-year an-niversary at the current location.
When asked about thename o her business, Lamp-
kin explained, Good health comeswhen the physical and emotional arein balance. Perect Balance MassageTerapy was ounded with this idea
in mind.Lampkin oers a variety
o services to her clients, includingSwedish Massage, Deep issue Mas-sage and Hot Stone Massage. Each othese therapies diers in both tech-nique and the conditions that it isdesigned to treat.
For example, Swedish Mas-sage uses a light-to-medium pressureand is designed more or relaxationand stress reduction. Deep issuemassage uses more pressure and alsoutilizes dierent techniques to relievemuscle tension and knots. Hot Stone
Massage is similar to Swedish Mas-sage except that it utilizes heated lavarocks to melt the tension rom themuscles. Tese rocks, which havebeen rubbed smooth by rushing river
waters, hold the heat or a long timeand are placed directly on the bodyto allow the heat to penetrate moredeeply.
Lampkin also oers Myo-ascial Release, which alls under thecategory o bodywork. MyoascialRelease is a more intense therapywhich involves releasing restrictionsin the connective tissue between theskin and muscle.
In addition, Lampkin pro-vides a orm o energywork therapy
known as Reiki, which involves thepractitioner placing his/her hands onchakras or energy centers.
Lampkin will soon be oer-ing Manual Lymph Drainage Mas-
sage, which is a very light orm omassage that encourages lymph owin the body. It is used to treat edema,scar tissue and spider veins and isnow recognized as a primary tool inlymphedema management.
Lampkin is very clientcentered; she not only ullls staterequirements or continuing educa-tion classes, she exceeds them. Tisis evidenced by the act that, over the
past year, she has accrued double theamount o hours o training that arerequired to maintain good stand-ing in the eld. Further proo o herdedication to her clients is that, by
time you are reading this article,Lampkin will have just returned roma our-day course entitled ManualLymphatic Drainage Massage in St.Louis. I am working toward a goalo acquiring a certain set o skills sothat I can more thoroughly help myclients, stated Lampkin.
Lampkin, who indicates thatabout 75 percent o her clients see heror relie o pain afer back or necksurgery, works toward transitioningthese clients rom weekly sessions to
monthly visits. I want to have a last-ing eect on my clients, said Lamp-kin.
Lampkin sees patients by ap-pointment and oers both 30-minute
and 60-minute sessions or each othe dierent therapeutic services. Shegenerally sees clients rom 10 a.m. to6:30 p.m.
Gif certicates are availableor purchase.
o schedule an appointment,call (662) 574-1139, or e-mail [email protected]. For moreinormation, visit www.deborahlamp-kin.com.
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Adam Rutherford wrote inthe Guardian recently about syntheticbiology, including scientic break-throughs in genetic modication(GM) and the particularly stridentcriticisms that have come from many
quarters concerning this innovativeand far-reaching technology. Foryears, critics and lay people alike haveresisted any kind of modicationin plant or animal DNA, expressingfears that once the real thing disap-peared and was replaced by a human-tinkered product, the planet would bedoomed.
Dracula corn, Mephis-topheles wheat, and poor Dolly theSheep would reproduce and spreadquickly and completely; and whensome glitch in their recombinationinevitably showed up, we would haveno way to repopulate the land withgood, old-fashioned American plantsand animals. is, of course, withno regard to the benets realizedfrom GM such as the rapid produc-tion of insulin, insect-resistant wheat,fast-growing rice, and a whole host ofother improved plants, animals andmedicines.
Environmentalists, religiousgures and sections of the mediaregularly use the phrase as a handy
stick with which to beat those in theeld. Scientists, they claim, are fool-ishly meddling in matters that should
be le to the gods or nature.at accusation has been
made in attacks against many of themajor scientic advances of the mod-ern era, including Watson and Cricksdescription of the structure of DNA
in 1953; the birth of the rst IVFbaby, Louise Brown, in 1978; the cre-ation of Dolly the sheep in 1997; andthe sequencing of the human genomein 2001. In all these scenarios, its notclear exactly what playing God actu-ally means.
It is not hard to imagine thefear and outrage caused by syntheticbiology. Not only are scientists tam-pering with the real thing, they arecreating a totally articial thing, let-ting loose into the environment evenmore distorted, deformed and ghoul-ish varieties of things we consume.
If there were those who saidwe were playing God when it cameto recombining DNA, substituting afew fragments of one organism forthose in the nucleus of e-coli, thereare legions more who are convincedthat the human race has nally,once-and-for-all, crossed the hereticalline dividing Gods prerogatives andours. At the same time, they ignorethe benets:
Researchers in California,
for example, have created syntheticcircuits for yeast cells that producea chemical called artemisinin, a
key anti-malarial drug. is will becheaper than getting it from the plantArtemisia annua, the current produc-tion method.
NASA is investigatingways to create bacteria that counter
the eects of radiation sickness inastronauts. Meanwhile, a USSwissgroup has engineered a genetic circuitdesigned to detect and destroy cancercells without inicting the unintend-ed damage caused by chemotherapyand radiotherapy.
Synthetic biology is but thelatest in a series of human attempts toplay God:
Yet there is almost no aspectof human behaviour that isnt someform of manipulation of the environ-ment for our own purposes. Farming,which weve been doing for morethan 10,000 years, is quite the op-posite of natural. Breeding, knownscientically as articial selection, isthe process of mixing genes by designto engineer cheap and plentiful food.Detractors use the phrase playingGod to provoke emotive opposi-tion without dening what it is aboutsynthetic biology that is qualitativelydierent to the previous advancesthat they enjoy and benet fromevery day. Should we go back to the
time before humans started playingGod through their development ofsanitation, vaccines and measures to
counter widespread child mortality?is is a very simple and
elegant argument in favor of scienticachievement and progress. Humanbeings, because of our evolved state ointelligence, curiosity, enterprise and
self-preservation, have always lookedfor ways to change the environmentin which we have lived, and alwayswill. As importantly, there has neverbeen a scientic discovery whichoered signicant benets to human-ity that has been rejected and buriedfor moral, ethical or religious rea-sons. Scientic discovery has a life ofits own, particularly in a country likeAmerica, where we value progressand human betterment overall. Here-sy and apostasy are things of the past,and burning people at the stake forantisocial behavior and novel ideasis nished; but the inheritors of 17thcentury New England are still aliveand well and still want to burn gu-ratively, of course those who wantto play God. Stem-cell research iscurrently in their cross-hairs, andonce they gure out what geneticistsare doing, they will add their funda-mentalist voices to the liberal pro-gressive environmentalists on thecoasts.
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Playing GodBy Ron Parlato
I appreciate Ron Parlatoscommentary on Adam Rutherfordsarticle in e Guardian. Rons ar-ticle is well-written but really biteso more than he should probablychew at one time. Lumping stem-cell
research in with genetically modiedfood is ill advised when one is tryingto argue the point that genetic modi-cation is a good thing.
e general public, by now,is aware of the benets of scienticresearch in medicine; indeed, themajority of us take advantage of it ona nearly daily basis. To equate thosebenets, however, with the so-calledbenets of genetic modication infood is a rather large leap, especiallyconsidering the research backing itsopposition.
Not having read Mr. Ruth-erfords original article, I dont knowif he himself did this or if it was Mr.Parlatos own addition; either way, Ihumbly submit my own thoughts onthe matter regarding genetic modi-cation in food.
Playing God is not the onlyargument against genetic modi-cation; in fact, its the rather morechildish one and thus an easy one torebut. In this sense, yes, I agree withMr. Rutherfords reference to the fact
that farming itself is not natural(although the argument that the rstrecorded cases of diabetes came withthe Egyptians, who were the rst tocultivate grain, is a compelling one).
ere is a wonderful website,
Seeds of Deception, which I wouldencourage readers to visit (seed-sofdeception.com); it is an excellentinformation-gathering site regardingthe dangers of genetically engineeredfood. Its nonprot sister site, e
Institute for Responsible Technol-ogy (www.responsibletechnology.com), has worked with more than 30countries in changing governmentpolicies and consumerism regardinggenetically modied food. Together,these websites form one of the mostrespected sources for up-to-dateinformation on the topic of geneticmodication in food.
From the Seeds of Deceptionwebsite:
e American Academyof Environmental Medicine (AAEM)reported that Several animal stud-ies indicate serious health risksassociated with GM food, includinginfertility, immune problems, acceler-ated aging, faulty insulin regulation,and changes in major organs and thegastrointestinal system. e AAEMasked physicians to advise patients toavoid GM foods.
Before the FDA decided to
allow GMOs into food without label-
ing, FDA scientists had repeatedlywarned that GM foods can createunpredictable, hard-to-detect side ef-fects, including allergies, toxins, newdiseases, and nutritional problems.
ey urged long-term safety studies,but were ignored.
Unlike safety evaluationsfor drugs, there are no human clinicaltrials of GM foods. e only pub-
lished human feeding experimentrevealed that the genetic materialinserted into GM soy transfers intobacteria living inside our intestinesand continues to function. ismeans that long aer we stop eatingGM foods, we may still have theirGM proteins produced continuouslyinside us. is could mean:
If the antibiotic geneinserted into most GM crops wereto transfer, it could create super-diseases, resistant to antibiotics
If the gene that createsBt-toxin in GM corn were to transfer,it might turn our intestinal bacteriainto living pesticide factories.
Everyone loves stories. Heresone, about Arpad Pusztai, a world-re-nowned scientistand avid support-er (initially) ofgenetically modi-ed food: In 1998,
at the request ofthe U.K. govern-ment, Dr. Pusz-tai conducted aresearch study ongenetically modi-
ed foods, which, up until that point,had not been the subject of any peer-reviewed studies (even though geneti-cally modied tomatoes had been onthe market in the United States fora year already). His ndings, which
showed genetically modied foods tobe inherently dangerous, were pub-lished in the highly respected journal,e Lancet.
On the eve of its publication,Richard Horton, the editor of eLancet, received pressure from theRoyal Society to suppress publication;indeed, according to an article in eGuardian, Dr. Horton reported thatthe call became aggressive and hiscareer was threatened. e article waspublished, and Dr. Pusztai himself re-ceived a gag order - and his position
at the prestigious Rowett Institute wassuspended aer 35 years of service.He was also banned from speakingpublicly.
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Our social and philosophi-cal conservatism is everywhere. Vir-tual reality is still seen only within
the context o adolescent computergames; but when these same conser-ative undamentalists get wind o
the eventual brain-computer link,which will allow us to live exclusivelyin a computer-mediated virtual worldwhere any combination o antasy,reality and history becomes the coino the realm, the opposition will beincensed.
All o it will be to no avail, ocourse, because scientic discover-ies are both the result o consumerdemand and shapers o it. Scientists
will develop virtuality because wewant it, and each new technologicaladvance will stimulate more de-mand. Te same applies to syntheticbiology. Eventually, we will be ableto create totally synthetic human be-ings modeled and craed accordingto our own very human vision. Willthey still be human? O course. Tetransormation will be progressiveand incremental, and at each stageo development, there will be a briereght between religion and practi-
cality. Practicality satisying con-sumer demand will always win.
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Te gag order was eventuallylied when Dr. Pusztai was invitedto speak to Parliament on the mat-
ter; the result was a media restormthat ultimately kicked GM oodsout o European supermarkets, andderailed the industrys timetable toquickly replace virtually all ood withgenetically engineered alternatives(Hungton Post, Anniversary o aWhistleblowing Hero, Aug. 9, 2010).
Genetic modication in oodis ar too important o a subject todiscard carelessly with a ick o thehand - or an article about playingGod. Te overwhelming research onthe subject should cause any reason-
ably minded person to pause andwonder why the government isnt do-ing more to support this research andnd a solution.
Our children and our chil-drens children are the ones who willsufer the most rom what we, inthese last two generations, have cre-ated. Te alarmingly increasing rateso reproductive disorders, cancers,brain tumors, ADD, autoimmune dis-orders, celiac and more are the legacywe are leaving behind. I dont know
about you, Mr. Parlato, but I thinkthats worth an article.
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When thinking about di-erent artists, it seems only naturalto recognize each one or a sin-
gular media in which s/he works.For example, you may know aparticular artist as a painter or asculptor. However, there is a airlygood chance that these artists thatwe inadvertently pigeon-hole intoa specic area have talents in aariety o media.
Melody Vydas is a perect
example.Vydas, a Chicago native
who moved to Columbus in 2000,is probably best known in the areaas a glass artist. Tats understand-able, since the work that she hasdisplayed locally has consistedprimarily o her dichroic glassewelry.
As a matter o act, shewas one o the eatured artists ina recent exhibition that was held
at Renee Reedy Studio entitled
Light and Glass. Her elegant andcolorul jewelry was one o thehighlights o the show.
Wikipedias entry on di-chroic glass reads, in part:
Dichroicglass is glass containing multiplemicro-layers o metals or ox-ides which give the glass dichro-ic optical properties. Te maincharacteristic o dichroic glass isthat it has a particular transmittedcolor and a completely dierentreected color, as certain wave-lengths o light either pass throughor are reected. Tis causes anarray o color to be displayed.
Te colors shif depending on theangle o view. Dichroic glass isan example o thin-lm opticsModern dichroic glass is availableas a result o materials researchcarried out by NASA and itscontractors, who developed it or
use in dichroic lters. However,dichroic glass dates back to at leastthe 4th century AD, as seen inthe Lycurgus cup.
Although she may be bestknown or her dichroic glass cre-ations, Vydas is procient in otherorms o glassmaking as well.
But there is so much moreto Vydas.
She says that she has beencreating things in one orm oranother since she was a child.
In response to a question
about which artistsinspire her, shelists Marc Chagall;German Expres-sionist Emil Nolde;
painter LeonardGibson; mixed-media icon JosephCornell; and localolk artist ElayneGoodman. Shementioned thatshe absolutelyloves ChagallsAmerica Windows which adornthe Art Institute o Chicago, andshe makes time to see them when-
ever she visits the Windy City.Having spent much o hertime in Chicago raising a amilyand working as a nurse, Vydasturned to art afer arriving in Co-lumbus.
She studied glassmaking atthe Corning Museumo Glass in Corning,N.Y., in 2004 underthe instruction onoted used-glass artistJayne Persico. She then
earned a BA in FineArts Studio romMississippi Universityor Women in 2007.
O her time at theW, Vydas stated thatshe enjoyed the lowstudent-to-instructor
ratio, saying, It was like going to aprivate school.
During her studies atMUW, she became procient in
several other media, including
ber, clay, acrylic and oil. Whenasked what her avorite media is,she was unable to name just onebut listed glass, ber and clay.
Vydas indicated that o allo the media she works in, glassis the hardest. You cant controlglass. Glass will do what it wantsto do.
Vydas expressed excite-ment at the recent growth o thearts community in the Columbusarea. Tere is a considerableamount o artistic talent in Co-lumbus. Columbus is becomingknown or its arts community,commented Vydas.
Vydas work is exhibited at
the Mississippi Crafsmens Guildgallery in Ridgeland, Miss., as wellas at the Rosenzweig Arts Centerin downtown Columbus.
Vydas and her husband,Saul, are the proud parents o vecats.
E-mail reaches Vydas [email protected].
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Let me preface this by say-ing I did not eat at Chick-l-A this
week. It wasnt a political decision,I just didnt have a hankering for achicken biscuit or nugget. If I had,however, I would have had to waitat least an hour on Wednesday.Imagine my surprise riding downHighway 431 in Guntersville, Ala.,to see a line of cars spanning atleast half a mile, showing theirsupport for pickle-battered ten-ders.
I will also say that I agree
with the people who are angryat what company President DanCathy said. I think everyone hasthe right to free speech, eventhose nuts from Westboro BaptistChurch, but I also think that as abusiness owner, when asked sucha loaded question, its a good timefor a no comment. He is free tobelieve what he wants to believe,but as I was once told aer takinga stance on something, You dontspeak for all the employees here.
So now were having Chickam-ageddon. If you go to Chick-l-A,you must believe in traditionalmarriage; if you dont go to Chick-l-A, obviously youre a dirtyliberal who could be going tohell - with no chicken, apparently- which really is too bad becauseI bet the res of hell could makesome tasty chicken.
I guess Ive been a littleconfused about this whole issue.
Granted, Im not a homosexual,so it doesnt hit me as hard as itcould, but it seems like a tempest
in a teapot. A major companyspresident doesnt support some-
thing. Im sure there are a wholeslew of major company presi-dents who dont support a lot ofthings that even the majority of usdo, and to me, thats really okay.Frankly, I doubt most of us haveanything in common with peoplewho make billions of dollars ayear, whether its slinging chickenor drilling for oil.
e interesting part to meis: THIS is what gets our prover-
bial goats? Were not boycottinggas stations for essentially goug-ing us for no reason, were notconcerned that our children arecompletely undereducated, werenot concerned that, as consum-ers, we continue to see unheard-ofination with no relief in sight,and were certainly not all thatconcerned about whos going torun our country in ve months;no, chicken is what really grindsour gears.
I fully support anyone whohas a cause - I really do. Ive beenthere, marched against a toxicwaste plant, made sure voters wereregistered and supported batteredwomens causes, and theres noth-ing wrong with those things. Butwhen you think about where weare as a country, where you as anindividual are trying to make itfrom day to day, paycheck to pay-check, ask yourself, Is this a hill
worth dying for?
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Posing As
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The Sky Is FallingBy Emily Gather Smith
Recipes from
Good HousekeepingGrilled Chicken and Pepper Salad
A great summer salad combo -- grilled chicken breasts, red peppers and onionstossed in a tangy balsamic vinaigrette with peppery arugula leaves.
Balsamic Vinaigrette3 tablespoons olive oil2 tablespoons balsamic vinegar1 small garlic clove, crushed with garlic press1 teaspoon Dijon mustard1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon sugar1/4 teaspoon coarsely ground black pepper
Vegetables and Chicken2 red peppers2 yellow peppers1 large red onion, cut into 8 wedges4 teaspoons olive oil1 pound skinless, boneless chicken-breast halves1/4 teaspoon salt1/4 teaspoon coarsely ground black pepper1 cup grape tomatoes1 bunch (about 4 ounces) arugula, tough stems removed
1. Prepare Balsamic Vinaigrette: In serving bowl, with wire whisk, blend all vinai-
grette ingredients; set aside.2. Prepare Vegetables and Chicken: Cut each pepper lengthwise in half; discard stemsand seeds. With hand, atten each pepper half. In bowl, toss peppers and onionwedges with 3 teaspoons oil. Rub chicken breasts with remaining 1 teaspoon oil;sprinkle with salt and pepper.3. Grill chicken over medium heat. Cook 12 to 15 minutes or until juices run clearwhen thickest part of breast is pierced with tip of knife, turning over once.4. While chicken cooks, place onion wedges and peppers, skin side down, on samegrill. Cook onion about 15 minutes or until golden, turning occasionally; cook pep-pers 18 to 20 minutes or until skins are charred and blistered.5. Remove onion wedges from grill to plate. Transfer chicken to cutting board. Wrappeppers in foil and allow to steam at room temperature 10 minutes or until coolenough to handle.6. While peppers are steaming, slice chicken breasts crosswise into 1/2-inch-widestrips.
7. Remove peppers from foil; discard skins. inly slice peppers. Add peppers, chick-
en, onion, tomatoes and arugula to bowl with dressing; toss gently to coat. Serves 4.
Each serving: About 330 calories, 16g total fat (3g saturated), 72mg cholesterol,520mg sodium, 18g total carbs, 3g dietary ber, 29g protein.
Lime Chicken with Honeydew-Peach Salsais ve-ingredient chicken dish showcases the bright avors of fresh basil, juicy ripepeaches and honeydew melon. Serve with brown rice for a heart-healthy meal.
1 lime2 cups (1/4-inch dice) honeydew melon1 large, ripe peach, pitted and cut into 1/4-inch dice1/2 cup (loosely packed) fresh basil leaves, coarsely chopped3/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon pepper4 medium skinless, boneless chicken-breast halves
1. Prepare outdoor grill for covered direct grilling over medium heat.2. From lime, grate 1 1/2 teaspoons peel and squeeze 2 tablespoons juice. In mediumbowl, stir together lime juice, diced melon, diced peach, chopped basil and 1/4 tea-spoon salt. Makes 4 cups salsa.3. Place chicken on plate. Sprinkle chicken on both sides with lime peel, 1/2 teaspoonsalt and 1/2 teaspoon pepper.4. Place chicken on hot grill rack. Cover grill and cook chicken 10 to 12 minutes oruntil juices run clear when thickest part of breast is pierced with tip of knife, turningover once. Arrange chicken on platter and serve with salsa. Serves 4.
Each serving: About 285 calories, 4g total fat (1g saturated), 90mg cholesterol,525mg sodium, 28g carbohydrate, 4g dietary ber, 35g protein.
For thousands of triple-tested recipes, visit our website at www.goodhousekeeping.com/recipender/.
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Hello, my lovelies! Can youbelieve that it is school time onceagain? Football season is right aroundthe corner, summer clearance salesare happening, new all items are ar-riving daily - oh my! Deep breathOK, I am much calmer now. Where
was I? Oh, yes - this week on TeAdventures o the VIP, I am going torevisit an earlier blog post becauseI am currently knee-deep in my all
must-have items (really, I kid you not- my room is a complete but ashion-able mess), and I want to show youthree ways to wear an eye-catchingthri-store-nd top, along with a ewhelpul tips that every ashionistaneeds to know when thri shopping- because thriing is a dazzling wayto get more bang or the buck.
On a spring excursion toMeridian, Miss., I went thriing inhopes o nding the ultimate vintageensemble. We shopped or hours,with no luck, but my ortunes turned
around when I walked into the NewHope Tri Store. Tere, I discoveredthe most spectacular outt! Shiningas bright as the summer sun was ayellow-and-white-striped, polka-dotted blouse with a matching polka-dot skirt. I triumphantly grabbed
it o the rack and hurried to locatemy mom, who was on a mission tolocate vintage urniture in need olove. I must take a moment and givemy mom credit or my passion or allthings vintage, ashion and art. Sheis an expert on all things rom the
80s (o course, this has noth-
ing to do with her age), and Ihad to show her this gloriousnd to get her take on it. Ocourse, she agreed that it hadwonderul potential. Tat day,the Tri Store Finds: Tis IsNot a Yellow Polka Dot Bikiniblog post was born. I enjoyedthat adventure so much that Ihad to revisit and share it withTe Real Story readers.
So, without urther ado, Ipresent to you three dier-ent outts I created with my
thried top: cute and adorable,dressy and sassy, and totallyawesome throwback 80s!
For the cute andadorable outt, I paired theboxy, shoulder-padded topwith a ravishing purple skirtrom Urban Outtters - whichhouses perect vintage repli-
cas, -shirts and much more - and aheadscar rom Te Attic, which is a
vintage wonderland! An absolutelyadorable way to look cute while beat-
ing the summer heat.I needed to dressthings up or the second look, andwhat better way than with blackand white and a pop o unexpectedcolor. By pairing the sunshine-yellowthried top with a black and whitelarge striped skirt rom Te Fashion
Barn (originally a dress that Iconverted to a skirt), and add-ing cobalt blue shoes (by Jes-sica Simpson) and a cobalt belt(rom arget), this top wentrom adorable to sassy. Tisoutt is perect or a businessmeeting, dinner date or tailgat-
ing party.Last, but not least, is
the totally awesome throwback 80smasterpiece! I just adore every aspecto this outt because it is a true blastrom the past. Now, hop in my timemachine with me and blast back to atime when ashionistas were wear-ing bright blue eye shadow and big,rizzy, side pony tails! Oh - how Iwish I could have lived in the 80s!
VIP ips or Successul Trifing:
Combinethristorendswith the clothes you currently own!It is a simple and smart way to add alittle pizzazz to your wardrobe. Buypatterns.Florals,plaids,
stripes and polka dots are perector mixing! Mixing patterns is a unway to add variety to any closet. Startsimple with stripes and polka dots.For daring ashionistas, the combina-tions are limitless. Beboldincolorchoice.Jewel tones are part o all must-
haves. Look or deep purple, teal,mustard yellow, deep red and emer-ald. Lookforauniqueand
unky piece that will make you standout. Be daring! A retro, solid-colored
jumpsuit, a vintage letterman jacketand80ssequinedtoparetheVIPs
top picks orthe upcomingseason.
Are you athrier? Showo your skills
by tweetingme pictures oyour amazingthri nds at @Abbysauce_. Iwitter is notyour communi-
cation choice, you can also email yourthriy discoveries to [email protected] your niy, thriy nds in a utureblog!Sodontbeshy,emailme/tweet
me those pictures! Oh my, you canalso post on my Facebook or tag me
on Instagram. How did my mom eversurvive the 80s without all this socialmedia?!
It is time to get in the spirit,so join me next week or ideas onhow to look so cute yet so comort-ableforyourfavoriteteamsseason
kick-o game! Dontforgettofollowmeonwitter (@Abbysauce_) and Insta-gram (@VintagePassionista), check
out my blog at www.vintageinspired-passionista.com, and like the VIP [email protected]/Vin-tageInspiredPassionista.
Stay Fabulous!
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Columbus and the sur-rounding area seem to be a
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