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| A coat of ferns Sat, 31 May 2008 08:13 EDT As summer approaches, it's a great time to bring home big Boston ferns in baskets to hang between porch columns or in a planter to place on a corner pedestal. Right now is the perfect time to find a wealth of these huge, healthy plants at local garden shops. Ferns have been around in various forms for more than 300 million years. With an understated elegance, these natives return year after year in the wild, dressing the Earth in green petticoats with a ruffle of delicate arching forms and lacy fronds. Most like a shady spot where they can hold rich, woodsy earth under their roots, but others seek out rock crevices and a bit of sun. In Harlan County near Pine Mountain in southeastern Kentucky, ferns begin to send up their fiddlehead crosiers in late April, after the first spring wildflowers have gone by and the leaves of trees overhead have come out to shelter the forest floor. The slightly acidic soil there is perfect for many ferns. |
| Vacation bible schools combine biblical lessons with a lot of fun Sat, 31 May 2008 08:25 EDT In some festooned Sunday school classroom on some weekday in July, some first-grade girl will fuss with crepe paper and foam board, silk flowers and sticky glue, and she will don herself a mighty fine skirt that wiggles just so when she does. And thus spake Moses. The Lord works in mysterious ways. This, my dear Christians, is vacation bible school, and somehow, some way . and we are casting no aspersions because teaching children about faith is a good thing anyway you do it . someone has connected parting the Red Sea with hula dancing. |
| Destination: Quirk, KY Wed, 28 May 2008 19:18 EDT Everyone knows what Kentucky is famous for . Thoroughbreds, bourbon and basketball. Muhammad Ali, Mammoth Cave, mint juleps, My Old .Kentucky Home . Bluegrass and .barbecue. Churchill Downs and .Cumberland Falls. The list goes on. But there's a lot about Kentucky you might not know. It was the birthplace (Garrard County) of anti-.liquor crusader Carrie .Nation, but it also was the first state to plant a commercial vineyard when, in the 18th century, the winemaker of the Marquis de Lafayette tried his hand at Kentucky-grown grapes. The 12th .president of the United States, .Zachary Taylor, although born in Virginia, is buried in .Louisville. John Travolta once performed at Danville's Pioneer Playhouse. In 1893, a pair of Louisville sisters penned the words to Happy Birthday, and the first U.S. performance of a Beethoven symphony took place in Lexington. When you get right down to it, the Bluegrass State has some downright quirky places . some with cult .followings; others fairly obscure . that are as .fascinating as its better-known spots. To kick off the summer travel season, here are a few of them. Schmidt's Coca-Cola Museum, Elizabethtown |
| Helpful tips to have when flying with your infant Mon, 26 May 2008 19:37 EDT On every flight with my daughter Taryn, I learn more firsthand flying lessons that I'd like to share with other traveling parents. Beyond making sure that your little flier has something to suck on during take-off and landing, here are 26 tips I've gathered after more than two dozen flights with my infant travelmate. This advice is for those traveling with a baby younger than 2. A: Always use the restroom yourself as your final move when you're still in the presence of another adult who can watch your child. B: Buckle up. Remember to buckle your seat belt on the plane before you get your child settled on your lap. Once your baby falls asleep or starts nursing, you'll be hard-pressed to find the two parts to your seat belt . especially if you're .traveling alone. C: Cheerios are a mom's best friend. Those magic circles can come in handy at the gate, on the tarmac . any time you're in need of a distraction or a small snack for your mini-traveler. |
| A new breed Robin Hale lives by two mottos.One of them is “What would you do if you knew you could not fail?” |
| On the wing to Ashland Singer-songwriter Corey Wills likes to tell curious onlookers that his band, the Chicago-based Inspector Owl, was formed when a wizard handpicked the musicians to perform together. |
| Photographer offers HMA exhibit, lecture, workshop |
| Dance recital takes on a green theme A mother and daughter team tackles world problems with an original ballet that will be presented at the Paramount Arts Center next month. |
| Child cancer figures vary by region Mon, 02 Jun 2008 02:05 EDT Surprising research suggests that childhood cancer is most common in the Northeast, results that even caught experts off-guard. But some specialists say it could just reflect differences in reporting. The large government study is the first to find notable regional differences in pediatric cancer. Experts say it also provides important information to bolster smaller studies, confirming that cancer is rare in children, but also more common in older kids, especially white boys. The study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is based on data representing 90 percent of the U.S. population. It found that cancer affects about 166 out of every million children, a number that shows just how rare childhood cancers are. The highest rate was in the Northeast with 179 cases per million children, while the lowest was among children in the South with 159 cases per million. Some experts suggested that could mean there is better access to care in the urban centers of the Northeast, leading to more diagnoses. The rates for the Midwest and West were nearly identical, at 166 cases per million and 165 per million, respectively. |
| Frugal cooks can save money just by planning ahead Sun, 01 Jun 2008 09:51 EDT As gas and grocery prices continue to rise, we are changing the way we eat and shop. According to the Food Marketing Institute, economic concerns are compelling Americans to cook at home more and make fewer trips to the grocery store. The FMI Grocery Shopper Trends 2008 report that was released in May shows that consumers have trouble planning meals, especially dinner. Twenty-eight percent of consumers don't know what they will eat two hours before dinner time on weekdays, and that leads to many fast-food stops. Yet, people who have a well-stocked pantry can come up with a meal in less time than it takes to pick up a ready-made meal . and it usually costs less. The grocery store where Linda McMaine of Madison County shops is about 10 miles from her home. She learned to combine trips, and she shops for major items only once a month. |
| Alzheimer's patients speak out Tue, 03 Jun 2008 02:03 EDT Don Hayen has a handy way of deflecting the instant pity that comes when he reveals his Alzheimer's disease: "But I haven't lost my keys all day," he quickly jokes. Hayen is part of a growing movement in Alzheimer's: Patients diagnosed early enough to still be articulate and demand better care and better research. They are giving a voice to a disease whose victims until now have remained largely silent and powerless. It's a shift with big ramifications. Alzheimer's patients are joining those with cancer and HIV to lobby Congress for more money to hunt treatments. Some are advising top scientists to push for higher-stakes research. They're even offering unprecedented glimpses into how a mind slowly unravels as they blog about their dementia. "It's labeled incurable and you end up being a vegetable. People think as soon as you're labeled that way, you are. A lot of us aren't," says Hayen, 74, a retired San Diego physician who joined about 30 other early-stage Alzheimer's patients last month for a lobbying blitz at the nation's capital. |
| Power of the pole: Nordic walking burns more calories Tue, 03 Jun 2008 01:46 EDT FORT WORTH, Texas . When researchers at the .Cooper Institute in Dallas found that Nordic .walking burns 20 percent more calories than regular power walking, they expected the new sport to take off among fitness enthusiasts eager to take up lightweight trekking poles and turn low-stress walking into a great weight-loss workout. .In Finland, you can't get from the airport to your hotel without seeing hundreds of people walking with sticks,. says Dr. Tim Church, former medical director of the .Cooper Institute. He headed the 2002 study that found that using poles to push off while walking increases calories burned and oxygen consumed without any perceived increase in exertion. A few participants in the study and Church himself increased their calorie burning by more than 40 percent, without increasing their walking speed. The average was 20 percent. .It's really pretty simple,. Church says. .The more muscle mass you use (in any exercise), the more oxygen you consume and calories you expend. When you use sticks, you get your arms and shoulders and neck into your walking. The more vigorously you pole, the more calories you use.. Church is now director of preventive medicine research at Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge, La., the largest free-standing diet research center in the world. He is co-author of a new book, Move Yourself: The Cooper Clinic Medical Director's Guide to All the Healing Benefits of Exercise (Even a Little) (Wiley, $24.95). |
| Stars of the future Wed, 04 Jun 2008 11:27 EDT It's finally over. No more gym class. No more college admissions essays or cramming for the SAT. No more CATS tests. In this special edition of Communities, we salute the Class of 2008 with a listing of the names of area graduates. Below, four graduating members of the Herald-Leader Teen Board reflect on their high school years and bid farewellto underclassmen. Hats off to Central Kentucky grads! |
| Lexington native's photos earn national acclaim Thu, 05 Jun 2008 09:01 EDT When Jahi Chikwendiu was in the fourth and fifth grades at Tates Creek Elementary School, his mother would regularly receive a letter from his teacher or be summoned to school because of his behavior. .I stayed off from work so much it is a .wonder I hadn't gotten fired,. said Chikwendiu's mother, Annette Stewart Fishback. .He could do his work, but I think he was so smart, the lessons were boring. His teacher would have me up at school every day or every other day, trying to figure him out. .Does he eat breakfast? Does he go to Sunday school?'. The answer was yes to both. Fishback would tell her young son, one of six children whom she reared alone, that he would have to straighten up, .but not to much avail. He was kind of strong-willed.. |
| Boy Scout offers way of disposing of flag properly Boy Scout Chris Steed, a student at Paul G. Blazer High School, will lead a flag-burning ceremony at 10 a.m. June 14 at the Kyova Mall. |
| Brass band's festival set for Saturday The Brass Band of the Tri-State will host its 13th annual brass band festival on Saturday at the Central Park Bandstand. |
| Bluegrass on Clack Mountain The Clack Mountain Festival, formerly known as Bluegrass and More, is scheduled for Friday and Saturday in downtown Morehead. |
| Dr. Beach lists his top 10 beaches for 2008 Sun, 08 Jun 2008 01:52 EDT COCOA BEACH, Fla. . Summer's here, the surf is up, the kids are so bored and vexatious that you're ready to reward them with sand in their pants, so you load up the car and head for the beach. Right away, you might have an argument on your hands. One person's paradise is another's litter box, especially when it comes to vacations by the sea. As a nation, we can't even agree on what to call it. Some Northerners prefer .the shore,. while down South, we call it .the beach.. Like many families, my early-1960s Alabama version of Ward and the Cleavers could never agree on which beach was best. |
| The time is ripe to send us your fruit recipes Sun, 08 Jun 2008 09:50 EDT Summer is the best time for fruit, and if you're a .particularly talented chef when it comes to making fruit desserts, we'd like for you to share some of your recipes. We're looking for .recipes that use summer's fruit bounty. Send your best pie, cobbler, cake, buckle, crisp or ice cream recipes to .Sharon Thompson, .Lexington .Herald-Leader, 100 .Midland Avenue, Lexington, Ky. 40508, or by e-mail to swthompson@herald-leader.com or my blog at Kentucky.com. The deadline is June 20. Free food for kids |
| Study backs standard diabetes care Sat, 07 Jun 2008 02:04 EDT Aggressively treating diabetes doesn't prevent heart problems and deaths any better than standard treatment for lowering blood sugar, Australian researchers reported Friday. It's the second large study, involving thousands of patients, to show no heart benefit from drastically lowering diabetics' blood sugar levels. Experts said doctors should stick to the recommended target levels. Heart disease is the cause of death for two-thirds of diabetics. Researchers tried pushing blood sugar down to near-normal levels to see whether that would protect the hearts of high-risk patients with Type 2 diabetes. But the Australian study showed no difference in the number of heart attacks, strokes and heart-related deaths between groups who got intensive or standard care. A U.S. study that was stopped earlier this year also showed no benefit and in addition reported an unexplained higher number of deaths among those who were aggressively treated. The Australian study showed one positive result -- a one-fifth reduction in kidney problems, a common complication of diabetes, compared to normal care. |
| Juice up lemonade, iced tea with fruit flavors Sun, 08 Jun 2008 01:52 EDT A glass of sweet tea or lemonade reminds us of porches and summer nights. The best way to get a .really good glass of sweet tea or lemonade is to brew tea bags and squeeze lemons. To outdo the fast-food restaurants that offer a giant glass of sweet iced tea for $1, the home cook has taken those summer beverages to a higher level. Creative cooks are adding fruit juices to tea and lemonade and mixing some very refreshing beverages to make our hammocks and rockers even more pleasurable. June is National Iced Tea Month, and the Tea Council of the USA want us to drink up its many benefits. Tea has zero calories and contains a multitude of substances that help the body maintain healthy cells and tissues and contribute to heart health. |
| Bungalow is urban, yet quiet and private Sat, 07 Jun 2008 08:52 EDT Chris Newman looked for two years for an ideal place for an .urban infill project. Then he .discovered Kenwick, an older area that includes bungalows and Craftsman-style houses with a new neighborhood energy. Newman wanted a project close to the center of the city that would .bolster a transitioning area.. That described the second block of Owsley Avenue, and the second block of other streets in Kenwick, whereas the first block off .Richmond Road has .pretty much come around,. he said. Generally, the second and third blocks contain a mixture of houses, some in good repair, others .candidates for fixing up. |
| SOUL SHIFT Sat, 07 Jun 2008 08:55 EDT Stephanie Smith will be on the main stage at this week's Ichthus Festival twice, a Wednesday evening showcase of acts from her label, Gotee Records, and a 4:10 p.m. slot Thursday. But before that, she'll be in Lexington joining festival-goers who get into town early to work on a mission project organized by the festival and several Central Kentucky ministries and churches. .One of my goals in this music-band-rock-star thing is not just to stand on the stage and show people that I like to sing,. Smith says. .I really have a heart to better the community and serve and love people at their point of need. This is an opportunity to do that and to get to know the community.. Smith's desire to serve is, in large part, due to the failure of her first attempt at a recording career. .I went to college to pursue music and pursue the rock-star thing,. Smith says. |
| Unofficial greeter Traffic flows slow and heavy along Spring Valley Drive’s long curves that hug the mountainside and follow the creek.Many of the cars are heading to the VA Medical Center. Others to Spring Valley High School and some are local residents commuting to and from work.All have one thing in common: Becky White. |
| First Friday Art Walk — 06/06/08 Winchester Avenue will be closed for the First Friday Art Walk tonight. |
| With childlike wonder Clay artist B.J. Wilder draws inspiration from the things that are closest to her — her family and friends, nature, her beliefs — and she makes sure each piece is a little bit whimsical, which keeps her in touch with her inner child. |
| Physical pains accompany money problems Tue, 10 Jun 2008 02:05 EDT The stress of deepening debt is becoming a major pain -- literally -- for millions of Americans. When people are dealing with mountains of debt, they're much more likely to report health problems, too, according to an Associated Press-AOL Health poll. And not just little stuff; this means ulcers, severe depression, even heart attacks. Take Edward Driscoll, 38, of Braintree, Mass. He blames debt -- $10,000 worth -- for contributing to his ulcers and his wife Kimberly's panic attacks. "Just worrying, worrying, worrying, you know, where the next payment of this is going to come from," he says. Although most people appear to be managing their debts all right, perhaps 10 million to 16 million are "suffering terribly due to their debts, and their health is likely to be negatively impacted," says Paul J. Lavrakas, a research psychologist and AP consultant who analyzed the results of the survey. Those are people who reported high levels of debt stress and suffered from at least three stress-related illnesses, he says. That finding is supported by medical research that has linked chronic stress to a wide range of ailments. |
| 5 things you should know about bad-breath causes, treatment Tue, 10 Jun 2008 01:43 EDT 1. The No. 1 cause of halitosis . bad breath . is oral bacteria. It often congregates on the surfaces of the tongue, produces a waste that is rich in sulfur compounds and creates a dreadful rotten-egg smell. 2. The most common dental causes of bad breath include dry mouth, gum disease, extensive dental decay, oral infections and abscesses, oral cancers, poor oral hygiene and a proliferation of specific types of bacteria. Medical causes include tonsillar infections, post-nasal drainage, sinus infections, diabetes and lung diseases. 3. A closer look: Chronic dry mouth is the main culprit because saliva washes away excess sulfur compounds and provides oxygen to the oral environment, thus preventing the proliferation of anaerobic bacteria. 4. A tongue scraper and mouthwashes containing chlorine dioxide or sodium chlorite are crucial, Miami dentist Ewaldo Wendler says. used together, they will reduce the amount of bacteria and neutralize the sulfuric compounds that .create bad breath. |
| Kids bored? Here are 6 fun projects Tue, 10 Jun 2008 08:21 EDT Chances are, they're already bored. The first few days that school was out, the pool was a lure for your kids and a non-school book seemed a treat. But now, the kids probably just stare at you with those accusing eyes that say: .What are you going to do about this?. To help, we've compiled a short list of fun science .experiments designed to combat summer boredom or .survive rainy days. The ideas come from three books: Camp Out! The .Ultimate Kids' Guide (Workman Press, $11.95); Pop Bottle Science (Workman Press, $14.95); and Don't Throw It, Grow It (Storey Publishing, $10.95). |
| Elegant meets over the top in tiny Nonesuch Thu, 12 Jun 2008 10:29 EDT Imagine a place where staid Victorian drawing room meets 1930s Hollywood over-the-top glamour; where New England blue-blood Brahmin rubs elbows with Appalachian mountain folk; where elegant French provincial coexists with cozy English cottage chic. Where would you find such a place? London? New York? Paris? New Orleans? Would you believe .Nonesuch? This tiny hamlet is 20 minutes from Lexington, in Thoroughbred country. With little more than a gas station, a country store and a few scattered houses, it is the last place you might expect to discover a world-class antiques shop and restaurant. |
| Gains continue in life expectancy Thu, 12 Jun 2008 02:03 EDT For the first time, U.S. life expectancy has surpassed 78 years, the government reported Wednesday, although the United States continues to lag behind about 30 other countries in estimated life span. The increase is because of falling rates in almost all the leading causes of death, federal health officials said. The average life expectancy for babies born in 2006 was about four months greater than for children born in 2005. Japan has the longest life expectancy -- 83 years for children born in 2006, according to World Health Organization data. Switzerland and Australia were also near the top of the list. "The international comparisons are not that appealing, but we may be in the process of catching up," said Samuel Preston, a University of Pennsylvania demographer. He is co-chairman of a National Research Council panel looking at why America's life expectancy is lower than other nations'. The new U.S. data, released Wednesday, come from the National Center for Health Statistics. It's a preliminary report of 2006 numbers, based on data from more than 95 percent of the death certificates collected that year. |
| Summer suits you Thu, 12 Jun 2008 12:36 EDT There's no need for style to take a summer vacation. With just a few key pieces, you can look fresh and cool for weeks. Here's a quick list of must-haves. The suit: The mere mention of swimsuit can make most women flinch: too many memories of .unflattering dressing-room lights and exposing pasty body parts. But the right suit can be the center of a summer wardrobe. And now, with so many designs available, there is truly a style out there for everyone. |
| Students renovate Mount Sterling depot Wed, 11 Jun 2008 07:07 EDT One day about three years ago, Katie Bowles and her mother were driving through downtown Mount Sterling when Katie took notice of the town's dilapidated train station, once the hub of Montgomery County activity. .It was nasty,. she said. .I said that someone ought to do something about that building since the rest of downtown has been renovated and looks beautiful.. Her mother, Ronda Bowles, a teacher at the Area Technology Center on the Montgomery County High School campus, where Katie was a sophomore at the time, said: .That would be a good project for you.. And so it was. |
| Kentucky Music Trail Kentucky native Ricky Skaggs has been producing, producing, producing. |
| London villages offer something for all Sun, 15 Jun 2008 02:00 EDT LONDON . On a recent visit to the British capital, I asked an English friend to try to explain the timeless appeal of this city, both to visitors and to those who live here. After much reflection, she said she thinks it's because London is really just a collection of villages, and as such, there is something for everyone. Indeed, it is a collection of villages, each with its own charm. Notting Hill is nothing like Chelsea; Little Venice is decidedly different from Hampstead. Yet each village is a piece of the jigsaw puzzle that is London. If you long to know the city beyond the usual tourist haunts of Buckingham Palace, Westminster Abbey and the Tower, you might want to consider stepping outside the boundaries of Westminster and Kensington, and discovering some of London's most charming villages. Hampstead Like Montmartre in Paris, Hampstead, perched on a hill high above London, has always had something of a Bohemian flavor, attracting artists and writers to its leafy groves. It was here that 18th-century poet Leigh Hunt held glittering salons and John Keats languished before succumbing to tuberculosis at age 25 (his home, filled with original manuscripts of his celebrated odes, will re-open to the public in October after an extensive restoration). |
| Caterer celebrates move to downtown location Thu, 12 Jun 2008 12:39 EDT Annette's City Caf. . Events Catering is having an open house to show off its new digs. The company has closed its catering building on Keithshire Way; the new spot at 431 Old East Vine Street has space for banquets and, beginning next month, will serve lunch and a happy-hour buffet. The open house events will be 5 to 8 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday. Call (859) 309-9807 or (859) 296-6444 or go to www.annettescatering.com. Husband-wife team Annette Jett and Frank Bickel also own Annette's on Vine caf. at 300 West Vine Street. |
| Coverage caps on prosthetics challenged Sun, 15 Jun 2008 02:02 EDT After bone cancer forced the amputation of her right leg below the knee, Eileen Casey got even more bad news: Her insurer told her that she had spent her $10,000 lifetime coverage limit on her temporary limb and that the company wouldn't pay for a permanent one. "It was shocking to find out I was going to have to take out a loan to buy myself a leg so I could keep working and living independently," Casey said. At the bank, she said, she burst into tears when they asked what the loan was for. Since then, Casey has joined a nationwide fight by amputees and the prosthetics industry to get the states and Congress to require fuller coverage for artificial limbs. The insurance industry is fighting the effort, saying such mandates drive up costs and reduce the flexibility customers want. "The cumulative effect of several mandates can price employers out of the market altogether," said Mohit Ghose, who was a spokesman for America's Health Insurance Plans, an industry lobbying group, when he was interviewed recently for this story. He left the organization last month. Vermont Gov. Jim Douglas recently signed into law a bill making Vermont the 10th state to require insurance companies to cover prosthetics as fully as they do other medical procedures. A similar measure is pending in Congress. |
| For the fourth, cupcakes that pop Sun, 15 Jun 2008 02:01 EDT Inspired by the colors and crackles of Fourth of July firecrackers, these miniature cakes are studded with flecks of color and go down with a bang, thanks to a sprinkling of totally retro Pop Rocks candy. These cakes are great baked and served in coffee cups, making them easy to transport to a summer picnic. They also could be baked in more traditional paper muffin cups. Boxed cake mix can be substituted for the homemade cake recipe. Follow the package directions and stir in the rainbow candies. Canned or frozen whipped topping could be substituted for whipped cream. The Pop Rocks can sit on the cakes for some time without losing their zing, but hold off as long as you can before putting them on to truly taste the firecracker in them. |
| Flights and fancy Sat, 14 Jun 2008 06:46 EDT RICHMOND .. When Kent Kessler bought 20 acres outside of town four years ago, he was hoping it was more than just a good site to build a new home. .I put up a purple martin box that first spring, and by the time we moved in, we had an established colony,. said Kessler, a lifelong birder who grew up in rural .Jefferson County, east of Louisville. .My dad and I tried for years to get purple martins to nest on our land, but they wouldn't come.. According to .information on the Purple Martin .Conservation Association Web site, the birds have specific aerial space .requirements. Purple martin houses should be erected in an open spot, 30 to 120 feet from human .housing, and no trees within 60 feet should be taller than the bird houses. Having a pond or lake nearby is a plus. Kessler's colony of about 60 nesting pairs lives in three big bird houses on a hill behind his home, overlooking a hay field and a pond, with no trees nearby. It's an ideal colony site. |
| Group creates bouquets for hospice patients Sat, 14 Jun 2008 07:01 EDT GEORGETOWN . They make quick work of it, these flower ladies. Within an hour, four funeral arrangements and all manner of blooms spread across a table in the basement of the First Christian church are transformed. The ladies catch up for a while, talking about family and the week that has passed, but soon they are concentrating, filling empty glass vases adorned with cards that say Friends with Flowers. Soon enough, the staid arrangements are released from the metal frames and merged with the simple blossoms into playful bouquets ... peach roses kissing tangerine gerbera daisies, which are nestled close to snapdragons in yellow and lilac. |
| Strolling down Jazz Alley Dick Domek and The Walnut Street Ragtime Ramblers open the Jazz Alley series at the Paramount Arts Center with a show at 8:30 p.m. today. |
| Wings and Wheels upcoming at Harris Riverfront Park A benefit motorcycle ride has been added to this year’s Wings and Wheels, scheduled for June 21 at Harris Riverfront Park. |
| Foodie road trip brings magazine to Kentucky Sun, 15 Jun 2008 09:23 EDT Two well-known Kentucky eateries are featured in the July issue of Saveur. Todd Coleman, the magazine's food editor, and James Oseland, editor-in-chief, hit the road in search of adventures in good eating. They drove from Chicago to New York, stopping at places that were featured in Duncan Hines' Adventures in Good Eating guidebooks from the 1930s to the '60s. They looked for places that had received the .Recommended by Duncan Hines. seal of approval. On Day 4, the duo stopped in Bowling Green, where Hines was born and raised. They visited with Hines' great-niece Cora Jane Spiller, who took them to dinner at Smokey Pig Bar-B-Que. The men then headed to Berea to eat at Boone Tavern. The article mentions Bruce Alcorn and Rawleigh Johnson, who have worked in the Boone Tavern kitchen for more than 30 years, and a recipe for Kentucky chess pie from Boone Tavern. Go to www.saveur.com. |
| Maker's Mark caf. gives visitors an edible option Sun, 15 Jun 2008 12:19 EDT LORETTO . It takes years to make the quality bourbon for which Maker's Mark Distillery is known. It took .decades for the distillery to provide a place for .visitors to eat. About 70,000 people a year tour the historic facility, and visits have been cut short on occasion by rumbling stomachs. Unless guests packed a picnic, they would have had to drive to a neighboring town to get something to eat. But now when hunger pangs strike, .visitors can grab a sandwich at the Toll Gate Caf., which opened last month. Much of the Toll Gate's menu is .flavored with, or inspired by, bourbon. Items include bourbon-barbecued pulled pork, chicken salad, pimento cheese, and bourbon cookies . made from scratch by Kasey Dendinger, who with her husband, Andy, owns Catering Creations in La Grange. |
| Returning from Afghanistan Wed, 18 Jun 2008 01:48 EDT Army National Guard Sgt. Daryl B. Foster has returned to the United States after a deployment to Afghanistan in support of Operation .Enduring Freedom. Foster, an armor crew member, has served in the military for 14 years. He is the son of Fred R. and Arlene J. Foster of Lexington. His wife, Windi, is the daughter of Nancy Beviell of Aiken, S.C. The sergeant graduated in 1981 from Tates Creek Senior High School. |
| Books describe how sex saved marriage Tue, 17 Jun 2008 08:09 EDT Let's say you and your spouse haven't had sex in so long that you can't remember the last time you did. Not the day. Not the month. Maybe not even the season. Would you look for gratification elsewhere? Would you file for divorce? Or would you turn to your mate and say, .Honey, you know, I've been thinking. Why don't we do it for the next 365 days in a row?. That's more or less what happened to Charla and Brad Muller. And in another example of an erotic adventure supplanting married ennui, a second couple, Annie and Douglas Brown, embarked on a similar, if abbreviated journey: 101 straight days of post-nuptial sex. Both couples document their exploits in books published this month, the latest entries in what is almost a mini-genre of books offering advice about the .sex-starved marriage.. The couples, though, are hardly similar. The Mullers are Bible-studying, steak-eating Republicans from Charlotte, N.C. The Browns are backpacking multi-grain northerners who moved to Boulder, Colo. The Mullers' book, 365 Nights , is rather modest and circumspect in its details. The Browns' book, Just Do It , almost makes the reader feel part of a threesome, sharing everything they used to stimulate sexual desire (it's hard to visualize and even harder to explain). To many spouses, .married sex. might sound like an oxymoron. And .married-with-children sex. might sound like that elusive antimatter. Indeed, reigniting a couple's desire for each other has fueled an entire therapeutic industry . from Kinsey to Dr. Ruth to Redbook. |
| Being Mr. Mom can be fun and lonely at the same time Mike Biewenga, a stay-at-home dad for the last four years, noticed something funny when he took his daughter to story time at a nearby library. Gathered around the reader in a circle, mothers sat farther from him than from other moms.“There was a gap, then me, then a gap, then the rest of the circle,” says Biewenga, 33, of Arlington Heights, Ill. “And I mean, I shave, I comb my hair. I’m a normal-looking guy.” |
| IMMUNOTHERAPY WORKS IN ONE MELANOMA CASE Fri, 20 Jun 2008 02:06 EDT An Oregon man, given less than a year to live, had a complete remission of advanced deadly skin cancer after an experimental treatment that revved up his immune system to fight the tumors. The 52-year-old patient's dramatic turnaround was the only success in a small study, leading doctors to be cautious in their enthusiasm. However, the treatment reported in Thursday's issue of the New England Journal of Medicine is being counted as the latest in a small series of successes involving immune-priming treatments against deadly skin cancers. "Immunotherapy has become the most promising approach" to late-stage, death-sentence skin cancers, said Dr. Darrell Rigel, a dermatology researcher at the New York University Cancer Institute in New York who had no role in the research. Still, the immune-priming experiments have yet to yield a consistent therapy. Even researchers who worked on the experiment involving nine patients and just one success are quick to couch the result. "This is only one patient," said study co-author Dr. Cassian Yee of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle. Two years after his recovery the patient fell out of contact with researchers, and scientists do not know his current condition. The man, who lives in a small town in Oregon, has declined media interviews, Yee said. |
| Chain saw artist has carved a niche Thu, 19 Jun 2008 01:48 EDT JEFFERSONVILLE . On a wooded road two miles from the center of the hamlet of Jeffersonville in Montgomery County, the sound of a chain saw leads a visitor to the back-yard workshop of Harley Dougherty. His long gravel driveway in the pristine woods is lined on either side with bears, owls, wildcats, eagles and a dolphin. All are made of wood, mostly pine, that has been shaped with a chain saw. On this day, Dougherty is hard at work on an eight-foot bear. He looks the part of someone you might find in this backwoods location. He has a thick lumberjack-style beard, a dark cloth tied around his head and dirty leather chaps that help protect his legs. He has a soft, intelligent voice and greets visitors with a come-on-in friendliness. |
| Indigo Run is community defined Wed, 18 Jun 2008 10:40 EDT RICHMOND . Blame the kids. .The first day we moved in,. says Cindy Glass, .Tyler and Tanner (two kids from down the block) came to see if there were any kids with us.. There were four. From that day on, the kids on Moss Creek Court have been out on the circle. One minute it's soccer goals at both ends; the next, it's water balloon fights and bike races. The next, it's one teenage boy noticing that another was always wearing a Guns-N-Roses or Led Zeppelin T-shirt and saying .Hey, let's play some music,. said Jake Ellison, and soon Jake, T.J. Glass and Michael Riley had put together a band that plays in T.J.'s room at the Glass's house or out on the Rileys' driveway. |
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