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additional two years of no action, sued the DEA, CRAKER IN HIS LAB; “With any other drug, I would have been able to
backed by MAPS. By this point, both U.S. senators INSPECTING SAMPLES begin work on the trial the next day,” he says. But
from Massachusetts had publicly supported his ap- OF GRASS BEING the use of cannabis, and only cannabis, required
plication, and a federal court of appeals ordered the GROWN IN A a second “public health service review,” according
DEA to respond, which it finally did, denying the COOLER. to a rule instituted in 1998 to, ostensibly, facilitate
application in 2004. more research. In reality, it did the opposite. NIDA
denied Russo access to its cannabis. “Despite the
Craker appealed that decision with backing from fact that the FDA had approved it,” he says.
a powerful bench of allies, including 40 members of
Congress, and finally, in February 2007, a DEA ad- Around the world, cannabis research was a growing
ministrative law judge ruled that his application for field. Russo began to write and publish on the sub-
a license should be granted. ject, and in 1998 he was recruited as a consultant by a
British startup, GW Pharmaceuticals Plc, founded by
The decision was not binding, however; it was two physicians who’d been granted a license to culti-
merely a recommendation to the DEA leadership. vate cannabis by the U.K. Home Office, which over-
Almost two years later, in the last week of the Bush sees, among other things, security and drug policy.
administration, the application was rejected. Crak-
er threw up his hands. He firmly believed marijuana In 2003, Russo joined GW full time, serving as
should be more widely grown and studied, but he’d medical monitor of clinical trials for two drugs de-
lost any hope that it would happen in his lifetime. veloped from marijuana that GW grew: Sativex, for
And he had basil to attend to. pain caused by cancer, and Epidiolex, for the treat-
ment of severe seizure disorders.
Then, in August 2016, during the final months of
the Obama presidency, the DEA reversed course. It Phase III trials for both drugs were conducted
announced that, for the first time in a half-century, in multiple countries, including the U.S. (The FDA
it would grant new licenses. doesn’t have a problem with drugs derived from le-
gal pot. It’s just that in the U.S., the only federally
Doblin, who has seemingly endless supplies of legal pot is from Ole Miss.)
optimism and enthusiasm, convinced the profes-
sor there was hope – again. So Craker submitted Sativex is now available in every country in which
paperwork, again, along with 25 other groups. The trials were conducted except the U.S., where GW ex-
university’s provost co-signed his application, and pects approval soon. “Basically, I had begun work-
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D–Mass.) wrote a letter ing for a foreign company because of the impos-
to the DEA in support of his effort. sibility of doing clinical work with cannabis in the
United States,” Russo says.
He’s still waiting to hear back. “I’m never gonna
get the license,” Craker says. “Here we had a situation where a medicine, made
from cannabis, that was manufactured in England,
Pessimism isn’t surprising from a man who’s been was able to be imported and tested. It was legally
making a reasonable case for 17 years to no avail. impossible to do the same thing based in the U.S.”
Studies around the world have shown that marijuana GW has a market value of more than $2 billion and
has considerable promise as a medicine. Craker says a robust drug development pipeline.
he spoke late last year at a hospital in New Hampshire
where certain cannabinoids were shown to facilitate Doblin’s ultimate goal isn’t to compete with GW
healing in brain-damaged mice. “And I thought, ‘If Pharmaceuticals. Should the NIDA monopoly ever
cannabinoids could do that, let’s put them in medi- end, he says, a number of companies will surely
cines!’ ” He sighs. “We can’t do the research.” want to grow marijuana “to make extracts in non-
smoking delivery systems that can be patented” –
Another sigh. “I’m naive about a lot about things,” that is, pharmaceuticals. This is a good thing, in his
he says. “But it seems to me that we should be look- estimation.
ing at cannabis. I mean, if it’s going to kill people,
let’s know that and get rid of it. If it’s going to help “But MAPS is focused on developing a low-cost
people, let’s know that and expand on it. … But generic plant in bud form,” he says. In other words,
there’s just something wrong with the DEA. I don’t he wants specific varieties of marijuana, not deriva-
know what else to say. … Somehow, marijuana’s got tives thereof, to be FDA-approved.
a bad name. And it’s tough to let go of.”
Many people expect the Republican-controlled
Back in 1990, Ethan Russo was a practicing neu- Congress to follow its recent tax overhaul by looking
rologist who’d grown frustrated with his pharma- for ways to slash costs in Medicaid and Medicare.
ceutical options. “It occurred to me I was giving Legitimate research into the medicinal properties
increasingly toxic drugs to my patients with less of marijuana could help.
and less benefit,” says Russo, now one of the world’s
leading experts and advocates for research in mari- Studies show that opioid use drops significantly
juana medicine. “It caused me to go back to a child- in states where marijuana has been legalized; this
hood interest in medicinal plants and see if there suggests people are consuming the plant for pain,
were alternatives.” something they could be doing more effectively if
physicians and the FDA controlled chemical make-
In 1996, when California became the first state to up and potency. A study published in July 2016 in
allow the use of marijuana by prescription, Russo Health Affairs showed that the use of prescription
saw an opening. With the support of Doblin and drugs for which marijuana could serve as a clinical
MAPS, he wrote a protocol and prepared for what alternative “fell significantly,” saving hundreds of
he hoped would be a formal clinical trial using can- millions of dollars among users of Medicare Part D.
nabis to treat migraines. Obviously, he’d need to use
NIDA-supplied marijuana. You can’t do research ac- Every year the percentage of Americans who fa-
ceptable to the FDA with marijuana grown illegally, vor legalization of marijuana climbs. Last year it
as is all marijuana not grown at Ole Miss. topped 60 percent for the first time. A remarkable
94 percent support medical use. “And businesses
NIDA twice rejected his applications to use its pot, outside of the country are already making billions
but then the FDA assumed oversight of what it calls of dollars,” Doblin says.
“investigational new drug” applications, and Russo
got his approval. In the eyes of the FDA, his study Canada, the Netherlands, and Israel all have
was promising enough to warrant a clinical trial. booming cannabis research sectors; in Israel, some

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of the work is government-funded. “We have enor- RICK DOBLIN, RELENTLESS ADVOCATE. and it’s not what rank-and-file DEA really are con-
mous opportunity that we’re squandering as a coun- cerned about. DEA folks have moved beyond this.”
try to reduce health-care costs, build businesses, and of marijuana. The NIDA monopoly is now his to
create jobs,” he says. change. “I guess I take a nationalist approach here,” says
Rick Kimball, a former investment banker who’s
Russo agrees. He now lives in Washington state “Sessions has a 1930s Reefer Madness view of the raising money for a marijuana-related private eq-
consulting for several biotech startups working on marijuana world,” Coulson says. “It’s not realistic, uity fund and is a trustee for marijuana policy at
cannabis projects. “Let’s face facts: This is a very the Brookings Institution. “We have a huge oppor-
technologically advanced nation with a great deal tunity in the U.S.,” he says, “and we ought to get
of talent. There is no way, shape, or form that the our act together. I’m worried that we’re ceding this
dangers of cannabis warrant this kind of control,” whole market to the Israelis.”
he says. “There are issues. There are side effects.
Anyone who tells you differently is simply inaccu- Which doesn’t mean there’s no intellectual prop-
rate. However, the kinds of problems related to can- erty left to grab. Research into the chemical make-
nabis administration are totally controllable. And it up of marijuana is still new, but there are at least
is a much safer drug than many, if not most, phar- 160 cannabinoids and as many as 500 terpenes and
maceuticals that are currently being approved.” flavonoids in the plant, all of which can be sepa-
rated out, mixed, and matched.
Among those who’ve advised Craker is Tony
Coulson, a former DEA agent who retired in 2010 CBN is thought to aid sleep. CBG may have an-
and works as a consultant for companies develop- ticancer potential. One Israeli researcher has syn-
ing drugs. Coulson was vehemently antimarijuana thesized 22 different versions of THC to treat spe-
until his son, a combat soldier, came home from cific neurological conditions. “There’s reason to
the Middle East with post-traumatic stress disor- believe there’s a cornucopia of medicines in there,”
der and needed help. Kimball says – medicines that, in theory, are pat-
entable.
“For years I was of the belief that the science
doesn’t say that this is medicine,” he says. “But At foreign labs, and even at state-licensed opera-
when you get into this curious history, you find tions in Colorado and Washington, plant scientists
the science doesn’t show it primarily because we’re are growing genetically modified varieties that op-
standing in the way. The NIDA monopoly prevents timize for certain properties. The majority of their
anyone from getting into further studies.” work is focused on increasing potency for recreation-
al use – getting people high – but these companies
Coulson blames the Obama administration for are learning how to cultivate and engineer plants us-
not acting sooner, creating a situation in which ing increasingly sophisticated methods.
the decision on granting new growing licenses was
passed down to Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Meanwhile, Mahmoud ElSohly, director of the
who has publicly declared his belief in the dangers Marijuana Project at Ole Miss, is growing limited
varieties, outdoors, while trying to keep undergrads

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from breaching his security. (At one point, students cal’s epilepsy drug, it may have promise as an anti- anywhere. (The DEA won’t comment on this or re-
were caught using fly rods to cast over the fence and inflammatory and antipsychotic. lease the names of the applicants.) Craker has yet to
steal buds.) get a single call or email about his methods or motiva-
“I am the most restricted person in this country tions. No agent has come to inspect his facility or ask
It took ElSohly three years to get DEA permis- when it comes to production of cannabis and differ- questions about security. He marvels at the power of
sion to grow a strain high in CBD, a nonpsychoac- ent varieties,” ElSohly says. bureaucratic inertia: “The federal government can be
tive cannabinoid thought to have many healthful so stubborn. To me they’ve closed their minds.” 
properties. The key ingredient in GW Pharmaceuti- It appears that none of the 25 applications to grow
marijuana for purposes of medical research has gone

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AMERICA VS CHINA: THE BATTLE FOR DIGITAL SUPREMACY

“Designed by Apple in California. Assembled in For the United States to seek to keep China down so that minority investments in AI, say, can be scru-
China.” For the past decade the words embossed merely to preserve its place in the pecking order by, tinized as well as outright acquisitions.
on the back of iPhones have served as shorthand say, further Balkanizing the internet, is a recipe for
for the technological bargain between the world’s a poorer, discordant – and possibly warlike – world. Worries about a supplier of critical components
two biggest economies: America supplies the do not have to result in outright bans. Britain found
brains and China the brawn. Yet it is one thing for a country to dominate televi- a creative way to mitigate some of its China-related
sions and toys, another the core information tech- security concerns, by using an evaluation center
Not any more. China’s world-class tech giants, nologies. They are the basis for the manufacture, with the power to dig right down into every detail
Alibaba and Tencent, have market values of around networking and destructive power of advanced of the hardware and software of the systems that
$500 billion, rivalling Facebook’s. China has the weapons systems. More generally, they are often Huawei supplies for the telephone network.
largest online-payments market. Its equipment is subject to extreme network effects, in which one
being exported across the world. It has the fastest winner establishes an unassailable position in each Set against these standards, Trump falls short.
supercomputer. It is building the world’s most lav- market. The Broadcom decision suggests that valid suspi-
ish quantum-computing research center. Its forth- cion of Chinese technology is blurring into out-
coming satellite-navigation system will compete This means that a country may be squeezed out and-out protectionism. Broadcom is not even Chi-
with America’s GPS by 2020. of vital technologies by foreign rivals pumped up by nese; the justification for blocking the deal was that
state support. In the case of China, those rivals an- it was likely to invest less in R&D than Qualcomm,
America is rattled. An investigation is under way swer to an oppressive authoritarian regime that in- letting China seize a lead in setting standards.
that is expected to conclude that China’s theft of creasingly holds itself up as an alternative to liberal
intellectual property has cost American compa- democracy – particularly in its part of Asia. Trump has reportedly already rejected one plan
nies around $1 trillion; stinging tariffs may follow. for tariffs on China to compensate for forced tech-
Earlier this year Congress introduced a bill to stop China insists that it wants a win-win world. Amer- nology transfer but only because the amounts were
the government doing business with two Chinese ica has no choice but to see Chinese technology as a too small. Were America to impose duties on Chi-
telecoms firms, Huawei and ZTE. Eric Schmidt, the means to an unwelcome end. nese consumer electronics, for example, it would
former chairman of Alphabet, Google’s parent, has harm its own prosperity without doing anything
warned that China will overtake America in artifi- The question is how to respond. The most im- for national security.
cial intelligence (AI) by 2025. portant part of the answer is to remember the rea-
sons for America’s success in the 1950s and 1960s. An aggressively anti-China tack has the obvi-
Last week President Trump abruptly blocked a Government programs, intended to surpass the ous risk of a trade tit-for-tat that would leave the
$142 billion hostile takeover of Qualcomm, an Amer- Soviet Union in space and weapons systems, gal- world’s two largest economies both worse off and
ican chipmaker, by Broadcom, a Singapore-domi- vanized investment in education, research and en- also more insecure.
ciled rival, citing national-security fears over Chinese gineering across a broad range of technologies.
leadership in 5G, a new wireless technology. Trump Trump’s approach should focus more on what he
has identified a genuine challenge – China’s techno- This ultimately gave rise to Silicon Valley, where it can do to improve America’s prospects. America’s
logical rise – that requires a strategic answer. was infused by a spirit of free inquiry, vigorous com- federal-government spending on R&D was 0.6% of
petition and a healthy capitalist incentive to make GDP in 2015, a third of what it was in 1964.
To understand what America’s strategy should money. It was supercharged by an immigration sys-
be, first define the problem. It is entirely natural for tem that welcomed promising minds from every Yet the president’s budget proposal for 2019 in-
a continent-sized, rapidly growing economy with a corner of the planet. Sixty years after the Sputnik mo- cludes a 42.3% cut in non-defense discretionary
culture of scientific inquiry to enjoy a technologi- ment, America needs the same combination of pub- spending by 2028, which is where funding for scien-
cal renaissance. Already, China has one of the big- lic investment and private enterprise in pursuit of a tific research sits. He has made it harder for skilled
gest clusters of AI scientists. national project. immigrants to get visas to enter America.

It has over 800 million internet users, more than The other part of the answer is to update nation- The United States is right to worry about Chinese
any other country, which means more data on al-security safeguards for the realities of China’s tech. But for America to turn its back on the things
which to hone its new AI. The technological ad- potential digital threats. The remit of the Commit- that made it great is no answer. 
vances this brings will benefit countless people, tee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. (CFIUS), a
Americans among them. multi-agency body charged with screening deals This column from The Economist does not neces-
that affect national security, should be expanded sarily reflect the opinion of Vero Beach 32963.

PANCREATITIS, PART III  Pancreatic function test (to determine if the pancreas is making the © 2018 VERO BEACH 32963 MEDIA, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
right amounts of digestive enzymes)
Complications, Diagnosis, Treatment and Prevention  Ultrasound, CT scan and MRI (imaging tools that look for problems)
Doctors may also use additional blood, urine and stool tests to confirm
Pancreatitis, inflammation of the pancreas, can be short term and go away the diagnosis.
within a few days with treatment, or it can be a life-threatening condition.
TREATMENT
COMPLICATIONS
People suffering with acute pancreatitis are usually hospitalized, given pain
Complications that can arise from pancreatitis include: medication and treated with IV fluids. For patients whose pancreatitis is
 Breathing problems – Pancreatitis can affect how lungs function and severe, admission to an intensive care unit (ICU) is required and the pa-
the level of oxygen in blood can fall dangerously low. tient is closely watched for heart, lung and/or kidney damage. If death of
 Diabetes – Chronic pancreatitis can lead to diabetes. pancreatic tissue occurs and an infection develops, surgery may become
 Infection – Pancreatic infections can require intensive treatment, such necessary to remove the dead or damaged tissue.
as surgery to remove infected tissue.
 Kidney failure – Severe and persistent kidney failure can occur that In cases in which the pancreatitis attack is caused by gallstones, removal
must be treated with dialysis. of the gallbladder or surgery of the bile duct is recommended. Once the
 Malnutrition – If the pancreas produces fewer of the enzymes needed gallstones are removed, inflammation usually subsides and the pancreas
to process nutrients from food, malnutrition, diarrhea and weight loss returns to normal.
(without trying) can result.
 Pancreatic cancer – If the pancreas is inflamed over a long period, For patients with chronic pancreatitis, doctors try to relieve their pain and
there’s a greater risk for pancreatic cancer. dietitians help them learn how to improve their nutrition, which usually in-
 Pseudocyst – Pseudocysts, painful benign cysts in the pancreas, can volves a low-fat diet. Patients are commonly given pancreatic enzymes and
rupture and cause complications such as internal bleeding and infection. may need insulin. Surgery may be performed in some cases to help relieve
abdominal pain, restore drainage of pancreatic enzymes or hormones, un-
DIAGNOSIS block the pancreatic duct or reduce the frequency of attacks.

A blood test to measure levels of two digestive enzymes – amylase and PREVENTION
lipase – is a reliable indicator for diagnosing pancreatitis.
Other tests include: For those whose pancreatitis is a result of alcohol abuse, prevention is
 Biopsy (A needle is inserted into the pancreas to remove a small directed at cutting back or abstaining from alcohol. Likewise, those who
amount of tissue for study.) smoke must stop. Referral to an alcohol treatment center or smoking ces-
 ERCP (Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatopgraphy utilizes X-ray sation program may be indicated. 
to look at pancreatic and bile ducts.)
 Glucose tolerance test (to measure damage to cells of the pancreas Your comments and suggestions for future topics are always welcome. Email
that make insulin) us at [email protected].

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BY REV. DRS. CASEY & BOB BAGGOTT | COLUMNISTS

PAUSE TO CONSIDER ALL
THE THINGS YOU DON’T
YET KNOW ABOUT GOD!

Remember a movie from the 1980’s pecially human life. Incessant ques-
called Short Circuit that introduced tioning is certainly typical of younger
us to a little robot named Number 5? children who want to better under-
At the start of the movie Number 5 is stand all the puzzling matters in their
struck by lightning and suddenly be- midst. But how about adults? Why do
comes self-aware. He considers him- some of us become complacent and
self alive, just like a human being. stop seeking input, stop asking ques-
And what does this newly “living” tions, and stop learning? Perhaps as-
being do? He develops an insatiable suming that we know as much as we
appetite for knowledge. He repeats need to know, or that nothing worth
again and again, as he devours all the exploring has happened lately, are
written material he can find, “I need reasons we believe that we have all
input. I need input.” life’s matters comfortably settled.

That input-hungry little robot gives But if we stop trying to understand
us pause, perhaps, to ask ourselves if more and learn more, might we be
curiosity and the drive to learn and missing a truly life-sustaining and
to know are fundamental to life – es- enhancing opportunity? Might cling-

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ing to our unexamined certainties to me are your thoughts, O God! How humor their curious impulses. No Maybe you harbor a flicker of cu-
keep us smaller-minded and smaller- vast is the sum of them! I try to count profession, no life-calling, no eco- riosity waiting to be fanned into
hearted than lively, innate human cu- them – they are more than the sand; nomic circumstance, no life stage is flame. Maybe exploring another cul-
riosity destined us to be? What if ac- I come to the end – I am still with barred from the continual adventure ture, making a new friend, develop-
knowledging our gaps in knowledge you.” (Psalm 139: 17-18) Although the of finding new vistas to explore and ing a new skill, studying some new
and understanding could point us to- Psalmist acknowledges his inability new questions to ponder. We’re all scientific discovery, or considering
ward some life-changing inspiration? to fully and finally grasp the mind of capable of inspiration, if we remain a different perspective awaits you
God, he discovers that nevertheless, open to discovering what lies beyond and promises fulfilling wonderment.
That human beings have always God is forever near. What a magnifi- our current certainties. We just need Maybe you’ll even find that the great-
been capable of curiosity and the in- cent and comforting inspiration! to keep reminding ourselves of the est marvel of all invites your explora-
spiration it brings is apparent as we wonderment in store for us so long as tion. Just stop to consider what you
peer into the questing human soul of Perhaps moments of sudden and we can still admit that here’s so much don’t yet know about God. How in-
the psalmist who wrote these words life-changing inspiration come most we don’t know – yet. spiring! 
thousands of years ago: “How weighty readily to those like the psalmist who

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Agatha Christie’s work has never gone out of style, pearance that ended when she was discovered at a marriage, her difficult relationship with Rosalind
nor out of print, in the four decades since her death Harrogate spa. and her overwhelming love for her mother.
– to the tune of more than 2 billion copies sold. But
Christie’s flame burns extra bright in the present, She never discussed the underlying reasons for the Christie, in essence, was the Elena Ferrante of her day.
thanks to new film adaptations (“Murder on the Ori- vanishing. Thompson lays out a plausible theory of She did not take public ownership of the pseudonym
ent Express”), authorized sequels (“The Monogram a fugue state, brought on by the crushing discovery until the 1960s. While “Agatha Christie” could present
Murders”and“Closed Casket,” by Sophie Hannah) and that Archie was in love with someone else, exacer- herself as “the clever, controlled, sensible woman who
homages (“Magpie Murders,” by Anthony Horowitz). bated by terror and shame that essentially paralyzed knew all about human emotion but who dealt with it,
Christie. The spell broke, she and Christie divorced, every time, and kept chaos at bay,” Mary Westmacott
But derivative works and adaptations can’t fully she married the archaeologist Max Mallowan and was, by contrast, the “sensitive, secret creature who had
explain why Christie’s work endures. A splendid bi- lived a merry life of travel and riches and hard work. been born of the drifting ghost of Harrogate … who
ography by Laura Thompson, however, does. “Ag- But the key enigma, this mystery story, is, as Thomp- could never have existed without the strange freedom
atha Christie: A Mysterious Life” was published in son notes, “her finest, because it cannot be solved.” that came from using another woman’s name.”
Britain over a decade ago and took an inexplicable
amount of time to cross the pond. Yet the timing is Afterward, there was the public Agatha, whose While Thompson makes a good case for reading the
perfect because Thompson’s thorough yet readable Poirots, Miss Marples and other detective fictions Westmacott romances, any Christie biography must
treatment of Christie’s life, in combination with art- reached readers at a near-annual clip. But the more ultimately be about the mystery novels that brought
ful critical context on her work, arrives at the reason private one had a creative outlet, too, under the her such extraordinary commercial success. Thomp-
for her endurance: “As she would often do, Agatha pseudonym of Mary Westmacott. Thompson artful- son does not cheerlead when it isn’t warranted and
has used the familiarity of the stereotype to subvert ly demonstrates how Christie revealed in the West- she argues that Christie’s zenith, in plot and in prose,
our expectations. It was one of the cleverest tricks macott novels her pain about her collapsed first was during and after World War II.
she would play. It was, in fact, more than a trick:
By such means she revealed her insight, her lightly That this era of tremendous carnage, societal up-
worn understanding of human nature.” heaval and polarization would be Christie’s triumph is
obvious in hindsight. Her novels are the epitome of or-
Christie, as Thompson details, came by such under- der restored out of chaos. She, too, needed that cathar-
standing through the traditional means of early hard- sis, and she determined to provide it to her readers.
ship. Born Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller in 1890, Young
Agatha was imaginative but practical, a skillful nurse But this isn’t the full explanation, or else why would
during World War I who wished for a domestic life as we still be reading her work now? Surely, her brand of
a wife and mother – and got it, after marrying Archie order cannot overcome all possible chaos caused by
Christie and giving birth to their only child, Rosalind. contemporary ills?

But her imagination needed an outlet. Healthy An insightful quotation by P.G. Wodehouse, in a
competition with her older sister, who also published 1969 letter to Christie, offers a further clue. “I don’t find
stories, spurred Christie to write the book eventually it spoils an Agatha Christie a bit ‘knowing the end,’” he
published as “The Mysterious Affair at Styles” (1920), wrote, “because the characters are so interesting.” As
the first of many outings for her iconic Belgian detec- much as Christie’s fame rests on her fiendish plotting,
tive, Hercule Poirot. what girds their iron-cast base are the people who
populate her stories. Poirot’s little gray cells. Miss Mar-
In this novel, the singular alchemy of careful plot- ple’s near-omniscient observations. The wants, needs,
ting, ruthless character study and her “absolute belief desires and grievances of incidental players and pos-
that each person had an immutable essence, usually sible suspects.
unknown even to themselves” was already in evidence.
When one wants, one is capable of murder. That’s
Christie’s life and work collided in 1926. She had what Agatha Christie knew.That’s what she wrote about
already published “The Murder of Roger Ackroyd,” so well. That’s why we still read her – and always will. 
the Poirot novel that still provokes vociferous
reader debate, to modest success and critical ac- AGATHA CHRISTIE - A MYSTERIOUS LIFE
claim. By December she was infamous, the subject BY LAURA THOMPSON | PEGASUS. 544 PP. $35
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When the Abbot visits the tribe and learns of their success, he insists on being added to
the team. His teammates are Miss Nabooba, Mrs. Okoku, Mbozi and the Witchdoctor; Dealer: North; Vulnerable: Neither
his partner is the Parrot, the tribe’s best player.
The Bidding:
The Parrot made this four-spade contract look easy. What did he do after West led the
heart queen? SOUTH WEST NORTH EAST OPENING
1 Spades Pass Pass Pass
Declarer needed to find trumps splitting 2-1, but he still might have lost one spade and 4 Spades All Pass LEAD:
three diamonds if East got on lead and shifted to a high diamond, West having the ace Q Hearts
hovering over South’s king.

To maximize his chances, the Parrot won the first trick, ruffed his remaining heart on
the board and led a trump. When East played the 10, the Parrot flicked a low spade
onto the table. West won with his queen, but had no winning defense. If he had played
a club, declarer would have drawn the missing trump and claimed 10 tricks: four
spades, one heart, four clubs and the heart ruff. When West, in desperation, shifted to a
diamond, hoping South had only queen-third, the contract made with an overtrick.

The deals are instructive and the prose entertaining — as usual from this author.

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3 Bottomless pit (5) 2 Traipse over (7)
7 Toy building sets (4) 3 Beast (6)
8 Nullify (10) 4 Fermenting (6)
9 Mischievous spirits (4) 5 Coil of yarn (5)
12 Large and bulky (11) 6 Arrest (4)
13 Mammal,‘Tarka’(5) 10 Lake (4)
15 Pudding (5) 11 Colony (10)
19 Make in large quantities (11) 14 Restrained (4)
21 Pace (4) 16 Spectator (7)
23 Plague (10) 17 College treasurer (6)
24 Jumping insect (4) 18 Space (6)
25 Truck (5) 20 Horrify (5)
26 Sort through (4) 22 Price exacted (4)

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75 Sodium hydroxide 7 Hooklike 80 Jewish month
1 Arnold’s are 77 Docs’ org. 8 It drops in Times 81 One way to get to
awesome 78 Craving
79 Chevy Chase Square on New Paris
5 Short and thick- Year’s Eve 82 Propels,
set comedy 9 Tunesmith
about the comet? Jacques as a grenade
11 Requested, in 84 Pricey, bygone 10 “You rang?” 83 A Big Three
Dogpatch travel option 11 A way to the altar
85 Big name in 12 Fragrant garden university
14 William Abbott, refrigerators plants 85 Imitation of life?
familiarly 88 A fvll deck? 13 Winnie was one 86 ___-jongg
89 Mauna ___ 14 Residents of the 87 Italian mountain
17 Site of a 1981 90 Crumpet “chaser,” world’s third
nuclear reactor perhaps largest island chain
bombing 92 French article 15 Word on many 91 Learn ___
94 Undivided, as schoolbooks
18 Crescent-shaped attention 16 Latin gods (apprentice)
wristbone 95 React 20 Shinbone 93 Comet’s milieu
appropriately to 21 “Can’t make ___ 95 Humorist-
19 ___ Jima the comet? out of it” (comet-
20 Your things, rather 99 “Life is over gazer’s comment) publisher Bennett
there— 23 ___ anchor (rests) 96 Muse of love
than my things Behind ___” 24 Pigtail, to Pierre
22 COMET (Dickinson) 27 Women poetry
25 Old palindrome, 101 Out of the sack 31 Clangor 97 Opens, as a letter
102 Hear her roar? 32 Sequester 98 Stops
“Able was ___ 103 Breathing down 33 Magellan’s access
saw Elba” one’s neck 35 Advertising award stonewalling
26 COMET 104 Narrow inlet 36 Aleutian island 100 Caucasian, in
28 Spill the beans 106 Act of seeing, 37 Puppy
29 Asian holiday old-style precautions Hawaiian
30 Keep secret 109 COMET 39 Faithful to the 105 Disguised, for
31 Frisbees and 116 The Vagabond orig.,
many UFOs King composer sound-wise short
34 “And ___ of 117 COMET 40 Modernist, for 107 Sprite
thousands” (to a puzzle buff) short 108 Cuzco’s people
38 Bird under glass 119 “Walk Away” girl of 41 Summer coat? 109 Ex-pitcher
42 Peggy Lee’s song 43 Win
comet query 120 Mil. rank category 44 Insurance giant Hershiser
46 Eminently 121 Aviatrix’s first 45 Suffer sans air 110 “Everything but”
draftable name conditioning
47 Neither partner 122 Whopper 51 Electrical unit appurtenance
48 Squared, it’s nove 123 Nogales shout 53 Beatles song 111 Asian nursemaid
49 “What am ___ 124 Frat party buy about the comet? 112 Big rig
do?” 125 Greetings for 55 “Wait a second ...” 113 Expwys., e.g.
50 Two-left-feet type Snidely Whiplash 56 Do, as laces 114 Coup d’___
51 Bean of 126 Charon’s crossing 57 Repair shops 115 Depend
“Desperate 58 Vacation island: 116 Half a swing?
Housewives” DOWN abbr. 118 Sgt. Preston of
52 Impute, as blame 1 Lulu 62 Disheveled
54 Comet comment 2 Stink or switch 63 As a replacement the Yukon’s horse
from a teen? 64 Warmed the
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Days 3 Crunch’s rank, 67 He “has left the
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O’Connor in cerealdom 68 Contents of “a
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Boyfriend: There’s something (unforgiving) about Mary

BY CAROLYN HAX “seriously wrong” her but says it’s the way she is and Whether that means she “can’t” change or “won’t”
Washington Post change is a hair you don’t need to split.
she can’t change that. Is she right? Is this a red flag?
Dear Carolyn: I am getting The thornier issue is whether it’s a red flag, and
ready to propose to my girl- – Have to Wonder to that my answer is a definitive yes. And no.
friend of three years. “Mary”
is just great – beautiful, fun- Have to Wonder: She’s right, this is the way she You know the “yes” as well as I do. When someone is
ny, successful – but she has is – because she has no interest in being otherwise. that punitive, that immovable by the remorse of oth-
major forgiveness issues. Not ers, that capable of seeing black-and-white in the roil-
about little things; she never ing gray of human experience, then you must heed the
holds a grudge if I stay out alarm. On this Mary’s mom is persuasive; Mary’s more
late with the guys and she has to pick me up from upset than the discarded spouse herself? Wow.
a bar, or if I’m cranky from a bad day at work or
something. In fact, none of this behavior has ever The threat that, boom, one day Mary will be
been directed at me, but it’s so extreme that I have done with you is bound to hover between you. It
to wonder about it. hints at a fragility in Mary, too, where she reaches a
For example, her dad cheated on her mom and point of suffering beyond which she won’t risk fur-
married the other woman many years ago. Mary has ther harm.
never forgiven him and never sees him – never even
met his new wife or her half-sister. Even her mom But it also hints at a reason not to treat her “major
says Mary needs to get over it! Another example: A forgiveness issues” as a deal-breaker: Her breaking
longtime friend of hers was going through a crisis point is actually quite reasonable.
and was taking it out on Mary, who was trying very
hard to help her. Mary was really patient for months When you cheat, divorce, then marry your par-
until, boom, one day she’d had enough and cut her amour, you can reasonably expect to alienate your
off completely. children, maybe for good.
I admit back then I said Mary shouldn’t put up
with her awful behavior, but since then the friend When you use your close, helpful friend as a punch-
has tried so hard to earn forgiveness that I’d give ing bag during a crisis, you can reasonably expect to
her a second chance. Mary won’t consider it and at alienate that friend, maybe for good.
a recent party refused to even acknowledge her ex-
istence. We all have and reach breaking points. Most just
Mary admits she can never forgive people who handle future encounters with a tight-smiley “hel-
lo” to the people who are emotionally dead to them
– mustering a superficial connection while leaving
the rift intact.

Mary doesn’t. She lives and wears the rift, and
that’s the real difference. Do I recommend this? No.
But at least people know where they stand. So if
you marry Mary, be nice. 

SEBASTIAN HOSPITAL
‘DESPERATELY’ SHORT OF VOLUNTEERS

64 Vero Beach 32963 / March 22, 2018 Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™

HEALTH

Sebastian hospital ‘desperately’ short of volunteers

BY TOM LLOYD volunteers. And it needs them now.
Staff Writer Anthony Gabriel, who runs volun-

Tennessee, not Florida, is known teer services at the hospital as well
as “the Volunteer State,” but at the as its patient advocacy program, says
Sebastian River Medical Center, An- “there’s an ongoing need for volun-
thony Gabriel, Shirley Harris and Rose teers to support the hospital.”
Marie Breinlinger are hoping people
from all over the Treasure Coast will Shirley Harris, of the volunteer aux-
flip that script. iliary, makes a more impassioned plea.

Sebastian River Medical Center needs “We just need volunteers desperately.”
She points out that while the hos-
pital has gotten busier and busier

Anthony Gabriel.

PHOTOS BY DENISE RITCHIE

over the years, the ranks of people What we’re looking
willing to serve as volunteers to as- for is a minimum of
sist patients and keep things running four hours a week,
smoothly have diminished. “We have
150 volunteers now [but] … we would and we’re flexible
like to have between 230 and 250. and understanding

Meanwhile, Rose Marie Breinlinger, to your schedule.
a spry octogenarian who is president
of the hospital’s auxiliary, is quick to – Anthony Gabriel
add that age is no obstacle to volun-
teering. ship Grant program known as Bright
Futures, a lottery-funded scholarship
According to all of three, “snow- program for in-state students with a
birds” currently make up about 20 record of high academic achievement
percent of the Sebastian facility’s vol- that requires community service for
unteer base and when those folks head participation.”
home to their northern roosts, the situ-
ation will only get worse unless a new
crop of volunteers sprouts up.

So how does a hospital recruit be-
tween 80 and 100 new volunteers?

Well, for starters, says Gabriel,
there’s “the Florida Student Scholar-

Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ Vero Beach 32963 / March 22, 2018 65

To meet the service requirement of HEALTH
the grant, students must identify a so-
cial problem in their community, de- Volunteers Pat O’Hara and Research by the Corporation for Na-
velop a plan for personal involvement Yvonne Sutherland with tional and Community Service claims
in addressing that problem – such as Anthony Gabriel. “volunteers have lower mortality rates
volunteering at a hospital – and then and greater functional ability later in
submit documentation of the experi- life than people who don’t volunteer.”
ence that verifies the hours they put in.
To date, the program has helped fund And while Gabriel might agree with
nearly 800,000 Florida students as they that, he simply states that there are “a
pursue a college education, and Ga- lot of opportunities for volunteers to
briel says “we have lots of student vol- not only to feel good about what they
unteers who want to take part in that.” do but also to make a difference in
someone else’s life.”
Regardless of age, one thing Gabri-
el, Harris and Breinlinger emphasize For information on volunteering at
is that the hospital isn’t asking for a the Sebastian River Medical Center, call
40-hour work week from its volun- Anthony Gabriel at 772-589-3186, ex-
teers. Far from it. tension 5011. 

One tenth that time would do just
fine.

“What we’re looking for is a mini-
mum of four hours a week,” says Ga-
briel, “and we’re flexible and under-
standing to your schedule.”

Again, that’s four – and not 40 –
hours a week.

Here on the Treasure Coast, with
its large population of visitors and re-
tirees from up north, some hospital
patients don’t have family or friends
in the area, and that can make over-
coming an illness or recovering from a
surgery a very lonely experience.

Multiple studies have shown that
just having a volunteer come in and
talk with patients or bring them a
magazine or fluff a pillow can make a
significant difference in how the pa-
tient feels and in their recovery.

Whether a volunteer is a student or
a retiree, Gabriel continues, “we try to
match them and their skills and tal-
ents” to the best job for them.

That might be the gift shop, custom-
er service, interaction with patients,
driving a golf cart in the parking lot
to bring patients to the front doors, li-
brary services, helping in the surgical
waiting room or the front desk, or any
one of a hundred other places where a
helping hand is needed.

So, whether you’re eagerly looking
forward to your 17th birthday or fond-
ly looking back at your 80th, one thing
volunteers don’t have to worry is tak-
ing on tasks they’re not trained to do.

Forgot all you learned in Biology
101? Get queasy at the mere sight of
blood? Cringe at the thought of chang-
ing a bandage? Not to worry. SRMC
doesn’t ask volunteers to take on any
clinical tasks.

And while no one at the Sebastian
hospital is promising older volunteers
a Ponce de León effect in return for
their service, HelpGuide.org does say
this: “Volunteers benefit physically
and emotionally from the service they
perform. Volunteering can help to
combat depression, decrease chronic
pain, lessen the symptoms of heart dis-
ease and may help to renew creativity.”

66 Vero Beach 32963 / March 22, 2018 Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™

HEALTH

Mind-body therapies may be prescription for pain relief

BY MARIA CANFIELD Jill Jaynes. them to learn to regulate the nervous
Correspondent system function that causes those
PHOTO BY DENISE RITCHIE sensations. Jaynes says “hypnother-
Research conducted at the Univer- apy and other mind-body therapies
sity of Utah Hospital concluded that ods reduced patients’ anxiety and in- are curative, as they give patients the
mind-body therapies can be as effec- creased their feelings of relaxation. tools to deal with their pain.”
tive in alleviating acute pain as pre-
scription painkillers. Jill Jaynes, owner and founder of Mindfulness, which has its origins
Absolute Integrated Medicine in Vero in Buddhist and Vedantic practices, is
Over the course of a year, 244 hospital Beach, is a doctor of Oriental medicine intended to help people develop the
patients who reported unmanageable and holds a master’s degree in acu- skill of paying attention to their inner
pain resulting from an illness, disease puncture. She is familiar with the study and outer experiences. While it may
or surgical procedure were randomly and is not at all surprised at the results. sound counterintuitive, actually pay-
assigned to participate in a brief session “The types of therapies discussed in ing attention to our pain with objectiv-
in one of three methods: mindfulness, the Utah study can elicit profound ity and curiosity, rather than resisting
hypnotic suggestion or pain-coping change,” she says. “They work within it and focusing on how badly we want it
education. These sessions were con- the laws of nature to put the body back to stop, reduces its impact. The recent
ducted by hospital social workers who into balance, alleviating pain.” study out of Utah clearly showed this
were trained in each method. to be the case for acute pain; past stud-
This study, which was published in ies have shown it also to be effective in
After participating in only one the Journal of General Internal Medi- the reduction of chronic pain.
15-minute session, patients reported an cine, is the first to compare the effects
immediate decrease in pain levels simi- of mindfulness and hypnosis on acute “Thought suppression” can also
lar to what is expected from an opioid pain in a hospital setting. be controlled by mindfulness; it’s a
painkiller. The most dramatic reduc- phenomenon best illustrated by the
tion in pain – 29 percent – was seen in Eric Garland, lead author of the white elephant effect – try not think-
the patients who participated in hyp- study and director of the University of ing of a white elephant and you will
notic suggestion. Mindfulness sessions Utah’s Center on Mindfulness and In- likely immediately picture one in your
resulted in a 23 percent pain reduction, tegrative Health Intervention Devel- mind. One of the main principles of
while pain-coping education lagged far opment, says, “It was really exciting mindfulness is that attempting to
behind, at 9 percent. All three meth- and quite amazing to see such dra- consciously suppress our thoughts of
matic results from a single mind-body pain only makes those thoughts more
session. Given our nation’s current frequent and harder to control, which
opioid epidemic, the implications of worsens the pain.
this study are potentially huge. These
brief mind-body therapies could be When the thoughts are allowed and
cost-effectively and feasibly integrat- examined calmly they then tend to
ed into standard medical care as use- lose their frightening intensity and
ful adjuncts to pain management.” dissipate.

Hypnotic suggestion, also called At Absolute Integrated Medicine,
hypnotherapy, works by helping peo- Jaynes and her team use acupuncture,
ple become more aware of sensations which has a history extending back at
in their body, including the percep- least 2,000 years, to achieve a state of
tion of pain. This awareness may help hypnotic suggestion and activate the
body’s own internal healing resources.
She sees it as the wave of the future for
pain relief. “What we are doing now [in
traditional western medicine] is not
working,” she says, referring to the opi-
oid epidemic and other failures in phar-
maceutical methods of combating pain.
“Many people and healthcare profes-
sionals are now more open and receptive
to the benefits of Oriental medicine.”

Garland and his research team
plan to continue studying mind-body
therapies as non-opioid means of alle-
viating pain by conducting a national
study with thousands of patients in
dozens of hospitals.

Absolute Integrated Medicine, a pri-
vate and community acupuncture clin-
ic, is located in the Bridgewater Build-
ing, Suites C-130 and C-136 at 1575
Indian River Boulevard in Vero Beach.
The phone number is 772-770-6184, and
more information on the treatments
they offer can be found on their website
at verobeachacupuncture.com. 



68 Vero Beach 32963 / March 22, 2018 Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™

HEALTHY SENIOR

It may sound funny, but shingles is no laughing matter

BY FRED CICETTI when your immunity is down. And,
Columnist when you’re older, your defenses ain’t
what they used to be.
Q. I heard a comedian make a humor-
ous reference to “shingles.” I had shingles The inactive virus rests in nerve
and I didn’t find any humor in the expe- cells near the spine. When it reacti-
rience. Am I missing something? vates, it follows a single nerve path
to the skin. The shingles rash helps
Shingles is a painful skin disease with its diagnosis; the rash erupts in
caused by the chickenpox virus awak- a belt-like pattern on only one side of
ening from a dormant state to attack the body, or it appears on one side of
your body again. Some people report the face. It usually begins as a patch
fever and weakness when the disease of red dots which become blisters.
starts. Within two to three days, a
red, blotchy rash develops. The rash Physicians treat shingles with an-
erupts into small blisters that look tiviral and pain medications. The an-
like chickenpox. And it’s very painful. tivirals don’t cure shingles, but they
weaken the virus, reduce the pain
Does this sound funny? I don’t think and accelerate healing. The antiviral
so ... medications work faster if they are
started early -- within 72 hours from
Anyone who has had chicken-pox the appearance of the rash.
can get shingles. Half of all Americans
will get shingles by the time they are 80. The disease’s name comes from the
Shingles occurs in people of all ages, but Latin word cingulum, which means
it is most common in people between belt. The virus that causes shingles
60 and 80. Each year, about one million is varicella-zoster, which combines
Americans are diagnosed with shingles. the Latin word for little pox with the
Greek word for girdle. In Italy, shin-
The virus that causes chickenpox gles is often called St. Anthony’s Fire.
and shingles remains in your body
for life. It stays inactive until a period If you have had chickenpox, shin-
gles is not contagious. If you have

never had chickenpox, you can catch The Food and Drug Administra-
the virus from contacting the fluid in tion last year approved the Shingrix
shingles blisters. However, you will vaccine to prevent painful shingles
not get shingles, but you could get in people 50 and older. Large interna-
chickenpox. tional trials have shown that the vac-
cine prevents more than 90 percent of
The pain of shingles can be severe. shingles cases, even at older ages.
If it is strong and lasts for months or
years, it is called postherpetic neu- Zostavax, an earlier shingles vac-
ralgia (PHN). Persistent pain is a cine that remains on the market,
common symptom in people over 60. prevents about half of shingles cases
However, most victims of shingles in those over age 60 and has demon-
overcome their symptoms in about strated far less effectiveness among
a month. And the odds are against elderly patients.
them getting shingles again.
A committee of The Centers for
Outbreaks that start on the face Disease Control and Prevention
or eyes can cause vision or hearing (CDC) voted to make Shingrix the
problems. Even permanent blindness preferred vaccine and recommended
can result if the cornea of the eye is it for all adults over age 50. The com-
affected. In patients with immune de- mittee also recommended Shingrix
ficiency, the rash can be much more for adults who’ve received Zostavax.
extensive than usual and the illness
can be complicated by pneumonia. Check your health insurance pro-
These cases, while more serious, are vider to determine the coverage it of-
rarely fatal. fers for the new vaccine. 

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ST. EDWARD’S

Troy story: St. Ed’s all-everything Jenkins picks RPI

BY RON HOLUB ‘Vero Beach and St. Maya Jenkins.

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they had never played basketball be-
And oh, by the way, when not on the fore, they got to try something new,
court or field, she managed to put the and we had more bodies. That was
same type of quality effort and dedi- just what we needed. It also helped all
cation into the pursuit of academics. of us make friends with people from
different backgrounds.
All of this forged an opportunity to
find a college setting that was an ideal “It meant a lot because I was really
fit in every aspect. And that is exactly afraid that we weren’t going to have a
what happened when Jenkins chose team. At times in my freshman and
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in sophomore years I thought my only
Troy, New York, where she will play chance to play basketball would
basketball and double major in com- be on a club team hours away. It
puter science and computer systems was unrealistic with all of the
engineering. By no means was this a other things I was doing like vol-
snap decision. leyball, lacrosse and all of my
academics.
“Freshman year my mom and I sat
down and we made a list,” Jenkins ex- “I probably wouldn’t have
plained. “I was sure what I wanted to been able to play basketball
do. I wanted to play basketball, pref- in college if we did not have a
erably D3, and do something in engi- team here at St. Edward’s. So I
neering or computer science. So we was really excited that we had a
made a list of all of the schools that team and that people stuck with
had those requirements. it, and that we created the little
family that we did.”
“I met with (St. Ed’s English teacher)
Ms. Padgett who played and coached Jenkins captained the var-
sports in college. She helped me do ev- sity basketball team all four years
erything I needed to do – reach out to in high school and averaged 18.5
coaches and fill out the forms that I had points per game as a senior. She also
to. Over time I would visit the schools played volleyball and lacrosse with-
that responded. I narrowed it down to out interruption since sixth grade.
RPI and Rochester Institute of Technol-
ogy, and ended up choosing RPI.” “I thought for a while that maybe I
would play lacrosse in college, but I
Either way she would run headlong realized that would take a lot of time.
into cold and snow and said she was Basketball is the only sport that I re-
excited about that prospect. We are ally love, so that’s the one I want to
not so sure about that, but one thing continue.
we do know is that the basketball part
of this equation almost didn’t happen. “I met the coach at RPI and played
pick-up with some of the players dur-
“In eighth grade Tea (Tee) and I were ing a visit. I stayed in the dorms for
asked to play on the varsity basketball two nights and it was fun. I really liked
team,” Jenkins recalled. “We both tried everyone on the team.”
out and made the team. We had to play
on the eighth-grade team first because That will make the transition to col-
we were still in middle school. If there lege a bit less stressful, but not com-
were conflicting games the varsity pletely free of anxiety.
might have to cancel if they literally
didn’t have enough players.” “I’m a die-hard. I’ve been here since
kindergarten. Vero Beach and St. Ed-
Those were tough times for the var- ward’s – this is all I know. I love it here
sity program, but head coach Paula and I’m really nervous. But I’m excited
Robinson persevered essentially be- to go to Troy. You’ve just got to try new
cause she had Jenkins and Tee on her things or you will never know what
side for five years. you are missing.” 

Jenkins continued: “As time went on
we got some exchange students on the
team. It was exciting for them because

70 Vero Beach 32963 / March 22, 2018 Style Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™

When your favorites become ubiquitous, is it time to move on?

BY LISA ARMSTRONG
The Telegraph

You spend years honing your style, in the First World, on a style page, I’m ing a paint color that makes us feel olyn Asome who, as a freelance style
appraising your good and not quite giving us permission to explore it ful- happy, to a recipe we’ve refined and and interiors journalist/consultant
so good features, working out exactly ly. After all, this is a process that cuts perfected over decades. (and contributor to Telegraph), has al-
what feels and looks right on you. And through everything we do, from find- ways been an early adopter and cham-
suddenly (at least it always feels sudden “It’s annoying, I won’t lie,” says Car-
when it happens) you notice all those
tricks and tips you’ve assiduously ab-
sorbed into your personal armory have
become a global trend, worn by every-
one from a future queen to a Kardashi-
an.

Barely three months into 2018,
checks, animal prints, trench coats,
pastels, kitten heels, slingbacks,
white footwear and floaty dresses are
everywhere – across social media, the
plate glass windows of the high street
and the covers of magazines.

For women who like their clothes to
look modern and relevant rather than
slavishly on trend, that’s an issue, es-
pecially those who’ve come to rely on
those particular assets as part of their
stable of “me” pieces.

Admittedly this is in the First World
category of problems. But since we’re

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pion of recherché finds that eventually shoes,’ or ‘that dress really suits her.’” blouses would look strong and dis- leopard print – she intends to carry on
become mainstream. She painted her As a stylist who helps professional tinctive. Or you could mix and match wearing them. She also recently ac-
house varying shades of ochre and different scale checks – Prince of quired a polka dot dress. “It doesn’t
teal way before they became fixtures women find classic but edgy ways of Wales with dog-tooth for instance.” bother me. I don’t dress in an especially
on Dulux color charts, wore maxis and dressing that work for them, Annabel trend driven way so I never feel victim-
ruffles aeons before Zara was pump- Hodin is one of the cleverest shoppers Bottom line, checks are too useful to y.” Any checks and prints have to fit in
ing them out, and was probably the you could hope to come across – and discard just because everyone else is with her monochrome wardrobe, to
second woman in London to wear The all too aware of the challenges of a wearing them. They break up an out- which she has long adhered, “because
Vampire’s Wife, after the designer. trend that’s on its way to exhaustion. fit and allow you to draw attention to it allows you to wear really great jew-
“It’s tempting to ignore popular items or away from pivotal points as well as elry or extravagant fabrics without
This is the label from Susie Bick, the at a certain point. But if it’s something providing more latitude for coordina- looking overdone.” It just so happens
former model, which Rachel Weiss that really suits you, why not embrace tion than a plain item since any check that monochrome has also come back
wore to the Baftas recently. Asome it in the best version you can find?” has at least two, sometimes three col- into focus on the catwalks recently –
beat her by at least a year. ors – it’s far easier to match a black evidence that there’s no ring-fencing
Hodin’s exhaustive knowledge of houndstooth jacket with black trou- your pet peccadillos from the tenta-
While Asome – and others like her what’s on the rails (from House of Fra- sers than a plain jacket which might cles of mass consumption.
– have ideas to spare and can afford ser to House of Givenchy) meant that not be the exact matching shade of
to jettison one set of core beliefs for for the rest of the evening after I called black. So why have we become so dismis-
the next with the changing seasons, her about this feature, she emailed sive of trends, while being simultane-
at some point, the relentless acquire- bullet points on precisely where the Another advantage of houndstooth, ously susceptible to them? Perhaps
and-discard cycle starts to feel un- best versions of the current trends dog-tooth and Prince of Wales is that there’s a degree of snobbery involved
comfortable. “When I was younger I are. Take checks (a personal favorite they are the Holy Triptych of checks: – rapid ubiquity is both the joy and
would run in the opposite direction of mine, or at least they were until I strict and impeccably classic (think frustration of a democratic fash-
once something hit critical mass,” says typed the word into polyvore.com, the Christian Dior), which allows you to ion system. Yet trends can be a use-
Asome. “But that seems very waste- online shopping aggregator, and thou- be playful with the rest of your outfit. A ful prompt to experiment and divert
ful now. It’s not just the money you’ve sands of results came up). monochrome dog-tooth jacket or trench some energy into a safe uniform.
invested but the time. The more you with pink trousers, or a silver tassel bag,
wear something, the more it becomes Hodin suggests keeping checks re- or daffodil satin slingbacks … The laws of communication mean
a part of your personal picture”. ally classic “but in interesting ver- that whatever you love will, at some
sions. I’d avoid neon checks or gim- Then again, polka dots do a similar point, feature in the windows of top
Asome is comparatively Spartan in micky colors – anything that screams job – although they’re about to ex- stores. Being precious about these
her conspicuous consumption these 2018. It comes down to cut and fab- plode onto the spring horizon too. things is a losing game.
days. “I have very few clothes at any ric. I wouldn’t do checks in a stretch
one time and I wear them to death. material. They need to be very sharp Avril Mair, fashion director of Harp- Carry on regardless – you should
That means, hopefully, that when peo- – a cigarette pant or a tailored jacket er’s Bazaar (which featured Lily James know the great from the mediocre
ple see me they don’t think, ‘Oh, Caro- for instance – or very floppy. Clash- in checked Burberry on the cover of the versions by now and what fits with
lyn’s doing a trend,’ but, ‘I like those ing them with geometric patterned April subscribers issue) takes a simi- your style. 
larly phlegmatic line on checks and

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Hubert de Givenchy knew the power of a little black dress

BY ROBIN GIVHAN complexities of beauty and desire. framed the nape of the neck.
The Washington Post He achieved this remarkable feat That moment in that dress tells the

Hubert de Givenchy was that rare with a single little black satin dress audience a lot about Hepburn’s char-
designer whose work reached every- worn by Audrey Hepburn in the open- acter, Holly Golightly. For one thing,
one from fashion aficionados to the ing sequence of 1961’s “Breakfast at it’s a cocktail dress – an evening dress –
casual observer. It defined an era. It Tiffany’s.” From the front, the dress and there she is standing on the street
helped to create the foundation for was simple enough: sleek and sleeve- peering into the store window with her
what it means to be a fashion icon. His less with a flattering bateau neckline. breakfast. She has been out all night
work told the story of glamorous so- From the back, it was dynamic, sexy and she does not look wrecked. In fact,
phistication, female rebellion and the and utterly sophisticated with its geo- she looks splendid.
metric cutouts and the alluring way it
She has lived and partied and, per-
haps, gotten up to no good. And she is quality of its lines. He was not the sort
none the worse for it. of designer who would try to dazzle
the eye with elaborate embroidery or
The dress is not easy to wear. lavish beading. Instead, he focused on
It follows the curves of the body. cut and proportion. His clothes exud-
It reveals the arms. But it’s not a ed luxury but also restraint. He didn’t
dress that constrains a woman. simply create clothes; he crafted a vo-
It requires effort but not sacri- cabulary of style. And it was that abil-
fice. The dress is special. It makes ity to seemingly build an entire world
a woman want to slink about, con- out of silk and satin that made his
trolled and teasing. It’s possible to work with Hepburn both memorable
envision it on all sorts of shapes – and enduring – and allowed it to reso-
slim, like Hepburn, but also curvy. nate with generations of women who
And it looks as perfect in 2018 as it did envisioned themselves as gamines
50 years ago. living fully and self-indulgently.

Givenchy didn’t invent the little Givenchy’s initial meeting with
black dress, but he gave it its endur- Hepburn was famously disappoint-
ing cachet. He infused it with mean- ing, at least for him. He’d expected
ing beyond the practical and versa- to meet Katharine Hepburn. It was
tile. The dress represented a lifestyle: 1953, and Audrey Hepburn had been
glamorous, reckless, defiant, urbane. cast in “Sabrina” as the daughter of an
It was Holly Golightly’s dress. She was American chauffeur who goes to Paris
complicated and sad, confounding and returns as a sophisticated young
and charming. She was not Every- woman. Givenchy was charged with
woman. She was exceptional, which
is what every woman wants to be. And
her signature dress was wondrous.

Givenchy, who died March 10 at age
91, was born a count. He had an aris-
tocratic bearing made even grander by
his 6-foot-6 frame. He loved gardens
and antiques. As a designer, he came
of age during the 1950s and ’60s when
haute couture dominated fashion and
Paris was the center of it all. He appren-
ticed with Lucien Lelong and Elsa Schi-
aparelli, but his greatest influence was
fashion’s most famous ascetic Cristobal
Balenciaga, who was both a mentor and
friend. And when Balenciaga closed
his own atelier in 1968, he directed his
heartbroken clients to Givenchy.

Givenchy dressed the grand dames
of international society, ranging from
France’s Marie-Hélène de Rothschild
to Americans Bunny Mellon, Lee
Radziwill and Jacqueline Kennedy.
He didn’t just stitch up luncheon
suits and evening gowns for them; he
socialized with them and was part
of their world. His relationship with
Mellon was such that she once sent
her private plane to fly him from Paris
so that he could design uniforms for
her entire household staff – all the
way down to the gardeners.

His work was known for the

Your Vero Beach Newsweekly ™ Style Vero Beach 32963 / March 22, 2018 73

creating the Parisian wardrobe that Audrey Hepburn and women. But he persisted.
would define her transformation. Hubert de Givenchy. When Givenchy retired in 1995, he’d

The actress and the designer estab- already sold his company to LVMH Moet
lished a friendship. And she became Hennessy Louis Vuitton. With his de-
both a muse and an ambassador for his parture, the creative reins were handed
work. She wore his clothes consistent- to the British designer John Galliano,
ly, both on-screen and in her personal who captured the feminine romanti-
life. And today, Hepburn remains one cism of the brand. Over the following
of the most often-cited sources of in- decade, other designers cycled through,
spiration for young designers striving including Julien Macdonald and Alex-
to craft attire that feels both modern ander McQueen. But it was Riccardo
and timeless and for women aspiring Tisci, who spent more than a decade at
to look effortlessly chic. Givenchy, who gave the brand its con-
temporary resonance – steering it away
In 1973, Givenchy was one of five from its original focus on silhouette and
French designers to participate in a char- a kind of enduring classicism to inject it
ity fundraiser at Versailles. The French- with Gothic romance and draw inspira-
men faced off against five Americans. tion from African and Latin cultures. He
The Americans incorporated popular created designer sweatshirts and sneak-
music into their presentation at a time ers. He catered to Kardashians.
when it was not unusual for a collection
to be presented in silence. Their designs Today, Clare Waight Keller is the
were also worn by a critical mass of black brand’s creative director. And she has
models, who dominated the runway her own ideas about what Givenchy
with their personality and theatrics. The means for customers in 2018, which
experience made a lasting impression include a nod toward Brutalist archi-
on Givenchy. Shortly afterward, he be- tecture.
gan using contemporary music during
his shows. And he was so inspired by the But no matter the many divergent
work of the black models that he wanted aesthetic points-of-view or the pas-
to use them exclusively in his atelier, he sage of time, Givenchy remains bound
said in an interview several years ago. up in the collective cultural memory
He was met with resistance by some of of a single black dress, the man who
his clients, who he said refused to wear created it, the woman who wore it.
the ensembles modeled by the black And the timeless desire for a bright,
shiny life of glamour and ease. 

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DINING REVIEW

Dining in Havana: Paladares and frozen daiquiris

BY TINA RONDEAU The drinks at this bar, where memo- all in a garlic sauce – and I opted for the San Cristobal is the paladar that Presi-
rabilia and photos cover the walls, are Fisherman’s Casserole, consisting of sau- dent Obama dined at on his historic trip
Columnist indeed superb, and to this day, a life-size téed fish, octopus, shrimps and lobster in to Havana in March 2016, and the walls
bronze statue of Hemingway occupies a creamy sauce of tomatoes and spices. of this eclectic restaurant are covered
When we booked a cruise a year ago his customary spot at the bar. We also with photos of the Obamas, various pop-
that would include a couple of nights could not resist trying what were said to The dishes were not bad, but have I culture celebrities, assorted memorabil-
in Havana, my first thought was that it be some of his favorite dishes in the rear mentioned the frozen daiquiris? ia, and a couple of hundred antique and
would give me an opportunity to see the dining room, which has the ambiance of grandfather clocks.
paladares. a good spot for a meeting of Mafia dons. Then for a paladar on this short stay in
Havana, we decided to visit a place, San The clocks were quite amazing.
My husband’s first thought was it My husband ordered the Gran Plato Cristobal, that also has hosted some fa- Both El Floridita and San Cristobal
would give him a chance to see the Hemingway – alleged to be “his” special mous names (though none the equal, my were packed when we visited. While we
famed El Floridita. dish, featuring lobster, shrimp and fish, husband would contend, of those who shoe-horned our way into El Floridita,
have patronized El Floridita). we had a half-hour wait for a table at San
The paladares are privately-owned Cristobal even though we had reserva-
restaurants that in the last half dozen tions.
years have begun to transform Cuba’s Our excellent server pointed out that
dreary dining scene. Often located in even though Barack and Michelle Obama
a converted section of a family home, both had “solomillo a la plancha” (steak
these independent restaurants serve on the grill), San Cristobal - like many
fresh food at moderate prices with good
service – a combination that did not exist new Havana restaurants - features
during Fidel Castro’s long reign. fresh seafood. Hence, I ordered the
Camarones al Ajillo (shrimp in gar-
El Floridita, on the other hand, is the lic) and my husband had the Gran
legendary Havana bar and seafood res- Plato del Mar (lobster, fish, prawns,
taurant that preceded Fidel (and Teddy and creamed potato).
Roosevelt, for that matter), and just cel- The shrimp were perfectly cooked in
ebrated its 200th anniversary!! More a buttery garlic sauce. A simple but very
to the point, it is where one of my hus- tasty dish. My husband particularly
band’s literary idols, Ernest Hemingway, enjoyed the Caribbean lobster and the
dropped by daily in the 1930s to drink pan-sautéed snapper.
frozen daiquiris (which were invented by While it would be absurd to generalize
a bartender there). from such a small sample, Havana would
seem to still have some way to go to be-
On a visit last week, we got to achieve come a serious foodie destination. But as
both objectives. more visitors make their way to this is-
land, the dining scene no doubt will just
We arrived at El Floridita, I’m happy keep getting better and better.
to report, considerably later than the 10
o’clock morning hour when Hemingway I welcome your comments, and encour-
generally started on his daily tipple (he age you to send feedback to me at tina@
is reputed to one day have consumed 16 verobeach32963.com. 
frozen daiquiris).

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WINE COLUMN

Veteran winemaker launches a membership community

BY DAVE MCINTYRE The membership model is Lee’s Adam Lee
way to circumvent the obstacles fac-
The Washington Post ing small wineries in the traditional
distribution system. As wholesalers
Adam Lee wants to shake things up. consolidate, the market is favoring
“Selling wine isn’t what I like to do,” large-production wineries; those
Lee says. He’s good at it, of course. producing just 700 cases or so can
Lee is a darling of wine writers and easily get lost in the mix.
consumers because he is outspoken,
generous with his time and thoughts, “I don’t think the way small
and because, well, he makes darn wineries are selling their wine
good wine. is working very well,” Lee told
Lee and his wife, Dianna Novy Lee, me. “We relied on tasting
launched their Siduri label in 1994, rooms, then on wine writers.
specializing in cool-climate pinot But there are so many tasting
noirs from around California and later rooms.” He mentioned Los
from Oregon. They sold Siduri in early Olivos, a small town in Santa
2015 to Jackson Family Wines, becom- Barbara County that has be-
ing the first winery in the Jackson em- come a wine mecca with doz-
pire that did not come with vineyards. ens of tasting outlets. “And the
With the sale, Lee agreed to stay age of the critic is waning. The
on at Siduri for three years. That time difference between a 90-point
has now expired, and his official sta- rating and 89 points doesn’t
tus with Siduri is in limbo, though in sell a wine anymore.”
a recent interview, he said he would
like to pursue several projects with Lee evoked the memory of Robert
Jackson Family Wines. Mondavi, the wine visionary who pro-
Meanwhile, he’s launching a proj- moted Napa Valley, not just his own
ect of his own, with a marketing twist. winery, in the 1960s and beyond. “We
The Clarice Wine Company will still need someone like Mondavi for small
feature pinot noir, from two iconic wineries today,” he said. To that end,
pinot vineyards, Garys’ Vineyard and Clarice members will be invited to at
Rosella’s Vineyard, both in the Santa least one event each year at another
Lucia Highlands of Central Califor- winery. This year’s will be at Limerick
nia. Lee has been buying grapes from Lane, a Sonoma County producer of
both vineyards for Siduri since its top-notch zinfandel.
initial vintages in 1999 and 2001, re-
spectively. There will also be a Santa “Wineries are struggling to get the
Lucia Highlands blend of juice from attention of distributors,” Lee says.
the two vineyards. “So we need to cross-market each
But instead of selling wine, Lee will other.”
be offering membership in an exclu-
sive community built on social media And there’s one other aspect to the
around the wine. Membership opens marketing. “Consumers want the
this month, limited to 625 people, each story,” Lee says. “They want to know
paying $965 for a yearly subscription. what’s behind the winery, or the dogs
Every member will receive a case behind the winery.”
of wine in October, four bottles of
each wine. A members-only website At Siduri, Lee has followed the cur-
will publish two articles a month to rent trend of micro-vinification, fer-
provide a wine education aspect. Lee menting and aging different vineyard
has recruited several industry fig- lots or clones of pinot noir separately,
ures to write these articles, including then choosing the best to blend into
Scot Bilbro of Marietta Cellars on the the final wine.
art of blending wines, and Virginie
Boone of Wine Enthusiast magazine With Clarice, he is fermenting vari-
on wine writing. ous clones and vineyard lots together,
There will also be a social-media- then blending the best barrels. The
style chat site where members can grapes are picked earlier and fer-
exchange ideas on wines, restaurants mented more with whole clusters to
and travel advice. get the tannin and flavors from the
“So many people have great ideas stems. It’s old-school California vs.
about travel and wine, so it will be modern technology.
great to have more than 600 like-
minded wine lovers at your finger- Lee had assembled the final blends
tips,” Lee says. “We are trying to for the three 2017 Clarice wines a few
make this wine concept much more days before we talked. I loved the
of a community than ever before.” rich, mouth-filling Garys’ Vineyard,
as well as the deeper, more restrained
Rosella’s Vineyard. They should both
get better by the time they are re-
leased in the fall.

Traditional winemaking, untradi-
tional marketing. A delicious blend. 

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PETS

Bonz all Jazz-ed up after meeting this black Lab

Hi Dog Buddies! Jasmine changed, didn’t it, Jazz?” late Lab. She gets to come with her Mom
“Sure did. That’s when I became an Dad when we have a party. Mom an
A coupla weeks back I got a woof- PHOTO: GORDON RADFORD Capt. Dad call it a Cock Tail Party, but Me
mail from a black Lab rescue pooch, Leader of the Crew. Jack an Flint told an Maggie haven’t EVER seen any chig-
Jasmine Bowden, who lives over on on the Innernet for a Girl Lab. me us Labs LOVE to play in the wa- gens around. Probly cuz we’re too busy
the beach with two black retriever They got all signed up with Florida Lab ter. I couldn’t see the fun in splashin’ playin.’ Up in Vermont, we play with
step-brothers an their Mom an Dad. Rescue – went through a long process around in my water dish, makin’ a Bear, a Golden Retriever. An sometimes
She wondered whether I’d be inner- to be sure they’d be good Pet Parents. mess, but then – they showed me the she comes down to visit us. An I’m pretty
sted in doin’ an innerview. Finally they got a call about a Puppy POOL. Capt. Dad gently coaxed me off sure Handsome Capt. Flint is crushin’ on
Possibility: ME, of course. I was just a the stairs into the water, an I tried to do Lexie, a cool mix we see at the Dog Park.”
“Well, SURE,” I woofmailed back. fuzzball puppy, an was livin’ in a liddle what Jack an Flint were doin.’ It looked
Three waggy an sociable pooches crate for, like, 12 hours a day, which easy, but the more I paddled like crazy Flint, who’d been snoozing,’ raised
were at the door to greet my assistant was NO FUN. I was Very Depressed. with my front paws, the more my ca- his head, winked at me and said
an me. I spotted Jasmine right away. boose sunk like a rock. Finally, after a “Humpff!”
She was real (real) pretty, very graceful, “Soggy Dog Biscuits!” I sympa- few snoot-fulls of water, I learned how
smaller than her brothers (big, hand- thized. to balance. Now I LOVE swimming.’ “I know you all came from different
some poocheroos). After the Wag-an- places. Do you enjoy travelin’?”
Sniffs, Jasmine said, “It’s just lovely to “Totes! So Capt. Dad an Mom came “Almost every day, at 4:30 On The
meet you, Mr. B. This is our Mom, Stu- to visit an see if we were MFEO …” Nose, we’re at the door, waitin’ for “We LOVE ridin’ in the way back seat
art, an our Dad, Lee. He’s a sea captain. Capt. Dad to get home in the Jeep, so of Capt. Dad’s big ol’ Jeep. But when
We call him Capt. Dad. And these two “Um, what’s, MFEO?” we can go to the Dog Park. Flint’s the him an Mom go onna big trip, WE get
sea dogs are my big brothers. They’re “Meant For Each Other, of course,” Mayor of the Dog Park. He greets every to go to a reSORT!”
PIE-rats! Capt. Jack Sparrow’s a total she said. “Anyway, Jack an Flint hadda single pooch, an, if there’s a con-frun-
Lab, with Papers, but he was raised by be there, too, to make sure we’d all get TAY-shun, he tries to get everybody to “Say what?”
Chesapeake Bay retrievers so he thinks along. At first I was real shy an app- chill. I think he’s runnin’ for office. “It’s Maximum Cool Dog Biscuits!
he’s part Chessie, especially near water. ree-HEN-sive, but Capt. Dad an Mom It’s wa-ay out in the Boonies on the
Capt. Flint, the big guy with the long, an Jack an Flint all unnerstood, an “Me an Jack love playin’ in the ocean, Adams Ranch. We get our own 3-bed
curly coat, he’s a rescue like me. He’s they were real patient. So, finally, the too! Jack’s great at body surfin’! Flint suite so we can be together. There’s a
part Flat Coat Retriever an part Bur- Florida Lab Rescue people decided we mostly hangs out on the beach. We wish TV and a pickshur window so we can
mese Mountain Dog. I think he looks were com-PAT-ubble, and I got a For- there was a Dog Beach here, though. look out at the horses an stuff, an a dog
very majestic! An I’m Princess Jasmine, ever Famly.” We go to Walton Rocks Beach, down in door so we can go outside an play. It’s
Leader of the Crew.” “That’s a wonderful story, Jazz!” I ex- Martin County. It’s very popular, tons totally PAWSOME isn’t it, guys?”
“Cool Kibbles,” I thought to myself. claimed. of dogs. The pooches are Well Behaved. “Totally!” said Jack.
“Ahoy, everyone! Request permission “When I first got home, I didn’t know Everybody picks up their own Poop.” “Pooch Perfect!” agreed Flint.
to come aboard.” how to play. (I KNOW! How weird is Heading home, I was pickshuring
They laughed. “Granted, Mr. B.,” that?) But then Jack started nosin’ a “Got any pooch pals?” Jazz, Jack an Flint hanging out at Wal-
Jasmine giggled. Durin’ the innerview, tennis ball around, an pretty soon I “Sure! Maggie Johnson, she’s a Choco- ton Rocks Beach, an imagining how
Jasmine, Jack an Flint kept givin’ my was Playin’! With him.” nice it is to have a dog-frenly beach
assistant frenly nose bumps. Most re- “That’s true,” Jack interjected. “Af- close to home.
trievers, I’ve observed, keep their pup- ter a while, your personality totally Till next time,
py joyfulness their whole lives.
“I’m eager to hear your story, Prin- The Bonz
cess Jasmine.”
“You may call me Jazz. Jack an Flint Don’t Be Shy
were already here when I arrived. Capt.
Dad had always had three pooches, We are always looking for pets with
but, about 5 years ago they were down interesting stories.
to two, so him an Mom were lookin’
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[email protected].

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CARIBBEAN HIDEAWAY MAKES
MOST OF BEACHFRONT SETTING

2255 Windward Way at The Moorings: 4-bedroom, 4.5-bath, 4,460-square-foot oceanfront home
offered for $6,000,000 by The Moorings Realty Sales Co.: 772-231-5131

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Caribbean hideaway makes most of beachfront setting

BY STEPHANIE LABAFF

Staff Writer

The Caribbean hideaway at 2255
Windward Way in The Moorings
awaits a new family ready to get their
feet sandy. Tucked away at the end of
a cul-de-sac, the oceanfront home
has been a source of joy for the Gon-
zalez family for nearly 50 years.

Jorge and Leonor Gonzalez moved
from Madrid to Vero Beach with their
son Boris in 1971 so Jorge could as-
sume the directorship of The Moor-
ings Development Company, which
was building the deep-water country
club community. As Leonor settled
into what was then a 30-year-old,
two-story, frame house, she refused
to update the “ramshackle Florida
beach home” because she had no in-
tention of staying in Vero Beach.

“It was charming but dilapidated. I
refused to fix it because if I fixed it, it
meant that I was going to stay here.”

Used to a more urban lifestyle, Le-
onor at first disliked the undeveloped
beach community where she found
herself, and believed that her hus-
band was looking for a manager to
assume oversight of the development.

“Now I know he wasn’t looking [for
a manager] at all; he loved it here. My
son loved it here. I was bamboozled,”
recalls Gonzalez. “Of course I got to
be very fond of Vero Beach. I started
teaching at St. Ed’s and then I didn’t
have much time to think about Spain
and our old life there.”

“Mrs. Gonzalez is so much a part
of the island’s history,” says Judy

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Hargarten, a Realtor with The Moor-
ings Realty Sales Co. “I was told once
that her gardens were some of the
most beautiful in all of Florida. The
style of her home definitely has an
island feel.”

Nearly 30 years after moving in,
she was nudged by a fire to do some-
thing about the house. The day af-
ter an electrician warned her of the
faulty electrical wiring in the kitchen
of the main house, the oven in the
guesthouse caught fire, forcing Gon-
zalez’s hand.

“I moved out and tore what was left
of this house down to the ground.
The only thing that I preserved was
the mantelpiece. I wanted something
from the old house,” says Gonzalez.

Starting with a clean slate, but lim-
ited by state restrictions on ocean-
front construction, the new house had
to be built within the confines of the
original footprint. Gonzalez began
to design the home with noted Vero
Beach architect James Gibson before
he retired and moved to Charleston.

“I wanted a lot of light with a Ca-
ribbean feel reminiscent of the plan-
tation homes [in Cuba] where I grew
up, relaxed but elegant,” explains
Gonzalez.

With the entrance and foyer design
by Gibson, Gonzalez forged ahead
with Croom Construction Company,
architect Anthony Donadio and Su-
san Schuyler Smith of Spectrum In-
terior Design.

“We all worked closely together
developing all of the elements in the
house that made it feel like the Carib-
bean for her,” says Smith, noting one
of the most significant features is the
louvered doors throughout the house,
a functional design used in the Carib-
bean and Cuba to let the air flow free-
ly from room to room so you can both
see and smell the ocean.

The house begins at the entrance of
the gated courtyard. Gonzalez want-
ed a courtyard overflowing with color
and gave landscape architect Warren
McCormick the challenge of creating
her “secret garden.”

The courtyard is lush with foliage

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and a fountain as the central fea- her pieces of furniture and around
ture; a variety of palms, sea grapes, her. She’s just so interesting, and we
bougainvillea, jasmine and seasonal tried to make the whole house as in-
flowering plants create a cacophony teresting as she is.”
of color. The courtyard opens into
the house to the east, the pool to the At the entrance to the house, a pair
south and the detached cabana and of large glass-paneled doors with
garage to the west. sidelights opens into the two-story
foyer. The view through to the formal
Smith notes that having lived in dining room is unobstructed. In fact,
the prior house for 30 years gave the entire rear of the house features
Gonzalez a unique perspective when a wall of French doors making use
designing the new home. “She’d of natural ventilation and providing
lived knowing what the view was for uninterrupted views of the Atlantic
years. This was like creating a whole Ocean beyond.
new house around the view, around
The northern wing houses the

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functional areas of the home. A pow- mal living room. Designed for enter- At the center of the house, a stair- expansive view of the ocean from a
der room, guest suite with private taining, the room has a vaulted ceil- case leads to the guest and master true balcony, while the guest room
bath and entrance, elevator and laun- ing accented with exposed beams, bedroom suites. The master suite features a sunset balcony. The mas-
dry room are conveniently located creating an open feel. runs the width of the house with an ter bedroom is a generous space with
near the kitchen with a shuttered a library, kitchenette, walk-in closet
pass-thru between the kitchen and and luxurious bathroom.
den or breakfast room.
Venturing downstairs and through
“I specifically asked David Croom the courtyard, an arch covered with
to give me a view of the ocean in every jasmine leads to the lap pool and ca-
single room, and he did it,” says Gon- bana porch. Guests have a glimpse of
zalez. “Even from the bathrooms.” the ocean while dining on the patio
under a pergola bursting with color.
On the opposite side of the house,
the marble fireplace from the original The cabana/guesthouse has a full
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perfect serving kitchen during gar- “It’s just too big for me now. I used Grill and have lunch, back when we on the mainland, tennis and croquet
den parties. The cozy little house has to have a lot of family coming from were full of life.” courts, a state-of-the-art fitness cen-
a private entrance allowing guests Miami, but the children are all grown ter with pool and spa, a yacht club, as
plenty of privacy. now. This should be a house for a The swampy land that would later well as fine and casual dining.
younger couple with grandchildren. become The Moorings was purchased
“You should have seen it when I put I have such wonderful memories of by Gonzalez’s father, Julio Lobo, a Cu- The Moorings is a short drive away
Joan Fontaine [a British-American this house being full of children,” ban sugar baron. Lobo dredged the from Vero’s Ocean Drive for shopping
actress] up there. A good friend of my shares Gonzalez. property and used the dredged mate- and dining and close to Riverside
father’s, she came to speak at the mu- rial to build up fingers of land to cre- Theatre and the Vero Beach Museum
seum,” recalls Gonzalez. What she’ll miss the most is the ate the popular boating community. of Art for cultural outings. Families
ocean. “We used to walk the beach with children will be attracted by the
The two-car, air-conditioned ga- every day. And we were in the ocean The Moorings Yacht & Country proximity of Saint Edward’s School,
rage can be accessed via a gated drive two and three times a day during the Club provides access to Pete Dye’s which conveniently abuts the com-
on the west side of the building with a summer. We would walk to the Ocean signature golf course, Jim Fazio’s munity. 
door leading to the courtyard. Hawk’s Nest championship course

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VITAL STATISTICS
2255 WINDWARD WAY

Neighborhood: The Moorings • Year built: 2000
Lot Size: 230 feet by 358 feet • Home size: 4,460 square feet

Construction: Concrete block stucco
Bedrooms: 4 • Bathrooms: 4 full baths and 1 half-bath
Additional features: Oceanfront with private beach access, charming
courtyard and gardens, heated pool, two-story, cabana, detached garage,
den, library, elevator, fireplace, storm shutters, electronic gates, security

patrolled community,
Listing agency: The Moorings Realty Sales Co., 772-231-5131

Listing Price: $6,000,000

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Quartz Countertops
1st Floor Master Suite
Generous Closet Space
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Fireplace
Dual Zone, High Efficiency A/C

Solar Heated Pool
Metal Roof
Corner Lot

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MLS number 201038

First Time Listed - $640,000

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High demand, limited inventory for new spec houses

BY MICHELE LERNER Some builders have, in fact, in- Builders Digital Experience and Ne- lead to bankruptcy, if they languish too
Washington Post creased their production of “specula- wHomeSource.com, a builder-market- long on the market, because they’ve
tive” or “spec” houses, which are fully ing business based in Austin. “They’re paid to construct the house and con-
Home buyers across the country are or partially built without a purchase selling everything they can build and tinue to pay financing costs and utili-
scrambling for properties, and real estate contract in place. making lots of money, so their risk pro- ties. When builders are eager to sell a
professionals are begging for more hous- file has changed.” spec house, buyers occasionally get a
es to be built to answer the high demand. “A few years ago, it was too risky for bargain.
builders to build spec houses, but right In different market cycles, spec
Under these conditions, you might now, builders are extremely bullish on homes – which are sometimes labeled But in today’s hot housing market,
suspect that developers would be more the housing market,” says Tim Costello, “immediate delivery,” “move-in ready” this is rarely the case, with most hous-
inclined to build a house even before a founder and chief executive of Builder or “immediate occupancy” houses – es selling fast.
buyer has purchased it. Homesite Inc., the parent company of can be a burden on builders, and even
“Right now, we’re seeing most of the
PHASE builders in our area building houses
TWO as fast as the lots are developed,” said
Lind Goodman, a sales manager for
NOW BSI Builder Services, a division of the
SELLING! Allen Tate Co. in Charlotte. “Resale
inventory is so low, and builders can’t
ISLAND-STYLE Verona Model build houses as fast as they are selling,
ESTATE HOMES particularly at the lower-end prices.”
WITH POOLS FROM
THE HIGH $400S Why buyers purchase specs
Homebuyers in a hurry to move are
Magnolia living room Gated, natural gas community FEATURING the most likely candidates for a spec
Magnolia kitchen with lush landscaping, walking 18 NEW house, but sometimes spec buyers are
Jasmine kitchen paths and parks all surrounding simply tired of competing for limited
Lake Sapphire - the beautiful HOMESITES resale houses in their area.
lake the community is named AND 3 NEW “Buyers who choose spec houses to-
after and inspired by. FLOORPLANS day are usually doing this because of
timing,” Goodman said. “Sometimes
Lake Sapphire is located on 5th they are relocating and want to move
Street SW between 43rd Avenue to their permanent home right away.
and 58th Avenue convenient to Sometimes people put their house on
shopping and centrally located the market, and it sells faster than they
to take advantage of everything expected. They only want to move once
Vero Beach has to offer! rather than go into temporary housing
while they wait for a house to be built.”
CALL LISA KRYNSKI Prices and specifications are subject to change without notice. Oral representation Although choosing personalized
AT 772.521.0954 OR cannot be relied upon as correctly stated representations of the developer. For correct features is a pleasure for many buyers
VISIT OUR SALES CENTER representations, make reference to this advertisement and to the documents required of new construction, Goodman said:
4624 5TH ST SW, VERO BEACH by section 718.503, Florida Statutes, to be furnished by a developer to a buyer or “Lots of people like not having to pick
MON - SAT: 10AM - 5 PM, lessee. Images displayed may not be the actual property for sale, but may be model everything, and they’re happy to go
SUN: NOON - 5 PM or other homes built of similar design. with the choices the builder has made
for their house. They’re still getting
a new house, and typically it has the
most popular upgrades for that price
and neighborhood.”
Regina and Ted Solomon and their
three children, ages 10, 13 and 15, re-
cently moved into a spec house at
Meadowbrook Farm in Virginia that
was built by Van Metre Homes. They
opted for a spec house because of its lot
and location within the community.
“I popped into Meadowbrook Farm
on a whim and was immediately at-
tracted to the house, and especially
the lot, which is next to a common area
where the kids can play,” Regina Solo-
mon said. “If the house hadn’t been
ready, I might not have been as willing
to make a quick decision.”
She said she saw the house on a Tues-
day, brought her family and bought it
the following Saturday.
“The house just matched everything
we wanted,” she said. “They did a great
job putting in the finishes I would have
chosen anyway. I actually think they

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chose a higher quality of items than “spec houses” as all houses that are Goodall Homes builds spec houses Group’s president and chief executive,
I might have picked if I had to sit and sold with the land and house, which for first-time buyers and move-up said: “We’re not afraid to use spec.
choose everything with a price list in includes homes under construction buyers, ranging from 1,500 to 4,000 We’re using it in a way that I think
front of me.” while under contract, as well as com- square feet and priced from $250,000 smooths out our production pipeline.
pleted homes. to $500,000, O’Neal said. Beyond that, our view is our profit-
Why builders are for – or against – ability on build-to-order units is quite
specs “The challenge for builders, even Pulte Group, a national builder of a bit higher, and we eliminate the risk
if they would like to build more spec brands including Pulte, Centex and of potentially having a unit that we’ve
Van Metre Homes, a Northern Vir- homes, is that they face what we call Del Webb, typically builds about got to hold on to and discount to sell or
ginia builder, has increased the num- the ‘five L’s’: labor, lots, lending, lum- one spec house in each community, pay the carrying costs associated with
ber and local regulations,” said Robert said Macey Kessler, spokeswoman carrying a finished house. So, it’s all
ber of spec houses it builds in response Dietz, the NAHB’s chief economist. for Pulte Group. Kessler said that in worked into our model of driving the
to the critical need for houses, said Bri- “Labor costs are higher, and it can be the fourth quarter of 2017, Pulte sold highest returns possible.”
an Davidson, group president for the harder to find enough skilled laborers. 637 finished spec homes in their 790
firm’s new homes division in Broad- In addition, buildable lots are expen- communities. Van Metre plans to continue to build
lands, Va. sive, lending is tight, and lumber prices spec houses at most of its communi-
were up 30 percent in 2017 compared to During Pulte Group’s most recent
“Building more spec homes allows us 2016. Local regulatory costs for things earnings call, Ryan Marshall, Pulte CONTINUED ON PAGE 95
to reach people who would be looking like permits rose 29 percent between
at resales because they want to move 2011 and 2016.”
quickly rather than wait six months
or longer for a home to be built,” Da- Not all builders construct spec
vidson said. “We particularly want to houses, Costello said, although some
have houses ready for the busy spring choose to do so for efficiency and to
housing market and the fall housing keep their crews working consistently.
market.”
“Some builders try to keep two or
About 37 percent of Van Metre’s sales three spec houses available at all times
last year were move-in ready houses, to compete against the resale market,”
compared with 31 percent in 2016. Costello said. “Builders that offer cus-
tomization build spec houses that can
Data from the U.S. Census Bureau be personalized with the final finishes
show that about 35 percent of newly- and then delivered in 60 days, as op-
built homes sold in December were posed to the six months that building
completed when they were purchased, a new home usually requires.”
an increase over the 33 percent sold in
December 2016. However, the defini- Costello said a few builders, such as
tion of a “spec house” varies. D.R. Horton Express, LGI Homes and
Goodall Homes, consistently build
“Some builders start homes by pour- spec houses as a business model.
ing the foundation and then build
very slowly while waiting for a buyer,” “We try to start the same number
Costello said. “A true spec home is one of houses every week so we can com-
that is built and can be moved into to- municate accurately to our custom-
morrow.” ers when each house will be finished,”
said Chris O’Neal, chief sales officer of
The National Association of Home Goodall Homes, which builds homes in
Builders (NAHB) in Washington tracks the high-demand markets of Nashville
and Knoxville, Tenn. “This even-flow
process lets our trade partners and
employees know that they will always
have consistent work with us. That’s
one reason we have been successful
even in a tough labor market. We pay
them weekly throughout the year.”

Finding enough lots to build on, par-
ticularly in Nashville, is the biggest chal-
lenge Goodall Homes faces, O’Neal said.

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Real Estate Sales on the Barrier Island: March 9 to March 15

The real estate market on the barrier island came roaring back to life last week with 16 transactions
reported, including four for more than $1 million.

The top sale of the week was of a new “smart” home with 130 feet of ocean frontage in John’s Island. The
residence at 668 Ocean Road was placed on the market Nov. 14 for $8.75 million and went under contract
less than 30 days later. The sale closed on March 15 for $8.125 million.

Both the seller and the purchaser in the transaction were represented by John’s Island Real Estate.

SINGLE-FAMILY RESIDENCES AND LOTS

SUBDIVISION ADDRESS LISTED ORIGINAL MOST RECENT SOLD SELLING
ASKING PRICE ASKING PRICE PRICE
$312,000
$355,900 $2,200,000
OCEANAIRE HEIGHTS 9445 SEAGRAPE DRIVE 11/6/2017 $2,395,000 $337,900 3/13/2018 $610,000
PELICAN COVE 637 TULIP LANE 1/17/2018 $725,000 $2,395,000 3/15/2018 $510,000
$539,000 $1,040,000
ESTUARY THE 115 ISLAND COTTAGE LANE 2/16/2017 $1,149,000 $690,000 3/15/2018 $502,500
$525,000 $606,000
VEROMAR 705 DATE PALM ROAD 11/14/2017 $699,000 $539,000 3/14/2018
$245,000
PALM ISL PLANTATION 406 N PALM ISLAND CIRCLE 11/17/2017 $1,149,000 3/12/2018 $332,000
$402,000
SEAGROVE 1790 SEAGROVE DRIVE 1/4/2018 $525,000 3/12/2018

MARBRISA 141 PASSAGE ISLAND 12/1/2017 $699,000 3/9/2018

TOWNHOMES, VILLAS, CONDOS, MULTIFAMILY AND INVESTMENT

SEA OAKS 1275 WINDING OAKS CIRCLE, #702 10/1/2017 $247,000 $247,000 3/15/2018
HARBOUR SIDE EAST 1825 MOORINGLINE DRIVE, #3H 12/6/2017 $334,900 $334,900 3/15/2018
POINTES 1903 BAY ROAD, #106 6/7/2017 $500,000 $419,900 3/15/2018

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Here are some of the top recent barrier island sales.

Subdivision: Pelican Cove, Address: 637 Tulip Lane Subdivision: Palm Isl Plantation, Address: 406 N Palm Island Circle

Listing Date: 1/17/2018 Listing Date: 11/17/2017
Original Price: $2,395,000 Original Price: $1,149,000
Recent Price: $2,395,000 Recent Price: $1,149,000
Sold: 3/15/2018 Sold: 3/12/2018
Selling Price: $2,200,000 Selling Price: $1,040,000
Listing Agent: Kay Brown Listing Agent: Peggy Hewett

Selling Agent: Premier Estate Properties Selling Agent: Berkshire Hathaway Florida

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Berkshire Hathaway Florida Alex MacWilliam, Inc.

Subdivision: River Club, Address: 1302 Lake Bend Court Subdivision: River Club, Address: 1301 Cape Pointe Circle

Listing Date: 11/9/2017 Listing Date: 11/21/2017
Original Price: $849,000 Original Price: $1,197,000
Recent Price: $849,000 Recent Price: $1,197,000
Sold: 3/9/2018 Sold: 3/9/2018
Selling Price: $812,500 Selling Price: $1,115,000
Listing Agent: Sally Woods Listing Agent: Debbie Bell

Selling Agent: Dale Sorensen Real Estate Inc. Selling Agent: Berkshire Hathaway Florida

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Here are some of the top recent barrier island sales.

Subdivision: Estuary The, Address: 115 Island Cottage Lane Subdivision: Veromar, Address: 705 Date Palm Road

Listing Date: 2/16/2017 Listing Date: 11/14/2017
Original Price: $725,000 Original Price: $539,000
Recent Price: $690,000 Recent Price: $539,000
Sold: 3/15/2018 Sold: 3/14/2018
Selling Price: $610,000 Selling Price: $510,000
Listing Agent: Charlotte Terry & Karen Smith Listing Agent: Nicole Piontek
Selling Agent:
Alex MacWilliam, Inc. Selling Agent: Dale Sorensen Real Estate Inc.

Patty Valdes Nicole Piontek

Alex MacWilliam, Inc. Dale Sorensen Real Estate Inc.

Subdivision: Marbrisa, Address: 141 Passage Island

Listing Date: 12/1/2017
Original Price: $699,000
Recent Price: $699,000
Sold: 3/9/2018
Selling Price: $606,000
Listing Agent: Debbie Bell

Selling Agent: Berkshire Hathaway Florida

Debbie Bell

Berkshire Hathaway Florida

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