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Posted on 04/07/2007 3:14:35 PM PDT by mom4kittys
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Louisville Metro Air Pollution Control District
Lawn Care for Cleaner Air Award Recipients
Winner Names
October 2003
Kerrick Ross
http://www.apcd.org/lawncare/lcca_winners.html
I think the movie is from 2005, so he was probably working. Se is very pretty. Didn’t she date Orlando Bloom?
http://www.freenationalmovement.org/news.php?cmd=view&id=204
Killarney Candidate Dr. Hubert Minnis
So, who is Dr. Hubert Alexander Minnis, also affectionately known as “Doc”? He is the FNM candidate for the Killarney constituency, a medical doctor by profession, a specialist in Obstetrics and Gynaecology, a longstanding Saxons bell ringer, the proud father of a medical student, a former tailor specializing in pants, a former Bain Town shoeshine and newspaper boy, a keen businessman, a competitive fisherman, and much, much more…
Doc was born in Bain Town to Rosalie North, a struggling seamstress, and Randolph (R.J.) Minnis, the proprietor of well-known Minnis Service Station on Market Street. He was educated in Nassau at Our Lady’s Primary School, Western Junior, and St. Augustine’s College. Doc’s private schooling was a great financial sacrifice for his family. Growing up poor in Bain Town, Dr. Minnis always had to work after school to support his studies.
In addition to selling newspapers and shining shoes, during high school he worked as a tailor until 1971, the year that he graduated from St. Augustine’s. He became a tailor by chance - three teenagers grew up and hung out together – Doc, Anthony (Tony) Moss, and Charles (Charlie) Bain who just happened to be a tailor.
So Doc followed his childhood friend Charlie Bain and learned sewing from him (although he had already been exposed to the trade by his mother, a seamstress). Dr. Minnis says, “I was always business minded, even as a young high school student.” As a teenage tailor, he took 1½ hours to sew a pair of pants and was paid $3.00. However, it took 3 whole days to sew a coat for just $4.00 – only $1 more.
Therefore, with a shrewd business mind, he never had any interest in making and in fact never actually learned how to make coats as they were not as financially rewarding as pants. Who knew at the time that these sewing skills would perhaps help make him a better surgeon later on in life? Doc says with a big smile that he liked shining shoes as a teenage businessman. Why? Because he made more money shining shoes than doing anything else. He also worked at his Dad’s service station pumping gas and patching tyres. In fact, he wanted to drop out of high school when he was in the third form - he wanted to go to Freeport to work there. Back then, the Freeport economy was booming and many jobs were being offered.
At the time, he felt that his education was too expensive and was a burden on his family. But his mother, being a strong, no-nonsense Bain Town woman, insisted that he stay in school and that he would be the first in her family to go to college. It would turn out as she wished – he was the first person in her family to get a college education. Dr. Minnis openly and proudly credits several people with being strong positive influences in his life when he was growing up. Vince Ferguson, a PE teacher and the Dean of St. Augustine’s College (who later became the Headmaster of Aquinas College), was a strict disciplinarian who drilled his students in knowing right from wrong. In particular, Mr. Ferguson taught his students how to focus – a skill that would greatly benefit Doc later in life as a college student, medical student, doctor, and businessman. Dr. Minnis stresses that Mr. Ferguson taught his students to respect others at all times – a value that he will cherish his entire life.
Father Theophilus, Doc’s Latin teacher and another Dean at St. Augustine’s College, was another influential force in his life. Father Theophilus taught Doc the importance of honesty and again, respect for others and the need to focus, if one were to succeed in life.
Growing up “over the hill”, from an early age Doc rushed with John “Chippie” Chipman. Doc explains that back then, junkanoo was very different from what it is now. Then, participants would rush from over the hill to Bay Street, spectators would wake up as the junkanoo passed their homes, join the parade, and rush behind the growing crowd. Then everyone would rush back over the hill to return home. Doc only took breaks from junkanoo when he was away from The Bahamas in school. He joined the Saxons in about 1990 and has rushed with them ever since as a “beller” or a bell ringer.
When it came time for Doc to fulfill his mother’s dream of him being the first person in her family to go to college, he spent his first year of college in St. Thomas College in Minnesota before transferring to the University of Minnesota. There he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Biology.
At the University of Minnesota, Dr. Minnis was influenced by Professor Coleman, a nuclear physicist for whom Dr. Minnis worked on experiments on the breakdown of atoms. Again, he had to work to help pay for his studies. Doc credits Professor Coleman with making learning physics and about the universe easy, exciting, and thought provoking. Dr. Minnis became a medical doctor not by choice, but through a compromise with his Bain Town mother, Rosalie North. (And everyone knows, you don’t argue with a Bain Town woman – they make even the devil run!).
He actually wanted to become a marine biologist, not a doctor, because he thought that the future of the world was with a true understanding of the nature, mysteries, movement, and creatures of the sea. This is a belief that he still holds today. However, his mother and his sister (both now deceased) wanted him to apply to medical school. When Doc applied for graduate studies in marine biology, he didn’t immediately hear back from the school. As a compromise, he agreed to temporarily go to medical school to satisfy his mother but on the clear understanding that the moment he was accepted into graduate school for marine biology, he would drop out of medical school.
Initially, Doc had a fear of medical school because his high school teachers had always told him that medical school was so very difficult. As fate would have it, Doc never heard from the marine biology school, and the rest is history.
Doc says that from day one in medical school, he worked exceptionally hard, keeping in mind what his high school teachers had told him about how difficult medical school was. However, given the ability to focus and concentrate taught to him by Vince Ferguson and Father Theophilus at St. Augustine’s College, medical school turned out to be easier than he had originally imagined.
After obtaining his Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of the West Indies and his medical specialization MRCOG (Member of Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology) from London in 1985, Dr. Minnis returned to Nassau and worked at the Princess Margaret Hospital. Doc estimates that over the past 22 years in practice, he has delivered in excess of 5,000 babies – the largest baby (a boy) being 14 lbs at birth! Dr. Minnis says that he has truly enjoyed his career when he has had excellent results – giving good medical diagnosis, delivering healthy babies, and saving lives.
Not surprisingly, he doesn’t enjoy medical complications – as with most doctors, he takes them personally. If sadly a patient dies through no fault of his, he tends to blame himself.
In addition to working at the PMH and having a busy private practice, Dr. Minnis is a former President of the Medical Association of The Bahamas, a Member of the Medical Council, the Chairman of the Hotel Corporation of The Bahamas, and an associate lecturer at the University of the West Indies in Obstetrics and Gynaecology.
Dr. Minnis is now pursuing politics as the Member of Parliament for Delaporte, the constituency where he lives. He says, “I have accomplished most of what I wanted to accomplish in medicine. I have trained younger doctors, and now it’s their time to take over.
Everything in life is about timing. I want to continue to be of service, but now just in a different capacity.” His vision for the future of The Bahamas is to see small businessmen excel and at the same time for the government of The Bahamas to engage in more strategic planning for preparing our young people for the future.
He hopes that the future will offer more opportunities for young Bahamians in small businesses. “More young Bahamians must be true owners as opposed to just workers or employees. Sixty percent of employment in The Bahamas comes from small businesses, but small businesses are ignored.” Dr. Minnis’ fears for the future of The Bahamas are that we will remain too dependent on tourism with insufficient agriculture and that we will remain unable to feed ourselves.
Dr. Minnis has always been a strong FNM. However, in 1984 during the Commission of Enquiry, his political views were strengthened. He was away in university at the time and closely followed the Commission of Enquiry through the newspapers and was disappointed and embarrassed by the events that were revealed during the Commission.
Dr. Minnis has a son, Jamil, attending Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia. Like his father, Jamil is specializing in OB GYN and Fertility. Dr. Minnis openly admits that he actually discouraged his son from going to medical school as he had hoped that would go to business school. “His decision to go to medical school is completely his independent decision. He was not pressured to go to medical school by me,” Dr. Minnis adamantly states.
He is a news junkie and enjoys reading newspapers and magazines on international events. Dr. Minnis worships at Resurrection Catholic Church. He is married to the former Patricia Beneby and is the father of 3 sons: Tremaine, Jamil, and Runako.
**Other links of interest:
http://killarney.freenationalmovement.org/
http://www.bahamas.gov.bs/bahamasweb2/home.nsf/vContentW/5E2FEE4387C9089B06256F000070587A!OpenDocument&Highlight=0,hotel%20corporation
{{Huggss}} back atcha! I still *think* it’s a possibility, but only because I’m from that environment.
I think you are right because it is not a newer movie.
Yeah you 2 are right... I thought it was from 4/10/07!
Birkhead, Stern: BFF
by Gina Serpe
Wed, 18 Apr 2007 10:38:17 AM PDT
The best way to exact revenge on a man who, for more than seven months, served as your nemesis both in and out of the courtroom and who did everything in his power to keep you from seeing your child?
Why, sing his praises in a national magazine, of course.
Larry Birkhead has done just that with former adversary Howard K. Stern, telling OK! magazine that, since being named the biological father of daughter Dannielynn, Anna Nicole Smith’s former sidekick has been one of Birkhead’s greatest allies in preparing for his role as a parent.
“Howard’s been helpful,” he says in the Apr. 30 issue, due on newsstands Friday. “It seems unlikely, but he’s been a great help. He’s been with Dannielynn the last several months. He knows her likes and dislikes and things that could help me. He gives me credit when I’m doing good things and gives me tips on things I should do a little different.”
The 34-year-old insta-daddy, whose DNA match was confirmed in a Bahamian court Apr. 10, even goes so far as to peg Stern as misunderstood and unfairly vilified for being portrayed as the puppet master who coerced Smith into fleeing to the Bahamas for the birth of the child.
“People blame him a lot, but Anna had her own mind, too,” he tells the magazine. “She had a choice, and we were arguing, and that’s what happens...[Dannielynn is] so sweet and so cute, arguing is just going to hurt her and not help us any.”
However, there’s one person Birkhead is preparing to confront: Virgie Arthur.
Smith’s estranged mother, who previously threw her legal weight behind a Birkhead paternity victory, is currently doing all she can in Bahamian court to be granted some custody rights of Dannielynn. The legal fight has been delayed to Friday to allow for private talks between the once united twosome.
However, Birkhead says that while Arthur is more than welcome in his daughter’s life, a share in custody is not hers—or anyone’s—for the taking.
“It’s puzzling for her to display affection to me, and then for the attorneys to say she’s going for custody and Larry was just a sperm donor and a one-night stand,” he says. “If she wants to be a grandmother, that’s fine. I have a mother that wants to be a grandmother and she’s not asking for all these things, so it’s kind of puzzling.
“My mom would like to see the baby on certain days, but she’s not going to keep me to a schedule. I’m willing to listen to see what people want, but that doesn’t mean that I’m going to agree. I hope I don’t have to fight for the baby.”
Despite being “tired of war,” Birkhead is ready to go back into battle over his parenting rights, particularly if it provides the entertainment value that the last go-round did.
When asked what he thought of Prince Frederik Von Anhalt’s claim that he, too, could be Dannielynn’s father, Birkhead calls it “funny.”
“I’d pop popcorn and sit in front of the television just to laugh at him.”
As it is, the papa has already conducted his first order of business while on daddy duty: adjusting the child’s name, listed on the birth certificate as Dannielynn Hope Marshall Stern, to more accurately reflect her parentage.
“Stern’s gone, Birkhead’s on,” he says.
Dannielynn, however, is staying put, even though it wasn’t among the choices when Birkhead and Smith discussed possible baby names—Niko for a boy and Annabella or Marilyn Nicole, “after Marilyn Monroe,” for a girl. (The baby is named in honor of Smith’s son, Daniel, who died just three days after Dannielynn’s birth.)
Birkhead also opens up about when things soured between him and the late model, who died Feb. 8 of an accidental overdose, saying their split happened in April or May of last year. That was right before Smith took off, with Stern in tow, for the Bahamas, a move Birkhead says he doesn’t blame her for taking.
“If people are telling you that your baby can be taken from you and the laws are better in the Bahamas than they are in the States, you’re going to shop for what’s better for you,” he says. “I understand in hindsight what she was doing, but I don’t agree with it.
“I have hurt about it, but she’s gone, so where am I going to direct that hurt? I can’t hold that inside. I think she would have come around.”
While neither Birkhead nor OK! would confirm how much was shelled out for the exclusive rights for the glossy spread (before the deal was struck, some reports speculated the photos and interview would easily fetch more than $1 million), the new father did say any such payment would be going directly into a trust fund for Dannielynn.
http://www.eonline.com/news/article/index.jsp?uuid=0aeb7172-245f-4bd4-9c73-6a9d823f2780
The blog has it under 4/10/07 but it just an old photo brought back up from 9/05 because Larry is in it.
You are right he was probably working
Ping to post # 6,269.
I think she date Orlando Bloom aroud that time if I’m not mistaken.
Well if it was in the Enquirer it has to be true right? :-)
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Kudos re such terrific info on Drs. Barrett and Minnis!
Question - was there anything about a wife or family on Dr. Barrett? Didn’t see it in your posting or first few links, does he have a S.O.? Looks like he’s been a biggie in the Bahamas for a long time — in Ministry of Health, in Police Force, in hospital, in Addiction seminars and Insurance stuff for a long time. Hard to understand why Perper would have misspelled the name of someone so “prominent.”
Larry Birkhead Fires Back at Rumors that He Is Gay
OK magazine scored the first photos of Larry Birkhead tenderly posing with Baby Dannielynn, but now it seems Anna Nicole’s former boyfriend is preparing for another legal battle.
Headlines have been running rampant claiming that Larry is gay, and now TMZ.com reports that Birkhead has hired legal top gun Marty Singer, who reps Britney Spears, to file a suit for defamation of character.
OK Magazine’s Jennifer Burns also told us that Larry and former foe Howard K. Stern are suddenly good friends.
“Howard and Larry are really getting along,” Burns told us. “Larry actually would have a relationship with Howard. He doesn’t blame him. It’s not his fault. Anna had her own mind.”
In other news, Larry told OK magazine that Anna Nicole e-mailed him just three days before Dannielynn’s birth, saying, “Don’t fall in love again. I’d be a bit jealous.”
http://extratv.warnerbros.com/celebrity_highlights/anna_nicole_smith/
I really think the press is embellishing Larry’s so called friendship with Stern. It’s the same thing over and over again and it goes back to the quote of Stern helping him with Dannielynn and Anna having her own mind. The press is up to it’s tricks again. We as Freepers should know this playbook by heart when they do things like this to the President..lol.
Boy, Stern and Anna sure knew how to ruin people’s reputations, one wonders how many others they have smeared with false accusations. (Marshall did win a slander suit against her)
Brings to mind the "My brother, sister, father and mother raped an beat me", video.
I also have to wonder why Dr. Barrett's name is not on the inquest list!
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