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‘Book of Eli’ works best as a mainstream missionary

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UNC-TV will use the reach of its statewide television network to broadcast live cover-

age of Governor Beverly Perdue’s emergency briefings from the State Emergency Operations Center in Raleigh as North Carolina braces for what forecasters anticipate to be severe winter weather.

!e first briefing is scheduled for 10:00 a.m. Saturday, to be followed by updates every three to four hours as needed, according to the Gover-nor’s o"ce. Additional briefings are possible on Sunday and throughout the storm and its aftermath. UNC-TV will also make the television feed of its live coverage available to commercial broadcasters.

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Have you ever seen a blood-thirsty, foul-mouthed Christian missionary? You should.

Denzel Washington’s latest film, “!e Book of Eli,” is rated R for vi-olence and language, but like Dis-ney’s Narnia films, Christians will see much more in the film than the mainstream, secular audiences it was marketed to.

Washington plays Eli, a man whose mission is to find a safe place for the last remaining Bible in, ironically, a post apocalyptic world.

If journeying across the ashes of an America scorched by catas-trophe seems familiar, it’s because the film draws from similarities to Cormac McCarthy’s 2006 novel, “!e Road.”

Both stories tell of individuals trekking through a barren America,

following a road to the coast with no idea what to expect at the end. Eerily deserted houses, cannibals and shopping carts are common themes.

Unlike “!e Road,” however, the disaster in “!e Book of Eli” is explained, but (thankfully) not rushed.

It’s understood that people don’t need to know what happened right away, but ultimately knowing does provide a sense of closure. In Mc-Carthy’s novel the lack of explana-tion is written o# as either creative genius on the part of the author or annoyingly frustrating on the part of the reader.

“!e Book of Eli” is a highly styl-ized film, charged with impressive end-of-the-world imagery stressed with sinister tone.

!e cinematography is innova-tive from beginning to end, making the movie just as striking visually as it is emotionally and philosophi-cally.

Oh so artistically, one of the most sanguinary scenes is shot in silhou-ette from beginning to end, bless-ing the eyes of any uneasy viewers.

!e culture born in the three de-cades since disaster is uneducated and illiterate, as books are rare and life is rough.

Carnegie, played masterfully by Gary Oldman, is a man who mo-nopolizes intelligence, amassing surviving tomes and burning them.

But to others books are often treasured items, despite an inabil-ity to read. It’s a theme that speaks

volumes about today’s culture.As Kindles, iPads and blogs re-

duce reliance on printed word, the world is unwittingly locking knowledge in cyberspace and chips that may not be as infinite and in-destructible as we like to pretend.

People read newspapers less, stu-dents rely on sparknotes instead of literature. It may be that words have never meant less than they do today.

!e entire film, therefore, is one sermon on waste.

!e young Solara (Mila Kunis)

asks Eli what the world was like before…

“People had more than they needed,” he replies. And as we watch people not unlike ourselves fight over water and books, a pang of guilt wells up inside.

In one particularly moving scene, a sheer satisfaction long unknown shines from a woman’s face as she holds and reads a book for the first time in decades. It’s an unparalleled emotion. Over a book.

Even a miniscule hotel bottle of shampoo is a luxury unheard of. In

many ways, the film makes today’s economic recession seem like a golden era in history.

Eli is a simple man, a Chris-tian who talks about God, not Je-sus (like Hollywood prefers). His words are clean and audiences are asked to accept his defensive killing as sacrifices to keep the Bible safe.

And that is perhaps the most im-portant question of the entire film. Is it worth killing to save God’s word?

In Old Testament times God’s people defended themselves

Rumors of an Apple tablet cre-scendoed to unrivaled levels in re-cent months, yet when the secretive company finally debuted the iPad on January 27, about 70 million people already had the same technology in their pockets... they just called it the iPhone.

While the iPad mimics the design and operating system of its smaller cousin, the tablet remains wholly rev-olutionary for three reasons.

First, its large touch display. !e iP-hone's touchscreen is dreamy and all, but there's only so much action meaty fingers can get on a 3.5 inch screen. Web pages require zooming, movies demand squinting and games give o# that Less-than-DS feeling. !at said, products like Adobe Illustrator, Final Cut Pro and GarageBand will never be ported to the iPhone.

Enter iPad. With ten inches of lus-ciously touchy real estate, the applica-tions are endless. Apple demonstrated full-blown presentation, word-pro-cessing and spreadsheet software on the iPad to give developers a seductive glimpse of what's possible.

Secondly, the iPad is simply a snaz-zier reincarnation of what the Ma-cintosh was meant to be: "the com-puter for the rest of us." Apple made a mistake in marketing the iPad as a device for techies to bridge the gap between laptop and pocket comput-ers. It's not.

!e iPad is the easiest way to surf the web, read e-mail, browse pho-tos, keep a calendar, etc. !e average person doesn't edit movies, compose music, code websites or design posters and they don't need the complex file systems, messy desktops, and oomph overkill that bleeds from every com-puter on the market.

iPad brings ease to the InternetLarge screen, low price make Apple

tablet a beautyBy: Harrison Keely

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!e critics who reserve their most searing daggers for the iPad criticize the device from a power-user per-spective but fail to see its genius as a slate for the simple.

Kids, retirees, and average Joey now have a perfect, cheap, easy-to-use computer for day-to-day use. It boots instantly. Viruses are nonexistent. It can log online from anywhere. In fact, 70 million people already know how to use it instantly. And it's only going to get better.

Ultimately, the iPad that debuted January 27 is a first-generation de-vice. Like the iPod before it, there's a lot of room to grow.

When the iPod was first released in 2001 there was no web browser, no

color screen, no music store and no video. It's a little naked brick when juxtaposed with the 140,000 applica-tions and endless features available today.

Similarly, the iPad was born in the bare. It's a marvelous device, but the camera, the USB, the SD, etc... those will come in time. Let the thing breathe, people.

As the world accepts Apple's gift,

a radical reformation will sweep the computer industry. !e web will evolve into finger-friendly sites with larger buttons. Gestures will allow users to interact with the Internet. Feed animals on Farmville with your fingers or rotate pictures in Google image search with a swipe or a swirl.

!e applications already developed for the iPad are a peek of Apple's master plan for the future. Newspa-per pages will once again be designed by hand... on a screen. Photos will be retouched by touch. Files will be sorted with a flick. !e computer is getting intimate for the first time and all because of Apple. What the Wii did for video games, the iPad will do for the web.

As prices drop, the iPad will un-doubtedly be purchased as an impulse Internet accessory. Schools will save money purchasing iPads for students over costlier laptops; tech-support will be rendered obsolete by simplic-ity. In addition, textbook publishers have already committed to providing ebooks on the iPad platform.

!e screen, the simplicity and the sunny outlook will make the iPad a winner. If Microsoft's Surface com-puter had a baby Mozart, it would be the iPad. It's tiny, it's bursting with talent, it's already trendy and it's a few thousand dollars less expen-sive then mama. In fact, at $499, it's never been more a#ordable to buy a new Mac.

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FILM CRITIQUE

Promotional ArtEli (Denzel Washington) aims to save the earth’s last Bible in a post-apocalyptic landscape.

against unholy nations by going to war. It was an act to preserve what was valuable: their faith. In Egypt God struck down firstborn males when pharaoh refused to let the Is-raelites go.

But would Jesus have expected his disciples to kill their enemies so that God’s message could survive?

Carnegie knows the power of reli-gion over people and, like the Cath-olic church of the Middle Ages, he seeks to capitalize on the rare Bible and seize control of the population by o#ering hope. It’s a strange strat-egy for a scheming dictator.

“I grew up with that book; I know its power,” Carnegie tells Eli, pro-posing that he’ll share the Bible with the world.

When Eli declines the o#er, Carnegie orders his men to kill the Bible-toting man. Carnegie’s greed drives him to murder, proving that even the devil can know scripture.

It’s obvious that Carnegie knows the Bible, memorized scripture, and gets the whole Christianity thing, but on an intellectual level. And that’s often the way many of us are. We get religion, but we’re only in it for ourselves.

Yet the movie makes a deep con-trast between knowing theology and knowing God. It’s religion ver-sus relationship being taught with an $80 million budget.

Eli listens to God, talks to God and walks by faith. Carnegie, on the other hand, listens to himself.

Eli’s prayers are not prayers of

By: Harrison Keely

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Ellen Andrews to read poetry locallyEllen Andrews, for the past ten

years, has enjoyed western North Carolina and as much music and dancing, as many deer, turkeys, songbirds, flowers and friends as she could find. Someone once asked her how long she's lived here. Her an-

swer was and still is "Not long enough." Her poetry reflects the things that fill her day with delight and awe.

Please come for a morning of reading pleasure on Wednesday, February 10 at 10:30 . Ellen will be followed by an open mic, an opportunity for anyone who would like, to read and share their work. Co#ee with the Poets is sponsored by Netwest and hosted by Phillips and Llyod Book Shop on the square in Hayesville North Carolina. Co#ee, tea and morning pastries are served for a small fee by Crumpets Dessertery.

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It is said that to laugh is better than to cry…or in my case to mur-der. Last !anksgiving my Buddy gave our dog the raw dressing awaiting its turn in the oven. !e dressing was in the plastic bowl that usually houses our meal left-overs. !ese scraps are eventually added to Rocky’s dry food. I mer-rily laughed at that holiday fiasco. Everybody is entitled to one mis-take.

Yesterday I decided to make my hubby a chicken and rice casserole. I boiled the chicken on the stove top and removed the pan so the chicken could cool for later de-boning. While the broccoli and rice cooked in the microwave, Sam, our Siamese cat, and I grabbed a quick afternoon nap.

Sure enough, Buddy did it again. He gave Rocky the big pan of chicken parts sitting in succu-lent broth. My delusional husband wrongly concluded that I had been so compassionate during that cold streak as to boil fresh chicken for our German shepherd. I am gener-ally a nice lady, but not that nice.

I held up an imaginary butcher knife in the fist of my hand imitat-ing Norman the maniac in Psycho. I teasingly told Buddy that I felt like doing him in. Hack. Hack. He laughed and I laughed.

Mark Twain says it well:"!e human race has only one

really e"ective weapon, and that is laughter. !e moment it arises, all your irritations and resentments slip away and the sunny spirit takes their place."

Buddy has been forgiven, but hopefully an acquaintance I shall call Sue will not repeat her faux paus.

Sue was waiting for a friend in a busy restaurant when her body told her that she desperately needed to pass gas. Sue didn’t want to leave her table empty while searching for the restroom. She glanced around to access her surroundings. Seated guests were chatting and the house music was playing really, really loud. !e petite and usually discreet Sue timed the expulsion of pressing gas to the rhythmic beat of the music.

After a couple of songs, Sue began to feel better. She daintily unwrapped her cloth napkin and noticed that almost everybody in the room was glaring at her. It was at that moment Sue realized, to her chagrin, that she was listening to music on her iPod.

So my advice to all the Sues in Readerland, laugh aloud, say Mia Culpa, and observe your surround-ings before you pass gas. And to my Buddy, the third time you mistake my grub for dog food, you will not be laughing.

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Wyatt Earp has probably been portrayed by more actors than any other Old West character-- Ran-dolph Scott, Henry Fonda, James Stewart, and in the last couple of decades Kurt Russell and Kevin Costner, just to name a few. !e public seems to never tire of the story of Wyatt Earp and his broth-ers especially in Tombstone, Ari-zona.

In 1946 John Ford, who had per-sonally known Wyatt Earp when Ford was a young man, determined to tell the story yet again. Ford’s ver-sion is actually a remake of Frontier Marshal (1939) starring Randolph Scott as Wyatt Earp. !e 1939 ver-sion is supposed to be based on Stuart N. Lake’s novel Wyatt Earp, Frontier Marshal. Lake’s book was said to be based on interviews he did with Wyatt Earp himself. Un-der these circumstances, one would think the story might be rather au-thentic. However, some historians

have said that Earp himself embel-lished his tales. Such practices were not unusual.

!e story told here is pretty much stock in trade. Perhaps the filming of the movie is more interesting in this case. Ford resorted to his fa-vorite location, Monument Valley, Utah, property of the Navajo Indi-an tribe. He had filmed Stagecoach (1939) there just about seven years earlier, and he had fallen in love with the place.

!e film crew moved into the valley and built the town of Tomb-stone in a very short period of time. Ford picked the location so that he would get some great panoramic views of the valley. Some critics have said that Ford did not pho-tograph his actors in the valley. He photographed Monument Valley with his actors in it.

!e cast reads like a who’s who of Hollywood in the 1940s. Henry Fonda portrays Wyatt Earp very convincingly. Victor Mature is the hard drinking, gambling, ill Dr. John Henry Holiday. Walter Bren-

nan, a veteran of several villainous parts, gives us a good performance as Old Man Clanton, the head of the Clanton clan. Ward Bond who had worked with John Ford on a number of films, portrayed Morgan Earp. And a young newcomer, Tim Holt, who was beginning to make his mark in the movie industry, gave us his rendition of Virgil Earp.

!e entire story of course is lead-ing up to the famous gunfight at the OK Corral. Ford staged this gunfight according to informa-tion that he said he got from Wy-att Earp himself. But one must be careful again, because those who are involved in events some time embellished them for their own aggrandizement. !e actual gun-fight lasted less than 30 seconds, but most movies make it last much longer. !is film is no exception.

Another point of interest con-cerning the gunfight is the fact that it did not actually happen in the OK Corral, but on a street near the OK Corral. If you’re interested, you can visit Tombstone, Arizona and see a re-enactment of the gunfight. While there don’t forget to drop by the o#ce of the Tombstone Epitaph where you can pick up a newspaper that tells the story of the gunfight and its aftermath.

William V. Reynolds is the author of “Murder in the Okefenokee” avail-able at McCaysville Public Market and Pat’s Country Kitchen in Mc-Caysville; Parris Pharmacy, !e Book Nook and Ingles in Blue Ridge; Book Nook in Blairsville; and Phillips and Lloyd in Hayesville.

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Saturday, February 6 – 1 pm – 4 pm – Paint a Single Pink Rose Watercolor Batik for Valentine’s Day with Ver-lee Jones. It will be an 11”x14” matted painting project done on Japanese Rice Paper in Batik Fashion. !e Class Fee is $15; the Supply Fee is $15.

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Saturday, February 6, from 1:00 -4:00, ArtWorks Artisan Centre will be featuring the work of local woodworker Ro-land Hardee.

Demonstrating will be jewelry designer and creator, Ev-elyn Gantnier. ArtWorks is located behind the Holiday Inn Express at 308 Big Sky Drive.

When Roland Hardee sees a tree he is actually envision-ing a beautiful turned bowl, a table or chair, or some other useful item or accessory.

Hardee has had the desire to work with wood since a boy but, lacking knowhow and experience found his endeavors produced equal parts of frustration and pride. It wasn't until Hardee met an accomplished woodworker who invited him to spend time with him in his workshop, that he experienced the ultimate joy in woodworking. As Hardee puts it he was "sawdust anointed". Hardee is constantly honing his skills, learning something new with each project he undertakes.

After seeing Hardee's work you'll look at a fallen tree in a whole new light. Wood becomes synonymous with beauty.

Evelyn Gantnier is a master at her craft, wire wrap jewelry. She also creates her own dichroic glass pieces that she incor-porates into her work.

Gantnier was first a student then later an instructor at William Holland School of Lapidary Arts. Gantnier has also taught at the Southeast Federation of Mineralogical So-cieties, the Bead Shed and ArtWorks.

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While simultaneously reading Vanity Fair’s interview with Tiger Woods and watching Brett Favre’s Vikings fall to the New Orleans Saints on January 24, something caught my attention.

FOX broadcaster Joe Buck was talk-ing about the finest athletes in sports gathering together for a high-profile contest the week before a big event. I looked up from my magazine and said, “Hey, Joe Buck is talking about NA-SCAR right in the middle of this foot-ball game. Cool!”

I was wrong, of course. Although there were numerous promos for the 2010 NASCAR season, and especially for the Daytona 500, during the game, the star-studded event Buck was refer-ring to is the NFL’s annual Pro Bowl game, which has been moved this year to the weekend before the Super Bowl. And naturally, the ‘big event’ Buck was talking about is Super Bowl XLIV, which is either how you say the number 44 in Roman or some type of new flu vaccination. (Before you start squawk-ing at me, yes, I know the Romans spoke Latin. It seems they had numbers but no words. Weird.)

Anyway, just to lay it out in the most simplistic terms, the NFL now has es-tablished a two-week period – their most visible period of the season – with an all-star game on one weekend fol-lowed by the biggest game of the year on the following weekend. Is it just me, or does this sound awfully familiar? Let’s see ... For over two decades, NASCAR’s top drivers have competed in the Bud-weiser Shootout on the first weekend in February, a tremendously popular lead-in to NASCAR’s ‘big event.’

Currently, there are 28 drivers who qualify for the 2010 Shootout, includ-ing 2009 Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup contenders, the 2009 Ray-bestos Rookie of the Year, former NA-SCAR Sprint Cup Series champions and Shootout winners, and active driv-ers who have won either the Daytona

500 or the Coke Zero 400. In other words,all of the sport’s biggest stars will be repesented.

! following weekend marks the return of the Great American Race, the legendary Daytona 500. So that’s two weeks of excitement leading up to one major sporting spectacle. What a concept. You’re a little late to the party, NFL, but good call.

After I processed this, I had one of my deja vu moments, which I like to call FedEx flashes. It’s hard to believe, but it’s been six years since NASCAR Chairman and CEO Brian France an-nounced the creation of what is now called the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup, an innovative new system for crowning the Cup Series champion. You know the drill. After the first 26 races, the 12 highest-ranked drivers are seeded based on their total number of wins and compete in the last 10 races for the series title.

What a di"erence a few years makes. Nowadays, most fans agree the cre-ation of the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup is one of the most successful changes made to the sport in its entire history, the greatest thing since sliced bread (with apologies to Joey Logano).

2007 marked the first year of the PGA’s FedEx Cup, a playo" system where golfers accumulate points for each event they play. !e field is gradu-ally winnowed down to the top per-formers, the points are reset, and the 30 best-scoring golfers compete for the title. Great idea, PGA. You scored a real hole in one with that one.

NASCAR does take its hits and criticisms from time to time, and for the most part, absorbs them with grace and humor. If both the most “refined” sport and the most popular sport are copying pages out of NASCAR’s book, more power to them. We all know the proverb that describes imitation as the sincerest form of flattery, and we wish them well.

Still, it’s important to remember these additional words of wisdom when borrowing ideas from NASCAR: Of-ten imitated; never duplicated.

Set for Porter tribute gets underway

Bonny Herman/ Contributed PhotoOn the set of Hot ‘N Cole…. L-R Bob LeKites, David Setzer, Steve Smith, Jerome Laux, and Director Laurel Adams.

“For a small musical, this show is huge,” beamed director Laurel Adams on the set of Hot ‘N Cole,” a musical tribute to Cole Por-ter, which opens February 19th at the Peacock Playhouse.

Adams was challenged by the number of songs (49) and the biographical monologues, which required keeping the eyes interested as well as the ears during the two-act musical. !is meant that great care had to be taken in setting the stage for the show.

Charles Decker, structural engineer-architect-artist, proved equal to the task. He combined his three talents to design a portable, multi-level, rotating set which he feels will have great visual impact on the audience. A construction team of versatile volunteers then went about putting wood, saw, drill, hammer, and paint to good use.

Jerome Laux, a retired chemist, describes the set as an abstract concept, unlike sets usually seen on the Peacock Playhouse stage.

“It’s simply a venue to present the star of the show, which is Porter’s music. We didn’t want to detract from the songs being sung. And it had to be movable,” he added, “because Moscow

Nights will be presented before Hot ‘N Cole, so we had to be sure our set is concealed during their performance.” (!e Russian dance group will appear on Sun., Feb. 7 at 2:00 p.m.)

Also on the construction team are Bob Le-Kites and David Setzer, both of whom are as comfortable acting as they are pounding nails. Among shows LeKites appeared in are Catch Me if You Can, Oklahoma, and Peril at the Pea-cock. A man of many talents, he’ll also handle the sound and lighting for Hot ‘N Cole, assisted by trainee, Emma Timson.

Setzer is a familiar face on the Licklog stage, having appeared in more than twenty produc-tions including On Golden Pond, Harvey, Wiz-ard of Oz and others too numerous to men-tion.

Rounding out the construction team is Steve Smith, whose masterful carpentry is invaluable to the community theatre. Among the many challenging sets he helped build were the an-gled skylight in Barefoot in the Park, the mul-tiple doors and working elevator in Two Into One, and the revolving bed and nutcracker guardhouse in I Do! I Do!

As director, Adams also had to make deci-

sions about who sang what songs. “Each actor brings a di"erent personality and

voice range to the show, and since there are no characters to hide behind, everyone is required to show a lot of themselves. It's my first musi-cal revue as a director and I am in awe of people who do this all the time."

Show dates for this enjoyable musical are February 19-21 and 26-28. Tickets will be on sale at the Peacock Playhouse box o#ce Mon-Fri, 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM, beginning Febru-ary 8. Adults $15, Students and Children $8. Rated PG. For further information, telephone 828-389-8632 or toll free 1-877-691-9906.

Special Note: !e Licklog Players want to do their part to aid the people of Haiti, and would appreciate contributions to this cause. Working through the Salvation Army’s Haiti Disaster Relief Fund, they will accept and greatly appre-ciate donations during the run of Hot ‘N Cole.

Also, county food banks continue to be in need of canned and boxed food items for the needy in our community. Please place items in the box in the Lobby for distribution by the sta".

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Prescription drug help available Chorus begins season!e Mountain Community Chorus marks the beginning of its spring sea-

son on Monday, February 8th. Auditions for new singers (tenors and basses especially in demand) will begin at 6 PM at the Young Harris College Clegg Recital Hall, Young Harris GA.

Music will be distributed for the April 30th and May 2nd concerts to be performed at the YHC auditorium.

MCC, directed by Bill Fox, aims to provide opportunities in our mountain area for serious choral singers to experience together the learning and perfor-mance of challenging choral works.

Music performed includes a variety of music, especially classical, spiritual, folk, traditional, and contemporary.

At present, MCC is comprised of 65 members from North GA and West-ern NC. Members travel from as far as Ellijay, GA and Nantahala, NC to learn and join together in song.

Have fun, make friends, acquire skills, and add your talent to this dedicated group of singers. For more information, visit MCC’s website at www.mapaa.org.

Zion United Methodist Church proudly announces Bonnie Hayward in her very first Organ Recital to be held at the church, February 13th at 3:00 p.m.

Renown organist and instructor, Dr. Robert Wolfersteig will be assisting.You are cordially invited to come and let Bonnie bless your heart with her

God given talent.Bonnie has always had a love for music. When she was growing up, Bon-

nie perfected the accordion and the piano. Later she took a genuine interest in the organ that lends itself so well to the sacred music that she dearly loves.

Bonnie has only been taking organ lessons for the past two years and she firmly believes that God inhabits the praise of His people! She is the Min-ister of Music for Zion United Methodist Church, playing the piano, organ, and dulcimer. At the present time she is also learning to play the violin.

Come and share an afternoon of beautiful music and Christian fellow-ship. Zion UMC is located at 5708 Young Harris Highway in Blairsville, Georgia.

Organ recital scheduled at Zion United Methodist

MUSIC NOTES

!e Berea College Bluegrass Ensemble will appear in a free concert at 7:30 pm Friday, February 5 at the John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown. !e concert will be held in the Keith House Community Room and is free and open to the public. Donations are welcome.

!e Berea College Bluegrass Ensemble was founded in the fall of 1999 to give Berea College Students with background or potential in bluegrass music an op-portunity to play in a “working“ bluegrass band with weekly rehearsals, performances and travel. !e group’s founder and director, Al White, has performed pro-fessionally with many bluegrass bands including the Bluegrass Alliance and the McLain Family Band, and teaches Appalachian Instruments in Berea Col-lege's music department. Band members are selected by audition, and typically remain with the group until they graduate from Berea College. Members also earn

academic credit for each semester of participation in the group. !e band’s recent tour of Japan marked its second visit there, the first being in 2006. !e Blue-grass Ensemble toured Ireland in 2004 and 2007. !e group performs for many functions at Berea College and has also performed at East Tennessee State Uni-versity, Glenville State College in West Virginia and in Silver Spring, Maryland. Band members include Jory Hutchins, fiddle; Darrin Hacquard, guitar; John Bradley, bass; Andrew Taylor, fiddle; Micah Ruell, lead vocals, and Al White, banjo.

Upcoming Folk School concerts include Buck and Nelson (Feb. 12) and !e Rosin Sisters (Feb. 26). !e Folk School concert schedule is available on the world wide web at: http://www.folkschool.org. For further information call the Folk School at 1-800-FOLK-SCH or 837-2775.

Well-known and respected throughout the tri-state area, !e Promise Quartet is known for their individ-ual singing skills and their incredible harmony. !ese four men, Eric, Patrick, Chris, and Kurtis, along with their ever present sound man, Travis, are donating their time and amazing talent to help raise money for Je" and Karen Gooch to satisfy the astronomical medi-cal bills associated with the heart problem su"ered by their 15 year old son, Chandler.

Many of our readers are aware of the heart valve blockage that was impeding the flow of blood through Chandler’s heart resulting in extreme fatigue and could prove ultimately fatal. After examinations by doctors and specialists open-heart surgery was prescribed. Several days before he was to go to the hospital for pre-op examinations, Chandler felt something move in his chest, but not wanting to worry his parents any

further, he said nothing about it.When he went in for the pre-op examination, to the

doctor’s surprise and consternation they could find no trace of the blockage. After further examination, he was pronounced fine, sent home and cleared to resume all of his normal activities, including sports of all kind. It was truly a miracle wrought by God, through the prayers sent up by Chandler’s church, family, friends, and others far and wide.

!ere are still those bills to pay and so everyone is invited to a benefit gospel concert “Hearts for Gooch” at Murphy First Baptist Church on Saturday, February 6, at 6:00 P.M. Admission is free and a special o"ering will be taken with all monies collected going to satisfy Chandler’s medical costs. For information call Ron Mack at (828) 494-4501 or the church o#ce at (828) 837-2615.

North Carolinians who are unable to a"ord their prescription medicines can now get them for

free, Attorney General Roy Cooper, the North Carolina Association of Free Clinics, and NC MedAssist an-nounced today.

Starting today, a pilot program begun in March of last year to give low-income North Carolinians free access to needed prescription drugs has been expanded to serve residents statewide.

“Times are hard and people are sacrificing to make ends meet, but they shouldn’t have to sacrifice their health,” Cooper said. “Qualified low-income North Carolinians can now get access to the medications they need to stay healthy.”

!e program, administered by NC MedAssist, has created a mail-order central pharmacy to provide free brand name and generic drugs. !e drugs are donated by participating pharmaceutical companies.

“!e NC MedAssist program is designed to help the thousands of

people in our state ease that danger-ous burden of choosing between everyday necessities in life—buying groceries, paying the utility bill or fill-ing a prescription,” said Jason Baisden, Executive Director of the NC Asso-ciation of Free Clinics. “Having pre-scriptions medications to help main-tain a healthy lifestyle is a necessity.”

“!e growing number of unin-sured in North Carolina—which currently is nearly one in five among us—face challenges every day in ac-cessing medications that can improve their health status. !e NC MedAs-sist program will greatly enhance the ability of low-income and uninsured people to access the medications they desperately need,” said Pam Silber-man, JD, DrPH, President and CEO of the North Carolina Institute of Medicine.

Who is eligible to enroll in the pro-gram?

North Carolina residents who are:Adults and children living at or

below 200% of the Federal Poverty Level.

Adults and children who do not

qualify for: Medicaid, Veterans Ad-ministration or private health insur-ance.

Medicare Part D participants who fall in the “donut hole” may be eligible after consultation with NC MedAs-sist.

How can North Carolinians enroll in the program?

Eligible North Carolina residents can enroll in the program by down-loading an enrollment packet from the NC MedAssist website at www.medassist.org, or by calling at 1-866-331-1348.

Eligible North Carolina residents living in Forsyth, Stokes, Davie or Yadkin counties should enroll in the program by calling MedAid at 336-714-2359.

How does the program work?Eligible North Carolinians can

now enroll with NC MedAssist using one application form rather than ap-plying with each drug company. !e program has partnered with pharma-ceutical companies such as Novartis, Eli Lilly and AstraZeneca to bulk ship drugs to one central location.

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!e central pharmacy run by NC Me-dAssist keeps both brand name and generic drugs in stock, and can ship medications directly to participants’ homes, making it quick and easy for people to get the medicines they need.

Prescription assistance programs o"ered through drug companies can require applicants to fill out separate applications for each company. De-pending on the number of medica-tions needed, the process can be time-consuming and complicated.

How is the program funded?!e program is funded for the first

year by a grant of $873,000 from Coo-per’s Consumer Protection and Edu-cation Fund.

About the North Carolina Associa-tion of Free Clinics

!e North Carolina Association of Free Clinics, founded in 1998, is a pri-vate, nonprofit, 501(c) (3) tax-exempt organization that conducts advocacy, research, public relations, resource de-velopment, training and technical as-sistance on behalf of its member free clinics. !e North Carolina Associa-tion of Free Clinics is the largest state association with 75+ member free clinics, serving 79 counties throughout North Carolina. For more informa-tion, please visit www.ncfreeclinics.org or call 336-251-1111.

About NC MedAssist NC MedAssist is a community

pharmacy founded in 1997 through the e"orts of the Mecklenburg Medi-cal Society Alliance Endowment with the assistance of a $55,000 grant from the employees of Presbyterian Hos-pital. NC MedAssist has dispensed over $30 million in free prescription medicines for our clients. Most of the drugs are secured from the Patient As-sistance Programs available through participating pharmaceutical compa-nies. As a result of NC MedAssist’s positive impact on the community, it has been named as one of the top 25 non-profit organizations in Charlotte by the Charlotte Business Journal. For more information, please visit www.medassist.org or call 704-536-1790.

Berea College Bluegrass Band to perform at Folk School on Feb. 5

Promise Quartet to perform at bene!t for Gooch family

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In the morning, you might cleanse, tone and moisturize. But your night-time skin care routine requires more than just a quick swipe with a wash-cloth. In fact, your skin needs addition-al TLC before bedtime.

During the day, environmental fac-tors are battling against our skin and breaking down the structural compo-nents which keep our skin tight and firm. Elastin, which is one of these components, is primarily composed of cross-linked fibers to form a durable, resilient web. In facial skin, this elas-tin web helps to keep skin flexible but

tight, providing a bounce-back reac-tion to its normal shape as it stretches to accommodate normal activities like talking.

As skin ages, the natural cross-linking of elastin fibers is reduced. At night, while you sleep, the skin works to repair and restore its structural com-ponents, and actually "opens up" to al-low creams and serums to absorb more readily. You can get the most bang for your buck, then, by applying products with powerful anti-aging ingredients before bed.

"It's important to establish a night-

time skincare regimen to restore skin's defenses and replenish essential mois-ture," explains nutritionist Cynthia Sass, MPH, RD. She adds that the skin can lose moisture during sleep, making hydrating ingredients espe-cially important.

To help skin restore itself at night, women should adopt a nighttime skin care routine that includes an exfoliating cleanser, a serum and a moisturizing cream created for evening use. Sass

recommends applying a nighttime serum containing beneficial and ro-bust ingredients such as DDF Restor-ing Night Serum (www.ddfskincare.com). !is nighttime serum contains an exclusive turmeric complex that strengthens the moisture barrier and drenches the skin with essential hydra-tion to allow the natural cross linking of elastin, helping to repair the look of deep wrinkles for visible results in just two weeks. Women who used DDF Restoring Night Serum saw noticeable improvements. After four weeks of use, the skin's surface structure doubled in strength, significantly minimizing the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles.

"!e secret to radiant, firm and more youthful-looking skin is a skincare diet rich in robust ingredients," says Sass.

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Only God can make a tree: recovery of our forests is a crucial issue

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“I think that I shall never see…A poem lovely as a tree”, Joyce Kilmer’s famous poem. One of the benefits of living in the Southern Appalachians is we enjoy more than 150 species of trees. In terms of species, the walk up Brasstown Bald in Georgia is equivalent to walking from Georgia to Massa-chusetts! Trees produce oxygen. One medium size tree produces enough oxygen for one person. When you walk in one of our for-ests, breath deep and enjoy.

Our Southern Appalachian mountains were a prime growing forest for the Chestnut tree where it once occupied about 25% of the forest. !e trees were “virtually” wiped out in the 1930’s from a fun-gus blight. !e good news is that the American Chestnut Founda-tion has successful created a hy-

brid using the surviving American Chestnut trees and the blight resis-tant Chinese Chestnut. !ese hy-brids have the characteristics of our American Chestnut but are blight resistant. Several hundred of these revival chestnuts were planted in the Nantahala National forest in NC, one of the three test forests. !ey were in the 3-4 foot high range and some of the trees are now 6 feet tall and are flowering.

!e Eastern Canadian Hem-lock, at the limit of its southern range in our Georgia mountains, is under attack by the wooly adel-gid. !e adelgid, a sap-sucking bug accidentally introduced from East Asia to the United States in 1924, has spread very rapidly in southern parts of the range. Virtually all of the hemlocks in the southern Ap-palachian Mountains have seen in-festations of the insect within the last five to seven years. Workers are attempting to save the hemlocks in the Great Smoky Mountain Na-

tional Park by spraying a soap so-lution on the large hemlocks. !e photo is taken along Jakes Creek trail near Elkmont.

In the Colorado Rocky Moun-tains, where I live for the winter, the Lodgepole pines are dying and whole mountain sides are brown from the dead. It is projected that all Lodgepole pines in Colorado will succumb to the pine beetle. Recently many of the pines in the Southern Appalachians were de-stroyed by the southern pine beetle. While many trees died, the South-ern Appalachian Forest is making a great comeback by other species taking over. !e forest is resilient due to the soil and rain conditions.

Joyce Kilmer’s famous poem concludes “Poems are made by fools like me,

But only God can make a tree.” Comments or questions are wel-

come to me at [email protected], 828-557-7659. For more informa-tion on the plant rescue team or the

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Have you ever woken up in the middle of the night, opened your eyes, and couldn't see a thing? Somebody forgot to turn on the night light! !is could make your trip to the bathroom a tricky ad-venture.

Astronomers have a similar prob-lem. Out in deep space, in the vast realm between stars, it's as dark as your bathroom at midnight. !ey can't see a thing.

Yet there is "stu" " out there. Dwarf stars, faint clouds of gas, and dark asteroids are just a few of the cool objects waiting to be dis-covered. But how?

!e answer is "Herschel." !at's the name of a new space telescope launched into orbit last May. With Herschel on duty, it's like someone walked into the room and turned on the lights.

Herschel is an infrared tele-scope. You know how soldiers use infrared night vision goggles to see things in the dark? Herschel works in much the same way. It detects the infrared "body heat" of distant stars, planets, and asteroids.

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director of NASA's Herschel Sci-ence Center. "We can't observe the infrared universe from the ground because our atmosphere blocks in-frared light. !at's why we need a space telescope like Herschel."

Herschel uses a mirror to focus infrared radiation into a picture—and what a mirror it is! !e re-flecting surface is 6.5 meters wide. !at's almost 20 feet. If your mom stood on your dad's shoulders, and then your grandma climbed up on your mom's shoulders, this stack of three people still wouldn't be quite as tall as Herschel's mirror.

Herschel's big mirror has a col-lecting area 16 times greater than any previous infrared space tele-scope. !at means the telescope can see things that are extremely faint, dark, and far away. Astrono-mers expect big discoveries in the months and years ahead.

As for the bathroom …you're going to have to find that on your own. Herschel is occupied.

Play the infrared astronomy typing game, “Sign Here,” at !e Space Place, spaceplace.nasa.gov/en/kids/spitzer/signs.

!is article was provided courtesy of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under a contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administra-tion.

Tom Harrington/ Contributed PhotosHemlocks are being sprayed with a soap solution in an attempt to save the hemlocks in the Great Smokey Mountain National Park

By: Johanne KittlePlant Rescue Team

Georgia Mountain Research and Edu-cation Center, contact Jennifer Cordier at [email protected], 706-745-9317 or Clare Johnston at [email protected], 706-745-2655.

Wooly adelgids have infested virtually all hemlocks in the Southern Appala-chians

In the event of winter weather, motorists are asked to give snow plows and other NCDOT equip-ment plenty of room and to avoid unnecessary travel, both for their safety and to allow crews time to clear a"ected roadways.

If travel is absolutely necessary, motorists should use the following precautions:

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foot o" the gas and turn the steering wheel in the direction of the slide. Do not apply the brakes as that will cause further loss of control of the

the right of way when approaching an intersection where tra#c lights are out. Treat this scenario as a four-

take it with you. You can contact the Highway Patrol statewide by calling *HP (*47) or call the county emer-gency center by dialing 911.

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Dance provides glimpse of old RussiaLIFE & ARTS 8BSentinel Newspapers

February 3, 2010

Oh my... Why did I get this dog?

Brasstown Concert Association (BCA) presents the colorful and popular Moscow Nights and Golden Gates ensembles in a concert on Sun-day, February 7 at 2:30pm at the Pea-cock Playhouse in Hayesville, NC.

!e trio of musicians forming

Moscow Nights is composed of clas-sically trained Russian artists now based in Raleigh, NC. From their initial performances in Western Eu-rope the group has brought their daz-zling music to North America, with a repertoire centered on masterpieces of Russian folklore representing a rich cultural diversity.

Moscow Nights will be joined

on stage by the very talented and youthful dancers (aged 13-19) from the Golden Gates troupe of St. Pe-tersburg, Russia. !rough music and dance these two ensembles present a carefully chosen program of rich tra-ditions, rescued from obscurity and brought to the public with energy and infectious rhythms.

!e Moscow Nights and Golden

It was just a year ago that we vis-ited our local shelter and brought home Cody, a one-year old, red merle Australian Shepherd. We had a hole in our family after the death of our senior girl, Abbey, and wanted to add another canine kid to the household. Brad and I had the appropriate conversations about what type of dog might best suit our lifestyle and agreed we wanted a high energy, young dog and chose another Australian Shepherd since we already had Gibson, a six-year old Aussie.

At the shelter, we performed a thorough Temperament Assess-ment on Cody and his behavior that day showed us he was good with people, good with other dogs (we took Gibson with us to meet him) and was relaxed around cats (important because we have 4 furry felines). So we chose Cody as our own and slowly introduced him to the other animals in the household. !e first couple of days he was seemingly a very relaxed boy, but quickly turned into an out of con-trol young dog!

Actually, it’s not unusual for a dog’s behavior to change after leav-ing the stress of living in a shelter environment. In Cody’s case, he developed a post neutering infec-tion which caused him not to feel well for a few days and when he began to perk up, any and every-thing was so very stimulating to him that his behavior was over the top….very over the top! What we thought was going to be a very easy introduction to the household, was quite the opposite. We admit to having had quite a few “what in the world have we done” moments.

So what do you do if you find yourself thinking, “Why did I get this dog?”

First, here a few things that you don’t want to do:

You don’t compare him to the dog who recently passed away (new dogs can never immediately com-pare to the Super Dog who has passed on).

You don’t compare him to the existing dog(s) in your household (who has already settled in and with whom you already have a wonder-ful relationship).

You don’t blame the new dog (everything in his world has been turned upside down and he’s ad-justing to a new lifestyle too).

Once you’ve quit feeling sorry for yourself because of that out of con-trol canine, you quit complaining and start training!

You make the commitment to incorporate training into your ev-eryday lifestyle and begin making baby steps in teaching the dog ap-propriate house manners. If you don’t teach him, who will?

You interrupt fractious behaviors you DON’T want and begin rein-forcing all the behaviors you DO want. For example, when Cody didn’t know what to do in his new home, his tendency was to go UP, so we began feeding him a treat any and every time four feet were on the floor, when he was sitting and when he o"ered a down position.

You give him plenty of exercise, both physical exercise and mental stimulation (a tired dog is a happy dog…and makes for a happy hu-man!).

You change your focus of only paying attention to him when he’s being fractious and begin paying attention and reinforcing all the many things he does that you like.

It’s amazing how quickly the behavior will begin to turn around with consistent focus on rewarding the behaviors that you like. All liv-ing beings repeat behaviors that are rewarded; you just want to make sure you’re reinforcing the ones you want!

Lisa Lyle Waggoner is a Certified Professional Dog Trainer, a dogTEC Certified Dog Walker, as well as a Training Mentor for Animal Be-havior College. She enjoys providing behavior and training solutions to clients in the tri-state area of North Carolina, Georgia and Tennessee through her company Cold Nose Col-lege. 828-644-9148 or www.Cold-NoseCollege.com

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Gates performance is supported in part by !e North Carolina Arts Council, an agency funded by the State of North Carolina and the Na-tional Endowments for the Arts.

Moscow Nights and Golden Gates will appear at the Peacock Playhouse in Hayesville, NC on February 7 at 2:30pm. Please note the procedure for ticket reservations, which di"ers from the usual BCA concerts: As seating is limited it is strongly ad-vised to reserve attendance for any-one wishing to attend. For season ticket holders, this performance is in-cluded but attendance must be con-firmed to be assured of a seat. Priority for entrance will be given to season ticket holders only through Tuesday, February 2 at 5pm. For any addi-tional tickets or for those not holding season tickets, all tickets are $15.00. Reservations are for entrance only; seats are not reserved. Any remain-ing non-reserved tickets for the event may be purchased at the door on Sunday February 7. Tickets will be available for pickup from 1:30pm on the day of the performance. Payment is by cash or check only. To reserve tickets, please call 828 837-8468 or 828 389-2595, between noon and 7pm only, or email [email protected]

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By: Natalie Moses Contributing Writer

By: Lisa Lyle Waggoner Contributing Writer

Audrey Heirs, a former presi-dent and fifteen-year member of the Misty Mountain Quilters Guild, presented the January program to the organization. !e Guild, cur-rently with over 200 members from five counties, met January 25 at the First United Methodist Church of Blairsville. Ms. Heirs, who has col-lected and studied historical fab-rics, articles of clothing, and quilts for over thirty years, is especially interested in items made from feed sacks.

Wooden barrels, used for ship-ping feed and food, were slowly replaced by hand-loomed cot-ton sacks in the 1800's. !e first sacks were white, brown, or echru colors. As more women began us-ing the sacks for clothing, table-

cloths, and quilts, manufactur-ers started printing designs on the sack fabric. A one hundred pound sack would yield one yard of fabric, which was extremely valuable dur-ing Depression years.

To avoid wasting anything, the selvages were used for shoelaces, and the thread for tatting and cro-chet. Ms. Heirs saw her first feed sack quilt at age four, when she re-ceived a doll quilt from her moth-er. !e quilt shown in the photo is named "Conversations With Granny Carrie and Grandma Eth-el", and was made in 2007 with vintage fabric and feed sacks by Ms. Heirs.

For more information about the MMQG, visit the website: misty-mountainquiltguild.com.

Feed sacks are a rich part of American History

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