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TOUR HIGHLIGHTS • Eight days, six nights in Munich, one hotel! • Munich city tour • Munich Hofbrauhaus dinner and show • Neuschwanstein Castle and carriage ride • Hohenschwangau • Oberammegau • Innsbruck • Three Christmas markets • Optional trips: Salzburg, Nuremberg & Rothenburg INCLUSIONS • Roundtrip airfare (RDU) • Professional tour director • Eight meals (6 breakfasts, 2 dinners) • Sightseeing per itinerary and all admissions • Motorcoach transportation • Baggage handling

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LeTTer From THe EdiTor by Barbara PeTTy

his month I dedicate my letter to the concept of change: changes in our health; changes in our relationships; changes at work; and the biggest change of all—learning to live with the death of a loved one. Some people say that an unwanted divorce is worse than a spouse dying… Last summer I wrote about a health issue I had—arrhythmia came on very quickly. Fortunately it was stress-related and has since dissipated. I do know, however, several friends and family members that live with a chronic illness or condition. How does one deal with that? Losing a job is incredibly traumatic—I think more for men because so much of their identity is tied to what they do. But regardless, loss of income and selfesteem is devastating for either sex. What about change in lifestyle or where you live? Downsizing can be very taxing… what to keep, what to toss, what to give away. I know that it is coming for us, and we are preparing for the inevitable by gradually going through every room in the house—including attic and garage—and making some tough decisions about what goes. Well, some of it is easy to toss, like the boxes of tax records for the past 30 years, or all the material Greg kept when he was a mortgage banker. Other things, like the kid’s favorite toys and books growing up, Erika’s American Girl collection, Aaron’s sports trophies will have to go… hopefully the children will take them. What about the desire to make a change in society; to live a life that is fulfilling? Those kinds of changes can be very positive and spiritually rewarding. There are many more examples of change, but rather than continue with my comments, I would rather share with you some of the thoughts on “change” that I ran across: “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.” ~ maHaTma gandHi “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” ~ margareT mead

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“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.” ~ alberT einsTein “Love can change a person the way a parent Boom! can change a baby—awkwardly, Aug. 2014 Crosswordand often with a great deal of mess.” ~ lemony sniCKeT, HorseradisH “When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not yet ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny.” ~ Paulo CoelHo, THe deVil and miss Prym “Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things ﬂow naturally forward in whatever way they like.” ~ lao TZu “Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”

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“I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.” ~ moTHer Teresa As Greg and I anticipate more life changes, my goal is to accept my fate with as much grace and wisdom as these learned individuals. To not look forward or look back but to live ready, not just every day, but every minute.

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Q. When I try to print certain photos, I get an error message that tells me that Windows cannot connect with my printer and that I need to restart the spooler. What the heck is a spooler and how do I restart it? A. Spooler alert! A print spooler is software that temporarily stores print jobs on your computer’s hard drive or in memory (RAM) until the printer is ready to print them. Think of it as a print queue. The way a print spooler is typically restarted is to restart the computer. That clears the queue and resets it. To manually restart the spooler, be sure you are logged into your Administrator account in Windows, then go to your Control Panel and click System and Maintenance, then click Administrative Tools. Next, double-click Services. If you are prompted for an Administrator password or confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation. Right-click the Print Spooler service, then click Properties. On the General tab, next to Startup Type, make sure that Automatic is selected. If the service is not already running, under Service status, click Start, then click OK. If you are prompted for an Administrator password or confirmation yet again (enough is enough!), type the password or provide confirmation. It is certainly possible that the problem you are experiencing has to do with the source files (photos) and not your computer/ printer and if that’s the case, that would be beyond your control. If your printer works fine for just about everything other than a few specific photos, chances are it’s the photo files that are the culprit.

A. Gosh, Microsoft wasn’t responsive to your phone calls? How unusual. I sure miss the old days, back when I had Bill Gates on speed dial. He would answer the phone and I’d say, “Is Ali Gator there?” Oh, how we would laugh. But I digress... I can’t promise the following will work, but it has worked for some individuals who had a similar experience: First, log into your Outlook.com account and click the drop-down arrow next to Outlook in the upper left-hand corner. You will see options to Choose Outlook.com, People, Calendar or OneDrive. Select People. Click the drop-down arrow next to Manage at the top of the page and select Restore Deleted Contacts. If there are deleted contacts that Outlook can restore, you can restore all of them or select individual contacts. After making your selection, choose Restore. If the cybergods are smiling upon you, your selected contact(s) should reappear in your Contact list.

Q. I had Hotmail which then changed into Outlook.com and in the process, all my Contacts were lost. I called Microsoft but they have done absolutely nothing to help me. Is there any way I can get my Contacts back?

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Q. A few months ago I changed my Start menu in Windows XP to display the Classic Windows Start menu. I now want to change it back to the default but I can’t remember how I changed it in the ﬁrst place. Can you point me in the right direction? A. Right-click the Start button and select Properties. That will display the Taskbar and Start Menu Properties screen. Select the Start Menu tab where you can then choose between the XPstyle Start menu or the Classic Start menu, as well as a button to make additional customized changes, if you wish. I prefer the Classic Start menu, but try them both and use whichever one tickles your digital fancy.

I Fix It iFixit is a global community of people helping each other repair things. It is heralded as “The free repair guide for everything, written by everyone.” If you enjoy repairing things yourself or if you are willing to share your knowledge, you won’t want to miss this site. The Guides section has its own featured items and categories of different things you can find repair guides for, such as iPhone and iPad repair, gaming device repair, cars, trucks, phone repair, cameras, household items, appliances and electronics to name just a few. I checked, and parking tickets are not among the items the site’s contributors will fix. Pity. www.ifixit.com Perils at the Great Falls When you arrive

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Seniors and Technology ParT TWo—TeCHnology Corner by George AdomaViCius

ntroducing technology to a senior aging parent can be an adventure. There are devices and capabilities, which we are now quite used to, and from which we are ‘sure’ they would enjoy and receive benefit. Yet it can be frustrating trying to share this new technology ‘wealth’. Cell phones, email, and emergency pagers are just a few. You’d also like to elevate their golden years at home with Internet browsing, DVDs, DVRs on HDdigital services, and ﬂat screen LED TVs. Many of these can provide enhancement to deteriorating senses of sight and hearing as well, although at first may be perceived to challenge, rather than benefit. If the introduction is not easy, the best recommendation I can give you is listen/ listen/listen, be patient, and keep trying. Put yourself in their shoes. My mother gave me quite an uphill struggle with what I thought would be a

simple implementation—voicemail. I knew that receiving phone calls from key individuals was an important part of her life, and now for a few dollars a month, she could capture those missed calls, and nobody need ever receive a busy signal. They could leave a meaningful message instead. The first objection, whose strength I did not anticipate, was a total rejection of voice prompts and touch tone interaction. She detested any place she called that did not respond with a live person. I also realized that listening for prompts, and what next button you should press, was not in her natural makeup. She assumed all her friends felt the same, and that none of them would leave a voicemail message. The second issue was the key depression interaction, which to me was trivial. If only I could still get the original touchtone phone assemblies. Rugged and heavy, they were stable on the countertop even if you

pulled at the handset. You kept the handset, microphone and earpiece, at your head at all times and used your other hand for a touchpad that only had 12 buttons. I had recently helped her with the acquisition of a portable phone, never thinking that moving the buttons to the handset was a non-intuitive design for one who grew up with no telephones in her youth. And the button selection has expanded well beyond 12—Mute, Redial, Flash just to name It wasn’t the cost. It was the principle. I was only visiting for a couple of days and had just one business day left to figure out how to break this impasse. It turned out the telephone company was offering a signup promotion of three months for free. I put her on the phone to confirm the order and it was activated shortly. Next was training: I wrote down a cheat sheet of what to enter, what to expect, and created some calls and messages, from my

cell phone, to demonstrate the broken dial tone indicator and how to retrieve, listen, and save or delete. It was during this training that we actually had a real message left, here in the first few hours of service. It was from one of her friends in Lithuania, one she would have never expected to leave a message, especially since the voice prompt is my voice in English. He was calling to tell her she had been awarded a medal from the government of Lithuania for her diligent volunteer work, over many years, on documenting the culture of a small part of Lithuania, and its unique history. I am sure he would have called back the next day, had he got a busy signal. The excitement of this news overshadowed all the objections. I rested my case. The three month trial passed and she kept it installed. Citizen Journalist George Adomavicius can be reached at lanzena@earthlink.net.

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n oft- and partially-quoted line from William Congreve’s 17th century play, The Morning Bride, proclaims that, “Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.” Do you think there has ever been a sane man living, in any century, who doubted the validity of that assertion? Me neither. That’s why men are so much more likely to accept the following premise regarding the naming of hurricanes: Me: “Honey, says here that a recent study released by the University of Illinois has found that hurricanes with female names have proven to be far more destructive than hurricanes with male names.” My Wife: “Who conducted the study?” Me: “I told you … the University of Illinois!” Her: “WHO at the University of Illinois?” Me: “A Chinese guy with a name I can’t pronounce.” Her: “I don’t need to know his name … just that it was a GUY!” Why didn’t I see that coming? The study in question speculates that this phenomenon may be a consequence of our deeply ingrained gender stereotype that

males in our society are much more violent than females, thus leading to the following sequence of suppositions: We expect femalenamed hurricanes to be far less violent than hurricanes with male names, therefore we feel less threatened by female-named hurricanes, therefore we take fewer precautions when preparing for them, therefore the extent of their wrath catches us off-guard. That’s a pretty broad brush with which to theoretically paint all names. Shouldn’t some account be given to the individual names of actual hurricanes? I mean, how seriously could we be expected to take hurricanes named Bonnie or Celine while keeping a straight face? On the other hand, when a Hurricane named Olga or Gertrude is “on her way,” I’m heading for the bunker and battening-down-the-hatches. Perhaps a more practical way to name hurricanes would be on a sliding scale— the least ominous to the most ominous names—as we progress from one phase of severity to the next. Let’s say a minimally threatening category 1 or 2 storm would perhaps be named something like Cybil or Priscilla, but a full-blown category 4 or 5 hurricane would be named … oh ... let’s say

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Bertha or Hildegard. Then, in between, we would use mildly threatening names like Loretta, or perhaps Maude. Whatever the case, there are certain names that should never be attributed to hurricanes under any circumstances. Hurricane Faith? Hurricane Hope? Really? All of this her versus him talk sets me to wondering: Are there other discernible differences between male-named and femalenamed hurricanes? Like, for instance, the predictability of the paths they may take as they spin their ways from the east coast of Africa across the Atlantic Ocean? Let’s say U.S. Weather Service meteorologists, using their fancy-smancy computer models, predict that a particular hurricane will make landfall along the Gulf Coast shore of Mississippi sometime early Tuesday morning, but, lo and behold, it goes ashore on the east coast of Florida mid-day Wednesday. Would you expect that storm to be named Frances … or Francis? My money would be on the latter because a female storm would almost certainly have asked for directions to Mississippi when she passed through the Dominican Republic and Haiti, whereas a male

storm would have meandered around over open waters until something—anything— started to look familiar. In the final analysis, I am fairly certain many men will suffer little hesitation buying into this theory of female hurricane fury—especially those who, in the aftermath of an encounter with a scorned woman, emerged only to discover that their houses, boats, and cars were “gone.” Just when I thought it was safe to go back into the water … My wife: “So what did your sexist scientist have to say about unisex named hurricanes—like Alex … or Cameron?” Another shot messenger, coming right up! Me: “I don’t believe they mentioned that.” Her: “Well, here’s my prediction: Any unisex sounding hurricane that initially promises to be a category 9 or 10, but turns out to be a 3 or 4, will definitely be male.” Me: “There are no 9s or 10s!” Her: “Apparently not.” Bill Massey is a freelance writer, retired middle school teacher, and a former advertising executive. He can be reached at williamassey68@yahoo.com.You can follow Bill’s column online at www.a-musingmind.com or on Twitter at @Massey2Bill.

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Where Do We Go From Here? It [appears] that however certain forms of government are better calculated than others to protect individuals in the free exercise of their natural rights, and are at the same time themselves better guarded against degeneracy, yet experience [has] shown that, even under the best forms, those entrusted with power have, in time and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.” ~ THomas JeFFerson: diFFusion oF KnoWledge bill, 1779 1. All Elected Officials I acknowledge that our found-

ing fathers never intended for elected officials to serve a lifetime in office. Politics is not a career but a limited commitment to serve the public good. Thus, I will not serve more than four consecutive terms (8 years) in the House, two terms in the Senate (12 years) or 12 years on the Supreme Court. While in office, I will work with all of my colleagues, regardless of party affiliation, to find solutions through reasoned compromise to the issues before us. I agree that our democracy is stronger when more individuals with fresh ideas have an opportunity to serve. I will step down and join civilian society when my term expires. 2. State Legislature I pledge to support and pass a state law that sets up a citizen commission that will redraw all existing state legislative and Congressional districts. This commission will determine all future changes after census years. Redistricting will be permanently removed from the hands of elected officials to stop gerrymandering. The current California law will serve as the model for the legislation enacted. 3. Congress I will support and pass a constitutional amendment reversing the Supreme Court’s Citizens United v FEC and McCutcheon v FEC decisions. I will simultaneously support the passage of the Fair Elections Act establishing public financing of all elections. I agree that campaign money—and the time spent fundraising— has corrupted our democracy and reduced the time I have to spend to accomplish the work of the people. 4. Congress and State Legislature At the same constitutional amendment convention for reversing the Supreme Court’s decisions, I will support passage of The Every Vote Counts amendment (Introduced in 2009) abolishing the Electoral College. If that amendment fails to gain the passage of the required number of states, I will support my state enacting the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact. My state’s entire electoral votes will subsequently go to the candidate with the highest national vote tally.

5. Congress (Senate) The Senate is now incapable of enacting the work of the people because of the abuse of its own filibuster rule. I will support and vote for abolishment of the filibuster rule in the Senate. Laws enacted will pass with a majority vote. 6. Congress Our tax laws are antiquated and cumbersome; 70,000 pages no one can understand. They have been constructed to favor the wealthy and corporate interests. I support a fair and simple tax system reform to be enacted no later than 2016. Everyone—Corporations and individuals—will pay their fair share. Further, I pledge to work with my colleagues to propose solutions to reduce national income inequality, enact policies that support the growth of the middle-class, (as defined by the Congressional Budget Oﬃce) and to close all unreasonable or economically indefensible corporate and investment subsidies, loopholes and tax havens. I pledge to support the plan principles addressed in the SimpsonBowles Commission report to achieve a balanced budget. 7. State Legislature One man, one vote is the heart of our democracy. I pledge to overturn recently enacted laws restricting voting rights through identification requirements, shortening early voting places and times, roll purging and any restriction considered a violation of the originally passed Voting Rights Bill of 1964. This includes Section Four recently invalidated by the Supreme Court. If I fail to abide by these principled pledges during my term, I understand that the voters will seek to remove me from my elected oﬃce.

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t has now been seven months since I wrote the last article in the Revitalizing American Democracy series. Those nine articles dealt with inequality and how dysfunctional the American Congress, Supreme Court and the Executive Branch have become. As noted in the first article, the approval rating of Congress last year fell to an all-time low of 14 percent. The current sitting justices forming the five-member majority on the Supreme Court have taken radical interpretations of the Constitution to new lows, overturning years of previous precedent. Perhaps forced by a deadlocked Congress, President Obama has had to make recess appointments, executive letters, greatly expanded drone strikes and pervasive surveillance of not only our own citizens but also our foreign allies. Quite a case for Presidential overreach. The articles did include actions average citizens can take to help regain some measure of control of our democracy, I have come to realize, however, that the situation is worse than I opined to begin with. Corporations and the moneyed interests have literally stolen our democracy and it is the politicians who enacted the laws that allowed it to happen in the first place. To this very day these so called citizen representatives continue to support those privileged interests over the well-being of average Americans. I hope the actions of our own state legislature the last few years have alerted the people of North Carolina to the danger lurking when reasoned laws and policies are subverted by a legislative majority who have no concern beyond their own political and economic self-interest. If not, perhaps you have been sleeping. My first inclination is to propose radical change to overcome the tyranny of which Jefferson spoke in the quote above. That “we the people” band together in a concerted state and national campaign to “Vote Them All Out.” Every single member of the current North Carolina state legislature and Congress. The whole barrel is rotten and must be thrown out. Realistically, this is not going to happen. There are responsible politicians on both sides of the aisle, however hard it is to find them. There is a more reasonable way for “the people” to regain control of the government that Lincoln spoke of: “of the people, by the people, for the people.” Take the Pledge First, citizens must unite. It will take a large majority of us—of all political persuasions—to accomplish the necessary radical restorative changes. If we unite, American voters are in a position to demand that every elected official sign the following pledge: I ______________________, (Name) as an elected official from ____________________ (County, State, Elected Office), do pledge to uphold the following principals and reforms needed to restore and ensure that our Democracy functions for the well-being of all members of our society:

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Three Tips for Staying Healthy Over 50 SubmiTTed by Family FeaTures • Protein: Add some variety to your diet with delicious protein sources such as fish, beans and peas. • Whole grains: The Dietary Guidelines for Americans recommends at least three servings of whole-grain foods each day (16g per serving or 48g per day). Get Moving Physical activity and regular exercise can decrease the risk of heart disease, stroke, colon cancer, diabetes and high blood pressure. The Centers

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of aging between and within all individuals.” The BLSA continues to be an innovative and robust study. This is thanks to its more than 1,300 volunteers who made the lifelong commitment to be part of the research. And, the BLSA promises to have a long future ahead. There are many new study questions to explore, such as what factors contribute to exceptional aging. “As we further pinpoint the inﬂuences of how we age, we can also think about new and more effective interventions that may prevent disease and promote healthy aging. The hope is that the BLSA will be a study that serves many generations to come,” its sponsors at the National Institute on Aging said. We have learned a great deal from the BLSA and a growing body of aging research. But there is much more to explore. In 2009,

while continuing other areas of research, the BLSA began to examine the genetic, environmental, social, and behavioral factors that preserve health and function for a rare fraction of the oldest adults. The BLSA has developed the Insight into the Determinants of Exceptional Aging and Longevity (IDEAL) study, which focuses on people 80 years and older who are living free of physical and cognitive disease. Taking advantage of research strategies already standard for the BLSA, the aim of the study was to identify factors that distinguish extraordinary health at very advanced age from non-”ideal” aging. Further, IDEAL aims to discover the physiological, environmental, and behavioral risk factors that result in the loss of exceptional aging status over time. Although research exists on the relationship between long life and functional decline, “we still know relatively little about why certain individuals have excellent health well into their 80s while others experience disease and physical decline earlier in life.”

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ost people prefer to stay in their home or apartment for as long as possible. The best way to make this a reality is to plan ahead of time to make the amenities in your home as safe and accessible as possible. It can be hard to imagine that tasks around the house that were once done with ease can one day pose a challenge. Anticipating the challenge and planning accordingly may allow you to remain in your home for an extended period of time. Often, with some minor modifications, your home can be adapted to help you stay as long as possible even with some loss of mobility. Home Modifications Living at home longer may mean renovating a home to make it more accessible. This can include such things as installing ramps to bypass stairs, building a bedroom on the main ﬂoor, placing grab bars in the shower, changing the height of kitchen countertops or making a bathroom safer and more accessible. Before you make home modifications, you should evaluate your current and future needs by going through your home room by room and answering a series of questions to highlight where changes might be made. Several checklists are available to help you conduct this review. The National Resource Center on Supportive Housing and Home Modifications is a good place to start. Go to the center’s website at www.homemods.org and click on the link to the “Safety Checklist and Assessment Instrument.”

walking, bathing, dressing, and eating, can often continue to stay at home with outside help. There are a number of services that can be brought in to assist with ADLs and other personal care. You can hire someone, such as a personal care aide or home health aide, to help you out a few hours a day or around the clock. Some health care services can be provided at home by trained professionals, such as occupational therapists, social workers or home health nurses. Check with your insurance or health service to see what kind of coverage is available, although you may have to cover some of these costs out of pocket. If very specific conditions are met, Medicare will help pay for all or a portion of home health care. Transportation Declining health often causes a decline in independence and mobility. Many seniors lose the ability to drive or simply feel uncomfortable behind the wheel at night. Investigate transportation options in your area so you can maintain an active social life, get medical care and shop for necessities. You might find family members willing to take you to the grocery store, friends who will drive you to social events, nearby bus routes, reduced fare taxis or senior transportation services funded by a local not-for-profit. Staying in your home should not mean being cut off from community activities you enjoy. Finding new ways to get around, even after you are no longer driving, may allow you to stay engaged and active.

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hen we speak of hemorrhoids, it is either as a joke or in hushed voices, although 50 percent of adults suffer from hemorrhoids. Medically speaking, we all have hemorrhoidal tissue. Hemorrhoidal tissue is simply the lining of the rectum and provides approximately 20 percent of your ability to maintain bowel control. There are veins underneath this tissue. While most veins have valves that prevent blood from ﬂowing backwards (i.e. to prevent blood from settling into your feet when you stand up), hemorrhoidal veins lack these valves. Hemorrhoids are swollen veins of the rectum and can be external, internal, or prolapsed (outside the anus). External hemorrhoids are simply a small blood clot in a vein. They can cause sudden pain and are treated with pain medication and by surgically lancing the clot. Internal hemorrhoids are hemorrhoidal veins that have become stretched. This stretching can have a variety of causes. Hemorrhoids are common problems that tend to increase in occurrence as we get older, and as our skin sags and

stretches, so do our hemorrhoidal veins. Our diet lacks the amount of fiber we should be eating, and many of us suffer chronic constipation. As a result, the veins get stretched from straining and prolonged sitting on the toilet. Reading on the toilet can lead to the same problem. Factors in pregnancy, such as constipation and the baby blocking the venous blood return to the heart can result in hemorrhoids. There also seems to be a genetic contribution. Typical symptoms of hemorrhoids are bright red blood in the bowel or on toilet tissue, itching and burning, and sometimes pain. It is important to understand that if you do see blood you should not assume it is from a hemorrhoid, as it could be a symptom of something more serious. There are four stages of hemorrhoids. Stage 1 involves bleeding, burning, itching, and pain only. At Stage 2, in addition to the above symptoms, the hemorrhoids get so stretched out that they protrude with defecation, but go back in by themselves. Stage 3 has all the symptoms of Stage 2 except the hemorrhoid does not retract on its own; it must be done manually. Stage 4

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hemorrhoids have all the above symptoms except they cannot be pushed back in and are outside the rectum all of the time. Many people are so scared of the treatment they won’t mention their hemorrhoids to their doctors and opt for generally ineffective over-the-counter drugs. Fortunately, medical treatment has come a long way and does not have to be painful. For Stage 1 hemorrhoids, increase your fiber intake and stop reading on the toilet. We can treat them with rubber band ligation. It sounds scary, but the feeling you experience is pressure more than pain. We simply encircle one of the hemorrhoids and put a small rubber band on it. This keeps the bloodﬂow from reaching the part of the hemorrhoid that is stretched out, and it falls off. You may need one or several ligation treatments in an oﬃce over a few weeks. Ligation is the treatment for Stage 2 as well. In the past, once your hemorrhoids progressed to Stage 3, the only treatment was the traditional hemorrhoidectomy. While effective, this procedure is very painful because skin and hemorrhoids are removed by cutting out wedges of skin. Fortunately, a better treatment is now

available for Stages 2-4. Transanal hemorrhoidal dearterialization (THD) was developed in 2006 in Italy and introduced to the United States in 2009. The advantages of THD are that there is no cutting and there is much less pain. It is performed in an operating room with anesthesia as outpatient surgery. The surgeon uses a device called a Doppler probe to identify one of the six arteries in the rectum. A stitch is then passed around the hemorrhoid, cutting off its blood supply. With no blood supply, the hemorrhoid shrinks and goes away. This procedure is repeated for all six arteries and is done above the skin line. As with rubber band ligation, patients mostly feel pressure and very little or no pain. Although not all problems ‘down there’ are hemorrhoids, they are a very common condition. The good news is that nowadays there are less painful, less invasive, and highly effective alternatives to surgery that can eliminate this aggravating problem. Dr. David Z. Zeiler is a general surgeon for Triangle Surgical Associates, P.A., www.trianglesurgical.com. Comment online at BoomNC.com .

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ince the low point in early 2009, stock and bond markets have generally enjoyed positive returns. However, the memory of volatile prices and painful losses remain, causing investors to cast worried looks over their shoulders and to contemplate ways of protecting or “hedging” their investments against risk. But, is it even worthwhile to attempt to hedge portfolios against market risk? What choices are available? What do they cost? How and when should they be used? Which Risk? One of the first steps is to decide which risk you are trying to guard against. For example, it is easy to avoid the risk of what may happen to stock market prices—just totally avoid the stock market and buy U.S. Government bonds. Ah, but now you are exposed to risk of what may happen to your bond values when interest rates begin their long-anticipated rise—so you decide to park your money in a savings account. But you earn hardly any interest on the savings account and know that ultimately the returns there won’t keep pace

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with inﬂation. Besides, there is an opportunity cost you incur by not being invested and sitting on the sidelines. So, what do you do? Given your own particular situation, you need to ask, “What are the biggest risks for me? Given my time frame and goals, which risks should I be accepting and which should I try to protect against?” Asset Allocation Your answers to the above question will determine your asset allocation. It could result in you being primarily invested in guaranteed assets or bonds, holding a balance between bonds and stocks or having a mostly equity portfolio. Changes Within Your Allocation Without necessarily disturbing your long-term asset allocation, you can lower your risk by making changes within your allocation. For example: For the bond portion of your portfolio you could move slightly away from higher-yielding (lower quality) corporate bonds and towards higherquality (but lower yielding) corporate bonds. You could also shift somewhat from mutual funds that own smaller stocks to those owning larger ones or from funds that follow a growth-seeking momentum

strategy to a more conservative value-oriented approach. Go to Cash Of course, you could also decide to temporarily exit the bond or stock market entirely and sit on the sidelines. However, in today’s low-yield world, you earn virtually nothing by sitting on cash—but you do at least have some peace of mind that you won’t see any investment declines. But this is a not a long-term strategy and if you go to cash you also have to have a plan for how and when you will be moving from cash and back into longerterm investments. Buy Insurance You can effectively buy portfolio insurance through the use of financial derivatives, such as options or futures contracts. Just like any insurance, an investor using derivatives to protect a portfolio has to be aware of the cost (the insurance premium), the deductible, and the length of the policy. Buying portfolio insurance might be an appropriate strategy for a short period of time, such as when someone is worried about a particular global event that may or may not happen or an upcoming election. However,

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keeping a permanent portfolio hedge in place through derivatives costs too much and robs you of whatever return you were hoping to earn. Alternative Investments There are many “alternative” investments today that pitch themselves as alternatives to traditional stock and bond investments. They appeal to the idea of being able to earn money regardless of what the overall market is doing. They go by many names, such as: structured products, long/short equity, market neutral, managed futures, macro allocation, etc. The biggest thing to consider about any of these alternative strategies is why you are using them. They often lag behind more traditional investments, which make them diﬃcult to own when the sky is sunny. You own these types of investments for the cloudy days, but it doesn’t rain that often, and I believe alternative investments should be a minor player—not the featured act—in your portfolio. Gerald A. Townsend, CPA/PFS/ABV, CFP , CFA , CMT is president of Townsend Asset Management Corp., a registered investment advisory ﬁrm. Email: Gerald@AssetMgr.com ®

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his year’s “101” series is on “Behavioral Finance.” Articles in our previous “101” series on Economics, Estate Planning, Tax Planning, Financial Planning, and Investment Management, are available on the www.boomnc.com website. So far, we’ve talked about Loss Aversion, Endowment, Regret, Status Quo, Overconfidence, Herd Behavior, Anchoring and Mental Accounting. This month’s topic is the “Recency Bias.” Recency is a cognitive bias that convinces us that new information—which is more recent—is more valuable and important than older information. Now, this may be true, but it is not necessarily true. For example, investors tend to base their market expectations on how the market has been performing recently, whether good or bad. Therefore, if the stock market’s recent performance has been very strong, while the bond market has been lackluster, they expect these same good or bad returns to continue, pretty much along a straight line into the future. The more rational expectation, of course, would be to look back as far as you can and use long-term averages

as a baseline and then judge the more returns were achieved or why the strategies recent performance against those long- used by other managers might not have had term averages. good results over the past five years, but may However, we tend to extrapolate recent blossom over the next five years. returns and use them as an indication of Putting recency and outcome together, future returns. As a result, investors fall a person may look at a recent outcome, into the trap of overbuysuch as the stock market ing the current outperdropping ten percent forming asset class and in the last 90 days, and under-owning the curdecide it is a lousy time rent underperforming to invest. They may asset class. believe this falsely rather Investors subject to than looking at historical recency bias may also be valuation information or affected by other biases, doing diligent research. such as hindsight, anchorWhen this happens, they ing, loss aversion, and may disregard important herding. Recency and considerations such as the outcome biases also go prospects for the investtogether. People subject to ment or current market outcome bias focus on the valuations, which may be outcome of an event as opposed to the pro- key drivers of future investment successes. cess by which the result was achieved. For In early 2009, the stock market had sufexample, an investor may think, “This man- fered severe losses for a couple of years ager had a fantastic five years, so I am going and many investors abandoned it, mento invest with him.” They jump and invest tally extrapolating those losses into the Eagen ad Alzheimers #2r PM and Pageseeing 1 instead of understanding how 4/24/10 such great4:52 future nothing but red ink

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edicare health coverage is fairly comprehensive. But if you need a lot of care, Medicare can leave you with significant out-of-pocket costs. That’s why most people have some kind of supplemental insurance to help cover the costs that Medicare doesn’t. Choosing a supplemental plan that makes sense for you is not always easy. Here are some tips that will help. What are the types of supplemental coverage? About a third of people with Medicare have supplemental insurance from a former employer. If you are lucky enough to have this type of coverage, it is probably your best option. Be careful if you ever decide to drop it—you may not be able to get it back. People with low incomes may qualify for their state’s Medicaid program (and other related programs) that cover Medicare premiums and prescription drug costs. If you don’t fall into these categories, you may want to consider buying either a private Medicare supplement plan (often called “Medigap”) or a Medicare Advantage plan. Both options have advantages and disadvantages, and you should do careful research before selecting one or deciding to change your current coverage. What are Medigap plans? Medigap plans work with original Medicare and pay costs that are left over after Medicare has paid what it covers. Depending on the plan, they pay for some amount of Medicare’s deductibles and co-insurance. They do not usually offer additional services, so they will not pay for an item or service that Medicare does not cover. For example, they do not cover prescription drugs, so most people with original Medicare and a Medigap plan also buy a Part D plan. Medigap plans are sold by private insurance companies. These plans come in several different categories, each designated by a letter: For example, “Medigap Plan F.” Every plan with the same letter must offer the same benefits, so it is easy to compare plans from different insurers. In addition, these plans have to follow state and federal rules. What are Medicare Advantage plans? Medicare Advantage plans are different from Medigap plans. Medicare Advantage plans are run by private insurers that contract with Medicare to provide all Medicare benefits. Many of these plans include prescription drug coverage, and some plans also offer extra services that are not covered by traditional Medicare. Medicare Advantage plans usually have provider networks that limit which doctors and hospitals you can go to. Medicare Advantage plans also have rules about what you will have to pay out of pocket that differ from the rules for traditional Medicare. Sometimes these rules are beneficial and can protect you from high out-of-pocket costs. For example, a Medicare Advantage plan may have a low copayment for oﬃce visits. But sometimes you may pay more for a service if you have a Medicare Advantage plan continued on page 33

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re You a Hospital Inpatient or Outpatient?” is a publication from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services that the Seniors’ Health Insurance Information Program (SHIIP) uses to relay this important message to Medicare beneficiaries. It is important to ask that question because your hospital status affects how much you pay for services and will also affect whether Medicare will pay for care in a skilled nursing facility. It’s also important to ask how much you will pay for prescription drugs if you are considered an outpatient rather than an inpatient. For example: Mr. Jones goes to the hospital for knee replacement surgery and arrives at the hospital early in the morning. He has his surgery and stays the night for observation and is not released until the next evening—well over a 2-hour stay. If his doctor has not written an order to have him admitted to the hospital as an inpatient, then he is considered an outpatient. How will Medicare pay this claim? This will be a Medicare Part B claim. Mr. Jones will pay a copayment for each individual outpatient hospital service. Medicare Part B will also cover the surgeon and other physician charges at the 80 percent level. If Mr. Jones is given any prescription drugs that are considered “self-administered drugs,” they will not be covered by Medicare Part B. However, these drugs may be covered by Mr. Jones’s Part D plan. He will likely need to pay out-of-pocket for these drugs and submit a claim to his Medicare Part D plan for a refund. The amount the drug plan will pay may be lower than what he was billed by the hospital, and the difference will be paid by him. This is quite different than an inpatient hospital stay. If the doctor had written an order for Mr. Jones to be admitted as an inpatient, Medicare Part A would pay for the hospital stay and all drugs administered to Mr. Jones while he was in the hospital. The doctor and surgeon charges would still be filed and paid under Medicare Part B. Advice for Medicare beneficiaries? If you are in the hospital more than a few hours, ask the doctor or hospital staff if you are an inpatient or an outpatient. If you are an outpatient (you may be getting emergency services, be under observation services, or having surgery or X-rays), generally you pay a copayment for each individual outpatient service. It is important to note that the copayment for a single outpatient hospital service can’t be more than the inpatient hospital deductible. For example, if you have several outpatient charges that are being paid at the Part B amount of 80 percent, each charge cannot exceed the amount of the Part A inpatient deductible amount—which currently is $1,216. So if you do not have a Medicare Supplement, Medicaid or an Employer Group Health Plan, you may have a higher bill to pay since you would be responsible for the other 20 percent.

Another important issue is how your hospital status will affect the way Medicare covers care in a skilled nursing facility (SNF). First, let’s review what the SNF benefit is under Medicare Part A. If you have a 3-day inpatient hospital stay under Medicare Part A, and your doctor’s plan of care includes care for you in a skilled care/rehabilitative care facility, Medicare will pay 100 percent for the first 20 days. After that, if you still meet Medicare’s requirements to be in the facility, Medicare will pay for days 21-100 with a co-payment of $152 per day. In order for your skilled nursing services to be covered, your entry into an SNF must be within 30 days of discharge from the hospital and your need for those skilled nursing services must be related to the reason for the inpatient hospital stay. If your doctor has ordered “observation services” to help decide whether you need to be admitted to the hospital as an inpatient or if you can be discharged, your SNF benefit with Medicare may be affected. During the time that you are getting the observation services in the hospital, you’re considered an outpatient. This means you cannot count this time towards the 3-day inpatient hospital stay needed for Medicare to cover your SNF stay. For example: You went to the emergency department and spent one day getting observation services. Then, you were an inpatient for two days. Is your SNF stay covered? No, your SNF stay is not covered. Even though you spent three days in the hospital, you were considered an outpatient while getting outpatient services the first day. This day doesn’t count toward the 3-day inpatient stay requirement. Remember, any days you spend in the hospital before the doctor writes the order for you to be admitted aren’t counted as inpatient days. An inpatient stay begins on the day you are formally admitted to the hospital with a doctor’s order. The day of discharge doesn’t count as an inpatient day. Another point to remember is that no matter what type of Medicare coverage you have, you have certain guaranteed rights. You have the right to have your questions about Medicare answered; to learn about all of your treatment choices and participate in treatment decisions; to get a decision about prescription drug coverage, health care payment or services; to get a review of decisions; and a right to file complaints, including complaints about the quality of your care. If you have questions or need assistance with your Medicare beneﬁts, you may contact SHIIP. They have trained volunteers in all 1 counties in North Carolina who oﬀer one-on-one counseling and provide free, unbiased information about Medicare, Medicare supplements, Medicare Part D, Medicare Advantage and healthplan options, and long term care insurance. To contact SHIIP, call 8.3.3 or visit www.ncshiip.com.

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2014 ~ 2015 Boom! Performing Arts Calendar (Triangle and Surrounding Counties) ORGANIZATION/VENUE

AUGUST

SEPTEMBER

OCTOBER

NOVEMBER

The ArtsCenter 300-G East Main St., Carrboro Info: 919.929.2787 • www.artscenterlive.org Visit the website for a complete listing of performances

2: Mike Compton 4: Bluegrass Jam 8: The Gravy Boys and the Lynda and Pattie Duo 10: Mike Marshall & Caterina Lichtenberg

3: 20th Anniversary Music Maker Blues Revue Feat 18: The Chuckle & Chortle Comedy Show

2: Paul Brady 6: Kim Richey 14: Ralph Stanley II 21: Karla Bonoff

Arts Council of Moore County Info: 910.692.2787 • www.mooreart.org or www.explorepinehurst.com. Visit the website for locations Burning Coal Theatre Company Meymandi Theatre at Murphy School Auditorium 224 Polk St., Raleigh Info: 919.834.4001 • www.burningcoal.org Carolina Ballet Info: 919.719.0800 Box Office: 919.719.0900 • www.carolinaballet.com Visit the website for performance locations Audio Description Info: www.artsaccessinc.org Carolina Performing Arts Series University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Memorial Hall, Cameron Avenue, Chapel Hill Info and Tickets: 919.843.3333 • www.unc.edu/performingarts Visit the website for a complete listing of performances Carolina Theatre Fletcher Hall, 309 W. Morgan St., Durham Info/Tickets: 919.560.3030 • www.carolinatheatre.org Visit the website for a complete listing of events Audio Description Info: www.artsaccessinc.org Carrboro Century Center/Town of Carrboro 100 N. Greensboro, Carrboro • Info: 919.918.7385 www.townofcarrboro.org • Visit website for performance locations Cary Arts Center 101 Dry Ave., Cary Info: 919.469.4061 • www.townofcary.org

13-23: Oklahoma

5: Jonathan Edwards 12: Steve Forbert with Bruce Piephoff 18: Sarah McQuaid 20: The Chuckle & Chortle Comedy Show 6: Franklinville Deep River Festival 18: 2nd Annual Daily Vincent Festival 20: 9th Annual Pinehurst Oktoberfest 4-25: The Shape of the Table 5-26: Pentecost 6-27: The Prisoner’s Dilemma 11-28: Firebird

Sept. 29: Anna Polonsky & Orion Weiss 4-Hands Piano Oct. 2: To Kill A Mockingbird

17: Caroline Goulding, Violin

Cary Performance Series & Concerts Info: 919.469.4061 • www.townofcary.org Visit website or call for a complete list and performance locations Cary Players Community Theatre Company Cary Arts Center, 101 Dry Ave., Cary. www.caryplayers.org 919.469.4061 • Audio Description Info: www.artsaccessinc.org Chamber Orchestra of the Triangle • www.thecot.org Carolina Theatre, 309 W. Morgan St., Durham Info: 919.360.3382 Chapel Hill Voices & Cantari Info: 919.451.3515 or www.voiceschapelhill.org Visit website for performance locations Choral Society of Durham Info: 919.560.2733 • www.choral-society.org Visit website or call for performance locations (The) Clayton Center 111 East 2nd St., Clayton Info: 919.553.1737 www.theclaytoncenter. com Common Ground Theatre 4815B Hillsborough Rd., Durham Info: 919.384.7817 • www.cgtheatre.com Concert Singers of Cary Symphonic Choir Info: 919.678.1009 • www.concertsingers.org Visit the website for performance locations Deep Dish Theater Company University Mall, 201 S. Estes St., Chapel Hill Info and Tickets: 919.968.1515 • www.deepdishtheater.org Duke Energy Center for the Performing Arts (DECPA) 2 E. South St., Raleigh Info: 919.831.6060 Tickets: 919.834.4000 Visit the website for a complete listing of performances www.dukeenergycenterraleigh.com Duke Performances Info: 919.660.3356 Tickets: 919.684.4444 Visit the website for a complete list of performances and locations www.dukeperformances.org Duke University Dept. of Theater Studies Info: 919.660.3343• Box Office: 919.684.4444 www.theaterstudies.duke.edu/productions Visit the website for info Durham Performing Arts Center (DPAC) American Tobacco District, 123 Vivian St., Durham Tickets: 919.680.2787 • www.dpacnc.com Visit the webstie for a complete and updated schedule Durham Savoyards Carolina Theatre, 309 W. Morgan St., Durham Info: 919.560.3040 • www.durhamsavoyards.org Durham Symphony Orchestra Info: 919.491.6576 • www.durhamsymphony.org Visit the website for performance locations Even Exchange Dance Theatre Info: 919.828.2377 Arts Together, 114 St. Mary’s St., Raleigh • www.evenexchange.com Audio Description Info: www.artsaccessinc.org Garner Performing Arts Center 742 W. Garner Rd., Garner Info: 919.661.4602 • www.garnerperformingartscenter.com (Town of Apex) Halle Cultural Arts Center 237 N. Salem St., Apex Info: 919.249.1120 • www.thehalle.org Holly Spring Cultural Center 300 W. Ballentine St., Holly Springs Info: 919.567.4000 • www.hollyspringsnc.us Justice Theater Project St. Francis of Assisi Clare Hall, 11401 Leesville Rd., Raleigh Info: 919.264.7089 • www.thejusticetheaterproject.org Kennedy Theatre Hot Summer Nights Presented by Theatre Raleigh • 2 East South St., Raleigh 919.480.5166 • www.hotsummernightsatthekennedy.org

5: An Evening of Yakshagana 13: Liz Magic Lazer 25-26: Dorrance Dance: the Blues Project 28-29: Pittsburgh Symphony Orch. 8: Rich Robinson 5: John Hodgeman 9: Pat Metheny 13: Justin Townes Earle 15-24: NC Gay & Lesbian Film Festival 18: Keb’Mo’ 29: Paul Mooney 30: Maysa 22: Rebirth Brass Band & Dumpstaphunk 23: Merle Haggard

27-28: 17th Annual Carrboro Music Festival

DECEMBER

JANUARY 2015

FEBRUAR

9: Williams 10: Mark Newton & Steve Thomas 23: Four Bitchin’Babes

6: Seldom Scene 28: Solas

1: Christmas with The Embers 14: Moore County Choral Society Holiday Concert

9: Alexander Strin 14: 2015 Heart n’ 22-Feb 15: Romeo & Juliet

28-30: Nutcracker, DPAC

1-2: Taylor Mac 8: Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra 10: The Robert Cray Band 11: Shabana Azmi

6-7: The Nutcracker 6-7: Curlew River 14: Mipso & Steep Canyon Rangers 8: Jazz for the Holidays with NCJRO 16: Dianne Reeves 21: Batsheva Dance Company

29-30: Dunsinane 31-Feb 1: The Marlinsky Orchestra

3: C.S. Lewis: The Great Divorce 8: Chris Thile & Edgar Meyer 10: Joshua Scott Jones 12: American Through English Eyes

8: The Best of Rufus Wainwright 9: The Pinnacle of Piano Concertos 12: Cherry Poppin’Daddies 13: Dave Mason’s Traffic Jam

18: A Toast to France

17-18: West End Poetry Festival

22-23: Carrboro Film Festival

11: Paragon Ragtime Orchestra 25: Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel

1: Triangle Wind Ensemble Concert 14: Spencers: Theatre of Illusion 15: Time and Space: Concert Singers of Cary

9: Boo Hanks & Lightin’Wells 23: 37th Annual Lazy Daze Arts & Crafts Festival

12: Raining Cats & Dogs 20: Kim Wempe

5: Triangle Brass Band: A Sousa Spectacular 12: Brass at Bond

16: Pietzsch Awards 2014

26-Oct 5: Wait Until Dark

Thru Oct 5: Wait Until Dark 12: America Through English Eyes

8: Build-A-Band C angle Wind Ensem 20: Annie Moses B 21: Harrison’s Dre

4-8: It’s a Wonderful Life Radio Play

13-22: The Best o 18: A Toast To France

15: Tragedy & Hop

23: Jeanne Robertson

8: When Lilacs La Bloom’d 22: Music of the F 7: The Malpass Br

19-20: A Starry Night 13-14: Christmas Concert

17: The Capital Steps

1: An Evening with Groucho

29-Sept 20: A Kid Like Jake

Thru Sept 20: A Kid Like Jake

Spet 28-Oct 11: MOJOAA Productions 6: Improv Percolator 7: Third Date 8: Fatmouth Improv 9: Sonic Boom: Music for a Live Room 15: Time and Space 31-Nov 22: The Landing Thru Nov 22: The Landing

Thru 3: The Little Mermaid 13-24: Crimes of the Heart 29-30: Hot Summer Nights 9: Pat Metheny Unity Group

8-28: Firebird 19-20: NC Symphony Classical Series 26-27: West Side Story 30: Rhonda Vincent & Gene Watson 5: Campbell Brothers: John Coltrane 13: Vieux Farka Toure 20: Ciompi Concert No. 1 24-27: Now Now Oh Now 24-27: Now Now Oh Now

3-5: NC Symphony Classical Series 6-26: Dracula with Carolina Ballet 14-19: A Chorus Line 17: At the Oscars w/ NC Symphony 2: Toumani Diabate & Erika Eckert 9: Rizwan-Muazzam Qawwali 10: Richard Goode, Piano 18: The Bad Plus ‘Science Fiction’ 23-25: Duke Players Lab Theater

8: Keyshia Cole 9: Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons 10: Kenny “Babyface”Edmonds 17: 3 Doors Down Acoustic

16-21: Dirty Dancing 4: The Best of Jethro Tull 26: The Temptations & The Four Tops 8-19: The Phantom of the Opera 28: Nick Swardson Taste It Tour 25: Bill Cosby 29: Susan Boyle

2-10: Hearts Like Fists presented by 20: Transactors Improv 26: Third Date Tiny Engine Theatre 27: Fatmouth Improv

1: Dance Seen: First Friday Gallery Walk

5: Dance Seen: First Friday Gallery Walk

7-9: Disney’s High School Musical, Jr. 9: The Folsom Prison Gang 14: Family Dance 23: Marcus Anderson 5 & 19: The Green Mermaid with Carolina Puppet Theatre 8: John Henry Band 22: The Band of Oz

6: 40 East 26: Family Dance 28: The Raleigh Symphony Orchestra’s Close to Home 2 & 16: The Three Bears 19: When the Livin’ Was Easy 20: The Association 5-21: A Raisin in the Sun

13-24: Crimes of the Heart 29-30: The Music of Hot Summer Nights

Rest of Season TBA

6: Riders in the Sky

13-14: Holiday Pops 20: Handel’s Messiah Part I

27-Mar 21: Journ

1: Phantoms of the Orchestra 7-8: Copland in Mexico 21-22: Brandenburg & Brahmas 28-Dec 24: Rudolph the R.N. Reindeer 1: Ciompi Quartet Concert No. 2 2: Yefim Bronfman, Piano 15: The Measure of All Things 20: Corduroy Roads w/ William Tyler 13-23: The Perfect Detonator

5-6: Handel’s Messiah 9-14: A Christmas Carol 12: Under The Streetlamp 19-28: The Nutcracker 6: Pablo Ziegler Quartet 11: Brad Mehldau Trio 12: New York Polyphony 13: St. Lawrence String Quartet

6: Jason Isbell 8: Joan Rivers 13: Straight No Chaser 18-23: Cinderella 9: Public Sing-Through for Utopia Limited

2: Mannheim Steamroller Christmas 7-25: Wicked 4: Joe Bonamassa 9-14: Annie 18-21: A Christmas Carol

24: Halloween Spooktacular: A Concert for Families

3: Peter and the Wolf: NC Symphony 9-10: Rhapsody in Blue 20-25: Nice Work If You Can Get It 29-31: Blue Man Group 16-17: The Whisper Opera 22: Songs of Love & Longing 24: Calefax Reed Quintet 30-31: Bradford Marsalis Quartet

5: Holiday Pops with Children’s Choir 17: Tribute to Martin Luther King Jr.

3: Dance Seen: First Friday Gallery Walk

7: Dance Seen: First Friday Gallery Walk

17-25: The Ladies Man

Remainder of Season TBA

11: JazzLive W/ Lenore Raphael 12: NC Composer Concert 18-19: Infinity Ballet 25: Give My Regards to Broadway 3: Imagination in Flight 9: John Oates 10: Jerry Carroll Clean Comedy Series 24: The Classic Rock Experience

4: Apex H.S Orchestra/ Guitar Concert 9: Classically American 16: Folk Tunes Revisited 30: Toy Factory 2 1: Pure Prairie League 4 & 18: The First Thanksgiving 7: Creedance Clearwater Revival Tribute

6: Audra McDona 12: Kronos Quarte 20: Brian Blade & Band 24-25: Alvin Ailey 6: John Waters 14: Valentine’s Da Symphony 15: Tragedy & Hop

12: Triangle Wind Ensemble Concert 23: The Artie Shaw Orchestra 13-14: Holiday Pops: Concert Singers of Cary 20: A Mini Very Cary Christmas

9: The Pinnacle of Piano Concertos 7: In Praise of Women

Thru Feb 15: Rom

5-22: The Four Tem

6-7: Nutcracker, Memorial Hall, UNC-Chapel Hill 19-28: Nutcracker, DECPA

9-26: Dracula with The Masque of the Red Death

11: David Benoit Christmas Tribute to Charlie Brown 18: Sweet Honey in the Rock

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2-22: Balanchine 6-7: Beethoven & 10-15: Billy Elliott 25: Lang Lang 1: Jordi Savall, Vio 7: Ciompi Quarte 13: Kurt Elling ‘Pas 14: Jerusalem Qu 4-7: Mike Myers D 12-14: Jamie Bell’ Distinction Projec 11: Tony Bennett 17-22: Motown T

14: Valentine’s Da

5: Dance Seen: First Friday Gallery Walk

2: Dance Seen: First Friday Gallery Walk

6: Dance Seen: Fi Gallery Walk

2: Infinity Ballet The Nutcracker 12-14: The Santa Claus Chronicles 20: Concert Singers of Cary presents Handel’s Messiah Part I 2 & 16: Rudolph 11: Season in Song 13: Cool by the Fire 20: Dawn Day’s Tribute to Karen Carpenter Black Nativity

10: JazzLive W/ Lenore Raphael

8: Songs Our Mot 14: JazzLive Spec Show W/ Lenore

11: American Pride: A Tribute to the Statler Brothers 16: Jeff Allen Clean Comedy Series 24: Voiceplay

13: Juice Newton 20: Matt Jernigan 21: New Beginnin 28: Jay & the Ame The Mountain To

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APRIL 2015

MAY 2015

JUNE-DEC. 2015

9-May 3: Sunday in the Park with George

Thru May 3: Sunday in the Park with June 11-28: Solo Trio in Repertory George June 17-27: Dark Vanilla Jungle June 18-27: Rum & Vodka 2-3: Swan Lake, DPAC 14-17: Cinderella with Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto

28: Tanahill Weavers

2: Four Seasons in the Sandhills ng Quartet Soul of Jazz Festival 26-29: Palustris Festival

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5-22: Master Composers

16-19: Swan Lake, DECPA

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5: Britten’s War Requiem 20: Sanam Marvi 25-26: John Luther Adams: Veils & Vesper 28: Brooklyn Rider

11-12: Hotel Modern 14-15: Martha Graham Dance Co. 17: Dorothea Roschmann & Mitsuko Uchida 21: Wendy Whelan: Restless Creature

y American Dance

ay Concert: Durham

22: Masterpieces of Religious Poetry

of Love Bits & Bites

11: Triangle Wind Ensemble Spring 8: I Shall Rise Again 9: The Malpass Brothers Concert 18: World Music 4.0: Concert Singer of Cary 31: Big Band Brass

24-26 Spring Musical TBA

Series

October 24

June 12: Pops in the Park with the Triangle Wind Ensemble June 26: Civil War Tribute

1-3 Spring Musical TBA

22: Masterpieces of Religious Poetry

24: Music and the Bizarre

7: Open the Heavens

30: A Celebration of Organ and Voice June 7: Lighting the Eternal Flame July 17: Close Your Eyes and Think of Me 2: James Whitbourn: Annelies

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20: Yesterday & Today: The Interactive 11: Jeremy Davis & The Fabulous Equinox Orchestra Beatles’Experience

22: Masterpieces of Religious Poetry 18: World Music 4.0

24: Music and the Bizarre: Peer Gynt by Edvard Grieg

Thru Mar 21: Journey’s End

1-23: The Liar

2-22: Composers: Music for Dance 7: Mozart’s Magnificent Voyage 10-15: Peter and the Starcatcher 13-14: Grant Conducts Mahler 6: Vladimir Feltsman, Piano ol 7: J.D. Souther & Carrie Rodriquez et Concert No. 3 21: Elias String Quartet assion World’ 27-28: Ari Picker ‘Lion & the Lamb’ uartet Distinction Project 20: Mementos Mori ’s and Austin Powers 26-28: Duke Players Lab Theater ct 26-28: Festival 10-15: Kinky Boots The Musical

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7-12: Jersey Boys

12-17: Pippin

19: Young Artists Winner 25:Kidznotes free Concert 26: Free Pops in the Park Concert 3: Dance Seen: First Friday Gallery Walk

2: Free Pops in the Park Concert 17: Tribute to Paul Robeson, Charlie Parker & Scott Joplin 1: Dance Seen: First Friday June 5: Dance Seen: First Friday Gallery Walk Gallery Walk

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6: Dance Seen: First Friday Gallery Walk

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8: Viva La France!

12: The Spring Will Come! 18: JazzLive W/ Lenore Raphael

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14: Exile

10: James Gregory Clean Comedy 11: Mixed Tape

Pure Prairie League

A Tribute to Creedence Clearwater Revival

December 20 June 2-7: Newsies

26-29: Gilbert & Sullivan’s Utopia Limited

ay Concert

November 1

Randy Linder

1-10: Next to Normal 8-9: A Midsummer Night’s Dream 12: Joshua Bell 14-17: Cinderella 2: Lila Downs

American Pride A Tribute to

The Classic Rock The Statler Brothers Experience

November 7

10-11: Symphonie Fantastique 16-19: Swan Lake 17-18: Best of Broadway 24-25: Appalachian Spring 1: Beautiful Africa 3: Paul Lewis, Piano 4: A Celebration of Billie Holiday 17: Artemis Quartet 2-12: Enron

January 11

Dawn Day

January 24

Voiceplay February 13

Juice Newton February 28

Jay & the Americans March 14

Exile

A Tribute to Karen Carpenter

Ticket Information

www.etix.com ~ (919) 567-4000 300 W. Ballentine St., Holly Springs, NC 27540

www.hollyspringsculturalcenter.com 23: The Best Is Yet to Come

June: The Color Purple, The Musical

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AUGUST

Koka Booth Amphitheatre at Regency Park 8003 Regency Parkway, Cary Info: 919.462.2025 Box Office: 919.834.4000 www.boothamphitheatre.com Lincoln Theatre 126 E. Cabarrus St., Raleigh • Info: 919.821.4111 www.lincolntheatre.com • Visit the website for all performances Mallarmé Chamber Players Info: 919.560.2788 • www.mallarmemusic.org Visit the website or call for performance locations NC Jazz Repertory Orchestra Visit the website for performance locations • www.ncjro.org North Carolina Master Chorale & Chamber Choir Info: 919.856.9700 • www.ncmasterchorale.org Visit the website for performance locations North Carolina Museum of Art 2110 Blue Ridge Rd., Raleigh Info: 919.839.6262 Box Office: 919.715.5923 • wwwncartmuseum.org Audio Description Info: www.artsaccessinc.org North Carolina Museum of History 5 East Edenton St., Raleigh Info: 919.807.7900 • www.ncmuseumofhistory.org North Carolina Opera Info: 919.792.3850 or www.ncopera.org Check website for performance locations North Carolina State Fairgrounds 1025 Blue Ridge Rd., Raleigh Call for performance locations Info: 919.821.7400 • www.ncstatefair.org North Carolina State University Center Stage Stewart Theatre, Titmus Theatre, Talley Student Center Info: 919.513.3030 • Ticket Central: 919.515.1100 www.ncsu.edu/arts • Audio Decription Info: www.artsaccessinc.org North Carolina Symphony Tickets/Info: 919.733.2750 • www.ncsymphony.org Visit the website for a complete list of performance and locations

1-2: Beer, Bourban & BBQ Festival 3: Jennifer Nettles That Girl Tour 16: Josh Groban 22: Steven Curtis Chapman /Third Day 1: Mother’s Finest 4: Emmure 9: JGBCB 13: Queensryche

19: NCJRO@Sharp 9 Gallery

SEPTEMBER

OCTOBER

NOVEMBER

DECEMBER

6: Jason Isbell

31: An Evening with the Avett Brothers

JANUARY 2015

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FEBRUARY

5: Darius Rucker

4-6: Hopscotch Music Festival 7: Midnite 11: Fruition 12: Zappa Plays Zappa 7: American Mavericks

9: eHarmonious

22: Drama in the Fre

23: Down to the Depths

19: A Celebration of Billy Strayhorn 14: NCJRO@Sharp 9 Gallery 23: NCJRO@Sharp 9 Gallery

11: NCJRO@Sharp 9 Gallery

13: Paperhand Puppet Intervention 19: Ensemble Vermillian 27: The Head and the Heart 28: Happy Valley Pals

2: Emanuel Gruber

8: Holiday Jazz 16: NCJRO@Sharp 9 Gallery

Season TBA 2: Judy Collins 9: Carolina Chocolate Drops 22: Nebraska

8: Gregg Gelb Jazz

Music of the Carolinas Series TBA

31: 14th Annual African American Cultural Celebration

27-Mar 1: La Traviat

9: Tristan and Isolde 6: Benefit Concert 6: Unity in the 16-26: NC State Fair & Dorton Arena Community Day 12-14: Greek Festival Concert Series 14: Mexican Independence Day 18: SF Jazz Collective 5: The Hot Sardines 24-25: The Queue 18-20: Branford Marsalis & Grant Llewellyn 26-27: West Side Story (with film)

North Carolina Theatre/Broadway Series South Duke Energy Center for the Performing Arts, Raleigh Info: 919.831.6941 Box Office: 919.831.6950 • nctheatre.com or broadwayseriessouth.com Audio Description Info: www.artsaccessinc.org North Raleigh Arts & Creative Theatre 5-21: Xanadu Thru 3: On the Verge Or, The Greystone Village Shopping Ctr, 7713-51 Leadmine Rd., Raleigh Geography of Yearning 16: Raleigh Village Idiots Improv Tickets/Info: 919.866.0228 • www.nract.org Page-Walker Arts & History Center 119 Ambassador Loop, Cary Town Hall Campus Info: 919.460.4963 Tickets: www.eTix.com www.friendsofpagewalker.org Pinecone-Down Home Series and Music of the Carolinas Aug 17: Erin McDermott Band 3: The Branchettes 21: Front Country 9: Boo Hanks & Lightnin’Well Info: 919.664.8333 info@pinecone.org • www.pinecone.org 14: Williamson Brothers/Constant Change Visit the website or call for performance locations 2-7: Rodney King PlayMakers Repertory Company 17-Oct 5: Vanya and Sonia and Paul Green Theatre, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Masha and Spike Info: 919.962.1122 Box Office: 919.962.7529 • www.playmakersrep.org Audio Description Info: www.artsaccessinc.org PNC Arema 1400 Edwards Mill Rd., Raleigh 12: Demi Lovato 18: Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers Info: 919.861.2300, Box Office: 919.834.4000 www.thepncarena.com Raleigh Area Flute Association & Raleigh Flute Choir 21: Performance and Concert with Kelly Roudabush Info: 919.781.3225 • www.raleighflutes.org Visit the website for performance locations Raleigh Chamber Music Guild 14: Four Seasons Chamber Music Festival in the Triangle Info: 919.821.2030 • www.rcmg.org 28: Happy Valley Pals Visit the website or call for performance locations Thru Sept 7: Hairspray Raleigh Little Theatre Thru Aug 3: Fiddler on the Roof 22-Sept 7: Hairspray 301 Pogue St., Raleigh • www.raleighlittletheatre.org Tickets: 919.821.3111 • Audio Description Info: www.artsaccessinc.org Raleigh Ringers • Meymandi Concert Hall, Raleigh Info: 919.523.7252 Box Office: 919.834.4000 • www.rr.org 28: Close to Home Raleigh Symphony Orchestra & Free Spirit Ensemble Info/Tickets: 546.9755 • www.raleighsymphony.org Red Hat Amphitheater 1: Sugar Ray, Smash Mouth, Blues Trav- Aug 8: Slightly Stoopid Aug 11: David Gray Aug 16: Sarah Brightman eler, Uncle Kracker 500 South McDowell St., Raleigh • Info: 919.996.8800 Aug 20: Old Crow Medicine Show 5: Gavin DeGraw, Matt Nathanson www.redhatamphitheater.com Seby Jones Center for the Performing Arts, Louisburg College 26: The Band of Oz Allen de Hart Concert Series • 501 N. Main St., Louisburg Info: 919.497.3300 • www.louisburg.edu/concertseries Sunrise Theater 1: First Friday Free Outdoor Concert 5: First Friday Free Outdoor Concert 250 NW Broad St., Southern Pines • Info: 910.692.8501 29: ACMC Classical Concert Series Box Office: 910.692.3611 • www.sunrisetheater.com Temple Theatre 5: James Ethan Clark/The Renegades 11-28 Oklahoma 14: Eat Your Heart Out 15-24: Country Gravy & Other 120 Charthage St., Sanford Info: 919.774.415 16: James Ethan Clark & The Obsessions www.templeshows.com Renegades 19: Kurt Green 26: Nantucket Theatre in the Park 12-28: Somewhere In Between 107 Pullen Rd., Raleigh • Info/Tickets: 919.831.6936 www.theatreinthepark.com Audio Description: www.artsaccessinc.org 7-9: Disney’s High School Musical, Jr. 28: Carnival Latino Towne Players of Garner Garner Performing Arts Center • 742 W. Garner Rd., Garner Info: 919.661.4602 • www.towneplayers.org Triangle Brass Band www.trianglebrass.org • Visit the website for performance locations Triangle Wind Ensemble www.trianglewind.org • Visit the website for performance locations 25-Oct 5: You Can’t Take It With You University Theatre at NC State Titmus Theatre at Thompson Hall, NCSU, Raleigh Ticket Central: 919.515.1100 • www.ncsu.edu/theatre Walnut Creek Music Pavilion 2: James Taylor 8: Keith Urban, Jer- Aug 21: Miranda Lambert & Thomas Rhett Aug 23: Chicago & REO 3801 Rock Quarry Rd., Raleigh Info: 919.831.6400 rod Neiman, & Brett Eldredge Speedwagon 13: One Republic & The Script Box Office: 919.834.4000 • www.walnutcreekamphitheatre.org

7-8: Capital Area Handbell Festival 6: Scandinavian Christmas Fair 18: Amran Shrine Circus 13-21: Christmas County Fair 28-30: A Christmas Carousel Holiday 1: Nano Stern 13: DakhaBrakha

31: Chinese New Year Celebration

17: The Swingle Sin 27: The Tempest 28: Wuthering Heig

2-4: Yevgeny Sudbin/Rachmaninoff 7-8: Copland in Mexico 17-18: At the Oscars 14-15: Brandenburg 24-25: Tchaikovsky’s 1st Piano Conc. 21-22: Brandenburg and Brahms 28-29: Holiday Pops 14-19: A Chorus Line

5-7: Handel’s Messiah 19-20: A Pink Martini Christmas 31: Big Band & Vienna

9-10: Rhapsody in Blue 16-17: Louis and Ella, All That Jazz 22-24: New World Symphony 30: All Tchaikovsky 20-25: Nice Work If You Can Get It

6-7: Beethoven and 20-21: Russian Spec 25: Lang Lang 27: Beethoven’s 7th 10-15: Billy Elliot

10-26: Steel Magnolias

5-21: Seussical The Musical

23-Feb 8: Neil Simon’s Laughter on the 23rd Floor

Thru Feb 8: Neil Sim the 23rd Floor

14: Raleigh Boychoir’s Millennium Chorus

25: Tony Williamson

15: Brian Reagin

23: The Steel Wheels

27: Pokey LaFarge

7-11: Wrestling Jerusalem 21-Feb 8: Trouble In Mind

Thru Feb 8: Trouble 25-Mar 15: An Enem

16: Bill Leslie

19: Barefoot Movement

13: Willie Watson

Thru Oct 5: Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike

1-Dec 7: Into The Woods 1-Dec 7: A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Thru Dec 7: Into The Woods Thru Dec 7: A Midsummer Night’s Dream 5: The Black Keys 10-14: Disney On Ice Presents Frozen 31: The Avett Brothers

9: 30th Annual Review and Contest 15: Flute Fair

21: Flute Choir Day

19: Ensemble Vermillian

2: Emanuel Gruber 23: Harlem Quartet

10-26: Desire Under The Elms 31-Nov 16: Mirandy and Brother Wind, Youth Series

Thru Nov 16: Mirandy and Brother Wind, Youth Series

5-20: Cinderella

8: Capital Area Handbell Festival

14-15: Holiday Concert

16: Folk Tunes Revisted 5: Close to Home 24: Folk Tunes 30: Toy Factory 2 Revisted 26: Three Deuces Aug 22: Boston Aug 24: Fresh Beat Band Oct 9: Earth, Wind & Fire Sep 13: Life in Color Sep 18: Lorde Oct 3-4: IBMA Wide Open Bluegrass 14: G.R.I.T.S. The Musical 16: Ruben Studdard

18: Windsync

8: Gregg Gelb Jazz

16-Feb 1: Venus In Fur

Thru Feb 1: Venus In 13-Mar 1: Much Ado

6: Our Christmas Gift 13: Toy Factory 2

12: NC Symphony Holiday Pops

13: The Association

3: First Friday Free Outdoor Concert

17: ACMC Classical Concert Series

16-Nov 2: Dracula 29: Carlos Mencia

Thru Nov 2: Dracula 4-21: The Sanders Family Christmas 22-Feb 8: I’ll Never Be Hungry Again Thru Feb 8: I’ll Neve 29: Sweet Potato Pie’s Home Grown 31: Tommy Edwards & The Bluegrass Again Christmas Show Experience 26-Mar 15: Ring of F

17-25: Ladies Man

9: ACMC Classical C

10-14: A Christmas Carol, DECPA 18-21: A Christmas Carol, DPAC

6-22: Black Pearl Sin

13: Holiday Favorites 14: Triangle Youth Bands Concert 9: Private Holiday Concert

20: Partnership with 21: Harrison’s Dream 8: Children’s Concer

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5: A Sousa Spectacular 1: Fall Concert Thru Oct 5: You Can’t Take It With You 7-23: Around the World In 80 Days Sep 6: Jason Aldean, Florida Georgia Sep 17: Kings of Leon, Young the Giant & Kongos Line & Tyler Farr Sep 7: 95X Big Shindig: Fitz and The Tantrums & Fuel Oct 9: Zac Brown Band

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A N EV EN IN G W ITH G RO U C H O November 1, 2014, 8pm Award-winning actor/director Frank Ferrante recreates his acclaimed portrayal of legendary comedian Groucho Marx. Become part of the show as Ferrante ad-libs his way through the very best of Groucho one-liners, anecdotes and songs. $25

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The McGuigans bring the music, but YOU bring the playlist. Enjoy this all-live, allrequest Beatles show, as the McGuigan Brothers let you share your stories and relive your memories of your favorite Beatles songs. $25

Audiences nationwide have fallen in love with Jeremy Davis & The Fabulous Equinox Orchestra. With the style and swagger of the legendary Rat Pack entertainers, Davis and vocalist Clay Johnson put their spin on the Great American songbook. $30

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The legendary Riders In The Sky celebrate Christmas “The Cowboy Way” with their way-out Western wit and superlative musical skills. Enjoy an evening with Ranger Doug, Too Slim, Woody Paul and Joey as they deliver classic C&W—Comedy & Western! $28

Award-winning humorist Jeanne Robertson returns to charm us in her uniquely sweet and Southern way. This former Miss North Carolina literally stands head and shoulders above the rest (she’s six-foottwo) with her infectious personality, sincere heart and family-friendly sense of humor. $30

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ear EarthTalk: How does the Rocky Mountain Institute think we can get oﬀ of oil and coal by 2 and save money in the process? ~ James Greenville, Redding, CT Colorado-based sustainability think-tank Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) was founded in 1982 by American physicist and environmentalist Amory Lovins to research and promote market-based solutions to our energy crisis without breaking the bank. The group is focusing efforts on transforming domestic and eventually global energy use to create a clean, prosperous and secure energy future by mid-century.

The Colorado-based sustainability think-tank Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) believes we already have the technologies to help foster a rapid evolution of our electricity system, but we still need the political and institutional will to make it happen. Pictured: RMI founder Amory Lovins speaking at an energy summit in Berlin, Germany in 213. CREDIT: RUDOLF SIMON.

“We can eliminate our addiction to oil and coal by 2050 and use one-third less natural gas while switching to eﬃcient use and renewable supply,” says Lovins, adding that doing so could actually cost less and support a more robust economy than continuing with business-as-usual: “Moreover, this transition needs no new inventions and no acts of Congress and no new federal taxes, mandate subsidies or laws…” To get there, Lovins acknowledges that we have to start thinking differently now. RMI is advocating cutting U.S. electricity consumption by 18 percent over the next 10 years while almost doubling renewable energy’s share of generation from 16 to 30 percent. Few would argue with the cost savings and environmental benefits of such a plan—implementation is the challenge.

According to Lovins, we already have the technologies to help foster a rapid evolution of our electricity system, but we still need the political and institutional will to make it happen. RMI has begun a dialogue with utilities and other entities to align incentives and create more opportunities for electricity users to contribute clean power to the grid themselves through technologies like rooftop solar power. One key feature of RMI’s plan is rate structures that reflect the true benefits and costs of moving to more distributed (small scale/decentralized) energy resources. The group is working with utilities to launch six “Electricity Innovation Labs” nationally as well as a “Solar Development Excellence Center” to highlight the feasibility of distributed renewables. RMI also wants to simplify commercial photovoltaic financing, incorporate renewables into real estate finance and make solar financing affordable to underserved markets. RMI also wants to make large buildings much more energy efficient, and aims to make a billion square feet of commercial space 35 percent more efficient by 2025 through so-called “deep energy” retrofits, including the adoption of more renewables. RMI is targeting four of the largest, most influential segments of the buildings market—major companies, the General Services Administration, the Department of Defense and “activist” cities (those already on the green cutting edge)—for major energy retrofits, and is working to persuade private investors to consider overall impact and long-term costs, not just short term gains. Another major part of RMI’s plan is to work with large metro regions with upwards of 10 million residents, and with university campuses, to make major efficiency gains. Other keys to getting us off oil and coal by 2050 include transforming how we design and use vehicles, and getting Fortune 500 corporations to rejigger their energy supply chains to facilitate procurement of more renewable energy. Beyond the U.S., RMI is working along similar lines with China and other large developing countries to help them avoid some of the energy development missteps undertaken here at home. ConTaCT: Rocky Mountain Institute, www.rmi.org.

ear EarthTalk: A recent study showed that Bisphenol A (BPA) was hardly the human health risk researchers once believed it to be. Should I still try to avoid products that may contain it? ~ Carolyn Danes, Waukesha, WI Some 93 percent of us carry traces of the synthetic compound Bisphenol A (BPA) in our bloodstreams, so it’s no wonder that public health advocates are concerned about its potential effects. Developed in the 1950s to strengthen plastics and epoxy resins, BPA is today used in a wide range of products, including many plastic food and drink containers, the lining of most cans, some paper products, and dental sealants. But with widespread use of BPA has come increased scrutiny regarding its potential impact on human health. When ingested, BPA mimics naturally occurring human hormones and thus can potentially interfere with the body’s endocrine and reproductive workings. According to the nonprofit Breast Cancer Fund, previous research has linked BPA exposure to with increased risk for cardiovascular disease, miscarriages, decreased birth weight at term, breast and prostate cancer, reproductive and sexual dysfunctions, altered immune system activity, metabolic problems and diabetes in adults, and cognitive and behavioral development in young children. These concerns have led the European Union, Canada—and more recently the U.S.—to ban the use of BPA in baby bottles and other items geared toward babies and children. Meanwhile, the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) maintains that typical low-level BPA exposure does not pose any health risk. A February 2014 study by FDA researchers found that low doses of the compound did not affect the health of rats over a 90-day study period. While study rats exposed to higher doses of BPA had lower body weights, abnormal female reproductive development and altered hormone levels, there were no such effects in rats exposed to lower doses more akin to what humans experience. But critics point out some ﬂaws in that study which call its conclusions into question. For one, a control group of rats that was supposed to remain unexposed to BPA somehow had levels of the compound in their blood equivalent to the lowest-dose

study population. FDA researchers maintain that this contamination of the control group did not affect their results because neither group of rats showed any effects given their low-dose exposure. Another issue is that the researchers did not look at neurological effects such as changes in learning, memory and behavior. “What needs to follow is whether these exposures are causing neurobehavioral changes,” Harvard epidemiologist Joe Braun told Environmental Health News, adding that previous research has shown that estrogen receptors in the brains of rats were triggered by low doses of BPA. “Hopefully [the FDA] will address that down the road.”

BPA exposure has been linked to a host of human health issues, including cognitive and behavioral development in young children. These concerns have led the European Union, Canada—and more recently the U.S.—to ban the use of BPA in baby bottles and other items geared toward babies and children. PHOTO CORALIE MERCIER, COURTESY FLICKR.

More research is underway still. The February 2014 FDA study is part of an ongoing two-year assessment of the toxicity of BPA. Dozens of university studies are also in progress to shed more light on just how risky our use of BPA may be. Consumers should continue to take precautions to limit their intake of BPA by avoiding polycarbonate plastic food and drink containers and metal cans, and by refraining from putting plastic items in the microwave—a process that can expedite the leaching of BPA into food. ConTaCTs: Breast Cancer Fund, www.breastcancerfund.org; U.S. Food & Drug Administration, www.fda.gov; Environmental Health News, www.environmentalhealthnews.org.

EarthTalk is written and edited by Roddy Scheer and Doug Moss and is a registered trademark of E–The Environmental Magazine (www.emagazine. com). Send questions to: earthtalk@emagazine.com. ®

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A Durham Tradition: CenterFest feature a Children’s Stage, a stage in Five Continues to Attract the Best Talent Points Plaza, the North Carolina Song-

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CenterFest, produced and presented by the Durham Arts Council, will take place on Saturday, September 20 from 10am to 6pm and Sunday, September 21 from 11am to 5pm in downtown Durham. This year the festival remains in its expanded location in central downtown Durham, centered on Main and Chapel Hill Streets in the Five Points and CCB Plaza areas. The festival will showcase the work of 140 talented visual artists, over 70 performing groups, and nearly 40 community nonprofits representing aspects of the Triangle’s booming entrepreneurial and artistic communities. CenterFest brings an anticipated 25,000 visitors for a weekend of fine art and crafts enjoyment, shopping, cultural performances, entertainment, delicious food, and all the great things the newly revitalized downtown Durham has to offer. Festival-goers will have the opportunity to see work produced by 140 artists in a variety of styles and media including basket weaving, clay, drawing, fiber, glass, jewelry, mixed media, painting, printmaking, photography, sculpture, and woodworking. 2013 Best in Show Winner Jean Yao, and 2013 Citizen’s Choice Award Winner Andria Linn will both be on hand, along with many newcomers whose work will wow you! Make sure to enter the raﬄe and vote for your favorite 2014 CenterFest Artist so he or she can win this year’s Durham Coca-Cola Citizen’s Choice Award! CenterFest will host 70 performance groups, featuring over 400 individual performers on six different stages, ranging from dance, singers and songwriters, bands, magicians, and children’s entertainers. Along with the Main Stage and Dance Stage on CCB Plaza, CenterFest will also

writers’ Co-Op stage in the Ninth Street Bakery parking lot, and the Herald-Sun stage which will entertain festival-goers enjoying food and beverages from the nearby food vendor area. CenterFest will feature a variety traditional fair-food favorites and new additions from the Durham food truck community. We also have numerous Coca-Cola product booths, sponsored by Coca-Cola of Durham, for festival goers of all ages. Grab a treat or a cool drink and then head over to the Kids Zone to take part in family-friendly arts and craft activities or face painting. The Durham Arts Council’s CenterFest is free and open to the public, although donations are appreciated, and the event will occur rain or shine. CenterFest is presented and produced by the Durham Arts Council with support from community sponsors. For more information, visit centerfest.durhamarts.org, or call 919.560.ARTS. Durham Arts Council, Inc. is a private, non-profit organization that promotes excellence in and access to the creation, experience and active support of the arts for all people in our community. The Durham Arts Council, one of the oldest art councils in the United States and one of the largest in North Carolina, manages a historic building at 120 Morris Street, a public facility in downtown Durham that attracts nearly 300,000 visitors a year. The Durham Arts Council has yearround programs including art exhibitions; classes in the performing and visual arts; artist residencies; advocacy and fundraising; grants for artists and arts organizations; the Durham Art Walk; and CenterFest. For more information, visit www. durhamarts.org.

International Focus: Reaching Across Borders by Melissa DriVer Beard International Focus, a small Raleigh-based nonprofit, strives to facilitate cross-cultural exchange and promote international arts, business, and education. Through the International Festival, International Visitors Leadership Program, Community

Connections, and Open World Programs, International Focus aims to support citizen diplomacy, international exchange, and diversity within the Research Triangle area through a wide range of activities and programs. The International Visitors Leadership Program (IVLP) is a professional exchange program of the U.S. Department of State designed to increase mutual understanding between Americans and people of other countries. More than 4,000 foreign visitors participate annually in IVLP projects of up to three weeks, including visits to Washington D.C. and two or three other U.S. cities. Notable alumni include Dilma Rousseff, Margaret Thatcher, Tony Blair, and Hamid Karzai. Community Connections, a program of USAID, is designed to promote public diplomacy through the exchange of cultural ideas and values between participants and local families and host organizations. Through this program, a variety of professionals from the former Soviet Union countries avail themselves of practical training opportunities in the United States, thanks to the efforts of local businesses and private organizations volunteering their time and resources to develop programs for these visitors. The Open World Program, administered by the Open World Leadership Center, is the first and only international exchange agency in the U.S. Legislative Branch. Through Open World, nearly 18,000 current and future leaders from central Asia and Eastern Europe have interacted with Members of Congress, Congressional staff, and thousands of other Americans. Examples of delegations hosted through the IVLP program

• European Union, January 2014, Economic Policy • Portugal, February 2014, Entrepreneurship and Innovation • Senegal, March 2014, Higher Education • Multi-Regional, April 2014, Women and Justice • India, May 2014, Water Resources • Germany, May 2014, Regional Reporting, Media • Ecuador, June 2014, Higher Education

The Annual International Festival of Raleigh engages over 50 different ethnic groups from around the world who showcase their cuisine, traditional dance and music, native artwork, and unique heritage in order to celebrate the Triangle’s unique diversity.

International Festival (IF) volunteers make the International Festival possible. From planning to clean up, each step of the Festival operates with the help of dedicated, creative people who donate their time and talents. Volunteer assignments are available to fit many interests and schedules. There are many ways for volunteers to become involved in IF outside of the Festival, too! By becoming members of IF, volunteers can experience and promote citizen diplomacy by offering Homestays, which include providing international visitors with a place to stay along with family oriented meals for usually three to five days. Hosts are encouraged to share their lives and interests by touring local sites or attending sporting events, for example. For the visitors, their weekdays are filled with meetings and professional exchanges, so it is especially nice for them to be in a home environment during the evenings. Volunteers can also provide Home hospitality, which involves a homecooked meal (even a potluck or picnic with neighbors!) with one to four international guests. The goal of home hospitality is to share a good meal, a warm welcome, and friendly hospitality—nothing fancy required! Visit www.internationalfocusnc.org; 919.782.0552. Melissa Driver Beard is the executive director for International Focus, internationalfocusnc.org.

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love my job! Who would believe that I was given the opportunity to interview Josh Groban? The folks at Koka Booth Amphitheatre arranged a phone conversation with Groban as part of the promotion for his appearance at Koka Booth with the North Carolina Symphony on August 16. (Tickets are available at the Amphitheatre box oﬃce, by phone at 800.514.3849, or online at etix.com.)

If you have not heard You Raise Me Up, Brave, The Prayer, You Are Loved or I Believe by Josh Groban, then you have been living under a rock for the past ten years. Born in Los Angeles in 1981, Groban has been performing since the seventh grade. Things really started to roll when his vocal coach submitted a recording of Groban singing All I Ask of You from The Phantom of the Opera to David Foster, a well-known producer, composer and arranger. A health emergency found Celine Dion needing a rehearsal partner for the Grammy Awards in 1998, and Foster called Groban to step in. Rosie O’Donnell was in the audience and immediately invited Groban to appear on her show. Shortly thereafter he sang at Californian Governor Gray Davis’ inauguration, and he was cast for several episodes of Ally McBeal. And it has been non-stop since. His first four albums were multi-platinum, and in 2007 he was the number one selling artist

in the U.S. To date he has sold over 25 million records worldwide. Foster has said of Groban, “I love his natural ability in the pop and rock arena, but I love his sense of classics even more. He’s a true musical force to be reckoned with.” A force indeed. Groban has sung with nearly every major star including Elton John, Stevie Wonder, Don Henley, Charlotte Church, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Barbra Streisand, Celine Dion, Paul Simon, and a variety of people from his audiences (check out his YouTube videos)! In addition to Ally McBeal, Groban has been on virtually every talk show multiple times, he has performed for the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade and the Super Bowl, has appeared on CSI: NY, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Dancing with the Stars, and was in the hit movie Crazy, Stupid, Love as a nerdy attorney. Groban is very generous with his time and has performed at various charity events. Most near and dear to him is his Find Your Light Foundation. This foundation helps to enrich the lives of young people through arts, education, and cultural awareness. Said Groban, “The combination of my personal experience and belief that the arts in children’s and young adult’s lives help shape and change them for the better, and the sobering reality that these are the exact programs that are being cut from our schools and society at a drastic rate, make me more attuned than ever to the need for this focus.” Groban has recorded a total of eight albums, the most recent, All That Echos, was in 2013. He has been nominated for an American Music Award, a Billboard Music Award, and a Grammy twice. His recording of Believe earned an Oscar nomination for Best Song and it won a Grammy for Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media. Following is an except from our interview in July. boom!: It surprises me that someone your age sings the type of music you do [easy listening, vocal, operatic, pop]. Did you start singing that style because your voice was perfect for it, or did you start

singing that music because you loved it— or both? groban: It was kind of a perfect storm. I was surrounded by a lot of different styles growing up. My mom was an art teacher, my dad played trumpet, and they loved the arts. They exposed my brother and me to lots of different shows. But what it was specifically was when my voice changed, and I would go home and sing along to different records, you realize what you can do. You have to be at service to what your voice does naturally. What I sing and how I sing it is my voice’s natural placement. But yes, I do love this music. boom!: Do you ever sing kick-it rock and roll songs? groban: Get in a room with me and we will do some Karoke; I can mimic anybody. But it’s for fun; it’s imitation. I couldn’t do it for two hours straight. boom!: You have sung with just about everybody. Who was the most fun? groban: My childhood hero growing up was Paul Simon, and I had the honor of singing with him at his tribute. We sang Bridge Over Troubled Water, and it was wonderful for me. To go full circle and meet someone you idolize your entire life, and you can stand toe to toe is pretty amazing. boom!: I read that Graceland [Paul Simon] is one of your favorite albums. groban: That album was very unique—he tried to infuse and bring in world music. That’s when I first started to fall in love with African music. It reached me on a different level. boom!: On your album, All That Echos, did I hear some of that influence on that? groban: I’ve always tried to infuse a little bit of that world music influence in my music, and on that album, there is definitely some African influence. Oftentimes I will throw in a Celtic harp or a dulcimer. I always like to give my audience surprises. boom!: On your website, you featured a video of the making of All That Echos. It was helpful to see the evolution of that album and the layering of the different tones. As a casual listener, I think sometimes we don’t appreciate all that goes into recording a song. groban: Different artists record in

different ways. But for me, going into a studio and collaborating with a bunch of different, very creative people, and then at the end of the day walking out with a CD in your hand, saying ‘We did this!’ Walking in with one thing in your head and leaving with something completely different is for me, the exciting part. boom!: Are you promoting an album on this tour? groban: No, I’m not, I’m on tour break; it’s actually a pretty mellow summer for me. These outdoor concerts are just pure enjoyment. And I love working with the local symphonies. People are outside, enjoying themselves, drinking wine. It’s a chance for me to do a few old things, a few new things, and hopefully play something that people have never heard before. I am working on a new album that has been a dream of mine for a while and that is an album of Broadway and film songs. And I may audition some of them this summer! boom!: I enjoyed your role in Crazy, Stupid, Love. It was just hysterical. Are you going to do more acting? groban: Working with Emma Stone for a couple of days was not a bad day at the oﬃce. I am working on a couple of things right now. Comedy is a lot of fun and something I am trying to do more. boom!: I hear you’re a tennis fan. Want to get in some tennis while you’re here? groban: I love watching it; I love playing it. I get bored with so many sports, but tennis for whatever reason, stuck. I’ve been playing since I was a kid. I like the fact that you have to put the phone down and focus on something else completely. There are so many things in my life that are open to creative interpretation—so much that is scattered in my brain, and tennis has a real direct goal. It’s like that brain game, Lumonisty, for me. boom!: Are you watching Wimbledon? groban: Absolutely. boom!: Who do you think is going to win? groban: When it comes to Wimbledom, I am always rooting for [Andy] Murray, because it’s his home. But I think [Rafael] Nadal is on an absolute roll right continued on page 3

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amous son Bob Seger perhaps expressed it best in his song Mainstreet; the lyrics bring sweet remembrances of life in a less complicated time in an iconic American town. The city he so lovingly describes is Ann Arbor, Michigan. Ann Arbor, and the surrounding communities in Washtenaw County, all offer a wide range of activities and attractions that will please even the most discriminating visitor. Ann Arbor, the home of the University of Michigan and the “Big House” football stadium, is chock full of unique stores, craft breweries, eclectic and ethnic cuisine, lively music, art museums and galleries as well as craft production facilities. Add to this mix a wide range of outdoor activities, in either summer or winter, and voila, you have a destination that will entice you to return time and again to enjoy the charm that envelopes you at every turn. Ann Arbor is easily reached from Raleigh by ﬂying to Detroit’s Metropolitan Wayne County Airport followed by a short drive west into Washtenaw County. It is rural, with an established and burgeoning farm-to-table community supplying its many and varied excellent restaurants. It is also cosmopolitan with its art, architecture, theater offerings and the presence

The historic Michigan Theater.

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ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN

“The Big House”—The University of Michigan’s stadium.

of the global community at the Univer- of the past. These decorative tiles now sity of Michigan. Including the peak col- grace public spaces in Disneyland, Yale lege student attendance, Ann Arbor has a University and of course the University population of approximately 114,000. Ann of Michigan. Need a unique tile design Arbor consistently makes the top rankings for a place in your home? Check out their for such categories as Coolest Midwestern amazing tile designs at www.motawi.com. Cities, Brainiest City, Best Fine art aficionados will Places to Live and Best Colenjoy a visit to the Univerlege Towns for Foodies! sity of Michigan Museum The home base for our of Art. The permanent colearly December visit was lection holds outstanding the Hilton Garden Inn Ann works of art representing Arbor. It is just off of I-94 African, American, Asian, near the Briarwood Mall and European, Middle Eastern, a short drive to downtown. modern genres along with The rooms are spacious and prints, drawings and phocomfortable and the indoor tographs. Plan to take some pool is great, so bring your time to see the collection. swimsuit. Get started on The museum is active with your day with an omelet or its student teaching and other fresh offerings from Many of the downtown businesses are community outreach prothe breakfast buffet. housed in these vintage brick buildings grams to ensure that area Barbara and I love art, including the West Side Book Shop. residents have access to both fine art and crafts, so world-class art. For a prewe made some of these destinations the view visit www.umma.umich.edu. first places that we visited. First up was Shoppers—ready, set, go up and down Motawi Tileworks in Ann Arbor. Owner Main Street and take excursions down Nawal Motawi started the company in her the intersecting avenues for shops full of garage in 1992 after receiving her degree unique items. You can find clothing boufrom Stamps School of Art & Design at the tiques, handcrafted jewelry/personal University of Michigan and an apprentice- items, antiques as well as eateries and ship at Pewabic Pottery in Detroit. Motawi brew houses (more on the brewery scene Tileworks produces tile for home and later). Be sure to check out the Ann Arbor public spaces and carries on the stylistic Art Center at 117 W. Liberty Street. This representations of the Arts & Crafts period respected community arts organization

offers original artwork, jewelry, paintings and ceramics. My other favorite store is just a few doors down at 113 W. Liberty— bibliophiles will want to step inside the West Side Book Shop to see proprietor Jay Platt’s great collection of used and rare books covering many genres. Dedicated antique collectors will want to make the short drive east to Ypsilanti and visit two stores in particular. Materials Unlimited at 2 West Michigan Avenue has 15,000 square feet of display space filled with period furniture, glass windows, salvaged doors, fireplace mantels and restored antique lighting. www.materialsunlimited.com. Head further west to Schmidt’s Antiques, Inc. at 5138 W. Michigan Avenue. While you will also find antique furniture here, their offerings contain fine art, sterling silver, Asian art, porcelain, firearms, clocks and watches up for auction. www. schmidttsantiques.com. Don’t leave Ypsilanti before seeing the Ypsilanti Automotive Heritage Collection. Engineers and entrepreneurs came together in Ypsilanti and an amazing number of automotive innovations and unique automobiles were produced. Innovations include convertible tops, seat belts, the Hydra-matic transmission and beautiful limited production cars such as the Kaiser-Frazer, Tucker Torpedo and Hudson Super Six. Ann Arbor has a strong farm-to-table movement that the chefs and restaurateurs in the area have readily embraced. There are so many outstanding restaurant venues

A classic Kaiser-Frazer at the Ypsilanti Automotive Heritage Collection.

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that I think I gained close to ten pounds around town for a refreshing cocktail at the after our four-day visit. In fairness, part stylish bar. Executive Chef Gabriel Vera of that weight gain came from the craft does a masterful job of presenting food breweries we also visited. We had the from Peru, Ecuador and Brazil and fusing pleasure of eating at three distinctly dif- them with local ingredients for Food of the ferent ethnic restaurants during our stay. Americas dishes that surprise and delight. Ayse Uras greeted us at her Ayse’s Turk- Lena’s is a must stop in our opinion. Head ish Café, which has been a favorite spot downstairs to the Habana Lounge for late for locals for over 20 years. The menu night fun. Lena’s is at 226 S. Main Street. changes daily responding to local ingre- www.lena-annarbor.com. dients that become available. The cookWine enthusiasts will not want to miss ing is traditional Turkish home cooking. dining and purveying the wine selection at We had a carrot and bean Vinology. www.vinowineappetizer, stuffed grape bars.net. Other restaurant leaves, chicken with plum honorable mentions include entrée and ekmek kadayif Vellum Restaurant www. (a bread pudding) for vellumrestaurant.com, Mani desert. Ayse’s is located at Osteria & Bar www.manios1703 Plymouth Road. www. teria.com and Frita Batidos aysesturkishcafe.com. www.fritabatidos.com The Blue Nile EthioAs for the other half pian Restaurant at 221 E. of my weight gain, Ann Washington Street serves Arbor and environs hosts food gursha style: eating some of the finest craft from the same plate. Combreweries in the country. bine that with the injera— Arbor Brewing Company, Antique lovers will be in heaven in the Ann Arbor area. the bread that you use to Grizzly Peak Brewing pick the food up—and Company, Jolly Pumpkin what you have is the Ethiopian tradition of Artisan Ales and my favorite, Wolverine creating a bond of friendship and loyalty. State Brewing Company. Wolverine is one Meat dishes include Doro Alecha: chicken of the few microbreweries in the councooked in herbed butter with onions or try to specialize in lagers. Its Gulo Gulo Yebeg Alacha: lamb cooked in herbed India Pale Ale was voted a top 25 beer in butter with garlic and jalapeno peppers. 2013 and Jolly Pumpkin’s Oro de Calabaza Vegetarians will enjoy Tekil Gomen: cab- was named the number one Belgian-style bage sautéed with onion, garlic, jalapeno Golden Ale in the world by the New York peppers and spices. Give the Blue Nile a Times in 2010. Each July more than 10,000 visit to enjoy a unique dining experience. beer lovers gather in Ypsilanti for the www.bluenilemi.com. Michigan Brewers Guild Summer Festival. Our third ethnic specialty restaurant My other favorite, Ashley’s multi-tap reswas dinner at Amadeus European Restau- taurant at 338 S. State Street by campus, is rant also on E. Washington Street. Owner consistently ranked among the nation’s top Paul Strozynski selects his favorite Polish, beer bars by DRAFT magazine. In addition Hungarian and Austrian dishes and offers to the fantastic beer selection, they have them in the ambiance of a traditional Vien- rare scotches in their Lost Scotch Collecnese café setting. The menu includes clas- tion. Do you have $58 for a shot of 26-yearsic items such as Potato Pancakes, Pierogi’s, old Port Ellen from Islay? continued on page 3 Golabki (stuffed cabbage rolls), Kielbasa and Goulash. Amadeus also has fine European wines and beers on hand so the whole experience is as if you were dining in Warsaw. www.amadeusrestaurant.com. The outstanding Art Deco exterior is the first thing that attracted us to Lena Restaurant and Habana Cellar Lounge. The Art Deco theme continues with the interior furnishings, and they are modern and comfortable. We returned several Gursha-style eating at the Blue Nile Ethiopian Restaurant. times at the end of a long day of walking

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Physicist Pours Energy into Murder and Mystery

Sig Hutchinson: “Mr. Greenjeans” and Wake County Advocate

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ost folk don’t see the cozy town of Holly Springs and its neighbor Cary as a hotbed of murder, mystery and intrigue. That’s because they don’t think like Harry James Krebs. He is that rare combination of nerdy science geek and brooding introverted artist. Harry James Krebs is an award-winning writer who moved to the Triangle area three years ago bringing with him the manuscript for his first novel, Fractured Persona, a murder mystery set in Holly Springs. A physicist by education and training, he started working at a particle accelerator at just 22-years-old in an engineering division while he earned a degree in Applied Physics. He currently works remotely for the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory at Stanford University. Harry had always wanted to write mystery novels but felt guilty about reading for pleasure. Finally, in 1993 he managed to start a mystery novel where a colleague of the main character went missing. Then, in real life, one of his colleagues actually did go missing. The parallels spooked Harry into laying down his pen. As they neared retirement, Harry and his wife of 24 years, Patricia, wanted to escape the frantic pace of Silicon Valley in California. A friend recommended Cary. They fell in love with the area after one visit, selected a house plan and a lot, and hired a builder. Harry’s home is situated in a mysterious geographical vortex near the intersection of Holly Springs, Cary, Apex, and Raleigh—the perfect local coordinates for writing mysteries. As luck would have it, as soon as the new house was finished, Harry’s Harry James Krebs with his project in California was extended Chihuahua, Lucille. another three years. He and his wife lived a bi-coastal lifestyle during those years until finally picking up and moving to North Carolina for good. When alone in California, Harry picked his pen back up and filled his evenings with writing. Setting his novel in Holly Springs was one way for him to be there without being there. It took Harry six months to write the first three chapters of his book, Fractured Persona. Encouraged by positive critiques from a friend, Harry finished the remaining 33 chapters in only seven months. Then he tackled the publishing challenge, sending his book to 300 agents with virtually no response. He decided to self-publish. Then, he wrote the second book, sent it to over 200 agents, and again received no actionable response. After Fractured Persona garnered three national awards in independent book publisher competitions, Harry caught the eye of a small local publisher, Peak City Publishing, in Apex. Together, they decided to re-release his first book, Fractured Persona. Next, it was the launch of Vengeance is Mine, the first in a multi-book series about Benjamin Tucker, a best-selling true-crime author who lives in Holly Springs and investigates gruesome murders in Cary and surrounding communities.

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by James Williams

ow does Wake County grow in size while protecting the quality of life for its citizens? That is the question that Sig Hutchinson focuses on daily. Although a Texas native, Hutchinson admits his allegiances have changed as he has grown to become one of Wake County’s biggest advocates. “I instantly fell in love with Raleigh the minute I drove into the city 31 years ago. With a nurse practitioner wife and a son at Millbrook High School, my life as a North Carolinian began that day. Decades later, I still feel the same way.” Hutchinson has had careers ranging from an instructor of Dale Carnegie courses, to founding The Raleigh Downtowner. However, his reputable name in the area, “Mr. Greenjeans,” is due to his many leadership roles. Since 1999 he has been the chair of the Wake County Open Space & Parks Advisory Committee. In this position, Hutchinson has been recognized for his efforts preserving open space, protecting water and air quality, expanding the greenway system and promoting multi-modal transportation. He has successfully led six Wake County and City of Raleigh bond referendums totaling more than $280 million. Keeping true to his nickname, he has also been the driving force behind the creation of what will soon be more than 125 miles of interconnected greenways throughout the Triangle. “Raleigh has been on numerous ‘Best of ’ lists nationally. I believe that this is due to people seeing such a high quality of life through a ﬂourishing business community, but also through the surrounding environment of nature.” Honored as “Tarheel of the Week” by the News & Observer, “Volunteer of the Year” by Wake County, “Green Advocate of the Year,” by the Triangle Business Journal and “A.E. Finley Distinguished Service Award” by the Greater Raleigh Chamber of Commerce, Hutchinson’s good work has not gone unnoticed. Although progress has been made, Hutchinson has concerns with the current leadership in Wake County. With a desire to make a change, on February 18, 2014, Hutchinson announced his candidacy for the Wake County Commission. With a campaign focused on education, transit, and the environment, Hutchinson strives to not only maintain Wake’s status but continue to grow it. “We live in one of the most beautiful places in North Carolina and yet our past successes provide no assurance of future success. If we don’t start protecting the quality of life Wake County has provided us, it will slowly start slipping away.”

Hutchinson believes the current Wake County Commission is off track and action is needed with the school board to return the public school system to the nationally recognized status Wake County once enjoyed. Focus will also be on citizens having the opportunity to choose more transportation options to avoid future congestion and gridlock. “Wake County must work more closely with municipal partners toward regional planning, such as investing in the county’s magnificent parks and greenways. These are the areas that distinguish us from other metropolitan areas.”

Nancy and Sig Hutchinson.

As Election Day quickly approaches, Hutchinson’s campaign has been in full drive. From a kickoff event hosted by Jim Goodmon to being the fundraising candidate leader in Q1 and Q2, it is full steam ahead to the November 4 finish line. “My position as an elected County Commissioner is truly for the people I meet every day. It isn’t a new career for me, or a way to get my name in the papers. I want to make a difference for my friends working in the public school system, my family living in Wake County, and the state as whole with Wake County as the economic foundation.” Wake County Commissioners serve four year terms that are staggered with three seats up in Presidential years and four seats up during off years. Each seat is represented by a different district in Wake County. Citizens vote in all four districts. For more information on Sig Hutchinson, or his campaign for Wake County Commissioner, visit www.Sig4Wake.com. th

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Cell Phone Use By THe Numbers by JeFF DaVidson

ore than five out of six people on the entire planet  now have access to a cell phone at some point during the day or week. Being globally connected certainly has its benefits. At the same time, however, there are also other types of issues to consider.

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… In fact, more people have access to cell phones than to toilets: 6 billion compared to 4.5 billion.

respondents say they check their phone every

30 minutes or less. Qualcomm

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of people say they can’t live without their cell phone. PEW.org

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text messages sent in the United States in 2012 CTIA.org

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Jeff Davidson, The Work-Life Balance Expert,® is founder of the Breathing Space Institute in Raleigh, NC. He wrote Breathing Space and Simpler Living, recorded 92 audio programs, and created 24 iPhone apps. Visit: www.breathingspace.com

Part of the publisher’s marketing strategy was to leverage social media and free downloads to promote the book. As proof that Harry is developing a following for his work, Vengeance is Mine was downloaded at a rate of over one per second during the event. By the end of the promotion it had been downloaded over 43,000 times, skyrocketing the ebook to number three on Amazon.com. Just this week, Vengeance is Mine was named a finalist in two categories of the Readers’ Favorite International Awards competition. Next, Harry will reunite his lovable characters in the second installment in the Benjamin Tucker series, Fatal Seduction. It should be available to readers early this fall. Physics defines a wave as an oscillating transfer of energy. In social terms, a wave is a mass movement of widespread opinion. The widespread opinion is that this physicist knows how to harness the energy necessary to write award-winning, popular murder mysteries. Harry James Krebs is riding a wave, and just in time for the third installment in the Tucker series, Lethal Retribution, which will be published in 2015. Katie Gailes, CEO of SmartMoves International, is a marketing strategy consultant, speaker and trainer from Holly Springs, NC, smartmovesintl.com.

Vengeance is Mine Book Review Driven by a traumatic, violent event in his teenage years, Benjamin Tucker, bestselling true crime author, is obsessed with helping authorities solve savage crimes near his home turf of Holly Springs, North Carolina. When a series of decapitated female victims is found in neighboring communities, he is helplessly drawn in to the investigation to help bring the killer to justice. But in a bizarre twist of events, the psychopathic murderer becomes fascinated with Tucker and stalks him, presenting him with unimaginable, grotesque gifts. The hunt for the killer turns personal and Tucker isn’t sure if he’s become the killer’s idol or his next victim. Vengeance is Mine, a gripping thriller with a healthy dose of droll humor, is a tale of sadistic revenge guaranteed to keep readers on the edge of their seats until the very last page. Comment online at BoomNC.com .

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Cornucopia Cancer Support Center sponsors events and resources to support those journeying with cancer. www.cancersupport4u.org, or call 919.401.9333 for details. The American Red Cross, Central North Carolina Chapter continues its need for blood donations. Take an hour of time to save a life. For Triangle locations and schedules: 800.448.3543 or www.givelife.org. Duke Regional Hospital offers monthly events that include: Look Good Feel Better; Weight Loss Surgery Support Group; and Stroke Support Group. For meeting dates, times, and information: www.dukeregional.org/events. Lupus Foundation Support Group, 6:30-8pm, Waters Edge Office Park Conference Room, 4917 Waters Edge Drive, Suite 250, Raleigh. This group meets the fourth Thursday of each month. Also available is a monthly teleconference series. Info: 877.849.8271 or www.lupusnc.org. TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) is a non-profit weight loss support program that welcomes all. Meetings are weekly throughout NC. First session is free. For dates, times, and locations: 919.621.3613 or www.tops.org.

Aug 2 The National Pancreas Foundation Chapter Bowling Event, 12-3pm, Buffalo Lanes, Cary. Info: www.pancreasfoundation.org.

Aug 5 Do You Know Who I Am? Dementia Train-

ing, 7:30am-4pm, Guiding Lights Support Center, 3724 National Dr, Raleigh. Info: www.guidinglightsnc.org.

Aug 9 CPR/AED First Aid Class, Guiding Lights Support Center, 3724 National Dr, Raleigh. For registration and information: 919.371.2062 or www.guidinglightsnc.org. Aug 16 Healthy Kids Back to School Expo, Cary

Towne Center, Cary. Will showcase health, education, fitness, athletics, safety and more. Info: www.fitandable.net.

Aug 24 Plunge, Pedal, Plod, Triangle Aquatic Center & the Cary Towne Center. Hosted by Fit & Able Productions. Info: www.fitandable.net. Sept 10 Does Your Heart Flip, Flop or Flutter?

4-6pm, presentation by Dr. Tristam Bahnson, Professor of Medicine and Director of the Duke Center of Atrial Fibrillation at the Duke Heart Center, presented by the Carolina House of Durham, 4434 Ben Franklin Blvd., Durham, 27704. Heart-healthy refreshments, door prizes,evaluations and referral information. Registration is required: call 888.ASK.DUKE. Sponsored by the Carolina House of Durham, Duke Heart Center and Duke HomeCare & Hospice.

Sept 12 Durham Health and Wellness Expo, 10am-2pm, at the Durham Center for Senior Life, 406 Rigsbee Ave., Durham, 27701. Screenings, vendor booths, snacks. Sponsored by Duke Heart Center, Durham Center for Senior Life and Duke HomeCare & Hospice. Sept 19–Oct 24 Living Healthy Workshops,

every Friday, 10:30am-1pm, hosted by the Teer House, 4019 N. Roxboro Road, Durham, 27704. Heart healthy snacks will be served. For more information or to register, Contact Leatrice Martin, 919.477.2644 or Diana

Mitchell, 919.630.7506. Presented by Duke Heart Center and Duke HomeCare & Hospice.

Carolina. For more information visit www.hbanet. org/hba-research-triangle-park-chapter

Sept 28 Tar Heel Youth Triathlon, UNC Wellness Center, Cary. Three races with two age-specific distances. Info: www.tarheeltriathlon.com.

Triangle Singles Dance Club has weekly dances, 8:30-11pm, Northbrook Country Club, 4905 North Hills Dr, Raleigh. A singles, 40+ social club. Info: www. trianglesinglesclub.com.

Sept 29 Cornucopia Cancer Support Center’s 10 Annual Golf Tournament, Brier Creek Country Club. Not a golfer? Be a sponsor. Info: 919.401.9333 or www.cancersupport4u.org. th

Through Oct 25 Growers Market of Fuquay-

Varina, Saturdays & Wednesdays, 102 N. Main St, Fuquay-Varina. An award winning market with fresh, seasonal fruits and vegetables canned and baked goods, and more. Enjoy live music, and cooking demonstrations. Info: www.growers-market.org.

Resources Artspace, a non-profit visual art center in downtown Raleigh, offers several educational opportunities for a range of skill levels and ages. Offering fun classes for all ages and skill levels is one of Artspace’s main goals. For details and the complete list of all classes, visit www.artspacenc.org/classes-education. To register, interested participants should contact Artspace at 919.821.2787. The Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association is the premier catalyst for the leadership development of women in healthcare worldwide. Founded in 2005, the HBA Research Triangle Park (RTP) chapter seeks to foster professional growth and build personal relationships among women within the healthcare community in North

Fun Night Square Dance, 7-9:30pm, First Baptist Church, 99 North Salisbury Street, Raleigh. Remember, anyone can come! It doesn’t matter whether they have ever square danced before or not. Come and bring some friends and/or family and join in the fun. Hosted by Triangle Square Dance Alliance. For date and info: www.trianglesquaredance.org. The Newcomers Club of Raleigh meets for coffee the first Friday of each month, 10am-12pm, JJ Crowder Masonic Lodge, 9920 Falls of Neuse Rd, Raleigh. Learn more about the organization’s diverse interest groups and events. Info: www.newcomersclubraleigh.org. Arts Access, Inc., a non-profit organization whose mission is to make the arts accessible for people with disabilities, will be providing audio-described performances. For a listing of performances, dates, and information: www.artsaccessinc.org. Second Journey, an Aging in Community organization, featuring events for the second half of life. Watch their website for upcoming events, film series, and seminars. For dates, times, and information: www. secondjourney.org. Wake County’s Libraries in the Community offers monthly events at selected Wake County Libraries. For a listing of events, dates, times, locations, and information: www.wakegov.com.

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Great Food Cultural Bazaars

Sept. 19-21

Raleigh Convention Center

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Kids Activities World Music

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International

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World’s Largest Stocking to be made in Raleigh at NC State Fairgrounds. Businesses are needed to help support breaking the Guinness Book of World Records this holiday season. All to benefit abused and neglected children in Wake County. The stocking will be over 180 feet tall and 80 feet wide. For sponsorship and information: www.friendsofwakegal.org or www.thechristmascountyfair.com.

Aug 25 Deadline for Entries into Visual Art

Exchange’s Science Fair. This exhibition is the intersection of science and art. All entries should consider science in some respect. Examples could be art based on scientific research, done in collaboration with scientists, or a grown-up/artistic version of a prize winning science fair experiment. Exhibit takes place Oct 3-30. For entry requirements, applications, and information: 919.828.7834 or www.visualartexchange.org.

Sept 7 Applying Technology in the Search of

Colonial Roads of the Carolina Backcountry Lecture, 2pm, Joel Lane Museum House, 160 South Saint Mary’s St, Raleigh. Advanced ticket purchase is required. Info: 919.833.3431 or www.joellane.org.

Fest, Full Frame Theater, 318 Blackwell St, Durham. We invite all to come out and celebrate the talent and importance of wildlife filmmakers and their films that educate and inspire audiences. There will be lots of fun things for all members of the family including hands-on activities, educational activities and panel discussions. Be a sponsor or volunteer. Info: www.carolinatigerrescue.org.

Sept 30 ICON (Issues that Confront Our Nation)

Lecture, 7pm, Extraordinary Ventures, 200 S. Elliot Rd, Chapel Hill. Bill Adair, founder of PolitiFact, will be discussing media events and fact checking the 2014 election. Info: www.inonlectureseries.com.

Travel Dec 3-11 Christmas Markets of Germany & Austria. Travel with Boom. Info: www.boomnc.com or email Barbara@boomnc.com and request a flyer.

Volunteers Retired and Senior Volunteer Program of Durham County has opportunities for people 55 years of age and over who are eager to use their skills to serve the area near them. RSVP staff interviews volunteers and match them to opportunities available through one of many local agencies registered with RSVP for recruitment assistance. Volunteerism is needed in: The Salvation Army; preserving history as a greeter, and giving tours; serve Healthy Futures for older adults; provide hospitality for international visitors; tutoring elementary and HS students; servicing a hospital auxiliary; and more. To learn more about these or other opportunities, contact the RSVP agency in your county or go online to find an upcoming Volunteer Information Session.

Durham Co. RSVP 919.536.7247 or rsvpdurhamnc@ durhamtech.edu. The Volunteer Center of Durham serves the Triangle area and works toward connecting volunteers with area non-profits. They offer a new online volunteer matching system called HandsOnTriangle. They represent over 700 non-profits and all their services are free. For a full list of their volunteer needs, and information: 919.613.5105 or www.handsontriangle.org.

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Farm to Fork Cooking Classes, the first Wednesday of every month, Carrboro Famer’s Market, Carrboro. Each class focuses on whatever the farmers have harvested at that time, and are taught by professional culinary instructors. Sponsored by the ArtsCenter. Info: 919.929.2787 or www.artscenterlive.org.

Sept 20-21 Carolina Tiger Rescue’s Wildlife Film-

• Section 8, Income-based

Awards Breakfast, 8:30-10am, The Cotton Room at Golden Belt, Durham. Info: www.dcslnc.org.

The Museum of Life & Science, 433 W. Murray Ave, Durham, is pleased to announce its August special activities highlighted by Lab Summer Events; Watermelon Day; Science at Sunset; Engineers Day; and more. For a complete schedule, dates, times and information: 919.220.5429 or www.ncmls.org. NC Museum of History, Raleigh, offers special August programs, concerts and exhibits for children and families such as: Colonial Clothing Time for Tots; Play Ball History Corner; The Boys & Girls of Summer History Hunters; Storytime in the Gallery; and more. For schedules and information: 919.807.7900 or www.ncdcr.gov/ncmoh. The NC Museum of Art, 2110 Blue Ridge Rd, Raleigh, has continuous monthly activities and events for children and families such as Weekend FamilyFriendly Tours; What’s In The Box; and Family Fun Saturdays. For a complete listing of event details: www.ncartmuseum.org. Marbles Kids Museum & IMAX Theatre, 201 E. Hargett St, Raleigh, offers special August events

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Gather, 111 W. Chatham St, Downtown Cary, announces its season of craft, gardening, food and business classes. Lead by local entrepreneurs, Gather strives to fill a void in the community by offering successful niche business classes for new and small business owners. Also includes a boutique area and tea/coffee shop. For a complete listing of their classes and info: www.gathernc.com.

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he Sanford Brush and Palette Club is excited to announce their 50th Anniversary Art Exhibit from Oct. 18th, through Oct. 25th, 2014, at the Hales Center in Sanford, North Carolina. Nearly 100 members will feature 500-700 paintings in watercolor, oil and acrylics. In addition, members who work in three-dimensional media will exhibit ceramics, mixed media, wood working, metal sculpture. Prior to the show’s public opening, entries will be professionally judged and awarded honors for excellence. Most all works will be for sale. The Brush and Palette Club was founded in 1964 by a small group of artists who enjoyed each other’s guidance in painting. For many years, they met in their homes to share suggestions and inspiration. Their works are in private collections and exhibited in banks, restaurants, schools, hospitals, medical and corporate oﬃces throughout the eastern United States. The Brush and Palette Club is based at the Arts Studio on Steele Street in Sanford and uses this location to offer artistic workshops and host club meetings. One of the shining jewels of the Sanford B&P Club is the “Art Angels for Budding Artists” outreach program which provides art materials to all of the schools of Lee County as well as art materials for teachers to distribute to low socio-economic students who have an interest in art. Club members also serve as guest speakers for schools and civic organizations as well as providing The 213 Best of Show free hands on art winner by Pat Fein. workshops in the schools. The club is committed to continuing to enrich the lives of its members, Lee County residents and visitors to Sanford. The Brush and Palette Club is a non-profit organization, funded by membership dues, tax deductible donations and commissions from the sale of art during the show. More information can be found on their Facebook page at www.facebook.com/pages/ Sanford-Brush-Palette-Club/167371726642040. For more information call Doug Rowe at 919.499.8686 or Diane Brooks at 919.776.9720.

Calendar continued from page 31 and activities for children highlighted by Kick Off to Kindergarten. Their monthly calendar events includes weekly continuing activities of: Move & Groove; MakeShop; Artrageous; Energy Innovators; Garden Sprouts; Science Solvers; and Story Explorers. The IMAX 3D Theater also has a calendar of movies. For a complete listing of activities, dates, and information: 919.834.4040 or www.marbleskidsmuseum.org. The Town of Cary and Cary Arts Center sponsors performances and events for adults and families. Also check the Town of Cary’s website for class offerings and art exhibitions. For a complete listing of events, dates, locations, and information: 919.460.4965 or www.townofcary.org. Flix4Kidz, 10am, Second Monday of each month, Wake Forest Renaissance Center, 405 S. Brooks St, Wake Forest. Free family-friendly movie showings. Will show only G or PG-rated children’s and family films. Concessions, including popcorn and soft drinks, will be available for purchase. Info: 919.435.9428 or www.wakeforestnc.gov. Wake County Public Library System continues their programs for children to incorporate Every Child Ready to Succeed. Their goal is to educate parents and caregivers on the skills they can use at home to help prepare children for success in school. The library system offers nearly 150 weekly programs for children. For programs, dates, times, locations, and information: www.wakegov.com/libraries/events. Second Saturdays, locations at historic sites all over NC. Part of the NC Dept. of Cultural Resources where all 37 historic sites, history museums and art museums schedule special “2nd Saturdays” events. For locations and more information: www.2ndSaturdaysNC.com.

Through Aug 3 Disney’s Little Mermaid, DECPA, Raleigh. A NC Theatre Production, prepare to be swept away by the classic songs new and old. Info: 919.996.8709 or www.dukeenergycenterraleigh.com. Through Aug 3 Fiddler On The Roof Musical, Raleigh Little Theatre,

301 Pogue St, Raleigh. Presented by Teens on Stage. Info: 919.821.3111 or www.raleighlittletheatre.org.

discussion groups. For dates, times and information: 919.839.6262 or www.ncartmuseum.org. Ackland Art Museum, UNC-Chapel Hill, features exhibits this summer of An Eye for the Unexpected; and Contemplating East Asia, both through August. Info: www.ackland.org. The Duke Energy Center for the Performing Arts (DECPA), Raleigh, has August performances that include: The Little Mermaid; Crimes of the Heart; and Hot Summer Nights at the Kennedy. For a complete listing of events, dates, times, and information: 919.831.6060 or www.dukeenergycenterraleigh.com. The Durham Performing Arts Center (DPAC), 123 Vivian St, Durham, hosts performances in August of Keyshia Cole; An Evening with Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons; Kenny “Babyface” Edmonds; and 3 Doors Down Acoustic. For dates, times, tickets and information: 919.688.3722 or www.dpacnc.com. The Carolina Theatre, 309 W. Morgan St, Durham, wants readers to attend August’s performances of Rich Robinson; Pat Metheny; NC Gay & Lesbian Film Festival; and Paul Mooney. Also featured is the RetroTreasures Film Series. For a complete list of performances, dates, times, tickets, and information: 919.560.3030 or www.carolinatheatre.org. The ArtsCenter, 300G E. Main St, Carrboro, has August performances and events highlighted by Mike Compton; Bluegrass Jam; The Gravy Boys and the Linda and Pattie Duo; Carrboro A Cappella Night; Mike Marshall & Caterina Lichtenberg; Songwriters’ Circle; Desert Rose Band; The Chuckle & Chortle Comedy Show; and The Polyphonic Spree. For a complete calendar of events, dates, times, and information: 919.929.2787 or www.artscenterlive.org. Carolina Performing Arts, UNC-Chapel Hill, opens their season in August with Rebirth Brass & Dumpstaphunk, and Merle Haggard. For dates, times, and information: 919.843.3333 or www.unc.edu/ performingarts.

Aug 5 & 9 The Green Mermaid featuring Carolina Puppet Theater,

Duke Performances, Duke University, Durham, has a season full of performances that for August begins with Pat Metheny Unity Group. For a complete schedule of dates, times, locations, tickets and information: 919.660.3356 or www.dukeperformances.org.

Aug 7-9 Disney’s High School Musical Jr, Garner Performing Arts

The North Carolina Symphony will begin their 2014-2015 season in September. For dates, times, locations, tickets and information: 919.733.2750 or www.ncsymphony.org.

11am, Holly Springs Cultural Arts Center, 300 W. Ballentine St, Holly Springs. Info: 919.567.4000 or www.hollyspringsnc.us. Center, 742 W. Garner Rd, Garner. Info: 919.661.4602 or www.garnerperformingartscenter.com.

Aug 8-10 Disney’s The Aristocats Kids, The Temple Theatre, 120 Car-

thage St, Sanford. Students of the Temple’s 2014 Summer Youth Conservatory show off their talents in Disney’s Aristocats. Based on the hit movie, this musical will bring a smile to every face. Info: 919.774.4512 or www. templeshows.com.

Beginning Aug 11 Flix4kids, 10:30am at the Wake Forest Renaissance

Center. Free family-friendly movie showings on the second Monday morning of each month. Flix4kidz will show only G or PG-rated children’s and family films. Concessions, including popcorn and soft drinks, will be available for purchase. To obtain the title of this movie and future films, call the Special Events Hotline at 919.435.9428 or sign up for Renaissance Centre updates at www.wakeforestnc.gov/enews.aspx. For more information, visit www.wakeforestnc.gov/flix4kidz.aspx or contact Pamela Stevens at 919.435.9566 or pstevens@wakeforestnc.gov.

Sept 26-Nov 1 Tweetsie Railroad’s Ghost Train @ Halloween Festival, Tweetsie Railroad, Blowing Rock. Guests will enjoy a frightfully spooky ride as the Ghost Train howls its way through the Blue Ridge Mountains, along with a Freaky Forest, The Boneyard, the mystifying Warp Tunnel, a haunted house; and more. Info: 877.893.3874 or www.tweetsie.com.

Activities for Adults NC Museum of History, Raleigh, offers interesting August programs, concerts, exhibits and activities highlighted by Carolina Bluegrass: Breakdowns & Revivals; Cedars in the Pines in the Plaza; Artist at Work with Susan Brabeau; Sam Ervin and Watergate: 40 Years Later; The NC Pottery Center History a la Carte; and Saturdays in the Garden. For schedules and information: 919.807.7900 or www.ncdcr.gov. The NC Museum of Art, 2110 Blue Ridge Rd, Raleigh, has August exhibits and events highlighted by Outdoor Concert and Movie Series; Sacred Motherhood: Mother and Child Representations from the Permanent Collection; Bull City Summer; Close to Home: A Decade of Acquisitions; Art in the Evening; Friday Night Sound Bites; and more. Coming in August for the outdoor concert series is Judy Collins, Carolina Chocolate Drops, and Nebraska. The museum also offers lectures, classes, book clubs, and

The Town of Cary and Cary Arts Center summer continues here! From summer camp fun all around town to sports events, outdoor concerts, and movies—indoors and outdoors, there is much to see and do all summer long. Also check the Town of Cary’s website for class offerings and art exhibitions. August brings the 37 Annual Lazy Daze Arts & Crafts Festival. For a complete listing of events, dates, locations, and information: 919.460.4965 or www.townofcary.org. th

PineCone hosts concerts all around the Triangle. August brings The Branchettes, Boo Hanks & Lightnin’ Wells, Constant Change, Erin McDermott Band, and Acoustic Manner. For dates, locations, and information: www.pinecone.org. Pickin’ in the Plaza, 5-10:30pm, Every Thursday through Aug 28, Raleigh City Plaza. Free music throughout the summer. All events will feature live music, local food trucks and local beers. Raleigh’s new bluegrass concert series. Info: www.raleighcityplaza.com. Cool Summer Concert Series, 7-8:30pm, Thursdays, CCB Plaza, 201 N. Corcoran St, Durham. Through Aug. 7. Free, outdoors concerts. For a complete listing of performances and information: www.downtowndurham.com. A Southern Summer Series, Southern Village, 400 Market St, Chapel Hill. Series includes Outdoor Movie on the Village Green@Dusk on the Village Green, farmer’s market, and live concerts. All running through Sept 18. More can be seen at www.southernvillage.com. The Bynum Front Porch Series, 7-9pm Fridays, 950 Bynum Rd, Bynum, continues through August. Shows go on rain or shine. Also attend Bynum Bingo, and Bynum Front Porch Pickin’. For a complete listing of performers and information: www.bynumfrontporch.org. New Midtown Bluegrass Series Sunday Ramble in the Park, 5pm, Midtown Park, North Hills, Raleigh. Presented by PineCone. Info: www. northillsevents.com. Live & Local Music & Art Series, Fridays, 6-9pm, The Plaza, 140 W. Franklin, Chapel Hill. For a list of performances and information: www.140westfranklinplaza.com.

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Koka Booth Amphitheatre, Regency Park, Cary, hosts August events. They include Steven Curtis Chapman & Third Day; the Beer, Bourban & BBQ Festival; Nickel Creek and Josh Groban; and Jennifer Nettles That Girl Tour. Movies by Moonlight take place on Fridays. For dates, times, tickets, and info: 919.462.2025 or www.boothamphitheatre.com.

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Red Hat Amphitheater, 500 S. McDowell St, Raleigh, continues its summer season with Sugar Ray, Smash Mouth, Blues Traveler, Uncle Kracker; Gavin DeGraw & Matt Nathanson; Slightly Stoopid; David Gray; Sarah Brightman; Old Crow Medicine Show; Boston; and Fresh Beat Band. For dates, times, and info: 919.996.8800 or www.redhatamphitheater.com. Temple Theatre, 120 Carthage St, Sanford, brings performances in August that include: James Ethan Clark & the Renegades; Country Gravy & Other Obsessions; Disney’s The Aristocats Kids; Derek Minor In Concert; Kurt Green; and Nantucket. For dates, times, and information: 919.774.4155 or www. templeshows.com. Holly Springs Cultural Center, 300 W. Ballentine St, Holly Springs, wants families to know about their September line-up of events highlighted by When the Livin’ Was Easy, and The Association. For dates, times, and information: 919.567.4000 or www.hollyspringsnc.us. The Town of Apex and Halle Cultural Arts Center, 237 N. Salem St, Apex, has August events highlighted by The Folsom Prison Gang; Family Dance; and Marcus Anderson. Also check Halle Cultural Arts Center’s website for classes, workshops, and lessons. For dates, times, and information: 919.249.1120 or www. thehalle.org. or www.apexdowntown.com. Dance Seen: First Friday Gallery Walks take place the first Friday of each month at Arts Together, 114 St. Mary’s St, Raleigh. Event features The Even Exchange Dance Theatre. Free and open to the public. For time and information: 919.828.2377 or www.evenexchange.com. UnWined, 237 Center Grove Church Rd, Moncure, invites all to their special events highlighted by musical performances, tastings, and food accompanying First Fridays with Bella Donna’s Grilled Pizza; and 2 & 4 Saturdays with Chef Bill. August brings performances by Trilogy; Matt Daniels; and Rhonda Robichaux & Danny Abbaddo. Come relax, enjoy their uniqueness, and unwind. For dates, time, and info: 919.548.9384 or www.unwinednc.com. nd

The Plaza at 140 West Franklin in Chapel Hill continues its summer calendar of events. This is a 30,000 sq. ft. outdoor public space designed to encourage recreation and leisure, bringing the performing arts alive, and engaging the downtown community by

creating a place for everyone. Come experience music, art, and interactivities. For a complete listing of events, dates, times, and information: www.plaza140westfranklin.squarespace.com.

Aug 13-23 Oklahoma, Snow Camp Outdoor Theatre, 301 Drama Rd, Snow Camp. Info: 336.376.6948 or www.snowcampdrama.com

Senior Game Day, Durham County’s Southwest Regional Library, 3605 Shannon Rd, Durham. Join in every other week for a little friendly competition with old games and new. For dates, times and info: 919.560.8648 or www.meetup.com/ senior-game-day.

atre, DECPA, Raleigh. Part of the Theatre Raleigh’s Hot Summer Nights Series. Info: www.theatreraleigh.com.

Goats On Parade is coming to Chapel Hill and Pittsboro. Galloway Ridge Retirement Community is hosting the first ever Goat Parade, a public art installation and tour, to benefit the Robert and Pearl Seymour Center and the Chatham County Council on Aging. Extraordinary local artists will paint the lifesize goat statues, which will be auctioned off during a gala on Nov 14. For information on the painting, unveiling, locations of goats, and gala: www.gallowayridge.com.

Through Aug 1 Warehouse Blues Series, Fridays, 6-8pm, Durham Central Park. Concerts are free. Info: www.durhamcentralpark.org.

Aug 1 First Friday Free Outdoor Concert,

5-8:30pm, Sunrise Theater, Southern Pines. Info: 910.692.3611 or www.sunrisetheater.com.

Raleigh Little Theatre, 301 Pogue St, Raleigh. Presented by Teens on Stage. Info: 919.821.3111 or www. raleighlittletheatre.org.

Through Aug 3 On the Verge Or, The Geography of Yearning, North Raleigh Arts and Creative Theatre, 7713-51 Lead Mine Rd, Raleigh. Presented by Historic Interpretations, Inc. Info: 919.339.1558 or www.historicinterpretations.org. Aug 9 Paula Snyder performs live music at the Downtown Cary Farmers Market , 9:30-11:30am. New Market Location: 135 W. Chatham St., Cary, 27511 (on the lawn of the Ivey Ellington-Waddell House). Aug 10 Country Music for a Cause, 7pm at The

Pour House Music Hall, downtown Raleigh. Awardwinning vocalist Stefani Rose will perform at this benefit concert for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society of North Carolina. Admission is free, but please make donations online at www.stefanirosemusic. com/LLSTickets.php.

Through Aug 10 Hearts Like Fists, Common Ground Theatre, 4815B Hillsborough Rd, Durham. Presented by Tiny Engine Theatre. Info: www.tinyenginetheatre.com.

Aug 13-24 Crimes of the Heart, Kennedy The-

Aug 16 Raleigh Village Idiots Comedy Improv, 7pm & 9pm, North Raleigh Arts & Creative Theatre, Greystone Village, 7713-51 Leadmine Rd, Raleigh. The Idiots perform short- and long-form improv comedy: Scenes, stories, games, and songs are improvised based on audience suggestions. Info: 919.866.0228 or www.nract.org. Through Aug 20 Fifty Years of Painting Exhibit, Mahler Fine Art, 228 Fayetteville St, Raleigh. Featuring the works by Robert Irwin. Info: 919.896.7503 or www.themahlerfineart.com. Aug 21-24 & 28-31 Uniquely Local Food Crawl,

Haywood County. Participating “Farm to Table” partners will create specialty menu items and will crisscross across the county with food for all ages. For a full list of participants and schedule: www.buyhaywood.com/uniquely-local-food-crawl.

Aug 22-Sept 7 Hairspray, Raleigh Little Theatre, 301 Pogue St, Raleigh. This romantic treat is full of surprises, energetic dance numbers, and bigger than life hair. Info: 919.821.3111 or www.raleighlittletheatre.org. Aug 23 37 Annual Lazy Daze Arts & Crafts Festival, 9am-5pm, Downtown Cary. Info: 919.469-4061 or www.townofcary.org. th

Through Aug 24 Attention to Detail Exhibit, Hillsborough Gallery of Arts, 121 N. Churton, Hillsborough. Info: 919.732.5001 or www.hillsboroughgallery.com.

Aug 29-30 The Music of Hot Summer Nights,

Fletcher Theater, DECPA, Raleigh. Part of the Theatre Raleigh’s Hot Summer Nights Series. Info: www.theatreraleigh.com.

Aug 29-Sept 20 A Kid Like Jake, Deep Dish The-

ater Company, University Mall, 201 S. Estes, Chapel Hill. A young couple hoping to get their toddler accepted into an exclusive kindergarten is advised to play up their son’s fondness for princesses and dressup. Info: 919.968.1515 or www.deepdishtheatre.org.

Through Aug 30 Thread Play & Mine and Yours Exhibits, Artspace, 201 E. Davie St, Raleigh. Info: 919.821.2787 or www.artspacenc.org. Aug 30 History Mythbusting Special Program,

3pm, Historic Stagville, Durham. Info: 919.620.0120 or www.stagville.org.

Through Aug 31 Bull City Summer exhibition at the North Carolina Museum of Art. Bull City Summer, inspired by the 25th anniversary of the movie Bull

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Sept 12-28 Somewhere In Between, Theatre in

Sept 11-28 Firebird, DECPA, Raleigh. Performed by the Carolina Ballet. Info: 919.719.0900 or www. carolinaballet.com.

Sept 12-14 The 33 Annual Creek Festival, Jim rd

Graham Building, NC State Fairgrounds, Raleigh. Taste handmade, authentic Greek food, hear live music and see traditional dances. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to Habitat for Humanity of Wake County. Info: www.greekfestivalraleigh.com.

Center Ballroom, NCSU-Raleigh. Part of the NCSU Center Stage Season. Info: 919.515.1100 or www.ncsu. edu/arts.

the Park, 107 Pullen Rd, Raleigh. Twists are turned and shocking secrets are revealed in that the truth always lies somewhere in between. Info: 919.831.6936 or www.theatreinthepark.com.

Through Sept 6 Suddenly and With Joy

Sept 16-21 Dirty Dancing, DPAC, Durham. Part of

Exhibit, Craven Allen Gallery, 1106 ½ Broad St, Durham. Paintings by Linwood Hart and pottery by Brad Tucker. Info: 919.286.4837 or www.cravenallengallery.com.

the SunTrust Broadway Series. Info: 919.680.2787 or www.dpacnc.com.

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Sept 6 2 Annual Garden Party, 1-4pm, Gardens in Fuquay-Varina. Adult guests will partake in a luncheon, entertainment, a hat contest and raﬄes within the beautiful gardens. Info: www.fuquayvarinagardenclub.weebly.com. nd

Through Oct Apex Farmer’s Market, Saturdays, 9am-2pm, Chamber of Commerce Parking Lot, Apex. Info: www.apexdowntown.com.

Sept 6 Christmas with the Karountzoses, 3:30pm

Through Nov 1 Midtown Farmers Market, Saturdays, 8am-12pm, 4150 Main at North Hills St, Raleigh. The NC Museum of Art will be selling Rodin garden water lilies and lotus plants. Where the community can buy local, family-farmed foods. Info: www.midtownraleighfarmersmarket.com.

& 6pm, Needham B. Broughton High School Auditorium, 723 St. Mary’s St, Raleigh. All the Greek relatives over for Christmas, what could possibly go wrong? Proceeds benefit Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church. Info: 919.781.4548 or www.holytrinityraleigh.org.

Through Sept 7 Cedar Creek Gallery National Teapot Show IX, Cedar Creek Gallery, 1150 Fleming Rd, Creedmoor. Featuring over 200 teapots by more than 160 of America’s most accomplished craftspeople. Info: www.cedarcreekgallery.com.

Through June 2015 Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, Downtown Cary. Displays the work of 12 nationally recognized artists along Academy Street. All works are available for purchase. Info: www. caryvisualart.org.

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Separate Heat and Massage Controls!

Our Perfect Sleep Chair is just the chair to do it all. It’s a chair, true – the finest of lift chairs – but this chair is so much more! It’s designed to provide total comfort and relaxation not found in other chairs. It can’t be beat for comfortable, long-term sitting, TV viewing, relaxed reclining and – yes! – peaceful sleep. Our chair’s recline technology allows you to pause the chair in an infinite number of positions, including the Trendelenburg position and the zero gravity position where your body experiences a minimum of internal and external stresses. You’ll love the other benefits, too: It helps with correct spinal alignment, promotes back pressure This lift chair relief, and encourages better posture to puts you safely prevent back and muscle pain. on your feet!

And there’s more! The overstuffed, oversized biscuit style back and unique seat design will cradle you in comfort. Generously filled, wide armrests provide enhanced arm support when sitting or reclining. The high and low heat settings along with the dozens of massage settings, can provide a soothing relaxation you might get at a spa – just imagine getting all that in a lift chair! Weight capacity 375 lbs. Shipping charge includes white glove delivery. Professionals will deliver the chair to the exact spot in your home where you want it, unpack it, inspect it, test it, position it, and even carry the packaging away! Includes one year service warranty and your choice of fabrics and colors – Call now!

The Perfect Sleep Chair

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We’ve e’ve all had nights when we just can’t lie down in bed and sleep, whether it’s from heartburn, cardiac problems, hip or back aches – could be a variety of reasons. Those are the nights we’d give anything for a comfortable chair to sleep in, one that reclines to exactly the right degree, raises feet and legs to precisely the desired level, supports the head and shoulders properly, operates easily even in the dead of night, and sends a hopeful sleeper right off to dreamland.

Sit up, lie down — and anywhere in between!

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