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20 Years Ago This Week: On Aug. 28, 1987 --- 20 years ago this week --- the last crew of employees punched out of USX's National Works, closing the door of what had once been the largest pipe-making mill in the world and which gave McKeesport its nickname, "The Tube City."
A few months later, the electric-resistance weld pipe mill, built in the early 1960s in McKeesport's First Ward, reopened under the management of a separate company, Camp-Hill Corp.
But the old "piercing" and rolling seamless pipe mills that had employed thousands would be dismantled and most of the buildings torn down.
To mark this occasion, I went into the dusty, musty archives and pulled out five interviews I conducted in 1997 for the Daily News on the 10th anniversary of National Plant's closing. These "National Works Memories" are now posted in the "Steel Heritage" section of Tube City Online.
And if you haven't already, be sure to explore the section of Pitt's "Labor Legacy" website devoted to National-Duquesne Works information.
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Right Church, Wrong Pew: State Rep. Bill Kortz is mad as hell about the disgraceful condition of the W.D. Mansfield Memorial Bridge, according to Raymond Pefferman and David Whipkey in last night's News. (No story online, unfortunately.)
At a hearing Wednesday before the state Transportation Commission, the freshman Democrat legislator from Dravosburg called the rusty superstructure of the bridge spanning the Monongahela "disgusting" and said the crumbling sidewalks and concrete deck are posing a safety hazard to pedestrians and motorists.
The bridge is the main western entrance to McKeesport for motorists driving to the city from Pittsburgh, West Mifflin and Allegheny County Airport.
Unfortunately, the bridge isn't maintained by PennDOT. It's a county bridge. And Allegheny County wants to rehabilitate the Rankin Bridge first. (Someone make sure to tell PittGirl.)
They've been working their way up the Mon, repairing the Glenwood Bridge in 2000 and 2001, and the Homestead Grays (nee High-Level Bridge) last year and this year.
Nobody asked the Almanac, but just running the darned street sweeper across the Mansfield Bridge and especially the approach ramps would do wonders for the entire area. The loose dirt, gravel and debris on the McKeesport end of the span hasn't been cleaned in ... well, forever, I sometimes think.
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To Do This Weekend: Are you ready for some football? Woodland Hills inaugurates the newly renovated Wolvarena in Turtle Creek tonight when it takes on Mt. Lebanon at 7 p.m. I can safely predict the joint will be rocking.
Elsewhere around the district ... your McKeesport Tigers are traveling to North Hills High School. Game time is 7:30 p.m. Serra Catholic opens its season tonight at home against North Catholic; kickoff is 7:30 p.m.
Other local home games include (all kickoffs 7:30 p.m.):
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Meet one of the world's grade-A shmucks. Namely, me.
Last night, Officer Jim and I went to see the final home game of the season of the Slippery Rock Sliders, a Frontier League baseball team that's in its first (and possibly last) year in the Butler County borough.
Since it was the last game of the year, both the team and the sponsors were trying to unload leftover swag, mainly by throwing it to the crowd at Jack Crutchfield Park on the Slippery Rock University campus. Around the second inning, some promotions people from WBUT (1050) and WLER-FM (97.7) radio started throwing T-shirts into the stands.
Naturally, as a radio guy, I wanted me a T-shirt. But they didn't toss them anywhere near our section.
Two innings later, they walked through the stands again tossing WISR (680) T-shirts. And when they tossed some into Section D, right behind home plate, where we were sitting, I stuck my hand up ... and son-of-a-gun if one didn't fall into my grubby palm.
I was feeling like a big man until I heard someone say, "Sorry, sport, but that guy grabbed it right in front of you." When we had taken our seats before the game, no one was sitting behind us. Now I turned around to see a slightly stunned 10-year-old in his Little League uniform and holding a regulation Rawlings catcher's mitt.
"Geez, I'm sorry," I said. "Here's the T-shirt. I didn't know you were back there." He shook his head, "no."
"Aw, c'mon," I said, "are you sure?"
He nodded.
I slunk down into my seat. Officer Jim thought this was hysterical, especially since my own two years as the worst Little League player in the history of the Liberty Borough Athletic Association proved that, as he said, "you couldn't catch a cold in a driving rain storm."
He kept nudging me throughout the game: "Want to go down the concession stand? Maybe you can take some candy from some babies ... Hey, look at those little kids chasing foul balls. Go get one. You're bigger than them."
Luckily, in about the seventh inning a batter from the Sliders hit a pop-up foul right over the backstop that caromed off of the roof of the grandstand and fell int our section. Thank God the kid caught the ball, which he liked a lot better, I think, than a T-shirt from an AM radio station.
The final score, by the way, was the Chillicothe 9, Slippery Rock 6, and the game wasn't that close; the Sliders spotted Chillicothe three runs in the first inning and were down 9 to 3 before scoring three runs in the bottom of the ninth. The Chillicothe batters were using the starting pitcher as batting practice; according to the statistician in our section who was measuring the pitches with a radar gun, the poor guy's fastballs were coming across the plate at a leisurely 78 mph.
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To Move or Not To Move: The Sliders were an expansion team put into Slippery Rock primarily because SRU had a nice, new baseball field, but the season has been a long slog of losses (they're 28 and 62 counting last night).
And it's apparent the town really doesn't have the population base to support even a semi-pro club. Either attendance last night was poor, or else a lot of people came disguised as empty seats.
The Sliders don't have a local owner, and played most of their games on the road this season, and speculation has been the team will be sold to someone and moved out of Slippery Rock.
But someone from the club said there's actually a "90 percent chance" the team will stay in Slippery Rock next season. He might have been whistling through the graveyard. I guess it all depends whether Slippery Rock can afford a bidding war to keep the Sliders from moving to Evans City or Chicora. (Actually, Pullman Field in nearby Butler has been mentioned as a possible site.)
I'll say this: We had a very good time, even when I wasn't roughing up fourth-graders. If the Sliders return to Slippery Rock next season, you might want to plan a visit to the ballyard. It's only about a 90 minute drive; you could spend that long trying to get out of the parking lot at PNC Park.
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Low Crime Area: We exited the stadium to discover the driver's side window of my car was open. Officer Jim looked inside. "No broken glass," he said. Sure enough, I had left the window down. "How many beers did you have before the game?" he asked.
My CD player was on the front seat and two new CDs were unmolested; my toolbox was still in the trunk. Nothing had been touched.
"They must have honest people up here," I said.
"Either that," Jim said, "or you don't have anything worth stealing."
Posted by jt3y at August 30, 2007 07:32 AM
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Briefly Noted: Pop City profiles Book Country Clearing House, the remaindered-book wholesaler located on Walnut Street in Christy Park at the old Potter-McCune Co. warehouse. (The Almanac last wrote about Book Country back in September 2004.)
According to John Altdorfer's feature, Book Country now has almost 100 employees and has grown by "nearly 100 percent" every year since being purchased by Richard and Sandy Roberts.
(Tube City hard-hat tip: Several alert readers.)
You can read more about Roberts in this trade industry article. (Book Country's own website appears to be down.)
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The continuing population decline of Western Pennsylvania and the nationwide shortage of Roman Catholic priests claimed three more victims in the Mon-Yough area this week.
On Sunday, the Diocese of Pittsburgh announced that nine church buildings would permanently close, including St. Peter's on Market Street and Sacred Heart on Shaw Avenue in the city, and St. Paulinus in Clairton.
Although Sunday Masses were no longer being celebrated at the buildings, they were still in use for weekday Masses and on special occasions.
St. Peter's and Sacred Heart, along with St. Mary's German on Olive Street, became part of St. Martin de Porres Parish in 1993, while St. Paulinus had merged with St. Joseph Church to become St. Clare of Assisi Parish in 1994. St. Mary's German has since been demolished; new houses have been erected on part of the old parish grounds.
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Among the Oldest Catholic Churches: Of the three churches, St. Peter's is by far the most historic. The Diocese of Pittsburgh's website claims that St. Peter's was founded in 1846.
But according to the Catholic Encyclopedia, St. Peter's predates the Diocese of Pittsburgh itself. According to the Encyclopedia, St. Peter's was one of seven Catholic churches in Allegheny County that were taken over by the new diocese at its creation in 1843. The first pastor, Father A.P. Gibbs, split his time between St. Peter's and three other parishes in Wexford, Pine Creek and Crafton.
Three years later, Catholics in McKeesport (mostly German immigrants) purchased the plot of land at the corner of Seventh and Market streets to erect the first permanent sanctuary. The first permanent pastor was Father Nicholas Haeres. No matter what you consider St. Peter's official founding date, it's clearly one of the oldest Catholic churches west of the Alleghenies, and possibly among the first 100 in the United States.
The present church, which would do many smaller dioceses proud as a cathedral, was built between 1873 and 1875. (When it was dedicated on Sept. 12, 1875, one of the local Swedish newspapers commented sarcastically that the building was dedicated with "all the pomp that catholics are capable of.") Though a little bit worn now, it remains majestic.
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Mother Church: Many if not all of the Catholic parishes surrounding McKeesport that were founded before 1900 started as "mission churches" or "daughter parishes" of St. Peter's. St. Peter's also was the site of the city's first Catholic high school until its students were absorbed into the new Serra High School in 1963.
Sacred Heart, an ethnic Croatian church, was founded in 1906 and the first permanent sanctuary was on Jenny Lind Street, in a former Swedish Baptist church. When Sacred Heart School opened in 1928, the church moved its sanctuary to the third floor and sold the old building to the Greek Orthodox Church. The present Sacred Heart building was constructed in 1955.
St. Paulinus was founded in 1923 in Clairton's Wilson neighborhood (the independent Borough of Wilson until 1921), and the first Masses were celebrated in the old Wilson Municipal Building or the Walnut Street School. The church was built during the Depression by laid-off mill workers using salvaged stones, bricks and lumber.
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Reusing St. Peter's?: Two years ago, the Christian Science Monitor reported on a number of possible uses for old church buildings, including housing.
Unless some Protestant or other congregation purchases Sacred Heart and St. Paulinus, I fear the future of those church buildings will be grim. They're destined to sit empty for years or even a decade until they're torn down or purchased as a "development opportunity" like St. Stephen's Magyar Church, which I wrote about in July.
Because of its history, I hope St. Peter's can escape that fate. It's within one block of the marina and Gergely Riverfront Park, a few blocks from the Palisades, and visible throughout Downtown. There's ample parking nearby, and the historic building would make an ideal performance space for the McKeesport Symphony and other groups; it would also be a wonderful place for a banquet hall, a meeting facility, or a restaurant like the Church Brew Works in Pittsburgh.
I think the need could be demonstrated. Other than the auditorium at McKeesport Senior High School, the city lacks a large indoor performance space (the Palisades is a nice dance hall, but the acoustics leave a lot to be desired) and there also aren't many dining options within easy distance of the marina.
So, do you know someone who's looking to start a business? Would they rather be in some pre-fab building with no character, or a building that's more than 125 years old?
Tell them to take a chance. Call the Diocese of Pittsburgh at (412) 456-3000.
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In Other Business: The new school year for former Duquesne High School students started without a hitch at East Allegheny and West Mifflin, according to Tim Puko in the Tribune-Review.
One mom says her son seems to be happier at his new school. "Duquesne just made him miserable," she said.
Will there be problems in the future? Sure. But there will always be problems; let's allow the students and faculty to solve those without finger-pointing and micro-management.
So, despite the best efforts of shameless politicians and a few hysterical parents, everyone got along. The "kids are all right," and the teachers are too.
Thank God for common sense and simple human decency. Personally, I'll take it wherever I can find it.
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I know what you're thinking, but lung cancer didn't get Jack Webb. He had a heart attack.
In lieu of real content this Monday morning, here's some more alleged humor from my alleged radio shows. It's a large file (3.3 MB) so be patient.
Feel free to light a Chesterfield while you wait.
The WRCT Crime and Incident Report (8/19/2007)
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The current debate over our trade imbalance with China, and news stories about lax quality control in Chinese factories, came home this month.
My two pairs of Florsheim shoes, each about one year old, fell apart in the same week.
Like most American men, I suspect, I only have a few pairs of shoes. For work I have --- well, I had --- the brown shoes and the black shoes. I've been buying Florsheims since high school, first at Rubinstein's on Fifth Avenue, and then via the Internet after Rubinstein's closed.
Florsheims used to be American-made, and then they were made in South America. The last two pair were made in China.
In the past, I always wore the soles out --- in fact, one pair was resoled twice. But I never had Florsheims split apart along the upper until I got these latest, Chinese-made shoes. The talented Anthony Macchiaroli at Valley Shoe Repair in North Versailles says they're unsalvageable.
So, to quote "South Park": "You go to hell, Florsheim! You go to hell and you die!"
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Where could I get a good pair of American-made shoes (actually, two) at a price I could afford?
My preference is to buy locally, but finding a locally-owned shoe store in the Mon-Yough area isn't easy. Gordon's Shoes at the Homestead Waterfront is about the last option. There's also Ponsi Shoes in North Huntingdon, but they sell mostly orthopedics, and while I may act like I'm ready for the nursing home, I'm not quite there yet.
The next step was to find a shoe company still manufacturing in the United States. It's not easy. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 98 percent of the shoes sold in this country last year were imported, mostly from you-know-where.
A website called U.S. Stuff helped, but it's not being updated very often, and unfortunately most of the updates are of this nature: "out of business ... closed the factory July 2005 ... closed its only US operation ... now importing all shoes ... all made outside USA."
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Naturally, the companies' websites try to hide where their plants are located. Plenty stress "American style" or "American tradition" or "American craftsmanship" or talk about how their founder opened his first shoe factory in Maine or Michigan or Minnesota in 1898.
They don't brag about the fact that they laid off 1,400 workers a few years ago or shipped all of the machinery to China.
To learn which companies still made shoes here, I looked for articles in newspapers; doing Google searches for "(company name)" + "shoes" + "factory" + "closed" was, sadly, very helpful.
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Price and value are important. One company that makes almost all of its shoes in the United States is Allen Edmonds. They also make an excellent product. But you pay for that quality, and I can't afford shoes that cost $300 per pair. I needed something in the Florsheim price range of $100 to $150.
I also didn't want horribly ugly shoes. I found a lot of steel-toed work shoes and boots made in the United States, but I wasn't about to clomp around all day like Herman Munster.
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Well, believe it or not, I found one pair of shoes not only made in America, but made in Pennsylvania, and only about two hours away. The Cove Shoe Company of Martinsburg, Blair County, makes private-label dress shoes as well as Corcoran and Matterhorn boots. I ordered a pair of black dress Oxfords from them.
Cost? $120, or about what I paid for the last pair of Florsheims.
Cove's products are aimed at the military, police officers, postal workers, and other public employees who have to buy American-made shoes, so the pair I just got will win no awards for cutting-edge style. But they're handsome, fit well, have a thick, Vibram sole, and feel really sturdy.
And after a day or two to break them in, they are comfortable. (They have to be ... cops and postal workers are on their feet all day.) Places that sell uniforms might have them; I ordered mine through a website called Shoeline.com.
Shoeline.com is owned by H.H. Brown Shoe Co., which is controlled by Warren Buffett. If you search on the keyword "USA," you'll find all of the items they carry that are made in the United States.
That led me to another of Buffett's companies that's still making shoes in the United States, Dexter Shoe Co. Many Dexter shoes are sourced from overseas, but some are still American-made; so I ordered a spiffy pair of American-made brown dress shoes from them.
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If you need shoes and want to buy American, first, rots of ruck, and second, I hope this information helps you.
One thing frosts me, though. Cove Shoe can make a comfortable, solid, good-looking product right here in Pennsylvania, and sell it at a competitive price.
That tells me that Wal-Mart, Target, DSW, Payless, etc., could stock American-made shoes --- and other products --- if they wanted to.
They'd rather lower their manufacturing costs and their quality, and keep the money they save rather than pass it along to consumers. Because the prices of, say, Florsheim shoes haven't dropped in the last 10 years. In fact, they've gone up significantly.
Where does the excess money go?
Did you say "executive compensation"? Shoe better believe it.
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To Do This Weekend: McKeesport Little Theater, 1614 Coursin St., holds auditions for "Over the River and Through the Woods" from Sunday and Monday night. Men and women ages 25 to 35 and 55 to 75 are needed. Call (412) 673-1100 ... Resurrection Church, 3909 Donna Ave., West Mifflin, holds a chicken parmigiana dinner and bake sale from 12 to 6 p.m. Sunday. Call (412) 461-8087.
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I have a friend who works at a group home for the severely mentally ill. They're mostly former patients of Western Center, the state-run psychiatric hospital in Cecil Township that closed for good in 2000. For reasons you can guess, I'm not going to identify this person in any way.
My friend has been after me for sometime to write an "expose" on the private health-care company that runs the group home. I try to tell my friend that if no one wants to go on the record or cooperate, an expose becomes difficult if not impossible. And any sources who would cooperate could face legal repercussions.
Nevertheless, I've heard some stories that would curl my hair, if I had any left. The patients in my friend's group home are not functional adults who can participate in meaningful, mainstream activities. They have extreme emotional and developmental problems.
So when the state announced it plans to close Mayview State Hospital, I emailed my friend. "What do you think?" I said.
"Oh, (expletive), they'll be sending them down here," my friend replied. "I'll probably end up with Richard Baumhammers." Well, no. Baumhammers, a former lawyer who went on a racism-fueled shooting rampage in 2000, was eventually ruled competent to stand trial and is now on death row.
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But Baumhammers was marginally successful at navigating society, at least until his internal demons drove him to a deadly burst of violence. My tongue is only partly in my cheek when I say someone like Baumhammers would be an improvement over the patients in my friend's group home:
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I didn't realize until I saw the front page of yesterday's Courier that William "Mugsy" Moore had died Aug. 6. He was 81 and had lived with diabetes for years.
Best known as Pittsburgh's first black police chief and credited with "blazing a trail" for other African-American patrol officers in the 1950s, I knew him later, after he retired from the Pittsburgh force and served as chief of the Braddock police department in the 1990s.
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Frankly, there would be more pleasant ways to spend your retirement --- like working as the target in a knife-throwing act.
The Braddock police force had been disbanded several years before Moore was hired, and standards and procedures were almost non-existent. So was the budget for police gear and salaries.
The borough's leadership was almost dysfunctional --- state troopers had to break up one council meeting when members started throwing chairs at one another --- and micromanaged the police department's every move.
Moore struggled valiantly and with some success, I thought, to instill a sense of pride, professionalism and responsibility in his colleagues, and to insulate them from interference.
When he retired for a second time, Braddock brought in a police chief from Joliet, Ill., who had blue-ribbon credentials but lacked Moore's diplomatic skills, and the borough council soon fired him. Chief Moore came out of retirement to serve Braddock again for a few months, but his health was failing and I don't think his heart was in it. He didn't last long.
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There were controversies during his tenure, to be sure. Once he was charged with DUI by police in a neighboring borough, but Moore said he wasn't drunk, that his sugar was low, and there were whispers around town the chief in the other community was jealous of the attention Moore got.
And despite his political finesse, Moore still tangled with Braddock council regularly; he tried to get one councilman removed from office on the grounds that the man was a convicted arsonist (he had done time in federal prison) and thus ineligible to serve under Article II, Section 7 of the state Constitution.
I was more disturbed by the fact that the volunteer fire department had elected the guy fire chief.
No, I am not kidding. Only in the Mon Valley do we make a convicted arsonist the fire chief.
The state attorney general's office and the Allegheny County district attorney's office chickened out, and refused to remove the guy; the councilman swore revenge against Moore. A few years later, he wound up being convicted of skimming money from the fire department's bingo.
Chief Moore, on the other hand, was buried last week with a full police honor guard, including Pittsburgh police Chief Nate Harper and Assistant Chief Maurita Bryant.
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The website Freedom Corner lists him as one of the "legends" of Pittsburgh's civil-rights movement; it notes that as riots tore American cities apart after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination, Moore joined a peace march from the Hill District.
Besides fighting for equal rights for African-Americans, Moore also stood up for the right of women to take leadership roles. Before Moore became a supervisor, Pittsburgh's female officers weren't allowed to drive police cars. He changed that insane policy, and as chief he appointed the city's first woman police commander.
As a peace officer, wrote Moustafa Ayad in an obituary for the Post-Gazette, Moore had an "old-school ethos of policing that combined compassion and kick-in-the-pants discipline."
I can't say I knew him well, and I had lost touch with him several years ago, but I admired and respected and liked William H. Moore.
And I looked up to him. That's probably why I never felt comfortable calling him "Mugsy." It's a diminutive, and for whatever his flaws, there was nothing small about him. He was a giant of a man.
Requiescat in pace.
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To Do This Weekend: Did you eat too much at International Village? Here's your chance to dance away the calories. CountryFest will be held tonight, Saturday and Sunday at Stephen Barry Field in Renziehausen Park.
Dallas Marks headlines a full slate of local and national performers who also include Lois Scott & The Plum Loco Band, Girlz in Black Hats, T.J. Houston, Cranky Yankee, Jerry Schickling, Bryan Cole, Buc Wyld, Southern Discomfort, Blind Date and Whiskey Grin.
There will also be games, craft displays and food, and fireworks tomorrow night starting at 10:30 p.m. A portion of all proceeds benefits the American Cancer Society; admission is only $5. Visit countryfest.8m.com for details.
Category: Mon Valley Miscellany || By jt3y
Category: Mon Valley Miscellany || By jt3y
The state Department of Transportation has released its list of "structurally-deficient" bridges, and if you live in the Elizabeth-Forward School District, you might want to make sure your life insurance is paid up. By my count, a total of 30 bridges in Elizabeth Borough and Elizabeth and Forward townships are ranked "structurally deficient."
OK, I'm exaggerating the danger. PennDOT is quick to say that bridges deemed "structurally deficit" are safe, but need "costly repairs" to come up to modern-day standards. I'm interpreting that to mean that the bridge might not be falling apart --- it might just be too narrow or rated for smaller loads than modern traffic requires.
Still, the list is fairly sobering. Besides the EF bridges, 20 are "structurally deficient" in neighboring Rostraver, and 10 in North Huntingdon.
Five of North Huntingdon's "structurally deficient bridges" are along Route 993 near Ardara and Larimer.
I regularly drive Route 993 and Route 136, which has five "structurally deficient" spans in Westmoreland and several in central Washington County. So I'm not too surprised to hear that the bridges on those highways are narrow or otherwise in poor condition.
But secondary highways like 993 are hardly major arteries. It's more disturbing to read that nine bridges on the Parkway East are rated "structurally deficient," including the bridges that cross Old William Penn Highway and Haymaker Road.
Or that seven bridges on Interstate 70 near New Stanton and Belle Vernon are "structurally deficient."
In general, the PennDOT chart is a little bit confusing, because it doesn't list the common names for roads --- just the state's four-digit highway numbers. If I get any time this weekend, I'll try and identify some of the offenders, but here are the raw numbers, as best as my calculations allow.
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(Editor's note: As a public service to the thousands of people who will be attending International Village today, tomorrow and Thursday, as well as the tens of dozens who read the Almanac, we are reprinting last year's handy guide to attending the area's premier food and music festival. It's been updated slightly. Feel free to clip and save it, or if you can't clip things from the screen, just carry your computer with you.
You may also enjoy this 1972 look at the Village, reprinted from Ford Times.)
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Every year, tens of thousands of Pennsylvanians descend on Our Fair City's Renziehausen Park for the ethnic food, dancing, food, music and food festival known as "International Village." Though other communities have imitated it (and I'm looking at you, Picksberg), they have not been able to duplicate the experience.
For months ahead of time, churches, ethnic clubs and other associations prepare foods and crafts for sale, while performance groups prepare traditional costumes and practice folk songs and dances.
Did I mention food? I did? Good.
Well, that time is here again! Today, tomorrow and Thursday, the balalaikas, tamburas and bass guitars will be plunking, the dancers will be twirling, and thousands of Westinghouse electric roasters have emerged from pantries and basements and been pressed into service to keep pierogies, pirohis, perogis, pirozhkis and pirogies warm. Some people will even be making piroghies.
In the past, International Village was mostly made up of those "nations" that stretched from, oh, say, Dublin to Minsk, and south to Palermo. But over the years, as different ethnic groups have settled in Western Pennsylvania, more and more traditions of Latin America, the Caribbean and Africa are being represented at the "Village." For those of us who enjoy eating sweet and sour pork, cheese ravioli and halushki while listening to Slovenian music, this is a definite plus.
Lifelong residents of the Mon-Yough area know that the Village represents a great time and a chance to get in touch with your ethnic roots. But for those Almanac visitors who aren't in WEDO's coverage area, here's an insider's guide to International Village, telling you the kinds of things that you don't get in the free souvenir program.
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International Village is held at Stephen Barry Field in McKeesport's Renziehausen Park for three days every August.
Contrary to popular belief, you can reach McKeesport quickly and easily, and we do have paved roads. Renzie Park is particularly easy to get to --- from Westmoreland County, take Route 30 west to Route 48 south. Take Route 48 south to Route 148 north. Follow Route 148 north about three blocks to Eden Park Boulevard.
From Pittsburgh, you may take the Parkway East to Forest Hills, then take Route 30 east to East McKeesport. Turn right onto Route 148 south and follow Route 148 to Hartman Street, then turn left.
Unlike what you may have seen reported on the Pittsburgh TV news, we are largely friendly and harmless, and we do have such conveniences as electricity, telephones and indoor toilets. No Starbucks yet, but we're hopeful. (We'll probably get one just as that trend finally dies.)
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Parking is at a premium during International Village. Some of the local churches offer paid parking in their lots, but any free parking near Stephen Barry Field tends to fill up quickly.
Luckily, Renzie Park is a large, regional park, so there are spaces available, but they're not necessarily adjacent to Stephen Barry Field. If you can walk, simply plan to wear comfortable shoes, and give yourself plenty of time. You will enjoy the stroll. Renzie is lovely on a summer evening.
If you are elderly or disabled, I hope you can find a space close to the entrances.
But if you're able-bodied, and you insist on circling the parking lots near the tennis courts endlessly for hours hoping that a space opens up, I reserve the right to mock your wardrobe, grooming and parentage.
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In a related matter, have some common courtesy --- for crying out loud, don't park on the end of the aisle and block other people in. Your legs aren't broken. But maybe they should be. At the very least, someone should steal your hubcaps.
Also, there is no valet parking at International Village. I don't know who you gave the car keys to, but I sure hope you have a bus schedule handy.
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Other Activities: McKeesport Heritage Center, located on Arboretum Drive, will have special extended hours during International Village. If you haven't purchased a copy of Images of America: McKeesport, this is an ideal time to do so.
The Heritage Center also has copies of a recent documentary on the life of pioneer aviator Helen Richey and other memorabilia on sale, as well as exhibits documenting life around the Mon-Yough area and McKeesport's first school house. It's well worth a visit, and I say that not just because the Center supplied about 30 of the photos for the upcoming Murphy book.
Also, the Renzie Park Arboretum, which is surprisingly also located on Arboretum Drive, is open until sunset. It's one of only about 100 nationally recognized rose gardens in the United States, so take a break from the Village and stop to smell the roses. (Rimshot.)
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Do: Wear your "Kiss Me, I'm Irish," "Treat Me, I'm Dutch," "Proud to Be Italian," etc., T-shirt.
Don't: Tell Polish jokes, or say something like, "Wow! Look at all the hunkies!" And speaking in an exaggerated, "Mamma-mia! That's-a speecy-spicy meatsaballa!" accent around the Italian booth is considered bad form.
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If you are over the age of 10, and are eating hot dogs at the "American" booth, you should be ashamed of yourself. You probably think burritos heated in the microwave at Uni-Mart are "authentic Mexican cuisine."
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The food prices at the Village are set by the individual groups doing the vending. You may find $5 for a kolbassi sandwich too much to pay, and decide to eat somewhere else. That is your prerogative.
But for some of the groups exhibiting at International Village, this is the one big fundraising event they have each year. They will no doubt invest the profits from your $5 kolbassi sandwich into silly, frivolous extras like the water bill, the gas bill, the light bill, and educational and cultural programs.
Choose instead to stop for a 99-cent "extra value" cheeseburger on the way home, and contemplate all of the ethnic and social programs the Wendy's Corporation has funded in your community over the last year. I hope the mustard and pickles cover up the taste of regret, you cheapskate.
Or, buy something at the Village to eat. It's your choice. There's no pressure.
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Admission: There is a small admission charge to enter International Village. For a long time, it was 50 cents, and before that, it was free. It's $2 this year.
There are still people who think it should be free, and mark the city's "decline" to the year that they started charging people four bits to walk around International Village. Many of these people are also still upset that CBS cancelled "Ed Sullivan."
If you're one of the people, I'm wondering how you made it onto the Internet to read the Almanac, so please write to me.
A postcard to P.O. Box 94, McKeesport, PA 15134 is acceptable. Feel free to steam a stamp off of a Christmas card, or just send Bob Cratchit over to deliver it.
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"Hmm, that stage looks familiar," I thought last week as I read Justin Hopper's profile of Clairton singer Chuck Corby in Pittsburgh City Paper.
Sure enough, it's the Valley Hotel, which I wrote about in July with help from John Barna.
My enjoyment of an otherwise fine story was somewhat marred by the opening paragraph:
Under the harsh stage lights, Chuck Corby's face is strained, reddened as he crouches and begs over the end of a musical phrase: "Honey, let me stay." It's a plea he's been making for over 40 years, and yet tonight, in the confines of Clairton's small, worn Valley Hotel -- a dusty roadhouse between disused Mon Valley mills -- his "Honey, Let Me Stay" means something new. It's as though Corby, the definitive music-world veteran, is begging for one more shot at salvation: one more roadhouse gig, one more aging audience, one more dismissive woman to sing for.
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What the hell is wrong with people?
A worker at the Subway on Jacktown Hill was assaulted by some clueless idiot who threw pepper juice or some sort of hot sauce in his face through the take-out window.
My old colleague and cow-orker at the Tribune-Review, Jen Reeger, had the story.
It happened last Friday night, and apparently the horse's ass was copying something he'd seen on YouTube. Some jerk in South Greensburg did the same thing at a Burger King, while the Taco Bell at Norwin Hills shopping center was also hit, Jen wrote in a follow-up story.
She quotes a Seton Hill University therapist, Rebecca Harvey, as saying that it's a "bullying" activity (no kidding) and the product of an "increasingly aggressive and violent" culture.
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It's always tempting to "blame pop culture" for incidents like this, but yeah, TV and radio have certainly been on a steady race to the bottom for at least 20 years, fueled by FCC deregulation that refuses to police content ... unless we see a glimpse of Janet Jackson's nipple or hear the F-word:
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In Other News: Worst. Mascot Name. Ever. "Steely McBeam"? It's almost like the Steelers purposely tried to come up with the lamest possible sobriquet for their giant, grotesque, foam-headed freak show.
What was the selection process? I envision a scene similar to the one on The Simpsons when Poochie was announced as the new character on "Itchy and Scratchy":
ART ROONEY II: The rest of you PR guys start thinking up a name for this funky steelworker; I dunno, something along the line of say... "Steely McBeam," only more proactive.
KEVIN COLBERT: Yeah!
[Rooney, Colbert and the lady leave]
PR GUY: So, Steely McBeam okay with everybody?
ALL: [reclining in their chairs] Yeah...
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I haven't done this for a while, so let's peek into the ol' mailbag and see what crawls out. Alert Reader Nathan writes:
Jason, sir, I am at wit's end here. My friends and I look forward to going to the International Village every August, and have faithfully gorged ourselves on three days of ethnic foods straight for the past five years.
My question: When, when, when is it this year? I've found numerous dates online, all for past events. I cannot seem to find one news article about this year's Village, and am beginning to wonder if it's *gasp* discontinued? Please, tell me I'm not going mad.
Being a constant reader of Tube City Almanac, I enjoy your work.
You really bring back old memories of the McKeesport area. I basically left the area about 55 years ago. I have not returned for about 10 years. My, what a change, unfortunately most of it for the worst.
I have a question and perhaps you would be kind enough to answer it for me. I noticed in one of your postings that former Mayor Joe Bendel had passed away. My question is, when did he pass away, and how?
Joe and I were good friends, we graduated from McKeesport High in 1949, and he was one of my groomsmen when I married in 1957. Happy to relate we just celebrated our 50th. We have lived all 50 years here in Florida.
Our (high school band) director always used to be sure to tell us about Norwin's robust team of choreographers, instructors for each instrument, etc. Whereas our guy had himself, an assistant, and one part-timer to coach the flags, majorettes and rifles.
It was actually pretty amazing how good Norwin's band was back in the day. Competing against them was like watching the Steel Valley Ironmen take on the Steelers. I'm sure they're still on top, although from what I understand a lot of other bands now come close. (Gateway's included.)
We got into this discussion some four or five years ago on our forum. During the '50s I lived around the corner from their house where they parked the trucks on the lot facing Stewart and saw them almost every day. They certainly did have at least one pink truck.
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A McKeesport councilman was once denounced in The New York Times and on the floor of the United States Congress as a "tin-plated liar" for arguing that American workers could produce tin-plated steel as good as that imported from Europe.
Indirectly, he helped to elect William McKinley to the presidency in 1896.
You probably didn't know that, did you? Neither did I until a few weeks ago.
And you may know that the part of McKeesport and North Versailles Township that's under the McKeesport-Duquesne Bridge is known as "Demmler." In fact, the CSX Railroad facility there is still called "Demmler Yard."
But do you know who Demmler is named after? I didn't, either, until recently.
Read all about the growing pains of the Mon Valley's steel industry in "The 'Tinplate Liar' of McKeesport." It's the latest article in Tube City Online's new "Steel Heritage" section.
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I had a birthday recently. None of your business which one, or what day it was. Anyway, regular Almanac readers will remember that I previously admitted that I'm a fan of Hawaii Five-O, mostly for all the wrong reasons.
So imagine my delight when my brother presented me with my birthday presents: the complete first season of Five-O on DVD; the original Hawaii Five-O soundtrack (on vinyl!); Booking Hawaii Five-O, a critical history by Karen Rhodes; and an authentic HPD ... er, sorry ... Honolulu police badge.
McGARRETT: Chin, go down to the border. It's 1,954 miles long Ñ better take Kono. Nobody comes in unless you know it. Go easy on the workers, but the smugglers and dope pushers Ñ you know what to do.
CHIN HO: Good as done, boss.
McGARRETT: Danno, I want these people legalized. Tell Congress to send me a bill. I want it tough, and I want it fair. And I want it on my desk Monday morning. Then get me a sandwich and my suitcase.
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Gallant Welcomes His Neighbors: West Mifflin Area and East Allegheny school districts last night sent their A teams to Duquesne on a mission to welcome Duquesne high school students.
Their presentations to an audience of about 250 were so enthusiastic that the session was more like a recruitment than a forced arrangement.
"We're going to make history, and we're going to do it the right way," said West Mifflin Area Superintendent Patrick Risha.
"We're here for education," said East Allegheny Superintendent Roger D'Emidio, who pledged to educate every child who comes to the district.
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Goofus Rails Against 'Outsiders': Yesterday's town hall meeting brought out about 350 people, quick to erupt in angry outbursts.
"We don't want 'em!" North Versailles parent George Velardo yelled from near the back of the auditorium. "Why don't he teach 'em at his house?" he shouted moments later, referring to Zahorchak.
When Logan suggested athletes from Duquesne should be able to earn starting spots on their new school sports teams, shouts of "No!" echoed throughout the auditorium.
People booed when they were told how much the state would contribute for each Duquesne student -- almost $10,000 -- and again when the discussion jumped to promises of no tax hikes.
"This is a lie," East McKeesport councilman Ross Cianflone said.
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Gallant Looks Forward to Meeting New Friends: Maha said the Washingtons, and any other player who might come to West Mifflin from Duquesne, will have every opportunity to succeed.
"Once a player becomes part of our team and part of our family," he said, "they will be treated fairly."
Maha, also a teacher at West Mifflin, said he's prepared for whatever the ultimate decision regarding the possibility of Duquesne students attending school at West Mifflin.
"If you look at it in general terms as an educator or a coach, whoever is in my classroom I will teach to the best of my ability," Maha said. "And as a coach, I will coach to the best of my ability. That will never change."
(The Daily News)
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Goofus Files a Lawsuit: The West Mifflin Area and East Allegheny school districts filed a joint lawsuit in Commonwealth Court this afternoon, challenging the law that will place students from the former Duquesne High School into their schools, West Mifflin solicitor John Cambest said.
The goal of the lawsuit is not to block the arrival of Duquesne students this year, but to change the plan in future years, Cambest said.
The Legislature passed a law this month empowering the state Secretary of Education to designate two or more schools to receive students from the closed Duquesne High School. Secretary Gerald L. Zahorchak chose West Mifflin and East Allegheny.
The two districts claim the legislation that empowers Zahorchak is written specifically for Duquesne and therefore should be ruled unconstitutional, Cambest said.
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Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Major Gold Correction to End 2011
Gold had a major correction today (December 14). It was down over $75 per ounce. It is currently below the $1,600 mark. This is quite bearish for the yellow metal in the short run. The good news is that if you have been late to the game and are looking to buy some gold, there is some opportunity to do so.
It is hard to say where the bottom will be this time. There are a lot of uncertainties out there, which can be good or bad for gold. Today, it happened to be bad. The euro has been extremely weak this week, which has meant a strengthening of the dollar. This has led to a big decline in the price of gold in terms of U.S. dollars. People wanted to get out of euros this week and they are turning to the U.S. dollar this time, instead of gold.
There continues to be a tug-of-war going on with the economy. The monetary base has tripled in the last 3 years and most of this newly created money has gone into banks as excess reserves. There is a tug-of-war between inflationary forces and a deep recession. Both sides might end up pulling each other into the mud pit and we may end up with both eventually.
For a little while, it looked like we might see a little mini-boom, courtesy of low interest rates and easy money. Today, it went the other way and it looks like we might be headed for a deep recession. The 10-year treasury yield went down today and is pointing to continuing fear.
This roller coaster will continue until one side wins out (either way we lose) or until there is a big shift in Fed policy. The Fed has been tight (monetarily speaking) since QE2 ended in June. We will have to see how bad the economy will have to get before they entertain QE3. While the best thing would be for the Fed to do nothing and the government to dramatically cut spending (which would trigger a recession), I don't see that as a likely outcome right now.
I don't like making predictions, but I'll do it anyway this time. I think there is an 85% chance that gold will be higher (in terms of U.S. dollars) one year from today than it is now. If the price of gold is lower in one year than it is today, then I think there is a 99% chance that we will be in a deep recession at that point.
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- John (Ad Orientem) said...
I don't normally engage in speculative investing so take this with a grain of salt. That said, if I were a speculative investor I would be betting that the gold bull market is not done. The dollar is rising due to the mess in Europe and there are fears (not unreasonable) that we could be stuck in the middle of a multi-year depression. In that scenario ultra-high end government bonds are where you would be putting your money. But our country and most of the developed nations are still fundamentally broke. And I see no way out of that debt trap that does not include money printing on a much larger scale than what we have thus far seen.
Gold is notoriously volatile. I would see this as a point where those who don't have any gold exposure might want to seriously consider scaling into gold for as long as this correction lasts up to maybe 10% of your portfolio, unless you are using the Harry Browne Permanent Portfolio. - December 14, 2011 at 11:07 PM

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By dchud on 17 Oct 2008I spoke at the MLC Annual Meeting a few weeks ago, and the slides from that talk are attached below. This talk was oriented toward the majority-administrator audience, focusing on the key aspects of why free software matters to me:
- the freedoms to use, copy, study, and modify software
- the dominance of free software in the marketplace
- how we can make libraries better by understanding the above points
In the slides I highlight the Michigan Evergreen implementation, whose implementors were in the audience and had just gone live with the first two sites, quite happily, it seems. It's a very powerful argument to be able to say to a roomful of people "it's already all around you, and you don't even have to go first now." Makes a speaker's job easier!
I've also taken another crack at framing the comparison between the Carnegie library development program and the availability of free software for building libraries in a more intuitive manner. For years I've been making this case, but it's never clear to me whether it resonates or sticks with people. Hopefully you'll see the effect in action.
After doing slides this way for a few years now, I'm fairly well committed to the "many many slides with few few words on each" approach. It seems to help keep focus and balance the story I want to tell with the power of a very few words: in this case, "use study copy modify".
Oh, and always, Always, ALWAYS make copies of your slides available as a PDF on a thumb drive, your email inboxes, a network drive, and anything else before you go to sleep if you're due to give a talk the next day. I needed the pull up every one of those and to beg for the help of several incredibly helpful folks at the event to finally get the talk working. I've long done this but never been so glad I do until I really needed 'em all this time!


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Spicy Barbecued Oysters
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If you're intimidated by shucking oysters, this recipe for barbecued oysters is for you. When you grill them, steam builds up inside the shells until they pop open. Then you slather a little garlicky red barbecue sauce on each oyster, put them back on the grill to get hot and bubbly, and you're done. At a party, bring your oysters to the grill and show your guests how it's done so they can barbecue their own.
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Calories | 80 |
Total Fat | 5g |
Saturated Fat | 3g |
Cholesterol | 37mg |
Sodium | 228mg |
Total Carbohydrate | 5g |
Dietary Fiber | 1g |
Sugars | -- |
Protein | 4g |
Calcium | -- |
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Serves: 6
Yields: 6 servings, 4 oysters each
Total Time: 40 min
Prep Time: 40 min
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- 3 tablespoon(s) butter
- 1 tablespoon(s) finely minced garlic
- 5 tablespoon(s) mild chili sauce or ketchup
- 3 tablespoon(s) lemon juice
- Your favorite hot sauce
- 24 large oysters
- Preheat grill to medium-high.
- Melt butter in a small saucepan over medium heat. Add garlic and cook, stirring, until it softens, about 1 minute. Remove from heat and stir in chili sauce (or ketchup), lemon juice, and hot sauce.
- Bring oysters along with the sauce, a cutting board, an oven mitt, tongs, and an oyster knife (or other small knife) to the grill.
- Place oysters flat-side up on the grill rack. Close the lid and grill until the top shell pops open, 3 to 5 minutes. Transfer the oysters to the cutting board with tongs, keeping them as level as possible so the oyster "liquor" (salty seawater) doesn't spill out.
- Wear the oven mitt to hold the oyster and use the knife to remove the top shell, cutting the oyster away from the top shell and leaving it in the bottom shell. Periodically wipe your knife clean. Discard the top shells. Spoon about 1 teaspoon sauce onto each oyster. Return the oysters to the grill, close the lid, and grill until the sauce is bubbling, 2 to 4 minutes more. Serve with small forks.
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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS December 23, 2013 3:12PM
A new research report from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says that fish are capable of crossing an electrical barrier designed to keep Asian carp from using the Chicago ship canal to enter the Great Lakes.
The report says there's no evidence that Asian carp are bypassing the barriers, which were established to prevent billions of dollars in potential damage to the Great Lakes fisheries.
But the report says that initial findings show that passing vessels "can capture fish and transport them beyond the electrical barriers." In addition, the report says that "certain barge configurations" could affect the strength of the electrical field.
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I like that this covers blemishes just as well as it covers dark circles. The texture is not too dry or too soft, and it doesn't cake up unless you use a lot, and even then it's not as bad as others I've tried. It's not so greasy that it causes eye makeup to bleed. I like the tube that it comes in, but the concealer stick broke loose after about a month. I have fair skin and the lightest color available, 02, although wearable isn't very effective at making me look less tired. I will have to switch to another brand because none of the other colors offered is light enough for me.
I was looking for a really pigmented concealer for my undereye area, and this looked less pinkish than a few other brands in the store...so I tried it in the lightest shade, nr 01. But it was far too fair even on my winter-pale skin....I'm really, really pale, but this concealer becomes white on the skin... It's thick and covers, but its hard to find a good shade, and expensive to buy two ones only to try to mix them every morning....
It also has a very, very dry and matte consistency, which makes it hard to use it "as a highlight above your upper lip" ( I have some foundations and concealers that can serve as that) or to highlight other areas. But this is impossible, cause it seems to be ment for maybe covering spots if you find the right shade...
It's really sad that clarins doesn't sell these concealers in more shades than 3!!
Excellent! It creases the least and lasts the longest without drying.
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Splendid concealer: for use on the face, like LM Camouflage. UPDATE [2011-05]: also currently using this on the eyes: eyelids and up to brow bone.
Nothing fancy, just does what it's supposed to. It's a solid waxy stick in a slightly stubby white twisty tube with a nice shiny silvery cap: lacking Clarins' usual labelling on the side. Exists in three colours thus far, of which 01 is good on pale skin with a cool to neutral undertone (tested on self and fellow PPP pals: NW5, 10, and 15). No oxidation / turning orange to report. As usual with Clarins, this is hit or miss - this time I happened to be lucky, but they can be poor for paler-toned people, and even poorer for the deeper-toned (as witness, other pals who are NW/NC 20-60: especially bad in the 45-60+range, any undertone).
The waxiness of the formula seems forbidding, but I found it easy to apply and blend (one can use a clean fingertip, a Q-tip, or a brush) and it neither caused nor aggravated spots. My skin seems happier with concealers like this that contain candelilla (and bees') wax, OK with some silicones, less happy with cyclopentasiloxane (which is of course in nearly every concealer out there, and much else besides). Mainly using it just concealing redder bits (being pale, any old healed zits, scars, and so on show up a lot), sometimes concealing the odd spot or irritated patch. This sits there comfortably - neither greasy nor dry. Brush a dab of powder on top to be on the safe side, and ignore it for the rest of the day.
UPDATE: Good on eyes. Currently using this on eyelids and up to eyebrows, to even out colour. It's moist enough--so no drying out and flaky skin--yet the waxiness seems to ensure it stays there. No migration or creeping into folds. It's one of the only things I can use on my eyelids when in allergy season and/or eczema back. Note that the Stick contains no bismuth oxychloride, or indeed very much else besides waxes, silica, mica, and the less-likely-to-irtritate pigments.
I applied over eye cream and sunscreen, using a small brush. Using clean brush, transfer some Stick to back of hand. Use hand as palette to apply to eye from there.
Texture, feel, finish not a million miles from various other waxy concealers that are good around the eyes.
I wouldn't want to jinx things by claiming that Clarins are upping their game, but - having tested many concealers high and low recently, from Almay to Chantecaille - this is a Good 'Un. Price - somewhere in the CAD 25-30 range for 2.6g. Fragrance-free. As usual with Clarins, cruelty-free and fairly environmentally responsible.
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The new concealer from Clarins is dependable and easy to use. It's in a creamy stick form, however isn't greasy or difficult to work with. The palest shade is actually pale and neutral enough for me, which is rare. My only gripe is that it doesn't say "non-comedogenic", which I usually depend on Clarins for. No breakouts yet, will update if issues occur.
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Hauserman, Earl Frederic; pres. The E. F. Hauserman Co.; born, Parma, O., March 24, 1884; son of Frederic J. and Rinda B. Fuller Hauserman; educated, Cleveland public schools and Lincoln High School, Adelbert College, W. R. U., 1907; married, Cleveland, Aug. 6, 1907, Mary E. Martin; three children; asst. city purchasing agt.; mngr. Union Metal Mnfg. Co., Canton; vice pres. The Oveisser-Bliss Co., Cleveland; pres. The E. F. Hauserman Co., dealers in steel sash, cement, tile roofing, and factory building materials; member Phi Gamma Delta Fraternity, Cleveland Advertising, Civic and City Clubs, and Chamber of Industry. Recreation: Golf.
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Hit a couple GS's yesterday and found a gem! It's a fountain that (the front has broken off)...it's very heavy stone and came from Mexico, the lady told me...and I got the pump with it (haven't tried to see if it works yet)...anyway, a BARGAIN for $2 .... I set my dog's tennis ball in the pic so you can see the size:
Anyway, I plan on trying my FIRST mosaic on the front of this...if you mosaicers think that would work...with water running down the front of it! What do you think? Should be a fun project for the near future! Jeanne S. |
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Heck yea! What a great find. My thought would be use thinset and seal the snot out of it. Good luck, and don't forget the pictures! |
- Posted by luna_llena_feliz 5B (My Page) on Sat, Aug 29, 09 at 22:46
That looks like very pretty stone. I wonder if you could mosaic the broken part with some matching stone tiles. Can't wait to see what you do with it! |
A blue waterfall with some flowers or tree shapes to the sides would be nice!! Go to mosaic forum for some great ideas, of course they all do such great work & make it look so easy. Just cutting the glass would do me in.- Oh, I guess I'm thinking stained glass. Saw a lady whip out a stepping stone in no time on some 7.2 Living well station yesterday.Of course it probably took the whole sheet of glass & can go to web site www. live well hd or hc .com It changed so fast I didn't get the last part. We had smoke coming through today, bad in morning but just a huge cloud in sky this evening but it is about 10 miles from us. Hope they get it out soon,tough on firefighters in 107 heat!! Will be looking forward to your new "treasure" I'm sure it will be beautiful as all your projects are. Jan |
- Posted by calamity_j z7bc (My Page) on Sun, Aug 30, 09 at 9:36
Good score on the fountain...ohhhhh, the possibilities!!! Jan...I sure feel for ya...fires...man oh man!!! Remember last yr when Cait had to evacuate? YUK! |
- Posted by garden2garden z8FL (My Page) on Sun, Aug 30, 09 at 16:18
Very cool for 2$. I kinda like sunnyca's idea about the trees on the sides and a water fall in the middle. Or I can see an abstract design with the water running over it. Or you could glue a half bowl on and mosaic over the whole thing. Like those ancient fountains you see built into the wall. The water would collect in the bowl till it spilled over (I think, haha) Anyway, many possibilities. Fun to think about. Let us see what you decide on. I have a much smaller but similar style one I found at the dump. Never thought about mosaicing it. I never have mosaiced but I've been thinking about it lately, too. |
- Posted by marlene_2008 7 (My Page) on Sun, Aug 30, 09 at 16:57
WOWEE!! What a score for 2 bucks!! It's going to be just wonderful when you get it finished! |
What a great find! You'll have so much fun with that. I too would use thinset. Have fun! I'm looking forward to seeing this one completed. You'll love mosaicing! |
Jeannes, I just posted this note on my BB thread since you'd posted your picture there too, but want to make sure you get this message. I'm not sure you need to even off that center by chipping. You don't want to lose that great fountain find to breakage. The surface doesn't look to be too much deeper in one place than the other. I think you could just build up the thinset in the lower places as you mosaic. I never worry too much about a mosaic being really flat. A little unevenness just gives it some texture. Have fun! |
- Posted by excessfroufrou (My Page) on Mon, Aug 31, 09 at 11:24
Thank heaven for GSs! What a score I think it would look great with some natural colored tiles and stones worked in with it, I know you will do it justice. Syble |
- Posted by calamity_j z7bc (My Page) on Mon, Aug 31, 09 at 16:32
I ditto what Daisey said!!! |
- Posted by tennesseetrash 7 east tenn (My Page) on Mon, Aug 31, 09 at 16:47
2 bucks ..... wow ..... I'm soooo glad you were the right person to come along and find it! The stone is huge and nice ..... love it. ~tenderlee |
- Posted by nursemaid4 P'cola, FL (My Page) on Tue, Sep 1, 09 at 1:06
I can't wait to see what you do with it. You got an awesome buy. |
Great score! Yes, use thinset. Can't wait to see what you come up with. I know it will be spectacular since you are sooo very creative and talented!! Sunny... hope all is well with you with those fires so near. So many people around here have fireplaces and at night you can smell the smoke from them and it sends shiver down me spine. My prayers are going out to you. Stay safe!! |
- Posted by socalliegal (My Page) on Fri, Jun 4, 10 at 20:05
So jeannie..what did you finally do with it. I envisioned you gluing perhaps a ceramic sun or greenman face to it....? |
- Posted by jeannespines 4 Iowa (My Page) on Fri, Jun 4, 10 at 23:01
socallie...my "near future" project from last Fall is still sitting on my table in the garden shed...hopefully, will tackle it yet this summer! Everyone's so helpful here so I have no excuse...I've been working around that fountain & it's been calling...first must get all the weeding & mulching caught up...then more fun projects! Thanks for bumping this up ... a kind reminder. LOL! Jeanne S...the fountain is an awesome find! |
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timjc Sometimes it takes a while for hummers to find you. Even in my area where it seems I always have a lot hummers during the season I went for weeks without hardly seeing a hummer. It just goes like that sometimes. So do you just have a feeder , no plants or maybe no hummer plants. It can make a difference whether hummers will stay in your area. Anyway congrats on finally getting a hummer!! |
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Hundreds of singers audition around the United States and Canada for the opportunity to spend four weeks performing, coaching, and taking lessons with world-class composers, collaborative pianists, and coaches. Out of all the applicants, Songer was chosen not only to participate, but to be a Stern Fellow, one of only five participants named to this fellowship.
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