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Poinsettias and Pointe ShoesPhipps Conservatory and Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre bring the magic of The Nutcracker ballet to Phipps' historic glasshouse in Oakland. Performed by a cast of pre-professional students from the PBT School, these vignettes from Terrence Orr's The Nutcracker, including the Sugarplum Pas de Deux, will showcase the next generation of professional dancers, many of whom will soon perform on the Benedum stage with the PBT company.11/22/201311/22 - 6:00 pm11/22 - 7:30 pmLocation: Phipps Conservatorywebsite
The New Collective, an All-Guild ExhibitionThis juried exhibit features works by the Craftsmen's Guild of Pittsburgh, Fiberarts Guild of Pittsburgh, Group A, Pittsburgh Print Group, Pittsburgh Society of Artists, Society of Sculptors, and Women of Visions, Inc. The exhibition coincides with the PCA's annual Holiday Shop, with extended shop and gallery hours.11/22/2013 - 01/19/20146300 Fifth Avenue Pittsburgh, PAwebsite | map
The Kennedy LegacyDirected by Dek Ingram, "The Kennedy Legacy" engages the audience in excerpts from powerful speeches by President John F. Kennedy read by local actors on the 50th anniversary of the Kennedy assassination.11/22/2013Time: 7:30 pmLocation: Max's Allegheny Tavern, 537 Suisman St., Pittsburgh, PAwebsite
Music of Advent and ChristmasThis concert benefits Hekima Place a home in Kenya for orphaned and vulnerable girls. Artists include Kathy English, piano; Julie McGough, flute; Steve McGough, trumpet; Mary Amrhein-May, violin; Charles May, cello; and Nathan Bellas, piano.11/22/2013Time: 7:30 pmLocation: St. Thomas More Church
PB&J - Let's Be ComposersChatham Baroque's Peanut Butter & Jam Sessions are designed for preschool children and their accompanying adults. Based on a model developed by the Linton Chamber Music Series in Cincinnati, PB&J is hosted by certified Kindermusik teacher Lynda Wingerd, and encourages young children to become active and enthusiastic listeners through music, dance and games. Chatham Baroque performs live, often with guest artists.11/23/201311/23 - 10:00 am11/23 - 11:30 amLocation: McClintic Hall, Calvary Episcopal Church, 315 Shady Ave, Pittsburgh, PAwebsite
Joshua RedmanJoshua Redman is one of the most acclaimed and charismatic jazz saxophonists to emerged in the 90s. Redman has recorded and performed with musicians such as Ray Brown, Dave Brubeck, Chick Corea, The Dave Matthews Band, Jack DeJohnette, Herbie Hancock, Yo Yo Ma, The Rolling Stones, and many more.11/23/201311/23 - 9:30 pm1815 Metropolitan St, Pittsburgh, PAwebsite | map
Freya String Quartet presents Snapshots - Album PreviewThe Freya String Quartet performs a sneak peek of their first album, Snapshots, featuring commissioned works by Richard and Sean Neukom. Each short character piece recalls familiar musical and dance forms presented in a new light. Since its inception in 2009, FSQ has presented over 60 educational and concert programs to a wide variety of audiences across multiple genres.11/23/2013 - 11/24/201311/23 - 8:00 pm11/24 - 2:00 pmLocation: Bricolage, 937 Liberty Ave, Pittsburgh, PAwebsite
Concierto de AranjuezEnsemble Ripieno (Federico Garcia, music director) welcomes Mexican guitarist Dieter Hennings in Joaquin Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez, a gem of the guitar repertory from 1939. Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante for 4 solo winds and orchestra, a popular piece whose wind writing is only surpassed by Mozart's later Gran Partita, will feature Pittsburgh's REED III trio and Jaclyn Perez, horn. 11/23/2013Time: 8:00 pmLocation: Charity Randall Theater, Stephen Foster Memorial, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PAwebsite
Johnstown Organ RecitalDr. Ann Labounsky, Professor of Music and Chair of Organ and Sacred Music at Duquesne University and Dean of the Pittsburgh Chapter, American Guild of Organists, plays a program of German and French music -- from Bach, Mendelssohn, Vierne, and Langlais -- plus an improvisation on submitted themes.11/23/2013Time: 7:30pmFirst Presbyterian Church, 309 Lincoln St., Johnstown, PAwebsite | map
Inclined to Sing Fall ConcertInclined to Sing and The Apprentice Choir, the children's choruses of the Johnstown Symphony, present their fall concert -- a program of Renaissance to contemporary music for treble voices, including "Velvet Shoes" by Randall Thompson, "Sound the Trumpet" by Henry Purcell, and some holiday classics.11/23/2013Time: 11amLocation: Mt. Calvary Lutheran Church, 1000 Scalp Ave., Johnstownwebsite
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The longer the past week went, the more I realized there would be no apology from the Big Ten or confirmation of a key missed call in Penn State's loss to Nebraska.
Given virtually everyone - probably even including the replay official himself - believes Matt Lehman had possession of the ball when he crossed the plane of the goal line, which would have given Penn State a 30-27 lead with seven minutes left, it would have been an admirable gesture.
Especially considering the unusual suffering Penn State's entire camp has endured over the past 53 weeks.
But Big Ten policy precludes discussion of individual calls. The league probably figures if every official was publicly reprimanded for blowing a call, it wouldn't take long to exhaust the pool.
There is a disciplinary process in place for egregious errors, and after reading the interview with ESPN.com (linked on my blog at altoonamirror.com), I would highly doubt the guy, who replays showed was still talking to himself or his colleague after deciding not to reverse it, will be in the saddle for the Big Ten title game.
Unquestionably, Penn State has had some tough and ill-timed calls go against it this year - the mysterious holding call during a punt against Ohio State, the sideline encroachment without warning last week, the fact that no one ever seems to hold the Nittany Lions.
And it's not new. Since Penn State joined the Big Ten 20 years ago, the demand for zebra hunting licenses around central Pennsylvania has increased.
Some of it has been understandable. During Michigan's first trip to Beaver Stadium in 1993, Penn State was penalized for excessive crowd noise and watched in disbelief a few years later when a retiring Big Ten referee was honored at halftime at Michigan Stadium.
After a series of calls went against the Lions in 2002, Joe Paterno lobbied for an investigation of the league's officiating practices - when Penn State should have been investigating other things, obviously.
Once the league did institute instant replay in 2003, Penn State's suspicions rose when most of the reviews initially favored the Lions.
And after losing a gut-wrenching game in the last second at Michigan in 2005, Paterno later confided that he considered recommending PSU leave the Big Ten. (That remains a viable topic, but who's supposed to lead it - the interim president or the acting athletic director?)
This is not to suggest that the Big Ten doesn't need to continue to address officiating issues.
One rub here is the level of intolerance toward referees. Why it is OK for a quarterback to throw pick-6, for defensive backs to drop interceptions and for the coaches to let the play clock expire, but officials aren't allowed to make an occasional mistake?
And don't you think every school that has played as many big games as Penn State can remember its share of bad calls?
Maybe I don't want to believe in a conspiracy here because I believe in the good of sports. Certainly there are provincial officials, and home crowds can influence calls, but I want to believe the vast majority of referees would prefer not to influence the outcome.
I've seen many bad calls, but there was only one time I can honestly say I saw an official cheating. And that's when St. Francis was playing a basketball exhibition game, in 1990, against a Russian traveling team at the Johnstown War Memorial.
The Russians brought one official with them, and St. Francis provided two from its NCAA pool. The Russian official was making so many calls for his team that the two NCAA officials smirked in disbelief and subtly tried to steer the game back to some semblance of order.
Penn State fans frustrated today were once used to most of the key calls going their way. Ask Maryland and Nebraska in 1982. Or Alabama in '83. All suffered late-game blown calls - all at Beaver Stadium.
The Eastern officials' association didn't stop assigning Don Guman, the father of former Lion player Mike Guman, to Penn State games until Ray Perkins' fury over Alabama being denied an apparent game-winning touchdown in 1983. Guman didn't make the call, but he was on the crew.
In 2002, when Paterno was complaining, he lamented about the lack of officials from Pennsylvania on the Big Ten roster and noted that one of them, former Nittany Lion receiver Bob Bassett who has climbed the officiating ladder, "can't get a [Penn State] game."
Complaints about referees have been around as long as the game itself.
In 1969, legendary Syracuse coach Ben Schwartzwalder was upset following a 15-14 loss to Penn State and noted there were three officials from Pennsylvania on the game. (Schwartzwalder didn't mention the other three were probably from New York.)
Does that mean they were biased? No. Did they have their best games? Maybe not.
On and off the field, there's no doubt Nittany Lion fans have had their patience exhausted lately with all officials - Big Ten officials, NCAA officials, Penn State's own officials.
But a conspiracy? Makes for good copy, but I'm not ready to believe it.
Now ... who is Penn State playing today?
Oh, Indiana.
Enjoy the game. Or at least try to.
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Facebook: Privacy, the exodus, and Diaspora
If you're like me, it seems like every time you log into Facebook, you see another message or two from friends deleting their accounts. Then you check Twitter, and there's yet another rallying cry for open standards in social networking.
Wait. I just got déjà vu.
Wired (among many others) has been making that call for years. Years. But like so many noble causes, it took a sufficiently motivating, negative catalyst to spread the messsage.
In this case, the catalyst is Facebook's ever-shrinking concept of privacy. The EFF outlined the erosion of Facebook's privacy policy. The New York Times has mapped the maddening spaghetti that is privacy options on Facebook. And well-known people like Jason Calcanis started deleting their accounts.
So far it's not a massive exodus, but it's growing. But then, maybe rather than today's exodus, we should be talking about tomorrow's diaspora. Diaspora with a capital D, to be more specific. Or as the project describes itself, "the privacy aware, personally controlled, do-it-all, distributed, free, social network."
Open source social networking. That's the goal. Diaspora functions differently from the bottom. It runs more like a peer-to-peer network. That is, if you're inclined to set up your system to act as one of the seeds. They also plan to have a paid service for those who are not so inclined. Then you'll be able to aggregate everything from your status updates and photos to your RSS feeds. The students building Diaspora have a skeleton version running and intend to release a fuller version in September.
What a social network really needs, of course, is users. You could be the only one reading your favorite blog, and that's OK. If you're the only one on Diaspora, it's going to be lonely. In their favor, Diaspora answers the privacy outrage Facebook is facing. You're not posting anything to a third party--you're telling your friends directly. And they're including PGP encryption to boot.
The challenge it faces is similar to that of Identi.ca. Even though Identi.ca offers features that Twitter does not, Twitter is still far ahead in both awareness and users. Identi.ca attracts those for whom open standards trump all else, and not many more. To use ourselves as an example, even with an base of people who are clearly interested in the open source way, the opensource.com identi.ca account has consistently had roughly 10% of the followers that our Twitter account has. And those two services are functionally pretty similar. With potentially higher technical hurdles than Facebook, it will be interesting to see whether Diaspora can gain a significant user base.
Facebook's best defense is to turn itself around and answer the hue and cry. The first step will be today's crisis meeting on the subject. But after years of asking for forgiveness rather than permission, it may be too late. And maybe that's a good thing if it's the catalyst we need for open social networking, whether it's through Diaspora, or a new idea we haven't heard about yet.
Have you or do you think you might delete your Facebook account? Would you use Diaspora? More importantly--do you think all of your Facebook friends would use Diaspora?
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I just got done reading this article:
I had been thinking of the privacy issues for a while, and they really irk me. Especially since I read that the Library of Congress is archiving all of Twitter, it makes me wonder if Facebook is next. So, I deleted my profile this morning. What's odd is they give you a place to tell them why you're leaving. And my complaint was that I had to continuously opt OUT if I wanted to remain more private. I told them that I wanted to have to opt in to things that make my profile more public. Then, right below that box, I read the following:
"Please check here to opt out from future Facebook emails"
That sealed the deal.
Then I read this article immediately after. Weird how things work.
> That is, if you're inclined to set up your system to act as one of the seeds.
This suggests it will require an installation on a desktop computer or a server. Because of this reason it will be hard to get a userbase. Identi.ca and StatusNet use PHP to make deployment for a user easy, but it still requires some understanding before you can use it. Since Dreamhost introduced the single-click deployment it became a lot easier, but offers not all features at the moment.
Diaspora still seems to be a technical-savvy solution.
> They also plan to have a paid service for those who are not so inclined.
If people need to pay for this service, it becomes even harder to build up a userbase. As twitter is a free service... and Facebook, people are easy to to jump onto the bandwagon and try out... having to pay for it creates a barrier. Something StatusNet clearly understood... if you want additional functionality you can choose to pay for it.
But still Identi.ca has a different purpose. There is no form of privacy in the current implementation. Twitter at least has an option to make your profile 'private', but retweeting such a message is still allowed?
Diaspora has a long road ahead of them... to quote Evan Prodromou (founder of StatusnNet): "It'd be dumb to start over from scratch." http://evan.status.net/notice/28311
No matter what they end up with, they at least raised awareness for a federated social web.
Oh yeah, deleted it when I did a Google search on myself (long story, I'm really not that vain) and saw all my friends' and relatives' names listed in the Google excerpt of my Facebook account, showing up as about the sixth hit on Google. At least now the Facebook entry has slipped to the second result page -
FaceBook...the perfect bait and switch! At first a friendly, private website to share your life and catch up with old friends...la la la...oh so innocent...
...not knowing it would turn into a Federally ran, privacy-killing website that holds your info and pictures even after you completely log out and de-activate your account.
You got caught with too many hands ion the cookie jar. Doing business and giving FaceBook authority to the Feds was the worst thing you could have done!! And you want to charge? HA that is a laugher!!
I am also considering getting out of FB forever! Too misleading, deceiving, too many viruses and too far over-reaching on personal and privacy rights.
I, too, have deleted myself from the FaceSpace, partly due to the snowballing privacy threats, partly from a quick scan of Julian Angwin's great book, Stealing MySpace. I think Facebook is borrowing more than just a few pages from the Myspace playbook, essentially duplicating the site's voracious growth model by putting advertising and marketing interests before those of users. The interface, what was once a simple "home page," has recently mimicked MySpace's incomprehensible visual mess that just hurts my eyes.
Companies like this can only say "Gee, sorry..." a very few times before I think I've figured out their core values.
I'm more than happy to use fee-based sites which put clientele before corporate interests ... or, of course, an open source alternative. Diaspora sounds promising.
I've got outta there. Too many dubious privacy policy changes right under our noses. Not fair. Not right. I've movesd stuff to www.folkdirect.com and although pretty new it's found its feet. Worth giving it a shot. JamesP
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I think the key to using facebook and other social networking sites (including open source and federated ones) is to think about what you are going to post, realizing that posting makes it public -- and given things like the wayback machine, permanently public, even if you later decide to delete your account.
As far as I can tell, lots of people who bewail the lack of privacy of sites like FB should rather bewail their own carelessness and stupidity in making too much of their info available on such sites.
Privacy, privacy . . . I hear you all say. And an important concept it is, though mostly a myth once you sit in front of a computer. I have long held the notion that NOTHING you put into a computer is ever really private, even if it's your own. Especially so when it's a computer owned by some Faceless corporation on the other side of the planet. Even more especially so when you've put it there expressly for someone else to read!
If I tell someone else my secret, no matter how trustworthy I hope they are, I've lost control of it right there. I cannot control, ultimately, what that other person will do with my secret. We may even have laws about what they can and can't do with my secret, but . . . laws aren't reality. They're just stuff we've made up. The secret is out. Laws can't bring it back!
Faceless, of course, takes this one step further. They invoke Law to claim that what you told (or showed to) your friend now belongs to them! You didn't just 'tell them' so that they could 'tell' your friend when she next logs in; You gave it to them. Now it's theirs. Not your story, your photo, your poem . . . but Faceless'. Sure, they'll most likely pass it on to your 'friends', but they've no reason to stop there - if they like it, they can pass it on - sell it, even - to whoever they want to. They're not being careless with 'your' secret. Because it's theirs!
The real issue is about ownership.
I stopped using Facebook when I kept getting caught unawares by games "apps" that friends were sending that, once I participated, put things on my page that I didn't realize they would. One also signed me up for a $20 monthly cell phone charge without my approval. (No, really. The last message from them said something like, "Answer YES to sign up...." They had already done so. :P ) What these things did wasn't make clear up front ... it was hidden in the click-wrap details that no one wants to read (certainly while socializing).
There were so many cutesie little apps that people kept sending to me (or maybe they hadn't sent it, just clicked "OK" thinking they were just installing it), it got to be more than an annoyance, it was time-consuming just to visit the site. I'm sure this looked good to Faceless and its investors, but for this user it just became unusable. If I'd stopped to read all the fine print for every little "martini" or "farm fresh veggie" I got sent ... I'd have spent 8 hours a day just answering messages. Heck with that.
My solution to that particular problem is very simple: I don't do ANY games or other apps. Anything like that my friends send (or FB sends) is automatically rejected, no need to look for and/or read the fine print.
I view FB as a way of staying in touch with folks, not as a playground. I also hide all of my friends' games status reports etc.
The secret to using FB and Twitter et al is to use them on my terms, not on theirs.
(Apologies to anyone who loves bologna)
... And when I turned off all those apps, I found Facebook was rather boring. I started getting complaints that "I couldnt' [$ACTION] on your page because you don't have [$APP] turned on."
Strip away all the dancing bologna, and Facebook yielded very little value to me. Imagine that. Heh.
Absolutely right it is about ownership of data and information. Without you retaining ownership you have no say what happens to your data/information
and being shocked that they are put public. It's not the fact that things I post are public--that's obvious, and it's obvious it will be scraped by hundreds of servers (including the Library of Congress irt Twitter). My concern is the things I didn't want public, that I explicitly stated I didn't want public that slowly kept going public.
It's just like when you sign up for this site...technically OSDC has your password and email because that's required. However, the password is hashed and hard for OSDC to figure out. Secondly, the email can be marked as public or private. And you should have a reasonable expectation that OSDC will not sell your email addy to the highest bidder.
I'm not suggesting that facebook is handing out passwords...but my point is the same...things I deemed private were still making its way out. I was forced, several times, into continuing to use certain features and risk my info being public after several policy changes...it's more than just the update about the delicious food I just ate or me putting my hometown in there. It's about knowing exactly what info is used where.


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4 Good Manners It's Time to Stop Pretending We Care About
#2. Correcting the Pronunciation of Foreign Words
Bobert Rockway was in class one day -- yes, ladies, he takes classes to better himself in between shark races and hot air balloon fights -- when a shy classmate began relaying a relevant personal anecdote to the other students. Rockway had more pressing matters on his mind at the time -- I believe he may have been remote-defusing some kind of panty bomb -- so he doesn't remember the details of the story. But at one point, the girl related that she had bought a Coke from the "fell-uh-fell" stand outside. The teacher immediately interrupted her tale and asked, "Did you mean fuh-LAH-fuhl?" The entire class laughed snidely, and the girl lapsed back into silence. Rockway quickly finished tele-defusing the underwear ordnance, back flipped across the table, and snapped the snide instructor's neck with a transcendentally executed pile driver. But the damage had already been done: The girl had been shamed for never having had occasion, in her short life, to purchase a fried chickpea dish in person.
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"I mean, what kind of ASSHOLE do you have to be to have never ordered fried bean paste from a swarthy cart man?"
Mind you, nobody busted out laughing when she first mispronounced the word -- only when the teacher immediately, shittily corrected her for it. This is a huge part of why people correct any social faux pas: It's not that they want to instruct the discourteous party, or even that they're offended at the mistake -- they're leaping at the chance to show that they know something somebody else doesn't. They want a public acknowledgment, no matter how brief and petty, that they are somehow superior in the realm of Arabic street food elocution. In this case, the teacher wasn't a Middle Eastern man trying to preserve his culture -- it was a 30-something white guy trying to get inappropriately laid by his impressionable young students at the expense of somebody's dignity.
This needs to stop, not because I advocate and foster cultural ignorance in all of its forms, but because everybody says something wrong habitually. I love burritos: They're like sandwiches you can take on a roller coaster. But I technically have no idea how to say the word "burrito." I'm pretty sure you're supposed to roll the double "R," somehow -- like, maybe you turn your head and spin around while you're saying it. No fucking clue. I'm not saying that correcting somebody makes you an asshole, but there's a very simple way to do it that doesn't embarrass anybody. You just find an occasion to say the word correctly yourself, a minute or two later: "Man, since you mentioned falafel, all I can think about is falafel now. Do you want to grab some falafel and then maybe bone a little bit on top of that falafel?"
See that? You just advanced somebody's knowledge in a way that doesn't shame them, and also got drilled atop a steaming mash of chickpeas and tahini. That is the very dictionary definition of "victory."
#1. Enforcing Pretty Much Any Dining Etiquette
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If you're out for a fancy dinner at some esteemed establishment with vaguely racist undertones, by all means, practice your finest restaurant etiquette. But if you ever catch yourself telling somebody to keep their elbows off the table at a White Castle, kindly shut all of your fucks in the upright position. Listen, I have worked in the restaurant industry -- mostly at those aforementioned fancy private dining establishments old enough to have been, at some point, a fully functional plantation -- and I can promise you one thing: There has been a dick gently laid on every inch of table space you're using. This goes doubly true at places like White Castle. I don't mean it's more likely at a fast food joint; I mean literally there have been two cocks resting, one atop the other, in a Frankfurt Dogpile, exactly where you just set down your Sierra Mist. I promise you, wherever you choose to place your elbows, be they resting on the lip of a plastic table or softly brushing against the dignified surface of a 19th century leather dining chair, you are putting your eatin' parts where minimum wage employees have drunkenly fucked away their customer service rage.
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"I say, does this pinot gris stink of sex and fury to you, Madison?"
Next time you're about to correct somebody on which type of fork is appropriate for a cool summer salad versus a more hefty autumnal fare, stop and remind yourself that it has absolutely been up some cook's ass before. I have known many, many chefs in my lifetime. They are awful, crass, wonderful human beings. If the sous chef hasn't shoved that soup spoon in his rectum for a drunken laugh, then the head chef has shanked your entree fork into the butt-meat of some idiot prep cook for daring to ask what the difference between buttermilk and heavy cream is. Eating is not, by its very nature, a dignified affair. You're shoveling flesh and dirt-fruit into a hole filled with spit so you don't die. You can cram food into your mouth with two fists and some determination and achieve the exact same results. Let's not suddenly pretend like we're the dowagers of Downton Abbey at dinnertime: Elbows go on the table because they are the fulcrums of the food-levers that are our forearms, and if you can get steak in your face with a shrimp fork, you go for it.
It's just less surface area exposed to chef-butt that'll be gracing your mouth.
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Belching is the act of bringing up air from the stomach.
Burping; Eructation; Gas - belching
Belching is most often a normal process. The purpose of belching is to release air from the stomach. Every time you swallow, you also swallow air, along with fluid or food.
The buildup of air in the upper stomach causes the stomach to stretch. This triggers the muscle at the lower end of the esophagus (the tube that runs from your mouth to the stomach) to relax. Air is allowed to escape up the esophagus and out the mouth.
Excessive or repeated belching may be caused by swallowing air without realizing it (aerophagia).
Belching may last longer or be more forceful depending on what is causing it. Symptoms such as nausea,
You can get relief by lying on your side or in a knee-to-chest position until the gas passes.
Avoid chewing gum, eating quickly, and eating gas-producing foods and beverages.
Most of the time belching is a minor problem. Call a health care provider if the belching does not go away, or if you also have other symptoms.
Your health care provider will examine you and ask questions about your medical history and symptoms, including:
You may need more tests based on what the health care provider finds during your exam and your other symptoms.
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Charleston isn't the only place with so-called "sweet shops," tiny buildings scattered throughout downtown neighborhoods, but it has more than most other cities.
Also, the term "sweet shops" is a bit of a misnomer, since they were built as doctors' offices, print shops, barber shops, shoe shine parlors, grocery stores and even homes.
These are just two revelations based on new research led by the Preservation Society of Charleston.
Leeann Dickerson, a historic preservation student at the University of Georgia, recently interned with the society and wrote an in-depth report on these shops.
Last year, the society placed the city's sweet shops on its annual Seven to Save list, and Dickerson's study is an effort to help secure their future. Before preserving something, it's important to get a clear sense of what it is — and isn't.
These buildings may not seem endangered today, as new eateries such as Taco Spot on Coming Street, Sugar Bakeshop on Cannon Street and Mia Pomodori's pizza place on Rutledge Avenue are breathing new life into them.
But Dickerson found reason for concern. Charleston has 85 of these shops still standing, but 213 others have been lost.
The term "sweet shop" applies to one-story, rectangular buildings with a narrow facade (usually 15 feet or less) along the street and with no more than 450 square feet inside.
Most were built between the 1860s and the 1960s, about the same timeframe as Charleston Cottages. (These cottages are single-story homes commonly called Freedmen's Cottages, but just like most sweet shops have no special ties to sweets, most Freedmen's Cottages have no special ties to freedmen).
The greatest concentration of sweet shops is found in the central peninsula, in neighborhoods such as Cannonborough, Elliottborough, the Eastside, Westside and North Central.
The shops can be considered a poor cousin to Charleston's grander commercial architectural form: the corner store. Interestingly, no one knows exactly how many of these survive or have been lost. The best accounting was a 1994 city survey that found 82 corner stores still standing between Calhoun Street and the Crosstown Expressway, but there are surely many more than that.
One of the oldest surviving sweet shops stands at 52 Meeting St. Built before the Civil War, it housed a doctor's office and may be most fondly remembered as home to Miriam B. Wilson's Colonial Belle Goodies. That shop sold confectioneries based on original slave recipes until Wilson's death in 1959. It's now a home.
Dickerson identifies five types of shops: mid-block shops, three-bay shops, gable front shops, corner shops and attached shops.
She plans to continue studying the shops for her master's thesis, and she notes similar buildings can be found in Dayton, Ohio; Bucks County, Pa.; and Falmouth, Jamaica. Perhaps the next greatest concentration outside Charleston may be in Miami's historically black suburb of Overton.
The exact origin of the building type is unknown, but Dickerson says it may stem from the building cultures of African-Americans and immigrants who owned them.
The buildings are a unique part of Charleston's vernacular architecture, and a mostly overlooked part, too.
No Charleston sweet shop has received one of the society's Carolopolis awards and very few appear in the pages of Jonathan Poston's "The Buildings of Charleston."
Evan Thompson, the Preservation Society's director, says he hopes the study leads to new appreciation of, and protection for, the remaining shops.
He is concerned that the city's zoning may not make it easy to use these shops commercially, even though the late urban expert Jane Jacobs wrote persuasively of the need for a city to have places that can foster small businesses. What better than a small shop?
And Thompson notes that a downtown property owner today might not be able to build a new version of a sweet shop under the city's zoning, which can require a minimum of two stories in height.
History shows the shops are vulnerable to progress: Most of those lost stood in the area covered today by Interstate 26, the College of Charleston's campus and the Gaillard Auditorium.
If there's a poster child for an endangered shop, it might be the vacant building at 571/2 Carolina St.
This shop had a lively and varied life. It was a grocery in its early years, then became the Great A and P Tea Store, Austin's Restaurant and the Bunny Hop Sweet Shop in the 1970s before becoming a grocery again until it closed in the mid-1990s.
"Interesting enough," Dickerson says, "it's the only known reference to a 'Charleston Sweet Shop' actually being used as a sweet shop."
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Mammalian cells are most commonly used for the production of biopharmaceuticals. Over the past 25 years the focus has mainly been on protein-based therapeutic hormones, enzymes, antibodies, and vaccines.
Early mammalian cell culture systems have been increasingly replaced by high-productivity CHO and human-designed cell lines. The majority grow as suspended cells in serum-free, protein-free, or even chemically defined culture media and currently deliver up to 10 times higher product titers. The result has been a shrinkage in both batch sizes and bioreactor volumes during upstream processing.
As a result of a growing understanding of mammalian cellular processes at the molecular level, the number of potential product candidates for clinical research has been rising steadily.
Thus, the ability to utilize a range of different bioprocesses at varying scales has become necessary. In addition, the rising cost of healthcare has led to the need for shortened development and production times for biotherapeutics and to increased production capacities. Use of single-use systems, whose beginnings date back nearly 60 years to transfusion medicine, have made these advances possible.
In 1953 Fenwal's invention of the plastic blood bag paved the way for single-use technology. For routine work in cell culture labs, plastic flasks, dishes, and 96-well plates (which have been commercially available since the 1960s) have increasingly replaced their counterparts made of glass. This changeover has contributed to a reduction in cleaning and sterilization times as well as to lower contamination rates.
Another important milestone in the history of single-use, the development of the first hollow-fiber reactor, was achieved by Knazek and his team in the early 1970s.
By carrying out perfusion culture operations with hollow-fiber membranes bundled in a single-use cartridge, mammalian cells can grow to high cell densities in in vivo like conditions. This ability has revolutionized the in vitro production of small amounts of hybridoma-derived antibodies.
In the mid '70s, Nunc and Bioferon (now part of Rentschler Biotechnologie) started to manufacture cell factories from polystyrene. In the 1990s these multitray systems were shown to be capable of producing bioproducts (e.g., vaccines) with anchorage-dependent cells (while replacing roller bottles in GMP production).
The 1990s and 2000s saw a great increase in single-use technology for upstream production. In addition to the first single-use bags for storage and transport of buffers and media from HyClone (today a unit of Thermo Fisher Scientific), two-compartment membrane bioreactors and the first wave-mixed bag bioreactor system for mammalian cell cultures, the Wave Bioreactor 20, entered the market. The product was developed by Wave Biotech U.S, which was later acquired by GE Healthcare, and Wave Biotech Switzerland, which is now part of Sartorius Stedim Biotech.
Despite their lack of in-line sensors, single-use bioreactors prevailed in cell-expansion projects, screening experiments, and preclinical sample production at lab scale. Studies documented the advantages of wave-induced motion, which was initially viewed with skepticism, in surface-aerated bags manufactured from multilayer films. Positives included lower shear stress acting on cells, the opportunity for direct inoculation with cells pooled from T flasks (omitting intermediate cultivation steps), removal of need to add antifoam, and cost savings of 30–50%.
The Wave Bioreactor 20 and its successful application beyond cell expansion was a driver for the rapid further development of single-use technology in the 2000s.
In addition to aseptic connection devices, new sampling and transfer systems, single-use membrane filters and bioprocess containers, as well as stirred single-use mixers (e.g., LevTech's Magnetic Mixer), have found their way into the development and commercial manufacture of small- and mid-volume protein therapeutics.
Since 2005 stirred single-use bioreactors have been available from HyClone and Xcellerex (XDR™ Disposable Stirred Tank Bioreactor) in addition to further wave-mixed systems (Tsunami Bioreactor and the AppliFlex from Applikon) for mammalian cells. In addition, all single-use bioreactors operating with bags have been available with optical single-use or standard sensors for in-process control of pH and DO.
Regine Eibl, Ph.D. ([email protected]), and Dieter Eibl, Ph.D. ([email protected]), are lecturers in cell cultivation techniques and biochemical engineering at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences in Switzerland.
Regine Eibl, Ph.D. ([email protected]), and Dieter Eibl, Ph.D. ([email protected]), are lecturers in cell cultivation techniques and biochemical engineering at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences in Switzerland.
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MARTINSBURG - Sixteen-year-old Warren Drummond has something to be thankful for - in spite of his spastic quadriplegia; in spite of having spent the past 105 days admitted at Morgantown's Ruby Memorial; in spite of seeing his fifth Thanksgiving within the four walls of a hospital room.
According to his mother, Joyce "Renee" Drummond, her son is thankful to the surgeons who, this past Monday, performed an operation to revamp his back wound after he suffered 30 minutes of cluster seizures.
"I feel much better, thank you," she said he told his medical team at 2:30 a.m. after the operation.
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Martinsburg 16-year-old Warren Drummond saw his fifth Thanksgiving in the hospital this year after suffering infections due to the pump implanted in his spinal column aimed at controlling his spastic quadriplegia.
The Martinsburg High School junior has been out of school since September, and seesawing between hospitals his entire life. But according to his mother, the last person Drummond worries about is himself.
"He's worried about everybody else. If he hears a baby cry or somebody cry, he wants the nurses to go see what they can do to make them feel better," Renee said. "He's never met a stranger. He thinks everybody's his friend. And he wants everybody to be happy. He can be at his sickest and he's still trying to reassure everybody else that it's going to be OK."
At birth, his mother said, Drummond - delivered at 28 weeks gestation, weighing in at a slight one pound, 11.4 ounces - saw his first scenes of life in the neonatal intensive care unit where he was intubated and given medication to help his lungs mature. Cysts developed in the ventricles of his brain - periventricular leukomalacia - on his 29th day of life.
"At that point they told us he would either be a vegetable or he would die. Those are the only options the doctors gave us," Renee said. "We fought and kept him on life support. He did grow, it just took forever."
The newborn was diagnosed with a long list of disorders including bronchopulmonary dysplasia, failure to thrive, gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), retinopathy of prematurity, several staph infections, sepsis, bilirubin anemia, intrauterine growth retardation, respiratory distress syndrome, apnea, bradycardia, jaundice and seizure disorder. He subsequently had to undergo multiple blood transfusions and implantation of central lines - a catheter allowing for the injection of solutions and the monitoring of his heart and blood, routed through a vein into his heart.
Renee said her son was released from the hospital on oxygen in addition to apnea and bradycardia alarms. After his first year of life, Drummond was diagnosed with cerebral palsy, which resulted in physical, occupational and speech therapy. Drummond had constant problems with his GERD and required feedings that lasted up to two hours and achieved delivering just two ounces of formula into his system. Subsequent hospitalizations, due to aspiration pneumonia, resulted and at two years old, eight-pound Drummond was situated with his first feeding tube.
Due to his spasticity and cerebral palsy, which caused his extremities to be tight and constricted, Drummond received his first wheel chair at age four and his first power chair at age seven, Renee said.
In 2006, he had a hockey puck-sized intrathecal baclofen pump implanted to control his spasticity while improving his quality of life. Drummond, then 10 years old, learned to drink from a straw, take food from a spoon, hold his head up on his own, talk in complete sentences and drive his power chair using his hand. Renee said her son endured multiple hospitalizations after being diagnosed with kyphosis and scoliosis in 2007, but for four-and-a-half years, he had no major problems with the pump situated in his spinal column.
However, 2010 saw anterior and posterior spinal fusions to correct Drummond's kyphosis and scoliosis and resulting infections - MRSA, MSSA, staph infections and UTIs - required more than 20 trips to the operating room where Drummond had his back "washed out" with antibiotics, wound revised and infections controlled. A projected 30-day hospital stay lasted three months, followed by off-and-on hospitalizations that ultimately resulted in the removal of her son's pump after it proved to be infected and to be spreading the infection into his spinal fluid, Renee said. Drummond had to remain infection-free for the next 12 months before his body could endure the implantation of another pump to help with his spasticity. Subsequently, a cocktail of prescription medications kept Drummond's spasticity, seizures, GERD and asthma at bay, but also served to limit his quality of life as he slept the majority of the time.
He was therefore unable to participate in his favorite activities, some of which, Renee said, include bowling, trips to the movies, Boy Scouts, shopping, eating out and school functions like football games.
"When he doesn't have the pump in, the spasticity is to the point where he can't move, he can't drive his chair, he barely is able to talk and let people understand him, he can't eat a meal, he can't do anything he likes to do," Renee said.
"The problem is cognitively everything is there, it's all mobility," Renee said. "He can come up with the wittiest comebacks and he'll ask you very pointed, deep questions, but for him to actually get across the room, he can't do."
By July of this year, Drummond was healthy enough to undergo the implantation of another pump. Renee said the surgery seemed to be a success until a fever resulted in her son's admittance to Winchester Medical Center for a gastric infection. Two days later, she said, Drummond's doctors were in contact with specialists at West Virginia University Children's Hospital in Morgantown, where he was ultimately transferred. There, Drummond's back was determined to be infected once again and an immediate surgery removed the hardware and treated the infections that were spreading throughout his body. Drummond was placed on Total Patient Nutrition (TPN) -direct nourishment to the blood stream through a central line routed through a vein - as his gastric system continued to create complications, Renee said.
Due to his compromised immune system, Renee said her son does not respond to treatments as most patients do, which makes it difficult for doctors to figure out how to properly treat Drummond. Renee said as soon as one of his health problems is under control, another system starts malfunctioning.
Nevertheless, Renee said, her son's spirits are always up.
"He always says thank you, he always tells them that he feels better or that they're making him feel better," she said. "He just has a positive outlook on everything, and that's strength for me up here because there are days when I just want to go to the bathroom and cry. And he'll look at me and go, 'it will be OK, Mom,' and 'we're fine.'"
"We've not treated him any different from the very beginning. We've told him to be thankful for what he has and be happy about what we do have," Renee said. "And we're thankful for it."
Recently, a permanent IV access was placed in Drummond's right chest wall and a third pump, which also became infected due to her son's compromised immune system, was placed but then removed Nov. 2. Currently, Drummond regularly suffers multiple types of seizures that require medical interventions, his mother said, and trips to the operating room to have his back re-washed and his incision revamped so it closes properly.
In spite of this, Renee has something to be thankful for, too - even after recently being forced to resign from her position as a second-shift image coordinator at Merkle Response after she had used all of her Family Medical Leave Act time for the year and was not granted a leave of absence, something she has not mentioned to her son.
Regardless, Renee, said she is thankful most of all that her son has seen another Thanksgiving.
"I want him to be happy and to be productive. He wants to try to find a job and things like that. He'll never be able to be completely independent, but I want him to be as independent as he can be," she said. "I want him to have his own place. He'll always have to have staff with him. He'll always be on medication, he'll always have to have somebody help him with his medication to make sure he can get it because there's no way that he can administer it himself. But I want him to have a full, productive life."
Renee said the family - her 19-year-old daughter and mother included - has a small income with Title XIX Medicaid Waiver Community Rehabilitation. However, she said, the budget is slim and she will have to find employment as soon as possible when Drummond is finally released.
"No one expects to be in the hospital for 100 days. No one expects to be away from their job for that long," she said. "It's been tight."
Renee said she and her son anticipated being home by Christmas, but in light of his unexpected surgery this past week, Drummond's release date will likely be delayed.
"It's hard because I can't break down, I have to be strong for him," she said.
Being far from home, Renee, who resides in her son's hospital room, said she is lonesome at times.
"The nursing staff here is great and the parent support group here is great, but it's still not the same as being home and having your family there with you," she said. "I go downstairs for surgery and sit there by myself and wait and just pray that everything turns out OK."
When Drummond is released, he will come home on TPN, requiring him to be hooked up to a four-liter bag of fluid, and won't be able to eat or drink anything until at least May.
"He's never eaten to sustain him, He's always had a feeding tube. But he takes pleasure in the little things like root beer or pureed cheeseburger," Renee said. "One night here he asked if I had ordered my dinner yet, and I told him I hadn't, and he goes 'Mama, will you order lasagna, because I need to smell garlic."
After the longest hospitalization he has yet endured, Renee said her son is focused on getting home.
"He's afraid everyday that his friends are going to forget about him. He worries about getting back to school. He's upset everyday that he's not going to school," she said. "He's afraid that everything will change."
As for what the future holds for her son, Renee said she sees him working as a job coach or doing something along the lines of public inspiration.
"He could talk anybody out of a depression," she said.
And after a life like his, some might find it hard to be positive, just not Drummond, Renee said.
"Every night before I kiss him goodnight, he says 'that was a good day today,'" she said. "Even if it was the worst day, he always says 'it was a good day, tomorrow's another day."
- Staff writer Holly Shok can be reached at 304-263-3381, ext. 131, or email@example.com.


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CAREER DAY SET: The Edward W. Powers Women in Science and Engineering Career Day will be held Saturday at Youngstown State University Kilcawley Center for sixth to 12th grades. Young women will be exposed to career opportunities in science and technology through talks by notable scientists or engineers. There also will be panel discussions and hands-on activities.
CENTER OFFERS WEATHER EVENTS: The Oh Wow! Roger and Gloria Jones Children's Center for Science / Technology, 11 W. Federal St., Youngstown, will offer "Weather Tips and Tools" at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday for sixth to eighth grades and 4:30 p.m. Thursday for second to fourth grades. Participants will make and test meteorology tools. A local television meteorologist will attend.
CANDIDATES TO SPEAK: The Northwest Neighborhood Association will host a City Council candidates debate at 6 p.m. Tuesday. Doors will open at 5:30 p.m. at Grace United Methodist Church, 1725 Drexel Ave.
SOCIETY PLANS EVENT: The Niles Historical Society spring gathering will be held at 5:30 p.m. April 24 at Ciminero's in Niles. The presentation is facts and artifacts from the early days of Niles, including the traveling trunk that was brought into third-grade classrooms in Niles schools. The items are displayed at the Westenfield Room at the Ward Thomas House. Door prizes will be given away.
For tickets, 330-544-2143 or 330-652-8329.
NAR-ANON Family Group meeting, 7 p.m., Serenity Place, 29 E. Broad St., Newton Falls. Call Teri at 330-646-4480 or Patty at 330-307-3002
Cortland Area Kiwanis, 5 p.m., Real Deal Coffee Cafe.
Someplace Safe, 1540 Tod Ave., Warren, 330-393-1565.
Howland Rotary Club, noon, Shepherd of the Valley, North River Road.
Youngstown Executive Toastmasters, 6:45 p.m., Shepherd of the Valley, 301 Western Reserve Road, Boardman. Visit www.speakingclub.org
Celebrate Recovery, eight-step Christian program, Beatitudes, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m., Bloomfield Recovery Center, 10113 Creaser-Ashtabula Road, Bloomfield, 330-599-2402.
Overeaters Anonymous, 6:30 p.m., basement of First Presbyterian Church, 256 Mahoning Ave. N.W., Warren.
Monday Night Serenity Hall AA, 7:30 p.m., Badger Hall, First Presbyterian Church, 256 Mahoning Ave. N.W., Warren.
TOPS Ohio 1353, Leavittsburg, weigh-in 6 p.m., meeting 7 p.m., Leavittsburg Church of God, 610 S. Leavitt Road, Leavittsburg. Call 330-898-0357. New members welcome.
TOPS Ohio 698, Girard, weigh-in 5:30 to 6:30 p.m., meeting 6:30 p.m., First Christian Church, 140 E. Broadway Ave., Girard. Call 330-545-4770 or 330-534-2618. New members welcome. First meeting free.
TOPS Ohio 1694, Champion, weigh-in 6:30 p.m., meeting 7 p.m., St. John Lutheran Church, 5734 Mahoning Ave. N.W., Champion. For more information call 330-652-2368.
Nothing to Fear, 10 a.m., Glenbeigh, 29 North Road, Niles.
First Things First, 6 p.m., Sahara Club II, 2345 Youngstown Road, Warren.
Monday Night Miracles, 7 p.m., Fellowship Hall, 2555 Rush Blvd, Youngstown.
Hubbard HOW, 7:30 p.m., Church of the Nazarene, 1815 Chestnut Ridge Road, Hubbard.
Celebrate Recovery, 6 p.m., The Mahoning Valley Hope Center, 3217 Surrey Road.
Christians in Deliverance, 7 p.m., Agape Assembly Church, 426 Nevada St. S.W., Warren.
The Weigh Inn - weight loss support group, weigh-in 5 to 6 p.m., meeting 6:15 p.m., Niles Senior Center, 14 E. State St., Niles. 330-652-9098.


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Twenty five year old Pioneer 10, the first spacecraft to leave the solar system and Earth's farthest probe in deep space, successfully executed a targeting maneuver more than 6 billion miles from the Earth.
The maneuver was necessary to point the Pioneer 10 antenna back to Earth after its natural drift away leading to a decrease in signal strength. The signal after the maneuver was increased to its normal strength after the maneuver was completed.
To attain enough power to perform the procedure, the spacecraft transmitter had to be turned off, and the hearty spacecraft executed the procedure in the blind for 90 minutes, said Dr. Larry Lasher, Pioneer Project Manager at NASA Ames Research Center.
"This is almost miraculous---the first time in the Pioneer 10's history that a maneuver had been performed with the transmitter off. We were concerned that turning the transmitter's traveling wave tube off in the deep cold of space for 90 minutes and then back on again would cause a thermal shock that might shatter the helix in the tube," Lasher said.
The spacecraft, 6.6 billion miles from the Earth, has a round-trip light time of 18 hours 20 minutes. The command-off signal to the spacecraft transmitter was sent at 3:00 am PST, Jan. 26; the command-on signal at 4:30 am PST. Confirmation of the transmitter's turn-off was received at 9:20 pm Jan. 26 Notice of the transmitter's restoration and the maneuver's success was received in the jubilant Pioneer Control Room at 10:50 pm that evening, Lasher said.
Pioneer 10, launched in 1972, made the first successful passage through the asteroid belt and captured Earth's first close up images of the giant planet Jupiter. Pioneer 10 is managed by the Space Projects Division at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, CA.


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The sight of those circling red and blue police lights in your rear view mirror can illicit feelings of anxiety, fear and maybe even anger.
But when the Pittsburgh police motorcycle officers, with sirens blaring and lights flashing, came through the Medlar Field fence during the Special Olympics Pennsylvania Opening Ceremonies Thursday evening, the feelings created were those of joy, admiration and respect.
For the last three years, the Law Enforcement Torch Run has provided a special spark to the state games, raising money year round and creating new awareness for Special Olympics in communities throughout the commonwealth.
For the Summer Games, a three-day torch run begins in Pittsburgh, where master police officer Ray Kein and his partner, Andre Le'Van, have mapped out the route to Happy Valley for the last few years.
But this year, Officer Kein almost didn't make it to the Games. He suffered a massive heart attack while on duty; he says Le'Van administered CPR and saved his life. Kein is still recovering from a quintuple bypass, but he wasn't going to miss the chance to take part in this year's torch run.
"Being on the field with the sirens and the lights, and all of the athletes, wow!" Kein said. "I told some bicycle officers from Philadelphia - wait 'til you see it. It's like Ben Roethlisberger throwing that touchdown pass to Santonio Holmes when he just got his toes in-bounds ... the crowd explodes, and it takes your breath away."
Kein recalled watching a Special Olympics basketball game between a team dressed in blue and another wearing red. A young woman from the red team missed a shot. A young man from the blue team got the rebound, and instead of heading toward his own basket, handed it to the red-shirted shooter and said, "Here, try again."
"That's what Special Olympics is all about," Kein said. "doing your best and supporting each other."
And that's why police officers, sheriffs, constables, prison guards, their children, scout groups and friends take part in Law Enforcement Torch Run activities, including polar plunges and the Beaver Stadium run in the months between the state competitions.
As they carry the torch from town to town, from Pittsburgh to Blairsville to Altoona and finally to State College, the officers are giving Special Olympic athletes, coaches and volunteers a special salute, which comes to a climax at the Summer Games opening ceremonies.
"I was proud to open that gate [at the baseball stadium] and hear the athletes," Kein said. "It was like a Super Bowl-winning touchdown. It sends a chill down your spine."
By the time the torch arrived at Lubrano Park on Thursday, the skies had darkened and rain was pouring down. But the spirit and joy of the athletes would not be dampened; the rain simply served to mask the tears running down the cheeks of so many of the law enforcement officers as they shared in a special memory, celebrating their extraordinary relationship to Special Olympics.
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Bebe Miller began her dance training at the age of four when her mother took her to dance class at the Henry Street Settlement on the Lower East Side. It was there that resident choreographer Murray Louis gave her a taste of the avant-garde language of his partner, Alwin Nikolaisin the same year that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled to desegregate public school education. Nikolais and Louis, ". . . masters of theatrical wizardry, had a profound influence on Miller's aesthetic vision, one that is nearly as important as her experience as an urban African American coming of age in an era of enormous social change in America." Born in 1950, Miller grew up in the projects of Red Hook, Brooklyn during a time of upheaval in the relationships between races and sexes. In much of her work, Miller attempts to seek out the truthto hold "human experience up to the light" despite the discomfort it may cause. A collaboration with musician/composer Don Byron, Cantos Gordos (Fat Songs) exudes a witty, party-like atmosphere that is somewhat atypical for Miller's work.
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"Dude, I dropped a pound and a half with the trout I just dropped."
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Jake dukied the forum and now the forum is dead.
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Only considered offensive when spelled Dookie.
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Yeah, I'm a Dukie, what?
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A big poop!
Dont go in the bano I just took a smelly dukie!
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An original-oldschool old-timer construction worker's term for lunchbox. During this era, dukies were made from tin, and the thermoses had glass liners in them.
As horseplay and pranks were overlooked on the job in the old days, a man's dukie was definitely off limits, as much as his vehicle, home and family, by (honor). Now, a guy wouldn't hesitate to steal your lunch or your meds, let alone your wallet or your phone if he had half a chance.....so much for (union brotherhood).....
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A word synonymous with, hella, too, a lot,
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An endearing nickname for a loved one.
Dukie, be careful when you go skydiving - I'd hate for you to get hurt.
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Always a fun time full of interesting activities and lots of diversity, the MOJA Arts Festival is definitely an event you want to strive to attend. And since it will be taking place all over the city with many of the events free and open to the public, it should be easy.
MOJA is a Swahili word meaning "one," and this festival is all about bringing people together.
The festival is all about celebrating the African-American and the Caribbean arts and, of course, Charleston. Expect to experience a variety of different programs, including theatre, dance, visual and literary arts, lots of music ranging from jazz and gospel to reggae and chamber, and much more.
The 30th annual MOJA festival begins Thursday and runs through Oct. 6.
Some of the highlights of this year's festival include:
Soprano saxophonist Marion Meadows, accompanied by The First Class Band, at the Family Circle Magazine Stadium on Saturday evening.
The "Gospel Divas" at Trinity United Methodist Church on Sunday afternoon.
Tuesday night's Classical Encounter featuring Tiffany Rice, Seth Gilliard and Friends at the City Gallery at Waterfront Park.
The "Emerging to Masters" performance by the Dayton Contemporary Dance Company at the Charleston County School of the Arts on Oct. 4.
The annual MOJA R&B Concert featuring Anthony Hamilton at Joe Riley Stadium on Oct. 5.
Of course, there are several large events that are super fun and completely free.
The festival always opens with their Caribbean Street Parade, which will take place Thursday. The parade will start at 5:30 p.m. at Marion Square and conclude at the Custom House. The opening night ceremony will continue with a reception at the Dock Street Theatre.
At 6:30 p.m. Friday, the famous Reggae Block Dance featuring New York-based New Kingston will take place at Brittlebank Park.
Saturday marks Heritage Day at the Charleston Farmers Market. Beginning at 10 a.m., local and regional talents will be showcased, and onsite screenings will take place at a major health and wellness fair. The Farmers Market is in Marion Square.
The much-anticipated finale takes place at Hampton Park on Oct. 6 and will consist of the Charleston Latin Jazz Collective featuring Charlton Singleton. There will be lots of African-American and Caribbean craft vendors, food and games, all beginning at 4 p.m.
In the visual arts department, there will be a memorial exhibition of works by the MOJA Arts Festival's featured poster artist, Charles DeSaussure. The exhibition is titled "Through My Eyes," and the image "Harvesting Sweetgrass" is this year's main image. The exhibition, among others, will be on display at the Art Institute of Charleston.
In addition, there also will be a show of juried works at the Avery Research Center for African-American History and Culture.
Yet another exhibit will be at The City Gallery at Waterfront Park. "The Spirit of Place: Traditions of the Agrarian Home in Barbados and the Lowcountry" explores new building traditions and typographies common to the Caribbean and the Southeastern United States and brings together artists' perspectives on the architecture of Barbados and the sea islands of the Carolinas.
Of course, what's listed above are just a few highlights of the MOJA Arts Festival; this is a massive event and there are many things going on every day at various venues all over the city. For the entire schedule of events, go to www.MOJAFestival.com or pick up a printed program guide at the Charleston County Public Library at 68 Calhoun St., Charleston Visitors Center at 375 Meeting St. or at the City of Charleston Office of Cultural Affairs at 180 Meeting St., Suite 200.
At the Gibbes
On Wednesday, the Gibbes Museum of Art will host an artist conversation and book signing with Mary Whyte and Martha Severens.
Severens, the former curator of the Greenville County Museum of Art, wrote Whyte's biography, titled "More Than a Likeness: The Enduring Art of Mary Whyte," which spans 50 years, from Whyte's childhood until now.
In addition to a lively conversation with Whyte and Severens, two of Whyte's models will be participating in the presentation.
"Tesha Marsland of Johns Island has been painted by Mary for over 20 years and is featured on the cover of Mary's book, "Down Bohicket Road." Jane Hogg is on the cover of the biography, "More Than a Likeness," and is a beekeeper in Simpsonville. Her portrait was included in the recent exhibition "Working South," which was on view at the Gibbes Museum from May to September 2012," explains Amy Mercer, marketing and communications manager at the Gibbes.
The event will begin at 6 p.m. Tickets are $20 for members, $30 for nonmembers, and can be purchased by calling 722-2706, ext. 21, or by going to www.gibbesmuseum.org.
Also this week at the Gibbes, the new exhibit "Photography and the American Civil War" will be opening.
"Organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, this landmark exhibition brings together more than 200 of the finest and most poignant photographs of the American Civil War," says Amy Mercer of the Gibbes. "Through examples drawn from The Metropolitan's celebrated holdings, complemented by important loans from public and private collections, the exhibition will examine the evolving role of the camera during the nation's bloodiest war.
"The 'War Between the States' was the great test of the young Republic's commitment to its founding precepts; it was also a watershed in photographic history. The camera recorded from beginning to end the heartbreaking narrative of the epic four-year war (1861–1865) in which 750,000 lives were lost," Mercer goes on to say.
At noon Friday, there will be a special lunchtime lecture with Jeff Rosenheim, curator in charge of the Department of Photographs at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Tickets are $20 for members and $30 for nonmembers.
Yet another happening at the Gibbes is free entry on Saturday because of the Smithsonian's Museum Day Live!
The Gibbes, Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, Drayton Hall, Powder Magazine and the South Carolina Historical Society will all allow access to their exhibits free of charge as part of this nationwide event.
"Inclusive by design, the event represents Smithsonian's commitment to make learning and the spread of knowledge accessible to everyone, giving museums across all 50 states the opportunity to emulate the admission policy of the Smithsonian museums in Washington D.C.," says Mercer. "Last year's event drew over 400,000 participants, and this year's event expects record-high participation."
The play " 'Sylvia' will delight anyone who's owned a dog, loved a dog or is exasperated by their dog," says director Joseph Baldino. "This charming play will make you run home, hug your dog and everyone else you hold dear."
A romantic comedy about a marriage that has reached a turning point, things change when "an irrepressible, affectionate and undeniably adorable dog" bounds into the picture. Dog Sylvia then creates all kinds of crazy situations, affecting the married couple in a variety of humorous ways.
Sylvia will be played by Samantha Andrews. The "dog-struck" Greg will be performed by Daniel Kuhn, and Nicole Antonacci will play the part of Greg's estranged wife, Kate. Kenneth C. Graham will play three different roles throughout the night: Tom, Phyllis and Leslie.
Performances will be at 7:30 p.m. Thursday-Saturday at South of Broadway Theatre, 1080 E. Montague Ave., in North Charleston. Tickets are $18 and can be purchased by calling 745-0317 or by going to www.southofbroadway.com.


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Notable examples of work by Joseph R. Skow (order of release): "Winter Break Mix Tape: Jesus Lives So We Drink" (2006), "My Shot With…Atmosphere" (2008), "2:28 pm" (2008), "Achat de la vache" (2010), "Automatic FM Imagery" (2011), "Natalia Kills - Wonderland (PeaceTreaty DubStep Remix) Music Video" (2011), "Pilgrimage to the Witch's House" (2012).
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July 5, 2013 - Jim Price
Although the official July 4th fireworks displays have now been set off, musical fireworks still will be happening on stages throughout the region during this weekend and upcoming week; including the kickoff of two of the region's biggest arts festivals.
Numerous community festivals punctuate this weekend's entertainment slate, with live music happening at each. The Cresson Firefighter's Carnival continues on Friday and Saturday nights, with The Boomers providing classic rock and pop entertainment on Friday and Locked and Loaded rocking the stage on Saturday. Carrolltown's 10th annual Hoo Dang Festival takes place at the community park on Friday and Saturday; Full Kettle entertains on Friday evening, while Pistol Peg & the Beer Kegs kicks up the country on Saturday evening. In Osceola Mills, the Columbia Fire Company's annual 4th of July Festival continues, with The Jam entertaining on Friday night and Running On Empty on Saturday. The Summerhill Township Fire Company presents their annual Beaverfest celebration in Beaverdale on Saturday and Sunday; Johnstown modern rockers Inside Out provide the musical entertainment on Saturday night. And Morrison's Cove Memorial Park continues its July 4 Celebration by presenting One Brick Shy on Friday evening.
Wednesday features the start of Philipsburg Heritage Days, which runs July 9 through 14, with entertainment each night.
Wednesday also marks the official start of the Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts in State College. Wednesday is Children's Day at the festival, with the slate of live musical acts beginning on Thursday. Check out the listing below for Thursday's Arts Festival entertainment, and click on the link on this page to see the entire weekend's Arts Festival schedule.
The People's Choice Festival in Boalsburg kicks off on Thursday, with live musical entertainment featured on two stages throughout the weekend. Check out the listing below for Thursday's musical slate, and click on the People's Choice Festival link on this page for the entire weekend entertainment lineup.
Another summertime wing-eating event kicks off on Thursday, as the Legion Park Wing Festival will take place on successive Thursdays through August 16 at Legion Park in Hollidaysburg. Admission is free; Felix & the Hurricanes will provide the music for this Thursday's kickoff.
And if heading to a state park is your preference this weekend, keep in mind that Canoe Creek State Park presents live music at their beach concession on both Saturday and Sunday afternoons through July and August. Longtime area music veteran Jim Mosey will perform vintage rock'n'roll on Saturdays from 2 to 5 p.m., and the Country Travelers perform vintage country and gospel favorites on Sundays from 2 to 5 p.m. Admission is free, and food and refreshments are available for sale from the concession.
There are lots of performers and shows to check out, so pack an umbrella (rain and thunderstorms are possible throughout the weekend) and support live music this weekend and upcoming week! And if you plan to celebrate heavily while doing so, please designate a driver or call a cab!
Here is a full listing for live music on area stages this weekend and the coming week:
One Brick Shy at Morrison's Cove Park, Martinsburg (starts 7 p.m.)
The Boomers at Cresson Firefighters Carnival, Cresson (starts 7:30 p.m.)
Full Kettle at Hoo Dang Festival, Carrolltown (starts 8 p.m.)
The Jam at Columbia Fire Company Festival, Osceola Mills (starts 8:30 p.m.)
Felix & the Hurricanes at the Heidelberg Club, Altoona
Punk Fiction at Buccinese Club, Altoona
Andy Lubert at City Hotel, Northern Cambria
Flight 19 at Philipsburg Elks Country Club, Philipsburg
John and Joan at Bakerton Athletic Club, Bakerton (starts 8 p.m.)
Locked and Loaded at Schellsburg VFW, Schellsburg
Jim Mosey at Beach Concession, Canoe Creek State Park (starts 2 p.m., free admission)
Chicago Music Review from the Windy City at Wagon Wheel Amphitheater, Philipsburg; featuring Me & the Devil, 4 Star Brass Band and Goofs (starts 6 p.m.)
Locked and Loaded at Cresson Firefighters Carnival, Cresson (starts 7:30 p.m.)
Pistol Peg & the Beer Kegs at Hoo Dang Festival, Carrolltown (starts 8 p.m.)
Inside Out (Johnstown) at Beaverfest, Beaverdale (starts 8 p.m.)
Running on Empty at Columbia Fire Company Festival, Osceola Mills (starts 7 p.m.)
Michael O'Brian Band at Allegheny Portage Railroad National Historic Site (Amphitheater), Cresson (starts 8 p.m., free admission)
Inside Out (former Kyx members) at Family Pizza, Altoona
7th Gear at Belmar Hotel, Altoona
PennSOULvania (hip hop artists) at Pellegrine's, Altoona
Conner Gilbert at Zach's, Altoona
The Sitch at Bedford Moose, Bedford
Liberty Jam at Steele's Tavern, Hopewell
Ruff Tymes at Sankertown VFW, Sankertown
Jack and the Country Gentlemen at Thirsty Dawg Taverne, Patton
Mountain City Grass at Baker Mansion (lawn), Altoona (starts 2 p.m., free admission)
The Baltimore Mandolin Quartet at Downtown Square, Bedford (Pennsylvania Consort's Summer Music on the Square Series, starts 2 p.m., free admission)
Tom "Ying" Yanitelli at Mad Hatters, St. Boniface (starts 4 p.m.)
The Country Travelers at Beach Concession, Canoe Creek State Park (starts 2 p.m., free admission)
Felix & the Hurricanes at Shaw's Bar, Altoona
Open Mic/Jam Night at Bedford Tavern, Bedford (starts 6 p.m.)
Open Mic Night at the Ramada Cosmopolitan Lounge, Altoona (starts 8 p.m.)
Ty Ayers (acoustic) at 4D's Lounge, Altoona
Kyx at Wingday Wednesday at Railroaders Museum, Altoona (starts 5:30 p.m.)
Pat Moore and the Elvis Show with Still Moore at Philipsburg Heritage Days, Philipsburg (starts 8 p.m.)
Jack and the Country Gentlemen at Clair's Ashville Inn, Ashville (starts 6 p.m.)
Wertz & Pletcher at 4D's Lounge (upstairs), Altoona
Open Mic/Jam Night at Mug Shots, Gallitzin (starts 8 p.m.)
Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts, State College – Stage Schedule:
Allen Street Stage: 11:30 a.m. – Heritage Brass, 1:30 p.m. – Erin Condo and the Hoofties, 3:30 p.m. – Cadillac Jazz Quartet, 5:00 p.m. – Yesterday's Escape, 9:00 p.m. – Miss Melanie and the Valley Rats
Festival Shell Stage (Old Main Lawn): 4:30 p.m. – Keystone Society of Swing, 6:30 p.m. – The Feats of Strength, 9:00 p.m. – No BS! Brass Band
Sidney Friedman Park Stage: 5:30 p.m. – Zeropoint Big Band, 7:30 p.m. – Matthew Fries & 718, 9:30 p.m. – Archie Blue
People's Choice Festival, Boalsburg – Stage Schedule:
North Stage: 11:30 a.m. – Riley Roth, 1 p.m. – Tussey Mountain Moonshiners, 2:30 p.m. – Nittany Highlander Pipe Band, 4 p.m. – Happy Valley Cloggers, 6 p.m. – Pure Cane Sugar
South Stage: 11:30 a.m. – Jerry Haines, 1 p.m. – Biscuit Jam, 2:30 p.m. Andy Angel Quartet, 5 p.m. – My Hero Zero (two sets)
Felix & the Hurricanes at Legion Park Wing Festival, Hollidaysburg (starts 6 p.m.)
Larry Buck and the Heartbreakers (6:30 p.m.) and Fred Myers & the Redneck Majority (8 p.m.) at Philipsburg Heritage Days, Philipsburg
Full Kilt at Lakemont Park WingOff and BBQ Bash, Altoona (starts 7 p.m.)
Steve Summerhill at Jethro's, Altoona (starts 7 p.m.)
Triple Threat at Pellegrine's, Altoona (starts 9 p.m.)
Partners in Crime at Bad Boyz Bistro, Bedford (starts 7 p.m.)
(More shows may be added to this list as information becomes available. Feel free to check back.)
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Pistol Peg & the Beer Kegs, performing during last month's Striking Chords Against Cancer benefit concert at Altoona's Railroaders Museum. Pistol Peg and company will bring their modern country sounds to Carrolltown's Hoo Dang Festival on Saturday evening.
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on November 16, 2012 - 12:17 AM
The year of the tight end has come and gone in fantasy football.
After breakout performances in 2011 by the likes of New England's Rob Gronkowski and New Orleans' Jimmy Graham, tight ends' fantasy value was poised to be at an all-time high.
But it hasn't happened.
While Gronkowski (104 points in nine games in standard scoring ESPN leagues) is still the leading scorer at his position, he's below the pace of his 2011 season, when he finished with 233 fantasy points. The same is true of Graham, who had 187 points last year but has just 92 this season (he missed most of two games with an ankle injury), third most at the position behind Atlanta's Tony Gonzalez (95).
Those are the only three players at the position averaging at least 10 points per week.
Leading the list of underachievers is San Francisco's Vernon Davis, who was a consensus top-5 tight end who's currently eighth in positional scoring. That might not sound too bad, but consider: Davis hasn't scored a touchdown since Week Three, and only once since then scored at least 10 fantasy points in a game (a five-catch, 106-yard performance against the Bills in Week Five).
Since that game against Buffalo, Davis hasn't cracked 37 yards receiving in a game.
Green Bay's Jermichael Finley is right behind Davis as a disappointment. You have to scroll all the way down to 27th on the list of leading tight end scorers to find Finley's name. Even Finley's backup, Tom Crabtree, is outscoring him this season, 33 to 27. Since scoring a touchdown in the season opener, Finley has basically played himself out of the offense. He can safely be dropped in any fantasy format.
San Diego's Antonio Gates has long been the gold standard at tight end, but his production is also down. He ranks 14th in positional scoring, but has come on of late with four touchdowns in San Diego's past four games.
Dallas' Jason Witten is another long-time performer at the position whose production has been inconsistent this year. Witten had a remarkable 18-catch, 167-yard game in Week Eight against the Giants, and also had a 13-catch, 112-yard game with a touchdown in Week Four against Chicago. That was his only touchdown of the season, though, and he ranks ninth in positional scoring.
Injuries have taken a toll at the position. Washington's Fred Davis was a preseason top 10 at the position, but is on injured reserve because of a ruptured Achilles tendon. New England's Aaron Hernandez has missed six of nine games because of a high ankle sprain.
With so many stars struggling, it's not a surprise to see some unexpected names among the top-10 performers. Pittsburgh's Heath Miller is fourth with 77 fantasy points; he had a preseason ranking of No. 25 from ESPN's fantasy staff. Minnesota's Kyle Rudolph is sixth with 64 points (up from a preseason ranking of 20th), while Buffalo's Scott Chandler is 10th (60 points) after being rated No. 24 to start the year.
Miller, Rudolph and Chandler have at least five touchdown receptions, which explains their rankings. None of them has a 100-yard receiving game, underscoring the lack of productivity at the position in 2012.
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The New Orleans Saints' defense is a strong contender for what I call the reverse triple crown – the unit allowing the most fantasy points to opposing quarterbacks, running backs and wide receivers.
The Saints are giving up the most points to quarterbacks (21.4 in standard scoring ESPN leagues) and receivers (28.8) and the second most to running backs (22.1), trailing only the Buffalo Bills in that category.
That's good news this week for the Oakland Raiders, whose quarterback, Carson Palmer, has thrown for 782 yards and six touchdowns in the past two weeks. Palmer is what Yahoo! Sports' Brad Evans calls a "garbage time all-star," meaning he does most of his passing from behind. Of his 375 pass attempts, Yahoo! found that 70 percent (261) have come when Oakland was trailing.
The Saints' offense is humming, so Palmer could find himself playing from behind again. His favorite target has been Denarius Moore, who has a touchdown in four of his past five games. If you need a sleeper receiver, you can also consider Oakland's Darius Heyward-Bey, who had 82 yards and a touchdown in Week 10. Be aware that Heyward-Bey is questionable with a hamstring injury.
Oakland's rushing attack might get Darren McFadden this week back, but he's unlikely to be at 100 percent because of a high ankle sprain. The better play would be Marcel Reece, the former college receiver who has been a frequent target of Palmer's passes the past two weeks.
Bye weeks: Minnesota, New York Giants, Seattle, Tennessee.
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