All In Good Taste / February 2006
Rhapsody
in Blue
The West Virginia Symphony Orchestra-Parkersburg will present their winter concert February 12, 2006 at 3:00 p.m. at the Blennerhassett School Auditorium. The concert will feature Andrew Russo, pianist, performing Rhapsody in Blue with the West Virginia Symphony Orchestra. The program will also include Alexander Borodin’s Polovtsian Dances and Antonin Dvorak’s Symphony No. 9 (from the New World).
Andrew Russo, the 28 year old American pianist, was trained classically at the Juilliard School and the Hochschule fur Musik in Leipaig.
The orchestra will be conducted by Maestro Grant Cooper, artistic director and conductor, in his fifth season with the West Virginia Symphony Orchestra. The concert is sponsored in part by St. Joseph’s Hospital and funded in part by the West Virginia Commission on the Arts/West Virginia Division of Culture and History. Tickets are $15 for adults and $8 for students and may be purchased at the door or by calling 304-485-4200. For more information visit www.wvsop.org.
Sunday
Jams
The Main Library in Charleston will host the seventh annual Sunday Jams series starting February 5. Sunday Jams is a series of five free live music programs featuring regional musicians. According to program coordinator Terri McDougal, “The programs are designed to allow people of all ages to experience different types of music in a relaxed and open setting.”
A musician or group of musicians will be featured each Sunday from 2 to 3:30 p.m. On February 5, members of the West Virginia Youth Symphony will perform “musical illustrations” of beloved children’s books.
February 12, Marshall Petty and the Groove Band will perform big band, rhythm and blues, and blues favorites.
On February 19, Zounds, It’s Zinging Zithers! performs traditional Appalachian and Celtic music on hammered dulcimers.
Singer and poet Colleen Anderson and George Castelle playing guitar share their love of West Virginia in music, stories and surprises on February 26.
March 5, The Production Company will guide listeners on a musical odyssey from the era of the Big Bands, through the Platters and the Drifters, through Motown, to the music of the 1990s.
Funding for this series is provided by the Kanawha County Public Library Annual Book Sale. For more information, contact Teri McDougal 304-343-4646.
Bright
Idea
Homeowners looking for an easy way to add atmosphere and style to their home while saving money at the same time may may wish to replace their old light switches with modern, designer-styled dimmer switches. Crafted to complementthe look of today’s high-end homes, new dimmer switches not only look great on the wall but offer an array of extra features. Their energy-saving efficiency helps lower utility bills.
The traditional rotary style design dimmer is still popular but it only offers the basics; On, Off, and somewhere in between.
New touch pad models turn on when when a finger is placed anywhere on their flat touch pad. To adjust the lighting level, just slide a finger up or down.
Digital circuitry provides a soft, eye-pleasing gradual fade up or down when the light is turned on or off. This type of dimmer is ideal for seniors, who may have trouble gripping or turning switches.
Easy-to-use rocker-action dimmers feature a stylish low-profile rocker switch that responds with one tap by bringing lights up to a preset level; a second tap turns them full on. A double tap to the lower portion turns them back off again.
Fine adjustments are easy with an ultra-smooth slide dimmer. As with touch pad models, some slide dimmers come with a convenient preset switch to recall a previous light level. There are even dual slide-type or rotary faders for ceiling fan and light combinations.
One of the most modern designs is the push pad dimmer. Luxurious and aesthetic, each push pad dimmer features a glowing blue locator LED so it can be found easily in a dark room.
Dimmer switches offer the opportunity to create special moods around the house, like dimming the lights for a movie theatre atmosphere to watch a DVD. For reading or playing games, lights are turned up full. For lighting magic, try one of the ‘scene capable’ dimmers. Individual fixtures can be programmed to different light levels in up to seven distinct custom-designed “scenes”. As an added convenience, a handy remote is available to help change scenes, and moods, from anywhere in the room.
With a dimmer switch, less is more–more savings. Homeowners who dim their lights by a quarter, increase their energy savings by 20%. Dimming them by half, increases savings by 40%. The bulb life is also exptended up to twenty times when it is dimmed halfway.
Sleek, functional, economical, dimmer switches not only beautify the home, they make life more convenient for every member of the family.
Hopeful
Hearts
Over 2.2 million marriages take place in the United States annually. That breaks down to about 6,000 a day.
So many couples tie the knot in Nevada, that it ranks fourth nationally in marriages, even though its total population is about 35th.
In 2003, the estimated US median ages for their first marriage is 25.3 and 27.1 for women and men rectively, in 2003. The age for women is up 4.3 years in the last three decades. The age for men is up 3.9 years.
There are 118 single men-widowed, divorced or never married-in their 20s for every 100 single women of the same ages.
There are 33 single men–widowed, divorced or never married- age 65 and over for every 100 single women of the same ages.
Dating in February
Feb 6 is Midwinter day, observing that winter is half over.
The PTA was founded in the Us on February17, 1897 as the National Congress of Mothers and was later expanded to include fathers, teachers and other citizens. February 17 is PTA Founders day and celebrates Alice McLellan Birney and phoebe Apperson Hearst, founders of the National PTA and Selena Sloan Butler founder of the National Congress of Colored Parents and Teachers which merged with the National PTA in 1970
Susan B. Anthony Day is February 15, the birthday of America’s leading proponent for women’s suffrage, born in 1820. She died before ever being allowed to cast a vote and once said, “ I have been striving for over sixty years for a little bit of justice and yet I must die without obtaining it.”
On February 11 in 1970, Shirley Ravenscroft, 53, became the first grandmother to sail the Atlantic alone when she landed in Barbados after a 37 day voyage in a 2 foot sailboat.
On February 11, 1979, Barbara Askins received the Inventor of the Year award for designing an autoradigraphic image enhancement process that reduced x-ray exposure. (an award also won in 1998 by Patricia D. Murphy, Antonette C. Allen and their team for a gene sequence that enables testing for susceptibility to breast and ovarian cancer, won in 2001 by a team headed by M. Patricia Beckmann, for a genetically engineered drug used to treat rheumatoid arthritis and other diseases and in 2000 by Gail K. Naughton for Advanced Tissue Sciences in a process to produce human organs for transplantation.
On February 8, 1843, Isabella Chambers, a 24 year old New Yorkers became the first American woman to purchase life insurance when she took out a $2000 policy
On February 21, 1866, Lucy Hobbs graduated from Ohio College of Dental Surgery to become the first woman dentist.
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