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FENTON, Michigan — Count local businessman Ronny Medawar as a fan of the city's new slogan, "Be Closer," and its marketing campaign.
His business, Medawar Jewelers, will feature the slogan and the new logo on a billboard it's debuting in February on Silver Lake Road near the U.S. 23 ramps.
"We have businesses in all parts of Michigan and we try to promote every city we're in. But Fenton is the only one that's trying to promote itself," Medawar said. "Fenton is a local feel. It's home. It's something we want to push. We want Fenton to grow."
So does the Downtown Development Authority, which debuted the branding and marketing campaign at an event on Tuesday at the Fenton Community & Cultural Center that drew more than 60 people.
The campaign was devised by a marketing firm hired by the DDA, New Moon Visions of Milford.
The campaign includes the downtown's slogan of "Be Closer" and a symbol for the downtown -- a fleur de lis, which will be used in advertisements for the city, said New Moons Owner Kim Rivera.
The slogan suggests visitors will be close to, not only the city and its downtown, but additional aspects the area offers, like the lakes, schools and shopping.
Officials also debuted a new website, www.fentonbecloser.com, that features Fenton entertainment, businesses and events.
The DDA wants downtown merchants to use the logo and slogan as part of their individual business advertisements. It also will do additional advertising, using billboards, radio and mail and use items, like mugs and stickers, with the help of local stores.
The city is planning to spend $196,445 next year in marketing costs — a little more than the $164,505 it budgeted for this fiscal year.
The merchants can benefit greatly by using the marketing tools to promote themselves, said DDA Director Craig Schmidt.
"It doesn't cost (them)," Schmidt said. "It drives business to them without coming out of their pockets."
Fenton Township resident Pat O'Keefe attended the unveiling to get a glimpse of the logo.
Although her business, Construction Designs, is in the township, O'Keefe said the city's marketing will benefit the whole area as a whole.
The campaign, especially the use of billboard advertisements, will be successful in driving people to Fenton, she predicted.
"We've never had anything on the freeway," O'Keefe said. "(We) have road signs, but nothing saying there's a town here."
Marketing Fenton
The Downtown Development Authority's marketing efforts:
• Slogan is "Be Closer"
• Logo is a fleur de lis that is made from two lower-case "f's" mirroring each other with a water drop above. The logo's colors, blue and teal, represent nature and the lakes and correspond with the city's proposed wayfinding signs.
• Website is www.fentonbecloser.com and features Fenton entertainment, businesses and events.


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LOUDON, N.H. -- Denny Hamlin stepped out of his car, pointed into the air, and took a mighty swing of an invisible baseball bat. Like Babe Ruth did before him (or so the legend goes), Hamlin had called his shot. The top winner in NASCAR's regular season earned his series - leading fifth victory of the year Sunday, backing up a tweet of "We will win" with a mistake - free and dominating run at New Hampshire Motor Speedway in the second event of the Chase for the Sprint Cup. With the win, Hamlin moved to within seven points of leader Jimmie Johnson in the Chase for the Sprint Cup standings. Johnson finished second and Jeff Gordon third. Johnson leads Brad Keselowski by one point.
It was the 100th career victory for team owner Joe Gibbs, who also won three Super Bowls as the coach of the Washington Redskins. And it came with a little teamwork, too, when Kyle Busch slowed down to help suck some debris off the front of Hamlin's car and propel him to victory.
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HUNTSVILLE, AL -- A man was shot outside of his home last night and police are looking for the shooter, authorities said.
Shortly before 10 p.m., Travis Walter, 21, was smoking a cigarette outside of his home, located in the 2200 block of Norwood Drive, when another man came around the corner and shot him in the back, police said.
Walter was transported by HEMSI to Huntsville Hospital, where he was treated for the non-life-threatening gunshot wound, said Don Webster, chief operating officer for HEMSI.
According to reports, the shooter ran toward Atkins Drive after the shooting. Police did not say whether the Walter knew the shooter or if anything was stolen from Walter.


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Public Invited to Celebrate Halloween at Penn State DuBois
DuBois – The Delta Mu Sigma Honor Society invites the public to celebrate Halloween at Penn State DuBois. A haunted house and a Safe Trick-or-Treat night will provide thrills and chills for the whole family.
The haunted house is scheduled for 7:00 p.m. until 10:00 p.m. Friday, October 26, and Saturday October 27, in the Mary Smeal Building. Delta Mu Sigma members, with help from Student Government Representatives and the THON committee will work to bring out the spooky side of the campus.
"We go all out with our decorations," said Delta Mu Sigma Public Relations Officer, Shannon Kassab. "We'll completely transform the Smeal Building."
The theme for the haunted house is "Haunted Hollywood presents, Theatre of Horrors". Those brave enough to venture inside can view portions of classic horror films while they wait for the haunted tour to begin. Frankenstein, Night of The Living Dead, and Texas Chainsaw Massacre are some of the films to be featured.
The cost is $3.00 for adults and $2.00 for children. All proceeds benefit THON, the Penn State dance marathon that raises money for pediatric cancer research. Organizers warn the haunted house may be too scary for young children, but that's no reason youngsters shouldn't come to campus in costume with their candy bags ready.
A Safe Trick-or-Treat Night is planed from 5:00 p.m. until 7:00 p.m. Saturday, October 27, in the campus gymnasium. Members of Penn State DuBois Student Clubs will don their costumes and hand out candy to kids 12 and under.
For more information on Penn State DuBois Halloween events, contact Shannon Kassab at firstname.lastname@example.com or call the Student Life Office at (814) 375-4764.


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The LSU Museum of Art will welcome a new educator in January with the arrival of Lucy Perara, former curator of education and PR at the Harwood Museum in Taos, New Mexico. Perara will join the staff as the new coordinator of school and community programs at the LSU MOA in Baton Rouge.
"A docent (would give) a tour that was very dry and all about providing an overload of information," said Perara, who says she loves "to make museums and make artwork come alive for kids and families and new people that usually don't feel comfortable in a museum."
During Perara's time at the Harwood Museum, she organized various outreach programs to help pull new visitors into the museum. One program involved creating monthly visits for a local elementary school, which was comprised mainly of "at-risk" youth.
"Regular engagement with art, creative expression and thinking will help them eventually stay in school and see possibilities in things," Perara said of the kids in the museum program. "They're a high-risk population. These kids need whatever they can get."
Another program Perara began brought the museum out into the community with art events in local neighborhoods during the summer when many kids don't have access to leave home.
Although Perara said she's not sure exactly what programs she'll start in Baton Rouge, her ideas still aim to "make museums exciting for people who don't normally go to museums."
Perara will start at the LSU Museum of Art on Jan. 7, 2013. For more information about the LSU MOA, visit the museum's website or call 225-389-7200.


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Hope College women's basketball player Megan Kelley has been named a 2013-14 Capital One NCAA Division III Academic All-American® as selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America.
The senior guard from Rockford (Rockford HS) is one of 15 players nationally to be recognized. She made the second team.
Kelley joins her mother, Amy (Welch) Kelley, as an Academic All-American basketball honoree. Amy earned Third Team CoSIDA recognition in 1987 at Central Michigan University.
Kelley is majoring in mathematics and minoring in health education at Hope. She is carrying a 4.0 grade point average.
On the court, Kelley is averaging 10.7 points, 4.3 rebounds, 2.1 assists and 1.9 steals per game for the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association champion Flying Dutch, who are 23-0 overall.
Hope coach Brian Morehouse said that Kelley has tremendous intelligence, time management skills and personal drive to excel in all of her activities.
"She is a great student-athlete in her ability to balance out all facets of her life," Morehouse said.
To be eligible for Academic All-America® consideration, a student-athlete must be a varsity starter or key reserve, maintain a cumulative G.P.A. of 3.30 on a scale of 4.00, have reached sophomore athletic and academic standings at his/her current institution and be nominated by his/her sports information director.
Since the program's inception in 1952, CoSIDA has bestowed Academic All-America® honors on more than 20,000 student-athletes in Divisions I, II, III and NAIA, covering all NCAA championship sports.
The Capital One Division III Academic All-America ® program is being financially supported by the NCAA Division III national governance structure, to assist CoSIDA with handling the awards fulfillment aspects for the 2013-14 Division III Academic All-America ® teams program.


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These are your neighbors and family and friends who have been making a living for years — often through two or three generations.
The big-box stores may be able to provide deeper discounts during the holidays, but the small businesses in your community need your patronage to survive in a tough economy.
Sandy and Bob Zednik have owned Parma Hobby at 5275 Ridge Road in Parma for 18 years. The store is packed with models and trains and accessories that require some assembly, but it's a holiday gift tradition that goes back generations.
"We're a store for people who like to build things," Sandy said. "Hobbyists, as we call them, are people who like to do things with their hands. Today, kids have to be exposed to building a model plane or car."
Parma Hobby sells trains and tracks that you can just imagine running under the tree on Christmas morning. They offer HO- and N-gauge built by Lionel and MTH Rail King.
Sandy is quick to point out that Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Neil Young, a model train enthusiast, owns a piece of Lionel Trains.
The Zedniks are so committed to promoting their business that they offer classes on airbrushing and model building upstairs from the store. The classes run on weeknights and weekends, depending on the class, and start in February and run through April. Call 216-741-6440.
Gail Parrino decided that she didn't want to stay at home after she retired from her career. She and her family have always been bakers at heart, so she started her second career after being encouraged to do so by her husband.
Her brother, Guy, owns Deanatella's on Granger Road in Valley View where her mom bakes fresh rolls and bread every weekday for the deli business.
Gail and her sister, Andrea Tiffe, opened Gail's Bakery at 5721 State Road in Parma about three weeks ago. The former location of Angelo's Pizza has already struck a chord with people driving by and who live right down the street.
"We're very happy with the response from the people of Parma," Parrino said. "When you talk about opening a new business, you're not sure what kind of response you're going to get, but we're really thankful for all of the customers we've served."
The quaint shop offers fresh-baked goodies like cakes and brownies, but also bakes rolls and other delicacies. Call Gail at 440-888-7888.
The art of tattooing is thousands of years old, and it's become more popular with all types of people to get "inked" in recent years.
Tattoo parlors, too, have changed, and American Sideshow Tattoos at 6339 Olde York Road in Parma Heights has a welcoming feel the minute you walk in the door.
Owner Harry Lawrence opened the tattoo salon in January and believes in helping the community. He has held fundraisers for breast cancer ("Ink for Pink"). His current "Toys for Tats" campaign offers a $25 gift certificate to the shop in exchange for a new, unwrapped toy valued at $10 or more to given to kids in need.
Tattoo artists Michael Corwon, Alex Antes and Damian James are integral members of Harry's staff, and their work is top-notch — if you're in the market for a one-of-a-kind tattoo. Call 440-888-0533.


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BANGKOK -- Two Thai men suspected of killing an Australian tourist have admitted to the crime, saying they meant only to slash her pocketbook strap and did not mean to stab her.
Police led the suspected slasher and his alleged accomplice to re-enact the crime Tuesday at the spot where 60-year-old travel agent Michelle Elizabeth Smith was killed last week on the resort island of Phuket.
A crowd of 200 people shouted angrily at the handcuffed men, accusing them of bringing bad publicity to an area that depends on tourism.
Surasak Suwannachote showed how he allegedly jumped off a slowly moving motorcycle and wielded a replica knife as he re-enacted the attack.
The suspected driver of the motorcycle, Surin Tabthong, told reporters he "made a mistake" and "things got carried away."


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Romdhani, Imed and Al-Dubai, Ahmed (2007) Mobile IP conditional binding update. In: 1st IEEE Workshop on Autonomic Communication and Network Management ACNM-2007, 10th IFIP/IEEE Symposium on Integrated Management. IEEE Computer Society Press, Munich, Germany, pp. 64-70.
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Mobile IP protocols use a correspondent registration
procedure between a Mobile Node (MN) and its Correspondent
Nodes (CNs) to maintain a valid and up-to-date binding
association between MN's home address and its current care-ofaddress
whenever a handover occurs. This procedure plays a key
role in optimizing the routing path between the two parties by
avoiding any kind of dog-leg routing across the home network or
the previous visited network. However, such a procedure reveals
its inefficiency in multicast communication as multicast sources
do not need to know the identity of multicast receivers and to
interfere with their mobility events. Without an additional
intelligence on Mobile IP entities to assess the nature of the
communication session established with a CN, such behavior
introduces an extra processing and inefficient use of the network
resources for both CN and MN. In an attempt to solve these
problems, we propose a new adaptive solution to enhance Mobile
IP protocols (Mobile IPv4, Mobile IPv6, and Moving Network).
In this regard, we extend Mobile IP specifications with two new
registration schemes: dynamic address update and non-dynamic
address update in response to the multicasting nature of CN.
With these two new schemes, MN and their mobility agents will
be able to sense their communications and distinguish between
multicast and unicast sources and therefore block sending
binding information to multicast sources. We evaluate our
solution by quantifying analytically the gain of the binding
update messages that could be avoided in different mobility management scenarios.
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Fifth Third Bank, based out of Cincinnati, Ohio, currently has some CD rate promotions going on at a few of their Michigan branches (other branches may be included as well).
Although they are called "Promotional Rates" don't get too excited as it just seems to be wording ploy to entice customers to sign up. The rates are average (at best) and require a $5000 minimum deposit. You can see how their APY's stack up against today's national averages at the bottom of the article.
Related: Check out the most recent CD rate promotions from our archives.
About Fifth Third Bank:
Fifth Third is one of the top 20 largest banks in the country and primarily serve the Midwest and Southeast portions of the United States. Along with being one of the largest banks in the country they are also one of the oldest, with their roots dating back to 1865.
As of 2012, the company controls roughly $115 billion in assets. This number has recovered modestly following the bank collapse. In 2010, for example, the Company held $120 billion in assets. However in years previous to 2010, Fifth Third Bank experienced a bit more turbulence.
The bank received $3.4 billion from the U.S. Treasury as part of its Troubled Asset Relief Program in 2008 and reported a net loss of $2.2 billion due to loan problems and lower market values.
As of 2012, they control nearly $90 billion in consumer deposits and service almost $82 billion in loans. They are federally insured by the FDIC (#6672) and employee a staggering 22,000 individuals. This number is quite impressive when you pit it against new online banks forming today with less than a dozen full-time employees.
Related: Fifth Third Bank was recently mentioned as one of the "least trusted banks in the United States."
Fifth Third Bank's operations include 18 affiliates with 1,307 full-service Banking Centers, including 92 Bank Mart locations open seven days a week inside select grocery stores and 2,341 ATMs in Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Florida, Tennessee, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Missouri, Georgia and North Carolina.
CD Rate Promotions offered through Fifth Third Bank:
*Promotional rates accurate as of May 2010.
- 8 month CD "promo" rate yielding 0.50% APY with a minimum deposit of $5,000 required.
- 13 month CD "promo" rate yielding 0.90% APY with a minimum deposit of $5,000 required.
- 24 month CD "promo" rate yielding 1.25% APY with a minimum deposit of $5,000 required.
- 36 month CD "promo" rate yielding 1.75% APY with a minimum deposit of $5,000 required.
- 60 month CD "promo" rate yielding 2.75% APY with a minimum deposit of $5,000 required.
To put the above offers in perspective, the national average for 6 month CD rates sits at roughly 0.80% APY, the national average for 1 year CD rates sits at roughly 1.18% APY and the national average for 3 year CD rates sits at roughly 1.98% APY.


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This morning in Asian trading oil prices are trading below $90/bbl. Oil dropped by 0.37%, from the highest close in a week in New York as manufacturing in China contracted unexpectedly; raising speculation fuel demand may decline in the world's second biggest crude consumer. Concern of slowdown in World economic growth is weighing on oil prices after World Bank has cut China's growth outlook to 7.7 percent from 8.2 % estimated in the month of May. Also it has lowered the forecast from 7.6 to 7.2 percent.
Most of the regional market has come under pressure before the IMF meeting tomorrow on world economic outlook which is creating anticipation of further slowdown. Another factor, Hugo Chavez has won the election in Venezuela, world's largest oil reservoir. He is ready to tap oil to subsidize food, low cost housing and other economic development. Thus, higher oil supply in the market may lead oil prices to remain under pressure.
Crude oil prices declined, mainly on demand concerns as the global economic growth slow and worries over the brewing tension between Israel and Iran situation eased after Israeli officials stated that if an attack were to take place it would not be until spring.
South Korea has resumed importing Iranian crude oil, after halting imports in July due to Western sanctions targeting Iran's nuclear program, officials at two South Korean refiners said Friday
Form economic data front, German is likely to report a sluggish growth in trade and industrial production which may further weigh on oil prices during European session. As today is the Columbus Day Holiday in US, there are no economic releases from US. However, futures and stock market are open for the day. Most importantly, Turkish and Syria fire fight is continued for last five days, which may add some premium point in oil prices though may not lead to a bullish move due to concern of world economic growth.
The National Hurricane Center reports that there is no major cyclone near to Gulf region which is also easing supply disturbances. Overall, the trend for the whole is likely to remain on downside.
Currently, natural gas prices are holding $3.45, up by more than 0.40 percent. California Governor Jerry Brown told state regulators to immediately allow oil refineries to make an early transition to winter-blend gasoline to help bring record prices at the pump under control. However, winter blend ideally never comes to the market before Oct end. Thus, switching of gas may lead to weigh on gas prices during the day.
The number of rigs actively explored for oil and natural gas in the US dropped this week by 11 to 1,837. 1,398 rigs were explored for oil and 437 were searching for gas while two were listed as miscellaneous, as per oil field services company Baker Hughes Inc.
On the other side, concern of mild weather forecast may lead to lower consumption in eastern region and ultimately weigh on gas prices. Overall, trend for the whole is likely to remain on downside.


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ATTENDED: How to attract new industry was the topic of a recent one-day seminar attended by Evan Scurti, director of economic development, and Donna Hrezo, manager, both of the Jefferson County Port Authority. The event was held in Nelsonville. A team of site consultants that works nationwide with dozens of companies each year to locate new businesses and industries provided their perspective of what it takes to compete and win in this very competitive arena.
The seminar was the first in a three-part Community Economic Development Academy that will culminate in a mock site visit by the consultants to Jefferson County. The academy, sponsored by the Appalachian Partnership for Economic Growth and funded by AEP Ohio, was attended by economic development professionals representing 17 counties.
The purpose of the academy is to help local economic development professionals and key community leaders understand the types of information required and why they must be able to respond quickly to site planner's requests for information.
"The days of industry attraction relying on golf outings and fine dining are over," said Tonya Crist, InSite consultant. "Companies ask us to gather dozens of very specific data points which we feed into a computer model that identifies those communities who fulfill basic qualifications. If you can't quickly provide not only basic information but project specific information, your community will not be considered."
For communities completing the 3-part series, AEP is sponsoring a grant competition that will fund an economic development project to enhance their local development efforts.
The Appalachian Partnership for Economic Growth is one of six JobsOhio regional partners working to create jobs and economic growth for Ohio. APEG serves 25 Ohio counties.
RAILROADS HONORED: The American Short Line and Regional Railroads Association honored the Ohio Central Railroad Co. with its President's Safety Award for maintaining the best safety rate of railroads operating 50,000 to 150,000 employee-hours.
Ohio Central and the Columbus-Ohio River Railroad were among 20 Ohio short-line railroads honored for having no federally reportable injuries during 2013.
Ohio Central is a 70-mile freight railroad that interchanges with the Columbus & Ohio River, CSX, Norfolk Southern, Ohio Southern and Wheeling & Lake Erie Railway.
Columbus & Ohio River and Ohio Central are both part of the Genesee & Wyoming Inc. short lines.
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DENOON HONORED: DeNoon Lumber of Bergholz has been named Ohio Logger of the Year, an award given yearly in conjunction with the Ohio Forestry Association's annual meeting held in Columbus.
Ryan Redoutey, president of the Ohio Logging Standard Council, presented the award to Bill DeNoon Jr., and DeNoon employees Jeremy Bernhart and Clint Carpenter.
DeNoon Lumber Co. was started by William DeNoon Sr. in 1963 in Bergholz with three employees. During the course of 50 years, the company has grown to employ more than 120 people. A Clayco dry kiln was added in 1989, and the most recent addition is a retail shop that includes hardwood flooring, paneling, moulding, doors and more. The company ships all over the world daily.
Bill DeNoon Sr. died in August 2012.
Bill DeNoon Jr. facilitated the organization of the Steel Valley Loggers Chapter in cooperation with the Jefferson Soil and Water Conservation District in 2000. Through his leadership, the chapter has coordinated field days for the public, best management practice training for loggers, landowners and township trustees, supported local organizations and sponsored students to attend Ohio Forestry and Wildlife Conservation Camp.
Resort Honor: Angela Fazikas, a marketing specialist, has been honored as Team Member of the Quarter at Mountaineer, Casino, Racetrack and Resort.
Fazikas oversees the digital initiatives in the marketing department, including Facebook, the MoreAtMountaineer website, Internet advertising, press releases and a variety of related projects. She also assists in floor promotions and with entertainment shows in The Harv.
"Angela was selected from a group of nominees because of her diligence to managing projects in her area of expertise, her professionalism, and strong guest service skills," said Lesley Campbell, director of marketing and public relations. "She joined our marketing team as the marketing specialist a few months ago and has taken the responsibilities for this position to a new level."
Other nominees were Chris Boso, a poker dealer; Carrie Cotherman, a casino dealer; David Cottle, a slot tech; Amber Davis, a buffet cashier; Kelsey Ellison Gatsby, a server; Angela Farnsworth, hotel housekeeping; Rachel Garren, gaming housekeeping; Steve Satterfield, HVAC tech; Donald Scott, fitness center; Bob Talbott, print shop; and Ron Richmond, guard.
Team members are nominated by their specific departments and the winner is selected by executive management. All of the nominees were recognized at the luncheon by their director or manager and received a commemorative plate.
REPORT ON FILE: The Jefferson Soil and Water Conservation District has its 2013 cash basis information on file at the district office. Those interested in reviewing the information can visit the office located at 587 Bantam Ridge Road in Wintersville.
The office is open from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. For information, contact (740) 264-9790.
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SELECTED: Carrollton Electric Cooperative Inc. selected two area high school sophomores to represent the cooperative at the Washington, D.C., Rural Electric Youth Tour scheduled June 13-19.
Eliza Davis, daughter of Rodney and Connie Days of Carrollton, and Scott Forrester, son of Steve and Michelle Forrester of Hopedale, will join nearly 1,500 other youth from across the country for the week-long trip. Day attends Carrollton High School, and Forrester attends Harrison Hills High School.
Youth Tour teaches students about the rural electric utility and gives students a first-hand look at the activities of government in the nation's capital. The two will get a chance to meet and talk to congressional leaders from Ohio at the U.S. Capitol while visiting sights.
In addition to representing Carroll Electric at the tour, both students will have the opportunity to be selected to serve on the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association Youth Leadership Council.
This is an annual contest sponsored by the Ohio Rural Electric Cooperative Inc. and local rural electric cooperatives.
NEW TECHNOLOGY: Weirton Medical Center has announced it is the first and only hospital in the Weirton-Pittsburgh Route 22/30 corridor to offer lower-dose 3D mammography (breast tomosynthesis). The technology is the latest innovation in breast cancer screening which offers superior performance to 2D alone.
Led by the Weirton-Pittsburgh Route 22/30 Corridor's only surgeon dedicated exclusively to the breast, Dr. Carol Slomski and radiologist Dr. Eric Balzano, the WMC BreastCare Team was first to offer 3D breast tomosynthesis and now the first in the corridor to offer new technology known as C-View.
This new software creates a 2D image, removing the need for a separate 2D exposure. The elimination of the 2D exposure results in less time for patients under compression and a reduction in radiation. Despite the reduced radiation, the technology still provides clinical benefits of 3D mammography increased diagnostic accuracy and reduced recall rates.
"Lower-dose 3D mammography is a significant enhancement to this game-changing technology," said Balzano.
According to Slomski, "Patients have expressed concerns to me about the level of radiation exposure. This option significantly reduces that concern while still providing the outstanding clinical performance we have come to depend upon from this technology. We are very pleased to be able to offer patients the full benefits of 3D mammography coupled with faster exam times, a lower dose and an overall better patient experience."
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QUALIFIED: Nikolas A. Kamarados, a certified financial planner and financial planner with Prudential's Central/Western Pennsylvania and West Virginia Agency qualified to attend the company's President's Conference held in Nassau, Bahamas.
The conference, hosted by Caroline Feeney, president of agency distribution, is held each year to honor a select number of top performing producers from across the country who qualify based on outstanding production results in the prior year.
"The sales professionals, financial planners and field managers who have qualified for president's conference are proven leaders who share a commitment to helping clients achieve their financial security goals and needs. I am extremely proud of them all," said Feeney.
Kamarados, who has office locations in Follansbee and East Liverpool can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com and at (304) 748-3156 or (330) 389-9790.
AWARDED: Neidengard's Harley-Davidson was awarded Harley-Davidson Motor Co.'s Bronze Bar and Shield Circle of Recognition Award for 2013 calendar year.
Neidengard's Harley-Davidson earned the Bronze Circle of Recognition Award for the central region based on its motorcycle and related product sales performance, an evaluation of customer service and satisfaction, and various operational measures.
"One of the primary reasons the Harley-Davidson brand has such a tremendous customer loyalty is because of the efforts of dealers such as John and Kim Neidengard," said Mike Kennedy, vice president and managing director of the Harley-Davidson North American Region. "We're really proud to have John and Kim Neidengard as part of the Harley-Davidson family."
Neidengard's Harley-Davidson, 284 Canton Road, Wintersville, had been in business in the Steubenville area since 1906. The dealership moved to its present location in Wintersville in 1978.
The business has earned the Bar and Shield Circle of Recognition six times, and the owners are looking forward to continuing their award-winning performance in 2014.
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NEW POST: The Bordas & Bordas law firm has named Brandi Richards as the firm's new assistant director of communications and philanthropy.
Richards is a 2013 graduate of Wheeling Jesuit University, where she earned a degree in professional communications. While at WJU, she composed articles for the school newspaper, did design work for various on-campus organizations and was an active member of the Professional Communications Honor Society, Lambda Pi Eta. She completed an eight-month post-graduate internship at Bordas & Bordas prior to accepting her current position.
Managing partner Jamie Bordas, said, "We had the pleasure of experiencing her work ethic, creativity and insight through her participation as an intern here at the firm and are happy that she has decided to stay with us full time."
Richards is a resident of Dillonvale and a graduate of Bellaire St. John's High School. She actively volunteers at St. Adalbert Catholic Church and various local events.
Bordas & Bordas has offices in Wheeling, St. Clairsville and Moundsville and practices throughout the region.
NEW DIRECTOR: Robyn E. (Windon) Vittek has been named director of the St. Clairsville Public Library, the board of trustees has announced.
Vittek is a Buckeye Local High School graduate with degrees from Ohio State University and Franciscan University of Steubenville, as well as a master of library and information science from Kent State University. She was employed at the Public Library of Steubenville and Jefferson County and Akron-Summit County Public Library.
She has been recognized for her career achievements by the American Library Association and several statewide organizations.
"I am thrilled to be back in the Ohio Valley and excited to work with a library that is so vital to the community," Vittek said. "St. Clairsville Public Library has a reputation for innovative programming and a great collection, including an exceptional local history collection. We recently opened a new technology center and have big plans for the future."
Vittek says that she has started to meet with the staff to plan library services for the coming year and has already attended several local meetings and events.
CONFERENCE: The Ohio Valley Education Council will hold a conference featuring speakers on drug abuse and food allergies from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. March 14 at Bethany College's Mountainside Conference Center.
The speakers will include William Ihlenfeld II, U.S. attorney for the Northern District; Jami Robinson, founder of Ohio Valley Kids with Food Allergies; and Randy Housh, a member of the West Virginia Association of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counselors.
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ASSAULT, ORANGE PLACE: Police received a call July 20 from officers in South Russell, where one of their residents was being taken to Hillcrest Hospital with signs of serious facial and neck trauma after an early morning attack in a room at the Homestead Guest Studios. The victim, 20, told police she had been at a party consuming alcohol and Xanax when she could not find her cell phone about 5 a.m.
When she asked another South Russell woman to call her phone and she refused, an argument broke out, with punches later being thrown and hair being pulled. When the victim retreated to the restroom, the suspect, 19, burst in and started stomping on and choking her. The fight was broken up by a Mayfield Heights man, 18, who backed up the victim's story after initially calling her mother to come and get her. Police have also questioned the Gates Mills man who was apparently celebrating his 22nd birthday that day when he rented the room, which he allowed police to search. They gathered a half-dozen bloody towels, a clump of hair and a bloody box of tissues as evidence. The victim told police she did not realize until later she somehow had her assailant's phone in her possession.
THEFT FROM AUTO, ORANGE PLACE: A Tennessee man reported July 10 he'd had three bags of tools with numerous hand tools stolen from the tool bin in his pickup truck while it was parked at the Extended Stay America Inn. Then on July 15, assorted plumbing parts were missing from his truck. These thefts were apparently separate from the July 12 theft of a $3,500 welder and a $1,200 tool box reported earlier by a Michigan man also parked at Extended Stay.
DAMAGE TO PROPERTY, I-271: Police received a report July 16 of a dump truck spilling gravel onto the I-271 northbound lanes near the Chagrin Boulevard interchange. Police in Beachwood and Mayfield were also notified.
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NORTHAMPTON — A Hampshire Superior Court judge sentenced a Hatfield woman to 90 days in jail Friday for embezzling more than $200,000 from her Northampton employer.
Amy Wing, 44, pleaded guilty last week to 29 charges, including multiple counts of forgery, uttering, larceny and credit card fraud. According to prosecutor Matthew Thomas, Wing, the bookkeeper at Meyers Information System, forged checks to herself, used the company credit card for her own purchases and then created a separate set of books after she was caught, continuing to steal money from the family-owned business.
Thomas told Judge Mary Lou Rup that Wing bought clothing, pet food and Victoria's Secret items with the stolen money, even after the owner discovered the thefts and refrained from calling the police.
"She betrayed her employer's trust," Thomas said, arguing for jail time.
Defense lawyer Lauren H. Follett, who requested a sentence of six years probation, told Rup that Wing, a mother of four, was going through difficult times following a divorce. She said the defendant described her need to steal as an addiction.
"She couldn't stop herself," Follett said.
She noted that Wing left a check on her desk for $100,000, along with a note confessing her crimes at work. Wing has promised to pay the remaining $100,000 of restitution at the rate of $1,000 per month.
Saying she thought Wing should serve some jail time, Rup imposed the 90-day sentence, followed by 10 years of probation. She stayed the sentence for a week so Wing can get her affairs in order.


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Top Summer Tours 2012: Madonna, Radiohead, Coldplay
Also: Springsteen, Aerosmith, One Direction, The Beach Boys, Drake and more
Dave Matthews Band
After taking a "year off" in 2011, Dave Matthews has gone back to a good old-fashioned trek for 2012, and is bringing a huge range of artists along for the ride. Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, the Carolina Chocolate Drops, Fitz & The Tantrums, Lettuce, Gary Clarke Jr. and others have been tapped as revolving openers. The tour kicks off on May 18 and runs through July, with a few West Coast dates after that.
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After reading Prof. David Johnson's excellent chronicle in the Cape Breton Post (Harper likely actively supportive of Green Cove memorial, Feb. 18), I kept asking myself: In what kind of a democracy are we living?
Our prime minister decides to commemorate the 150th anniversary of our Confederation in 2017, and right away some zealous civil servants OK the Never Forgotten National Memorial Foundation's proposed memorial complex at Green Cove.
The people weren't informed or consulted, and most of our elected politicians at all levels seemed uninformed about the proposal.
Why do we always have to promote the idea of war, when we should be contemplating and implementing a culture of peace for the 21st century?
Green Cove should remain as it is — peaceful, magnificent and an homage to our Mother Nature.
In his 2012 book "What We Talk About When We Talk About War," Canadian intellectual Noah Richler explains that we as a nation have totally left aside late prime minister Lester B. Pearson's grandiose peacekeeping idea. And I agree with Richler.
As a caring nation, we should focus more money and faith on promoting peace and preventing bullying, violence and revenge.
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Then Wells showed Theret, the 105,175 fans packed into Ohio Stadium and the rest of the nation he was healthy again.
Wells hurdled the 5-10, 185-pound Theret as the sophomore braced for impact. Wells picked up 10 more yards after landing and finished the run for a 21-yard gain. It was a big change from how Ohio State fans had gotten used to seeing Wells over the past three games – primarily waving a towel on the sidelines.
With the leap – off his once injured right foot no less – Wells announced he was back. Wells finished with 106 yards on 14 carries and the Buckeyes blasted the undefeated Golden Gophers 34-21 on Sept. 27.
"It was great," Wells said. "All week I was walking around like a caged animal because I wanted to be out there the last three games, especially that big one, but I couldn't help it."
That "big one" was Ohio State's 35-3 loss to then-No. 1 USC, which took place two weeks after Wells fell to the Ohio Stadium turf grabbing his foot in pain against Youngstown State. Wells missed contests against Ohio University, USC and Troy before finally making his return against the Golden Gophers.
"In my heart I wanted to because I wanted to help the team, but I knew my toe wouldn't allow me to," he said of his absence. "It was real tough. It was something that brought me to tears, I wanted to be out there so bad."
Ohio State opened its defense of its Big Ten title by riding the duo of Wells and freshman quarterback Terrelle Pryor. The Buckeyes rushed for 279 yards and had 414 yards of total offense. Pryor and Wells contributed most of it – 273 overall. Pryor passed and threw for a combined 167 yards and made three trips to the end zone.
The Buckeyes (4-1, 1-0 Big Ten) wasted little time getting on the scoreboard. Pryor moved OSU 75-yards in just five plays before calling his own number on a 33-yard keeper around the right end with 12:47 remaining in the first quarter.
Minnesota (4-1, 0-1) could not answer, but the Gophers got the ball back quickly when Wells fumbled on the ensuing OSU possession. Minnesota drove to the OSU 15-yard line before Ohio State forced the Gophers to settle for a 33-yard field goal by Joel Monroe to make it 7-3 with 7:01 left in the opening quarter.
Ohio State senior kicker Ryan Pretorius answered Monroe's boot with a pair of field goals of his own in the second quarter. He made a short 22-yarder at the 9:45 mark and later added a 44-yard boot with 4:10 left before halftime to push the score to 13-3.
The Buckeyes took a 20-3 lead into the break thanks to an 8-yard touchdown pass from Pryor to senior receiver Brian Robiskie. The drive was highlighted by Wells' leaping run over Theret.
Minnesota had the first scoring threat of the third quarter, driving to the OSU 10 before the Buckeye defense clamped down. Monroe cut into the deficit with a 28-yard field goal to make it 20-6 with 10:40 left in the third quarter.
It did not take the Buckeyes long to answer the score. Ohio State responded with a 74-yard drive that took just six plays and less than three minutes. Pryor burst around right end on a perfect 1-yard bootleg run for a touchdown that put OSU ahead 27-6 with 7:37 remaining in the third quarter.
Quarterback Todd Boeckman then provided one of the highlights of the game when he led a scoring drive a week after being booed by the Ohio Stadium faithful. The senior lost the starting job to Pryor after the loss to USC and was booed in his next home appearance against Troy when the lone pass he threw in relief of Pryor skipped in front of his intended target.
But those boos turned to cheers against Minnesota when Boeckman directed a touchdown drive and another drive that resulted in a missed Ryan Pretorius field goal. He completed 5 of 9 passes for 65 yards and added 8 yards on an option keeper. The highlight of his performance came on a picturesque 31-yard touchdown pass to Brian Robiskie on the first play of the fourth quarter.
"It's just always nice to be back out there," Boeckman said. "I felt good about myself today. I thought it was a pretty good performance overall and I'm happy with it."
The Gophers made the final score more respectable with a pair of fourth-quarter touchdowns. Minnesota quarterback Adam Weber found Ralph Spry for a 3-yard touchdown pass with 8:24 remaining in the final frame. Then Weber struck again with 1:13 remaining when he connected with receiver Da'Jon McKnight for a 22-yard score. Senior backup quarterback Mike Maciejowski, a product of Upper Arlington High School in suburban Columbus, came on and completed a two-point conversion pass to Eric Decker to set the final score.
Weber completed 23 of 36 passes for 187 yards and a touchdown, but the junior also lost a fumble and threw an interception. DeLeon Eskridge led the Gophers' rushing attack with 76 yards on 18 carries.
Robiskie led Ohio State's receivers with eight receptions for 90 yards. Defensively, senior linebacker James Laurinaitis had a game-high 12 tackles. Junior linebacker Ross Homan added 10 and had a fumble recovery. Marcus Freeman recorded OSU's lone sack. Homan, senior cornerback Malcolm Jenkins, junior safety Kurt Coleman and senior defensive end Curtis Terry also had tackles for a loss.


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Complex Analytics for Big Data
February 1, 2013, 1 pm
300 S. Craig St., Pittsburgh, PA
PSC's new YarcData uRiKA system, nicknamed Sherlock, has been built with PSC-specific enhancements and is specially designed to detect relationships hidden in extremely large and complex data sets.
This symposium will explore the state of the art and the open challenges in Big Data computing, explain how uRiKA's advanced technologies address those challenges, and discuss applications that can benefit from this unique computational resource.
"Big Data" has the potential to address critical problems in a wide range of fields, like improving health care, strengthening cybersecurity, and protecting the environment, but until uRiKA, the complex analyses needed to exploit Big Data's full potential have been impossible.
The agenda is subject to change.
|Complex Analytics for Big Data
February 1, 2013
|Opening Remarks
Nick Nystrom, Director, Strategic Applications, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
uRiKA! Unlocking the Power of Big Data at PSC
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|Effectively analyzing "big data" is increasingly essential to problems of scientific and societal importance such as discovering how genes work, understanding the dynamics of social networks, and detecting breaches in computer security. What these problems and others like them have in common is that they involve complex networks of relationships, or "graphs." For many cases of interest, the graphs are highly connected and cannot be partitioned, making their analysis on general-purpose computers extremely challenging. The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) continues its role of offering novel, enabling architectures for big data and HPC by introducing Sherlock, a YarcData uRiKA ("Universal RDF Integration Knowledge Appliance") system with PSC-specific enhancements, for the U.S. research community. Sherlock, funded by NSF Strategic Technologies for Cyberinfrastructure (STCI), delivers unique capability for discovering new patterns and relationships in big data. Sherlock breaks the barrier to graph analytics through massive multithreading, a shared address space, and sophisticated memory optimizations. PSC customized Sherlock with additional nodes having commodity x86 processors to add valuable support for heterogeneous applications, for example, in genomics and astrophysics. Sherlock runs an enhanced suite of familiar semantic web software for easy access to powerful analytic functionality, together with common programming languages, and PSC's Data Supercell provides complementary, high-performance access to large datasets for ongoing, collaborative analysis.
|Data-Intensive Scalable Computing: Finding the Right System and Programming Models
Randal E. Bryant, University Professor of Computer Science and Dean, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
|With the massive amounts of data arising from such diverse sources as telescope imagery, medical records, online transaction records, and web pages, data-intensive computing has the potential to achieve major advances in science, health care, business, and information access. Data-intensive computing has very different properties from traditional high-performance computing applications, calling for new system designs and new programming models.
For meeting their data-intensive computing needs, Internet companies have pioneered a class of systems sometimes referred to as "warehouse-scale computers," where the main focus is on low cost and extreme scalability. Programming models, such as the Map/Reduce framework pioneered by Google, have been developed that enable programmers to express programs at a high level, while letting the runtime software deal with the complexities of coordination, resource management, and fault tolerance. Newer work, such as the GraphLab system developed at CMU, has shown great promise solving large-scale machine-learning problems on this class of machines.
The Sherlock system at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center follows a very different strategy from the prevailing warehouse-scale trend. It relies on more specialized hardware providing direct support for sharing data between computing elements. The software environment supports a programming model that represents data as a set of graph-structured objects stored in a database, and with a query language that can extract information from these graphs and create new ones. This talk will review these different approaches to data-intensive computing, from both systems' and programmers' perspectives.
|Graph Models and Efficient exact Algorithms in Studying Cancer Signaling Pathways
Songjain Lu and Xinghua Lu, Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh
|As graphs have advantages in representing data and knowledge in biology, graph models have been widely used in the research of bioinformatics and computational biology, such as cancer study. Biological systems are complex; the majority of problems, when cast as graph problems, belong to a family of computational problems referred to as "NP-hard problems." For example, the problem of finding cancer pathways can be formulated as k-path problem, which is NP-hard. Hence, designing efficient algorithms to solve this type of computational problems plays a key role in cancer study. When dealing with NP-hard problems, people usually use heuristic or greedy algorithms, which cannot guarantee the quality of their solutions. This will thwart our effort of understanding the disease mechanisms of different cancers. In this presentation, we will discuss how to take advantage of the facts that many NP-hard problems are related to parameters that take only small values in practical application and design parameterized algorithms that can find exact optimal solutions for NP-hard problems in cancer study. We will discuss how to formulate biological problems of reconstructing cancer pathways into k-path or mutually exclusive set cover problems. Then we will discuss the basic idea of parameterized algorithms and give an example of how to use parameterized techniques to design efficient algorithms for the k-path problem. Finally, we will discuss how to parallelize our algorithms and use supercomputers to speed up the computing.
Large Graph Mining – Patterns, Tools and Cascade Analysis
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|What do graphs look like? How do they evolve over time? How to handle a graph with a billion nodes? We present a comprehensive list of static and temporal laws, and some recent observations on real graphs (e.g., "eigenSpokes"). For tools, we present "oddball" for discovering anomalies and patterns, as well as an overview of the PEGASUS system which is designed for handling Billion-node graphs. Finally, for cascades and propagation, we present results on epidemic thresholds as well as fast immunization algorithms.
|Building the right tools for Graph Analytics – how the uRiKA appliance enables rapid, iterative discovery
Jim Harrell, Vice President, Engineering, YarcData
|A high level technical discussion of the components of uRiKA that make the integrated appliance a perfect engine for large scale graph analytic tasks.
|Closing comments
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AUBURN HILLS -- In the battle of the bulk, the Detroit Pistons got outmanned by the Minnesota Timberwolves at home Tuesday.
The built-to-bludgeon Pistons felt the blunt force of what they typically do to other teams inside and dropped their second consecutive game, 121-94, the most points scored against them this year and their biggest margin of defeat.
The Pistons were outrebounded 46-39 in a game with four of the NBA's top 20 rebounders, Minnesota's Kevin Love and Nikola Pekovic and Detroit's Andre Drummond and Greg Monroe.
Love had 26 points, 16 rebounds and seven assists.
The Timberwolves were 28 of 33 on free throws, while the Pistons were 8 of 16.
The Pistons finish their first four-game, five-night situation of the season Wednesday in New Orleans.
--Chauncey Billups returned after missing 14 games with knee tendinitis. His handle was good, with five assists, but he was rusty finishing and was 2 of 7 from the floor. He scored seven points in 17 minutes.
--Kentavious Caldwell-Pope made a block on a Kevin Love fast-break dunk attempt. Look for it on your next ESPN SportsCenter Top 10, most likely.
--The previous high scoring total for a Pistons opponent was 119 by Oklahoma City. The previous biggest margin of victory by a Pistons opponent was 20 by Chicago.
--The Pistons trailed 64-51 at halftime. Minnesota was 17 of 21 from the line in the half, to the Pistons' 1 of 3. The 64 points equaled the most allowed this season by the Pistons in a half.
--Minnesota has won seven consecutive meetings with the Pistons. Even when the Timberwolves went 17-65 in 2010-11, they won both games in the season series with Detroit.
--Drummond was limited to eight points and eight rebounds and Monroe to 10 points and two rebounds. Their positional counterparts were Pekovic, who had 18 points and five rebounds, and Love.
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With construction fully under way at the new Rockford Historical Museum building, the Rockford Historical Society Board has now set its sights on renovating the museum's staff.
The board has selected Al Pratt as the managing director of the new Historical Museum, tentatively scheduled to open in April or May of next year.
"Our Society Board voted to offer the management position to Al several months back, and he has been working with us, without compensation, since then on fundraising and other projects," Society President Terry Konkle said. "He also has made himself available to help in the museum and is working with our current museum staff to familiarize himself with the museum's operation. Without his efforts, we would not be in the positive position that we are, and we look forward to his leadership."
In addition to his volunteer work with the Historical Society, Pratt has several decades of business experience, including a 10-year career as a buyer for Meijer and owning his own sales and marketing company for 20 years. In his new role as managing director, he will help oversee the planning and construction of exhibits and act as a public spokesperson for the museum.
Pat Frye, who has volunteered as the museum director for several years, will continue working with the museum as research director.
Pratt expressed gratitude for both his appointment and the team of volunteers who helped make the new museum a reality.
"I can't thank the Rockford Area Historical Society enough for the opportunity they gave me to be involved with the new museum project since last fall," Pratt said. "It has been a very rewarding experience to work with a small army of dedicated volunteers who persevered despite odds and non-believers that suggested that the project was an impossible dream."
Pratt said his first tasks as the newly appointed managing director will be to explore sponsorship opportunities for event and exhibit naming rights, as well as forming a team of volunteers to help run the new museum.
"My biggest challenges as managing director will be to continue to raise operating capital and to build a volunteer team that will make it possible for us to meet our commitment to the community," he said. "The new museum has pledged to be open at least 22 hours a week so we can serve the community better. That commitment will make us somewhat unique for a small city museum and creates opportunities for everyone from students to senior citizens who may have a few hours available to help us. Believe me, there will be something for anyone who wants to help."
For more information about the museum or the Historical Society, call (616) 485-4144.


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UGS 302 Signature Course Music Business Unique # 64675
MWF 2:00 p.m. MRH M3.112 Professor Glenn Richter
The history of the business of music
• The technologies and innovators that built the music business
• Guarding intellectual property – copyright legislation and Congressional acts of importance
• The power of the performing musical personality
• Opportunities for entrepreneurship – the money streams
• Agencies and societies with power and control of artistic properties
• The power of management: publishers, labels, career managers, venue managers
• The changing business models
The creative processes: writing and performing music
• Songwriting: lonely independence versus collaborations
• The art, life and challenges of the performance world
• Lyric and performance content issues: expression, confrontation, and censorship
• The non-profit sector; entrepreneurship in the classical world
Building an audience
• Music in media: radio, television, advertising, the internet
• The new model: Web 2.0
• Live performance venues: artist(s) and merchandise
• Capturing sounds: entrepreneurship in the recording arts
Discovering music and art
• Music at the Blanton
• Music at Bass, Bates or the Long Center
• Music in the commercial setting
• The power of music in sports
Connecting the dots: music in our lives
Class format: Class begins at 2:00 p.m. and concludes at 2:50 p.m. Punctuality is important to the professor and our guest speakers. Our visiting lecturers include songwriters, performers, publishers, administrators, venue directors, entertainment lawyers, and merchandising managers.
Reference materials (purchase not required)
• Music, Money, and Success, by Jeffrey Brabec and Todd Brabec
• The Music Business Handbook, 6th edition, by John Baskerville
• The Musician's Busiiness & Legal Guide, Mark Halloran
• Music Publishing, 5th Edition, Tim Whitsett
• Everything you wanted..the music business, Donald Passman
• Required supplemental readings available on Blackboard
Music performance or music reading ability is not required in order to be highly successful with this course.
Writing = 30% Speaking/discussing/attending = 35% Testing = 35%
10 short papers @ 2% ea. "My music" oral presentation = 5% Test 1 = 5%
[1 pg.] Oral presentation of research = 5% Test 2 = 10%
1 research paper = 10% "My venture" = 5% Test 3 = 10%
[5 – 8 pages] Debate topic A = 5% Final essays = 10%
Debate topic B = 5%
Participation and attendance = 10%
Grading option: Two or more students may collaborate on a research project. Such a project can combine the research paper (10%) under the writing caption with the oral presentation of research (5%) and "my venture" (5%) under the speaking caption. Collaborations require permission in advance from the professor before October 1.
Office hours
Associate Director's Office – 3.138. MW 11:00 – 11:30 a.m.; 1:15 – 1:45 p.m.; 3:00 – 3:30 p.m.
Tu-Th 1:30 – 2:30 p.m.
Target dates for assignments and quizzes:
Quizzes Essays – 1 page or less Research Oral presentations
9/25 9/4, 9/11, 9/18, 11/6 8/31 – "my music"
10/23 10/2, 10/9, 10/16, 10/30 11/6 - research
11/23 11/13, 11/20, 12/2 11/16 – music business venture
Essay topics include UGS lectures, performances, interviews, class discussions, readings, commentaries, criticisms, guest lecturers, discoveries….
Tentative guest lecturers
Jim Eno, drummer for Spoon Bruce Robison, award winning songwriter
Ed Fair, entertainment law attorney Gary Powell, producer of 47 million records for Disney
John Graham, director, Erwin Cntr. Casey Monahan, director, Texas Music Office
Cathy Panoff, director, PAC Wally Williams, co-owner, Tequila Mockingbird Productions
About the professor:
Professor Richter is in his 30th year with the University of Texas. He also served on the faculties at the University of Michigan and the University of Cincinnati. Professor Richter has enjoyed performance collaborations with a wide variety of artists, including soprano Barbara Conrad, country western singer Willie Nelson, the late Barbara Jordan, and composers Morton Gould, Gunther Schuller, and Karel Husa,. He has recorded and produced several CDs. As a conductor he directed public performances at Lincoln Center, the Dallas Meyerson Center, the Houston Wortham Center, and Austin's own Erwin Center. In 1995 he received the UT Ex–Students' Association "Top Hand" award and a special leadership excellence award from the Eanes School District. In 2000, the Tejas Foundation recognized him as a Distinguished Alumnus. In May of 2004 he received the teaching excellence award for Fine Arts. He is also a contributing author for a new textbook about the music business and careers in music.
Professor Richter serves as an Associate Director and Professor for the Butler School of Music. He is also the Director of the Center for American Music, housed in the U.T. School of Music. During the past two years he has built the framework for Longhorn Music, the new recording label recently trademarked by U.T.. His wife, Kitt, is a UT graduate who specializes in pre-school education. Their son, Zach, is a Plan II alumnus and Yale Law graduate now an attorney with the Department of Justice in Washington D.C.. Their daughter, Kathleen, a former All Big 12 player and Academic All-American for U.T. Softball, is an Assistant Athletic director and academic counselor for U.T. Athletics. Professor Richter enjoys ranching, organic gardening, and fishing the shallow bay waters of the Texas gulf coast.
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It will be a full weekend of Shakespearean fun at the Midsummer Night's Dream and Festival in Verona Park Saturday and Sunday.
The free event features a production of the play at 5 p.m. both days (pictured is Lily Burd as Puck), along with afternoon entertainment leading up to the show. The park will be packed with musicians, jugglers, storytellers, puppeteers and Renaissance performers.
While there is no admission charge, $5 donations are suggested to fund the nonprofit New Jersey Arts Incubator, which helped organize the fest. For more info, call (973) 669-0600 or visit njai.org. The fun begins at noon each day. The park is located at the intersection of Bloomfield and Lakeside avenues.
-- Lisa Rose
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Take an introductory ride on an equine, English style, at the Lord Stirling Stable in Basking Ridge Sunday.
The workshop is open to beginners ages 12 and older, with a mini how-to lesson followed by an hour-long trail ride accompanied by an instructor.
To register, participants must visit the stable in person. The fee is $32 for Somerset County residents and $40 for non-residents. Bring your own riding helmets and boots or rent them from the facility.
The park is at 256 S. Maple Ave. and the lessons start at 10 a.m. Call (908) 766-5955 or visit flssnj.org.
-- Lisa Rose
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Most movies are too long. At one of the more unusual film festivals in New Jersey this year, they can't be much shorter.
The FilmOneFest, which features one-minute movies by local and international filmmakers, will be held Saturday night at the Atlantic Highlands Municipal Marina.
Festivities begin at 7, with the Jose Loo trio entertaining with popular music and songs from movie soundtracks over the years. A "Name That Movie'' contest is scheduled, and jugglers, stilt walkers and entertainers will mingle with the audience.
The film festival begins at 9, with the movies shown on an outdoor screen.
Free seating will be plentiful, and there will be space to put lawn chairs and blankets to enjoy the show against a backdrop of sailboats at anchor and the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge. There will be free popcorn and drinks courtesy of Whole Foods in Middletown.
In case of rain or high winds, the festival will be moved to the Charles Hesse Parish Center, St. Agnes Parish, 55 South Ave., Atlantic Highlands.
The municipal marina is at First Avenue and the bayfront, Atlantic Highlands. For more information, call the Atlantic Highlands Art Council at (732) 865-7607 or visit filmonefest.org.
-- Peter Genovese
Pond scum is interesting when you're a kid. That's why Washington Crossing State Park will have a pond study Sunday to explore the organisms, big and small, that dwell in the park's pond.
Children will use nets to examine pond creatures in their natural habitat. The free event, for ages 6 to 10, will be held from 1:30 to 3 p.m.
The study will be held at the pond by the park service entrance off of Church Road in Titusville. For more information, visit nj.gov/.www.state.nj.us/dep/parksandforests.
-- Carrie Stetler
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International star Paul Potts performs Saturday night at 9 as part of his "Passione" tour in the Music Box Theater at Borgata.
Since winning "Britain's Got Talent," the singer has performed for Queen Elizabeth II, the Duke of Edinburgh as well as countless crowds at sold-out shows in concert halls, arenas and stadiums around the world. This month, Potts kicks off his first U.S. tour since 2007 and is expected to perform tunes from his new Columbia release, "Passione," which hit stores in May.
Borgata is at 1 Borgata Way. Tickets are priced at $39.50 and can be obtained by calling (866) 900-4849 or by visiting theborgata.com.
-- Anthony Venutolo
get crafty
Could another person's tiles, hardware or teacups be your treasure?
All kinds of innovative creations can be found at the shore's largest art, craft and gourmet food festival Saturday at Ocean City's Sports and Civic Center and the Carey Stadium.
More than 200 artisans will present a wide range of offerings, including earrings made of antique forks and spoons, coat hooks of hot and cold spigot handles, tiles and cups turned to wall hangings, pine needle wicker baskets and wrought iron mirrors. Baked goods and jams, fine art and photography will be on display as well; 100 percent of the profits from ticket sales and booth rentals are donated to local charities like the Ocean City Food Cupboard.
The festival takes place between Fifth and Sixth streets, just off the boardwalk. Show hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is $3, children are admitted free. Free metered parking is available. For information, call the Jersey Shore Artisans Guild, (800) 822-4112 or (609) 399-9998 or visit oceancitycraftshows.com.
-- Ronni Reich
glass blowing
Glass artists from across the U.S. and beyond will descend on WheatonArts' Creative Glass Center of America for its annual symposium and contemporary glass exhibition Saturday.
You'd have to pay to $400 or more to take full advantage of the weekend, but connoisseurs can spend $10 for admission to see some of the top glassblowers in America demonstrate their art from the gallery overlooking the studio (the admission also covers the regular attractions).
For $6 more, glass fans get access to the event center, where 18 internationally known galleries will present brand-new work from its artists.
Admission for seniors is $9, and for students, $7. WheatonArts is at 1501 Glasstown Road, Millville, Cumberland County. Call (800) 998-4552 or go to wheatonarts.org for more information.
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HUDSONVILLE -- Kyle Clement is planning to spend tonight patrolling the Pittsburgh Steelers' sideline and supporting his teammates in their matchup against the Arizona Cardinals in Super Bowl XLIII in Tampa, Fla.
Kelly Butler is left to cheer for the Cardinals from afar.
The two local NFL players, who'd prefer to be on the field, instead will be watching it from very different perspectives.
Clement, an injured rookie defensive end for the Steelers, is experiencing the Super Bowl up close and will receive a championship ring if his team prevails.
Butler, a four-year offensive lineman, still wonders what might have happened if he had not been one of the Cardinals' final roster cuts at training camp last summer. He will watch the contest with friends in front of a big-screen television.
"I'm excited," said Clement, a former Hudsonville High and Northwood University standout, who left Thursday for Tampa. "It's a once-in-a-lifetime thing. I'll get a ring if the Steelers win, although I don't feel like I've earned it. It's just nice of them to include me."
It might be the first of two ring ceremonies for him.
Clement, 23, and his fiancee, Adrienne Troha, are getting married April 18. He is taking his high school sweetheart with him to the Super Bowl.
"She's thrilled about it," Clement said. "(The Steelers) called me Monday and told me they had a pair of tickets for me."
The 6-foot-4, 310-pound Clement, placed on injured reserve in August, is determined to come back strong from the torn meniscus cartilage and the microfracture in his right knee he suffered during the preseason.
He spent the NFL season at home undergoing rehab.
"I'm extremely happy for the guys," he said, "but sitting out, having to watch, it's one of the hardest things I've ever had to do. I wanted to be there to help the team.
"It just pushes me that much more to get back on the field."
Butler, 26, still wishes he were with the Cardinals.
The former Grand Rapids Union High and Purdue University standout played for the Detroit Lions (2004-05) and Cleveland Browns (2006-07), but he has not been able to land a roster spot with another NFL franchise since -- despite some close calls.
"I could make myself angry if I thought about what could've or should've been," he said. "It came down to the final cuts. It was between me and one other guy. I was one player away from being on a Super Bowl team and being back in the NFL, but there's no hard feelings.
"I'm just going to enjoy the game," he added. "I'm extremely excited for them. I know a lot of guys on that team. I respect what they've done this season."
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True…people vote color not fact… I feel the same as you..They reap what they sow..
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Written by: Lloyd Marcus
Posted: Nov. 21st, 2012
Returning home after two months on the road touring the country singing, speaking, writing and campaigning to defeat Obama, I felt similar to a heartbroken soldier after losing a war. I trust God, but in all candor, I felt emotionally drained.
Shopping for salad stuff in Walmart, I focused on a sign "Gold Bell Peppers $1.68 each". To my surprise, I became extremely angry. As absurd as it sounds, $1.68 for one bell pepper was the straw that broke the camel's back. It epitomized my frustration and anger over the idiocy of Obama voters. Why in the world would they allow Obama to continue destroying our country?
Food and gas costs continue to sky rocket. Obama's war on domestic fuel, business and the rich kills jobs. He has tripled our national debt. And yet, according to exit polls, 52% still believe our poor economy is Bush's fault.
An idiot relative said, "I voted for Obama because Romney will make us all Mormons." A yahoo said, "I voted for free healthcare". News flash knucklehead, healthcare "ain't" free.
Thank God Christmas is over a month away. I need time for God to give me the grace to forgive my black family. I am furious and extremely disappointed in them for voting skin-color over Christian principles.
I feel like saying, "Don't tell me about your commitment to Jesus Christ ever again. I don't want to hear it!"
I will not apologize for my anger because mine is a righteous anger. Evil appearing to triumph should make one angry. Jesus was angry when He turned over the tables of the money changers in the temple.
The Bible says, "Be angry, but sin not". Thus, I will not tell-off my family and I forgive them. But, I think it best that I not be in their presence or take their phone calls for awhile.
Like millions of Americans, my heart is broken for my country. Years of liberals indoctrinating our kids K thru college and liberal bias in the media have created a wasteland of dumb-down idiot voters. Far too many Americans are clueless to the greatness of our republic and the extraordinary cost and value of freedom which is our God given birth-right.
I am angry over the willful ignorance and racism of black America. During an interview on the "Inside Detroit" radio program, I informed black liberal host Mildred Gaddis that gas was $1.84 when Obama took office. http://washingtonexaminer.com/
I am outraged regarding the blatant voter fraud in states where a photo ID was not required to vote. http://www.examiner.com/
More disappointed than angry, I was shocked to learn that Romney got 3 million less Republican votes than John McCain. After four years of Obama's tyranny, I assumed Republicans would crawl across broken glass to vote against Obama regardless of our candidate.
Since the election, I have avoided much of the media. I could not stomach the left spiking the football or weak-kneed conviction-less pandering from our side. Decisions made in panic or fear are always unwise. Better to wait until the dust clears rather than making new fear-based policy statements.
I still believe pedal to the metal Conservatism works every-time it is tried. Why? Because unlike Liberalism, Conservatism speaks to the higher nature of the human spirit and is best for all. Pure and simple.
Yes, there will always be those who want a free-ride. Jesus said the poor you will have with you always. No one is against a safety-net for those truly in need.
When the virtues of Conservatism are boldly articulated, they win in a landslide as per Ronald Reagan.
Beyond the catastrophic economic issues, Americans cried when Obama won reelection because of the death of an ideal. This evil dictator appears to have transformed America from being a shining example of the virtues of a free society into a nation of deadbeats in which class envy and government dependency rules. So yes, I am very angry.
Here is the good news. I am witnessing a new heightened resolve in patriots to fight harder than ever to turn our country around. We are in a culture war and more and more are beginning to realize it.
So I will suck up my anger, trust God, rest in His peace and continue doing my part in the battle to restore America.
Lloyd Marcus, Proud Unhyphenated American
True…people vote color not fact… I feel the same as you..They reap what they sow..
Hi Lloyd. It certainly is irrational to vote based on color rather than on issues. However, it is equally irrational (on your part) to brand the President as "evil", "dictator" and "tyrannical". And you insult your own intelligence by calling America a "wasteland of dumbed-down idiot voters". Far from it – the majority of them (barring the ones who voted purely on color) are of very balanced (not to be synonym-ed with liberal) mind and they made a choice and you must respect (if not like) it. Like you, they are proud and unhyphenated Americans and you must respect them for that as well. One final note – pay careful attention to the changing demographcs of America today; i predict that the radical right (you call it by the more genteel name of "conservative") that you represent will be so abhorrent to the majority of America, that in 8 years time, you will suddenly find yourself so much on the fringes that you are considered as irrelevant as the Green Party. ….
….. What America needs is a force that is just right of center to balance the counter force that is just left of center. It would be quite tragic if undoubtedly hardworking people like you paint yourself into irrelevance just because of a rigid far-right-of-center ideology. Wishing you the very best Lloyd. Thanks.


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HOUSTON – The Portland Trail Blazers grabbed a commanding 2-0 lead over the Houston Rockets in their best-of-seven first-round matchup. LaMarcus Aldridge posted another dominating performance in leading the Blazers to a 112-105 win over the Rockets in Game 2 Wednesday.
Considered the underdogs heading into the series, the teams now head to Portland out ahead needing two more wins to advance to the second round for the first time since the 199-2000 season.
Wrote The Oregonian's John Canzano following Wednesday's win:
Aldridge must continue to carry the Blazers. Portland must continue to recognize that he's playing the greatest basketball of his career, and has become the best power forward in franchise history.Read the full column: This playoff series now in LaMarcus Aldridge's two hands
Best ever, apologies to Maurice Lucas, Rasheed Wallace, Buck Williams, Mychal Thompson and Zach Randolph. But right now, Aldridge is doing something that none of them ever did alone. And he's doing it with the precision of a surgeon while also defending a guy nicknamed "Superman" on the other end of the court for stretches.
We have all the evidence we need. Aldridge is playing stronger around the basket than ever. He's rebounding better than ever. He's shooting as well as he has. When he caught the ball in the Toyota Center in the third quarter, dribbled, and turned, there was a strange, "WHOOSH" sound that would come over the crowd.
Catch, dribble, turn, shoot ... "WHOOSH." It was the sound of 18,331 Rockets fans collectively saying, "Oh, (expletive)."
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UPDATE: Because of inclimate weather, the WSDOT has canceled the closure of I-90 at the Mount Baker Tunnel in Seattle for Wednesday, Feb. 23. The closure of the on-ramps to eastbound I-90 from northbound I-5 and both ramps for directions of Rainier Ave. S will now be opened as well.
Next week there will be a variety of closures on Interstate 90, as part of a continuing projects. The Active Traffic Management Project by the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) will close lanes of I-90 across Mercer Island. On Monday, Feb. 21, Wednesday, Feb. 23 through the morning of Friday, Feb. 25 the closures will include: • Eastbound I-90 at the Mount Baker Tunnel. The first lane closes at 7 p.m., the second at 9 p.m. and the third at 11 p.m. Traffic during the closures will be rerouted through the express lanes. All lanes will be reopened by 4 a.m. • The on-ramp from northbound Interstate 5 to I-90 will close each night from 10 p.m. to 4 a.m. for construction. • The on-ramps both directions of Rainier Ave. S. to eastbound I-90 will close each night from 9 p.m. to 4 a.m. Monday, Feb. 21 through the morning of Feb. 25, up to three lanes on westbound I-90 will close in various locations from 150th Ave. S.E. to Eighth Ave. S each night for construction work. The first lanes close at 7 p.m., the second at 9 p.m. and the third at 11 p.m. All will be reopened by 5 a.m. On Tuesday, Feb. 22, up to three lanes on eastbound I-90 will close in various locations from Eighth Ave. S. to 150th S.E. may close nightly for construction work. All lanes will reopen at 5 a.m. For more information visit the WSDOT project page.
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As Utica Police continue to search for missing 9-month-old Levon Wameling, they are asking residents not to organize a search. Friday marks the third day of the search for Wameling.
Friday night Utica police say they're continuing to search the streets surrounding Jay Street for any sign of Levon, but have been unable to locate him. State Police brought in a helicopter to be used in an aerial search Friday, but nothing useful was found.
Police say they will continue to search throughout the weekend for Levon until he's found or until they have thoroughly checked and rechecked anywhere he might be.
Police say they are aware of a movement by area residents on Facebook to organize a search for the baby, but are asking residents not to do so.
They are also advising citizens not to search the nearby area of the father's home on Jay Street as it may contaminate the area police are searching,
Police ask that Utica residents only search their own property and areas just outside of their homes at this time. They say there may be a time when they ask for the public to assist in an organized search, but they are not requesting that now.
Levon Wameling went missing on May 29 and the childâ??s father, 27-year-old Jevon Wameling, only reported him missing on Tuesday, two weeks later. Police say the father claims the child disappeared from his front porch at 748 Jay Street.
A group of volunteer retired investigators from the Center for Missing and Exploited Children have teamed up with the Utica Police to search for the child and distributed posters with Levon's picture on them on Wednesday.
On Thursday night, the childâ??s mother, Amy Warney, asked for the community's help to find her son. "If you know where he is, if he's alive or dead, please call Utica Police so I can put him to rest. Don't be scared, if you know anything, please contact somebody," Amy said at a press conference.
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