Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Military jazz concert hosted by Ogden, Mountaineer

CHESTER - Veterans will be honored by the Jazz Ambassadors of the United States Army Field Band on June 28 with a free concert performance.

"The Freedom Concert: A Salute to Veterans" is scheduled to begin at 7:30 p.m. at the Harv at Mountaineer Casino, Racetrack and Resort. The approximately one-hour, 15-minute show will recognize the brave men and women who have served America.

The performance is sponsored by the The Review, the Morning Journal, the (Steubenville) Herald-Star, The Weirton Daily Times, and Mountaineer.

It will be the only indoor concert of the summer for the Jazz Ambassadors. An area color guard will help open the show, and three students from area high schools will have the opportunity to join the band in a musical selection.

Tickets will be available beginning today by using the coupon that is included in today's newspaper.

The show is expected to sell out quickly, and purchasers are asked to limit their requests to four tickets. Convenient free parking will be available at the venue, as well as wheelchair accessibility.

"The band represents soldiers at home and abroad, so it's a great opportunity for them to come to a small town in West Virginia and bring veterans together that have served throughout the years and their family members. Musically, they are terrific and the best at what they do. They tour 100 days annually and they carry the Army story across the nation," said Sgt. 1st Class Adam Getz, tour coordinator for the band.

All seating is general admission and will be first-come, first-served on the floor as well as the bleachers.

In addition, there will be a free commemorative program handed out to attendees at the event.

"Mountaineer Casino is pleased to join with Ogden Newspapers to present this very special night of entertainment. We are looking forward to the big band sound on the stage at the Harv," said Chris Kern, general manager of Mountaineer.

"It will truly be a community event and a celebration of America that will be shared with our neighbors and guests through Odgen newspapers' distribution of free tickets to those wanting to attend."

According to Tammie McIntosh, publisher of The Review, a big draw of the event is the band's "Armed Forces Salute," which specifically honors the veterans.

"The performers are so very talented and their music selection is wonderful. It expresses so well my love and pride for my country that it brings tears to my eyes," said McIntosh. "I'm excited to once again be able to host the band. The last time they played in our area, it was a sellout."

And that's what the show is really about -honoring and recognizing those who fought bravely for freedom and liberty. Larry Dorschner, publisher of the Morning Journal, said their sacrifice is something that is often forgotten or taken for granted.

"I think more than anything we want them to be honored and remembered for what they've given to this country. I think it's great anytime we can bring this quality of entertainment to the area, particularly to celebrate veterans at this time of year," said Dorschner.

Alex Marshall, publisher of the Herald-Star and The Weirton Daily Times, said the patriotic sounds of the band always make for an incredible show.

"We're happy to be teaming with the folks at Mountaineer, the Morning Journal and The Review to bring their big band sound to a large portion of Eastern Ohio and the Northern Panhandle of West Virginia," said Marshall.

Francesca Torini, a junior at Steubenville High School, is one of the area students who has been chosen to perform a selection with the band, and she said she is excited for the opportunity.

"I've been playing for about seven years. A friend of mine played with the band last year, so I'm very excited. It's a cool opportunity," said Torini.

She is planning to minor in music when she attends college.

"My parents are very proud and excited that I'm getting to do this. Music just makes me happy and I love doing it," Torini said.

For additional information, call Cindy Kotsch, special events and marketing coordinator for the Herald-Star and The Weirton Daily Times, at 740-283-4711, extension 215. Information on the United States Army Field Band can be found at www.armyfieldband.com.

"They are one of the country's top jazz ensembles and some of the most talented musicians around. They bring the story and the face of the Army to the grassroots of America," said Sgt. 1st Class Heather Van Beek, tour coordinator for the Field Band.

The US Army Field Band

For more than 60 years, the United States Army Field Band has been touring the world and entertaining audiences in First- and Third-World countries.

Forming in 1946, the field band has appeared in all 50 states and in more than 30 countries across four continents. The field band is comprised of four sections: the Concert Band, the Soldiers' Chorus, the Jazz Ambassadors and the Volunteers.

Each component tours more than 100 days annually, a schedule that includes formal public concerts, school assemblies, educational outreach programs, festivals and radio and television appearances.

The U.S. Army Field Band has been acclaimed by music critics nationwide as one of the most versatile and inspiring musical organizations in the world. Members are selected through highly competitive auditions and represent some of the highest musical talent in the country.

Their talent, combined with more than six decades of experience, has garnered them the title of "The Musical Ambassadors of the Army."

After World War II in 1946, the United States Armed Forces were in the midst of the largest military drawdown in modern history. Millions of servicemen and women returned stateside to resume their civilian lives and the military's numbers decreased dramatically. Gen. Jacob L. Devers foresaw the need to maintain a relationship between the Army and the American people and an important part of this effort was the First Combat Infantry Band.

The new band existed under the umbrella of U.S. Army Ground Forces, and was renamed the Army Ground Forces Band. In the spring of 1950, as the Army Ground Forces were re-titled "U.S. Army Field Forces," the band assumed a new name-the United States Army Field Band-that it keeps to this day.

The Jazz Ambassadors is comprised of 19 members and was formed in 1969.

Their performances include custom compositions and arrangements that showcase the musical talent of its members. Musical styles include: big band swing, bebop, Latin, contemporary jazz, Dixieland and a number of patriotic selections and more.

In addition to touring the states, the band has appeared in Canada, Mexico, Japan, India and throughout Europe. It has played at international jazz festivals in Montreux, Switzerland; Newport, R.I.; Brussels, Belgium; and the North Sea Jazz Festival in the Netherlands. In addition, in 1995 it performed in England, Wales, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Czech Republic to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II.

Than band has played with major orchestras such as the Detroit and Baltimore symphonies.

Every four years, the U.S. Army Field Band is charged with the special responsibility of leading the first element of the Presidential Inaugural Parade.

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PHS Athletics Roundup: Girls Track, Boys Golf, Baseball

Written by Portage High School ??

Girls Track finished 8th out of 31 teams at Regionals.

  • The 4x800 meter relay team of Paige Pizer, Keanna Crum, Salina McConnell, Abagail Trader finished in 6th place.
  • The 4x400 meter relay team of Pizer, Crum, Madison Kurtz, Victoria Ostrander finished in 8th place.
  • The 4x100 meter relay of Shakiea Boyd, Jade McKnight, Jalena Millsap, Victoria Ostrander finished in 4th place.
  • Also placing 4th in the shot was Tara Kostelnik.
  • Ashley Sosbe finished in 7th place in the Discus.
  • Finishing in 2nd place and Qualifying for the State meet on June 1st were Katie Engel in the Pole Vault and Jade McKnight in the Long Jump.

Congrats Lady Indians on a great outdoor Track season!

Boys golf Varsity beat M?ville 158-194. Nick Lewis 36, Jordan Henson 40, Tep Junyanid 40 and James Brasseur a 42. JV won 185-229 Tyler Gonzalez scored a 38.

The baseball team ended the regular season with an overall record of 23-6 by beating Morton 13-4. Zach Thorn had 3 hits, while Dave Jercha knocked in 3 runs. Gabe Acevedo became the first Portage baseball player to hit for the cycle (single, double, triple, & homerun

Club 300 ? 344
JV ? 127
Freshman - 49

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Justin Bieber Reportedly Scuffles With Paparazzi | Music News ...

Justin Bieber scuffled with a photographer in Calabasas, Calif. while out and about on Sunday (May 27), prompting police and a paramedic to respond, according to multiple news outlets. The scrap unfolded after a paparazzo apparently got a little too close to the?Believe singer, who had just emerged with girlfriend Selena Gomez?from a movie theater at the Calabasas Commons shopping center.?It was at least the second time in several weeks that Beiber has had run-ins with photographers, and this time, the cops showed up.

Details are still sketchy, but photos from the scene suggest that Bieber briefly lost his hat and one of his purple kicks in the fracas. (Note the scowl on Bieber?s face as he puts the shoe back on).

A witness tells entertainment site GossipCenter that Bieber and Gomez hopped into a van and sped away after the incident. Los Angeles County paramedics and local police arrived at the shopping center moments later, and the photographer received medical treatment for an apparent blow to the face.

Bieber has not commented on the incident, though Gomez posted to her Facebook page this afternoon: ?THANKS YOU SO MUCH to my fans for always protecting me and being there for me? I can?t thank you guys enough. I?m sorry I had to rush out. Love you guys.?

Does Bieber need to do a better job of controlling his tempter? Or are run-ins with the paparazzi the price of his fame? Let us know on Facebook, Twitter or in the comments.

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Tuesday, May 15, 2012

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Today, Affiliate marketing in Brisbane is expanding right into a broader sense that all company will use it to improve traffic and visitors online. Many Australian entrepreneurs consider website as being a crucial tool to get sales. Though website alone is not sufficient to generate sales, you still need promote and engage it with your existing customers through different strategies like SEO and others.

What?s Internet Marketing?

Online Marketing uses internet in promoting business or commerce online. It is strongly advised in promoting any products or services to offer them on the net. The efficiency of marketing tools have to be monitored to make sure that the approach getting used remain productive and rewarding. Therefore, keeping track of great and bad an Online marketing approach is also essential to produce your website going.

There are a number of site optimization and marketing via email tools that are available today. Current debts and selection of website marketing strategies might help ensure business success. Great design and content might better attract users to a particular website. It also ties together the innovative and practical aspects of the Internet which includes design, marketing, advertising and.

How can Internet Marketing help you?

  • It may help many small business owners in promoting their products online.
  • As Internet is becoming famous most website which uses SEO or Internet marketing generate traffic to their company?s homepage.
  • Online marketing help add prospective customers and the number of quality results in website.
  • Internet marketing may be enhanced by enriching one?s website.

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AFRICAN-AMERICAN AIRLINES | Weekly World News

DALLAS ? ? Tyler Perry reportedly made an offer to buy American Airlines. ?They accepted. ?The new airline: ?African-American Airlines.

The Texas-based AMR Corporation, the parent company of American Airlines, announced that the company filed petitions for Chapter 11 reorganization in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York, ?in order to achieve a cost and debt structure that is industry competitive and thereby assure its long-term viability and ability to continue delivering a world-class travel experience for its customers.?

WWN has learned that wealthy actor-director Tyler Perry has made an attractive offer for American Airlines. ?The offer, said to be near $5 billion dollars, was quickly accepted by the airline.

?Mr. Perry made a bold and brilliant move? he is the smartest mogul in the country,? said a source close to American Airlines. ??No other businessman would have the guts to try to bail out the biggest airline in the United States.?

Perry, the creator of the ?Madea? character and the ?House of Payne? sitcom, reportedly plans to rename American Airlines ? African-American Airlines. ?The new Perry run airline will be targeted to African-American passengers, but industry experts say that many white, asian and latino passengers will want to fly the airline, ?just to be cool.?

Sources close to American Airlines said the sale to Perry is in the best interest of ?the company and its shareholders.

Perry said he will not only be the CEO of the new airline, but he also will be the CFO, the COO, the CIO, the director of human sources and, of course, he will pilot many of the AAA flights.

American said it is operating normal flight schedules, honoring tickets and reservations, and making normal refunds and exchanges ? during the transition period.

Perry reportedly said he will slowly implement new changes. ??I want every flight to be a positive experience for all passengers and I hope to turn every flight into a morality play of sorts.?

How will Perry turn a flight into a morality play? ??He hasn?t figured that out yet, but there will be a Madea character on every flight,? said Perry?s limo driver.

This will be Perry?s first airline, but sources say he plans to buy an airline every year for the next twenty years.

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Americans Elect's effort for independent ticket in 2012 sputters (Los Angeles Times)

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Former Murdoch journalist: stories made up, lived in culture of fear (Americablog)

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Monday, May 14, 2012

ASUS Padfone video reminds us it's a phone, tablet, laptop and stylus

Android Central

One of the more memorable moments of this year's Mobile World Congress involved ASUS Chairman Jonney Shih unveiling the multitude of components that make up the ASUS Padfone. The Padfone, if you'll remember, starts off as an Android 4.0 phone, which you can then plug into a tablet dock to transform into an Android tablet. Then, in typical ASUS transformer style, adding the keyboard dock gives you an Android laptop. And then there's the capacitive stylus which also doubles as as a headset. Because hey, why not?

We got to meet the Padfone a couple of months back in Barcelona (and we've got words and video to prove it), but today ASUS has published one of the promotional videos first unveiled at its MWC press conference. There's a complete rundown of all the Padfone's features, along with specs and details of exactly how much batter life the entire package delivers. Connect the phone to the tablet, then the tablet to the keyboard dock, and ASUS says you'll get up to 102 hours of use.

There's no word on any official release date just yet, but we've got the video embedded after the break to whet your appetite.

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Seraku's Android mirror lets you reflect on your operating system

Seraku's Android mirror lets you reflect on your operating system

Phones, watches, TVs and in-car entertainment. Android has been put to work in many corners of our technological world. Now, it's reached another, less expected one -- mirrors. The Verge spotted itself the Smart Wash Basin prototype at Smartphone and Mobile Expo, and took a good look into it. The heavy lifting is done by a hidden Android tablet, and the reflective display is actually a separate monitor with a semitransparent piece of reflective glass. If you're thinking "smudges," hang fire, as RF proximity sensors are used, so you interact with it without smearing your paws across the shiny surface. The show prototype had water monitoring functions, and was coupled up to a set of scales in the floor. The manufacturer hopes one of the uses for the invention could be reading the news at the hairdresser. What we want to know is, when did salons suddenly go all futuristico?

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Sunday, May 13, 2012

Switched On: And smartplayers for all

Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about consumer technology.

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A few weeks ago, Switched On noted the challenges that even wildly popular, highly penetrated devices such as MP3 players and portable GPS devices have faced in the era of the converged device. Some of these devices, such as digital cameras, still hold on because of genuine advantages such as better image quality or optical zoom. For others devices, though, such as MP3 players and portable GPS devices, the grim news is that one of the main reasons consumers use them is to save smartphone battery life.

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Saturday, May 12, 2012

William Balfour Guilty In Jennifer Hudson Family Murder Case

Oscar winner was on hand when the jury read verdict convicting Balfour on all counts on Friday afternoon.
By Gil Kaufman


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After two-and-a-half days of deliberation, the jury in the murder trial of William Balfour returned a guilty verdict on all counts on Friday afternoon (May 11).

Balfour was on trial for the murders of Oscar-winner Jennifer Hudson's mother, brother and nephew. The jury returned guilty verdicts on three counts of murder, as well as one count each of home invasion, residential burglary, possession of a stolen vehicle, and aggravated kidnapping.

Because Illinois no longer has a death penalty, Balfour will spend the rest of his life in jail without the possibility of parole. According to the Chicago Tribune, an hour before reading the verdict, the jury sent a note to Judge Charles Burns informing him that they were split, but still working to reach a verdict. Around the same time, Burns received another note asking for all of the evidence about the cell-phone tower coverage in the area of the murder.

The judge sent back a transcript of the testimony of FBI Special Agent Nikki Skovran, who performed a forensic analysis on Balfour's cell phone on the day of the murders that placed him near the Hudson home around the time the victims were killed. Earlier, the jury of six men and six women had requested copies of two videos in evidence: one from an area high school that showed the time Balfour's car was parked on the street and another of the police interrogation of Balfour, in which he claimed he left it there around 8:30 a.m. on the morning of the murders.

During the trial, prosecutors had argued that the time stamp on the school surveillance video provided proof that Balfour, 31, was lying about his whereabouts that morning. Balfour is alleged to have shown up at the Hudson home on the morning of the killings appearing agitated, saying he'd been up all night drinking. He spotted balloons that Julia received from a new boyfriend for the holiday Sweetest Day, got angry and punched the balloons, according to police. When Julia left the house to go to work, Balfour remained behind outside.

The jury began their deliberation on Wednesday night and had been sequestered at a hotel for two nights.

As the verdict was read, Hudson, huddled close with her fiancé, David Otunga, and sister Julia, said "yes!" and broke into tears, according to CNN.

Lawyers for Balfour had argued that the state's case was based largely on circumstantial evidence and lacked any DNA or fingerprints tying Balfour to the crime scene. Furthermore, they insisted that Chicago police had hastily investigated the crime and rushed to apprehend their client because of the media attention on the case due to Hudson's fame. They proposed the alternate theory that some other unknown assailant in the crime-ridden Southside Chicago neighborhood had targeted the family because of the alleged crack-cocaine dealing activities of Hudson's brother, Jason.

During 11 days of testimony from 83 witnesses — only two of which were called by the defense for a total of 30 minutes — prosecutors rebutted that claim by presenting witness testimony, firearms evidence and cell-phone records that pointed toward Balfour's guilt.

Though prosecutors lacked hard physical evidence, they repeatedly alluded to threats Balfour had made in the past on the lives of Julia and her family, as well as the cell-phone records and the gun residue on Balfour's clothing in the vehicle he stole from the Hudson home.

Hudson took to the witness stand on the first day of the trial and tearfully recounted her family's disapproval of Balfour's relationship and marriage to the singer's sister, Julia. The "Dreamgirls" star choked back tears that morning as she told jurors that no one in her family wanted Balfour to marry her sister.

"We didn't like the way he treated her, and I didn't like the way he treated my nephew," she said of Balfour, who had pleaded not guilty to three counts of first-degree murder in the October 24, 2008 slayings of Hudson's mother, Darnell Donerson; brother Jason Hudson; and her 7-year-old nephew, Julian King.

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