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A shared resource of The Gibraltar Encyclopedia of Progressive Rock and Gnosis web sites
by Mike McLatchey
Considering the problems inherent in merely agreeing upon a definition of progressive rock, the task of identifying and describing its widely varied genres is a difficult and somewhat arbitrary exercise. It is the very nature of the music that ostensibly serves to move forward to leave behind the familiar and become something removed from its departure point. Thus, progressive rock, by definition, can be said to move beyond its origins. In like fashion, this guide intends to follow suit and accompany progressive rock as it moves forward without restriction.
However, progressive rock has now long grown past being an indicator of an artist's forward-moving musical direction and has become tied down to stylistic mannerisms, a fate antithetical to its central definition. Today, the definition of progressive rock often signifies less about research and more about recapitulation. It does not reflect the eclectic enthusiasms of its origins, while seeking to pay homage to them nonetheless. As such, progressive rock has gathered to itself an assimilative quality whose experiments remain part of the pantheon even when current progress has left them long behind.
The Guide to the Progressive Rock Genres is designed to be inclusive of the various lineages, expressions and influences found in and beyond progressive rock. By seeking to accompany progressive rock as it moves forward, the guide will begin with the familiar and often recreated and move to the unclassified. In doing so, it will move from music rarely disputed as being "progressive rock" to those genres whose inclusion reflects the spirit rather than the style. It attempts to document genres and not to define or create (this is absolutely not a canon), to allow even the most tenuous of relativity to be considered as having relevance.
The idea of genres comes basically from the question "What does it sound like?" In describing the indescribable, the music fan uses a number of mechanisms to help identify traits that further elucidate connections between what is known and what is being explored. Whether these traits can be considered valid or otherwise, it is clear they exist, and exist as a trait of the consumer, rather than the artist who often feels such labels to be limiting and corrosive. The intent of this writing is not to create labels, but rather to document them and explore their connections both legitimate and tenuous.
This overview of genres is split into five major categories. As the central focus point for this document is progressive rock, the first section, IV. Rock, will be the largest and most detailed. As progressive rock drew in a varying degree of jazz, folk, and electronic influences, these middle three categories (V. Jazz / Jazz Rock / Fusion, VI. Folk / Folk Rock, and VII. Electronic) are designed to consider the overlap with the first section while moving farther away from the focus as each section progresses. The final section, VIII. Unclassified, moves to the intangible, trans-genre or genreless. An IX. Appendix follows to cover the progressive differentiation in the heavy metal genre.
Several terms are used to elucidate a given area in a genre. In this document, the word school is used to indicate a group of artists related to each other by a particular quality such as country, decade, or record label. These schools are given as examples to show trends that will describe and clarify a larger genre or category. Forms are used to describe a style or genre through which a progressive expression is made or that influences or fuses with other forms of the genre. When forms are described, they are to be considered in the light of the larger organization. For example, when hard rock or heavy metal is discussed, they are discussed in light of the guide's attempt to explore progressive rock without limits.
Also, each section is structured to take into account the influences that sparked the genres discussed, to overview major features, to discuss tangential and relative genres, moving to the frontiers of both the avant-garde and the gray areas between. The idea is to present the areas of progressive rock as something that disregards convention and boundaries and moves towards a wide degree of separation. As stated earlier, the document is intended less to be strict and definitive, and rather to explore the metagenre as a differentiated evolution.
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The genres here will all have in common a foundation in rock music (as opposed to just a peripheral aspect), mostly as inherited from the rock 'n roll of the 50s through its many metamorphoses in the 60s.
For many listeners, the vast world of symphonic rock in all its guises is the be-all and end-all of progressive rock and thus deserves premier attention. Symphonic rock is characterized, usually, by extended song structures or suites; instrumental, symphonic orchestration (whether actually utilized or approximated); and a tendency to draw in romantic period classical motifs as well as smaller portions of jazz, rock, and folk. It must also be mentioned that the subject matter in symphonic rock often tends towards topics revolving around science fiction, fantasy and alternative religion.
Attention must be given here to early Moody Blues and King Crimson , whose use of the mellotron approximated a backing string orchestra, but it was most likely groups such as Yes and Genesis who popularized and more distinctly defined the genre. Since symphonic rock has had a wide variety of faces, a list of these schools by country and decade may be of assistance.
This section covers some of the more recent schools of symphonic rock.
In the United States in the 70s, several bands with symphonic rock influences absorbed these influences into a mainstream and accessible format. As a result, the bands grew quite popular, many of their albums achieving gold and platinum status. Alongside pop rock acts like Journey, Boston, REO Speedwagon, and Foreigner, were symphonic rock-influenced acts like Kansas, Supertramp, and Styx.
The psychedelic impact was often felt later in other countries. In the 70s, Japan also had a prevalent psychedelic rock scene including outfits such as Cosmos Factory, Flied Egg, and Flower Travelling Band, all who often dabbled in more progressive and symphonic modes. Brazil also had a strangely active psychedelic scene at the turn of the 70s and beyond including Lula Cortes y Ze Ramalho, Os Mutantes, Som Imaginario and Modulo 1000. England's revival of psychedelic music paralleled the space rock scene and included artists such as Sundial, Bevis Frond and Porcupine Tree. Today there are countless variations of psychedelic music, and as this guide continues, this is a strain that will continually follow the music into the unclassified.
The following demonstrates why the concept of "progressive rock" as a style (read: equivalent to symphonic rock) is inherently flawed given the amount of material covered up to this point.
The intent here is not to be exhaustive in revealing every example of influential progressive rock that doesn't fit into or relate to one of the above categories, but to at least demonstrate in a general sense the nebulous nature of the field even before taking steps outside of a strong rock base or to an artist-by-artist level of detail. It could be said that musicians such as Frank Zappa and Mike Oldfield have created styles of rock music that change dramatically outside of their large and influential purvey and that the music created by both is unclassified at least within the constraints of rock music. Such a level of detail is beyond the scope of this document.
It is this tendency to the dramatically unconventional and avant-garde that brings us to the next section.
This general category seeks to cover bands exploring unconventional territory, generally within or related to a rock framework. The vast number of stylistic variations that fall under the rubric of "avant rock" are difficult to group adequately, although there are some common threads.
Chris Cutler, original member of the British musical collective Henry Cow and the man behind the scenes at Recommended Records in England, had this to say about RIO: "RIO short for Rock In Opposition was named to give some identity to a festival we (Henry Cow) ran in London in the Spring of 1978 ... The only groups ever involved were: Henry Cow, Samla Mammas Manna (Sweden), Etron Fou Leloublan, (France) Stormy Six (Italy), Univers Zero and Aqsak Maboul (Belgium), Art Zoyd (France) and Art Bears."
At this point, further elucidation on the rock genre is virtually impossible without bringing attention to where rock becomes much more than rock and begins its interplay with the rest of the field of music to a level where the strong rock element becomes more and more diluted with its hybridization.
This genre, named by the town in Kent, England where the musicians in the mid-60s group The Wilde Flowers hailed from (a band which was progenitor to both the Soft Machine and Caravan), drew on varying elements of classical architecture, the influences of American jazz, whimsical and humorous lyrical imagery, and the prevailing psychedelic atmosphere of the times to create a variant and exciting school of complex rock. Although the Soft Machine and Caravan were the only groups to originate from Canterbury itself, the familial nature of the ever-changing line-ups of these groups created a school by affiliation, especially after the Soft Machine relocated to London. The styles of the artists adopted under the Canterbury genre varied from the psychedelic whimsy of Caravan, the increasingly jazz-rock Soft Machine, and the sly song structures of Kevin Ayers onto some of the most intricate rock ever created in Hatfield and The North and National Health. Canterbury music also overlapped with British jazz-rock (see below), space rock pioneers Gong, classical rock in Egg, RIO forefathers Henry Cow and melodic progressive group Camel. Canterbury music was so popular in mainland Europe in its heyday, it spawned numerous stylistically influenced ensembles such as Supersister, Moving Gelatine Plates, and Brainstorm. It has also continued to influence a generation of modern groups such as Rascal Reporters, French TV, Volare and Bablicon. For more information on the genre check out the Calyx website at http://perso.club-internet.fr/calyx/.
The word fusion commonly refers to a music fusing jazz and rock together, a style that grew out of the jazz scene in the late 60s through Miles Davis and many of his musical contemporaries of the time. This section will cover the common definitions of jazz rock and fusion as well as moving on to other unique meetings between the two styles of music. It will also demonstrate other ways jazz evolved in the late 60s and early 70s to parallel the course of progressive rock in its experimentation with psychedelia and world fusions.
The influence of jazz up to its head-on collision with rock in the late 60s deserves a quick mention here. While it is not the intent of this document to go into detail, suffice it to say that the legacies left by luminaries such as Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Charles Mingus, Pharaoh Sanders, Ornette Coleman, Sun Ra, Thelonious Monk, and many others were influential to a significant number of genres that fall under the progressive umbrella.
The term "fusion" is often considered a synonym for "jazz rock," although some critics make a distinction between them. For example, Stuart Nicholson, in his book Jazz-Rock, A History (page xiii (Preface), Canongate Books, 1998) states, "I have stuck to the old fashioned term jazz-rock because first of all I liked it and secondly I wanted to make a distinction between it and fusion (and its latter-day equivalents, variously marketed as smooth jazz, quiet storm lite-jazz, hot tub jazz or yuppie jazz)."
For the sake of simplicity, this document roughly equates the two terms.
"Kozmigroov is a transgressive improvisational music which combines elements of psychedelia, spirituality, jazz, rock, soul, funk, and African, Latin, Brazilian, Indian and Asian influences. At its most accomplished, Kozmigroov is both expansive and highly rhythmic, and simultaneously finds connections with the mind, soul and body." - from http://www.freeform.org/music/kozmigroov-index.html.
Kozmigroov is one of the more recent genre descriptions described in this body of work, and it is fundamentally described as a cosmic vibe that ties a number of jazz and fusion artists together with world music. As a fundamentally spiritual music it parallels the evolutionary patterns of rock and jazz in great detail. Among the "A List" of kozmigroov albums ( http://www.jahsonic.com/Kozmigroov.html) are artists such as Alice Coltrane, Miles Davis, Pharoah Sanders, Herbie Hancock, Eddie Henderson and Sun Ra.
In itself, funk was a development from the rhythm & blues/soul of the 60s, often evincing influences from jazz and fusion. As a style developing in the psychedelic era, it crossed over frequently with rock and jazz music to create a number of inventive hybrids. Early groups whose tendencies towards psychedelia and improvisation brought them closer to the rock of the time include Funkadelic, Mandrill, Oneness of Juju, and Earth, Wind and Fire. There are also a large number of examples that overlap with jazz and fusion styles.
There is a gigantic field of experimental and avant-garde jazz that rode parallel to the jazz and fusion schools from the 60s to the present day, whether associated by label (such as ECM) or musicians. A wide variety of notable forward-leaning artists, besides many of the artists mentioned in the introduction to this section, include Anthony Braxton, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Cecil Taylor, John Zorn, Peter Brotzmann, Sonny Sharrock, Archie Shepp and Albert Ayler. A few of these artists even brought rock into their sound, although in a way unrelated to the fusion schools mentioned earlier.
The modern European jazz schools have also brought out a number of obscure but talented and extremely modern artists whose stylistic mergings with rock and folk stylings tend to blur any sense of boundaries. Some of these artists, such as German clarinet player Michael Riessler and hurdy gurdy virtuoso Valentin Clastrier, have created music from a totally unrelated school with occasionally serendipitous similarity to RIO and avant rock.
Primarily, it's the spirit that is important in this section as this is an area largely away from rock influence. However, the experimental and adventurous leanings of this music cause it to find thematic similarities in much of the psychedelic and free rock already spoken of as coexisting with progressive rock.
Whether one ascribes the first fusions of Western music with rock and fusion to Ravi Shankar or Shakti preeminently, both must be mentioned if one is talking about the meetings of western and eastern music in a fusion context. Indo-fusion generally operates in a musical sphere far beyond the eastern tinges that give a lot of rock music an exotic flair. The difference here is between a true fusing of Indian music and jazz/rock and a rock with Indian instrumental accompaniment. Often, Indo-jazz fusion inseparable from a melting pot of other oriental cultures including Japanese, Chinese, Asia Minor, and Africa. An excellent guide to the east meets west can be found at http://www.lutins.org/indyjazz/index.html.
Down this far, it is interesting to see what are largely fusions of jazz with both Western and Eastern ethnic/traditional styles. The following groups all operate in a no-mans land that introduces jazz to the varying world styles of its progenitors. The resemblances to rock music are all but minor here, although the power of the fusions often resemble it in spirit. Some examples are Piirpauke (Finnish jazz/folk), Archimedes Badkar (Swedish jazz/folk/trans-ethnic), Oriental Wind (Swedish jazz/folk/traditional led Turkish drummer Okay Temiz), Embryo (German jazz/rock/multi-ethnic) and Baba Jam Band (jazz/rock/folk/trans-ethnic).
As jazz disseminates by way of fusion, that is, by it's merging with, at first, conventional styles like rock and folk, and later with its encounters with both Western and Eastern styles and modes of music, it also leaves its base for waters uncharted. At its complete meltdown the style generally is noticeable by its folk/traditional/ethnic stylings.
Folk music is, by definition, music handed down and created by the common people. And in hundreds of world cultures, folk music has varied extensively, although it can safely be said that folk was originally a music of acoustic instrumentation with traditional ancestry. This section is primarily interested in the point where folk meets rock (and other styles) and the surrounding territory.
The history of traditional American folk music played a large part on the burgeoning beat and psychedelic movements, led in the mid 60s by songwriter Bob Dylan. A number of American groups soon began to incorporate the strains of the music into the pop and rock formats of the day, including Crosby, Stills and Nash, The Byrds, Buffalo Springfield, and Tim Buckley. Many of these artists were influential on similar attempts to fuse rock and folk across the Atlantic.
It is not the intention of this document to cover varying ethnic musics in depth, although this section is set aside to elucidate one concept. There is a tendency for the exotic natures of ethnic fusions to approach in intent a similarity to progressive music. Whether Greek like Ross Daly, Hungarian like Kolinda, Portuguese like Madredeus, or Nigerian like Fela Kuti, a strong traditional element can be the starting point for a variety of new stylistic experiments on tradition.
The fusing together of a number of traditional and ritualistic musical elements has created a wide variety of innovative and groundbreaking folk "fusions" that can often be described as trans-genre or pan-ethnic in that the musical styles incorporated are wide and very difficult to quantify separately. Probably the earliest was Britain's Third Ear Band who combined raga, trance, tribal, and medieval influences into a vibrant and mystical music. Italy's Aktuala threw everything into the pot to create three albums of eastern and western influenced acoustic music with a plethora of levels. Poland's Ossian created a heavy psychedelic acoustic trance music with African and European influences and later incorporated jazz and continued for decades changing their name to Osjan and being a prototype for a similar modern group Atman and its offshoot the Magic Carpathians. Similar, but geographically separated ensembles include Spain's Babia, France's Clivage and Babel, Japan's Taj Mahal Travellers and Germany's Emma Myldenberger and Radio Noisz Ensemble.
The addition of electronics into this blend is a common feature of many trans-ethnic musics. Between worked parallel to the krautrock schools bringing together ritualistic and Third Ear Band-influenced raga structures with electronic soundscaping. Even Third Ear Band themselves left their original path in the 90s for fusions with electronic and space music. Undoubtedly, music blending folk and traditional musics with the electronic bring us once again into the sphere of psychedelic and space music, however a sphere with almost no relationship to rock music at all. Here we leave traditional and ethnic musics behind completely.
The evolution of electronic music, from tone generators to oscillators and analog to digital, paralleled the fields of rock, jazz, classical and folk. In many ways it combined with elements of these musics to create new genres, many that leave the beaten path of melody and rhythm into abstract areas where the movement is on the timbral level.
Early on, twentieth century academic music incorporated experiments with evolving electronic techonology, and there were several musicians who can be said to be among the pioneers in electronic music and/or musique-concret. While it is not the express purpose of this guide to document in detail the history of electronic music, a number of pioneers in the field of electronic music should be mentioned as setting the stage for the number of hybrids to come. Notable names are Morton Subotnik, Charles Wuorinen, Milton Babbitt, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Otto Luening, Mario Davidovsky, Vladimir Ussachevsky, Edgard Varese, Tod Dockstader, Pierre Henry and Pierre Schaeffer.
As the boundaries continue to crumble and the identifiably rock, jazz, folk and electronic begin to blur into a lack of distinction, we long leave behind the realms of the familiar and even the fleetingly describable. There are such a wide variety of musics on the fringe that do not fit comfortable in any of the above categories that one can't possibly hope that all of the frontiers are covered. Of course, it is not the intent of this document to be completist, however a few elucidations ought to at least identify the scope of what seems to be progressive music's destination - the undefineable, the Unclassified.
Several roads from the previous sections lead to the Unclassified. In rock, jazz, folk and electronic, the groups considered avant-garde (avant-rock, avant-jazz and avant-folk) verge in the direction of the unclassified as the conventions of the operative music are thrown aside. Some excellent examples of the Unclassified where all these musics meet include Pierrot Lunaire's Gudrun, a place where no particular style is the mainstay and elements are juxtaposed in unusual ways in a strange, alchemic cocktail. Älgarnas Trädgård's Framtiden Är Ett Svävande Skepp, Förankrat i Forntiden is a similar hybrid, although resulting from the psychedelic school years earlier and covering enough influences to make any single reference point invalid by default. Italian pop artist Franco Battiato spent a long number of years in the 70s creating an unparalleled stream of albums that seemed to flirt with just about every genre mentioned here so far, from the strange electronic and folk experimentations of Foetus to the later minimalist electronic works of the mid to late 70s.
And where to classify the collage-like works of Nurse With Wound, Current 93, Pierre Henry, Stock Hausen and Walkman, Runzelstirn & Gurglestock, John Oswald, etc? Having influences from musique-concret, krautrock and other psychedelia where music leaves the world of melody and harmony as it does in some of the industrial forms of electronic and beyond, there seems to be little consensus as to what one calls these musics. And it's particularly this area where description breaks down where one can call an end to the attempt.
At first, I planned to include this section under II.B as a style peripheral to symphonic rock, but as it grew, I realized that the genre itself was far too differentiated to fit comfortably there, not to mention, as a style of hard rock, the section moved perpendicular to the outline of this document. Thus this section is added as an adjunct to the overall organization.
The field of heavy metal has been cross-influential with progressive and psychedelic rock since its heyday, giving birth to a host of differing stylistic variations that have multiplied and evolved for over 30 years. The following is an extremely condensed and very cursory look at the evolution of heavy metal, a genre whose progression, at least in the underground, has spawned a mighty number of acts whose creative outlooks run parallel to those of the progressive rock schools.
Vertigo stalwarts Black Sabbath are often considered the father of heavy metal, and thus the scope of heavy metal starts a little further back as an ancestor to the later exploratory forms of the genre. Black Sabbath and Judas Priest were a large influence on what became the NWOBHM (New Wave of British Heavy Metal), who was the precursor to the heavy metal of the 80s and 90s and included groups in its lineage such as Saxon, Iron Maiden and Diamond Head. This school of increasingly harder rock was the primary influence on cutting edge, diverse metal artists like Mercyful Fate, Candlemass, Voivod, Metallica, and Bathory who began to expand the limits of the genre with more elaborate musical arrangements in varying areas of heavy metal.
Some variations of heavy metal incorporated multi-thematic and grandiose elements into their music in the 80s, most notably Queensryche, Fates Warning, and finally Dream Theater. Others, like Watchtower and Sieges Even, concentrated on rhythmically and harmonically complex compositional work. These bands are often considered close to the genesis of progressive metal or prog-metal due to their more overt inclusion of 70s symphonic rock influences in their style. The influence of the band Rush, who are acknowledged fans of bands such as King Crimson and Yes, was also a looming influence on many of these groups.
However, despite "prog-metal" becoming as stylistically tied to one particular strain of the genre as "prog rock" is to symphonic rock, the act of innovation, advancement and change has acted on numerous variations of heavy metal not normally considered part of "prog metal" per se. A sampling of genres with examples relevant to this document follow.
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Updated 3/23/06 (link squares in Technical Metal)
Updated 9/29/06 (link squares in '70's Italian Sympho and Krautrock)


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Phase and intensity dependence of the dynamical Franz-Keldysh effect
Dent, C. J., Murdin, B. N. and Galbraith, I. (2003) Phase and intensity dependence of the dynamical Franz-Keldysh effect Physical Review B, 67 (165312).
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We present theoretical results on the nonlinear optics of semiconductor quantum wells in intense THz electric fields (the dynamic Franz-Keldysh effect or DFKE). The absorption spectra show a rich variety of behavior, including THz replicas of the 2p exciton and THz sidebands of the 1s exciton. We calculate the dependence of these features on the phase and intensity of the THz field using the extended semiconductor Bloch equations, and discuss the relevance of our results to future experiments. The 1s-sideband absorption feature shows a strong dependence on the phase of the THz field, and phase averages to zero. We also discuss the relative advantages and disadvantages of reflectivity and absorption spectroscopies for probing the DFKE.
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Monday, December 31, 2012
A Baking Bonanza!
Next I moved on to these amazingly tasty loaves of white bread. Made from scratch and hand-kneaded, they were definitely worth the work. This recipe made four loaves. This bread is so good that it makes me want to not bother buying store-bought bread anymore. But my loaf pans are tiny and a bit small for sandwich bread. Does anyone know of a place that sells loaf pans that are more like the size of loaves of bread you'd buy in a store?
this. I ended up finding the upright racks she stores her muffins tins and cutting boards in at Walmart for about $5. Now my muffin tins are all in order and easy to grab - I love it! But anyway, back to Target. My store had tons of holiday clearance, but just the usual stuff - wrapping paper, candy, ugly decorations, etc. I wasn't impressed...until I spotted this Nordic Ware mini-loaf pan. I just couldn't resist. Nordic Ware makes the cutest stuff! They had a bunch of cute muffins too for around $6.
Georgian Cheese Bread. It doesn't look like much, but boy was it good. The dough was super sticky and didn't rise very much (it was a bit cold in the house) so I wasn't expecting much when I put it in the oven to bake. I think next time I'll double the recipe since the loaf came out on the small side. DBF has already put in a request for me to make this one again ASAP.
Pepperoni Muffins a try.
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- Thrifty T said...
Your bread looks so yummy (I can smell the yeast and the rising bread now). I'm adding the cheese bread to my want to make list!
Thanks for sharing!
- January 1, 2013 at 11:34 AM
- debbielynne said...
That bread looks sooooooo good!
- January 1, 2013 at 12:09 PM
My mom always raised her bread and rolls in the oven with the light on. It is just enough heat from the bulb to make bread raise perfectly!
- January 1, 2013 at 1:02 PM
- Bonnie said...
Here is the pan I "splurged" on this a couple of weeks ago. I LOVE the pan and if you look right now they have the pan "used-like new" for almost 50% less...if I didn't already have mine I'd go for the "like new" pan in a heart beat... http://www.amazon.com/Parrish-Magic-Line-Inch-Medium/dp/B001TH8YU6/ref=sr_1_1?s=home-garden&ie=UTF8&qid=1357082220&sr=1-1 (choose 12.5"x5"). By the way I made this in my new pan (I doubled the recipe and filled the pan 2/3 and then pad enough batter left for muffins too...amazing! http://www.portuguesegirlcooks.com/2012/11/dark-chocolate-espresso-pumpkin-bread/
I made her bread pudding out of it too...big hit!!! But took a while to complete all the steps. http://www.portuguesegirlcooks.com/2012/11/dark-chocolate-espresso-pumpkin-bread-pudding-with-salted-caramel-sauce/
Happy new year!
- January 2, 2013 at 4:07 AM
- Hunie said...
Wow! this all looks fantastic!
- January 5, 2013 at 3:38 PM
- frugalsuz said...
Thanks all, they were all really tasty!
Mary - great tip, I'll have to try that the next time I make bread.
Bonnie - thanks for the link, that looks like exactly what I'm looking for!
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It is a well-documented fact that intellectual property laws and enforcement in some nations is sorely lacking, and this, for example, is one reason why outsourcing in those nations has not grown at a faster pace than we have seen.
China is a key player in this scenario, and recent talks between U.S. President Barak Obama and President Hu of China have addressed another key problem—software piracy in China, where numerous reports say that pirated software is commonly sold on street corners and online.
Not unexpectedly, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was among the corporate executives in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 19 for Hu's visit, reports online news source TechFlash. It was in that context that the U.S. President cited comments made earlier in the day by Ballmer regarding software piracy.
"Steve Ballmer of Microsoft pointed out that their estimate is that only one customer in every 10 of their products is actually paying for it in China," says Obama in a White House transcript. "And so can we get better enforcement, since that is an area where America excels—intellectual property and high-value added products and services.
"And the Chinese government has—to its credit—taken steps to better enforce intellectual property," Obama adds. "We've got further agreement as a consequence of this state visit. And I think President Hu would acknowledge that more needs to be done."
Gee, that sounds nice, doesn't it? I'm sure there was a lot of smiling and nodding of heads at the appropriate time when these things were said. Unfortunately, there was a lot that remained unsaid. First and foremost, we are offered no details on just what will be done and when it will be done. Some online sources note that the Chinese government is reluctant to come down on the illicit software trade, because it contributes significantly to local economies in that nation.
Then again, we shouldn't forget that the Chinese military has been implicated in cyber-attacks on the U.S. Department of Defense, and on Google. There was also that little episode last year in which Chinese servers were used to temporarily hijack a good percentage of worldwide Internet traffic. We're still not sure why that happened or what they did, but the Chinese government is denying everything.
So the politicians posture and spout sanitized dialogue while in the real world, things are not so peachy. Insurers are eager as ever to expand their business into China, but can our vendors afford to have their software illegally copied and used? Will those same insurers compensate our industry software providers for pirated applications used in China—in order to keep things cordial with their Chinese business partners?
Don't hold your breath on that one. When it comes to China, our country and our industry remain blissfully in denial, despite openly hostile policies and actions. One wonders how much of this we can stomach, but it seems that money will provide the ultimate antacid for such woes.
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Alexander - Diane "Kitty" J. Keicher, 70, of Alexander, retired executive secretary for National Grid, passed away on Monday, December 4, 2017 at United Memorial Medical Center.
Mrs. Keicher was born March 23, 1947 in Batavia, a daughter of the late Robert J. and Helen Piacinte Bartz.
A member of the 1st Baptist Church of Batavia, Mrs. Keicher served as Bergen Town Clerk from 1980 to 1988. A huge fan of Elvis Presley she would often travel to Tupelo to visit his home and was a member of many Elvis Fan Clubs. Three years ago she authored the book, Before Fame and Fortune, a life story of Elvis.
She is survived by her husband, Mark A. Keicher, whom she married Nov. 19, 1988; her son, William (Karen) Brew of LeRoy; two brothers, Robert (Judith) Bartz of Chili and Larry Bartz of Batavia; her sister, Shirley (Robert) Gouger of Batavia; two grandchildren and several aunts, uncles, nieces and nephews.
She was the mother of the late David R. Brew.
There will be no prior visitation and services will be held at a later date. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Roswell Park Memorial Institute, PO Box 631, Buffalo, New York 14240-0631.


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FALL RIVER, Mass. -- Aaron Hernandez, the former NFL tight end charged with murder in the death last week of an acquaintance, is now being investigated in connection with a double slaying in Boston's South End in July 2012, a law enforcement source close to the investigation said.
The source gave no indication whether there was any connection between that investigation and Hernandez's current murder charge.
What is known is that the Boston Police Department has located and impounded a silver SUV with Rhode Island registration that police have been trying to find for almost a year, that's linked to the scene of a double homicide in 2012, the source said.
Investigators believe that Hernandez was renting the SUV at the time of those killings, the source said.
Hernandez, who was released by the New England Patriots on Wednesday after his arrest, will be back in a courtroom Thursday for a bail hearing.
Hernandez is scheduled to appear at Fall River, Massachusetts, Superior Court at 2 p.m. to appeal a judge's decision to hold him without bail, the court magistrate said.
A second man arrested in connection with the killing of Odin Lloyd is also expected to appear before a judge.
Carlos Ortiz was arrested in Bristol, Connecticut, on Wednesday and will have an initial hearing in Attleboro, Massachusetts, District Court as early as Thursday, a source with knowledge of the investigation told CNN.
Hernandez is accused in last week's shooting death of Lloyd, whose body was found in an industrial park area less than a mile from Hernandez's home.
He has pleaded not guilty.
Accusation of orchestrating murder
Hernandez "drove the victim to the remote spot, and then he orchestrated his execution," First Assistant District Attorney Bill McCauley said in court Wednesday.
"He orchestrated the crime from the beginning, he took steps to conceal and destroy evidence, and he took steps to prevent the police from speaking to ... an important witness," the prosecutor said.
Defense attorney Michael Fee has said that the evidence is circumstantial and that bail should be granted so that Hernandez can return home to spend time with his fiancee and 8-month-old child.
"It is a circumstantial case. It is not a strong case," Fee said, arguing that Hernandez was not a flight risk and had cooperated with authorities.
Lloyd, 27, was a semipro football player who worked for a landscape company. His sister, Olivia Thibou, told CNN last week that her brother was dating the sister of Hernandez's fiancee. Lloyd and Hernandez were at a Boston nightclub together the night of June 14, she said.
A 'model inmate'
During his first 24 hours in jail, Hernandez has been "polite and cooperative" and a "model inmate," Bristol County Sheriff Tom Hodgson said.
Hernandez was being held in the jail's medical unit, which is standard for someone who hasn't been incarcerated before, Hodgson said.
The former pro athlete showed "no apparent nervousness" in jail, Hodgson said, but he noted the difficulty of going from having thousands of people cheering for him to being "just a number."
While in the medical unit, Hernandez will be locked up for 23 hours a day, with a break for a shower and phone calls, the sheriff said.
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Supernatural Spoilers: Chuck Returns!Eric Hochberger at . Comments
It looks like the prophet from the last episode of Supernatural, "The Monster at the End of This Book," will be returning. Chuck (Rob Benedict) wrote a novel called Supernatural inside the show, Supernatural.
Somehow, this prophet was able to see the Winchester boys' actions and future actions in his dreams. As a result, it let the writers of Supernatural have a lot of fun poking fun at themselves and their online fan base!
If for no other reason than that, we're thrilled to hear Ausiello Files confirm that Chuck will return on Supernatural.
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Reviewed: 12-13-13
A truly incredible voyage
The greatest minds of fiction could not have created a better story. I bought the book as a filler non-fiction title to feed my history curiosities, but this title quickly pushed my other titles aside.
Reviewed: 06-20-13
Worst narration ever. avoid.
My first time ever to quit on an audio book. This is not a review of the story because I only got a few hours into it. The narration is awful and unlistenable. Every sentence the same. Loud then trails off. It is bad enough that it is monotonous and it adds influence to the wrong words in the sentence, but the deal breaker was that sometimes I couldnt hear the final word of the sentence.
I tried to power though it, but I just could not do it. Very sad, because I had been looking forward to this book and I guess I will have to read it the old fashion way or else be denied this story forever.
Too bad I bought this one more than a year ago, but just now listened so no refund.
5 of 7 people found this review helpful
Reviewed: 04-18-13
Not ice, not fire, something lukewarm in between…
What did you like best about A Feast for Crows? What did you like least?
First of all I am rating this on a relative scale. The series is a classic. If you read the first 3, you are gonna read this one and the next one and the next one… but nothing is resolved! This is just a filler book. Side plots are started and some are concluded but some are just dropped. Main story lines feel as if they have been dropped. Pretty disappointing; not Martins best work. Dotrice was good as usual, but it doesn't seem like he did his homework in regards to his pronunciations. He pronounces characters names completely different from what he did in the previous 3 books!
If you've listened to books by George R. R. Martin before, how does this one compare?
First 3 books are much better. No question.
What three words best describe Roy Dotrice's voice?
Good but inconsistent.
If this book were a movie would you go see it?
Books are always better.
Any additional comments?
Listen, it is still a book in the magical world Martin has created. So read the book but have the next book ready to roll; not because of any major cliff hangers, but just because you may feel a little unfulfilled.
Reviewed: 05-25-11
Need a break from the series? take it now
The first two books were great, this was is okay, but starts out really slow. Not much happens the first few hours, just more recap on what happened in the first two books. Any character or event that's tied to something that previously happened each gets a 10 minute recap. This might actually be good if it has been a while since you read the first two books, if not, the first quarter or so of this book is pretty boring.
4 of 4 people found this review helpful
Reviewed: 04-08-11
Worth the read
I have really enjoyed this series. Has a little bit of scifi elements, but for some reason I don't feel like I am in a scifi world, which is a good thing. I like its historic link; I might like it even more so, if i knew more about ships, specifically historic ones. The book is steadily entertainment. For the most part, I am not so drawn in that I am up all night, but also never feel so board I want to set it down. There are no crazy, shocking plot changes, but also nothing that feels too obvious. I will say that for a series of several books, the characters aren't develop as well as they could be. There are characters that are very involved that i dont feel like I 'know' yet.
0 of 1 people found this review helpful
Reviewed: 01-28-11
Solid, but with same old flaws
Like the rest of the Codex Alera books this one is entertaining, but still has the issues of many of the other books. If you have read all of the way to book 5 you probably are in to Butchers new world. Princeps' Fury has plenty of military and battle scenes and less of the love scenes which I enjoyed. The characters still sometimes act out of character and the antagonist seem to just evolve to something worse as the scenario needs it. It seems with this series when I am in the middle of the book I always feel I need to take a break. By the end, however, I always pick up the next book. I also like that Kate Reading does the entire series, she does a good job and is consistent.
3 of 3 people found this review helpful
Reviewed: 12-13-10
Entertaining but not great
The fantasy setting of the book is new and fresh. The rape scene was pretty horrifying though. The book is entertaining, but it is cheaply done. The bad guys are illogically bad when then need to be and the good guys are way over-the-top good at times. The characters' personalities are all over the place. The romantic interactions are kind of lame. I love you! No, I love you more! etc. All things said, I enjoyed the book and the new fantasy world. If you listen to a lot of books and need some filler books, this series is a good choice.
2 of 2 people found this review helpful
Reviewed: 05-05-10
What I expected, nothing more
This is obviously a classic and if you are reading it, you probably know what you are getting into. I did not like the prologue though. As someone who has never read the book, I did not want to hear analysis of the book BEFORE I read the book. The social, political, and historical context provided in the prologue, however, was useful. When you apply the satire to today's politics, the correlations are scary.
44 of 49 people found this review helpful
Reviewed: 02-26-10
Average L'Amour, bad Narrator
3-4 star story, but the narration brought it to two. The story was your typical L'Amour, maybe too typical. I thought it wasn't one of his better. I felt like sometimes he was trying too hard to establish something. In my head I was saying, "Okay, I get it already!"
The narrator was just poor. Good voice, but the pronunciation of sentences was awful. He totally emphases the wrong words! Very annoying and sometimes bad enough to where you can't understand what's going on.
Okay overall. Worth it if you have a few credits lying around, but there are better narrators and better Louis L'Amour stories out there.
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Coordinates: 11°44′21″N 79°47′11″E / 11.7393°N 79.7865°E
Shore of Silver Beach, Cuddalore
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Silver Beach is a beach on the southeast coast of India. It is located 2 km (1.2 mi) from downtown Cuddalore, the headquarters of Cuddalore district in the state of Tamil Nadu. Silver Beach, however, is untouched by the busy life of the city. It is the second longest beach on the Coromandel Coast and one of the longest beaches in Asia. The 57 km-long stretch of beach faces severe seafront erosion.[1]
There are town buses which ply frequently between Cuddalore town bus stand and Silver Beach. It is also accessible via Taxis and Autos from different parts of the town.
Water sports[edit]
To the south of the beach the South Cuddalore Bay area appears as if it is a separate island. The backwater separating the main beach from the island-like structure is a safe place for water sports. Boats are not available for rent currently as the boat house has been closed.
To the west a river flows into dense mangrove forests teeming with birds. On the coast there is century-old lighthouse. A few resorts have sprung up in the area. Most of these are sponsored by the state government for promoting tourism.
Forts in the beach[edit]
Silver Beach is also the location of Fort St. David, which has a long history as one of the three important forts built by the British Empire. An arts college, Periyar College of Arts and Science, is situated near the beach. There are summer festivals celebrated in Silver Beach yearly during April or May.
The beach was struck by the 2004 Asian tsunami. It was the second most heavily affected area, after Nagapattinam, Tamil Nadu. The death toll at Silver Beach was more than 2,700.
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Despite the hype, tablets are still most accurately described as a 'niche' market. But that market is expected to grow really, really fast.
That's according to a study (PDF) conducted by the Online Publishers Association (OPA) and Frank N. Magid Associates, which sees 54m Americans owning or using tablets by early 2012, up from 28m today.
Obviously, that's good news for Apple, which currently dominates the market with the iPad. But it could also be good news for capable publishers with strong multichannel strategies.
In its survey of nearly 2,500 people, the OPA found that 87% of tablet users use their tablets to access content, making consumption of content and information the "dominant activity" for tablets.
Perhaps more important: of the 93% of tablet owners have downloaded apps, 79% of them have paid for an app, and 26% of all app downloads are paid.
That doesn't mean that tablets are a paid content panacea, however. According to the OPA, "Consumers want bundled content and payment options for paid content on their tablets, and they prefer a variety of retail channels to buy tablet apps".
In other words, consumers may not think of the App Store as the be all and end all of tablet content discovery and commerce.
That may provide some validation for the model the Financial Times is employing. The FT, of course, is, for the time being, circumventing the App Store so that it can deliver a true multichannel offering that doesn't require Steve Jobs to play the role of gatekeeper.
Yet at the same time, we see strategic stupidity on the part of some publishers like the New York Post, which is trying to force consumers using Safari on the iPad to download its app instead.
At the end of the day, there are plenty of reasons for publishers to be hopeful. The tablet population is growing, and as the OPA survey also shows, its demographics are very attractive. But to cash in, publishers will need to have quality content, priced right, and distributed through the right channels. Tablets alone won't put those in place for them.
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I would not be surprised that the rate doubles again by 2014. Tablets are becoming more and more popular and in a way more affordable because older models like the iPad 2 are still excellent devices despite not being the latest devices.


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"The vast majority of bloggers out there are responsible correspondents doing fine work in niche reporting fields like Gilmore Girl fan fiction, or cute things their cats do, or photoshopped images of the Gilmore Girls as cats. That's great. Where I draw the line is with these attack-bloggers. Just someone with a computer who gathers, collates and publishes accurate information that is then read by the general public. They have no credibility. All they have is facts. Spare me."
– Stephen Colbert
or Why We Do This – by DB Ferguson
The purpose of this fan site is to aggregate topical news articles and buzz from the blogosphere into a comprehensive Colbert-centric news source. We also feature exclusive interviews, daily Episode Guides, and breaking news updates with live coverage of events.
The term "No Fact Zone" comes from a sketch that was originally done during Colbert's stint on 'The Daily Show'. TDS ran multiple parody commercials for the then-non existent show for Stephen, called 'The Colbert Report'. One of the lines in one of these promos has Stephen parodying Bill O-Reilly's No Spin Zone with the line, "Come take a spin in the No-Fact Zone!" It seemed appropriate, and when I found the quote at the header of this page, I realized I had found a fantastic site name.
We've had the fortune to garner exclusive interviews with people such as Ben Karlin (co-creator and former Executive Producer, 'The Colbert Report'), Mark Malkoff (audience coordinator, 'The Colbert Report'), and guests who have appeared on 'The Colbert Report.' No Fact Zone has also featured exclusive interviews from 'Daily Show' notables John Oliver ('Daily Show' Correspondent) and David Javerbaum (former 'Daily Show' Executive Producer).
[Note from DB: For our final news story here, we featured an exclusive interview with late night television host Stephen Colbert.]
We've also gained a loyal readership of a crew we call the "Zoners" who have tipped us off to some amazing scoops, the biggest two so far being our breaking of the Ben & Jerry's Stephen Colbert's AmeriCone Dream story and the Richard Branson water fight.
The WØRD: AUTHORITY – KEY MILESTONES FOR NO FACT ZONE
Media Representative – "Rally to Restore Sanity" Post-Rally Press interview (October 30, 2010)
- From 1000+ applications for press credentials, only 81 media representatives received personal invitations to this event from Tony Fox, VP of Public Relations at Viacom International.
The 'Colbert Report' writers praise No Fact Zone – "The Truthiness Behind the Lines" at the Paley Center (November 7, 2009)
- 'Colbert Report' writers Rob Dubbin, Meredith Scardino and Peter Gwinn discuss the influence of No Fact Zone on the show during this panel interview. According to Dubbin, the staff at the 'Colbert Report' was so impressed with the work on the No Fact Zone site that the show completely redesigned their original web site. Dubbin says that "[The staff at No Fact Zone] were on top of everything. We couldn't be better than they were at following our own show." Gwinn follows up this comment by saying, "I've learned about future guests [from No Fact Zone]… no one's told me, and I work in the building!"
Stephen Colbert mentions No Fact Zone on the Colbert Report – Mahmoud's Non-Consensual Endorsement Deal (March 12, 2009)
- Stephen Colbert credits No Fact Zone for finding the scoop on an endorsement deal he did not approve.
Webmaster DB Ferguson interviewed by the LA Times – Stephen Colbert's Name Game – LA Times (October 11, 2009)
- The author of the article refers to No Fact Zone as "the biggest fan site" for Stephen Colbert.
A comment on No Fact Zone becomes a story on the 'Colbert Report' – Colbert-Branson Interview Trainwreck (August 16, 2007)
- After breaking this news from a comment left in our blog, the story was picked up by MediaBistro.com, and then by BoingBoing and Wired.com, and confirmed on the blog of 'Colbert Report' guest Ian Bogost. The story was then picked up nationally and internationally, and eventually mentioned on the show as buildup for the presentation of the interview.
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Let's all play a game of "Fox News FAIL" (December 3, 2010)
- First, let me say yay for Fox News 4 in Kansas City, Kansas spotlighting the great charity that is Donors Choose, and highlighting how the Colbert Nation has made a difference in those kid's lives. The report on the result of Kansas City music teacher Beth Wheeler's Donors Choose campaign was really great to see, and the sparkle in those kids eyes as they talked about getting to play the instruments that were furnished by Donors Choose donations was very touching. However …. there's one small error in this video report. Can you spot it?
Since its humble inception, this blog has become one of the most relevant and popular Stephen Colbert fan sites on the web. We have been linked by some pretty major mainstream news sources and popular entertainment blogs such as:
- ColbertNation.com (official site of The Colbert Report) – Permalink, Fan Sites [until 2012]
- Comedy Central Insider Blog – Permalink, Listed under "Funny Links" [until 2012]
- Indecision 2008 Blog – Permalink, Listed under "Blog Roll" [until 2012]
- Things I've Learned From Women Who've Dumped Me – Official Site, listed under "Contributors – Stephen Colbert"
- CNN.com – How Stewart-Colbert rally, social media can boost voter turnout (10/28/2010)
- New York magazine Entertainment Blog – Stephen Colbert and Steve Carell Celebrate Second City's 50th Anniversary (12/13/2009)
- Craig Newmark blog [founder of Craigslist] – Colbert Nation supports Iraq/Afghanistan war vets (9/10/2009)
- ChicagoTribune.com – Stephen Colbert's face: The real story (or not) (6/25/2008)
- Videogum – If Stephen Colbert Is In The Love Guru, Do We Still Have To Hate It? (5/27/2008)
- Deadspin.com – Puck Headlines (3/13/2008)
- BestWeekEver – Monumental Moments For Colbert (1/24/2008)
- PopWatch blog (EW.com) – Who dat? (5/11/2007)
- Ben & Jerry's Stephen Colbert's Americone Dream ice cream:
Our exclusive story was picked up by numerous high-profile blogs and news sources, such as The Huffington Post, BoingBoing and VH1's Best Week Ever.
- The Austin American-Statesman: Entertainment blog (Michael Barnes) – Our exclusive story on a segment filmed in Austin was picked up by this Austin blog (12/26/2006)
- Chicago Tribune: The Watcher Blog (Maureen Ryan) – 'The Colbert Report's' guitar shredathon brings in the big guns (12/21/2006)
- The Huffington Post: Eat The Press (Rachel Sklar) – Daily Show Update: Steve Bodow New Head Writer; Simpsons' Josh Lieb Joins As New Co-Exec Producer (12/1/2006)
- PBS.Org: Media Shift – "Stephen Colbert: Don't Love and Leave YouTube" (10/30/2006)
- The Huffington Post: Eat The Press (Rachel Sklar) – Stephen Colbert's Web Dominance: How "The Colbert Report" Is Fast Becoming The Leader In Web-TV Integration (8/22/2006)
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Royal Liverpool in Hoylake, England, will host the 2019 Walker Cup, the R&A announced Tuesday.
The 47th biennial match between amateurs from the U.S. and Great Britain and Ireland will be held in September 2019 as the club celebrates its 150th anniversary of its foundation. (The Walker Cup was last held there in 1983.)
Hoylake will host the Open Championship next July for the first time since 2006.
This year's Walker Cup will be held at National Golf Links of America on Sept. 7-8. In 2015, it will be played at Royal Lytham and in 2017 the matches will be held at Los Angeles Country Club.
The U.S. leads the overall series, 34-8-1, but GB&I defeated the Americans in the most recent match, 14-12 at Royal Aberdeen.


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We invited Fashion editor turned stylish travel blogger, founder of The Style Traveller along to her favourite European city, Barcelona, to test drive some of the new season Wallis jewellery collection. From beach to bar, here's some tips and updates on how to accessorise your outfits this summer.
Spruce up your sun kissed wrists with layered bangles. Mix thin beaded, friendship bracelets with chunkier, wooden and embossed metal styles, to really encapsulate the boho, beach-babe vibe.
For the evening I love this gold and turquoise multi stranded necklace. It's delicate and pretty, adding a soft, feminine touch.
Gaudi's famous Park Guell in Barcelona is one of my favourite chill out spots, It's colourful and vibrant so I chose to wear this neon tassel necklace.
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Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Commercial Photography in Tillamook
Soon after Cindy and Natalie asked if I would photograph their beautiful spring flower arrangements. Sunflower Flats is known for their amazing customer service as well as their out of the ordinary fresh flower arrangements. The team at Sunflower Flats are truly gifted artists and a joy to work with-not to mention meticulously organized and put together! The day of the shoot they had all arrangements ready to go. I showed up and we were able to get to work immediately... Of course our coastal climate decided to throw us a bit of challenge with wind and rain but the work we captured was so worth my soaking wet boots!
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Marabello named 2016 Waynesburg University Valedictorian
Waynesburg University held its annual commencement exercises honoring approximately 550 undergraduate, graduate and doctoral students Sunday, May 1.
Jessica Marie Marabello, a mathematics (secondary education) major from Pittsburgh, was named one of two valedictorians of her class and delivered the valedictory to the University. She is the daughter of Neal and Lori Marabello.
"Being named one of two valedictorians means a lot to me because I have worked very hard to achieve my 4.0 GPA every semester, and it is rewarding to see my hard work pay off," said Marabello. "I am proud of my great accomplishment, and I am so thankful for my family, professors and friends who have helped me to get here."
During her studies at Waynesburg, Marabello was a member of Kappa Delta Pi International Honor Society in Education and involved in Kappa Mu Epsilon National Mathematics Honor Society. She also was a member of DRUS Honorary Society for Women and was a mathematics tutor for the Knox Learning Center Tutoring Program for four years.
Active in service, Marabello attended three University service trips to the Dominican Republic, Costa Rica and Puerto Rico and participated in local service initiatives. She was a recipient of the A.B. Miller Scholarship, the Class Scholarship Award and the Outstanding Academic Excellence Award.
"I feel very well prepared for my future and have learned a lot from my student teaching experiences in actual classrooms because Waynesburg provided me with those opportunities as early as my freshman year," said Marabello. "My Waynesburg education has taught me to rely on God and has given me the confidence I need to pursue my passion for teaching."
Marabello is actively seeking a substitute teaching position for the remaining school year. She also plans to obtain a master's degree in the near future.
Kayla Diane Bleckley, a creative writing major with a minor in psychology from Latrobe, was also named valedictorian.
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Each year state law requires that school districts assess students in grades 3-8 in both music and visual art. Each district designs their own unique assessment materials and reports results to the Oklahoma State Department of Education by May 31st.
Tulsa Public Schools has developed quality and authentic assessments for each grade level for each of the four (per discipline) State Fine Arts PASS Standards. Each year schools in the district are required to assess one of the four assessments. These assessments rotate on a four year plan.
On this page you will find:
1. The state reporting forms for both elementary schools and middle schools;
2. Assessment materials to support the four Fine Arts PASS Standards in both music and visual art.
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Ah, the humble boiler suit! Who knew that one day it would be a high fashion item? Certainly not the army of plumbers, painters and other workmen who still wear their boiler suits with little or no idea that as they paint ceilings, plumb in sinks and go about their other day-to-day business, they are in fact teetering at the very height of fashion!
If only they had known that one day boiler suits would come with a £500 price tag (OK, £495, but let's not quibble), perhaps they'd have stocked up sooner, and would, even now, be running thriving fashion boutiques, selling off all their old clothes! Or, actually, maybe not, because it's only Stella McCartney who can charge £500 for a cotton boiler suit. And, lest we forget, it's only people who have a genuine need to cover up their ordinary clothes who should really be wearing them…even cropped ones, like this.
(According to Browns, of course, this look can be "made fabulously glamorous with towering heels and bold gems. Must remember to tell the plumber…)


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Little Cypress-Mauriceville High School reported two separate incidents to the Orange County Sheriff's Office within two days regarding students found in possession of marijuana at the campus, which is a drug-free zone, deputies report.
Little Cypress-Mauriceville head baseball coach Steve Griffith reached a milestone Thursday night as he recorded his 500th win as a head coach when his Bears defeated Lumberton, 4-0, at Don Gibbens Field. Griffth became the youngest coach, 49, to ever reach the milestone.
News release from Little Cypress-Mauriceville CISD:
While we harbor no disrespect for the Wall Street Journal who called us "that scrappy little paper from Southeast Texas," we prefer to think of ourselves as simple seekers of the truth. We're of the opinion that headlines and sound bites never tell the whole story. Our readers demand all the facts, facets and flavors of every story or event. And, they expect to be informed, educated and stirred to action.
For this week's New York Times crossword puzzle, pick up a copy of this week's The Examiner on newsstands now.


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Residents in the El Margarita Estates neighborhood in the eastern part of Yuba City must decide if they want to hook up to the city's water supply after a toxic chemical was found in their well water.
The Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board tested the well water in anticipation of an effort to hook up homes in the area to the Yuba City water system. Small amounts of perchlorate and 1,2,3-tricholorpropane which has caused cancer in lab animals and is a danger to humans.
Luckily for homeowners who rely on well water, Proposition 84 provides funds to provide clean water to contaminated areas. Yuba City has worked on a grant to pay for five miles of pipe extensions that will bring the neighborhood, a mobile home park and a school within reach of treated water city water.
Some residents like Kourtney Wild said she will likely use a combination of well water for her yard and city water for drinking and cooking. She said her grandmother died of cancer and she now wonders if the water had something to do with her death.


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The night was growing old and her eyes were still wide open. The kohl is now smudged and the red lipstick is no more there. The calling bell never rang.
She waited till it was dawn and then she slept there.
It was raining that night. The champagne worked on him. His eyes all over her and the sparkle in his eyes was enough for her to take the next step. However, the restaurant was really not the place.
They kissed in the rain. Inside the cab they cared for no one. The cab driver looked in the mirror many times but they did not care.
His hand all over her, the warmth breath of his on her nape and the sensation all over her body- they craved for more and more.
She did not want it that day. It was late and the weather was bad. She thought of making it special. When he wanted to come in, she stopped him there. The next night she thought would be perfect.
Virginity was sacred and she wanted to wait for the right person and right moment to lose it to.
The right moment never came….
She was in his thought, when the high beam of the opposite truck made him blind. He felt nothing afterwards…..
It's been 2 yrs! She is still waiting…
Wearing makeup, lighting candles…
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Among the top athletes of the All-American Polynesian All Stars around America is the only player from American Samoa — Abraham Maiava, a Senior Offensive Lineman from Tafuna High School, chosen to play in the 4th Annual Polynesian All American All Star Bowl by Aiga Foundation.
The Polynesian All American Bowl features the top 70 athletes from across the nation and is slated to take place this Saturday, Jan. 18, 2014, in Los Angeles, California. The Bowl Game, hosted by Aiga Foundation for the fourth time, will be streamed live on the internet at www. projectlvi.com.
(To view the video of Abraham Maiava, go to our Samoa News Facebook site or our Samoa News Youtube)
Maiava, who was chosen by Aiga Foundation to play in the Bowl, is an obvious choice — he comes from a football program that just ran an undefeated season, earning a back to back Varsity Championship title in November 2013. The offensive lineman held an Offensive Guard position and was team captain in his Senior year. He played under Head Coach Okland Salave'a.
The 6'1 245lbs Maiava, who was selected as an American Samoa All Star player to play against Hawai'i, missed the 11th Samoa Bowl (held in December 2013), to attend his sister's graduation in the United States, and is still there — currently awaiting this Saturday's Bowl game.
He has played for the maroon & gold Warriors since his Sophomore year at led Tafuna High School and has been a major factor in the school's football program since his appearance.
Abraham is the son of Amani and Marie Maiava from the village of Tafuna (Faga'ima). Abraham's older brother, Lene Maiava is also a former Warrior football athlete, who is now playing for the Arizona Wildcats, after receiving a full ride scholarship to play Division-I in 2012.
Lene Maiava also played Offensive Linemen for Tafuna but under the reign of former Head Coach Bishop Jason Magalei, also led the Warriors as Captain and finished off with a championship season.
However, Abraham's championship season is highlighted in the American Samoa HIgh School Athletics Association (ASHSAA) record book as the year Tafuna High School's football team either broke ASHSAA records or made new ones.
Maiava will be playing under one of the two competing coaches who are both former NFL Stars. This year's two rival Head Coaches are said to have paved the way for Samoans in the NFL today. Head Coach Jack the "Throwing Samoan" Thompson will be leading one of the All Star teams against Head Coach Ma'a Tanuvasa, who won two super bowls with the Denver Broncos.
Tafuna High School's Head Coach Okland Salave'a recently told Samoa News, "The first time I saw Abraham on the field, knowing the background of his older brother, I just knew right away that he was more athletic than his older brother… they were both hard working kids who were always looking to get better, and that is the attitude that separates them from majority of our student athletes."
Of Maiava, Salave'a said, "as a person and a student, Abraham is a very nice kid. He is very polite; he's the type of kid who will always lend a helping hand. When all the student athletes are tired after practice and going home, he is always hanging around to make sure that if I needed help with something, even with collecting our practice gears after practice, Abraham was always there, that's the kind of kid he was."
He noted, Maiava's character"…is something that you don't teach here, but it tells how his upbringing from home foundation is stable, and that is the one strong asset of Abraham with our program."
As for Saturday's All American Game, Salave'a told Samoa News he has faith in Maiava to continue the rhythm of being competitive, "just knowing his ability to perform, the ability to play, he is going to surprise a lot of those people out there. For any kid from here in American Samoa to have the opportunity to play a game like this in the States, this is an eye opening opportunity for them, but then it's also more of a statement game for our kids here to tell the people off island, that we can play football down here, or maybe even better than most of the kids off island."
Salave'a wants to send a message out to Maiava, who is awaiting his big game this Saturday: "Stay focused and compete. Football is all about competition. You are now playing in the Polynesian Bowl, that — we think is a step higher from any game that we have here on island, so my main message to Abraham is to compete, show them what you have, and always remember to stay focused."
The Tafuna head football coach also wanted to acknowledge those who helped him coach Abraham, resulting in the player's success today. "For the last few years that I've been here, we have had great assistant coaches, and that's what makes this program successful."
He continued, "You have to have assistant coaches who believe in the same method you believe in. So without my assistant coaches… the likes of coach Loso I'aulualo and coach Kevin Magalei, just to name a few, for a tremendous job every year, and I want to thank all of you for believing in me, and for believing in our kids."
"I can never say enough to thank you guys, not only the Varsity but the JV as well, because actually, that's where the foundation of Varsity is at, is down at the JV level. Thank's again to our Principal and Staff especially the students here for the great support every year during the football season."


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Note to political candidates: don't sabotage your relationships with media, including social media.
Sounds obvious, right?
Apparently not.
I have to ask, what's going on with Andrew Fraser and 612ABCBrisbane's Steve Austin. It was Steve's first morning back on ABC Mornings after several years on evenings, and quite early on in the show. He was interviewing a woman about the protests against CSG mining exploration in the Beaudesert area, when there was a sudden twitter disturbance.
It's actually a big decision for an MP and Deputy Premier to withdraw from a regular radio gig so soon before a state election, particularly without explanation. He may have disagreed with Steve's approach to the interview,which is his right, and he may have been annoyed, but surely he's done himself a disservice by arcing up. What does it mean? Will Mr Fraser never appear on another Steve Austin broadcast? Will he avoid the ABC altogether? Will the ALP be able to find a replacement for the regular segment he used to do with Madonna King and the LNP's Tim Nicholls?
Nature, politics and social media abhor vacuums…and when voters don't know why the Deputy Premier had a tiny tanty on twitter and dissed the ABC, they'll speculate. Out here in voter land, we'll fill the knowledge gap with anything ranging from guestimates to science fiction.
Of course Steve didn't respond via twitter as he refuses to use it, but he has told ABC Online that Mr Fraser will be welcome on air any time.
Meanwhile, the rest of the Queensland political set wait. Despite Premier Bligh's strategic reluctance to name a date for the forthcoming Queensland election, there is enough electioneering going on to convince most voters that the campaign has started without them.
You can hear what Mr Fraser was responding to by going to Steve's blog on the ABC website.
I think Mr Fraser is a pretty good operator. He's one of the better communicators in Queensland politics right now, Monday's twitsplosion notwithstanding, but he can't afford to lose the loyalty of the ABC morning show audience. So unless Steve Austin stole his girlfriend in fifth class and he's never gotten over it, Mr Fraser will have to just build a bridge.
I think Mr Fraser is a pretty good operator. He's one of the better communicators in Queensland politics right now, Monday's twitsplosion notwithstanding, but he can't afford to lose the loyalty of the ABC morning show audience. So unless Steve Austin stole his girlfriend in fifth class and he's never gotten over it, Mr Fraser will have to just build a bridge.
Peter Beattie has been busy, trying to reclaim his crown as Queensland's biggest media tart. As a former Premier, he has 'Senior Statesman' status, but I'm not sure that gives him the right to bucket the woman who was his hand-picked successor. Aside from anything else, it's disrespectful to the party he led for so many years, and it just looks bad.
There's something else too. I suspect that Mr Beattie's style of politicking is passé. The political environment has changed, thanks in part to Tony Abbott. The electorate is becoming less tolerant of negativity and political point-scoring. We want more substance, but Peter Beattie isn't in a position to deliver anything – he's got about as much legislative power these days as his old dog, Rusty.
Pseudo-head of the LNP Campbell Newman has tried to pull the trigger to start the election, and unveiled a Countdown Clock, counting backwards to a date which has little relevance to anything.
When asked by Steve Austin, Queensland head of Katter's Australian Party said this morning that he thought March 17 would be the date, but that he wasn't sure. (Regulations state that the election can be held on any Saturday up to but not later than June 16, 2012 – 5 months from now. The maximum duration of a political campaign is 8 weeks, if you define a campaign from when the election is called until election day.)
And yet, the campaign bus rolls on.
Steve Kilburn has been out and about, getting amongst the people for months now. Steve holds Chatsworth, the most marginal of Queensland seats by 0.1%. Not a Saturday goes by that we don't see Steve sizzling a sausage or parked behind a card table at one of the local shopping centres. He's also very active on Twitter, as many of the ALP members are.
Mrs Kilburn, Steve's wife, has added a very special touch: she organised a campaign theme song for him as a Christmas gift. The song's a bit rappy and a bit naff, but it's a novelty, and a great way of getting some publicity, as he did on 4BC this morning, as well as in the Courier Mail today. As of 3pm today, the video on YouTube had been racked up 1,132 views – appalling if you're Beyoncé, but pretty impressive for an MP, before the election has been called – and Steve's not Beyoncé. You can check it out here.
And then there's the fight for Ashgrove. Keep Kate stickers are all over Brisbane, and she's out there, day after day, in voters' faces. On the other hand, her opponent Campbell Newman is trying to hold the LNP together with every ounce of engineering skill in his possession, and the strain is obvious.
After his breakfast address to colleagues on Monday morning, he walked out without talking to the media who were waiting there for him. Maybe it's a new media-management plan for LNP Opposition Leaders. His federal counterpart, Tony Abbott, is well known for walking away from the media. I've often thought that with Abbott, the walk-away technique is a deliberate tactic to allow him to extract himself from on-camera situations before he says or does something stupid. It's certainly better than his stand-there-and-shake routine that he premiered with Channel Seven's Mark Riley last year. Poor Tony; he really needs to stop trying to win the last election.
But back to Campbell Newman: he doesn't want to get a reputation as someone who walks away from the media. If he's feeling a bit shouty, he'll need to build a bridge and get over it, or forget about a career in politics.
And Steve Austin needs to get over his fear of Twitter.


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Clarinet in A (Mazzeo system)
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Object Place: Paris, France
Length 74.5 cm (29 5/16 in.)
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In A. Varnished blackwood. Nickel silver rings and keys. Mouthpiece missing. Made in five parts: mouthpiece, barrel, upper and lower bodyjoints, and bell. Original 1920s body modified about 1955 to full Boehm-system keywork and rimless bell (Mazzeo system). Extra barrel and hardshell fitted case.
Stamped on bell: [surrounded by laurel wreath: HENRI / SELMER / PARIS] / SOLE AGENTS / U.S. & CAN. / Selmer / NEW-YORK / ELKHART / MAZZEO / SYSTEM; stamped on back of bell: MADE IN FRANCE; stamped on upper bodyjoint: [maker's mark] / H. SELMER / A PARIS / [maker's monogram] / BREVETE / S.G.D.G.; stamped on lower bodyjoint: [maker's mark] / H. SELMER / A / PARIS / [maker's monogram]; stamped on barrel: [surrounded by laurel wreath: HENRI / SELMER / PARIS] / A / MADE IN FRANCE; stamped on back of barrel and bodyjoints: 4507; stamped on extra barrel: 14 mm. J
1958, sold by Felix (Phil) Viscuglia to his student John Munier, Nashua, New Hampshire; 1986, gift of Munier to the MFA. (Accession Date: November 26, 1986)
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Gaining market share by buying up smaller companies in key tech sectors is an established practice in the software industry and has been for years. But is it the future?
In the past three years Oracle, CA, and Hewlett-Packard have been on acquisition sprees, buying their way into markets that they felt rounded out their product portfolios.
CA spent almost $1 billion rounding out its cloud computing capabilities in a series of buying sprees in 2009 and 2010. HP dropped a bomb on the software world with its hotly debated $12 billion purchase of Autonomy this August. And Oracle has made nine acquisitions in 2011 alone (that I know of), the latest being CRM provider RightNow for $1.5 billion.
But serial acquirers may be missing out on the true innovation, according to New Relic CEO and co-founder Lew Cirne and the application performance management vendor's newly appointed president and chief operating officer, Chris Cook.
I talked about this with Cirne and Cook--both CA alums by way of the Wily Technology acquisition in 2006--during a discussion about their latest technology release, Server Monitoring, and walked away with a new perspective on the future of enterprise software.
New Relic's new Server Monitoring technology, which offers system resource data in the context of application performance, may not disrupt the market on its own--companies like Nagios have been delivering infrastructure monitoring functionality for years. But this new release marks the second time in six months that New Relic has added a major capability to its existing product, for free.
And because the application is delivered as a service, customers get almost immediate access to new features. The software-as-a-service (SaaS), or cloud-based model of delivery, has clearly proven efficient and continues to be where much of innovation occurs these days.
According to Cirne, the SaaS model lets companies focus on technology innovation rather than sales and has allowed New Relic to provide in just months what it took other companies in their billion-dollar market multiple years, and acquisitions, to provide.
This quick pace of innovation and deployment in enterprise software will become the norm in another five to 10 years, with SaaS vendors leading the charge.
Cirne thinks we'll see the rise of even more software companies like Zendesk, Zuora and 37 Signals that focus on product quality, customer experience and low-touch sales that spend their time innovating both product offerings and business models.
The main question is when and if enterprises will trust their internal applications to be managed by vendors in the cloud. Integration is already a part of most SaaS products, but it remains to be seen how and when hosted applications will run key pieces of enterprise infrastructure.


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Director Quentin Tarantino often shoots his mouth off like a character in one of his hyper-violent films.
The man behind "Pulp Fiction" and "Reservoir Dogs" is working the publicity circuit on behalf of "Django Unchained," his popular mashup of spaghetti westerns and blaxploitation films.
Last week, he popped off on iconic director John Ford, the man behind classic fare like "The Searchers," "The Grapes of Wrath" and "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance."
One of my American Western heroes is not John Ford, obviously. To say the least, I hate him. Forget about faceless Indians he killed like zombies. It really is people like that that kept alive this idea of Anglo-Saxon humanity compared to everybody else's humanity — and the idea that that's hogwash is a very new idea in relative terms. And you can see it in the cinema in the '30s and '40s — it's still there. And even in the '50s.
Bob Birchard, editor of the AFI (American Film Institute) Catalog, says Tarantino's harangue is likely more about generating publicity than anything else.
"Ford was certainly fond of Native Americans, and they were fond of him," Birchard tells Breitbart News. "He brought work to them in Southern Utah, and they gave him an Indian name."
Ford's films don't reflect a uniform distaste for Native Americans but rather his interest in telling a variety of tales, Birchard argues.
"The Indians in his film ranged from being anonymous terrorists in 'Stagechoach' to being sympathetic characters in 'Cheyenne Autumn,'" he says. "It had more to do with the story he was telling than any prejudice at the time."
Ford's films more likely reflected attitudes of the era rather than merely the director's own values, he adds.