After back-to-back victories, the Vancouver Whitecaps have been underwhelming in their previous two, losing 1-0 versus Atlanta and then drawing Kansas City 1-1, thanks to a last minute, literally, goal from striker turned central defender, turned side-volley striker again, Derek Cornelius.

Despite being up a man for around 20 minutes in the second half against Sporting Kansas City, the Whitecaps looked unable to find momentum moving forward. Granted, SKC had a lead, at home, and down a man, so they parked the bus. However, the Whitecaps are averaging less than a goal a game (12 in 13 matches) and have been shut out five times. That is 40% of their matches!

Vancouver’s Major League Soccer season continues in New York (sort of) on Saturday, at 4pm PST, where they willArcade Fire claims its third straight No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart, as Everything Now arrives atop the tally. The album, which was released July 28 through Columbia Records, earned 100,000 equivalent album units in the week ending Aug. 3, according to Nielsen Music. Of that sum, 94,000 were in traditional album sales. The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption, which includes traditional album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). The new Aug. 19-dated chart (where Arcade Fire debuts at No. 1) will be posted in full on Billboard’s websites on Tuesday, Aug. 8. Arcade Fire previously led the chart with Reflektor in 2013 and The Suburbs in 2010 --


After extensive debate and preparation, the new European chemicals legislation, REACH (Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation of Chemicals), was finally adopted in December 2006 ([@b6-ehp-118-6]; includes all REACH annexes described herein). The new legislation aims to improve risk management of industrial chemicals produced in or imported into Europe. Risk management has to be based on a hazard assessment and, if possible, a risk assessment, and the lack of data on the hazards (toxicity and ecotoxicity) of the vast majority of general industrial chemicals was a major justification for the initiative by the European Commission that ultimately led to the new legislation ([@b1-ehp-118-6]; [@b10-ehp-118-6]; [@b16-ehp-118-6]).

REACH came into force on 1 June 2007, and the legislation will be implemented gradually until 31 May 2018. Registration of test data shall be completedMarkus Nutivaara Is The Breakout Star of the Young Blue Jackets' Season

When it was announced that star defenseman Seth Jones would miss 4-to-6 weeks with a knee injury, there was some concern regarding who – and how – those minutes would be replaced.

Compounded with the free agent losses of Ian Cole and Jack Johnson, the Blue Jackets depth on defense (a strength of their team mere months ago) would be tested before the season even began. It's early, no doubt, but the early season play of Markus Nutivaara has been a revelation.

Before the season began, the question was who would slot in with David Savard on the second pair, as Zach Werenski and Jones would start as the club's top unit. But due to the Jones injury, Savard


bumped up to the No. 1 pair, leaving two spots open.

Ironically, the two defenseman competing for the honor of playing alongside Savard – Nutivaara and Ryan Murray – formed their own pair. They've been terrific together.

Nutivaara has stepped into a top-four role and given John Tortorella plenty of reason to feed him more responsibility; he's played 20:06, 18:33 and 19:32 in the Blue Jackets' first three games and, at 5-on-5, has a Corsi just under 58 percent.

BREAKDOWN

Murray skates the puck over the blue line for a controlled zone entry. At the :03 mark, the Avalanche have three players back in defensive posture and a fourth (Matt Calvert) reaching but not in optimum position. Murray spots the 4v3 advantage and hits Nutivaara cross ice. At the :05 mark, Calverthas slid his way into the corner, Alexander Wennberg has occupied two Avalanche defenders by driving to the net, and Panarin is standing wide open in the most dangerous spot on the ice.

Instead of firing the puck right away, Nutivaara picked his head up and waited for Calvert to clear his passing lane. Then came the easy part: a simple, cross-ice pass that found Panarin with nothing but time and space.

The replay shows how well Nutivaara is adapting to the NHL game. At the :27 mark, he breaks up Nathan MacKinnon's entry to switch possession to the Blue Jackets. Then he joins the play. The result is the game-winning goal.

It's a small sample, of course, but the early returns are encouraging for the Blue Jackets, who look to


Desperate to find her sister, Erin goes to the only man in Houston who can help her: Ivan Markovic. The intimidating, tattooed Russian operates one of the most elite mixed-martial arts training centers in the world but it’s his shadowy past and reputed connections with Houston’s underworld that... show more

Desperate to find her sister, Erin goes to the only man in Houston who can help her: Ivan Markovic. The intimidating, tattooed Russian operates one of the most elite mixed-martial arts training centers in the world but it’s his shadowy past and reputed connections with Houston’s underworld that interest her most. To find her sister, she’ll need the help of her big, scary Russian protector—but asking for help from a man like Ivan carries a steep price, one thatLos Angeles Lakers guard D’Angelo Russell had a roller coaster of a rookie season. After being drafted with the second overall pick in the 2015 NBA Draft, he struggled to find his rhythm early, then hit his stride just after the All-Star break. During one particularly memorable run, he scored over 20 points in seven out eight games, including a 39-point explosion in the “Ice in my veins” game against the Brooklyn Nets.

Unfortunately, towards the end of the season, a tape leaked of Russell and Nick Young discussing the latter’s activities outside of his relationship with fiance Iggy Azalea. The incident reportedly created tension in the Lakers locker room, but Russell has made efforts to move past it.

In an interview with Broderick Turner of the L.A. Times, Russell


hindered without his testimony."

House and committee rules established a June 24 deadline to dispose of the complaint, which was made March 13.

Because Gaetz failed to provide testimony, the committee "was unable to dispose of the complaint by the rule-based deadline."

Cohen testified in March that Trump directed him to lie about a hush-money payment to Stormy Daniels, an adult film actress who alleged an affair with the president before he was elected.

Gaetz made headlines in February when he sought to remove the parent of a Parkland school shooting victim from a congressional hearing on gun violence.

Manuel Oliver, whose son, Joaquin, was one of 17 people killed in the 2018 Valentine's Day massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, repeatedly interrupted Gaetz, standing up from the gallery and shouting severalthe notion of a 300-foot-tall robot Godzilla? Best of all, in his original appearance, in Godzilla vs. The Cosmic Monster, Mechagodzilla first shows up as a perfect replica of Big G, only to have his prickly green hide shorn away to reveal the metallic hull underneath. Bristling with weaponry and awesomeness, Mechagodzilla is easily the finest Godzilla foe of the 1970s.

1. The TerminatorAnd speaking of shearing away skin, what better example of the cinematic killer robot than the Terminator, a humanoid machine constructed for the sole purpose of murdering human beings? Arnold Schwarzenegger brings Termy to life--at least as much as someone with the acting ability of a dining room chair can be expected to do. The beauty of it is that this was one of the few


at 8 years old (what were they thinking??) and I ran up to my bed screaming when Linda Blair's eyes rolled into the back of her head.Although it often gets a bad rap from "mainstream" critics and audiences alike, horror has often been the most creative and vibrant movie genre of all, from Nosferatu to Saw. Some of the finest motion pictures ever made are part of the horror genre, including Frankenstein, Psycho, The Shining and my personal all-time favorite, George Romero's Dawn of the Dead.This blog is the culmination of my 25-year love affair with all things blood and guts--so check back here often for news and opinion on the world of horror. And remember...Audio

Poem from:

This London by Patrick Hicks

The Poet of Liverpool Street Station

Hicks, Patrick

The Elephant Man grazed here,
cloak open to reveal his bloated skeleton.
Over the years, the steam engine soot has thinned,
but the lumbering ghost of this famous sideshow
still begs our attention, his one good eye
bent sideways, the tusk of his pen
rooting for poems of love.

With the trunk of his tongue,
Joseph Merrick sniffs words,
he aches to rewrite his pachyderm body,
his thickened skull is ready to unforget
the gasps of women and children.

He pinches pennies while, hooded,
he sways away beneath gas lamps,
limping now for the graveyard of his flat,
for the paper, and the ink, and the silence.

Who better than a poet could understand
the cutting power of words,
the blunderbuss of such lethal insults?


marked yet another step towards establishing a State of rights and freedom of speech. The decision stipulated that the Centre be a non-profit organization, headquartered in Doha City, and have the authority to establish other affiliated centres inside and outside Qatar. It is worth mentioning that His Highness the Emir issued a decision in 1998 annulling the ministry of information, giving birth to a new era of freedom of speech where censorship was removed from local media.Renewables Generated One-Third Of Germany’s Power In First Half Of 2014

Approximately 31% of Germany’s electricity came from renewable energy during the first half of 2014, thanks to growing renewable development and good weather conditions for solar and wind power generation, according to a new report from the Fraunhofer Institute.

For the first time in Germany, energy from renewable sources made up a larger portion of electricity generation than brown coal. Wind and solar power accounted for 27% of the nation’s electricity production, while a further 4% came from hydro.

Renewable energy continues to grow steadily in Germany. Solar power grew by 28% and wind power by 19% during the first 6 months of 2014, compared with the same period in the previous year. Consequently, Germany has set a number of


WASHINGTON (AP) - The 21 women nervously mingling at the White House were among the best in their fields.

They had achieved Olympic gold, Grammy awards and four stars in the Army. One had orbited the earth aboard space shuttle Endeavour. Some had reached the highest outposts of corporate America, or had earned kudos on stage or on the big screen.

They were together for one reason: Michelle Obama.

As a candidate's wife, as it became increasingly clear Barack Obama might win the presidency, she had dreamed about a day like this, when she could bring together such a talented group and send them off to give pep talks to kids in the public schools.

As first lady, she realized she could make it happen.

"I couldn't have imagined this a year ago,''Mrs. Obama said. She was speaking one morning last month to the other high achievers she had invited to the blue-and-yellow Diplomatic Reception Room in the basement of the White House.

Something else seemed unimaginable a year ago, too.

Who would ever have thought that Michelle Obama would be transformed from a potential campaign liability into America's newest sweetheart and No. 1 cover girl, every bit as popular as her husband.

___

Michelle Obama's first 100 days in the White House really began more than 365 days ago in Wisconsin.

Rallying an audience in Milwaukee, she said: "For the first time in my adult life, I am really proud of my country.'' She explained that she was proud of the people who'd gotten involved in politics, but that's not what her critics heard.

They


said the comment proved she hated America. They portrayed her as the stereotypical angry black woman. Fox News Channel talked of the "terrorist fist jab'' she and her husband shared the night he clinched the Democratic presidential nomination. The New Yorker, making fun of the people making fun of her, sketched Mrs. Obama on its cover in an afro and militant garb.

It was a dark time in the many months she had spent campaigning. Yet it was a teachable moment, too.

Mrs. Obama learned from her mistake.

And in the months since, she has gone from lightning rod to rock star, from the cover of The New Yorker to the cover of Vogue, from just plain fashionable to worldwide fashion icon.

She is popular as the president, maybe more. Depending onfood and fashion. And a queen.

Americans mostly see their first ladies as wives and mothers, so how could anyone object whenever Mrs. Obama said she wanted to be "mom in chief'' to her 10- and 7-year-old daughters, Malia and Sasha?

She worried openly about moving them to the White House. Getting them settled was her top priority.

The public now sees she meant what she said.

The girls got an elaborate swing set, right outside dad's Oval Office window. A new garden on the South Lawn will supply them with fresh fruit and vegetables. The promised puppy, a Portuguese water dog named Bo, recently arrived. Mrs. Obama returned early from her husband's first European trip to be home when the girls started a new school week.

In the eyes of many people,


the image of an angry woman was transformed into one of a happy, doting mother.

Once in the White House, Mrs. Obama quickly was out the door and running on a bunch of issues, all of them very traditional, first ladylike and unlikely to upset the public.

She dashed around from one government agency to another, thanking often-criticized civil service employees for their work and plugging the president's $787 billion economic stimulus package.

She got beyond official Washington, too -- touring a neighborhood social services center, reading to little kids, serving mushroom risotto at a soup kitchen. She gave pep talks to high school students and dirtied her hands in the garden.

In Europe, she caused a media frenzy, not as much for where she went or with whom she met orfor what she said, but for the outfits she wore to meet the British prime minister, the queen of England and the French president and his wife, a former fashion model.

Some of the clothes she wears sell out immediately after aides say where she got them. Numerous Web sites dissect and analyze her style; at least one is posting photos of every outfit she wears in public.

In London, she alone drew a rare, and much talked about, public display of affection from Queen Elizabeth II.

At a reception for world leaders attending the G-20 economic summit, Her Majesty draped an arm across the first lady's back. Mrs. Obama returned the gesture, sparking endless discussion about whether it was wrong of her to touch the queen.

But the embrace also was


a symbol of just how far Michelle Obama's transformation had taken her. By getting a touch from the queen, she pulled off something few others have.

___

Mrs. Obama organized her own kind of G-20 summit at the White House last month, with an all-female cast ranging from singer Alicia Keys to actress Fran Drescher to astronaut Mae Jemison.

The assignment was to go out and inspire young people. Girls, especially.

Getting them to see their potential wasn't something Mrs. Obama talked about on the campaign trail. The pep talks came after she realized the role model and source of inspiration she had become for so many.

"Nothing in my life's path would have predicted that I'd be standing here as the first African-American first lady of the United States of America,'' shetold an audience of schoolgirls in London. "If you want to know the reason why I'm standing here, it's because of education.''

It's a simple pitch, and it's the same whether she is talking to students in D.C. or England.

She was in their shoes once, but she liked going to school, she liked being smart, she liked getting A's. She worked hard to get ahead and to prove the people who doubted her wrong. She tells students they can do the same.

Laura Bush says she wished she'd realized earlier the power she had as first lady.

Michelle Obama's journey has already gotten her to that point, and she sees what she can accomplish.

The original series centered on the Salinger family whose parents died in a car accident. The new show


2:30 p.m. and 3:00 p.m., these officers were operating a radar check on Highway 66, west of Rolla, Missouri.  Trooper Hoffman was manning the radar car.  Sgt. Englehardt was about seven-tenths of a mile west of Trooper Hoffman questioning an out-of-state violator.  Trooper Lawyer was about ninety-five feet west of Sgt. Englehardt.  When defendant passed Trooper Hoffman, he was violating no traffic regulations, but, nothing the passing car as being a 1960 white Buick convertible similar to the car previously reported stolen, Trooper Hoffman radioed Sgt.  Englehardt and Trooper Lawyer that the 1960 white Buick convertible would be a good 'check for an item', meaning that the car fit the description of one of the cars on their list of stolen autos. Trooper Lawyer accordingly stopped the car and asked to see the defendant's drivers' license.  The defendant replied he did not have it with him; that he had left it in St. Louis.  Trooper Lawyer then told the defendant he would have to wait beside the highway for a few minutes while he checked out a few things.  Trooper Lawyer then returned to his car and radioed headquarters for a check on defendant's drivers' license and the license number of the car.  Trooper Lawyer received information back that the car was stolen.  Thereafter, the defendant was placed under arrest and handcuffed.

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'Following confirmation of the car being stolen, and after the arrest, Trooper Hoffman entered the white Buick in order to drive it to Troop


I Headquarters.  Upon entering, he saw the butt of the sawed-off twelve-gauge shotgun protruding from a paper sack shoved partially under the front seat.  He did not pull the gun out at that time, but drove on to Troop I Headquarters.  At headquarters, Trooper Lawyer conducted a search of the car and seized the shotgun here sought to be suppressed.  The shotgun was loaded with two shells and the left hammer was missing.

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'At headquarters the defendant was searched and in his pocket were found two twelve-gauge shotgun shells and the left hammer of the gun in question. * * *

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'The Court finds that the arrest of the defendant took place at the time defendant was handcuffed, which was after the trooper had received confirmationthis defendant has no standing to complain about the shotgun's seizure and its admission.  The gun was contraband.  It was partially visible in its paper sack wrapping.  It was in plain sight on the floor under the driver's seat.  It was readily recognized.  And it reposed in a vehicle which was stolen, which was no longer in the defendant's possession, and which, at the time the gun was first seen and taken, had come into the custody of the state troopers as a car which the defendant was not authorized to possess.  The search of that automobile at that time could not, under any circumstances, be unreasonable so far as this defendant was concerned.  None of Rodgers' constitutional guarantees were violated.

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But Birmingham, with four draws and a defeat from their previous five league games, were on top for the remainder of the first half.

Andrew Shinnie saw a long-range effort saved by Konstantopoulos, while Donaldson was a constant threat.

And it was Donaldson's pace in getting first to a poor back pass from Ben Gibson that saw him knock the ball past Konstantopoulos before being tripped by the Boro keeper, who was shown the red card.

Replacement Tomas Mejias, who came on for striker Jelle Vossen, was unable to keep out the penalty from Caddis as Birmingham led at the break.

But former Boro full-back Jonathan Grounds and winger David Cotterill missed chances early in the second half.

And the visitors then built up some pressure, earning their reward when the impressive GrantIowa Counties With The Largest Handgun Permit Increases 2010 to 2011

The 29 Iowa counties listed below had the largest increases in handgun permits issued from 2010 to 2011, after a new Iowa law was enacted stating that county sheriffs shall issue permits, except in a narrowly defined set of cases. (For more about that, and a look at law enforcement concern over the state GOP’s expansive new pro-gun laws enacted earlier this year, read the full story here.)

The counties went from issuing 7,289 permits to carry in 2010 to 35,511 permits to carry in 2011, Iowa Department of Public Safety figures show. That is a 387 percent increase.

Keokuk, 0 to 760

Lee, 34 to 1,264 — 3,618 percent increase

Howard, 25 to 367 — 1,368 percent increase

Jefferson, 38 to 506


270 percent increase

Fayette, 169 to 600 — 255 percent increase

Tama, 256 to 876 — 342 percent increase

Cherokee, 227 to 762 — 236 percent increase

Crawford, 210 to 675 — 221 percent increase

Davis, 194 to 605 — 212 percent increase

Henry, 287 to 887 — 209 percent increase

Clinton, 441 to 1,324 — 200 percent increase

To see gun permit data from your county, click on the map below for statistics on the number of permits issued each year from 2001 to 2016:

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door

swung easily open to reveal a small by cozy chapel: a few pews [tattered

cloth protecting the wood], stain-glass windows depicting various points of

religious importance, none of which he could remember from his days going to

Sunday school although they did spark some emotion in him that he hadn’t

felt in years.

Walking down the long aisle to the front of the church, he tried to remember

what got him to this point in his life. It seemed hard to believe that he

would have reached this point in his life where he would be walking in to a

church at three am in the morning looking like he did [a torn pair of blue

jeans faded beyond recognition, a tattered plaid shirt that he had worn for

years, a light jacket with holes in most ofthe pockets, save for the right

pocket, which he had stitched closed earlier the day before and a pair of

sneakers which were missing their shoelaces, his feet continually slipping

in and out of them as he walked].

“Goddammit” he thought, “how the hell did I get to this place in my life

anyway? What the hell happened?”

While he couldn’t point to it with any certainty, he had the distinct

feeling that he was not alone – it was a feeling that someone could not only

hear him, but also read his thoughts. It frightened him but also at the same

time gave him a tingling sense of excitement that he had not felt in quite

some time.

Approaching the front of sanctuary, he noticed a single candle burning on

what appeared to be a small altar made of


back to the time when things seemed simpler, to the times where

he would sit inside a sanctuary like this one and elbow his sister whom he

sat next to as the priest delivered mass. She hated it when he elbowed her

and then pretended not to notice that he had done anything at all. He was

sad to admit it, but he had no idea where his sister even was anymore. They

had lost touch shortly after he and his wife had separated. Sure, he had

heard all of the “we’re here if we need you” speeches from all of his

friends, but his sister? His sister had just left, walked out of his life.

She couldn’t wrap her mind around the fact that a marriage couldn’t work

out, but held fast to the belief thatthere was no way that a small candle

like that could remain lit for so long…

“Who the hell could be here at this hour?” he thought, realizing that

whoever it was couldn’t possibly be up to any good.

At that moment, he turned he head and saw in the corner of the sanctuary a

small confessional. Carefully slipping the gun he was holding in to his

pants pocket and the single bullet in to his jacket pocket, he picked

himself up off the pew and began to walk over to the confessional.

He doubted that anyone would be in there. What was he expecting at this

hour, anyway? Surely the place was completely empty, and yet, the candle

still haunted his mind.

Reaching for the confessional’s door, he realized that it has been forever

since he had taken part


intro, "Spineless Scum," implants a sense of threat, as though all hope is indeed lost, preparing the listener for the second track, "Spirits," a fast-paced song that fills the air with liveliness. Next, there is the intensity of "Mindless," a track that begins with a dynamite riff whose speed is varied throughout the five-minute slot, meanwhile providing the listener with a vociferated guitar solo.

The slower "Mental Blindess" aims at infusing the atmosphere with the notion of danger and anxiety, obliging the audience to "watch out for the two-faced beast from fences of dark disguise." The album also features a Queen cover ("The Show Must Go on"), the aptly placed last track, which is not altogether perfect but is an interesting metal perspective on the song.

I would recommend thisrecord to fans of the German power metal scene, and of bands such as Helloween, Grave Digger and Gamma Ray. The record, if not very original in its musical style, is piled with energy. (6.6/10)

Greek black metallers Rotting Christ have released a stunning album (their 10th so far) that is labyrythine in its blend of their trustworthy style and atmospheric elements that serve to heighten the charming diversity of the music.

The album is bursting with powerful guitars, alongside which exist aphotic melodies that borrow from orchestrated and traditional Greek matter. The third track, "Enuma Elish," features a remarkable growth from one pattern to another, still managing to remain within the borders of the initially introduced tune. The fifth song, "Helios Hyperion," hovers between raw black metal and chunky


first track, "Still Screaming," integrates a substantial amount of energy and unexpectedly goes into a thrash stance. The next track, "Save Me," has rather strange vocals, seeing as there are instants during which the listener is reminded of Rage Against the Machine. "Bless Me Now" starts off with powerful guitars, but as soon as the voice appears, I felt like cringing, because the intensity of the music is juxtaposed with infantile singing. "More Than Marilyn" is a melodic composition whose lyrics reek of heartbreak, as do the lyrics of the emotional "Zero Man." (6.5/10)

Nox's stripped-down, speed-focused style of death metal is refreshing to hear. Each element is straightforward, from the monotone growl to the lightning-fast drums, and the combination is put together so tightly that it is boundthe group's third album, and Deathbound still isn't concerned with the flourishes on which some bands thrive. Variety in vocals and instrumentation, smooth transitions between tracks and electronic elements are completely lacking, but Deathbound's aggressiveness wouldn't allow for too much experimentation or attention to detail. Pure speed and brutality are the driving forces behind We Deserve Much Worse, and brief track times (ranging from 28 seconds to just under three minutes) are Deathbound's main method for avoiding staleness.

This, however, isn't quite enough to keep the album fresh all the way through. Besides a small degree of tempo variation, Deathbound's formula remains disappointingly consistent. The monotonous tone and rhythm of the vocals get old quickly, and the guitar riffs are indistinct and are likely to sound muddled by the


for a group. Lesbian? Nevermind the bollocks excuse the promo sheet gives, certain names are just too silly, and that's too bad, because the music is excellent.

Lesbian combine main elements of black metal and '70s-style stoner rock, but beyond that, Power Hor has several traits of varying styles of music in general. There are sections of the first song, "Black Forest Hamm," that sounds like Metallica, and other passages where they sound like Godspeed! You Black Emperor and Mogwai.

However, the band don't call themselves blackened doom, they call themselves the first band of the "New Wave of American Psychedelic Metal." While it may sound odd, by the time the second track begins, you can hear a sound that owes more to Neurosis and Black Sabbath than Emperor orDrudkh. A very sombre and melodic passage with an ambient backdrop plays in reverse for the first few minutes, until the band break out into a garage-y jam at which they start to manifest soundscapes of a wild variety, specifically from the aquatic to the barren. When the electric guitar actually goes electric, the song accepts a middle-eastern motif that's very well suited.

While "New Wave of American Psychedelic Metal" doesn't seem like a name to stick, it's more than likely Lesbian have found a very comfortable niche for themselves producing such an eclectic sound firmly rooted in rich songwriting savvy. It's nowhere near as evil as it is expansive, so grab your bong and be prepared to travel for miles and miles. (8.5/10)

Minsk's debut, From a Center Which


Is Neither Dead Nor Alive, was a fantastic debut, and immediately shed some light on a wonderful, fledgling doom group. Minsk returns with The Ritual Fires of Abandonment to prove that not only are they not a single-release wonder, but that they can evolve.

Their debut was noisy and at some points, sounded unfocused and relatively drawn-out, even for doom. Some of the themes and ideas in that album were remarkable, but lacked the development to fully take form. Now, they have the experience of having an album underneath them, as well as the backing of Relapse. Whereas the often times extremely furious rhythms would convulse back and forth, Minsk have opted to take a much more textured and psychedelic approach this time around. The tribal ambiance and drummingGothenburg had to offer. Mors Principium Est does Gothenburg with immense skill and personality, and rends the genre incapacitated with their awesomeness. It may take a while for you to get into at first, but the songs are so addictive and enjoyable, it's well worth the effort.

"The Oppressed Will Rise" is a good opening track for sure, but the real power of the band starts on the third track, "The Animal Within," and lasts until about the fifth track, "Cleansing Rain." These guys have the perfect level of natural and harmonic minor scales in their songs, and are able to mix their brutal arrangements with melody so that there is always something interested to be heard. There's always a catchy melody, though it may be disguised as a


break any new ground, keeps the listener occupied most of the time with decent melodies, "in your face" growled vocals, and capable guitarwork.

You gotta hand it to Southern Lord records, man. Few labels not only go to such worldwide lengths to find bands, as well as nurture their creative spirit. Beyond that, there's rarely a bad release. At any rate, the newest addition to Southern Lord's heavy and droning regime is Orthodox, a group of Spaniards who'll be making a very big name for themselves in the years to come.

Gran Poder, Orthodox's debut, is an excellent and worthy release for a myriad of reasons. Heavily influenced by Pink Floyd, Earth and Sleep, this album is a very potent mixture of psychedelics, sludge and atmosphere. Their heavy and monstrousYob on Gran Poder's second track, "Arrodillate Ante La Madera Y La Piedra." Starting strong with very intense and chaotic drumming, as well as a fuzzed-out bassline and ridiculously detuned guitars, the band quickly (well, about as quick as any sort of doom is) manages to create an expansive atmosphere as minimalist guitar lines hearken to such groups like Minsk for the ability to evoke such a barren feel. As the vocalist sings his lyrics of religious folklore over water effects, an off-kilter guitar harmony adds to the structure-less and chaotic feel.

Included in the American / Southern Lord release is a cover of "Genocide" by Venom. An excellent cover, but it feels out of place with the mood of the album, which in the end is going to


be what sells it. Orthodox are an extremely talented band, and once fans of SunnO))), Boris, Sleep, Earth, Grief, Minsk and Neurosis get wind of this, Orthodox is going to catch ears in waves. (9/10)

Paganize is finally releasing their first album after two demo releases. The major selling point of Evilution Hour is the fact that Trym (of Emperor fame) is handling the percussive duties in the band. Geir Helge Fredheim of Winterstrain is handling the vocals, and apart from the guitar track in each channel, and the percussion and bass in the center, that is all you'll really be focusing on. There are no keyboards; this is just all balls-out, traditional heavy metal.

Fredheim has a very sharp tone to his vocal edge that sets his vibrato abovethe crispy presence of the guitars, and works extremely well within the music. The overall flow of the music is a bit more loose, and even feels a bit funky at times. In the song "Conscience," Paganize break into a solo progression mid-way through that leans slightly in a groovy manner while a nice blues solo is laid on top.

Although the entire concept behind the album and the presentation is very exciting, Evilution Hour has its faults. The traditional vibes are great; that's not where they fell short. The guitar riffs are too generic a lot of the time. Of course, the band has chosen a traditional style — you will have heard stuff like this many times before — but still, Paganize could have done more to


get crooked rivers. and crooked men." (Citation taken from track 2: The finality)

Rwake have gone the hardest way with this magnificent but nonetheless harsh album. They deliver the message of positivism by slapping you with an iron glove. Imagine that. (9/10 )

Once a year comes an album that, immediately upon the initial listen, becomes either an instant classic of the genre, the year's best album in a certain category, or both.

2007 is still raging on, so entitling Killing Peace as the thrash metal album of the year (and probably the ONLY thrash metal release of the year) might be a tad premature. However how many extremely good and pure thrash metal albums per year do we get to begin with?

Last year the title went to Sadus' Out forBlood, and to some extent, also for Torture's Storm Alert classic re-issue, but that's it in the thrash metal department. Not very crowded, now is it?

Onslaught, version 2007 is all about abrasive, aggressive, genuine, macho thrash metal with enough balls, enthusiasm and power to slay the majority of younger generations and their joke projects.

Twenty-four years after the band's inception, it is angrier, heavier, darker, more innovative and dynamic than ever, and Killing Peace is exactly what it means: it eradicates the stagnation of thrash metal of recent years.

Thankfully gone are the days of the fun-infused thrash metal fiasco, such as Onslaught's In Search of Sanity (1989), where the darker tones of the band had been replaced by humor-laden music (an album that has become, eventually and retrospectively, their


befitting the band's style like a glove. Think of Chuck Schuldiner's vocal-work on The Sound of Perseverance meets Judas Priest Painkiller's Rob Halford meets Megadeth Countdown to Extinction's Dave Mustaine (only with much larger a pair of balls). Excellent stuff. (9/10)

In Clive Barker's magnificent novel Everville, the hardship of Irish immigrants that had come to the new land of unknown America was described; the long journey from coast to coast to find a piece of heaven they could call their own; the disabling cruel winters; the diseases that had infected many; and the hunger and eventual, inevitable deaths.

Across Tundras’ Dark Songs of the Prairie captures these visages as their sonic equivalent and in fact, that aforementioned book was the very first recollection brought into mind upon listening tothe sounds as the album had unfolded and its story told.

Dark Songs of the Prairie is all about immigrants and pioneers in the context of settling and taming the great, new — and to some extent, mysterious — America. Like Led Zeppelin’s "Immigrants' Song," only in the form of a whole album.

With little to no words at all in the vocals department, Across Tundras has assembled an album like nothing I've heard before: psychedelic and nonchalant in nature, a hazy, fuzzy and intoxicating blend of southern rock and sludgy, atmospheric doom/rock tainted by melancholy and despair but also flirting with the rays of hope: ending the suffering, catharsis.

Across Tundras' Dark Songs of the Prairie is a strange bird; it's allegedly structured plainly, using repetitive, atmosphere-inducing harmonies, making the


Tubbs; another thing to keep in mind whenever you hear how powerful this album is. The sound is massive, with intense drum work and riffs that sound rooted in everything from '70s fuzzed-out rock, to Fu Manchu and hardcore. The vocals are odd, but effective in the same way Yob's vocals were. Y'know, high-pitched.

Constantly building momentum, the music on Here Come the Waterworks is intense and energetic, even when it's slower-paced. Songs like "Shields" brood along like they're taken straight out of a Black Sabbath album and played on top something like Kyuss, while recording new vocal tracks.

Then, you have songs like track five, "Another Fourth of July... Ruined." A very drone-typical guitar line on top of a snare drum battlefield march while ethereal vocals and atmospheric ambiancedouble bass — all the more essential to the final result.

The 2004 recording has an ethereal quality into it, with a stronger sense of freedom than Yedid's Myth of the Cave. The integration of the improvised playing with the written structures results in a more singular achievement than the aforementioned 2003 album.

The pieces are evolving and breathing. There are less unison movements this time, and more contrapuntal conversations and menacing themes that penetrate through the serenity. At times, the threats retreat as if they are restrained by harmonies; while at other times, usually in an outbreak of one instrument over the others (take, for example, the alarming clarinet screams on "Second Image"), the threats become real, breaking through the divine themes and leading to a catharsis.

Yedid, a fine


pianist with a background in classical music and jazz (both he and Boasson Horev played on the imaginative and abstract 2006 release by the Julia Feldman Ensemble Words are Worlds), brings a free, earthly spirit into his classical compositions, which blend heavenly esthetics with disturbing dissonances. The percussive manner in which Yedid plays the piano, on top and aside majestic, elevated movements is an evident feature of the way the two genres contrast and consolidate into a fresh form of expression.

The multi-cultural fusion are not only those of genres, but also of geographical locations, as one can spot Arabic scales merged with the European chamber music motifs, portraying sublime, universal sceneries.

From its energized, powerful movements to reflective quasi-static ambience, Reflections Upon Six Images is a brilliant and engagingrelease LOVE), The Man in the Bowler Hat, this third album by English sensitive weirdos Stackridge, is often regarded as their greatest achievement.

Martin, who is known for his rich orchestrations and contributes four of them here (as well as some piano playing), brought a more unified feel to the album. Whereas on previous Stackridge releases, some songs or parts of them were painted with a thorough orchestration, while some were left on a more minimalist scale, the songs on The Man in the Bowler Hat maintain a coherent level of arrangements. The nearly homogenous treatment helps in gluing the songs together and results in a better album flow. Therefore, it was a clever choice on behalf of Angel Air to leave the bonus tracks (which appeared on a


jam.

"Vigil" takes the listener by storm. George Eikosipentakis seems to be another vocalist influenced by the likes of Daniel Gildenlow (similar to the Wastefall vocalist), yet his performance is surprisingly emotive and fun to listen to. Guitarist Aris Markogiannakis really did an incredible job with this material as well, switching from heavy chord-structures for choruses, to wah-pedal jammin'!

Violinist Matthew Dakoutros also holds a grand stand within the band, as his violin is broken out almost as often for solos as Markogiannakis' guitar. The violin is used more often during verses, bridges, and even choruses, however. The music can be exciting, and branch into more mellow waters... It can be triumphant, yet just as easily transition into a saddening progression similar to the type made famous by bands likeunlike those aforementioned bands in composition, but it pulls the same trance-inducing trick. And for that, it’s a lock for one of the best albums of the year.

Wrath of the Weak is a one-man project from Buffalo, New York. Fittingly, the guy got into black metal through Weakling. (But you can read all about that in our interview with the man in this issue.) The style is fittingly categorized as shoegazer noise black metal. Fittingly again, the album has been released by an otherwise noise-oriented label, Bastardised.

The riffs and compositions on Wrath of the Weak are simple in themselves, but the end result is not. What you’ll get are swirling collages of noisy, buzzing black metal that has the power to induce hypnotized states, particularly the louder you


Ruin is a near-Dublin-based band with a new six-track E.P. entitled Visions of Obscenity. The band describes these tracks, clocking in a little below the half hour mark, as "filthy groove-soaked death thrash."

"Ever Decreasing Circles" is a typical opener, pointing where Ground of Ruin are at: short, melodic motifs held with brutal rhythms. Vocalist Dave has a good basic growl and grunt. He could sound a bit lower perhaps, but as he appears to be still rather young it may happen so in time.

"Bastard Icon" is the first song that shows another, but far more serious problem with this disc: certain riffs have a tendency for being used too often, this in contrast with the drumming, which shows some imaginative variations.

"Nerve Damage Affliction" starts with a very good,the attention a bit more, and it offers more variation than the title track.

Though this EP is basically a decent bit of Irish death metal, and it may also — as they say — reflect the hard work and dedication that has gone towards making it, Ground of Ruin could have done a few things differently. Take the drums, for a start. They are played proficiently, but the way they are recorded drag the production down to the "demo level." The snare drum sound has that typical rehearsal room resonance, being functional, but hollow and cheap sounding at the same time. And the (single) bass drum is way too up front, while not being that crucial to deserve such a highlight.

The bass guitar, on the other hand, is


adjustments in band members and labels, Scent of Flesh is on its way. The foursome's style is a deep, heavy, groove-based one. Riddled with blast beats and guttural growls, fast-picked riffs bang out from the guitars, which transform into slow grooves and back again. Scent of Flesh avoids repetitive themes and employs enough shifts in tempo and melody to keep Deform in Torture fresh through the last track.

Antti Suikkanen's drumming is the strongest aspect of the album: He masterfully pounds out a variety of lines, from down-tempo grooves to blazing-fast verses, never settling on one pattern long enough to become predictable or stale. The guitars rise to the challenge laid down by the strong backbone of the drum lines, however, and fire back with ever-evolving technical playing, sharpto a sphere all its own in the landscape of black metal in a small apartment on the west coast of the United States. Hateful images are conjured of a new age where old ways of worship are overthrown with the unmasking of fairy tales for the frail of mind... "The Fairy Tales for the Righteous."

On this demo, Leviathan mastermind Wrest obviously shows a blueprint of his trademark sound and composing style, but let the seeker be warned: An overall unevenly balanced recording technique and a by now severely outdated range of e-drumkit sounds testify of the introspective backroom character of Time End. The critical listener should consider this as the shape of things to come, not as some long lost treasure crying out to be re-discovered.

There are


eight tracks on the second demo, of which four1 have re-appeared officially (and in dramatically improved sound quality).

Track 2 is an early version of "Ambassador of Misanthropy" and has, like the third track, "Time End," appeared on the second disc of Verräter.

It seems that over time, some song titles have developed into others and were changed. Hence, track 7, mentioned as "Awakened by the Coldest Fire" on the 2nd demo, is identical to "Force the Hand of Evilution" on the Verräter disc, whereas track 6 is supposed to be "Force the Hand of Evilution," but it can be identified as a prototypical and longer version of "Tampered" from his seventh demo. The last song, "Time End II," actually consists of two separate parts with a slow, lengthy outromakes you come back for more. Really, really bad album. (8.1/10)

Let's call it "heathen meditative music" for lack of a better term. No, Blood of the Black Owl's debut isn't silent and pointless plinking on the keyboards and percussion, just the opposite. What Chet W. Scott has used are some highly unusual instruments — first and foremost, a baritone guitar. The other instruments are just as interesting — just naming them should be enough: thunder gong, brass tubular bells, organ, young ox horn, antique celestaphone and black clay ocarina.

With so many words going just into describing the Seattle-based, one-man band's arsenal of weapons, describing the music itself is fairly simple. It's slow, dark and primitive. The poor baritone guitar has gained popularity by being used in bands too


only thing here it would have been enough. However, there are seven hours of footage in total. The bonuses are way too numerable to mention, but there are sound checks, chopper competitions, the whole history of the show from the initial New York rehearsals to the assembling of the PA and lighting systems, with DeMaio's comments. Just how did this man hear enough to get a doctorate in music after 25 years of playing in the loudest band on the planet is an enigma, but he's a perfectionist, sensitive to every decibel going astray.

Finally, there's a documentary about the Manowar Fan Convention, already described in The Sons of Odin review. This is "The Extended Experience," with everything in more detail, but the most interesting thing is watching thethe hell of it and voted. The result? Absolute victory and the biggest score in history. And the image of a winged monster wearing a top hat in the Finnish colors will be keeping us warm just about forever.

Obviously, spreading your wings over 600 millions of viewers can't be bad for your career, can it? After that milestone, regardless of what The Arockalypse ended up sounding like, its success is guaranteed. Fortunately, the music on the disc has everything it has to have to back it up. Apart from the longer version of "Hard Rock Hallelujah," there are ten new tracks, one re-recorded and three bonuses, which amounts to forty minutes of energetic, stomping shock rock.

No, Lordi aren't serious at all — it is all clean, good fun,


also far more attractive, with a grey, fold-out, two-CD digipak housed in a clear plastic slipcase that features the album’s art.

After death metal was pioneered in the late ‘80s, the movement swept through the United States and eventually into other countries. Whereas America eventually lost interest in the genre to the emotionless drone of tribal drums and pop, death metal became huge in Sweden. Death metal took off as a more raw form of thrash metal as the production held more presence, the guitars featured thicker distortion and detuning, and the music was much more chaotic.

Most things get better with time as they adapt, evolve, and become stronger than ever. The same could be said about death metal as it continues to grow and develop today by thosesong. Due to the more song-based construction, the music lost a bit of the epic quality that was conveyed within their earlier work wherein the music was always evolving and building up to a grandiose end.

Death metal continued to grow, and musical proficiency became a solid must for anyone attempting the style. Opeth ascended beyond death metal, and adopted more progressive elements to their sound for their fourth album, Still Life. The band mixed their love for medieval music with the experience they gained from previous records to make what will undoubtedly go down in history as the best progressive death album ever written. They didn't count on overused powerchords to fill up space, they crafted chord structures for their rhythms that are so complex and ridiculously difficult


to perform that nary a band has even attempted something similar since then.

Vocalist Mikael Akerfeldt's performance was more intense and spot on than he can even pull off these days. Although Still Life is incredibly intricate, it was still fairly easy for the casual enjoyer of music to comprehend and still maintains its ability to instill in one feelings ranging from immense rage to the brooding sadness of a lost loved one.

The story of Still Life is a literary tragedy that spans throughout the entire album. Vocalist Akerfeldt wrote and performed the lyrics in a first-person perspective (though the story is not about him personally) and is set in an undisclosed time period. Considering the use of certain phrases and locations described in his writing, we can assumethat the story is set in medieval times.

Because of Akerfeldt's poetic writing style, it is difficult to transcribe what many of the lyrical passages actually mean, yet certain plot points stick out. According to the stylish, dark pages of the booklet included with the album, the main character returns to an unlabeled town after 15 years. It is implied that he left due to being cast out, branded a sinner, and despised by the general populous. He has no forgiveness for anyone except for Melinda, and she is the inspiration behind his return.

He stays in this town, yet does not make his arrival known and seeks out Melinda. He finds her in a nearby forest, and they remain there and romantically enjoy each other's company by candlelight. The


Council of the Cross discover that he has returned, and begin searching for him in the forest. He has to turn away from Melinda, and escape from his imminent demise. The sequence of events following this is very unclear, however the story ends with the death of both Melinda and the main character. He witnesses her die from a slit throat, and he is sent to the gallows to hang. After he falls, there is a sigh of relief from the cloaked individuals.

Even after the eight years since Still Life was originally released, the album is still considered by many fans of the band to be the best album that Opeth has ever written, though some of the more recent ones have come close. Still Life was aheadof its time in that it was completely original despite the musical influences being more classic in nature. As the years passed and the band grew more and more popular, the emotions became less and less of a focal point within the band's songwriting. However, we will always have this one classic album to remind us of what the band once was, and what music is really all about.

Aptly titled as the "Aborted Release Party," the purpose of the concert, above all, was to present the new material that this Franco-Belgian monster has recently engendered. Crammed outside the venue, the fans hustled impatiently. One of the most annoying phenomena about Parisian gigs is that the doors are normally opened just as the first band is about to play.


However, it was different in this case. The doors were opened early enough, such that the majority of the people could have time to familiarize themselves and feel at ease, while letting their anticipation grow.

First on stage was Israel's Distorted, fronted by an enchanting red-haired maiden who goes by the name Miri Milman. The songs were laden with sultry female vocals, and at arbitrary moments, injected with sonorous male vocals. However spectacular the music might be, with its explosive vigour and its show of consummate skills, many found the presence of a female-fronted band as bizarre for a predominantly grindcore and vocally brutal event.

Genital Grinder's murderous set was aimed at uprooting the crowd and demolishing whatever sanity might have been left in it. To track the progress ofbut notice the crazy levels of excitement that the music incited in a major portion of the crowd.

Not only do Origin know how to present death metal in a lively manner, they also know how to gather the horde together into a single kinetic entity. The communication between the band and the crowd was admirable, and it was particularly smile-worthy when one member of the audience hollered out "you are God!" towards the stage. Deranged and coarse, the music was gladly swallowed, processed and spat out into the atmosphere. Undoubtedly, the quantity of satisfaction that was provided was immeasurable.

Misery Index were the following musical butchery to emerge from the darkness of the backstage area. For a band of their ranks, the sound was not exactly top-notch. For too


a year have a specific target for retirement and college fund goals and, with Wall Street reeling from the financial crisis, it will take much longer to reach those goals, he said.

Retirement accounts, such as 401k contribution plans and IRAs, lost $2.8 trillion between September 30, 2007 and December 2, 2008, as the U.S. stock market dropped 47 percent, according to the Urban Institute based in Washington.

With equities losses continuing, 58 percent of executives said they stopped contributing to their 401k retirement accounts altogether, the survey found.

Half of the executives said the recession would limit their children's college prospects, and 40 percent said they had stopped investing in their children's college savings accounts.

With job cuts and shrinking bonuses, 40 percent of those polled said they were forced toobject, and would also be the first Gemini mission to fire the Agena's own rocket. Michael Collins would be the first person to meet another spacecraft in orbit, during his second successful EVA.
 Gemini 11 set a crewed Earth orbital altitude record of  in September 1966, using the Agena target vehicle's propulsion system. This record still stands as of 2017.
 On Gemini 12 Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin became the first space traveller to prove that useful work could be done outside a spacecraft without life-threatening exhaustion, due to newly implemented footholds, handholds and scheduled rest periods.

Rendezvous in orbit is not a straightforward maneuver. Should a spacecraft increase its speed to catch up with another, the result is that it goes into a higher and slower orbit and the


that this is the show that will have the biggest hip-hop presence that there has ever been on the show. I mean, I can't look back and find that to be the case before. He's it, he's the man right now and he comes in hot."

Untangling Travis Scott and Colin Kaepernick's Super Bowl Halftime Show Drama

Scott's performance comes amid controversy surrounding the Super Bowl halftime show, which stems from the NFL's stance around Colin Kaepernick and others who took a knee during the national anthem as a form of peaceful protest against police brutality.

According to a Variety report, Kaepernick and the 26-year-old rapper reached a point of "mutual respect and understanding" about Scott's involvement with the NFL, following his pledge with the league to donate $500,000 to thePlaying for Keeps

Playing for Keeps may refer to:

In film and television:
 Playing for Keeps (1986 film), a comedy film by Bob and Harvey Weinstein
 Playing for Keeps (2012 film), a romantic comedy film starring Gerard Butler
 Playing for Keeps (TV series), an Australian drama TV series that aired from 2019
 Gambler V: Playing for Keeps, a 1994 TV movie starring Kenny Rogers
 Playing for Keeps, a 2009 Canadian TV movie based on the Blue Edwards child-custody case
 "Playing for Keeps" (Diagnosis Murder), an episode of the TV series Diagnosis: Murder

In other media:
 Playing for Keeps (album), a 1980 album by Eddie Money
 "Playing for Keeps" (Elvis Presley song), a 1956 hit song by Elvis Presley
 "Playing for Keeps", a song from Elle King's 2012 EP The Elle King


feature, a You've Got Chemistry feature, and a HBO First Look: A Conversation with Nora Ephron. Completing the package will be a Carole King Anyone at All music video, an Interactive Discover New York's Upper West Side Map Tour, and a music-only audio track. Artwork is attached:news anchor Ulyana Pcholkina and her partner, who both use wheelchairs. Characters with disabilities have also started appearing on TV drama shows.

This is all a stark departure from Soviet times, when people with disabilities were “taboo and highly stigmatized,” says Sarah Phillips, a professor at Indiana University in Bloomington who has authored a book on disability rights in Ukraine. In those days, she recalls, parents were encouraged to institutionalize their children out of public sight. “There was a lot of denial that problems of disability even existed in Soviet society.”

Efrem Lukatsky/AP Sergiy, a Ukrainian soldier who suffered a serious head injury in the anti-terrorist operations in Eastern Ukraine, kisses a dolphin during a dolphin-therapy session at an aquarium in Kiev, Ukraine, in March 2016. Ukrainian movement 'Alliance soldiers


system for manipulating and controlling large masses of people. It was a system of laws combined with a system of mind control. His name was Hamurabi. His system of mind control was to create a book combining folk wisdom with propaganda. Because he could not be everywhere at once, he created the idea of an omnicient, omnipresent being that could see all and know all. In the book where this idea was introduced, Hamurabi had himself referred to as Abraham. Later a symbol of that god was created: it was an all seeing eye on the top of a pyramid. So, while the Mesopotamian people built on the idea of an almighty God, there also actually existed, behind the scenes, a bearded man on a throne with god-likeelite were either inducted into it, killed or neutralized by assorted other means such as bankruptcy or ridicule. There were many rebellions against these rulers. One notable one was by a person called Jesus Christ. He talked about things like men being born free and equal, about basic human dignity about the duty to protect the weakest members in society. Although he was executed for treason, his radical ideas spread like wildfire among the poor and down-trodden. When the Romans invaded Judea and scattered the Jews, the Masons began offering their services to other kings and despots. One faction of them eventually convinced a Roman emperor by the name of Constantine to compile a book that would both encompass the folk beliefs of his people and provide a


selected by a process of natural cultural selection. In other words, people responded to the parts of the Bible that reflected what was in their hearts and what their own experience of the real world told them. Thus the Celtic peoples were naturally and gradually assimilated into this culture (with a few holdouts like Halloween). Folk awareness of the secret controllers, and their determination to prevent them from doing evil was known as fighting the devil. The reformation of Martin Luther was a rebellion against the Catholic mono-culture and the system of thought control originating in Rome. Later, people with persecuted ideas found freedom in the New World and, as a result, America flourished as no civilization before. But, in parallel to this genuine religious feeling of thepeople, the secret manipulators also evolved increasingly sophisticated ways to control the masses. One group of people used an offshoot of the original Hamurabi school of Masonic mind control technology to create a large kingdom in central Asia. They were known as the Khazars. They were defeated by the Rus and Mongol empires and their elite class fled, with their treasure and their knowledge, into Europe and China. The ones who fled to China were forced to flee again to Japan after the Mongol Kublai Khan conquered China. The ones who fled to Europe curried favor with kings and princes and offered them their secret Masonic people-herding technology. Eventually a very elite group of them intermarried successfully with the royalty and became the ruling family of Europe. They


were known as the Rothschilds and their secret rule of Europe continues to this day. Although they try to stay hidden and their past is filled with great evil, they also deserve much credit for helping make Europe and European culture so dominant in the world. One of their secrets was to drive the people into conflict and war, both to strengthen them through competition and to profit from the sale of arms. Creating war also made the Celts easier to control because, in times of turmoil, people turn to their kings for protection. The Rothschilds used money looted from India to finance the American revolution. Their aim was to strengthen their hand against the King of England. That is why Freemasonry is so central to American history.There was true idealism in their American adventure at first. However, American Democracy proved to be unruly and hard to control. To keep the Americans under stricter discipline, they waged a 137-year battle to gain control of their currency. Control a people's money and you control their rations. It is the modern equivalent of keeping control over the keys to the granaries. When their agents got control of the U.S. Federal Reserve Board in 1913, they immediately began preparations for war. Armed with American wealth, they triggered World War I. They conned the peace-loving Americans into the war by sinking the Lusitania. They were also able to subdue their long-term nemesis, Imperial Russia, by creating the Soviet Union. When Germany was defeated they demanded, and got, punitive tribute


payments. World War II was staged for several reasons: to reduce the world's population, to gain profits and to scare the Jews out of Europe and into Palestine. The Baron Rothschild (Adolf Hitler) got a little bit too ambitious and got off the long-term script of ruling the world from Mesopotamia and tried for an instant global empire with headquarters in Germany. At the end of World War II, the Masonic cabal tried to cement their control of the world by creating the United Nations. At the time, they controlled all 5 permanent Security Council members. They have since lost China and Russia. In America, the Rockefellers and their fellow robber barons began a long-term program to complete their enslavement of the American people. They quietly and systematicallygained control of the media, the text-book publishing companies and, by spreading their wealth liberally and strategically, were able to distort education. Their biggest con-job was to promote the so-called science of economics. Their so-called economics is Babylonian slave driving technology. It is essentially a mechanism for looting the people of their money. For example, Americans have had a certain mantra drummed into their heads nearly constantly for decades: government is bad, business is good. Think about it: government represents the people, business represents the rich. Maximizing shareholder value means increasing payments of tribute to the slave-driving class. Middle-class incomes have been driven down and both parents in a family are being forced to work in order to maximize tribute payments from the masses. It also forces parents


to send their children to communal brainwashing institutes at an earlier, more receptive age. A big turning point in the enslavement of the Americans was the broadcast of the War of the Worlds in 1938. What they learned from that is that if people will believe in a space alien invasion based on a radio play, they can be made to believe in practically anything. The age of television became the age of mass-brainwashing. A few would-be liberators, like John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, were assassinated in order to prevent the Americans from regaining their freedom. Today the empire of the Babylonian slave-drivers is under threat like never before. First of all, large masses of humanity freed themselves from a form of Masonic slavery known asColonialism. These people then began to gain both economic and intellectual power. The biggest threat now is the rise of China and India. The 10,000 illuminati are now outnumbered by the humans they want to enslave by a ratio of close to 700,000 to one. With non-controlled humanity gaining in economic, military and intellectual power, the illuminati feel extremely scared and vulnerable. Cultures not under direct illuminati control now account for 83% of the World's population and over 60% of its wealth. To deal with this situation, David Rockefeller and the descendants of J.P. Morgan and Averil Harriman (including the Bush family) cooked up an incredibly horrendous scheme to slaughter billions of the world's free people and then take advantage of the trauma of slaughter to enslave the


rest. The plan calls for an artificial armagedon to be launched that would start with a never ending "war on terror," followed by plagues, famine and possibly even a fake, and very lethal, alien invasion fleet. The plan was so evil that it provoked a split in the illuminati ranks. A rebel group, centered around Jay Rockefeller and most of the Rothschilds, tried to take power from David Rockefeller and his clique with a so-called war on Global Warming. The plan was to neutralize one of the David Rockefeller clique's main sources of power: their control over oil. The Rothschilds also refused to finance the war in Iraq. Since their headquarters are in Europe (the BIS) they decided instead to try to turn the EU into a Babylonianstyle world monarchy. To finance David's insane campaign, the Japanese people have been forced to work harder for lower pay. To maximize tribute payments from the Japanese, David Rockefeller also forced the Japanese government to hand him control of their entire banking system. The Japanese government tried to refuse and were threatened into submission with a new array of high-tech weaponry, including, if you can believe this, a weapon that caused an earthquake in Niigata Japan. However, despite Japanese money, the plan is coming apart at the seams and threatening to end the entire illuminati long-term campaign to enslave humanity. The war in Iraq turned into a disaster. People caught on that 911 was an inside job. Vladimir Putin kicked them out of Russia. The David Rockefeller faction


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Made in Bangladesh

The independence of Bangladesh in 1971 was ushered in by one of the most spectacular concerts in musical history. George Harrison's Concert for Bangladesh featured a supergroup of rock and roll royalty, including fellow ex-Beatle Ringo Starr, Bob Dylan and Eric Clapton, as well as performances by Indian classical music icons Ravi Shankar and Ali Akhbar Khan.
"In one day, the whole world knew the name of Bangladesh," Shankar later said of the event. Shankar conceived the concert with Harrison as a fundraiser for Bangladeshi refugees. The brutal atrocities of the Bangladesh Liberation War combined with the devastating effects of the Bhola cyclone had forced millions of Bengali people to flee the emerging nation.
Today, Bangladesh is facing a very different sort ofoutside the constraints of conventional society, leading a nomadic existence as they travel the countryside performing their ecstatic music rituals. Purna Das has described the music of the Bauls as, "The fastest way to get close to god and find the divinity in human beings."
Known for his fantastic soaring vocals and brilliant artistic improvisation, Das achieved his greatest notoriety in the late '60s when a U.S. tour brought the singer in contact with Bob Dylan. Intrigued by Das and the Baul culture, Dylan featured Purna Das on the cover of his 1967 release John Wesley Harding while inviting Das to record an LP of Baul music at his famous "Big Pink" studio.R.D. Burman
Born in Kolkata in 1939, the late R.D. Burman became one of the most influential music


directors in Bollywood history. A gifted composer and songwriter, Burman was known for his unique ability to integrate international pop music trends with traditional Indian melodies and rhythms.
Rockabilly, funk, bossa nova, psychedelia, jazz and disco are just a few of the styles that Burman explored. He left behind a massive catalog of recordings and his best work is on par with the greatest pop artists in Western music.Ananda Shankar
A nephew of Ravi Shankar, Ananda Shankar explored a more unconventional method of sitar music than his famed uncle. Like R.D. Burman, Ananda's atmospheric sitar soundscapes embraced the Western influence of funk and psychedelic rock.
Largely unknown during his prime years, Shankar's groundbreaking fusion of electronic music instrumentation and Indian rhythms would provide significant influence for a future generation of musicians,A NASA astronaut has claimed he once saw an "alien-like, organic object" floating outside his space shuttle.

Leland Melvin, 54, worked as an engineer on board Atlantis when he spotted the "translucent" item while orbiting Earth.

4 The US astronaut said he saw an 'alien-like, organic' object while he was in space Credit: Getty Images - Getty

He admits that NASA said the incident was just ice breaking away from the vessel.

In a chat on Twitter with fans about his experiences in space he was asked if he had ever seen any aliens or UFOs.

Melvin revealed that he had seen “something, organic, alien-like” in the payload bay of the shuttle when he was working with colleague Randy Bresnik.

The astronaut said the object he saw was “translucent, curved, organic looking” – ending


Nearly two dozen civilians were killed in recent airstrikes by US forces in Afghanistan's Helmand province, an Afghan official says.

Jabar Qahraman, Afghanistan's presidential envoy for security in Helmand, said on Sunday that the airstrikes were carried out against Taliban militants in Sangin district of Helmand during the late hours of February 9.

The official confirmed that the 22 victims included 13 people from one family and nine from another. Qahraman, however, accused Taliban of using civilians as human shields in the region.

"We are saddened to hear the news of civilians being killed," Qahraman said, adding, "When the Taliban use civilians as their shield against security forces, such incidents occur."

Kareem Atal, the head of the provincial council in Helmand, said a man, two women and two children who were injuredin the strikes had been brought to the provincial capital Lashkar Gah for treatment.

Hameed Gul, a local, told media that he lost nine members of his family, including his mother and sister, in the deadly strikes. "It's all lie that they were attacking the Taliban."

US Navy Captain Bill Salvin, a military spokesman, said the US forces were investigating reports of civilian casualties in the district. "We are working diligently to determine whether civilians were killed or injured as a result of US airstrikes" carried out to support Afghan forces in and around Sangin, the US spokesman said in a written statement.

The investigation is "continuing and has not reached any conclusions," Salvin said.


in the US:

Fake news dominated the US during the 2016 presidential election. Facebook’s top 20 fake news stories in the final three months of the election got more views and engagement than the top 20 stories from real outlets.

Such efforts are organized and widespread, from individuals looking to profit to state-run facilities full of hundreds of specialists, there solely to create discord by sharing lies. One known as the Internet Research Agency was very prolific. A primary goal has been to discourage voter turnout.

Carriers have not been under pressure like social media companies have been

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(CNN) Eric Abramovitz's hard work had paid off: The accomplished clarinet player had been accepted to his dream school. But he never got to hear the good news.

That's because when his acceptance email arrived in 2014, Abramovitz's then-girlfriend, Jennifer Lee, deleted it and sent him a fake rejection email from the school. It was a $265,000 mistake.

"It was really devastating to feel that incredible betrayal," Abramovitz told CNN. "It made me think of our whole relationship and it made me feel like everything might have been a lie."

Where it began

A college sophomore studying music at McGill University at the time, Abramovitz had applied to a two-year, full-scholarship program to finish his bachelor's degree at Colburn Conservatory of Music in Los Angeles. Itching to study with a renowned clarinetteacher, Abramovitz spent many late nights in practice rooms to prepare for his audition, which he thought went well.

The full scholarship -- which includes tuition, room and board -- is worth about $50,000 a year and Abramovitz said graduating from Colburn would have set him up for a high-paying symphony career. When he was rejected, Abramovitz said he was crushed.

"It was a disappointing feeling," Abramovitz said. "I had such high hopes."

Abramovitz would have studied under Yehuda Gilad, who is considered one of the best clarinet instructors in the world, he said. Gilad accepts only two new students each year at Colburn, and Abramovitz was one of them.

How she covered her tracks

This Wednesday, a Canadian court ruled that Abramovitz's ex-girlfriend owed him more than $265,000 (350,000 Canadian dollars) for


damages including loss of reputation, educational opportunity and two years of potential income. Roughly US$37,000 of that final amount was added on by the judge for Lee's "despicable interference" in Abramovitz's career.

To convince Abramovitz that Colburn had rejected him, his girlfriend posed as Abramovitz and replied to the school's acceptance email, writing that he would not accept the scholarship because he planned to "be elsewhere." Then she deleted the acceptance email from Abramovitz's inbox.

Lee went one step further, creating a fake email address for Yehuda Gilad: giladyehuda09@gmail.com, and sending Abramovitz a rejection email that offered him a spot at the University of Southern California with a $5,000 scholarship instead. Tuition at USC is more than $50,000, a price Abramovitz said his girlfriend would have known he could notafford.

"It still puzzles me why she even added that," Abramovitz said. "She knew it wouldn't be realistic, so I had to turn that down even though it wasn't real."

Defeated, Abramovitz completed his studies at McGill. He and Lee broke up a few months later for unrelated reasons, he said.

The moment it all came together

Fast forward two years to 2016, when Abramovitz auditioned for a graduate program at USC, where Gilad also teaches. Abramovitz still had no idea his rejection from Colburn was fake. Each man thought they had been rejected by the other.

Abramovitz described a confusing scene at his USC audition in which Gilad asked why he was there, because he had rejected Colburn, and in turn, his instruction.

"With all due respect, I believe you rejected me," Abramovitz


said he told Gilad.

He said Gilad repeated that it had been the other way around. Abramovitz figured Gilad was confusing him with another student.

It wasn't until Abramovitz's classmates asked why he had rejected the Colburn offer that he began to think something was fishy. He went back through his emails and forwarded the rejection he had received in 2014 to Gilad, who said he had never written it.

"I knew I'd been had, but I was still far from knowing by who," Abramovitz said.

His friends became involved in the case and suggested his ex-girlfriend might have played a role.

"It was scary to even confront that thought given how much I trusted her, but over time it started to sink in and I became more and more suspicious that maybeshe had done it, as unpleasant as it was to imagine," Abramovitz said.

Abramovitz tested some of his ex's old passwords to sign into the account that sent the rejection email two years earlier, and that's when the pieces started coming together. The account's recovery information was his girlfriend's email and phone number.

"It was a simultaneous stab to the back and the heart," Abramovitz said. "It really was the last person I would have wanted to find out it was."

When served with the initial lawsuit, Lee did not respond to Abramovitz's lawyers, so she lost by default. Under Canadian law, a defendant in default "is deemed to admit the truth of all allegations of fact" made in the plaintiff's claim.

CNN made attempts to locate Lee, but she could not


be reached for comment.

The process was long, Abramovitz said, but he hasn't let the experience affect the way he trusts people.

A bright future

Today, Abramovitz has a new girlfriend.

"We are coming up on two years soon and it is a really healthy relationship with trust and honesty," Abramovitz said. "I'd like to think my judgment of character has improved a little bit."

Abramovitz has also found success in his professional life. He won a position with the Nashville Symphony Orchestra and was recently appointed the associate principal clarinetist of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra.

Abramovitz says he doesn't "harbor any ill feelings" towards his former girlfriend and hopes she can learn from the experience and live a more honest life.

"Despite what happened I think I landed on my feet and the trajectoryMeet Our Family

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The Prime Minister, while referring to the killing of two terrorists in Shopian in Jammu and Kashmir, said: "They (the terrorists) were standing in front (of the soldiers) with bombs and guns. Would my jawans go to the Election Commission to ask for permission to shoot? Since I came to Kashmir, every second or third day, clean-up operations are taking place."

He further said that the ‘lotus' was all set to bloom in the country again. "The 'mahamilavati' group is now frustrated and desperate because the people are voting for a strong government and a strong nation," he said.

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Spencer said. "It's not just 'recompile,' but obviously our controller is very similar, we know our codebase, we're on a certain number of engines that we're porting in different directions, so it's definitely possible to do things like that."

An uncertain future for Gears of War

The first year of the Xbox 360 was the prelude to the release of the Microsoft-published, Epic-developed Gears of War. The third-person cover-based shooter co-starring Marcus Fenix and his chainsaw gun was one of the most influential games of the generation. The Xbox 360 had four Gears games. The most recent one, Gears of War Judgment, came out in early 2013.

From the outside, it's hard to tell where Gears is going. Other Xbox 360 franchises published by Microsoft but not developed by Microsoft, suchturn it into a math exercise of: 'If it's not this framerate or it's not this resolution then it's somehow not a valid game or it's less of a game' I think is an issue.'"

For the record, Spencer said that both the Xbox One launch racing game Forza Motorsport 5 and the launch fighting games Killer Instinct run at 60 frames per second. Ryse runs at 30 frames per second and natively at a 900p resolution. Ryse has proven to be a stunning looking game, regardless of not running natively at 1080p.

Spencer: "We actually ran the game at 720p, 900p and 1080p and looked at the different lighting techniques, all at 30 and said. 'Ok, where do we think the game looks the best with everything we're able


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hurled both of them to the ground,
and now, down among the horses’ feet, the close-locked strife swaying
and churning above them, their struggle unto the death was wrought
out. Kidson struggled like a madman; he bit, he kicked, he fought with
an almost superhuman fury; but the resolute grip of the avenger never
slackened on his throat. Sholto held on with his right hand, groping
about with his left for some weapon wherewith to end the contest. At
length his grasp closed on the hilt of a dropped sword;--and a moment
later it was all over with the man whom the survivors of Havelock’s
Ironsides speak of with scorn and disgust to this day by the name of
“Nana Sahib’s Englishman.”

THE OLD SERGEANT

The scene of my little story is a sequestered hill-parish away up among
the brown moorsyet more plainly by
the well-brushed threadbare trews of Gordon tartan that encased his
lean and wiry nether limbs. Robbie had been a sergeant in the local
regiment, the gallant Ninety-Second, and in its ranks had borne the
brunt of many a stubborn fray. He had worn the brogues from off his
feet in Moore’s disastrous retreat on Corunna, and had helped to bury
that noble chief “by the struggling moonbeam’s misty ray and the
lantern dimly burning.” He had been in the thick of the fierce bayonet
struggle in the steep street of Fuentes de Oñoro, had climbed the ridge
to the desperate fight of Albuera, and had taken a hand in carrying
the bridge of Almarez. A wound had kept him from Salamanca, but he was
in Graham’s front line on the day of Vittoria, and had


in him, and he was knocked over again on the forenoon
of Waterloo when hanging on to the stirrup-leather of a Scots Grey in
the memorable charge of the “Union Brigade” and shouting “Scotland for
ever!” in unison with the comrades of horse and foot hailing from the
land of cakes. The army surgeons in their cheery manner pronounced
him as full of holes as a cullender, and were for invaliding him then
and there as unfit for further service; but Robbie stoutly pleaded
that he would be as good a man as ever when his wounds were healed,
and triumphantly made good his words. So he had put in fifteen years’
subsequent soldiering, and had heard the British drum-beat all round
the world, ere, some ten years before the date of my story, he
had been retired withmoved him. On this occasion the spirit moved him very
much indeed, and rendered his remarks wholly unquotable. Suffice it
to say that he swore Jellypod should have no further opportunity of
bedevilling troop horses; but should be compelled to tramp on foot the
rest of the way to Weedon, leading the two beasts which he had used up
in as many days. This was a _brutum fulmen_; no doubt the captain would
have been glad to carry out his threat; but the major pointed out that
it would not do. So Jellypod was permitted to finish the journey by
train, and his abrasions were all but whole by the time the detachment
rode up the <DW72> by the military prison, and defiled through the fine
old gateway of wrought-iron that leads into the Weedon barrack-yard.

A few months


“for Valour” from the hands of his Sovereign.
But there is something more to be told. Honest as valiant, he had
already declared that he could not in honour receive any recognition
of the service it had been his good fortune to perform, unless that
recognition were shared in by Sergeant O’Toole, who he persisted in
maintaining deserved infinitely greater credit than any that might
attach to him. Queen Victoria can appreciate not less than soldierly
valour, soldierly honesty, generosity, and modesty; and so it came
about that the next _Gazette_ after Lord William Beresford’s visit to
Windsor contained the announcement that the proudest reward a soldier
of our Empire can aspire to had been conferred on Sergeant Edmund
O’Toole, of Baker’s Horse.

LA BELLE HÉLÈNE OF ALEXINATZ

A SKETCH OF THE SERVIAN WAR-TIME

I

It has been the fashion among soldiers todying night lay on the sand, General Hamley tells
us, was 150 yards long, and it cost the brigade that carried it out
200 casualties ere the Egyptian entrenchment was crowned. It was done
with the first impulse; no check was let stop the onward impetus of
the _élan_; fire-discipline was not called into exercise at all. The
whole of Hamley’s first line pressed on into the interior of the
enemy’s position. The second line followed, but Hamley, with a wise
prescience, “stopped the parts of it that were nearest to him as
they came up, wishing to keep a support in hand which should be more
readily available than such as the brigade in rear could supply.” It
was well he did this thing; but for his doing of it, the shadow of a
far other issue to


taken some pains to learn the state of feeling among the lower
classes of London, and had satisfied himself that they were ready to
throw themselves into any vehemence of revolutionary enterprise, if
only the encouragement and stiffening of vigorous leadership and armed
support were imparted. There opened, then, before this methodical
yet reckless desperado the vista of wrecking the Monarchy, the
Constitution, the military and social system of that England which he
hated so venomously, by kindling a rising in a section of its army,
and by marching the mutinied soldiery to rouse and rally the masses
of the metropolis. If the result, as he hoped, should be a universal
anarchy, he, its instigator and contriver, might “ride the whirlwind
and direct the storm”; if failure should be the issue of his desperate
devices, he, to do him thehe might win some fleeting
fame by sending to his countrymen the earliest tidings of a victory
achieved by their army, at the cost of some toil and danger incurred
by the courier-correspondent. On the other side of the account was
this unpleasantness, that if he were not a toady and a sycophant,
but an independent man, he could hardly escape being regarded as an
Ishmaelite, against whom in the very nature of things was the great
heavy hand of officialdom. He had constantly to confront that kind of
contemptuous contradiction which is equivalent to impugnment of the
veracity of the person contradicted. Of late years it is true, for
weighty reasons, there has been discernible in the tone of official
contradictions a droll infusion of funk in the insolence. The insolence
was, of course, in the very essence of


the tergiversations and tortuosities of
officialdom in its relations with the war correspondent; but it is
impossible to make the letters intelligible without an amount of
egotism which is eminently distasteful to me. The desire, however,
to make public the correspondence outweighs the repugnance to being
egotistic, and accordingly I proceed.

After the decisive victory of Ulundi gained over the Zulus on July 4,
1879, I quitted the same evening the laager in which Lord Chelmsford’s
army was encamped, and, after a continuous ride of about seventeen
hours, reached the telegraph-wire at Landmann’s Drift with the earliest
news. Thence I telegraphed to Sir Bartle Frere at Cape Town, and to
Sir Garnet Wolseley, then on his way to Port Durnford on the Zululand
coast, a brief summary of the action and the result. Both those
officials telegraphed me thanks in reply.  HARRY HOWARD.

He must have either been quite reckless, or what is known as a
“barrack-room lawyer.” I let him be, as I was not sure that there is
any military law under which he could have been punished. A comfortable
man, Mr. Harry Howard, to be entrusted with the despatch of an
all-important message at the critical moment of a campaign, while a spy
who had “crossed the palm” was waiting round the corner!

It was presently disclosed that this correspondence on the official
side was from the first simply what the Germans expressively call
“a blow on the water.” It began with a foregone conclusion. An
influential friend conversant with the circumstances wrote to the
authorities representing with a certain vigour that he considered the
treatment I had met with to have been ungracious and unfair.


sitar
Van Conner - bass, backing vocals, guitar
Mark Lanegan - lead vocals, guitar
Barrett Martin - percussion, cello, drums, conga, harmonium, tabla, djembe

Additional personnel
George Drakoulias - percussion, producer
Chris Goss - backing vocals
Brian Jenkins - backing vocals on "Traveler"
Mike McCready - guitar solo on "Dying Days"
Jeff Nolan - guitar on "Dime Western"
Benmont Tench - organ, electric piano, mellotron, piano
21st Street Singers - backing vocals on "Dying Days"
Mark Danielson - front cover artwork
Danny Clinch - photography

Charts
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Album - UK Album Charts

Singles - Billboard (North America)

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