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1. Atlantean Kodex - The Golden Bough
No other album comes close this year. A monument to power, style, and grace. The deepest, most meaningful album of the year.
2. Melechesh - The Epigenesis
Melechesh's most varied, adventurous, and complex work to date. A massive, multilayered, and addictive album.
3. Mael Mordha - Manannan
The second-best band in Ireland makes their best album. Rawer and more emotional than their last, yet still epic and haunting.
4. Ea - Au Ellai
Moving, mysterious, and powerful. Nobody does Funeral Doom as well as Ea.
5. Briton Rites - For Mircalla
Mystical, occult, heavy-assed Doom Metal. If Black Sabbath did a soundtrack to a Hammer movie, this would be it.
6. Iron Maiden - The Final Frontier
Their best album in twenty years proves they are not dead yet. Combines the complexity and seriousness of their late work with the energy and catchiness of their classics.
7. Procession - Destroyers of the Faith
Fantastic Trad Doom that puts this band on the map. A better album than Candlemass have made for decades.
8. Crosswind - Opposing Forces
An amazing disc that is really a demo compilation, and it's a shredding epic riff-fest of speed and power. A frighteningly good band.
9. Sig:Ar:Tyr - Godsaga
Magnificent, atmospheric Pagan Black Metal that conjures Bathory without imitating.
10. Grendel - Dragon's Awakening
Deeply musical and ruthlessly heavy. This band keeps getting better.
11. Arkheth - IX & I: The Quintessence of Algaresh
A big surprise from this young band. A massive double album that just fucking owns.
12. Inquisition - Ominous Doctrines of the Perpetual Mystical Macrocosm
This veteran band put out the vilest, blackest, nastiest album of 2010.
13. Slough Feg - The Animal Spirits
The band that won't die comes back with another great album. It may not equal Hardworlder or Traveller, but it stands head and shoulders over most other bands' finest works.
1. Kamelot - Poetry for the Poisoned
Overblown and lacking good songs, this album signals that Kamelot are burning out.
2. Skyforger - Kurbads
What happened to the great band that made Thunderforge? Because all I hear is a third-rate imitation.
3. Grand Magus - Hammer of the North
Grand Magus cleaned up and pussed out for this. In trying to make an album that would appeal to the mainstream, they made one that appeals to nobody.
2010 was a great year for metal. I say that because all of my favorite bands seemed to release albums this year. Being a fan of traditional heavy metal in 2010 was kind of like finding a bunch of $100 bills on the sidewalk. It was just great, and there were a ton of really inspired, deeply spirited releases to sink my teeth into, from underground bands and from mainstream ones alike, that were definitely a lot better than your garden variety White Wizzard junk. But what specific albums made it onto my personal best of 2010 list? Let's see.
1. Briton Rites - For Mircalla
A mighty album of true metal splendor. Simply the one that represents best what heavy metal was and is still about in 2010. The rich, thick production, the rootsy, masterful riffing and Phil Swanson's iconic vocal performance combined with the awesome lyrics make this album of the year.
2. Slough Feg - The Animal Spirits
The charismatic, individual and ever so strange Slough Feg release another album with their trademark stamp of wonderful, heartfelt rock/metal. This one is their best in years, with songs so enjoyable they are simply undeniable by anyone...with ears.
3. Avantasia - The Wicked Symphony & Angel of Babylon - Deluxe Edition
Tobias Sammet has been releasing his brand of attitude-filled hard rock-influenced power metal for years, and growing more professional at blending the two genres with each release. This double-album set is packed with more Sammet than you know how to handle, with lucrative guest stars, hooky choruses and epic, sweeping songs.
4. Iron Maiden - The Final Frontier
The venerable Maiden marches on and puts out their best album in years. Emotive, sweeping, adventurous music, with one of Dickinson's finest performances ever.
5. Excalion - High Time
Excalion are a powerful new band and this is their third album, in what I am sure will be a promising career. This is simply outstanding music, with rich melodic constructions and excellent vocal work adding to a stunning listen.
6. Black Majesty - In Your Honour
Black Majesty's answer to Painkiller. Fast, furious, intricate and relentless, In Your Honor shows this fine Australian band gaining momentum at ridiculous speeds. Who knows how good their next one will be?
7. Hanker - Conspiracy of Mass Extinction
Hanker's best album since The Dead Ringer shows this excellent Canadian band powering out their fastest, most intense songs ever. And not only is it fast, but the riffs are simply some of the best Hanker has ever penned. Invaluably awesome.
8. Mael Mordha - Manannan
Mael Mordha's third album is a sweeping Pagan hammer of death and destruction to all enemies of metal. This flows masterfully, with some really great, complex riffing woven into the majestic, pounding base of the music. Vital and meaningful music with real presence and charisma.
9. Angra - Aqua
Angra release their best album yet in this tour de force of emotion, power and wild native influence. Aqua shows the band mastering their songwriting technique with some of their most hooky, yet complex, tunes to date.
10. Atlantean Kodex - The Golden Bough
A folksy, moving and majestic piece of metal from this very promising young outfit. A lot of the material on here is some of the best True Metal to come out this year. Next time I hope they can wrap up a more coherent set of songs, but for what it is, this album simply bleeds heart, passion and triumph.
11. Hooded Menace - Never Cross the Dead
Awesome, churning death metal guitars mixed with horror movie lyrics, low growls and a thick, enveloping production...this is one of the coolest things around and I wish I had given it more attention this year, so I'm giving it my honorary #11 spot.
With every year there come disappointments. And several bands happened to release below-standard albums this year. So here they are:
1. Freedom Call - Legend of the Shadowking
It's still a shame to see this once-good band peddling out piss poor crap like this album. Better than Dimensions, but then, most sounds that come out of your ass are better than Dimensions. This album is clumsy, confusing and has no flow at all between songs.
2. Virgin Steele - The Black Light Bacchanalia
This legendary band has put out a real flop in 2010 with The Black Light Bacchanalia, an album in which most of the runtime is taken up by meaningless, overly self-indulgent prog jerking and ridiculous, over the top castrati wailing with no real sense of songwriting.
3. Orden Ogan - Easton Hope
Orden Ogan's last album Vale was one of the best of 2008, and come 2010 I was hyped to hear this. Unfortunately Easton Hope is merely OK, with some good tunes but a lack of the subtlety and charisma that their last album had. Mostly just kind of generic, sadly.
4. Kiuas - Lustdriven
Kiuas used to be a very unique, individualistic band with real vision and vitriol to them, but now they make watered down pop metal. Oh well.
5. Astral Doors - Requiem of Time
A kid banging on pots and pans is more enthusiastic than this fifth rate slop. Embarrassing beyond belief.
So that's my top 11 and bottom 5 albums of 2010. I hope you enjoyed reading it and I also hope 2011 will be even better. Stay metal. Live long, rock out and keep true to what you believe in.
There were a lot of good albums I had the pleasure to listen to this year and, of course, a lot of not-so-good albums. I have included the Top 10 albums for 2010 that I reviewed for The Metal Crypt (no one cares if there was some album I thought was great, but that I couldn't be bothered to write a review for, right?) No disappointments, as I wasn't expecting anything from any band this year.
1. Atlantean Kodex - The Golden Bough
OK, I lied in my introduction; I was expecting The Golden Bough to be awesome. Quite simply, it is the best metal album of the year, bar none. The band not only lived up to, but exceeded any expectations I had with killer riffs, engaging melodies and a dedication to their sound very few bands display.
2. Accept - Blood of the Nations
Nearly 24 years after the end of the "classic" Accept recording career, the band rises from the ashes and blows everyone away with a monster Heavy Metal album, full of killer guitars and Mark Tornillo's powerful vocals. Only Atlantean Kodex stood in the way of the number one spot. Blood of the Nations is the comeback album of the year, if not all time.
3. Edenbridge - Solitaire
A masterpiece of female-fronted, symphonic Power Metal, infectious barely comes close to describing Solitaire.
4. While Heaven Wept - Triumph:Tragedy:Transcendence
Triumph:Tragedy:Transcendence is the record of a band at its peak, caught live. If you've never heard While Heaven Wept, make it a priority for 2011, and you can start here.
5. Melechesh - The Epigenesis
Black Metal only covers part of what Melechesh bring to the table on The Epigenesis. It is an amazing fusion of Black Metal and traditional Middle Eastern melodies that works perfectly, despite the seemingly disparate styles.
6. Black Majesty - In Your Honour
In Your Honor is excellent, soaring Power Metal from Australia's Black Majesty. Every chorus is huge and immensely catchy. An example of what can happen when you don't mess with a style, just play it as it is meant to be played.
7. Züül - Out of Time
This U.S. band expertly captures the doomy, NWOBHM sound of the early 80s. If I still had my denim jacket, there would be a ZUUL patch across the back.
8. Ancient Bards - The Alliance of the Kings
An amazing debut of epic, fantasy-themed Power Metal, the first in what will hopefully be a cycle of great Power Metal from these young Italians.
9. Mob Rules - Radical Peace
Radical Peace is dense and layered, with thought provoking lyrics that are political without being preachy. Not an easy task for a Power Metal band, but Mob Rules makes it look easy.
10. Triosphere - The Road Less Travelled
Amazing what improved songwriting can do for a band. Triosphere take their already powerful playing and marry it with some catchy, hooky writing and created a winner.
Another year, another year's best. What made this year's list peculiar is that it was so damned difficult to choose the top spot. There were so many albums worthy of that distinction and although this list can change tomorrow, I believe this was its best possible ranking. Overall, 2010 had better records than 2009 and I just hope that things get only better in 2011.
1. Steelwing - Lord of the Wasteland
It took much deliberation, but after listing and listening to all the albums here, I truly believe this is the best one of 2010. Why? Because this thing just fucking explodes out of the speakers, giving Heavy Metal a billion volt charge.
2. Hellish Crossfire - Bloodrust Scythe
The best Thrash Metal album of the year hands down. Raw, fast and aggressive with a take no prisoners attitude, it has everything that thrash fans would want/need.
3. Skelator - Death to All Nations
This album could easily have been in the top spot as their brand of metal can get very addictive in a short time. If you were waiting for a new American band to take over the metal scene in the U.S., this is the one.
4. Slough Feg - The Animal Spirits
Just a year after the marvelous Ape Uprising! this band comes back with a brand new album. It is pure Slough Feg all the way through and if you liked them before there is no reason why you shouldn't worship this.
5. White Wizzard - Over the Top
There has been so much shit and backlash about this album and band that I wonder what in the blue hell am I missing. This debut provides plenty of air guitar moments and combined with its unbelievable vocals you'll have a hard time getting these songs out of your head.
6. Atlantean Kodex - The Golden Bough
At first, I didn't fall in love with this like so many people did, but after repeated listens I did and can clearly see why people love this album. If they can continue to produce more records like this, I anticipate bigger things for them in no time.
7. Overkill - Ironbound
When I reviewed this, I said that this was their best since Horrorscope but after listening to both albums recently, I think this is better by miles. In my humble opinion, this is their second best album ever behind only The Years of Decay.
8. Star One - Victims of the Modern Age
Arjen Anthony Lucassen has done it once again. After the goodness of Space Metal, I didn't expect that he could make an album just as good. Nevertheless, it was worth the wait; I just hope that their next record comes sooner than 8 years.
9. Züül - Out of Time
This is what happens when you make an album as if the 80's never ended. It has everything that a metal fan of that era would want without sounding retro or lame. I anticipate big things for the band in the very near future.
10. God Dethroned - Under the Sign of the Iron Cross
I didn't think that they could make an album as good as Passiondale, but this one is better by a hair. It is my favorite Black/Death album of the year, keeping the momentum achieved last year.
11. Procession - Destroyers of the Faith
The best Doom Metal album of the year. No other disc in the genre managed to keep my attention for its entirety. Hell it deserves to be here just for the title track alone.
12. Heathen - The Evolution of Chaos
After an almost 20 years hiatus this band comes back and makes one hell of a record. This is how you are supposed to do Progressive Thrash, a never boring album with great musicianship while slaying everything in your path.
13. High On Fire - Snakes for the Divine
I didn't know much about them before this record, but this trio have a made a Thrash album to remember. Don't be fooled by that name, this record can easily rival anything released in Thrash this year.
14. Enforcer - Diamonds
For me, this is the surprise of the year. I didn't think that there was a band that could capture the essence of the NWOBHM so vividly. But with this album, the Swedes have proved that you can still make something amazing no matter how many times has been done before.
15. Avantasia - Angel of Babylon
I really enjoyed The Metal Opera - PartOone, but the for some reason the other discs from Tobias's side project didn't appeal much to me. Not until I heard this one. It was close but I think this is the best pure Power Metal album of the year.
There have been many disappointments during the past year but none hit me as hard as the death of Ronnie James Dio. I was eagerly waiting for an album from him but now sadly I'll never get that chance (at least I got to see him live once). On the other hand, it wasn't very difficult to find the worst albums of the year and unlike the best-of list, there is little chance that I'll change the order in which they are arranged.
1. Ozzy Osbourne - Scream
Without hesitation, this is easily this is by far the shittiest metal album I've heard during the past year. This is depressingly bad, enough proof that this guy should never release an album again.
2. The Wounded Kings - The Shadow Over Atlantis
This is a prime example of why people cannot stand Doom Metal. Long, tedious and generic, only Doom Metal fans could enjoy this disc.
3. Antares Predator - Twilight of the Apocalypse
This is what happens when a record is made by people who forget that the Thrash part is supposed to be just as important as the Black part. Avoid.
4. Mekong Delta - Wanderer On the Edge Of Time
This is such a mess of jazz, blues, classical and metal without any focus whatsoever. As far as I'm concerned the next time I want to listen to a new album by this band will be in 2033.
5. Angra - Aqua
This was the only album on this list that wasn't horrible but after the hype surrounding it, it was a major disappointment to say the least.
Well, well, well. Another year down and another good year for metal music, 2010 saw a constant slew of quality albums by reliable bands. Of course there were disappointments but the good far outweighed the bad. Hell, my short list numbered around 50 albums and there are still a few I've yet to spend quality time with (Briton Rites springs to mind in particular, don't get me wrong it's excellent on first impressions but I can't place it here due to hearing it for the first time recently). Now before I get into the list I will say this reflects more what the albums mean to me as opposed to my critiques of the albums.
1. Virgin Steele - The Black Light Bacchanalia
Picking an album of the year for 2010 has been very difficult; I don't believe there is a flat-out album of the year so I thought I'd gave the number one spot to the album I enjoyed the most. Virgin Steele are one of my favourite bands and since the Marriage albums I don't believe they've put a foot wrong. The Black Light Bacchanalia hits me on not just an aesthetic level but a personal, emotional level too. I understand I'm in a massive minority and you know what it is, I don't care. Fucking awesome!
2. Heathen - The Evolution of Chaos
Beyond superlatives, Heathen really hit the nail on the head this time around, rivalling my 2009 album of the year Endgame for the spot of the finest thrash album I've heard since the glory days. It's great to see a band come back and take names, and with The Evolution of Chaos Heathen became responsible for many a sore neck.
3. Orden Ogan - Easton Hope
Orden Ogan are one of the finest power metal acts to rise up over the last few years, and while opinions have been divided over Easton Hope I feel it's the finest release in the genre this year. One of those albums that can make you fall in love with the genre all over again.
4. Labyrinth - Return to Heaven Denied Pt. II - "A Midnight Autumn’s Dream"
Make no mistake about it; the original Return to Heaven Denied is a personal favourite of mine which I hold in high regard. I was dubious about a sequel album, and I couldn't be happier with the end result. They managed to recreate the atmosphere and magic which made the original so special to me, not to mention superb song-writing to boot. Heart-stopping melodies, passionate performances and stunning musicianship are the order of the day here.
5. Triosphere - The Road Less Travelled
Holy shit, this album keeps getting better and better. Easily the best female-fronted album of the year. The Road Less Travelled is a meticulously crafted album, dripping with energy and passion, soaring through moody passages and dragging you along for the ride with many a hook. Triosphere are certainly a band to watch.
6. Atlantean Kodex - The Golden Bough
This one will no doubt top quite a few lists, and I can't really argue with that, Atlantean Kodex have created an album that is pretty much mandatory listening for any self-respecting metalhead. This is an album that makes you proud to be flying the flag of metal, and I'm sure we've all raised our fists to the air and sung out the chorus to "Pilgrim" at the top of our voices.
7. Angra - Aqua
Another album to divide opinions, those of us who persisted with repeated spins were certainly rewarded. I can't shake the album now, an excellent listen and while not the flat-out technical power metal assault I had hoped for, Aqua ended up a charming progressive metal album that comes across as both heartfelt and well thought out. Angra really can do no wrong as far as I'm concerned.
8. Blind Guardian - At the Edge of Time
The marriage of the Blind Guardian of old and the Blind Guardian of present, At The Edge of Time is a welcome addition the band's near flawless discography. Blind Guardian are at the top of their game, and this would be the perfect swansong for the band (let's hope not though).
9. Masterplan - Time to be King
Masterplan are another band ia the top of their game, and Time to be King is the sound of the band comfortable and proud and doing what they do best. A smashing collection of brilliant songs that never grow old or stale.
10. Sadist - Season in Silence
This album is just so goddamn cool. With so many typical death metal albums over the year, Sadist delivered a fistful of sharp ice to both my face and the proverbial face of their competition. Season In Silence is pretty much a master-class in how to progressive death metal.
11. Seventh Wonder - The Great Escape
From the moment I heard "Alley Cat" The Great Escape was pretty much guaranteed a spot on this list. I had anticipated this to be my album of the year, although I think I set my hopes a little too high. Don't get me wrong this is an undeniably great album, I just think they bit off more than they could chew in the title track – sorry guys, 30 minutes is too much.
12. Slough Feg - The Animal Spirits
Slough Feg are one of the coolest bands around, and this is more of what they do best. These guys seriously can't go wrong.
13. Myrath - Desert Call
This one had to be here, seriously awesome eastern-tinted progressive power metal. Myrath played their hand well here and are certainly a band I look forward to hearing more from.
14. Overkill - Ironbound
It's great to see Overkill kicking ass again, and seriously, I mean fucking seriously man, the band are on fire here, and this is one of the finest headbang fests of the year. I took one listen to "The Green and Black" and I was floored flat on my arse. Heavy as hell, this is mandatory for the thrashers.
15. Avantasia - The Wicked Symphony & Angel of Babylon - Deluxe Edition
The logical step after The Scarecrow, Tobias Sammet is on top form here. Some people will never be able to get over the fact this isn't The Metal Opera all over again, but they're the ones missing out.
1. Atheist - Jupiter
I had ridiculously high hopes for this. Sadly the album couldn't suck more if it tried. Atheist also win the award for gayest moment of 2010; see 1:51 into "Live and Live Again". This one left me really quite sore, I saw a comment on the Internet somewhere saying; Atheist, take Jupiter and shove it up Uranus. I'd have to second that.
2. Forbidden - Omega Wave
Not bad by any stretch of the word, and in fact there are some superb songs on the album. They're just stuck between a lot of filler, and there's some shameless overtly modern sounding moments throughout. The album is honestly too damn long. I'm not writing these guys off completely though. I was just expecting better from one of my favourite thrash metal acts.
3. Symphorce - Unrestricted
Maybe I was a little unfair to these guys giving them the bottom of the barrel 0/5 treatment. Then again, the album is a bit of a stinker and well and as far as I'm concerned has well and truly soiled the name of this once great band.
Honourable mentions go out to Iron Maiden, Vanden Plas, Martriden, Rhapsody of Fire, Helloween, Briton Rites, Nomad Son... Bloody hell, I could go on and on. You get the drift though: there has been a load of excellent stuff this year. Here's hoping 2011 kicks our asses, I have to admit things are already looking mighty promising. Not to mention the fact we're off to a great start with Stratovarius' latest opus.
This was a great year for metal, one of the best in memory. From all corners of the metal world, 2010 delivered great releases from both established and new acts.
1. Blind Guardian - At the Edge of Time
The very welcome comeback from a band I had left for dead, proving once again that they're one of the best bands the genre has ever seen.
2. Agalloch - Marrow of the Spirit
Sweeping, rapturous, and undeniably beautiful. One of the most artistic and soulful bands in the genre releases possibly their best album yet.
3. Noctum - The Seance
Wow, now this was a great debut. There's seemingly almost no information on this mysterious Swedish doom act, but the men behind it will have my ears desperately awaiting a follow-up.
4. Enforcer - Diamonds
With this infectious nod to traditional metal, this Swedish outfit will around for a very long time.
5. Briton Rites - For Mircalla
Not deserving of all the heraldry thrust upon it, but still one of the year's strongest and powerful albums.
6. Ereb Altor - The End
Certainly the year's most depressing album, in a great way.
7. Ihsahn - After
Metal's resident iconoclast is back with a genre-bending slice of very moving, and surprising gentle music.
8. Ghost (Sweden) - Opus Eponymous
Germans have a word that translates to "earworm" used for the most catchy of songs. It's the perfect way to describe this album.
1. Sabaton - Coat of Arms
A collection of simply made, humdrum songs that sound like the deleted tracks from previous Sabaton albums.
2. Annihilator - Annihilator
Not so much a disappointment, as I knew it would be awful. But it was still the worst album I heard all year long. It's not all that surprising coming after the unfathomably heinous Metal. The worst band in the world strikes again.
3. Atlantean Kodex - The Golden Bough
Before everyone kills me, let me say that this album is far from bad. However, I certainly didn't understand why it received the extremely high praise it did, making it nothing short of a large disappointment.
2010 has been a solid year for metal with releases that span several different genres occupying my listening time. It was also a year several established sounds were redone in a slightly different form for added impact.
1. Enslaved - Axioma Ethica Odini
This black metal act continuously progresses into more interesting territories with each release and they've simply brought everything together for a masterful work with Axioma Ethica Odini.
2. Immolation - Majesty and Decay
This album is furious and intense. Immolation continues to up the ante for quality death metal and they've created another monster with Majesty and Decay.
3. Heathen - The Evolution of Chaos
Thrash is back with a vengeance on The Evolution of Chaos. Heathen manage to extract a classic sound and make it relevant for a more modern Thrash audience here.
4. Intronaut - Valley of Smoke
This album has intricate progressive sounds that straddle the line between aggression and subtlety in a wonderful fashion. The work as a whole is coherent, spacey and inventive in equal measures.
5. Ihsahn - After
This album infuses jazz and other styles into a black metal mix for a varied and compelling work. It shows there still can be interesting music in the Emperor mould.
6. Melechesh - The Epigenesis
An ambitious album that pushes the intricacies of what Egyptian sounding black metal can attain. There's certainly a strong thrash vibe here as well that gives the songs a rollicking nature.
7. Overkill - Ironbound
This is simply another solid release from the thrash greats that has catchy and memorable riffs. It may not quite live up to classics like Horrorscope, but it's another great effort regardless.
8. Triptykon - Eparistera Daimones
This is a unique listen that continues the Celtic Frost vein with slight changes. The release is slightly more avant-garde than Celtic Frost, but still packs a punch.
9. Slough Feg - The Animal Spirits
This album has a vibrant, energy filled style that likens it to classics by bands such as Iron Maiden. Led by a unique vocalist, I'm disappointed I didn't start listening to this band earlier.
10. Pensées Nocturnes - Grotesque
A compelling work that stretches the boundaries of metal by adding symphonic elements, for example. It requires multiple listens to fully grasp the band's thoughts.
11. Iron Maiden - The Final Frontier
Iron Maiden's latest has evolved song structures and is one of their more interesting releases. It is an album that gets progressively better as it reaches towards the end of the release.
12. Orphaned Land - The Never Ending Way of ORwarriOR
There are excellent middle-eastern influenced sounds to be found here. This work is very ambitious and perhaps overly so at times.
13. Myrath - Desert Call
A progressive work that has a middle-eastern tinge that is simply classy to listen to. It is actually rather subtle in its delivery rather than being over-indulgent.
14. Nevermore - The Obsidian Conspiracy
While this isn't as good as albums like Dreaming Neon Black, there is a lot to like with the new Nevermore, including an exciting title track that is amongst the band's best.
15. Heathen Foray - Armored Bards
This outfit have a very upbeat folk sound that is heroic and pleasing to listen to. They faithfully bring the spirit of bands like Amon Amarth to the forefront and have the ability to be uplifting.
1. Tears - Memories Of Things Unnecessary
I had high hopes for this album as it begun with an interesting avant-garde style, but it became very dry minimalistic music towards the end. The album has a sub-par ending to a promising beginning.
2. Blood of the Black Owl - A Banishing Ritual
This album was relatively well done, but was simply somewhat boring to listen to. I was expecting a compelling atmospheric listen, but it just ended up being tedious.
There you have my favorite moments as well as a couple let downs from a great year for metal in 2010. Hopefully in 2011 there are even more powerful and interesting releases than there were this year.
Well folks it's almost upon us, the end of 2010. Just like 2009, it has been an exceptionally good year for metal with some surprising releases both positively and negatively. There were so many great albums to choose from to try and squeeze into 15, but I've managed to narrow it down and here are my choices of what I believe to be the absolute best to showcase metal from 2010.
1. Alcest - Ecailles de Lune
The enigmatic Neige managed to perform the incredible feat of actually topping the band's debut, Souvenirs d'un autre ,onde. This fantastic fusion of majestic yet unrelenting Emperor-esque Black metal and sullen shoegaze guitar passages comes together in scintillating fashion, eclipsing all the would-be imitators to their debut in 2007 and showing them how it's really done. And to be honest, I can't ever see anyone other than Neige himself coming anywhere near to bettering this style. Monumental.
2. Sargeist - Let the Devil In
This latest unholy plague unleashed by mastermind Shatraug exploded completely out of the blue and struck me senseless. Shatraug may be a bit of a vagrant when it comes to black metal, but when push comes to shove he does it extremely fucking well. Yes this is even better than Behexen. Uncompromising and beguiling, this is how black metal should be done.
3. Atlantean Kodex - The Golden Bough
I have a feeling this will be at the top of many people's lists, and it's not hard to see why. The doom-tinged epic metal of these Germans is straight out of the instruction manual of Hammerheart-era Bathory and Doomsword. If you thought The Pnakotic Demos was impressive, you're in for a surprise. The next time someone asks you to define metal? Just hand them a copy of this CD.
4. Inquisition - Ominous Doctrines of the Perpetual Mystical Macrocosm
A surprise addition for me here, mainly because I was never that big a fan of Inquisition. They often receive a large amount of flak for their comical image and ridiculous titles. It's slightly unfair as many pass them off without even listening to them because of this, especially when they've managed to release an album of this standard. Immortal worship at its most pompous and grandiose without ever becoming self indulgent from these Columbian veterans.
5. Enforcer - Diamonds
The traditional heavy metal revival peaked in 2010, and while many bands were just looking back through rose-tinted glasses and completely lacking in substance, Enforcer rose to the top of the heap. Quitely rightly so too, as with Diamonds, Enforcer have managed to carve out a sound of their own yet retaining all the pizzazz and attitude which made heavy metal in the first place. Dense, commanding and extremely catchy, Enforcer are an exciting prospect for the future and surely destined for big things.
6. Watain - Lawless Darkness
Sweden's satanic trio Watain returning in 2010 with the follow up to Sworn to the Dark, and continue the form that saw them so revered ever since Cacus Luciferi was unleashed upon us. Unashamed Dissection worship, only now with an added touch variation, it's the logical step forward from their previous release. They even managed to fit a fourteen minute blasphemous epic in the form of "Waters of Ain", which features the legendary Carl McCoy. It may just be the best black metal song of this year.
7. Iron Maiden - The Final Frontier
This is a band which need no introduction. If you know metal music at all, you know Iron Maiden. The Final Frontier removed any doubt about the band's ability these days since the disappointing A Matter of Life and Death. Kevin Shirley has worked a fantastic production here, and with the band's extremely progressive approach to the songwriting yet still retaining that unassailable identity which make Maiden who they are, they've produced their most memorable album since Brave New World.
8. Weapon - From The Devil's Tomb
A band who I've only recently come across, Weapon play caustic brand of blackened death metal. Blistering drum work and riffing with a bile-draped atmosphere to boot, Morbid Angel are just as much influences as Mayhem. The alternation between blood blasted brutality and macabre processions are the record's forte. The Ajna Offensive have a seriously impressive roster, of which Weapon are another compelling addition to.
9. Aorlhac - La cité des vents
A high flier in my end of year list last year, Aorlhac have managed to return again this year with La cite des vents. Still spewing forth their own brand of Occitania-influenced black metal with the medieval tendencies of Peste Noire, it's a worthy successor to Opus I. They haven't made the impression on the scene I imagined they would, but provided they keep releasing material of this quality, the breakthrough is bound to happen sooner than later.
10. Agalloch - Marrow of the Spirit
Probably the most anticipated metal album of 2010 finally hit the shelves in late November. Their brand of heavily post-rock influenced Black/Doom hybrid draws influences from everyone from Sol Invictus to Katatonia. There was extremely high expectation placed upon this release, but Portland's favourite heathen's have done it again. If you are looking for the textbook soundtrack to the dreary, washed out portents of Autumn, I don't know a better album.
11. Witchrist - Beheaded Ouroboros
Invictus have been releasing some extremely impressive albums lately, and this is top of the pile. Possibly one of the most downright putrid and unrelentingly heavy albums you'll hear all year, with insanely decadent gutturals from this esoteric horde. Genuine old school death metal with a big middle finger to the vapid facade of 'technical' death.
12. Kerasphorus - Cloven Hooves at the Holocaust Dawn
It's Helmkamp, need I say more? For those unfortunate enough to have completely passed by Order from Chaos and Revenge, primitive war metal tyrants James Read and Pete Helmkamp join forces once again to conjure up a release of nothing more than all out depraved violence. Comparable to no less than a bullet straight down your throat. Utter barbarism.
13. Christian Mistress - Agony & Opium
Bearing the Fenriz seal of approval, Christian Mistress and their take on classic heavy metal put many to shame on much bigger labels. The raw, DIY ethic and solo littered songs with Christine's enamouring vocals show all the self-indulgent 'gothic' metal bands how proper metal is supposed to be performed, for here, the flame of the eighties is brighter than ever.
14. Briton Rites - For Mircalla
Hour of 13 mastermind Phil Swanson joined forces with Howie Bentley of Cauldron Born fame here, and though on paper it's hard to comprehend how it could possibly work, it does. Taking the blueprints from Black Sabbath and Witchfinder General, add an occult horror movie-esque atmosphere and Phil's unmistakable vocals and you get this; the best doom metal album of the year.
15. Winterfylleth - The Mercian Sphere
How could you not love a cover like that? Weathered atmospheric black metal in the same vein as Drudkh with a heavy acoustic slant to it, Winterfylleth are a gem in the British scene at the minute. Focusing on their Anglo-Saxon heritage rather than typical Satanic musings, it's a welcome change. Dynamic and brooding, yet exceptionally vicious as well, with The Mercian Sphere Winterfylleth are cementing their place as important players in the UK scene.
1. Blind Illusion - Demon Master
The Sane Asylum, an absolute thrash metal classic and one of the most sought after metal albums ever. This? A shocking, direction-less attempt at some sort of hippy grungy nonsense. Blind Illusion are about sixteen years too late with Demon Master, and even then it still would have been shit.
2. Skyforger - Kurbads
Previously with four classic albums under their best, together with a seven year wait amounted to the second biggest disappointment of the year. With Kurbads, Skyforger diluted much of the folk that made them popular in the first place and downtuned the guitars to almost nu-metal levels at times. Boring and completely uninspired riffing and awful vocals from a band who should know better.
3. White Wizzard - Over the Top
They chose wisely in picking the title track as the single, because along with 40 Deuces, they are the only two decent songs on this. Utterly shallow and lacking in substance, Jon needs his ego deflating slightly, because he hasn't actually ever done anything noteworthy to warrant it.
4. Drudkh - Handful of Stars
Drudkh were, and still are a favourite band of mine, so when I heard the new album had begun to incorporate shoegaze into their sound, I was quietly grinning with anticipation. Then I listened to it. What shoegaze? Someone needs to read up on their definition of what shoegaze really is. Insipid riffing and a horrible sterile production, just what the fuck exactly have you done Drudkh?
5. Negura Bunget - Virstele Pamintului
Not horribly bad as such, but when you put it up against the magical Om, it doesn't even come close. The Dordeduh EP was what this should have sounded like.
Well, 2010 saw some incredible releases from both veteran and new bands, but unfortunately, being a bit strapped for cash, I didn't get to experience many of the "essential" releases for the year. Fortunately, this also meant I only bought those I deemed inevitably good, eliminating the prospect of disappointments. Here's my Top Ten, in no particular order, save for the first two, which tied for the best of the year.
1. Atlantean Kodex - The Golden Bough
When I first put this in, I must admit, I was slightly underwhelmed, but within days, the album unfolded and got me addicted to its magisterial might. HUGE epic metal not to be missed by anyone.
1. Pain of Salvation - Road Salt One
Being a Pain of Salvation nerd, this was a no-brainer, seeing them push their already strange talents into ever-weirder 70s hard rock territory. Trippy, warm, and sometimes outright disturbing, Road Salt One is a welcome addition to my collection, and a tie for Album of the Year.
2. Vanden Plas - The Seraphic Clockwork
Their densest album to date, this thing just screams epic the whole way through. It has the same kind of kinetic songwriting from Christ 0, with the atmosphere of Beyond Daylight making appearances. A must-have for proggers.
3. Overkill - Ironbound
Definitely one of the bands best, Ironbound sees the crazy New Jesrsey thrashers dabble in epic songwriting married to killer thrash riffs and a production job that levels buildings, and made one of the best albums of 2010.
4. Iron Maiden - The Final Frontier
Adventurous and compelling, these guys have made an album that is at once familiar and yet very progressive. Plus Bruce turns in the performance of his career on some of these tunes. Awesome album.
5. Kamelot - Poetry for the Poisoned
Their weirdest effort to date, I think Kamelot finally has an album fans will polarize over. I personally appreciate it as a whole, with all the bells and whistles adding into a much more convincing album than a collection of songs.
6. High On Fire - Snakes for the Divine
I had heard a lot about these guys and had a bit of extra money, so I thought "Hey, might as well check this out." For the next 45 minutes I had my head torn off by some of the ugliest, heaviest thrash I've ever heard. Focusing on fuzzy, nasty riffs played with a dash of Motorhead thrown in, this is a pretty damn cool album.
7. Blind Guardian - At the Edge of Time
I seriously don't know why anyone could think this is anything but stellar. A perfect collaboration of almost every sound the band has ever had, soaked in orchestral bombast. Plus, "Sacred Worlds" is one of the best power metal songs of all damn time. Essential for fans of the band or genre.
8. Briton Rites - For Mircalla
Holy shit, who that has heard this doesn't like it?! Simply incredible old-school heavy metal from beginning to end is what you get here, with a never-ending assault of incredible riffage and solos cloaked in a warm, fuzzy, perfect tone, backed by arcane lyrics and weird warbly singing, this thing might as well be a time portal to the 80s.
9. Seventh Wonder - The Great Escape
I wonder if my sweet tooth will one day wear out and render me incapable of listening to these guys... Until then, I'll continue to enjoy their saccharine blend of prog time signatures with sugar-sweet power metal melodies, sung by one of the best throats in the melodic metal scene.
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Many people are off late buying used robots and i thought it will be useful for used robot buyers as a reference.
I have numbered them for convenience so i request anyone who adds a tip to continue the numbering...
A few tips to consider while buying a used robot:
1) Always buy robots only from reliable sources (known companies or companies that have a reputation to protect)
2) Inspect the robot for missing hardware, software, batteries, physical damages, motor or reducer damages, big backlash etc.
4) Inspect the Teach pendant and the related cables
5) Check for the required IO board (or atleast a one that you could use)
6) Try to avoid autions with "as is where is condition" terms
7) Do not buy too old robots - you will end up paying more for spares than the robot itself
Always insist on the manuals - robot manuals + the peripherals if accompanying
9) Ensure that the key spares for the robot are available in the market prior to buying the robot - Identify the spares suppliers too..
10) Be aware of the licensing policies from the used robot manufacturers. Make sure of the robot manufacturers' charges.


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Children’s Internalizing Symptoms in Anticipation of the Transition to Middle School: Causal Inferences in the Context of a Natural Experiment
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CitationEidelman, Hadas. 2014. Children’s Internalizing Symptoms in Anticipation of the Transition to Middle School: Causal Inferences in the Context of a Natural Experiment. Doctoral dissertation, Harvard Graduate School of Education.
AbstractThe middle-school transition has long been linked with poor social-emotional and academic outcomes for children. However to date, research on the middle-school transition has been predominantly observational, not experimental, and has not addressed whether the transition itself – or unobserved factors – cause children’s outcomes. In my dissertation, therefore, I explored the causal impact of a policy that foreshortened by one year the timing of the middle-school transition on children’s developmental trajectories of anxiety and depressive symptoms.
In the summer of 2006, five of the 18 schools participating in the New York City Study of Social and Literacy Development (Jones, Brown, Hoglund, & Aber, 2010) shifted from a pK-6 to a pK-5 structure. Students entering fifth grade in these schools in the fall of 2006, therefore, faced the new knowledge that it would be their final elementary-school year. With no evidence of advance warning to families, I argue that this shift provided an exogenous disruption to children’s trajectories and therefore supported the unbiased estimation of causal impact.
I employed an analytic strategy that combined, in a single analysis, elements of three statistical approaches: the multilevel modeling of change, to estimate children’s symptom trajectories over a two-year period; an interrupted time-series design, to estimate the immediate causal impact of the change in policy on children’s symptoms at the discontinuity among children who experienced the policy disruption; and a difference-in-differences correction, to subtract from the estimated impact of the disruptive policy any secular differences estimated using data from children in the non-affected schools. I found that the foreshortening of the time to middle-school transition caused a rise in children’s depressive symptoms, but not in their anxiety symptoms. In addition to the causal impact of the policy, I observed developmental and gender-based patterns in trajectories of children’s anxiety and depressive symptoms during the important middle-childhood period.
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This is an archived article that was published on sltrib.com in 2016, and information in the article may be outdated. It is provided only for personal research purposes and may not be reprinted.
Among familiar opponents, there are few secrets.
For instance, Utah coach Larry Krystkowiak knows Colorado will challenge on the boards as much as any opponent his team has faced. He knows Xavier Johnson will give the Utes problems in the lane, that George King will hit tough shots, and the Buffaloes defense will force Utah into uncomfortable positions.
He knows these things, but communicating it to his players most of whom have never played a Pac-12 game is a different challenge.
"For guys who haven't experienced it, it's kind of like having kids," he said after Friday's practice. "You've got to go through it to know what everybody was talking about."
Utah (9-3) has already taken some lumps in nonconference play, most recently falling on the first night against San Francisco in the Diamond Head Classic tournament before closing out with victories over Hawaii and Stephen F. Austin.
That trip to Hawaii saw Utah again incomplete: Junior forward Kyle Kuzma rolled his ankle on the first offensive possession of the first game, contributing to what Krystkowiak called "shock value." While he said he would still accept a 2-1 record out of the tournament, what became clear to him is that his team has a long way to go, particularly in playing defense and preventing turnovers.
"It wasn't pretty, certainly," he said. "The last three or four days we've been touching base on all those details. Hopefully we start firing on all cylinders once conference play starts."
Those hopes, for a large part, hinge on Kuzma's right ankle. He took a limited role in Utah's practice on Friday, wearing a brace. With 14.4 ppg, 10.2 rpg and 3.2 apg, his absence robbed the Utes of their most versatile playmaker.
Planning to help Utah make a run to the tournament title, Kuzma instead found himself in a boot and on crutches, watching helplessly in the initial 89-86 loss to the Dons. By Christmas, he was off the crutches and walking a bit without his boot.
"Getting better every day, really," he said of the ankle. "It's still sore and tender. Just progress some days, and some days it doesn't feel good at all."
The Utes benefited greatly from their new players: David Collette scored in double figures in each game, while Sedrick Barefield erupted for 35 points against San Francisco before hitting some foul trouble in later games.
Still, Utah finds itself near the bottom of some concerning statistics: With 15.3 turnovers per game, the Utes rank No. 302 nationally. Shooting (32.6 percent, No. 262) and defending 3-pointers (35.4 percent, No. 219) also haven't been so hot.
The series with Colorado has been one of Utah's most exciting, particularly in the last two years: Utah won in Boulder in January when Lorenzo Bonam hit a game-winning layup seconds before the final buzzer, and the Utes went on a 19-0 run at the Huntsman Center to erase a 15-point deficit on Senior Night in March.
The Buffaloes beat the teams' only common opponent so far, Xavier, at the Coors Events Center days before the Utes lost to the Musketeers in Cincinnati. Colorado ranks No. 48 in KenPom's defensive efficiency, and allows opponents to shoot only 38.3 percent from the field.
"We gotta grow quick, be more mature and lock in, because I've told these guys these games are a whole different demon," Kuzma said. "Colorado's one of my favorite teams to play in the Pac. We've just got to put our hard hats on and get ready for 40 minutes of that."
Colorado at Utah
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Ketamine is a drug that is used on both animals and humans. A chiral (chemistry term meaning that there is a lack of internal plane symmetry) compound, ketamine is denoted by the chemical formula C13H16ClNO. It is basically an anesthetic drug but is also being used for a variety of purposes. It can be bought in various forms today - Ketanest, Ketaset, and Ketalar.
Medically, ketamine is used as a pediatric anesthetic agent, usually in conjunction with other medication such as muscle relaxants. It is also used to help patients suffering from obstructed breathing passageways, such as those who have asthma. Some creams and gels contain ketamine as well - these are used mainly to help deal with nerve pain. More so, ketamine is used for emergency purposes such as medical procedures in war zones and those who suffer from trauma.
A more controversial use of ketamine is as a recreational drug. As with other recreational drugs, the idea is not held in good esteem by the general public. In fact, the use of ketamine for this purpose is not legal and has even been labeled hazardous. It has not prevented people from using ketamine recreationally, though, as it has the effect of inducing vivid hallucinations. According to those who have used the drug, the experience is quite intense, but the memories do fade easily once the effects have worn out. This is due to the fact that ketamine does have the strong potential to damage brain cells and cause serious memory problems.

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Commonwealth Bank’s Home Own research found 75 per cent of those under the age of 30 believed property ownership to be the Great Australian Dream. Meanwhile, 69 per cent of those aged 30 and over felt the same way.
The data also found that a growing proportion of Australians now considered the dream of property ownership to be more achievable than ever before.
When asked whether or not the Great Australian Dream was within reach for first home buyers, 91 per cent said it was.
By comparison, in 2018, one in every five Australians admitted that property ownership was completely out of reach.
“Our research shows a large shift in the number of people who now feel the dream of property ownership is achievable,” Commonwealth Bank Executive General Manager Home Buying Dan Huggins said.
“Over 90 per cent of Australians said property ownership was achievable for potential first home buyers so long as they are willing to make sacrifices with regards to their spending.
“This data suggests Australians are taking an increasingly optimistic attitude towards the property market.”
According to the data, attitudes towards the property market did differ slightly from state to state.
- Victorians and South Australians are the most likely to consider property ownership as the Great Australian Dream, with 74 per cent of surveyed respondents stating that this is the case.
- In Queensland and West Australia, 64 per cent of the states’ residents considered property ownership to be the Great Australian Dream.
- Just over 70 per cent of those from New South Wales considered property ownership to be the dream. Unsurprisingly, of all the states, NSW had the highest proportion of respondents (12 per cent) who believed the dream was unachievable.
Mr Huggins said for those first home buyers who were currently considering whether they could make their property ownership dreams a reality, now was a good time to be in the market.
“Interest rates are currently sitting at historical lows and, in many parts of the country, property prices have come off their peak, representing a good opportunity for home buyers to start shopping for a property,” he said.
“We have a raft of competitive home lending solutions and our lenders are on hand to help step home buyers through the property purchasing journey.
“Customers can book an appointment with one of our home lending specialists online or through the app. As part of our simpler, better bank experience, customers can also arrange to meet with their lending specialist in a branch or at their home.”


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PHOTO LONDON 2019
16 – 19 May, at Somerset House
England & Co presents a cabinet room display of photographs from the 1960s, 1970s and early 1980s. Works by established names, such as photographers Diane Arbus and Helmut Newton, and artists Susan Hiller and Cecilia Vicuña are exhibited alongside recent rediscoveries. There is a particular focus on work by artists/photographers of the 1970s where the concept that ‘the personal is political’ informed their practice, particularly in the case of women artists, and a substantial group of the works exhibited are images relating to performance art.
Tina Keane’s practice reflects a feminine aesthetic which combines femininity, gender roles, sexuality and an element of play. She produced a sequence of private photo booth performance images, SHE (1977-78), that prefigure her ground-breaking multimedia performance at the Hayward Gallery, London in 1978. Susan Hiller’s Photomat Self Portrait Series are examples of self-portraiture using vernacular means. British artist/photographer Sue Barnes explored feminist themes about self-identity, family, and ‘the home’ in the 1970s and ’80s. Her domestic environment and her own ‘self’ were her major concerns and themes, and she documented her own private performances. Anne Bean has worked as an installation and performance artist for more than 40 years, using many media, including photography, light, drawing, video and sound, together with materials ranging from fire and pyrotechnics, to wind and steam. Collaborative photographic images record her performances – sometimes specifically performed for camera.
Chilean-born, New York-based artist, Cecilia Vicuña’s ephemeral performance works also exist after the event as photographic documentation that she directed and choreographed in a collaborative process. Her series of performance images, Vaso de Leche (Glass of Milk), published as an edition by England & Co with the artist, are a ‘synopsis’ of a politicised performance from 1979 distilled to its pure, potent symbolism. Political and subversive themes helped British-based Michael Druks establish an international reputation in the 1960s and 1970s for his highly original conceptual work incorporating performance and photography.
Clay Perry documented London’s avant-garde in the 1960s, as evidenced by his image of Dutch artist, Tjebbe van Tijen drawing a line on the streets of Notting Hill in 1966 as part of van Tijen’s ‘Continuous Drawing’ project (which is still on-going). Perry produced many iconic portraits of artists, photographing Yoko Ono at her early exhibition at the Lisson Gallery and during his time as in-house photographer for the experimental Signals Gallery run by David Medalla and Paul Keeler from 1964-66. Howard Selina actively used photography in his land-art works and performative conceptual works of the 1970s. John Francis Brown was influenced as a photography student in the 1970s by Underground film-makers such as Stan Brakage and Malcolm Le Grice. Brown’s series of ‘Experimental Narratives’ from the late 1970s are photographic works constructed by his assembling and printing images together in seemingly random combinations. This process creates unsettling narratives by association: these are images as ‘psychological events’ akin to Victor Burgin’s ‘psychical spaces of fantasy and projection, recognition and misrecognition’.

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No, we didn't forget about Yom Kippur, though I may need to atone for the tardiness. What is Yom Kippur? It's the holiest day of the Jewish year. (Actually, the holiest day is Shabbat, and it comes but 52.5 times per year. But Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, marks the height of the High Holidays. Thus, it really deserves a good story.
But as I mentioned last year around Yom Kippur, it's difficult to come up with a new story for a holiday that has already appeared on a calendar some 5,000 times. (Quick fact-check please.) Still, journalists need to try. It worked with Ramadan football stars, right?
And it works with this story that the Los Angeles Times' Mitchell Landsberg -- Mazel Tov! -- wrote about the act of atonement for Jewish prisoners. Here's a snippet focusing on Rabbi Yossi Carron, the head Jewish chaplain for the LA County jail system:
To many people, the very idea of Jews in jail is somehow surprising. "If I had a dollar for every time someone said, 'You mean there are Jews in jail?' " Carron said. "Yes, there are Jews in jail, and no, they aren't all [for] white collar crimes."
Although Yom Kippur will officially be over, Carron will hold special services next week for inmates at the Men's Central Jail and at Corcoran State Prison in the San Joaquin Valley, the institutions he visits weekly as a chaplain. He estimates that there are 75 to 100 Jewish inmates at any given time in the Los Angeles County Jail system, and about 50 in the main yard of Corcoran.
This story reminds me of a very similar one that I wrote when I was at the LA Daily News. (In fact, this Day of Atonement angle gets around.) The peg for that story was also Yom Kippur, but instead of talking to Jewish inmates I davened with Jewish addicts, which may be even more taboo than being a crook. Here's a snippet:
But for the 120 men and women at Beit T'Shuvah, or the House of Return, t'shuvah is a yearlong act. These Jews are repenting day after day of their sins and repairing relationships with their friends, family and God.
"Addicts are people who are seekers. If you look on a bottle of whiskey, a lot of them say 'distilled spirits.' Drug addicts, a lot of them go to their connection to get a 'fix.' It's really a spiritual language," said Rabbi Mark Borovitz, the center's spiritual leader. "So we give them the way to God, to their spirit, to their soul, without ever having to get loaded again."
It's about more than just a holiday or 12 steps. It's about returning to God. Teshuvah. And the LA Times piece conveys that.
Landsberg, who has drawn a bit of flak at this here blog, goes on to do a good job describing the Jewish concept of sin and the path to spiritual healing for Jews who have done that which nice Jewish boy's don't do.
He misses the opportunity to explain the strain of Judaism that shapes Carron's perspective, and that is important. Based on the Web site for his synagogue in Ojai, I'd guess that Carron is part of Judaism's post-denominational movement. But, all in all, I'd say this is a pretty darn good story.
You could even call it a journalistic act of teshuvah.


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Companies that pay low wages may be indirectly forcing taxpayers to subsidize the practice.
Fast-food workers who don’t make enough to take care of their needs are compelled to draw on public assistance. McDonald's even has a “McResource” phone line that helps employees and their families enroll in various state and local assistance programs.
A report was quoted on the Bloomberg Businessweek website:
Two studies released today make some different calculations to determine the
total cost to American taxpayers of a large, low-wage workforce.
It comes to an average of $7 billion a year.
That’s the amount of annual public assistance families of fast-food workers
received between 2007 and 2011, according to a new report written by economist
Sylvia Allegretto and others, sponsored by the University of California at Berkeley’s Labor
Center and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
and funded by Fast Food Forward, the group that helped organize the summer’s labor strikes.
The authors used publicly available data.
Two studies released today make some different calculations to determine the total cost to American taxpayers of a large, low-wage workforce.
It comes to an average of $7 billion a year. That’s the amount of annual public assistance families of fast-food workers received between 2007 and 2011, according to a new report written by economist Sylvia Allegretto and others, sponsored by the University of California at Berkeley’s Labor Center and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and funded by Fast Food Forward, the group that helped organize the summer’s labor strikes.
The authors used publicly available data.
A group in Berkeley estimated that the total annual cost of public subsidies to low-wage employers is approximately $153 billion. To put that number in context, the total proposed 2015-2016 California state budget is $165 billion. So American taxpayers are essentially running a corporate welfare program almost the size of the California state budget to take care of workers and their families who struggle with low-wage employment.
Companies are motivated to pay low wages because they can get away with it and because lower wages mean lower costs. So, how about a cost penalty for the practice of paying low wages?
When someone gets charity care at a hospital emergency room, applies for welfare , gets food stamps or receives any other form of public assistance, the dispensing public agency should take note of where the person is employed and find out what they are paid.
If it appears that their wage is too low, or they are not working enough hours, their employer gets assessed a fine.
The offending companies might thus be motivated to increase wages and hours so that their employees demand less public assistance. Perhaps the fine could depend on the number of low-wage employees employed by each company.
If the amount of public assistance used by a given company’s employees gets below some level, then the fine would be eliminated for that company.
This scheme would put incentive in the right place, as long as company management sees the fine as a cost of their policy of low wages and inadequate hours.
The scheme should be based on a fairly large geographic area. Having this tax only on a small town might simply move low-wage businesses to other nearby towns.
The area covered should be at least the size of a county.
Another way to avoid driving businesses away would be to limit the amount of the fine to be enough of an annoyance and a drag on profits to get management attention, without making the business unprofitable. It is not necessary to cover the entire cost of the public assistance used.
Motivation might also be enhanced by making public the amount of fine charged to each offending company, along with a summary of that company’s wage and hours practices.
The proposed scheme should not be too complicated and expensive to run. We don’t want a big bureaucratic burden.
Here’s a scaled-down simple version of the scheme:
Develop a list of offending companies. If a company has more than so many employees being paid less than some minimum wage, or working less than some minimum number of hours, the company gets on the low-wage list.
Public assistance agencies simply note the applicant social security number. This can be used to determine their employer by looking at withholding records. It is not necessary to collect any wage or hours information pertaining to an individual applicant.
This collection process produces the total public assistance paid to each company on the low-wage list. Dividing each company total by the overall total yields an index which is used to calculate the tax, in proportion to each company's impact on public assistance.
Again, the tax amount does not have to cover the total public assistance. The amount can be much less, as long as company management sees the tax as an annoying cost which can be reduced or eliminated by improving employee wages and hours.
A company might try to discourage use of public assistance by their employees. It could fire anyone who uses it, but that might result in not being able to retain enough low-wage employees to operate the business.
It could offer internal benefits, which might cost less than the tax. It’s important for government to set the tax amount high enough to make wages and hours the most attractive management option for reducing the annoying tax.
There are probably clever ways to dodge the tax. The idea of the scheme is not to punish low-wage companies or even collect the cost of the public assistance their low-wage employees are compelled to seek.
The purpose is to discourage the practice of abusing employees by not allowing them to earn enough to take care of themselves.
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I have had severe constipation for years. I've been using cascara sagrada for a daily bowel movement. I read that this herb was banned in 2002 as the Food and Drug Administration wasn't sure it was safe. Is it safe or not? I have tried fiber, stool softeners, you name it. Cascara sagrada is the only thing that works for me. My doctor thinks I should take something different.
Stimulant laxatives such as cascara sagrada can lead to dependence. After daily use for years, your digestive tract doesn't function normally. In 2002, the FDA reclassified cascara sagrada as not generally recognized as safe and effective. As a result, it can't be sold as an over-the-counter laxative. There was concern about liver toxicity, colorectal cancer and loss of electrolytes. Work with your doctor to overcome this laxative addiction.
I have Type 2 diabetes, and I have started taking cinnamon capsules. The metformin I was taking was never as consistent at controlling my blood sugar as the cinnamon has been.
Although cinnamon may work more consistently for you, there is much more research supporting the beneficial effect of metformin on blood sugar. You should make sure your doctor is aware of your regimen, so you can work together to control your Type 2 diabetes.
When you buy cinnamon capsules, look for a water-soluble extract such as Cinnulin PF. Cinnamon may contain coumarin, which can be toxic to the liver. Coumarin is not water-soluble, so water-based extract should be safe.
Joe Graedon is a pharmacologist and Teresa Graedon is an expert in medical anthropology and nutrition. www.peoplespharmacy.com


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|Founded||New York City (March 1955 )|
|Founder||Elmer C. Kubie |
John W. Sheldon
Computer Usage Company (CUC) (1955–1986), sometimes called Computer Usage Corporation, was the first independent company to market computer software.
CUC is generally considered the first company to develop software independently and to have pioneered the field of programming services. Before this time, software was developed either by the users of the computers, or by the few commercial computer vendors.
Computer Usage Company (CUC) was founded in March 1955 by Elmer C. Kubie (1926–2004) and John W. Sheldon. They had formerly worked together at IBM, and planned to offer services to help develop computer programs. The initial investment of US$40,000 supported the founders and a staff of five. The first offices were located in New York City.
CUC's first project was a program written for California Research Corporation to simulate the flow of oil.
On October 3, 1955, Computer Usage Company, Inc., was incorporated in Delaware. George R. Trimble Jr. became Corporate Technical Director in February 1956 after work on the IBM 650. Trimble headed a project to computerize the air traffic control system of the Federal Aviation Administration. This work was done at the National Aviation Facilities Experimental Center in New Jersey.
In 1959 an office in Washington, DC was opened, since CUC had business with the US Navy. In April 1960 the company had an initial public offering of stock shares, and grew to three managers, 37 mathematicians, 6 physicists, and 3 engineers. Later in 1960 CUC established a division to sell computer time and in Spring 1961 opened an office in Los Angeles. Cuthbert Hurd joined the company as chairman in 1962, a former division director from IBM.
The FAA was planning to use the IBM 9020 model of the new IBM System/360, so contracted with CUC to develop a compiler for the JOVIAL computer language. The compiler was first developed on a simulator using the IBM 7030 before actual hardware was available. In early 1964, CUC developed software used by CBS Television to track the election results. Sheldon left later in 1964. Another major contract was to implement part of IBM's first time-sharing system, TSS/360. CUC was asked to manage the TSS project, as it was seen as losing ground to competitors in time-sharing. Realizing that performance would never meet expectations, CUC declined. In 1965 the Computer Usage Education subsidiary was formed, headed by Ascher Opler, which published software books and offered courses. One of its best sellers was on Programming the IBM system/360. Carl H. Reynolds joined as President of the new Computer Usage Development Company subsidiary in 1966. Reynolds had been director of programming for the Data Systems Division of IBM during the development of the System/360.
By 1967 CUC had a staff of over 700 people in 12 offices and revenues over $13 million. An office in Dallas, Texas was established to work on a contract with Texas Instruments to develop software including an operating system and a FORTRAN compiler for the TI Advanced Scientific Computer. During that time, the company's vice president was H. Dean Brown. Kubie and Reynolds left in July 1968 and the company changed direction under new president Charles Benton, Jr. from IBM's Federal Systems Division. Benton hired sales people instead of technical people, and contracts did not keep up with overhead.
CUC declared its first loss as a public company in 1969. Other competitors such as Computer Sciences Corporation were now larger. Sears announced they were in discussions for an acquisition, but talks fell through. By early 1970 Benton resigned and Hurd stepped in as president, although he lived in California. Other potential mergers were discussed, including Ross Perot who by now had founded his own service business Electronic Data Systems. CUC negotiated a contract to manage computer facilities at the Firemans Fund Insurance Company, which restored profitability for a time. Hurd left in 1974. Victor Bartoletti became president, but died in 1984 and George C. Strohl from Bank of America became president. However, losses continued to mount as the computer business was now very different from the field dominated by IBM 30 years earlier. By 1985, CUC lost $2.4 million on revenues of only $1.5 million. In 1986 CUC declared bankruptcy and was liquidated in what is known as Chapter 7.
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- "Charles Benton, Jr. Elected President of CUC" (PDF). CU/Bits. Computer Usage Corporation. Retrieved May 29, 2010.
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- Detlev J. Hoch (2000). Secrets of software success: management insights from 100 software firms around the world. Harvard Business Press. pp. 37–38. ISBN 978-1-57851-105-1.
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SS Rajamouli's Baahubali 2 is a winner at the box office. From breathtaking visual effects to a gripping storyline to powerful performances, Baahubali 2 boasts of all the ingredients to be a blockbuster, and the film is living up to the expectations. While the makers and the star cast is busy basking in the glory, there is one person according to filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma who must be regretting not being a part of the masterpiece.
It is a known fact by know that Sridevi was the first choice to play Sivagami Devi, but the English Vinglish actor opted out of the project owing to remuneration issues. And with the super success of the film at the box office, RGV is making Sridevi regret her decision all the more.
The powerful character of Sivagami Devi got Ramya Krishnan all the adulation. And the Sarkar 3 director feels that had Sridevi not rejected the film, she would be grabbing all the limelight. RGV believes that Baahubali 2 would have been a great film for her illustrious career.
I really wonder why @SrideviBKapoor did not do Bahubali 2 ?What a super outstanding film it would have been for her illustrious career- Ram Gopal Varma (@RGVzoomin) May 8, 2017
In fact, RGV believes that had Sridevi played Sivagami Devi in Baahubali 2, she would have overshadowed Prabhas in the franchise.
If @SrideviBKapoor did Bahubali2 she would have gotten more credit than Prabhas it being her very next film after English Vinglish- Ram Gopal Varma (@RGVzoomin) May 8, 2017
Baahubali 2 has become the first India film to cross the Rs 1000-crore mark. Directed by SS Rajamouli, the film also stars Anushka Shetty, Rana Daggubati and Sathyaraj in pivotal roles.

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Hi, my name is Jemma Taylor and I am a PhD student in the School of Life Sciences at the University of Warwick. My research is focussed on flowering time and applies knowledge gained studying the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana to crop plants.
My interest in Plant Science started when I did work experience at Kew Gardens, London at 16, so chose to study Plant Science at the University of Nottingham. I really enjoyed the degree and was fortunate to find a post at Warwick University as a technician to gain research experience once I had finished.
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Delayed bolting in rocket for improved quality and greater sustainability
Wild rocket (Diplotaxis tenuifolia) has recently become a very popular salad leaf in the UK due to its peppery taste. It is found widely in Italy but is now being produced in Spring and Summer in England. It is part of the Brassicaceae family and thus has a high level of homology at the DNA level to Arabidopsis and other Brassica species. This project aims to produce robust late bolting varieties of rocket which are uniform in leaf shape, size and colour to put to market. This is important as current varieties vary in morphology and produce flowers at unpredictable times, which is a problem because when rocket flowers it becomes unsaleable. An EMS population will be produced and late bolting plants selected for backcrossing and selfing in order to reduce the mutation load and to ensure the SNPs causing late bolting are homozygous. Flowering pathway genes will be isolated from rocket and checked for function by complementation of their respective Arabidopsis thaliana mutant knockout lines. Late bolting lines will be screened for SNPs in the target flowering time genes and, if any are found, whether they are the cause of the late bolting phenotype determined. Illumina sequencing will be used to identify SNPs causing delayed bolting and Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Regions (CRISPRs) will be used to introduce mutations into specific rocket flowering time pathway gene homologs to engineer late bolting.
Dr Stephen Jackson, University of Warwick
Professor Yiguo Hong, University of Warwick and Hangzhou Normal University, China
Ms Sue Kennedy, Elsoms Seeds Ltd
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Ford Australia, a subsidiary of Ford Motor Company (US), began building the famous Model-T in Geelong in 1925. It later built a range of cars here, before establishing its well-known Broadmeadows manufacturing facility to produce the Falcon in 1960.
Under its "One Ford" global product strategy, Ford is to shut-down its Australian manufacturing operation in 2017, bringing the curtain down on both the Falcon and Territory. Ford Australia's design and engineering facility remains as a key part of Ford's global product development.
The Ford range is typified by dynamic, refined cars, well-suited to Australian conditions. These include the Mondeo, Focus, Fiesta, and Falcon; its SUVs, the highly-awarded Territory, Kuga, and Ecosport, and heavy-duty 4X4s, the Everest and Ranger, as well as the Ford Transit van range.
Muscle car fans and Ford Mustang enthusiasts are readying for the Mecum Auction in Indianapolis in May when Mustang number 00002 is offered for sale.
Ford has recalled its Mustang pony car in Australia due to a potential problem with the battery cable wiring loom.
The New York Times is reporting Toyota, Ford, Nissan and Honda knew about the Takata airbag fault for years but kept installing them into new vehicles.
Ford has completed its roll-out of Fiesta variants for the all new 2017 model, announcing the first details of the next-generation Fiesta ST hot hatch.
Ford has re-introduced the Escape SUV in Australia, using the mid-life update of the previous Kuga to revive the previous medium SUV nameplate, bri...
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The blue oval's new FX4 special edition is based on the XLT double cab model, which sits underneath the range-topping Wildt...
Ford will almost double the number of SUV and crossover models available to North American buyers by 2020.
Local Ford tuning house, Tickford, has introduced a new tyre and wheel package to its range of Mustang upgrade options.
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So I watched/played some stuff recently that has reminded me that for the entire last year I haven't gone to a nice and quiet café and just had a delicious cup of tea with some cake.
I used to really enjoy this with a girl I liked, but we've since had a falling out and don't talk anymore.
So what is your favorite tea and cake to relax/enjoy life with?
I really love Vanilla flavored tea and cheese cake. It makes me feel pretty swell and who cares if it's girly when it puts a smile on your face?

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As part of the EU-funded DALi project, Siemens‘ global research unit Corporate Technology is developing a high-tech walker that can safely guide people with cognitive impairments through public buildings. Airports and shopping centers can pose problems for elderly people, as they might suffer an accident because they have difficulty seeing structural obstacles and signs in the crowded buildings. However, the new system is designed to not only make senior citizens‘ everyday life easier but also be used in industrial settings.
At the heart of the c-Walker is a cognitive navigation prosthesis. The walking aid is equipped with various imaging sensors, including the Kinect sensor, which Microsoft developed for the Xbox video game console. The sensor enables the mobile system to monitor its spatial surroundings in real time. Thanks to its numerous „eyes,“ the c-Walker knows not only where it is at any given moment but also where obstacles are located, in which direction people are moving, and even what warning and information signs say. This enables the device to orient users in unstructured environments and guide them to their destinations along optimal routes.
Siemens also plans to use this technology in industrial settings. Because automated production lines are often confusing, people and machines can quickly collide. However, the integration of the new system into portable panel PCs could enable people to interact with machines more safely and comfortably. For example, the devices could warn production workers against entering danger zones and show service technicians the best route through a factory.
The technology helps not only human workers but also their mechanicalcolleagues. It makes robots and ma-chines aware of their surroundings so that they can respond to external influences. For Siemens, this development is an important step toward creating a smart industrial environment in which people and machines can react to one another in order to increase work efficiency.
Siemens is also using the Kinect sensor in a virtual planning system for work processes. In this system, the Kinect technology recognizes an individual’s movements and posture and transfers them to an avatar in a virtual environment. In the same way that a player moves intuitively within the scenes of a computer game, technicians can use Kinect to simulate movements in the workplace.


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Offering Box - White
These Balinese woven boxes were originally used for temple offerings and have delicate designs piped onto them. Intended to hold rice, fruit and flowers for the gods, one can still see the women of Bali walking down the road on the mornings of auspicious days with these boxes balanced elegantly on their heads.
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Andrew (A.C.) Clouthier
Xavier High School has named Andrew (A.C.) Clouthier as its new girls' basketball coach.
Clouthier graduated from Xavier in 2006 and also attended the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minn., where he earned a degree in physical education and teacher certification in kindergarten through 12th grades.
"A.C. is a fantastic choice for our program," Xavier athletic director and dean of students Kathy Bates said in a release. "As a graduate, he understands the culture and the strong commitment to excellence that we encourage for our student-athletes. A three-sport athlete while here, he ...