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The Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg have adopted laws decriminalizing euthanasia under strict conditions of prudent practice. These laws stipulate, among other things, that the attending physician should consult an independent colleague to judge whether the substantive criteria of due care have been met. In this context initiatives were taken in the Netherlands and Belgium to establish specialized services providing such consultants: Support and Consultation for Euthanasia in the Netherlands (SCEN) and Life End Information Forum (LEIF) in Belgium. The aim of this study is to describe and compare these initiatives.
We studied and compared relevant documents concerning the Dutch and Belgian consultation service (e.g. articles of bye-laws, inventories of activities, training books, consultation protocols).
In both countries, the consultation services are delivered by trained physicians who can be consulted in cases of a request for euthanasia and who offer support and information to attending physicians. The context in which the two organisations were founded, as well as the way they are organised and regulated, is different in each country. By providing information on all end-of-life care matters, the Belgian LEIF seems to have a broader consultation role than the Dutch SCEN. SCEN on the other hand has a longer history, is more regulated and organised on a larger scale and receives more government funding than LEIF. The number of training hours for physicians is equal. However, SCEN-training puts more emphasis on the consultation report, whereas LEIF-training primarily emphasizes the ethical framework of end-of-life decisions.
In case of a request for euthanasia, in the Netherlands as well as in Belgium similar consultation services by independent qualified physicians have been developed. In countries where legalising physician-assisted death is being contemplated, the development of such a consultation provision could also be considered in order to safeguard the practice of euthanasia (as it can provide safeguards to adequate performance of euthanasia and assisted suicide).
While physician-assisted suicide is regulated in Oregon, Washington, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg and is legally performed in Switzerland since 1990 [1-3], there are only three countries in the world where euthanasia is legal: the Netherlands and Belgium adopted a law in 2002 [4,5] and Luxembourg became the third country to do so on March 16th 2009 [6]. All three laws stipulate substantive and procedural criteria that must be met for euthanasia to be legally performed. The substantive criteria require, among other things, that the patient's request must be voluntary, well-considered, repeated, and not the result of any external pressure; that the patient must be in a medically futile state of constant and unbearable physical or psychological suffering which cannot be alleviated, and is the result of a serious and incurable condition caused by illness or accident; that the physician must fully inform the patient about his/her health condition and prospects (diagnosis and prognosis), and that physician and patient must arrive at the conclusion that there is no reasonable prospect of improvement in the patient's situation. The procedural criteria consist of mandatory notification of the euthanasia case to the official review committee [7], and consultation of a colleague by the attending physician, hereafter called the consultant, who is independent or impartial from both the patient and the attending physician [4,5], and competent to judge the patient's condition. This consultant must read the medical file and examine the patient in order to judge whether the substantive criteria have been met, i.e. judge the serious and incurable nature of the condition, ascertain that the patient's physical or psychological suffering is constant, unbearable, and without prospect of improvement, and that the patient's request was voluntary, well-considered, and repeated (in Belgium and Luxembourg the law only prescribes this in patients not expected to die in the near future). The Dutch law also stipulates that the consultant should conclude that there are no reasonable alternatives [5]. The consultant must make a written report regarding his or her conclusions.
Consultation in the case of a euthanasia request, as defined by the laws on euthanasia, is very different from an informal discussion between physicians which might occur in other kinds of end-of-life decision-making. Given the seriousness and irreversibility of euthanasia, the consultant has to determine whether the substantive legal requirements of due care are met, and the judgment of the attending physician was made with due care. The consultation of a second physician in euthanasia requests is intended to build a control mechanism into the procedure and prevent unwarranted euthanasia cases. It is also intended to monitor and safeguard the quality of the practice of euthanasia.
The laws in all three countries stipulate that the consulted physician must be independent, impartial and competent to judge the pathology of the patient. However, the consultant is also expected to judge aspects such as existential suffering and feelings of hopelessness, which are more inherent to the final stage of life than to the patient's pathology [8-10]. Additional skills therefore seem warranted for a consultant. Ideally, the consultant is someone who does not a priori object to euthanasia, and has a certain amount of experience with or knowledge of end-of-life care and/or euthanasia. Finding such an independent consultant may be difficult for a physician confronted with a euthanasia request. In this context initiatives were taken, in the Netherlands and in Belgium, to establish specialized services to provide such consultants. While the Dutch and the Belgian laws [11] and the notification procedures of euthanasia in both countries have been extensively described and compared elsewhere [7], no studies have described the function and functioning of these specialized consultant health services within the context of a law on euthanasia. This paper aims to describe such specialized health services as established in the Netherlands ('Support and Consultation on Euthanasia in the Netherlands', i.e. SCEN) [12] and in Belgium ('Life End Information Forum', i.e. LEIF) [13]. LEIF is a Flemish initiative and hence in principle only available in the Dutch-speaking part of Belgium; in the French-speaking part a similar, albeit less elaborate initiative has been developed.
The SCEN and LEIF projects will be described and compared in terms of their development, aims, tasks, functioning and organisation.
We studied and compared relevant documents concerning SCEN and LEIF. To obtain an overview of the development, aims, tasks, functioning and organisation of SCEN, the evaluation report about the implementation and effects of SCEN was studied [14] as well as the results of the annual written inventory of activities of SCEN physicians from 2004 to 2006 [15-17]. Additionally, the training book for SCEN physicians [18], the checklist used by SCEN to draw up the consultation report, the protocol used as a guideline for the consultation procedure [19] and the website of the Royal Dutch Medical Association [20] were explored as information sources. Information on the Life End Information Forum in Flanders was acquired through the LEIF website [21], the bye-laws, the LEIF magazine [22], publications concerning LEIF [13,23,24] and the training folders the physicians receive while undergoing training. Furthermore, because there is relatively less written information available about LEIF than about SCEN, an open interview was conducted with the director and training moderator of LEIF to complement the collected information. The persons consulted for information about SCEN and LEIF were notified that their contribution would be used for a comparing paper and they consented to this.
SCEN and LEIF were established in differing contexts (Table (Table1).1). In the Netherlands, where euthanasia had already been taking place without prosecution for more than a decade [8,25], the Royal Dutch Medical Association and the Association of General Practitioners wanted to professionalize the consultation process and thus make physicians take responsibility for the quality of the practice. They initiated a pilot project in Amsterdam (Support and Consultation on Euthanasia in Amsterdam, SCEA) in 1997 and extended it to the rest of the country in 1999, after an evaluation of its implementation [25]. In Belgium, the legalisation process of euthanasia was much shorter and enjoyed less support from associations of health care professionals [26]. LEIF was established in February 2003, after the euthanasia law had come into effect, by individual professionals with experience in palliative care and by the association 'Right to Die with Dignity'. Their aim was twofold: to create a service that could refer people to the right health care professionals in end-of-life matters, and to increase physicians' knowledge about palliative care and euthanasia through training programs.
SCEN and LEIF were both initially developed to provide independent and competent second physicians as consultants in euthanasia requests, as required by law (Table (Table2);2); these physicians are however also able to provide information and support concerning euthanasia outside the context of consultation. The scope of LEIF is broader than that of SCEN, as its aim is also to provide consultation in other end-of-life decisions, including palliative care, to other physicians as well as to patients, and to provide the wider public with information about euthanasia and other end-of-life matters.
SCEN or LEIF physicians must have at least five years of experience as a physician, have experience in the field of euthanasia, be skilful in consultations, and must not be a priori opposed to euthanasia as this would preclude objective consultation [20] (Table (Table3).3). Both organisations offer different training modules of roughly 23 hours given by experts, spread over several weeks, on subjects such as the performance of euthanasia, communication with patient and attending physician, and palliative care. SCEN employs actors to provide training in communication skills and lays emphasis on the consultation report, while LEIF focuses on the ethical framework of end-of-life decisions. Both SCEN and LEIF organise group meetings, called 'intervisions', where physicians can discuss concrete problems and cases with colleagues.
There are currently 590 SCEN physicians, corresponding to one per 28000 inhabitants[27] or one per 112 physicians in the Netherlands. At first SCEN training was only offered to general practitioners but in 2007 it was also made available to specialists and nursing home physicians. Now there are 94 specialists and 53 nursing home physicians (not in table) [20] who have followed all five training modules organised by the Royal Dutch Medical Association. In Belgium, there are 161 LEIF-physicians (111 GPs and 50 specialists), i.e. one per 38270 inhabitants [28] or one per 127 physicians [29] in Flanders. These physicians have followed the minimum requirement of at least two modules (including the introductory module) (not in table).
When physicians require a SCEN or LEIF consultant, they can contact the organisations by telephone and a consultant is assigned to them. In the Netherlands there is a telephone number per SCEN district, while for Flanders there is one central number at the LEIF secretariat. However, LEIF physicians can also be contacted directly by the attending physician. After having discussed the case with the attending physician on the phone, both SCEN and LEIF physicians follow the directions as stated in the euthanasia law [4,5]. SCEN physicians can follow a consultation protocol and a checklist as a guideline. LEIF has no official consultation protocol but provides similar guidelines as SCEN during training sessions. SCEN physicians receive a standard financial compensation from the patient's health insurance company after having written a consultation report. No such compensation is provided for the LEIF physicians.
An important difference between both organisations relates to their financial support: SCEN receives €1.000.000 annually from the Dutch government, whereas the direct grant for LEIF physicians from the Belgian government was reduced from 20.000€ in 2003 to 10.000€ in 2007 and ceased in 2008. The organisation does receive some financial support for e.g. publishing the LEIF magazine, a practical guide on end-of-life decisions for the broad public [22].
Our study is the first to describe and compare how consultation services in cases of a euthanasia request have been established in the Netherlands and Belgium. In both countries, these consultation services are delivered by specially trained physicians who can be consulted in cases of a request for euthanasia and who offer support and information about the subject. The context in which the two organisations were founded, as well as the way they are organised and regulated, is different in each country: by providing information on all end-of-life care matters the Belgian Life End Information Forum seems to have a broader consultation role than the Dutch Support and Consultation in Euthanasia.
A methodological limitation of this study is that the description of both organisations is based on documents and therefore reflects the theoretical situation but not necessarily the situation in real terms.
One important difference between the consultation organisations in Belgium and the Netherlands is that the Belgian LEIF has a broader focus: its physicians can be consulted not only in cases of euthanasia requests but for all end-of-life issues. The context in which the legislation was developed in Belgium may account for this; in Belgium there was much more controversy than in the Netherlands and the legislature (government) wanted to put the focus on a wider range of options at the end of life. This may explain why a law optimizing the accessibility of palliative care and a law on patient rights emphasizing the right of the patient to choose the care they receive, were passed almost simultaneously with the euthanasia law [30,31]. In this context the initiators of LEIF, who have a broad background in palliative care, aimed to create a health provision not linked solely to euthanasia. The emphasis on palliative care is not so pronounced with SCEN, although SCEN physicians must consider other palliative options when doing a consultation. As the line between euthanasia and other end-of-life decisions is not always clear to attending physicians and their patients, it can be beneficial to have a service which provides consultation not only in the context of euthanasia but also concerning all medical aspects of the end of life. On the other hand, this requires consultants to have a wider area of expertise.
Another difference between the Dutch SCEN and the Belgian LEIF is that SCEN is more highly-regulated. A historical explanation for this can be found in differences in the development of the euthanasia laws and the fact that, as opposed to Belgium, euthanasia had been tolerated in the Netherlands long before the law was enacted. SCEN also has a longer history than LEIF. Another reason may be that the Royal Dutch Medical Society, which organises SCEN, is controlled and strongly supported financially by the Dutch government, whereas LEIF has no controlling body and little funding. Also a general cultural inclination to formalize practices in the Netherlands may explain why SCEN is more regulated [32].
The heavier regulation of SCEN may provide more of a guarantee that its consultations take place according to best-practice criteria. The more informal contact procedures of LEIF (e.g. that the attending physician may make direct contact with those in the network) could on the other hand have the advantage of making the service more approachable. If implemented in other countries, such a provision is probably best designed to fit in with the prevailing cultural characteristics.
Several similarities between SCEN and LEIF can be noted. Both organisations were founded to improve (the practice of) consultation in euthanasia requests by specifically training physicians for that purpose. These physicians also support and inform their colleagues on euthanasia. The amount of training time and the guidelines for consultation that are thought during this training are similar in both countries. Furthermore, both associations organise additional meetings to discuss concrete cases. SCEN as well as LEIF have a controlling board consisting of physicians, experts and academics to continuously evaluate the organisations' functioning.
Both The Netherlands and Belgium have been careful to set in place firm and substantial procedural due care requirements in order to safeguard good practice and it can be assumed that other countries intending to legalize euthanasia would do the same. However, the practical implications of legalization are not always covered by legislation. For instance, once euthanasia is legalized, what should a physician do when confronted with a request for euthanasia, and whom should they consult? The creation of specialized service for a priori consultation in euthanasia cases can play an important role. It helps physicians to relatively easily consult a competent second physician when they are confronted with a euthanasia request. Such a service may also guarantee more compliance with the due care requirements and hence function as an additional control mechanism. Research has already demonstrated such services to be of great importance to the careful performance of euthanasia [14]. For instance, the criteria for good consultation (e.g. independence from patient and attending physician, seeing the patient, writing a report) were more often met in consultations with SCEN physicians than with other physicians, and a strong relationship was found between a consultation with SCEN and notification of euthanasia [33]. It is important, however, that the physicians who are part of such services are fully trained to be able to judge the conditions for euthanasia and guarantee a good practice. Both SCEN and LEIF put emphasis on knowledge of the law and of palliative care, and on communication with the patient and the attending physician.
The evaluation report of the euthanasia law showed that SCEN physicians had been involved in 89% of all notified euthanasia cases in the Netherlands [33]. The notification reports in Belgium and a first assessment of LEIF activities [34] indicate that LEIF physicians have acted as a second physician in 54% of reported euthanasia cases in Flanders [35]. This shows the important involvement of this service in euthanasia. SCEN and LEIF can be an example for countries that have recently legalized euthanasia, like Luxembourg, or are discussing legalization. These countries can learn from the similarities and differences between both initiatives in organising such a service according to their law, health system and culture.
In conclusion, this study shows that similar consultation services were developed in the Netherlands (SCEN) and in Belgium (LEIF) to provide an accessible, independent and qualified second physician in cases of a request for euthanasia. Though some important differences exist between the initiatives relating to the history and culture of the two countries, they are both intended to safeguard the practice of euthanasia. As both SCEN and LEIF play an important role in the performance of euthanasia in their respective countries, it is possible to conclude that, in countries where legislation on physician-assisted death is being considered, the development of such a service is warranted, parallel to or even incorporated into the relevant laws.
The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
YVW carried out the study by gathering documents and analyzing them and drafted and revised the manuscript. JC contributed to the design and coordination of the study, the analysis of the data and to the drafting of the manuscript. He also critically revised the manuscript. BOP, JB and LD contributed to the design of the study and critically revised the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
The pre-publication history for this paper can be accessed here:
This study is part of the 'Monitoring Quality of End-of-Life Care (MELC) Study', a collaboration between the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Ghent University, Antwerp University, the Scientific Institute of Public Health, Belgium, and VU University Medical Centre Amsterdam, the Netherlands. This study is supported by a grant from the Institute for the Promotion of Innovation by Science and Technology in Flanders (Instituut voor de aanmoediging van Innovatie door Wetenschap en Technologie in Vlaanderen) (SBO IWT nr. 050158).
We would like to thank Kathleen Van Hulle for gathering the first data and conducting the interview with the director and coordinator of the Life End Information Forum. We also thank Prof Dr Wim Distelmans (director), Paul Destrooper (coordinator) and Kris Van de Gaer (staff member secretariat) from LEIF and Raymond Sanders (district coordinator) from SCEN for providing us with the necessary information.
PubMed Central Canada is a service of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) working in partnership with the National Research Council's national science library in cooperation with the National Center for Biotechnology Information at the U.S. National Library of Medicine(NCBI/NLM). It includes content provided to the PubMed Central International archive by participating publishers.


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Release Date: March 28th
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Publisher: Bandai Namco
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Release Date: March 24th
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Release Date: March 28th
Platform: PS4
Developer: Square Enix
Publisher: Square Enix
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Release Date: March 3rd
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Publisher: Square Enix
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2. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
Release Date: March 3rd
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Publisher: Nintendo
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1. Mass Effect Andromeda
Release Date: March 21st
Platform: PS4, Xbox One, PC
Developer: BioWare
Publisher: EA
Mass Effect Andromeda is the fourth part of the mega space action RPG series and represents a brand new story apart from the Commander Shephard trilogy. You now play as Ryder, a Pathfinder who is leading a group of brave explorers hundreds of years into the future as they attempt to secure a new home for the Milky Way Galaxy races in the distant Andromeda Galaxy. The game features new characters, locations, races and weapons. You'll also be piloting a brand new ship the Tempest as you explore the surrounding planets for resources and potential homes. The game is doing away with classes, and now has a profile and skill system that allows for more flexibility and on the fly customization. A jetpack and dynamic cover system add a new verticality and speed to the combat. We chose this game as our Top RPG of 2017 and we fully expect to lose thousands of hours of our lives to it.
Looking Ahead
There is a great mix here of big name and under the radar gems that we think RPG fans from all backgrounds are going to like. Perhaps your wallets won't like it but that's a different story! Thoughts on the list? Any other RPGs you're looking forward to in March? Let us know what you think! Happy roleplaying!
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In his earlier years of educations, he first attained the Personal Training Certification through ACE at 18 and followed that up with several university degrees including biochemistry, biology, exercise physiology, and nutrition. Unlike most personal trainers who pursue a physical education degree or that of one directed towards personal training for the commercial industry, Kassem's education was geared towards a deeper understanding of the biochemistry and physiology of the body. In today's world a great coach or fitness professional needs to have a firm grasp of the underlying physiology that the principles of his/her training are built on. Knowing a few statistics and having a good vocabulary are the bulk of most personal training education programs. You can not effectively design programs for individuals without such an understanding. After college Kassem worked in performance enhancement research, and as a personal trainer, attaining a certification through the National Academy of Sports Medicine. However again dissatisfied with the depth of the NASM program he continued to do his own research until he started taking courses though Charles Poliquin. The PICP program provided superior education and application than the commercial certification courses and there just flat out isn't anything out there that comes close to the BioSignature as far as nutrition and supplementation are concerned. The programs offered by the Poliquin Strength Institute teach coaches advanced techniques and methods that are practical to their athletes and clients, and proven by the latest science and clinical practices. The value of this type of education is easily assessed by the results achieved by Kassem's clients and athletes. Kassem continued to stay up to date with the latest research and continues to take many Poliquin courses. In addition, Kassem also follows the work of Paul Chek, Mel Siff, Mark Houston, Mark Schauss, Bob Guiel, Stuart McGill, and many more.


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I am having a little trouble with the English translation of their website and cannot seem to find their hours; are they open for lunch or just dinner? What days?
If you go for dinner, do you get a sunset view or city lights?
Is it 'dressy' (I would guess not, since there is a section on the website about hiking/biking to the restaurant).
It sounds really tasty (even though we will miss calcot season).
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Somali Warlord Steps up Attack on New President
Somali warlord Hussein Mohamed Aidid on Sunday accused President Abdulkassim Salat Hassan of violating both an agreement and an arms embargo and said his faction and political allies will not deal with the new government.
"Salat violated the letter of understanding between me and him in Libya last month, when he pledged to speak to faction and political leaders in Mogadishu before claiming the country's presidency and declaring the so-called government and announcing cabinet members," Aidid told AFP by telephone.
Aidid accused Salat, who last month became the Horn of Africa country's first head of state in almost a decade, of violating a UN arms embargo and importing weapons to fight his rivals inside Somalia.
"Every faction in Mogadishu is well armed and has the right to protect its fiefdom from new warlord (Salat), but more weapons are due to arrive in Mogadishu on Sunday to fuel further hostilities," Aidid said.
Government spokesman Idris Hassan Dirye confirmed Sunday the arrival of weapons and military uniforms from Yemen, but said they will be "used for the new police force in the Somali capital and not to fight against any faction."
Salat was appointed president by a transitional parliament in neighboring Djibouti after a peace conference initiated and hosted by President Ismail Omar Guelleh.
He later nominated Ali Khalif Galaydh as his prime minister. Galaydh on Friday appointed a cabinet amid renewed opposition from clan faction leaders.
Most armed Somali factions in Mogadishu, with the central southern Somali Bay and Bakol regional strongman Hassan Mohamed Nur Shatigudud, have rejected the conference and its outcome outright.
Salat, who has declared that "the day of the warlords was over," depends for security on rag-tag freelance militias and notorious battle-wagons of the kind used by warring clan militias until his police force is inaugurated.
Somali militias easily change allegiance from one group to another for opportunistic or clan reasons.
Mohamed Qanyare Afrah, another warlord who also has considerable military strength in Mogadishu, said on Saturday that Salat had no mandate to send any of his supporters to his territory to avoid renewed bloodshed.
"The Djibouti government-appointed administration would ignite renewed violence in Somalia. If Salat's men attempt to disarm anybody in areas under my control, then they would face the consequence," Qanyare warned.
Mogadishu, which has been divided since dictator Mohamed Siad Barre was toppled in 1991, is currently controlled by opposing warlords backed by armed militia capable of disrupting plans to unify it.
The city's main sea and airport has been closed since 1995 and at the mercy of artillery fire from rival warlords.
Salat's administration enjoys support from the outside world, but leaders of the breakaway Republic of Somaliland in the north, and the neighboring autonomous state of Puntland, accounting for more than half of the country's territory, have also strongly rejected the Djibouti initiated peace process and its outcome.
The leaders of Somaliland and Puntland do not have international recognition – MOGADISHU (AFP)
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A SEA eagle expert has described how he feared the worst when the nest of a chick caught on camera being pushed out by an intruder was found empty again.
The chick, a star of this year's BBC Springwatch, was rescued a month ago, when it was feared she had fallen 30ft from the nest.
Webcam footage of the nest, in a secret location in Forestry Commission Scotland land on Mull, later revealed she had been pushed out by a rogue eagle.
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When the nest was found to be empty once more Scotland's top sea eagle expert Dave Sexton feared for the chick's life - only to discoverfind she had successfully made her maiden flight.
Mr Sexton, RSPB officer for Mull, said: "When I saw the nest empty again on Thursday and couldn't hear her calling I dreaded going in. I was worried I might find her dead under the nest, as has happened with other chicks.
"There was no sign of her and I couldn't hear her either which was unusual, but I eventually found her sitting on top of a tree stump, surveying the view around her.
Her father was watching from nearby.
"Then there she was soaring in the warm breeze looking like a proper eagle. It's for moments like this that I do this job."


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Don Moen - I will sing Trailer (2000)
01 February 2000 Music 71 mins
I Will Sing is an album of Christian worship music recorded by Don Moen. Recorded live in the CBN studios in Virginia Beach, Virginia, the Christian Contemporary album was produced by Paul Mills, and includes the vocals of Lenny LeBlanc and guitar by Chris Rodriguez. The album also includes narrations that contain Bible verses. The video and the DVD are the same recording of this album.
Watch the official Don Moen - I will sing 2000 trailer in HD below or find more Don Moen - I will sing videos on Vidimovie.


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Saturday, June 30, 2007
Newspaper will pay bloggers per page view
A current fad in the newspaper business is outreach to bloggers. Many papers, both free and paid, host blogs on their websites. Some are written by the paper's staff while others are produced by readers. Sweden's Metro newspaper has upped the ante and is now paying bloggers who attract at least 5,000 page views per month. In return, bloggers give Metro permission to use their material in the print edition. The idea was so popular that more than 2,300 bloggers signed up in just three days and Metro had to close the service to new sign-ups until it could expand its capacity, according to the website Media Culpa.
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Tim Quinn focuses his practice on real estate and lending, zoning and land use, and corporate and business law matters. His work focuses on all aspects of real estate transactions, including the acquisition, development, disposition, leasing, and financing of all types of property. Tim also assists clients in matters involving zoning and land use planning and on a wide variety of corporate and business law issues.
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- Allegheny County Bar Association, Member
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Sonic RPG eps 8
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Fatty Big Eye Outtakes
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.........all the comotion over this?
this isnt as good as people say it is.... i am a big fan of family guy and i see u got some ideas off of it with the 'remember when' or 'remember the last time?' but u were not that funny.... your artwork is good and all but this movie could just never get me to laugh...........
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The auto show will take place between April 9 and 11.
Dacia Duster has a starting price of €11,900 for the 4x2 version and €13,900 for the 4x4 version.
The new roadster coupe Renault Wind based on Twingo, is powered by two petrol engines, one of 1.6 liters that puts out 133 HP, and reaches 10-0km/h in 9 seconds and a 1.2 liter engine that puts put 100HP and reaches 100km/h in 9 seconds.
Renault announced the price of its Wind convertible that starts from €17,500. Order books start in May.
Renault Wind is a two-seater coupe that measures 3.83 meters in length, more than Twingo by 23cm and less than Clio. The car's boot space is 270 liters whatever the position of the hardtop. The electric roof that rotates 180 degrees opens in just 12 seconds.
The new Renault Megane CC has a starting price of €24,900 and features a folding glass roof mechanism.
Laguna Coupe Monaco GP will be available in showrooms starting June in two color options, pearlescent white and pearlescent black livery. The car comes with a leather interior trim, Carminat TomTom navigation and Bose audio.
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'From a young mother stealing back her child to a disillusioned lover seeking revenge with a potion, from house cleaners contemplating a life of crime to a woman parting ways with Jesus, these are stories of people living on the edge.
In their collections 'The Returning' and 'Playing Dead', Mihaela Nicolescu and Nadine Browne illuminate the complexity of the everyday with compassionate but unflinching accounts of the ways in which people gain, lose or reclaim control of their lives. ' (Source: Fremantle Press website)


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Crimes Against the Electoral College, DOJ Silent:
"The age of Obama will be remembered for the grotesque perversion of law. The latest example is Justice Department and FBI inaction when it comes to death threats to members of the Electoral College who were voting for Donald Trump.
I was on Fox and Friends this week to discuss the failure to respond to these efforts to undermine the constitutional order:"


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Taco wrote:Jester wrote: Why am I going now?
http://www.happierabroad.com/forum/view ... 4113#94113
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Don't worry, a massive SHTF event is coming soon, you'll never want to come back to California. Also, take all your money out of your US bank account(Mexican ATM Machine) once you get down there. The US markets will crash this fall but the real "party" won't start until next year. I just left a few months ago, a move I will not soon regret.
Thanks. That's my rough assessment as well. Bring Romney in so Bubba will buy into it all... when they close the straits of Hormuz, oil is $400 per barrel, gas is $12 per gallon, "viper" teams are on the interstates to enforce ride-sharing, and to search for Mexican illegals lacking new mandatory ID's, and to search for guns.
I can't tell you how hard it is to get out of here. Resistance from everyone. Feels so f***ing alone. And I am someone who is used to teamwork, joint effort etc. - a failing of mine. So going against everyone's opinion, I find like trying to sprint though waist-deep molasses.
i know you're in the Phils... what do you think of my plan to use Mexico as a first step? Any regrets per your comment on fschmidt's thread?
Taco wrote:The most polite people overall would be Filipinos, they will politely lie to you and cheat you any chance they get.
At the risk of hijacking my own thread... How come you chose Phils over Latin America, anyway?
I do have some connections for use of address etc.... and in case of any problems... also have connections in Thailand, Armenia, etc for legal, citizenship... Don't want to use connections though, prefer to save them for a rainy day... Plus I'm good at making friends anywhere, what the hell...
MX and Phils seem like the best non-Anglo non-euro places to just show up easily and do business easily i think... With appropriate permissions and "endorsements" of course...
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Have you recently gotten into some legal trouble? Maybe you are the victim of a crime? Perhaps you just want to set up a living trust. Whatever your reasons, you are going to need a good lawyer. Unfortunately, finding a good lawyer can be a bit difficult. Read the following article for some key tips that will help you hire a good lawyer. Personal Injury Lawyers
Find out all that you can about lawyers that you are interested in. What sorts of legal organizations do they belong to, for example? Bar organizations often help to keep their members informed of the very lastest in legal news. You want a lawyer who stays abreast of current legal trends!
Don't just go into the yellow pages and pick the lawyer at the top of the page! Blindly choosing a lawyer is never a good idea. Even other professionals may not know what they are doing in this situation; they could inadvertently lead you to someone who isn't licensed or doesn't know what they are doing. Avoid this. Accident Lawyers
If you already have a great lawyer, ask them for advice. They can either tell you that they can take on your case, or point you in the direction of a lawyer who will help you out. When you already have a lawyer you trust, there is no reason to search out advice elsewhere.
There are some cases where you can represent yourself without an attorney, but most of the time you should get one. There are many things that a layman does not understand about the law, which is why you should hire a lawyer. You don't want to lose your case due to a lack of common legal knowledge when you could have hired someone. Personal Injury Attorney
When it comes to hiring legal representation, you want to make sure that you are getting the best help you can afford. These days, it is all too easy to get stuck with a lawyer who just isn't going to give you all their attention. Use the tips given in this article if you want to make your lawyer search more successful. Personal Injury Claims Lawyers


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First of all I have to stress that I am not an expert in this, but just someone who likes to grill and cook my favorite foods for me and my friends in different grilling or barbeque parties (We don't always use the George Foreman grill GRP99 in these parties, it really is depended upon the events itself and what house or place it takes place). Anyway, I do have a lot of experience with outdoor grills and indoor grills as well, and I really do like this hobby.
The older electric grills that I owned were also quite good (those who weren't didn't survive long enough in my house…) but the majority of them did have some problems with the cleanup. When I first used the George Foreman grill GRP99 I was pretty glad to see that this unit can create much less mess compared to other indoor grills. Many people already know how good the George Foreman grills are, they usually cook the food quite evenly and in the way you want it.
One of the best features that make this electric grill so good is the cooking surfaces that can be removed and thrown over to the dishwasher or the sink and make the cleaning so much easier. Despite the fact that other electric griddles and electric grills also have this feature, their numbers are not many so this make the George Foreman grill GRP99 griddle one of the few units that offer this interesting feature that help ease the cooking process so much.
More on the George Foreman indoor grill on the next posts so stay tuned. If you want a nice electric grill you should try to get more information about this unit and see if it might be able to fit your needs.
While it may not be the most relevant site to share I enjoyed spending my time at the website of the Food Standards Agency which is a United Kingdom Government body that you can still visit even if you don't live in Britain. You could seriously find wealth of information there about the food industry in the great country of Britain (and I am saying this even though I don't really live there).


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When Patricia Drauch found out that her 14-month-old baby Stanley had fallen into the pool in her backyard, she imagined the worst: her son was drowning.
Patricia was going into her garage to get a gardening tool when she noticed Stanley wasn't walking next to her anymore. She frantically searched the backyard only to find her baby in the pool. Naturally, Patricia panicked. This was a parent's worst nightmare.
Luckily, the Drauch family had a hero in their midst: their brave Black Lab, Bear.
"It was scary," Patricia told Wood TV8. "His lips were blue, his eyes were rolled back."
Related: Brave Dog Saves Girl From Rattlesnake Attack
Patricia was terrified to see her son floating under the water. But as she looked closer, Patricia realized that baby Stanley wasn't drowning at all. The family dog Bear had taken action!
Bear jumped right into the pool just after Stanley fell in and balanced Stanley on his back so Stanley wouldn't drown. Bear refused to move until Patricia came back and got Stanley. Now that's loyalty!
"I don't think Stanley would have made it," Patricia told Wood TV8. She added, "It's proof that he's got enough love for the kids, that it's more than just our hunting dog."
Unfortunately, things didn't end there. After she got her son out of the pool, Patricia noticed that Stanley wasn't breathing. She tried to call 911, but the call wouldn't go through.
So Patricia got her kids into the car and rushed Stanley to the fire department. Stanley's brother Kyle explained that Stanley started spitting up water and started reviving in the car.
Related: Dog Heroically Sacrifices His Life To Save Infant From Fire
Still, they went to the fire department where firefighters worked to revive him and brought him to the hospital. Luckily, Stanley was revived and released from the hospital the same day.
And it's all thanks to Bear. "I'd always told him since he was four weeks old that 'These are your babies. Watch out,' because he had big paws when he was little and I didn't want him to step on them. And so that paid off, teaching him to watch out for them," Patricia told Wood TV8.
Luckily, Stanley made it. Following the accident, though, Stanley's parents said that they planned to put up fencing around the pool to avoid any other scary incidents.


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Neurosis' Enemy of the Sun is among the most inaccessible slab of slow, monolithic music I have ever heard in my life (same can be said for Neurosis records in general, but Enemy is the ONE album that sticks out in this regard). Although it's a commercially released music, it invites no one to come inside. It's so uncontrolled, dense, and burly, you have to haggle your way into the soundscape. And if you make the arduous effort to engage with the music, you are thoroughly punished for it.
Thematically, Enemy of the Sun deals with vision, the sun, and spiritual absurdity. Although it was released in 1993, the themes, overall sound, lyrics, and their choice of sampled noises across the record gives me a chilling reminder of the story arc over the sarin gas attack that happened in 1995. Bear with me on the following paragraph - the story arc of the attack is a very good fit to how the record progresses from beginning to end.
The event was among the most frightening terrorist attack that ever happened, where members of a doomsday cult released colorless sarin gas (and hence invisible) on subways in Tokyo during the morning rush hour. It entices an apocalyptic panic and leaving hundreds with permanent nerve damage and psychological trauma, which torments the survivors to this day. Culprits were all caught and most sentenced either death or life imprisonment, and many members who weaned off their cult beliefs are consumed by massive guilt everyday, while the leader went insane in denial of his fate, and now spends his time masturbating incessantly and wallowing in his own feces in his cell while awaiting execution. In short, no one wins. And the music and lyrics on Enemy overlaps this story arc very closely (despite the fact that it was written much before the attack).
Thousands of heavy metal literature deals with insanity, death, apocalypse, spirituality, and all that jazz. Neurosis, and Enemy of the Sun in particular, triumphs in this regard because it sounds so real. The music sounds like it is greater than sum of its parts, where no one is "outstanding" but everybody shines - for example, 3 vocalists all deliver some truly tormented growls in spirit of hopelessness with no one being the "main guy" (though Dave's voice is distinguishable by being noticeably low-pitched), and bass is as essential as guitars and drums, clearly audible. To top it all off, Neurosis does an expert job of deploying right samples at the right time to spike up the paranoia - gaseous noise and loops of monologue at the end of "Lost", hypnotic chants in "Lexicon", instrumental dissonance and static noise at the end of "The Time of the Beasts", just to name a few brilliant examples. There's so much doom without being a "doom metal" sound.
The reissue includes two additional tracks - "Takeahnase" and "Cleanse II". Bonus tracks often throw off the flow of the record, and this is no exception here. However, both tracks are immense experiences in of themselves that aligns well with the spiritual and oppressive nature of the album, and it makes sense for both tracks to be included (case in point - the psychologically intense monologue about the WWII-era Japanese imperial army at the end of "Cleanse II").
Enemy of the Sun is a timeless classic, composed and played so purely from the heart, and there's no dispute whatsoever. It's an underground masterpiece, as a true enemy of the sun should be (pun intended). This is fucking savage y'all.
While Neurosis's previous album, Souls At Zero, will always remain their magnum opus in my eyes, it is somewhat of an orphan in their discography. With the band's general view as it still being a stepping-stone to finding their sound, nothing in their discography sounds remotely similar. It is with Enemy of the Sun where they really started falling into their signature sound. Feeling they were getting too caught up in a cerebral process with Souls, for Enemy they decided to slow things down and play from the gut. The result is a visceral ooze of nightmarish sludge and demented crust.
While Souls were filled with sharp metallic crust riffs, Enemy sees those slow down into a cesspool of glacial riffs that slowly churn with the heft of shifting continental plates. The fact that this type of album came out in 1993 is nothing short of astounding. While the Melvins arguably released the first sludge album in 1986, the style didn't really find its footing until the dawn of the '90s with bands such as Crowbar and Eyehategod. While it's hard to know if Neurois were aware of these two Nola innovators, they were certainly aware of what the Melvins were doing, and moreover the B side of Black Flag's My War (largely regarded as the spark that set off sludge) had a big influence on the band (Scott even has a tattoo of the release on the back of his neck). However, this isn't just run of the mill sludge. This is inarguably the first sludge album to bring in atmospheric tendencies as a large part of the sound. Countless bands have this album to thank for their existence.
These atmospheric tendencies are a far cry from the serene, picturesque soundscapes that many atmospheric sludge bands use today. Rather, Neurosis conjures up claustrophobic hellscapes. In many ways this album seems like an exploration into the darkest corners of the human mind. To achieve the more atmospheric passages, Neurosis use deep, crawling bass lines, nightmarish keyboards and additional instrumentation such as piano, violin and horns. While the additional instrumentation isn't as prominent as in Souls at Zero and there aren't many awesomely bizarre clean instrumental sections on this one, they still add a lot to the overall experience. Samples continue to play a prominent role, bolstering the album's bleak aura of mental disorientation. Interestingly enough, the band was partially inspired to do this from Dr. Dre's work as a producer.
The meat of this album is filthy, vitriolic sludge reeking of crust influences. Big riffs are plentiful and Enemy is so stuffed with ideas that the weight of everything going on makes for a pretty claustrophobic experience. Released only a year after Souls at Zero, this was originally supposed to be an EP, but the band was so brimming with creative fertility that they ended up recording a full length. This is certainly more abrasive than Souls and can be pretty opaque, dense and difficult. This is definitely not the best album for newcomers trying to get into the band. However, beyond its callous exterior lies an immensely rewarding experience.
From the crushing riffs, to the mammoth bass lines; the tribal experimentation on the drums, to the triple threat vocal assault – this is an album where nothing is an afterthought. Each instrument is used to create something interesting. For example, the album opener "Lost" would lose its charm without that massive crawling bass line (you'll know the one). This album would be incomplete without the closing epic drum jam of "Cleanse". One of the most ambitious things Neurosis has ever done, this shows Jason fully realizing his tom-heavy tribal style that was blooming in Souls in one of the most awe-inspiring ways possible. The impetus for this drumming style was what bands such as Crash Worship, Coil and various industrial groups at the time were doing. The vocals are uncompromisingly powerful– often with two members going at the same time, Steve, Scott and Edward provide three distinct and very powerful voices that all seem to stem to some degree out of the crust scene. The lyrics are more potent than ever, and to some degree reflect Scott's addictions at the time – when he was younger he says he tried to tear down his mind with psychedelics to deal with the past and the loss he has lived through.
In the reissue, there were two bonus tracks added. This wasn't a good idea on Souls at Zero, and it's not a good idea now. Neurosis are very much an album band, and it seems almost preposterous that something would be tacked on to the end of such a carefully constructed vision. That said, the bonus tracks in themselves are not bad. The demo version of "Takeahnase" is very interesting if not quite as good as the album version. Cleanse II (live) is a Floydian experiment of psychedelic sounds with perhaps a slight industrial tinge. A moderately interesting experiment, but hardly gripping like so much of their discography. However, the one thing the reissue got very right is chopping off the second half of "Cleanse" where a sample is looped over and over again. I'm not sure what they were going for (hypnotic repetition, perhaps?), but it just sounded annoying in the original version and went on absurdly long.
Their shift in focus from a cerebral to a more visceral creative process provided some interesting evolution in the Neurosis sound. While Souls was had much sharper riffs, here the riffs are generally slower and embody the feeling of drowning in tar. A nightmarish and oppressive album from start to finish, this is a harder release to connect to initially, but well worth the trouble. Enemy of the Sun marks where Neurosis really started to find the sound that they would build upon and morph for decades to come. While the production is quite well done, this is still very dense and uncompromisingly abrasive. A harrowing descent into the bleakest corners of the psyche, this is an amazing if not entirely pleasant journey.
Enemy Of The Sun" is probably the first album that showed to the world Neurosis' undeniable genius. It's also the precursor of what they went on to summon on the infamous "Through Silver In Blood". And even though the latter usually gathers all the praises and will maybe forever be remembered as their magnum opus, I will always have a soft spot for "Enemy...".
This one is really not an easy album to sit down and write a review about. I found myself many times in the uncomfortable position of having to explain to my dumb-ass friends why Neurosis is so special and I've always failed in my task. I am starting to believe what some other reviewer said earlier: this is a band that you either love or hate. Neurosis' music requires your attention, you carefully listening to it, you NEED to read and know the amazing lyrics... it's not some stuff you put in the background while you wash the dishes and expect to remember something of what you heard when the record's over. And this album is, in the band's career, the first clear example of that.
There's not one single track on this album sporting a catchy melody, a hook, even a hint of a chorus. Each one of the eight tracks on "Enemy Of The Sun" is an agonizing howl of pain that comes straight from the hearts and souls of these guys, like the suffered lament of a dying man who's seen the world entire fall to pieces and his life destroyed before his eyes while exhaling his last breath. And that uneasy feeling prolongs itself for 72 minutes, 72 long minutes of slow, endless agony, one last desperate search for a way out of the sunburnt valley of death that's life on this earth.
The ostentatiously arrogant opening statement (sampled off the movie "The Sheltering Sky") makes all the more sense after the first, doom-slow, bass driven groove of "Lost" kicks in. Hissing guitar riffs conjure up with confusing sampled noises, while the slow march carried by the drums and the bass finally leads to a series of devastating riffs where all the scorn, all the pain and all the passion finally find the chance to vent through Scott Kelly's and Steve Von Till's agonizing screams. There's still space in this catastrophe for Neurosis' trademark excursus in quiet and hypnotizing repetition, but it's not the kind of repetition they got us used to with their latest albums. No, there's something vicious and malevolent beyond all imagination even in the relaxed bits, so that, if your ears can rest, your soul can certainly not.
The agony goes on and on through "Raze the Stray". Shivers are sent down your spine as soon as the female vocals start, in an unknown language, setting an ethereal tone for the song. A sudden explosion then breaks in, destroying all the hope for peace of mind you could have still harboured so far, and after a slightly easterly guitar/strings duet break Dave Edwardson enters the scene unleashing his infamous growls. He is soon joined by Kelly and Von Till, creating one of the most amazing and effective vocal interplays I've heard in my whole life, where one singer finishes the other's sentence and vice-versa. "I will not STRAAAAAYYY!", they stress, while a pleasantly dissonant sound (obtained by playing that short portion of strings which is not on the fret-board of the guitar but on the paddle) introduces some of their most earth-shattering riffs in their whole repertoire. And while the song ends, inevitably in definitive hopelessness, the female vocals fade back in, like Neurosis wants you to feel safe and relaxed when the end comes.
"Burning Flesh In The Year Of Pig" is an account of what happened in Vietnam in 1967 when buddhist priest Tich Quang Duc self-immolated in a busy intersection in the capital city, in front of hundreds of incredulous passers-by. More than a real track it's got the taste of a warning that something terrible is going to happen soon.
From the combination of "Cold Ascending" and "Lexicon" we get to know the most savage, furious and telluric side of Neurosis' music. There's absolutely no melody for the poor listener to grasp on. Jason Roeder's hammering drum beat opens the dance, while the bass crawls along with a sound that calls for nothing safe. This unlikely, sick march is aptly followed by highly dissonant single guitar notes that keep doubling up until the song bursts into one demonic chaos, a violent raping of the listener's ears and feelings, something that makes you forget any other way heavy music had been played before and introduces a new point of view, one that looks at you in the eyes directly from the depths of a psychological inferno. And when things seem to calm down a little and a small gleam of light seems to be shining again on you, a long, troubled, tortuous waltz accompained by the sickening sound of ghostly voices finally lets this nightmare take its toll on you.
By the time the title track kicks in your senses should be already so nullified that the eerie drum intro must feel like the distorted sound of your own heartbeat resounding in your subconscious. The guitars and bass lay down on each other creating an ever thicker fabric of inter-reacting notes until a signal is given to start the beating. "The sun bathes my wounds with a veil of rage/ its rays dyed with the blood of our disrespect": the punishment is due, and the war-drum's frantic tribal rhythm leaves no chance for a safe place to hide.
You've finally reached the point of no return; if you've been submissive enough to take all of the punishing rage so far unleashed upon you, now it's finally time for you to let it out. If you bow down, close your eyes and listen to the final requiem "Time Of The Bests", to the decaying, funereal melody carried by the horns section, you can actually experience a sort of purifying feeling, a purging force driving itself through your body, until the tribal drumming of "Cleanse" brings you back to reality. And when it does, you're a different person. Especially, if you are a musician you will never look at music the same way again.
This is an album that changed a lot of people, it changed me, and it opened many doors for us to look upon a new way of making music, where aesthetic laws and formulas, genre restrictions and mere song structures don't mean anything and all that matters is your feelings, and being able to translate them in music. After 15 years this album still has the power to shock and please, to satisfy and horrify and definitely set contrasts among people who listen to it, people who either run away from it in disgust or will grow to love it as one of the best metal albums of all time.
From the opening samples evoking fears of death and worries of the shortness of life of the opening track to the 16 minute tribal rampage of "Cleanse", Neurosis show their burgeoning musical prowess on Enemy of the Sun. Even at this premature stage, the direction their music would take could not be anymore clear, and still this album is exceptionally unique from the rest of their discography. Indeed, Neurosis have crafted one of the greatest pieces of sludge out there, far surpassing even those contemporaries who have gone further to master the genre themselves.
The bass is a driving force on this album, being front and center for much of the album, grinding and gurgling like some sinister machine-beast hybrid, keeping the more monstrous tracks like "Lost" and "Raze the Stray" focused, setting stage for the epic build in "Cold Ascending", and churning the stomach in "Lexicon" (which has some of the coolest goddamn bass-lines ever).
Meanwhile, the dense, sludgy guitars float between meandering drones to a unique mix of atonal and melodic leads: a menacing building, gradually speeding-up, higher-pitched riff clashing against a heavy drone in the opening build for "Cold Ascending"; or the screeching, robotic lead coupled with the acoustic rhythm section on the breakdown for "Raze the Stray"; or the just swirling, whirling guitars fighting for supremacy on the title track.
The drumming is phenomenal, whether it's the more traditional metal style found on most of the album or the tribal percussion onslaughts making appearances on the last three tracks, "Cleanse" being the major standout, consisting of around 9 percussionists and some slick didgeridoo (yes, the Australian Aborigine wind instrument), making for a very unique, mystic adventure in the wilderness.
Of course, the album is outstanding in the vocal department. Kelly and Von Till's screams, bellows, and singing are all done very passionately and expertly, adding so much emotion to every song, particularly in "The Time of Beasts" (by far the most expressive song on the album). On top of that, Dave Edwardson is more in the spotlight on this album that a lot of their other albums with his howling growls, adding a more sinister edge to the music when used, which is not often, adding even more impact to his vocal execution.
Finally, the addition of various electronics, keys, and samples adds an amazingly amount of depth to the music: "Lost" with its eerie opening sample and amazing keyboards later in the song, "Burning Flesh In Year of Pig", the very necessary breather after the first two monster tracks, or the haunting keys and just strange sounds fluttering around in the background on "Raze the Stray".
Moreover, the sheer diversity of this album is enough to impress: "Lost", the building, post-rock-influenced mammoth; "Cold Ascending" and "The Time of Beasts" being the most passionate tracks (the former being an almost-thrash, manic piece with the ladder as the moist anguish-filled track on the album with some very melancholic trumpet playing that enhances the atmosphere greatly); "Burning Flesh in Year of Pig", wholly electronic; "Cleanse", the "calm" tribal rampage; "Lexicon" being reminiscent of a more upbeat Khanate mixed with early Mastodon…. Neurosis explore a great deal of territory not common to most sludge, and do it quite successfully.
The only downside to this release is the production, a flaw that is wholly negligible.
This album is most certainly a classic and is highly recommended for sludge fans, metal fans, and people who really appreciate music in general. It's hard to believe this album came out in '93 – this was more ahead of its time than Godflesh was during the early nineties, and unfortunately its status hasn't carried over, solidifying it as an underground-underground classic.
Or then again, maybe not. I thought Khanate was the most extreme band out there, but Neurosis gives them a run for their money with this stunningly inaccessible, super dense slab of noise. There's basically no let up in this album. The spine-chilling intro to Raze the Stray and a few other moments in this album are the only let up from the massive, densely produced pummeling riffs, the overwhelming rhythm section, and the passionate, powerful screams that fill this album. Upon hearing that Cleanse (I got the shortened version, :( ) was a 16 minute long tribal percussion thing, I took heart that at least that might be easy to listen to. Or maybe not. The mystical, unnerving, constant beating of the drums, along with various other noises, is just as massive as the rest of the album.
So it came to the point where I was going to use this CD as a coaster, but then something happened. Riffs, brilliant conceptual songwriting, and just pure genius were coming out of the speakers as opposed to the dense walls of noise that had come out on the previous listen. The screaming started making some sort of sense. A good example of the amazing songwriting buried in this album would be Raze the Stray. After the intro the volume goes straight to "blowing up speakers" level, yet the Piano line that introduced the song is still audible. There's some great tribal drumming in the title track that blows my mind. The Time of the Beast has some great mellow parts, while Lexicon is Neurosis at their most fearsome and primal. The demo version of Takeahnase is pretty cool, though it's surprisingly normal for a Neurosis song. (And it's better produced then the album, which is strange for a Demo version). "Cleanse II" is interesting, but nothing compared to the original at all really. I would've preferred the full length version of Cleanse instead, oh well.
So, let me just warn you all. This is a tough album to get into, and while the rewards are great, it's still a very abrasive recording. If you only like Neurosis's new album, don't get this one. If you only like Gothic crap, don't get this one. It's one massive slab of noise and it should be treated with caution. But, if you like dense (I keep on using that word, but it fits so well!), punishing sludge, you should run out and get this.


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GRUELLING interviews between Essendon players and anti-doping investigators are expected to be completed next week.
The Bombers have dropped consecutive games as players admit the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority probe has taken its toll ahead of Saturday night's clash with fellow finals contender Richmond.
Despite the interviews being fast-tracked, the investigation is far from complete.
It is possible some players and coaches will be interviewed again before ASADA and the AFL decide whether to charge players or the club for doping offences.
It comes as Essendon sources confirm the use of peptide AOD-9604 as a potential food supplement would be a key plank in the club's defence.
The company marketing the controversial anti-obesity drug AOD-9604 yesterday defended the substance and said it would soon be widely used in the US.
Metabolic chief executive David Kenley said yesterday the substance was proved safe after human trials, and would be used in the US as a food additive once safety data was published.
Essendon is arguing that it could be taken off WADA and ASADA banned lists when given US approval, but the defence has considerable holes.
Anti-doping bodies are adamant it is irrelevant whether a substance might one day be legal.
If it is consumed by an athlete when it is on the banned list the player faces a suspension of up to two years.
AOD-9604 is unlikely to gain US regulatory approval before the club's judgment day, but should be approved within a year.
Metabolic is on the verge of receiving a Generally Recognised As Safe certificate in the US.
"It does have a conditional GRAS status to the US market and it is conditional not on anything to do with safety," Kenley said.
"They at the moment have received approval subject to the safety data being published in a peer-recognised journal.
"Once that is done it is legal and ethical to have it in drinks, foods and dietary supplements in the USA."
Kenley said he expected the drug to be given approval within the year, but confirmed it did not have approval through the American Food and Drugs Administration or Australia's Therapeutic Drugs Administration.
That is the issue for Essendon, because while approval from those bodies would take it off the banned list, consent forms show players were prescribed weekly injections of the substance last year when it was not approved.
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While an exact match would be good, something close would also work if anybody has any suggestions..
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This Italian lettering
This Italian lettering reminded me of the underlying letterforms of the Ferrari logo, which has been made into a font by Michael Hagmann as Ferro Rosso http://www.dafont.com/font-comment.php?file=ferro_rosso&text=P+I+A+N+O+F... Clip the length of the serifs and automotive styling overlapping bars, add a few serifs where they are missing and it would look fairly close if you edited the leg on R.
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Researchers have been long intrigued about what is the different between some animals having horizontal-shaped pupils and other having vertical shaped pupils. Last Friday a new study was published that studied 214 animal species and suggested the answers might be linked strongly to giving an edge in survival to animals.
In other words, circular and vertical pupils could help certain types of predators in their hunting, while the horizontal pupils likely help the other species to spot their predators from afar.
Not al vision specialists accept the hypothesis of the researchers however, as they cite examples of animals that do not fit the classifications.
A team of researchers from Britian's Durham University and the University of California Berkeley conducted the study. The teams used a set of computer models that were based upon a sheep's eye as support of the theories of why circular, vertical and horizontal shaped pupils benefit the different animals.
When the animal's pupil was horizontal in the model, more light could be captured from the right and left of the eye, which is not surprising and a less amount of light from above and below the eye.
This gives animals who are grazers the ability to detect predators better when they approached from any direction except from behind, said the researchers.
A caveat to the conclusion was obvious. What happens when a sheep with vertical slits bends its head to eat. Logic says the horizontal pupil would then be perpendicular to the ground. However, researchers discovered that the eye of the sheep actually rotates up to 50 degrees when its head is turned downward and the pupils remain parallel to the ground. Other grazing animals such as antelopes and horses were studied and they too can rotate their eyes.
The vertical slit eyes give advantage to predators when ambushing prey as they make it easier to determine distance through better depth perception.
However, an exception to that are large predators such as lions and tigers have pupils that are circular and not vertical.
Researchers said that was due to them being taller.
Critics say there are many animals that do not fit into the different groupings due to the shapes of their pupils.


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History Repeats?
Nueva Onda Movie Night
By Joe O'Connell, Fri., Aug. 4, 2006
Imagine it's 1988. You're sitting in Quack's on the Drag when a mop-headed guy named Rick starts talking up a storm about this film he's made. It's got a weird title, something like It's Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books. He hands you a flier for a screening he and his pals are putting on. Oh, and he's making another movie, about directionless young people right here in Austin. You decide you'd rather catch a Night Court episode. Flash to 1991. You're a drug-company guinea pig with nurses poking and prodding you every hour. Meanwhile, you hang out, eat junk food, watch the boob tube, and talk. The guy next to you wasn't he a cartoonist for The Daily Texan? is talking about this short film he made, something called "Bedhead." It stars his younger brothers and sisters the Rodriguez kids. He has big plans for a gangster-type film set in Mexico. There's a screening tonight. Coming? Nah, you'd rather watch Blossom.
Leap into the future. Next Wednesday. Nueva Onda Movie Night is going with a theme of Weird World. Steve Collins is showing his short film "Gretchen & the Night Danger," the 2004 SXSW award winner that grew into his feature film Gretchen, a hit at the most recent SXSW and L.A. festivals. It's the hilarious story of an awkward teen struggling with whether to let her boyfriend get to second base. Steve will be there and will also show his "The Ballad of Courtney & James," the tale of a woman's obsession with Abraham Lincoln. Oh, and another guy you'll be hearing more about in the future, Pritesh Chheda, has his "The Package," which unleashes demons from the past. Did I mention that Sundance veteran John Bryant will also be there with "Oh My God," about a man who discovers his family has been attacked and frames himself for it? That's still not enough? OK, they've got an animated short called "Saturday Afternoon Fever" and another short called "Debt Consolidated" no explanation necessary. Did I mention it's free? Uh, also, you should know some of these films are a tad violent. Are you gonna be there? Or will you be at home watching America's Got Talent again?
Nueva Onda
(2218 College off of South Congress, 447-5063)
Wednesday, Aug. 9, and every second Wednesday monthly
Kitchen opens 6:30pm; show starts at 8pm


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