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Average Rating: 3.61
Rating Variance: 0.49
Objectivity Score: 71% (Fairly Balanced)
Sort by: Rating | Release Date | Rating Date | NameAbhorrence Abhorrence3.5Aborted Global Flatline3.5Aborted The Necrotic Manifesto3.5Abysmal Torment Cultivate The Apostate3.0Compared to their last two this is a lot more boring, less groovy and too dense in sound in the wrong kind of way. Still a decent brutal death metal albumrAbysmal Torment Epoch of Methodic Carnage4.0Accept Restless and Wild4.0Accept Blood of the Nations4.0Adramelech Psychostasia4.0ADX Exécution3.5Aeon Aeons Black4.0Afflicted Prodigal Sun4.0Agent Steel Omega Conspiracy3.0Agent Steel Alienigma3.0Agressor The Spirit of Evil3.5Agressor Deathreat4.0Hooray for death metal bands no-one has heard of. This has some really great material.Agressor Towards Beyond4.5Ahab Call Of The Wretched Sea4.0Al Di Meola Elegant Gypsy4.5Alice in Chains Jar of Flies4.5Alice in Chains Dirt4.5Allan Holdsworth Wardenclyffe Tower4.0Allan Holdsworth Metal Fatigue4.5Am I Blood The Truth Inside the Dying Sun3.0Amorphis The Karelian Isthmus3.0Anaal Nathrakh Desideratum3.5Anacrusis Manic Impressions5.0Anacrusis Screams and Whispers5.0Anata The Conductor's Departure4.0Anata Under a Stone With No Inscription4.0Angelcorpse The Inexorable3.5Animals As Leaders Animals as Leaders3.0Animals As Leaders Weightless3.0Animals As Leaders The Joy of Motion4.0Animosity Animal3.5Annihilator All for You2.0Dave Padden ruins this band. The vocals are made even worse because of the terrible lyrics on this and later albums.Annihilator Annihilator2.0This sucks because of those god-awful lyrics as well as those dumb stop-start dynamics the band abuses. Annihilator The One2.0The vocals put me off in less than a second. Padden's voice was made for evil growls, not this.Annihilator Criteria for a Black Widow3.0Annihilator King of the Kill3.5Obvious highlight is the title track though it has some nice ballads and the band self titled here is pretty nice.Annihilator Total Annihilation3.5They're not Annihilator's best tracks, but this gives you some nice songs like Back To The Palace and Ultraparanoia for free.Annihilator Alice in Hell4.5Annihilator Never, Neverland4.5Anthrax Sound of White Noise3.0Anthrax We've Come for You All3.0Damn, I was writing a review for this but got logged out. More of a hard rock album IMO, Scott doesn't do very good riffs.Anthrax For All Kings3.0Anthrax Worship Music3.5Taking it down a bit as I'm Alive ticks me off.rIn The End is extremely good though.Anthrax Persistence of Time4.0Anthrax Among the Living5.0Anubis Gate Purification3.0Anubis Gate Anubis Gate3.5Anubis Gate Horizons4.0Excellent offering, these guys are on the ascent. Catchy but less cheesy than their pre-self titled works.Arch Enemy The Root of All Evil1.5Arch Enemy Khaos Legions1.5Arch Enemy Rise of the Tyrant2.5Arch Enemy Doomsday Machine3.0Arch Enemy Anthems of Rebellion3.0Arch Enemy Wages of Sin3.0Arch Enemy War Eternal3.0tracks I've heard so far are okay but someone other than Amott at the reigns would help.Arch Enemy Stigmata3.5Arch Enemy Black Earth3.5Arch Enemy Burning Bridges4.0Archspire All Shall Align2.5Arkaik Reflections Within Dissonance3.0Artificial Brain Labyrinth Constellation4.0Aspid Extravasation4.5Astronoid Air3.5At the Gates At War with Reality3.0Pretty predictable but well executed and highly listenable.At the Gates Slaughter of the Soul4.0At the Gates Terminal Spirit Disease4.0At War Ordered to Kill3.5Atheist Unquestionable Presence4.5Autopsy Macabre Eternal3.0Autopsy The Headless Ritual3.5Autopsy Severed Survival4.0Autopsy Mental Funeral4.5Banished Deliver Me Unto Pain4.0Baphomet (NY) The Dead Shall Inherit4.0Battalion (CHE) Set the Phantom Afire3.5Be'lakor Vessels4.0Beheaded Never To Dawn4.0Behemoth Zos Kia Cultus (Here and Beyond)3.5Behemoth The Satanist4.0Benediction Grind Bastard3.5Significantly more commercial than earlier albums but still very strong and it gets the catchy air right.Benediction Transcend the Rubicon4.0Benediction The Grand Leveller4.0Nice, varied paces and fun riffs, as well as some good basslines.Between the Buried and Me Colors2.5Beyond Creation The Aura3.5Bjork Homogenic4.5Black Sabbath Paranoid4.0Black Sabbath Sabbath Bloody Sabbath4.0Black Sabbath Master of Reality4.5Black Sabbath Heaven and Hell4.5Blackfield Blackfield3.5Blind Illusion The Sane Asylum3.5Blood Red Throne Altered Genesis4.0I got my first taste of this album accidentally as there was an error on Spotify that caused "Tortured Soul Appearance" from this to replace "Excoriating Abdominal Emination" from Carcass's Symphonies Of Sickness. While it obvious that it didn't belong on that album, it was still pretty catchy and heavy, and the rest of this album follows suit. One of the few reallllly solid modern death metal albums.Blood Tsunami Grand Feast For Vultures3.5Bloodbath Resurrection Through Carnage3.0Bloodbath The Fathomless Mastery3.0Bloodbath Grand Morbid Funeral3.5Bloodbath Nightmares Made Flesh4.0Bloodshot Dawn Bloodshot Dawn4.0Bloodshot Dawn Demons4.0A better produced and smoother album than its predecessor. Still got an excellent guitar performance and the drums are excellent this time. Unified definitely sticks out as a highlight.Blotted Science The Animation of Entomology3.5Blur 133.5Bolt Thrower The IVth Crusade4.0Bolt Thrower ...For Victory4.5Bonded by Blood Exiled to Earth3.0Boston Third Stage3.0Boston Boston4.0British Sea Power The Decline of British Sea Power3.5Broken Hope Omen of Disease3.0Broken Hope Repulsive Conception3.5Solid album, reminscent of CC but with some more melodic solos.Broken Hope Loathing4.0Brutal Truth End Time2.5Brutal Truth Sounds of the Animal Kingdom3.0Brutal Truth Evolution Through Revolution3.0Brutal Truth Need to Control4.5Burning Inside The Eve Of Entities3.0Burning Inside Apparition3.0Cannabis Corpse Tube of the Resinated4.0Cannabis Corpse Beneath Grow Lights Thou Shalt Rise4.0Cannabis Corpse From Wisdom to Baked4.0Cannibal Corpse Gore Obsessed3.0Cannibal Corpse Eaten Back to Life3.0Cannibal Corpse Butchered at Birth3.0Cannibal Corpse Vile3.0Cannibal Corpse Gallery of Suicide3.0Cannibal Corpse Evisceration Plague3.0Cannibal Corpse Tomb of the Mutilated3.5Cannibal Corpse The Wretched Spawn3.5Cannibal Corpse Kill3.5Cannibal Corpse Torture3.5Cannibal Corpse Bloodthirst4.0Yeah this is actually good guys, seriously. Dem riffs.Cannibal Corpse The Bleeding4.0Cannibal Corpse A Skeletal Domain4.0Carcass Reek of Putrefaction3.5Carcass Swansong3.5Carcass Symphonies of Sickness4.0Carcass Surgical Steel4.0Carcass Necroticism: Descanting the Insalubrious4.5Carcass Heartwork5.0Carnage Dark Recollections4.0Casualties of Cool Casualties of Cool4.5Cathedral The Carnival Bizarre4.0Cathedral Forest of Equilibrium4.0Centurian Contra Rationem3.5Chaos Divine The Human Connection4.0Chastain The 7th of Never4.0Chthonic Bu-Tik4.0Cirith Ungol Paradise Lost4.0Condemned Realms of the Ungodly4.0Confessor Condemned3.5Conquering Dystopia Conquering Dystopia3.0Control Denied The Fragile Art of Existence4.0Convulse World Without God4.5Coroner Grin3.0Coroner R.I.P.3.5Coroner Mental Vortex4.5Cradle of Filth Hammer of the Witches3.5Crimson Glory Transcendence 4.5Cryptopsy The Unspoken King2.0Cryptopsy Once Was Not2.5Cryptopsy And Then You'll Beg3.0Voice Of Unreason is really awesome, but some of the tracks don't really get up to much.Cryptopsy Cryptopsy3.0Cryptopsy Ungentle Exhumation3.5Cryptopsy Whisper Supremacy4.0Cryptopsy Blasphemy Made Flesh4.5Cryptopsy None So Vile5.0Crystal Age Far Beyond Divine Horizons4.0Cyclone Temple I Hate Therefore I Am4.0Cynic Kindly Bent to Free Us2.5Cynic Traced in Air3.0Cynic Re-Traced3.0Cynic Carbon-Based Anatomy4.0Cynic Focus4.5Dagoba Face the Colossus3.5Dagoba What Hell Is About3.5Darkher Realms3.5Deafheaven Sunbather4.0Death Scream Bloody Gore4.0Death The Sound of Perseverance4.0Death Spiritual Healing4.0Death Leprosy4.0Death Individual Thought Patterns4.5Death Symbolic5.0Death Human5.0Death Angel Relentless Retribution3.0Death Angel The Ultra-Violence4.0Deathraiser Violent Agression3.5Deathrow Life Beyond4.0Deathrow Deception Ignored4.5Decapitated The Negation3.0Decapitated Carnival Is Forever3.0Decapitated Nihility3.5Decapitated Winds of Creation4.0Decapitated Organic Hallucinosis4.0Decrepit Birth Diminishing Between Worlds3.0Decrepit Birth Polarity3.0Decrepit Birth ...And Time Begins3.5Deeds of Flesh Inbreeding the Anthropophagi3.5Deeds of Flesh Crown of Souls3.5Deeds of Flesh Reduced to Ashes3.5Deeds of Flesh Trading Pieces3.5Deeds of Flesh Path of the Weakening3.5Deeds of Flesh Of What's to Come3.5Deeds of Flesh Mark of the Legion3.5Deeds of Flesh Portals to Canaan3.5Deeds of Flesh Gradually Melted4.0Defeated Sanity Prelude to the Tragedy3.5Defeated Sanity Passages Into Deformity4.0Deftones White Pony3.5Deicide In Torment in Hell1.5Deicide Insineratehymn2.5Deicide Scars of the Crucifix2.5Deicide Till Death Do Us Part2.5Deicide The Stench of Redemption3.0Deicide Serpents of the Light3.0Deicide To Hell With God3.0Deicide In the Minds of Evil3.0Deicide Once Upon the Cross4.0Deicide Deicide4.0Deicide Legion4.0Dekapitator We Will Destroy...You Will Obey!4.0Deliverance Weapons Of Our Warfare4.0Deluge Grander August In The Urals4.0Demigod Slumber of Sullen Eyes4.5Demilich Nespithe5.0Demisery Hive of Mutation3.5Demolition Hammer Time Bomb3.0This is pretty average. Not that awful though. Stale riffs, generic Groove metal style, but aggressive vocals and occasional double bass and thrashyness is fun.Demolition Hammer Tortured Existence4.0Good stuff. Pretty damn fun and brutal. Great thrash style, not so bad death metal sections.Demolition Hammer Epidemic of Violence5.0Destruction Cracked Brain3.0A decent attempt for a new album without their key member but the new vocalist for the album is way worse than Schmier. Production is pretty bad compared to Release From Agony too.Destruction D.E.V.O.L.U.T.I.O.N.3.0Destruction Spiritual Genocide3.0Destruction The Antichrist4.0Destruction Release from Agony4.0Destruction Eternal Devastation4.0Destruction Thrash Anthems4.0Release From Agony kicks ass when remastered, as does Cracked Brain.Destruction Day of Reckoning4.0Destruction Infernal Overkill4.5Devin Townsend Devlab2.5Devin Townsend Ziltoid the Omniscient2.5Devin Townsend Physicist3.0Devin Townsend The Hummer3.0Devin Townsend Infinity3.5Devin Townsend Terria4.0Devin Townsend Ocean Machine: Biomech5.0Devin Townsend Project Deconstruction3.0Devin Townsend Project Epicloud3.0Devin Townsend Project Addicted3.5Devin Townsend Project Ghost3.5Devin Townsend Project Z23.5Devourment Butcher The Weak2.0Devourment Molesting the Decapitated2.5Devourment Unleash the Carnivore2.5Devourment Conceived in Sewage2.5Diabolic (USA-FL) Vengeance Ascending1.5Diabolic (USA-FL) Subterraneal Magnitude4.0Diabolic (USA-FL) Infinity Through Purification4.0Diabolical Neogenesis3.5An extremely expansive and ambitious album, which suffers from a cluttered production job but that is largely impressive with a lot of good riffs and a generally epic feel. Good for fans of Behemoth but a lot less straightforward sounding.Dire Straits Brothers in Arms4.0Disavowed Perceptive Deception4.0diSEMBOWELMENT Transcendence into the Peripheral4.5Disgorge Consume the Forsaken4.5Disgrace Grey Misery4.0Disharmonic Orchestra Not to be Undimensional Conscious4.0Disillusion Gloria3.5Disincarnate Dreams of the Carrion Kind4.0Disma Towards the Megalith3.5Dismember Hate Campaign2.5Dismember Massive Killing Capacity3.0Dismember Dismember3.0Dismember The God That Never Was3.5Dismember Death Metal3.5Dismember Where Ironcrosses Grow3.5Dismember Indecent & Obscene4.0Dismember Like an Ever Flowing Stream5.0Dissection Storm of the Light's Bane4.5Dominus The First 93.0Doom (JPN) Complicated Mind4.5Dornenreich Bitter ist's dem Tod zu dienen4.0Dornenreich Nicht um zu sterben4.0Dragged Into Sunlight Hatred For Mankind4.5Drawn and Quartered Return of the Black Death3.0Drawn and Quartered Hail Infernal Darkness4.5Dream Theater Systematic Chaos2.0Dream Theater Falling into Infinity2.5Dream Theater A Dramatic Turn of Events2.5Dream Theater Train of Thought3.0Dream Theater Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence3.0Dream Theater When Dream and Day Unite3.0Dream Theater Octavarium3.0Dream Theater Black Clouds & Silver Linings3.0Dream Theater Images and Words4.0Dream Theater Awake4.5Dun (FRA1) Eros4.5Dying Fetus Stop at Nothing3.0Dying Fetus War of Attrition3.0Dying Fetus Purification Through Violence3.0Dying Fetus Descend Into Depravity3.0Dying Fetus Reign Supreme3.5Dyscarnate And So It Came To Pass3.0Echo Tail Sonic Slave3.5Edge of Sanity Purgatory Afterglow4.0Edge of Sanity Crimson II4.5Edge of Sanity Crimson4.5Electric Sun Earthquake4.0Electric Wizard Dopethrone4.5Electrocution Inside the Unreal4.0Emmure Slave to the Game1.5Emmure Eternal Enemies1.5Enslaved Monumension3.5Enslaved Axioma Ethica Odini4.0Enslaved RIITIIR4.0Enslaved In Times4.0Entombed Inferno2.5Entombed Uprising3.0Entombed Morning Star3.0Entombed Serpent Saints: The Ten Amendments3.0Entombed DCLXVI: To Ride Shoot Straight and Speak the Truth3.0Entombed Wolverine Blues4.0Entombed Left Hand Path4.5Entrails (SWE) The Tomb Awaits3.5Entropy (CAN) Ashen Existence3.5Epidemic Decameron4.0Eucharist A Velvet Creation3.5Eulogy The Essence3.5Kind of like Immo at times and like Gorguts at others. Not quite reaching its full potential but great still.Evile Five Serpent's Teeth3.5Excretion Voice of Harmony3.0Exhorder The Law3.0Exhorder Slaughter in the Vatican5.0Exhumed All Guts, No Glory3.5Exhumed Anatomy Is Destiny4.0Exhumed Necrocracy4.0Predictable and slower than their last work, but it's consistently strong and the melodic
elements work better here than ever. Vocals have taken a slight step down, but it's still
above average in that department. The Carrion Call is probably the best track to start with
and is easily one of the catchiest here.Exodus Impact Is Imminent3.0Exodus Force of Habit3.0Exodus Shovel Headed Kill Machine3.5Exodus Pleasures of the Flesh3.5Exodus The Atrocity Exhibition: Exhibit A3.5Exodus Tempo of the Damned4.0Exodus Exhibit B: The Human Condition4.0Exodus Bonded by Blood4.5Exodus Fabulous Disaster4.5Extol Undeceived4.0Eyeconoclast Drones of the Awakening3.5Failure The Heart Is a Monster4.5Fates Warning No Exit4.0Fates Warning Darkness in a Different Light4.0Fear Factory Archetype3.0Fear Factory Concrete3.0Fear Factory Soul of a New Machine3.5Fear Factory Mechanize3.5Fear Factory Genexus3.5Fear Factory Obsolete4.0Fear Factory Demanufacture4.5Feared Feared2.5Feared Furor Incarnatus3.0A pretty decent album. Ola can produce some excellent melodic moments, and some occasionally very brutal ones, but it can lose itself in some poorer, more monotonous riffs. That said, it can be pretty groovy.Feared Rejects3.0Feared Refeared3.0Feared Reborn3.0Feared Vinter3.5Good step up from Furor. More aggressive, less monotonous riffs and catchier. Leads are much better too.Fields of the Nephilim Zoon3.5Fields of the Nephilim Elizium4.5Fleetwood Mac Rumours4.5Fleshcrawl Bloodsoul4.0Fleshcrawl Bloodred Massacre4.0Fleshgod Apocalypse Labyrinth2.5Fleshgod Apocalypse Oracles3.0Fleshgod Apocalypse Agony3.5Flotsam and Jetsam Dreams of Death2.5Straight To Hell is fairly okay, but the rest is one big pile of meh, poorly produced metal.Forbidden Twisted into Form4.0Forbidden Omega Wave4.0Another competent return to form like a lot of the old thrashers. Pretty formidable guitar work. Funebre Children of the Scorn3.5Funkadelic Maggot Brain5.0Gama Bomb Tales From the Grave in Space3.5Reminds me of Anthrax mixed with some random hyperactive thrash band. I liked it.Garden of Shadows Oracle Moon4.5Genesis Nursery Cryme4.0Genesis Selling England by the Pound4.5Gojira L'Enfant Sauvage3.0Gojira From Mars to Sirius4.0Gorefest False4.0Gorement The Ending Quest4.0Gorgasm Masticate to Dominate3.5Gorgasm Bleeding Profusely3.5Gorgasm Orgy of Murder3.5Gorguts Obscura4.0Gorguts The Erosion of Sanity4.0Gorguts Colored Sands4.0Gorguts Considered Dead4.5People underrated this because it's more akin to typical death metal but this is some of the best so who caresGorguts From Wisdom to Hate4.5Gorguts Pleiades' Dust4.5Gorod Process of a New Decline2.5Gorod A Perfect Absolution2.5Gorod Leading Vision3.0Gorod A Maze of Recycled Creeds3.5Gotic Escenes4.0Grave Fiendish Regression1.5Grave Hating Life2.0Grave As Rapture Comes2.5Grave Dominion VIII2.5Grave Back From The Grave2.5Grave Burial Ground2.5Grave Endless Procession Of Souls2.5Grave Soulless3.0Grave You'll Never See...3.5Grave Into the Grave4.0Hacride Lazarus3.0Hades Resisting Success3.5This is actually pretty good thrash. Don't see why more people haven't heard of it.Hail of Bullets III: The Rommel Chronicles4.0Haken The Mountain4.0Hannes Grossmann The Radial Covenant3.5It's rather like a more focused and effective Obscura. Works well overall.Harry Gregson-Williams Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty OST4.0Hate Awakening the Liar4.0Definitely a very strong effort and easily some of the better "typical" blackened death I've heard.Hate Eternal I, Monarch3.5Havok Time Is Up2.5okay je naime pas. It's really quite boring listening to it nowHeathen Victims of Deception4.5Hell Curse and Chapter3.5Helstar Multiples of Black1.5Helstar Sins of the Past3.5Helstar Burning Star3.5Very NWOBHM, and it's pretty respectable ; the vocalist has a very high range and the riffs are pretty good.Helstar Glory of Chaos3.5Some of the tracks here are so awesome, but overall it's pretty inconsistent. Monarch Of
Bloodshed is pretty great thoughHelstar Nosferatu4.0Helstar A Distant Thunder4.0This is probably the band's best album. Seems a bit more engaging than Nosferatu at times.Helstar Remnants of War4.0Hexen Being and Nothingness3.0Hexen State of Insurgency4.0Hexenhaus Dejavoodoo4.0Holy Moses The New Machine of Liechtenstein4.0Holy Moses Terminal Terror4.0It's funny how Nothing For My Mum happens to be a colossal thrash assault, and a seriously good song.Holy Moses Finished with the Dogs4.5One of those albums that makes Reign In Blood feel mellow.rAnd probably Darkness Descends too.rVocals are scary, songs are insanely fast, riffs are cool, drumming is amazing, bass is nice and audible; generally a thrash gem.Holy Terror Mind Wars4.5This album is awesome, a great thrash/crossover assault with some truly great solos.Hoth Oathbreaker3.5Hour of Penance The Vile Conception3.0Hour of Penance Paradogma3.5Hour of Penance Sedition4.0Human Remains Using Sickness as a Hero4.0Hypocrisy Penetralia3.5Hypocrisy The Final Chapter4.0Illdisposed Sense the Darkness3.0Illdisposed 1 800 Vindication3.5Illdisposed Four Depressive Seasons3.5Immolation Kingdom of Conspiracy3.5Immolation Unholy Cult4.0Immolation Majesty and Decay4.0Immolation Providence4.0Immolation Here in After4.5Immolation Close to a World Below4.5Impaled Mondo Medicale4.5Definitely on par with Anatomy Is Destiny in regard to Carcass-grind albums. Has some really great riffs all round.Impaled Northern Moonforest Impaled Northern Moonforest5.0Imprecation Satanae Tenebris Infinita3.5In Flames Siren Charms2.0In Flames Colony3.5In Flames Clayman3.5In Flames The Jester Race4.0In Flames Whoracle4.0In Mourning The Weight of Oceans3.5In Mourning Shrouded Divine4.0In Vain Aenigma4.0Incantation The Forsaken Mourning of Angelic Anguish4.0Indestroy Indestroy4.0Infecting the Swarm Pathogenesis3.5Infester To the Depths... In Degradation4.0Iniquity Serenadium4.0Insane Wait and Prey4.0Intestine Baalism An Anatomy of the Beast3.5Intestine Baalism Banquet in the Darkness4.0Inveracity Extermination of Millions4.0Invocator Dying to Live3.5Iron Maiden The X Factor2.0Iron Maiden No Prayer for the Dying2.0Iron Maiden Virtual XI2.0Iron Maiden Fear of the Dark2.5Iron Maiden Dance of Death3.5Iron Maiden A Matter of Life and Death3.5Iron Maiden The Final Frontier3.5Iron Maiden Somewhere in Time4.0Iron Maiden Piece of Mind4.0Iron Maiden Killers4.0Iron Maiden Brave New World4.0Iron Maiden Seventh Son of a Seventh Son4.0Iron Maiden The Number of the Beast4.5Iron Maiden Powerslave5.0Jag Panzer Mechanized Warfare4.0Jeff Beck Blow by Blow5.0Joe Bonamassa Dust Bowl4.0Joe Hisaishi Princess Mononoke4.0Joni Mitchell Blue4.0Judas Priest Demolition1.5Judas Priest Jugulator2.0Judas Priest Ram It Down2.5Judas Priest Turbo2.5Judas Priest British Steel3.0Judas Priest Rocka Rolla3.0Judas Priest Killing Machine3.5Judas Priest Defenders of the Faith4.0Judas Priest Painkiller4.0Judas Priest Screaming for Vengeance4.0Judas Priest Sin After Sin4.0Judas Priest Stained Class4.5Judas Priest Sad Wings of Destiny4.5Kashiwa Daisuke Program Music I4.5Kataklysm Victims of This Fallen World2.0Kataklysm Epic: The Poetry of War3.5Katalepsy Autopsychosis4.0Kate Bush Hounds of Love5.0Kayo Dot Plastic House on Base of Sky3.5Killing Joke Night Time4.5King Diamond Abigail4.5King Diamond ''Them''4.5King's X Out of the Silent Planet4.0King's X Gretchen Goes to Nebraska4.0King's X Dogman4.0Kiss It Goodbye She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not4.0Koji Kondo Super Mario Galaxy OST4.5Konkhra Spit or Swallow2.5Konkhra Nothing is Sacred2.5Konkhra Sexual Affective Disorder3.5Not really seeing why this is rated so low. It's got some respectable riffs and some crushingly heavy moments. Vocals are decent too.Kraanium Post Mortal Coital Fixation1.5Kreator Renewal2.0Kreator Endorama2.0Kreator Outcast2.5Kreator Enemy of God3.0Kreator Cause for Conflict3.0Kreator Coma of Souls3.5Kreator Violent Revolution3.5Kreator Hordes of Chaos3.5Kreator Phantom Antichrist3.5Kreator Pleasure to Kill4.0Kreator Terrible Certainty4.0Kreator Extreme Aggression4.5Krisiun Conquerors of Armageddon4.0Laaz Rockit Nothing's Sacred4.0Liege Lord Master Control3.5Liers In Wait Spiritually Uncontrolled Art4.0Limbonic Art In Abhorrence Dementia4.0Living Colour Vivid4.0Los Campesinos! No Blues3.5Loudblast Disincarnate3.0Loudblast Frozen Moments Between Life and Death3.5Loudblast Burial Ground3.5Not quite as kicking as their last album, still solid with some great moments here and there. More of the straight death metal elements this timeLoudblast Sublime Dementia4.5Hugely underrated album, excellent progressive/technical death metal.Lykathea Aflame Elvenefris4.0Machine Head Through the Ashes of Empires3.0Machine Head The Blackening3.0Machine Head Unto the Locust3.0Mahavishnu Orchestra The Inner Mounting Flame4.5Malevolent Creation The Fine Art of Murder2.5Malevolent Creation Envenomed3.0Malevolent Creation The Will To Kill3.0Malevolent Creation Stillborn3.5I'm kinda shocked too, it's got some slower paced numbers but the riffs are great in places.Malevolent Creation The Ten Commandments4.0Malevolent Creation Retribution4.5Manilla Road The Deluge4.0Massive Attack Mezzanine4.5Master The Witchhunt3.0Mastodon Crack the Skye3.5Mastodon Leviathan4.0Mastodon Blood Mountain4.0Mastodon Once More 'Round the Sun4.0Megadeth Super Collider1.5Megadeth The World Needs a Hero2.0Megadeth Risk2.0Megadeth The System Has Failed2.5Megadeth Th1rt3en2.5Seems that the lack of Sneap has let Dave have a mid-life crisis on a couple of tracks. Never Dead, Deadly Nightshade, New World Order, Fast Lane, Black Swan, and a few moments on Public Enemy are fun, catchy and thrashy, but some songs here are either familiar returns or dull.Megadeth Cryptic Writings3.0Megadeth United Abominations3.0Megadeth So Far, So Good... So What!3.5Megadeth Endgame3.5Megadeth Dystopia3.5Megadeth Rust in Peace4.5Megadeth Peace Sells... But Who's Buying?4.5Megadeth Killing Is My Business... and Business Is Good!4.5Mekong Delta The Music of Erich Zann4.0Mekong Delta Kaleidoscope4.0Memento Mori Rhymes of Lunacy4.5Memory Garden Tides4.0Merciless Unbound4.0Meshuggah Koloss3.0Meshuggah Nothing3.5Meshuggah Catch Thirtythree3.5Meshuggah Chaosphere3.5Meshuggah Contradictions Collapse3.5Meshuggah obZen3.5Meshuggah Destroy Erase Improve4.0Metal Church A Light in the Dark3.5Disappear is pretty good, and overall this is an album full of catchy riffs, vocals are weaker than on the earlier albums though.Metal Church Metal Church4.5Metallica St. Anger1.5Metallica Kill 'Em All3.0Metallica Metallica3.5Metallica Master of Puppets4.0Metallica ...And Justice for All4.0Metallica Ride the Lightning4.5Mew Frengers4.5Miasmal Cursed Redeemer3.0Mithras Sands Of Time4.0Mithras Time Never Lasts4.0Monstrosity Millenium4.0Monstrosity In Dark Purity4.0Morbid Angel Illud Divinum Insanus1.0Morbid Angel Heretic2.5Morbid Angel Formulas Fatal to the Flesh3.5Morbid Angel Blessed Are the Sick4.0Morbid Angel Covenant4.0Morbid Angel Gateways to Annihilation4.0Morbid Angel Altars of Madness5.0Morbid Saint Spectrum of Death4.5Morpheus Descends Ritual of Infinity4.0Morta Skuld Dying Remains4.0Mortal Sin Face of Despair4.0Napalm Death From Enslavement to Obliteration4.0Napalm Death Apex Predator - Easy Meat4.0Loses a lot of the more technical style found on Utilitarian in favour of catchier but still pretty organic death-grind format. 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Title track is pretty memorable.Tankard Beast of Bourbon4.0Tankard Chemical Invasion4.5Testament Demonic2.5Testament Souls of Black3.5Testament The Ritual3.5Testament Low3.5Testament Dark Roots of Earth3.5Testament Practice What You Preach4.0Testament The Gathering4.0Testament The New Order4.0Testament The Legacy4.0Testament The Formation of Damnation4.0Textures Polars3.5Thanatos Emerging from the Netherworlds4.0The Accused Grinning Like An Undertaker4.0The Angelic Process Coma Waering4.0The Angelic Process Weighing Souls With Sand4.5The Black Dahlia Murder Nocturnal3.5The Black Dahlia Murder Ritual3.5The Black Dahlia Murder Everblack3.5The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band Gorilla4.0The Chasm Procession to the Infraworld4.0The Crown Deathrace King4.5The Devin Townsend Band Synchestra3.5The Devin Townsend Band Accelerated Evolution4.0The Gathering if_then_else4.0The Ocean Pelagial4.0The Red Chord Fed Through the Teeth Machine3.5The Who Who's Next4.5Thunderstone Apocalypse Again3.0more generic than any of their other material but it's still pretty catchy and the songwriting is overall pretty solid still. hard to say with this oneThunderstone Evolution 4.03.5Toby Fox Undertale Soundtrack4.0Tony Macalpine Concrete Gardens3.5Toxik World Circus4.0While I prefered Think This this is one hell of an album. 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Many song massively improved, and the excellent production suits Vader's style very well.Vader Tibi et Igni4.0Vallenfyre Splinters3.5Van der Graaf Generator Pawn Hearts4.5Van Halen 19843.5Vektor Black Future4.0Hugely impressive progressive thrash album. I haven't heard Demolition but this rips far beyond other extreme thrash releases like Inventor Of Evil. Funnily enough it reminds me of a mix of Destruction (drums and vocals, some riffs), Metallica (Most of the riffs) and Voivod (the progressiveness).Vektor Outer Isolation4.0Vektor Terminal Redux4.5Venom Fallen Angels3.0The initial surprise has worn off on me. It's okay, but not great.Vicious Rumors Electric Punishment4.0Viraemia Viraemia2.5What separates this from the rest of the wank pack is that it actually has decently structured songs and some memorable riffs. 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Stepped outside to have a smoke. 6 or so very bright orange-ish objects "floating" from north to south in a pattern formation with one leader and maybe 2 others them a group of perhaps 3-4 in the rear. No wind according to my home weather station and it was very clear at 34 degrees F. I quickly ran around to find a camcorder, then by the time I got back outside (maybe 30 sec - 1 min)most had gone behind the house next door. I managed to capture one that I tried to focus on. It then vanished as you can see in the video. I went round the back to see where the others had gone but they were nowhere in sight. I first noticed the objects because they were very bright and bigger than anything I normally see in the night sky. I saw the same thing on new year's eve but likened them to Chinese lanterns. I first thought they could be airplanes but there was no sound and they seemed to float as opposed to fly, even though they were indeed traveling on a N-S course. No specific actions, just traveling and then disappearing (vanishing). My feelings are simply that I wish to identify what this was. No other feeling or emotions are obvious to me.
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For two decades Eric Montague has traveled back in time to the scene of his wife's fatal accident. Even though he grieves for her constantly, he is willing to repeatedly relive the heartache of her death because it is the only way he can hold his wife again… if only for a moment.
When a curious stranger appears Eric is soon faced with a new reality.
Great short, H.D. Was not expecting the twisty-turn of that final roulette wheel ending. Thanks for the quality read, brother!
Language: English
Written in: 2011
Published: 2011-05-30
Word count: 1,989 words (≈ 8 minutes)
Tags: time travel, short story, short fiction, fantasy romance
H.D. Timmons was born in Brooklyn, NY and is currently a Creative Director living in Kernersville, NC.
Extending his creative efforts toward pursuing a writing career, Mr. Timmons has authored several self-published ebooks, been published in Adoption Today Magazine, RetailerNOW Magazine, and Strata Magazine (online). He always has several works of fiction in progress and is looking for literary representation.


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Complaint Review: P.A.A.S. / Mike Frost The Worst Authenticator
P.A.A.S. / Mike Frost The Worst Authenticator11230 NW 14th Court Pembroke Pines, Florida United States of America
P.A.A.S. / Mike Frost The Worst Authenticator Rip off Pembroke Pines, Florida
*REBUTTAL Owner of company: The false negative items all were written by Stephen Koschal
*REBUTTAL Owner of company: Anonymous Kansas City, Nothing more then a fraud report against honest Authentication.
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I have no one to blame but myself for getting involved with P.A.A.S and its deficient guru Mike Frost. Theres an old saying in this hobby that you get what you pay for. I can tell everyone, I didnt get close to that, all I got was grief and ripped off. I have used other authenticators and was not happy with any of them. I was looking to try someone new and ultimately experienced what it is like to be in the bottom of the barrel. An authenticating HELL! I contacted PAAS/Mike Frost to have some items authenticated. By far his prices was the cheapest of all authenticators. That alone should have told me something. I did not do my homework. What I have discovered since about PAAS is simply unbelievable. How this company still exists is beyond my comprehension? Possibly they just survive hoping to find a new customer like me. PAAS has a decent looking web site, filled with names of those who appear to work for the company. I now find out from others in the hobby that those are all his family. His brother, his wife, his kid and so forth, all family members and all using different last names. Again, that should have told me something. I have also discovered others whose names are being used. From what I now learned, they have never seen an autograph from Frost. Most of them have asked multiple times to have their names removed from the PAAS web site. Frost has refused. Don't be fooled like me, PASS/Mike Frost is a one person operation. My experience with him is that he is not capable of authenticating autographs. Not even close now that I find out about his mistakes where others are exposing him on the Internet. Items I purchased from reputable dealers were turned down as not authentic and items I actually got in person were also turned down. Trying to get a refund, one dealer I purchased my item from would not accept a COA from PAAS/Frost. To justify this, the dealer also told me that I may find many others that wont accept his COA. I found this out to be true. My next problem with PAAS/Mike Frost was the time it took to get my items back. Not the few days as was promised by more then a few weeks. Trying to get hold of PAAS/Frost was a major problem and at one point I was concerned about getting my items back.
To make it worse after spending hundreds of dollars Mike Frost's COA's were kicked off eBay and all my listing's disappeared. Frost bragged about helping eBay out with Whitney Houston and then they kicked him off. Some relationship he had with eBay. Why didnt I know this before I dealt with PAAS/Frost? Why didnt I ask around the hobby to learn about PAAS/Mike Frosts reputation? Getting Frost back on the phone once he finds out you are unhappy is almost impossible. He must have caller ID. The only way to trick him into answering his phone is to call from a different number. When he answers and finds out who it is, he hangs up on you. Ijn my opinion, Frost is truly the bottom of the barrel compared to all the other authenticators. I would like to sign my name to this but was told Frost has a friend who is associated with eBay. I am told he has the capability of having items I sell on Bay removed by stating they are not genuine. What a fun hobby!
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#1 REBUTTAL Owner of company
The false negative items all were written by Stephen Koschal
SUBMITTED: Wednesday, October 09, 2013POSTED: Wednesday, October 09, 2013
This false report has been issued and written by Stephen Koschal of Miami Florida in an attempt to discredit myself and P.A.A.S. Stephen Koschal is know as the creepiest and most hated man in the hobby. He has been involved in many law suites and is at this time in a libel lawsuit by 3 different companies. He is know throughout the autograph industry for selling high end forgeries and for attacking autograph authentication companies that try to expose him or turn down his fake autographed items. He has been hiding for years under different names and blog sites but he is best known for his Autograph Alert website that a Judge has ordered removed last year.
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Anonymous Kansas City, Nothing more then a fraud report against honest Authentication.
SUBMITTED: Wednesday, December 19, 2012POSTED: Wednesday, December 19, 2012
It is sad that "RIPOFF REPORT" has become the friend of the fraud and forgery side of the autograph business. It has become a place were sellers of forgeries and phoney's can come and claim false reports against the honest and qualified companies that have outed or exposed their fraudulent activity.
I have noticed that this has also happened in the past to the other top qualified autograph authentication companies such as PSA/DNA, JSA, and Roger Epperson. Now they are attacking Mike Frost and P.A.A.S. a company that has been one of the leaders in the autograph authentication industry for over 31 years. For additional information on P.A.A.S. please see www.paasaa.com and also see our credentials and testimonials.
This Mr. "anonymous Kansas City" has submitted several forgeries and was expecting P.A.A.S. to examine and authenticate them as genuine. One our examination was complete the signed items submitted were all deemed not authentic and returned. This seller was also reported and removed from ebay for fraudulent activities involving the sale of 100's of forged autographs. P.A.A.S. in it continuing affords along with some of the other major trusted autograph authentication companies will not allow frauds like this to sell their wares to unexpected collectors and continue to flood the autograph market with there forgeries.
I guess we will have to take the fake reports as there seems to be no way to have them removed without a $2000 fee and a hearing by Ripoff Report. P.A.A.S. and Mike Frost will not stop fighting these crimes and protecting the collectors in the hobby. Thank you for your time and for this rebuttal. We do not hide behind false or anonymous name and we are all ways available to the public. Serving the autograph community now for 31 years.
P.A.A.S. and Mike Frost can be reached at (954) 450-4283 or email@example.com. www.paasaa.com
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Boehner Sees 'Ongoing Economic Uncertainty'
Posted: 08/24/2010 - In a speech on jobs and the economy, House republican leader John Boehner is urging President Barack Obama to support an extension of tax cuts and to fire key economic advisers.
Posted: 08/24/2010 - In a speech on jobs and the economy, House republican leader John Boehner is urging President Barack Obama to support an extension of tax cuts and to fire key economic advisers.
Posted: 08/24/2010 - West Virginians looking to buy liquor at retail stores on Saturday had better make their purchases early or switch to other forms of alcohol.
Posted: 08/24/2010 - The West Virginia senate plans to stream live online audio of floor sessions and committee meetings this fall.
Posted: 08/24/2010 - A doctor at a southern West Virginia pain clinic has been sentenced to one year and one day in prison for allowing staff members to use his federal drug registration number to issue prescriptions.
Posted: 08/23/2010 - It was back to the books for some area college students Monday.
Posted: 08/23/2010 - More than 1,000 cases of food poisoning is the reason behind a massive egg recall, leaving many shoppers cautious about which eggs are safe to buy.
Posted: 08/20/2010 - It's the time of year when college and university rankings come out, and Marietta College has received yet another high honor.
Posted: 08/20/2010 - Governor Ted Strickland's administration wants to raise the weight limit for certain freight trucks.
Posted: 08/20/2010 - Marshall University plans to move its visual arts program into a building in downtown Huntington.
Posted: 08/20/2010 - Ohio State University says it has made sure a foreign call center will stop answering employee payroll questions.
Posted: 08/20/2010 - Fewer Ohioans are out of work, causing the state's unemployment rate to fall a couple of notches to 10.3 percent in July.
Posted: 08/20/2010 - Fairmont State University's board of governors has extended president Thomas Krepel's contract to 2012 but he won't get a pay raise.
Posted: 08/20/2010 - The West Virginia Division of Highways will help West Virginia turnpike crews repair more than 2,700 cracks on the toll road's north end.
Posted: 08/20/2010 - A new gun control program in West Virginia's Capital is drawing criticism from a group that says it could be the first step toward a firearms ban.
Posted: 08/20/2010 - West Virginia's youth-led tobacco prevention initiative is providing funding to form crews across the state.
Updated: 11/16/2011 - Retirees and members of the United Steelworkers Union will be putting the final touches on a food bank that serves struggling families in and around Ravenswood.
Posted: 08/20/2010 - Vice President Joe Biden's office says he'll discuss the withdrawal of U.S. combat troops from Iraq in an address Monday to the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Indianapolis.
Posted: 08/20/2010 - The West Virginia city of Weirton is again becoming a movie set.
Posted: 08/20/2010 - Authorities say an explosion leveled an Ohio trailer home and injured one man.
Posted: 08/20/2010 - Gov. Ted Strickland's administration wants certain freight trucks to carry heavier loads on highways so Ohio farmers and manufacturers can increase exports.
Posted: 08/20/2010 - About 500 West Virginia customers of two insurance companies will receive refunds following an audit of the firms' loss ratio experiences.
Posted: 08/20/2010 - The Ohio Parole Board has rejected clemency for a condemned killer of three who says he's innocent in the 1994 shooting.
Posted: 08/20/2010 - McDowell County officials are hoping a new $224 million federal prison will draw other entities to the Indian Ridge Industrial Park.
Posted: 08/20/2010 - State regulators say Fibernet and Frontier Communication Corp. should try to work out their dispute over service through mediation.
Updated: 08/20/2010 - Only one of the 14 candidates for a seat in the U.S. Senate is declining to take part in a debate this week -- the front-runner democrat, Gov. Joe Manchin.


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State of the College Address
"From Composition to Performance"
August 26, 2004
Welcome to the 2004-05 Academic Year, the 163rd in Mary Baldwin's distinguished educational legacy.
Celebrating Milestones of Leadership
Good morning. Last year as I stood before you in the first months of my Presidency, Dan and I thanked you for the warm welcome to Mary Baldwin's caring community. Today we thank you for your ongoing support. We welcome you back to a new academic year and a dynamic chapter in our history. We missed everyone over the summer; campus seemed very lonely at sunset on commencement day. I want to acknowledge each member of this community for diligent work over the summer: in recruiting and matriculating our new class, welcoming returning students, improving and beautifying our campus, fundraising, engaging in scholarly activities, leading student research, traveling around the globe, and preparing rigorous and innovative coursework.
During this academic year we will Celebrate Milestones of Leadership. We will direct the national spotlight upon Mary Baldwin as we celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Virginia Women's Institute for Leadership. We also celebrate the 75 th year of student government at Mary Baldwin. And, in a presidential election year, we launch a new pilot learning community with Honors and PEG first-year students, exploring the 1912 election in conjunction with a national symposium of the Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library and Birthplace.
On July 15, the Board of Trustees unanimously approved our ten-year strategic plan, Mary Baldwin College 2014: Composing Our Future. As a community, we celebrate this milestone of leadership. In nine months, we sought and obtained broad involvement, we listened to the large chorus of voices, we synthesized themes, and we forged a ten-year comprehensive strategic plan that we unanimously endorsed. This is exceptional. We should be truly proud. Through the strategic plan, we assume collective leadership toward the milestones of our future .
From Composition to Performance
Our ten-year strategic plan is the score from which we will perform. In musical terms, as in my editing of the autograph manuscripts of C. P. E. Bach, our plan is a composing score. The themes and motifs are in place. But, we must work with it. We must orchestrate it—inviting every voice to contribute its most appropriate role and timbre. We must rehearse it in sections over time. And then, finally, we can perform it and hear it, in its perfected resonance, recorded for history in all its details, in 2014.
As we prepare to implement the strategic plan, we must continue to acknowledge our institutional challenges. Pending our final audited figures, we project a substantial gain in overall net assets, expected to be in excess of $2,500,000. This is primarily due to positive endowment performance, and it is a vast improvement over last year's the $1049 change in net assets. Yet, despite valiant year-end fundraising efforts, we experienced a shortfall in annual giving, and a resultant deficit at fiscal-year conclusion of slightly more than $500,000. We will work through the cash-flow management without budget reductions or further invasion of the endowment. Indeed, we are entering the bridge period of our financial plan when our phased reduction in endowment draw begins. With Board approval, we are working toward refinancing a portion of the college's debt which will provide $450,000 relief in annual fundraising targets.
MBC ended last year with the largest overall credit enrollment in our history, 45,613 credit hours, which is 1405 FTE. That's an increase of 5.4%. Almost all of the growth is due to increased graduate enrollment. This year, we expect stable enrollment overall with a total headcount around 2236, virtually the same as last year. We anticipate continued growth in graduate programs and a slight decline in on-campus numbers. We open the year with more than 200 graduate students, an increase of 49 over last year. This includes 152 MAT and 52 MLitt/MFA. The Adult Degree Program, which will orient the first students in our new South Boston Center, will be up slightly, to a headcount of 1190. PEG is stable at 75, VWIL is down slightly at 131, and the remaining on-campus program enrolls 640, down about 35. We welcome 295 new students on-campus. The slight decrease in enrollment yield from the target of 305 incoming students is financially offset by a slight decrease in the discount rate.
Therefore, we forge the path before us:
- with realism and renewal,
- with transparency and time-sensitive urgency,
- and, with strategy and solutions to optimistically advance our shared vision.
Composing Our Future: The Essence
A Visually Inspiring Platform
When you entered the auditorium today, you received the Executive Summary of Composing Our Future. The printed version of the complete plan will be available by Labor Day and will be sent to all faculty and staff and posted as a PDF on the website. The plan is comprehensive and direct; it is important that each of us is able to communicate the plan's essence.
Gretchen Newman from the Office of Institutional Advancement has created a graphically inspiring platform for our vision and strategic initiatives. I ask you to look through the executive summary with me. First, please look at the front and back covers. The rich layering of faces, depicting a chronological story of personal transformation, is overlaid with musical scores that represent the planning process—a conscious composition of elements into a richly ordered whole. The global map behind the plan title refers to Mary Baldwin's vision to be nationally and internationally recognized.
Now open the plan and view the three-page inside spread. The vivid, bright primary colors boldly summarize our vision on the left: Mary Baldwin College will be nationally recognized as a leader in providing personalized, transforming liberal education. Realizing the Vision is in the center–the five strategic initiatives linked to one another as building blocks: Make Personal Transformation Our Priority, Sharpen Our Focus on Academic Excellence, Unite and Enrich the Community, Renew Our Environment, and Fund Our Future. The five initiatives will be realized through 31 interwoven goals. In the complete plan, each goal is numbered and explained. On the right panel, the values behind the vision present the shared values and core strengths that our planning conversation affirmed.
If you now fold the values page back in, The Mary Baldwin College Advantage becomes a centerpiece.
The Mary Baldwin College Advantage is our new signature of ten steps on the path to personal transformation and the development of Mind, Body, and Character.: threshold experience; personalized learning portfolios; personalized wellness plans; mentors and partners; active learning communities; practical and experiential learning; distinctive academic major or interdisciplinary focus; international and multicultural experiences; capstone experience; and life and career transition. These experiences constitute 10 of the 31 goals on our planning pyramid.
As the final version of the plan emerged, insights from the Board and others clearly suggested that "advantage" is a stronger phrase for our signature experiences than "difference," as designated in the final draft of the plan. This holistic structure of integrated learning will shape the revitalization of our residential program—a high priority of the strategic plan– and will be adapted as appropriate to the Adult Degree Program and graduate programs.
We need to be able to communicate why our aspirations can and will be achieved. We will achieve our vision of national recognition for this reason: Mary Baldwin College is on the cutting edge of philosophies in higher education.
Why: because of our timeless and timely commitment to liberal education. The leadership of higher education in the United States is forcefully proclaiming that liberal education should be the uncontested preference of virtually everyone who goes to college.
National movements in higher education are also currently focused on how individuals connect and reflect: a 21 st century liberal education must be rooted in personal frames of reference and personalized pathways and plans. What personalized transforming education requires is integration: a holistic approach to developing connected experiences and creating self-authorship.
In the U. S. News and World Report rankings released last week, a center spread titled "Choosing a School, Programs To Look For," features eight outstanding examples of academic programs that are believed to lead to student success: internships, senior capstones, first-year experiences, undergraduate research, learning communities, study abroad, service learning, and writing in the disciplines. All eight listed are found either within our current curriculum or The Mary Baldwin College Advantage. At this point, there is no single college or university listed in all of these categories. The MBC Advantage adds further dimensions of student success, through personalized portfolios and wellness plans, mentors and partners, strong academic majors and interdisciplinary focuses, and life and career transition programs. We cannot hide our strengths, we must proclaim them prominently. We are creating a national model for integrated learning.
This year we will utilize the Yum and Ross Arnold III 2014 Innovation Fund to send faculty and staff to key national conferences and symposia related to liberal education and integrated student success. I will distribute the guidelines next week to invite your application and participation.
Putting the Plan Into Action
Orchestrating and Rehearsing
So, as promised last year when I initiated this process, this ten-year strategic plan will be a living document, not a dust-gathering space on a shelf. How do we begin the rehearsals? How do we transform the composing score into a fully orchestrated set of performance parts? Over the summer, the Executive Staff has begun to weave the texture of this implementation process.
10-year Timeline
We have considered the 10-year timeline. We foresee three large phases of implementation: near-term, mid-term, and long-term. During the initial two year phase, we investigate further through several specialized planning processes and initiate immediate enhancements. A four-year middle phase will launch and advance . We will launch the Mary Baldwin College Advantage in Fall 2006 and graduate its first class in 2010, and during this period we will mount a comprehensive capital campaign. In the final four-year phase, we will complete and assess.
Defining Measures of Success and Evaluation Indices
We have considered the eleven defining measures of success and developed 48 evaluation indices to carefully track our progress through data and documentation .
2004-05: Initiate, Investigate, Communicate
We have formulated our college-wide priorities and objectives for this year, with implementation and oversight responsibilities. This year, as in all subsequent years of the plan's implementation, the five strategic initiatives will be the organizing framework for annual planning and incorporated into academic triennial planning processes.
As we begin the first two-year phase of the plan, we must Investigate, Initiate, and Communicate .
- Our first priority this year is to prepare to launch the Mary Baldwin College Advantage in fall 2006 to Make Personal Transformation Our Priority. This year we will be:
- defining each of the ten experiences (for example, gaining consensus on how Mary Baldwin will implement learning communities and capstone experiences);
- developing models for the personalized learning plans and portfolios and wellness plans;
- creating comprehensive inventories of existing programs and initiatives (such as a centralized inventory of community service opportunities and other practical and experiential learning offerings currently available);
- conducting pilots this year and planning more for fall 2005; and
- considering staffing and organizational needs .
Second, we will plan curricular and programmatic enhancements to Sharpen Our Focus on Academic Excellence. We will, among other academic objectives:
- assess our curriculum to establish baseline understanding of the state of global, multicultural, and gender perspectives;
- explore programmatic enhancements to existing majors and programs and consider new interdisciplinary focuses;
- and, in addition, we will plan for the 25% expansion of the Adult Degree Program, determine the feasibility of the MA in Counseling Psychology, support the growth of MAT and the national reputation of MLitt/MFA, and continue progress towards 2007 SACS reaffirmation.
Third, we have several important priorities under Strategic Initiative #3, Unite and Enrich Our Community.
- We must disseminate, teach, and promote the strategic plan to all audiences. The Executive Summary will be mailed to nearly 15,000 alumnae/i, parents, and friends. I am hosting a community announcement of the strategic plan on Wilson Terrace, September 8, at 5:00 p.m., and we will travel across the country to speak with our alumnae and friends about the plan.
- We will sharpen and focus the identity of the college. New Board of Trustees Chair Louise McNamee has already begun work to help us identify our compelling themes. We have an amazing story to tell as a college, and we want to ensure that our messages are as clear and compelling as our college is distinctive. Every week I hear amazing sagas of personal transformation from current or former students, lovingly attributed to the outstanding scholarship, pedagogy, and caring mentorship of our faculty. Our focused identity will begin to enhance the college's national presence through the development of an integrated marketing and strategic communication plan.
- This will in turn aid us in the development of a comprehensive ten-year enrollment management plan. We are finalizing our association with the preeminent national consulting firm for enrollment management. To achieve the enrollment and retention goals set forth in the strategic plan, the consultant will help us to enhance current recruitment strategies to enroll students with the best fit for our programs, customize financial aid to increase our yield rate, reduce our discount rate and optimize net tuition revenue, and develop an integrated and comprehensive retention program building upon the Mary Baldwin College Advantage.
We will be inviting interested faculty and staff to a special session on retention with the consultant on September 21-22. This is of urgent importance to us as we anticipate that final retention figures this year will not be improved over the previous year, and SAT scores for this year's incoming class dropped from 1070 last year to 1025 for our entering students. It is becoming increasingly difficult to compete financially for the top students. This further highlights the need to sharpen our national recruiting focus on the quality and uniqueness of our programs so that we become a strong top choice for entering students. We have a dedicated and talented staff in admissions and financial aid, and the consultant will work with them to maximize use of their time and talents.
Fourth, Under the Strategic Initiative Renew Our Environment, we will complete a two-part process. We will begin in the very near future a facilities condition assessment through an external firm. This assessment will explicate and prioritize the deferred maintenance needs.
This will prepare us to work with a national architectural consultant to complete a Campus Master Plan. The plan will strive to help us translate the themes of our strategic vision into a campus with distinctive form and function. As the architects visit campus, they will engage us in discussions about how the hills and plateaus of our historical campus can create community through the ideal utilization of existing space.
We will consider how we may strengthen our physical relationship with the Staunton community while maintaining a clear sense of campus entrance and identity. A long-term plan for information technology and infrastructure will complement the campus master plan.
And fifth, as we advance Strategic Initiative #5, Fund Our Future, we will build our fundraising capacity and consider current business practices. We will begin securing the bridge funding. The bridge seeks investors in the vision and strategies of the strategic plan. It includes funding for: annual budget needs, additional faculty and staff positions, admissions and retention, facilities and deferred maintenance, and achieving peer medians in faculty and staff salaries.
The Teamwork, Shared Creativity
We know we can't do everything at once. Executing purposeful, paced strategies requires vigilance. As various proverbs inform us: it's tough, if not physically impossible, keeping your feet on the ground, your nose to the grindstone, your shoulder to the wheel, your finger on the pulse, your eye on the ball, and your ear to the ground while you stick to the knitting.
So, the Executive Staff has carefully considered how we can work together most effectively, to build upon our community spirit and the successful model of the Strategic Planning Task Force.
Five Functions of Teamwork
We have developed a pyramid of successful teamwork to parallel the pyramid of planning initiatives. The pyramid sets forth the functions of trust, open dialogue, commitment, accountability, and results in a document titled "The Five Key Functions of Teamwork at Mary Baldwin College." You will receive this as you leave this morning.
The Executive Staff also recommends that implementation of the strategic plan continue through a cross-college team similar to the Strategic Planning Task Force.
So this year we will constitute the President's Advisory Team. The PAT, a group of about 30 faculty and staff, will share in distributed governance, aid in communication, and serve as the ongoing coordinating group for implementing the strategic plan. It is our intent to hold monthly Friday afternoon meetings open to the entire community, with agendas distributed prior to the meeting, and minutes published following each meeting. A complete list of members and meetings will be sent next week.
The PAT will oversee working task forces advancing key work of the strategic plan. This year the PAT task forces will include The MBC Advantage Task Force, and the newly formed President's Council on Diversity and Inclusive Community. The President's Council on Diversity and Inclusive Community will assist in a campus climate survey and consider the development of a campus statement of inclusivity. The PAT will also examine committee and organizational structures throughout the college to ensure that we are aligned most effectively to advance the strategic plan, utilizing the excellent suggestions of the Organizational Audit Task Force's recent report for Academic Affairs.
I will circulate a list of the working groups within the Mary Baldwin College Advantage and ask for volunteers willing to serve. The list will also ask for interested faculty and staff to join the President's Council on Diversity and Inclusive Community.
I am sensitive to and respectful of the contributions of several working groups: the task force on community service learning and the general education task force will interface ongoing work as part of planning for the MBC Advantage The excellent work of the first-year experience task force from last year will be fully utilized by the working group developing the threshold experience. Standing faculty committees will work on other objectives within academic affairs.
Finally, we have also realigned the work of our key volunteer groups to advance the strategic plan, including the Advisory Board of Visitors, the Parents Council, the Alumnae/i Board, and the National Leadership Gifts Council.
A Moment of Clarity, A Window of Opportunity
I will not minimize the threats posed to colleges like us. We must maximize our ability to capture the momentum of the strategic plan. The plan makes a bold statement. We believe in ourselves. We believe in the transformative power of a liberal education, in a community of scholars, in residential single sex education. The plan delineates the Mary Baldwin Advantage, the path to transformation that we have found and practiced. It proclaims that we can inspire families and students with our vision. It attests that our extended community of alumnae and friends will support the renewal of our mission—of our sense of innovative tradition. The structures and objectives I have reviewed today are the beginning of this renewal.
The plan celebrates our many current points of excellence—it strives to connect our stars into a bright constellation. The most exciting moments of orchestration, rehearsal, and performance ahead will happen naturally from our creativity. Igor Stravinsky believed that good orchestration exists when you are unaware that it is orchestration. We seek to harmonize our efforts and join our voices. As Hector Berlioz stated: Where one ordinary voice is detestable, fifty ordinary voices will be ravishing. The average warmth of feeling that always resides in a really musical multitude brings out the inner flame of the work, and now it lives, whereas a single virtuoso might have killed it.
Please join me in a decisive and eventful year of our history of Mary Baldwin. A college like no other.
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SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. (AP) Ś A little tinkering by Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas paid off in a big way in the $1 million Travers Stakes at Saratoga Race Course.
Will Take Charge, with a new rider in Luis Saez, caught Moreno in the final stride and won racingÆs Mid-Summer Derby by a nose to give the 77-year-old Lukas his third Travers win and first since 1995.
Lukas called a jockey audible during the week and chose the 21-year-old Saez over Junior Alvarado to ride Will Take Charge in a race that was supposed to be a three-horse showdown between Kentucky Derby winner Orb, and two of trainer Todd PletcherÆs stars, Haskell Invitational winner and favorite Verrazano and the Belmont Stakes winner Palace Malice.
ōI changed up a few things,ö Lukas said, flashing a broad smile. ōI took a chance on an up and coming rider. You look terrible if it doesnÆt work, but itÆs sweet if it does.
ōI thought my horse trained well, but these things are so tough. This is a horse who is going to get better. HeÆs getting his act together.ö
And so is Lukas, who is having a sensational season with his 3-year olds. After going 13 years without a Triple Crown race win, he pulled one off with Oxbow in the Preakness. With Oxbow out with an injury, up stepped Will Take Charge, a colt who ran in all three Triple Crown races but failed to hit the board in any of them.
ōThey were reminding me itÆs been a long time between drinks, but when they come like this, they come double,ö Lukas said. ōIt feels pretty good.ö
With Jose Lezcano aboard Orb for the first time as a replacement for the injured Joel Rosario (broken bone in his left foot), the Derby winner made a strong move for the lead in the stretch and finished third behind Moreno in his first race since finishing third in the Belmont.
ōYou canÆt cry over spilled milk,ö said OrbÆs trainer, Shug McGaughey. ōWe got him back on the right track, and now weÆll point for something else.ö
Palace Malice, who won the Jim Dandy at the Spa last month, got off to a poor start and fell way behind the leaders and finished fourth under Mike Smith. Verrazano, with John Velazquez riding, stalked the leaders as usual but ended up seventh for just his second loss in eight starts.
Will Take Charge was the 9-1 fourth betting choice of the crowd of 47,597 on a gorgeous, sunny day. The son of UnbridledÆs Song ran 1 1/4 miles in 2:02.68, and paid $21.20, $8.60 and $5.20. Moreno, with Jose Ortiz aboard, returned $25.40 and $8.60. Orb paid $4.30 to show.
Romansh was fifth, followed by War Dancer, Verrazano, Golden Soul and Transparent.
Page 2 of 2 - As expected Moreno led from the start and still held the lead heading into the stretch. On the inside, though, Orb made his move for the front. But Will Take Charge came barreling down the stretch, pulled even with Moreno on the outside in the final yards and nudged ahead at the wire.
ōI want to say thanks to God, Lukas and everyone whoÆs coming here to see these champions,ö Saez said after his first Travers ride. ōLast time, when he finished second (in the Jim Dandy), I saw the replays and I knew how to ride him.ö
Eric Guillot, who trains Moreno, thought his gelding just might pull off a huge upset.
ōBrutal, huh?ö he asked. ōLast jump. He couldnÆt have done any better.ö
Will Take Charge earned $600,000 for owner Willis Horton, and increased his career earnings to $1,265,371 with his fourth win in 12 starts.
A few days before the Travers, Lukas talked about how much he enjoys competing in the top races.
ōI love the big ones,ö he said. ōI love to get in that main arena and try to pull it off.ö
He did it again in the Travers.
On the undercard, 28-1 shot Capo Bastone won the $500,000 KingÆs Bishop, Sweet Lulu took the $500,000 Test Stakes, and Laughing won the $250,000 Ballston Spa.
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Definition of prophecy in English:
noun (plural prophecies)
1A prediction of what will happen in the future: a bleak prophecy of war and ruin
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- It tells her prophecies and predictions, and sometimes she can speak to the deceased with it.
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prediction, forecast, prognostication, prognosis, divination, augury
rare prognostic
1.1 [mass noun] The faculty or practice of prophesying: the gift of prophecy
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- Humans do not have the gift of prophecy, nor do we always have the most accurate knowledge.
- There was an explosion of oral communication in story, preaching, teaching, worship, prophecy, and so on.
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foretelling the future, forecasting the future, fortune telling, crystal-gazing, prediction, second sight, clairvoyance, prognostication, divination, soothsaying
rare vaticination, augury, sortilege, auspication
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Bild speculated last week that Mourinho has told Klopp that he will be leaving Los Blancos come the summer.
However, Klopp looked to deny this over the weekend.
"It's a ridiculous story. I never told anyone that Mourinho is going to go to Chelsea or another club," he told reporters.
"I'm not a person who does things like that. I heard this story before the game against Fortuna and I have to admit that I felt very sad and angry, because it is completely false, a made up story.
"Mourinho is a colleague, a friend, and it would never occur to me to mess around in such a manner."
Klopp was also cornered over the weekend by AS for comment on the Champions League semi-final, which has the Germans heading out to the Spanish capital with a 4-1 advantage.
"No-one said that this was done and that we were in the final.
"It is normal that Madrid will believe with their fans behind them. I will try to do the same with my players. There is a long time until the final. The problem is that we all want to be in it."
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