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Wow, this album is shit. Really, it is astonishingly bad. Just like everything else Fear Factory has ever done, it is some of the most mechanical, juddering, sterile, flat and grating shit in the realm of rock and metal. For fuck's sake, I'd rather take most of what the utterly shite Machine Head has done over this. Even some Skinlab sounds pretty good right now! Disembody: The New Flesh kicks the shit out of anything here - at least that album isn't the equivalent of listening to a broken piece of industrial equipment clunking and crashing right next to your ears while some asshole yells for 55 minutes.
Firstly, what the fuck are those riffs? From start to finish, there are no actual riffs on this release, just two or three note fragments that have way more in common with nu 'metal' than any sort of actual metal. These have to be some of the most mechanical and juddering grooves I have heard this side of Meshuggah. They don't drive the songs at all, it literally feels like each song is comprised of about 40 separate parts because they feel so disjointed - and thus the songs are completely unmemorable because there is nothing cohesive to remember. You can't even headbang to them because the rhythm is so sparse and stop-start, and aren't even slow enough to qualify the album as a 55 minute breakdown for the pits. They are repetitious, mechanical, and just pure shit.
And as a more minor quibble - 'industrial' does not *just* mean 'the riffs sound robotic and mechanical', it means that the music is heavily layered with electronics and sampling to create a harsh, cold and tense atmosphere. This isn't any of those things; this is just a series of riff fragments with the occasional sample and the occasional lyric about robots. The tag also doesn't mean that 'the drums sound like a drum machine' - seriously what the fuck is up with that clicky as hell sound of the kit? Herrera apparently deliberately uses triggers to keep the sound of the drums constant no matter how hard they are hit - which just makes his performance sound sterile as a result, not helped by the fact that he literally performs it like a machine, 'perfect' to the letter and often machine-gunned at regular intervals over the song. Technically speaking it is a great performance, but sound-wise it is boring as hell - he only makes the music sound even more stilted and robotic.
The... vocals... must not... rage... FUCK OFF BURTON! This guy makes Phil Anselmo on Far Beyond Driven seem like the sweetest sound ever to grace the ears of man in comparison - holy shit is he terrible on all fronts. His yelling is completely flat and monotonous, devoid of any actual power or aggression, akin to label-mates Max Cavalera or Robb Flynnnnn while being sodomised. He has zero expression or emotion flowing through his coarse yells, which just sound like they are loud for the sake of being loud, and are damn near, well, robotic in their delivery and tone. And those cleans are pretty much out and out nu 'metal' whining, no way around it. The 'melodies' he utilises for hooks or just whenever he uses his clean voice are completely tuneless and grating, and sound like shit. The cleans are so awful that he can really whine with the worst of them in the nu 'metal' field, and no amount of electronic distortion on them will make them sound any better.
Every single song on this album is boring and flat. They never change things up, ever. The vast majority of the songs here stick to plain old verse-hook structures, where the hooks aren't at all catchy (who wants to sing along to something so whiny and pathetic anyway) and the verses aren't even remotely interesting due to their sheer incoherence and fucked-up rhythm. And there is absolutely no soloing at all, because you can't make a solo sound robotic and clunky, which clearly just is not good enough for these guys (also, a solo would take actual talent, which Dino Cazares never had to begin with). Leadwork isn't essential, but when everything else is so unvaried and lifeless, any sparks of creativity would be appreciated.
And to add insult to injury, for all the mechanisation going on here with regards to the sound and rhythm of the instruments and songs, there is no atmosphere to be found here at all. The songs never cultivate one; they don't have the structural intelligence to do so. The band never make use of actual electronics beyond a few bleepy effects here and there to layer and texture the music, to give an actual cold and tense industrial atmosphere, akin to say, Streetcleaner. This album does absolutely nothing right at all, it is protoypical mallcore with a few sound effects, and that apparently qualifies it as 'Groove/Industrial'. This has to be one of the poorest excuses for either of those styles I have ever come across. In all its clicking, emaciated, juddering and whiny trappings, this joins my very own 'Groove Fail Jail', with the likes of Machine Head's mid-era, Roots, and 'Good Friends and a Bottle of Pills' as some of the worst to come out of this particular facet of rock and metal. Fucking hell this album sucks shit through a straw.
I understand why this album had to be made. But, my god, I can't understand why we had to listen to it. I counted all the riffs in this album...and there's one at the start of the title track. Really, the band keep playing it for forty five minutes and it never gets interesting. Or, if I'm being kind, there's the one that stutters and the one that doesn't, which is slightly better. I don't want to write a long intro, so I will summarise by saying that this is my least favourite metal album. And why is 'Demanufacture' so shit? Let's investigate.
The elements aren't too bad. Dino Cazares has a decent nearly-death metal guitar tone with a very throaty bass behind it and Raymond Herrera is a good drummer. The instrumentalists are given a strong, if somewhat dry, production. What they do with it is utterly worthless. The drums follow the guitars on every riff, bar none. I think that was Fear Factory's unique innovation, but I don't see the point, since it just turns everything into a super-percussive mess, without distinctive riffs or atmosphere. Of course, there are no solos. Yes, it sounds mechanical, but so does the clock in my bedroom and I didn't have to buy 'Demanufacture' to hear that.
The worst part is that Burton C. Bell's vocals add approximately nothing to the equation. His shout is flat and expressionless. It just sounds like someone shouting, which again I don't have to purchase - my dad does that. The cleans are a relief because they give a little bit of variation, though they aren't good in any sense, just a break from the monotony. The keyboards are actually very welcome, giving some nuance and variety to what is otherwise a few skilful toddlers breaking their toys. All this may sound unkind, but it's the most awfully repetitive album I've ever heard.
Picking out songs is tough. 'New Breed' is angrier than the others, so is a more intense blast, while 'H-K (Hunter Killer)' maybe makes it up to one and a half riffs. Then 'Dog Day Sunrise' sounds alright because it's much easier on the ears and doesn't employ the same bash and bash and BASH and BASH formula. It's the same with 'A Therapy for Pain', but that isn't particularly a song either, more like a dream that Peter Steele might have had when he was 15 (actually, that would probably have been a really cool dream, but basically it's a shit Type O Negative song). The other songs, taken on their own, might be okay, but together on an album blend into one big mess of drums and groove/industrial guitar. Having an average length of five minutes really doesn't help either, when the actual content is about five minutes for the entire album.
My advice: hit your head against a metal door for an hour to listen to the remix.
Fear Factory have really struck a chord as far as building an album that was meant to capture you're attention. Demanufacture is a jarring, destructive, mechanical hellride that will pummel you into the dirt without so much as a second listen. It's a new, original take on the Groove metal sound by adding heavy elements of electronica and industrial music to create this very mechanical, cybernetic sound. Back when this came out there was very little else like it, yet many bands in a similar style. It take the crushing groove riff techniques of bands like Machine Head and Pantera and blends it with the cybernetic and mechanical sounds of heavier bands such as Meshuggah to create a robotic behemoth capable of delivering an insidious, futuristic sound that would make you feel as though machine takeover is almost upon us.
The sound of the instruments delivers a hard, striking sound with a heavy amount of impact from all sides and just emanates a sound of inbound destruction. The guitars go on their stop and go riffing and chords that play off the robotic themes of the album and give you the illusions that robots actually are playing them, as well as the other instruments. The drums are struck with an impactful, slamming punch that adds to the overall crushing sound of the album and also enhances the robot theme. Burton Bell's vocals show off their versatility and strength by giving out a low roar for most of his vocals but also goes down low into death growl range and also delivers operatic, yet droning clean vocals that also give the impression a machine was generating them. The small amounts of industrial effects used in songs such as Zero Signal, New Breed, and Pisschrist finalize and round this albums sound and theme out as one of robotic domination.
The songs are arranged with jolting chords making up most of the rhythms in this album. They are hard and vicious, yet catchy and charmingly simple. The riffs on Replica, Demanufacture, and H-K (Hunter-Killer) are some of the most engaging and memorable, yet stylistically simple chords I have heard out of this genre. The clean vocals delivered by Bell give a soaring and atmospheric feel to the songs in which they are used, most emphasized on the extremely ethereal A Therapy For Pain. Overall, the theme of robot overlords and a technological slave state coupled with the slamming, machine-like instrumentation adds to the cutting fantasy and smart mystique of the album and it's sound.
For an album and a band with a theme about them, they certainly do it well. Fear Factory have delivered us a crushing, menacing piece of robotic brilliance. This album has many highlights and follows and perfects it's themes with sleek production, futuristic themes, mechanical playing styles and instruments. Demanufacture is a solid and original piece of groove, industrial, and trace amounts of death metal blended together with surgical precision, thumping heaviness, deadly jackhammer and sliding riffs, and memorable catchiness. For those of you looking to see what some of the best of metal in the 90's was, give this mechanical monster a listen and get ready to go on a futuristic adventure.
Talk about utter brutality and annihilation in the sense of music of metal and variation. The whole of the release is totally intense and fueled with utter hatred, intensity, violence, and also at times severing away from the womb of metal where it doesn't seem like it's born. I mean in a sense that not everything here is totally brutal. There are times here that have utter atmospheric choruses and sheer perfection in the sense of sound plus production weaving it's metal way sifting through barriers and just severing the spirit equalling total metal invigoration, commencement, variability fueled with massive vibe of original metalish collection of tunes.
Baffled me my first hearing years ago, then hearing Obsolete and thinking this album surpasses that one much more intensely. What we have here is a B-tuning guitar that's filled with such heaviness and crunch, goes well along with the heavy grunted vocals with it's manifestation of utter originality not mention genius in songwriting essence. And album that can be heard totally tons of times and be like maybe no way that you can get tired of it because it includes so many variations and atmospheres. The band really came together with such great thoughts in the way of making sounds like never heard before.
Aggressive vocals most of the time and the guitar just thick, chunky (as previously stated), bar chord complexity alongside clean vocals that goes well with it during those periods amongst the synthesizers that are orchestrated during chorus bits or just amiable errants of ringtone vox paving it's way to metal in a fashion like no other. The music overall is a complexity in effect making it hard to pinpoint where the up and down swings land themselves in, keeping the listener interested because of such variability. A total metal album that just fuels the fire of exasperating feel to it that makes it dominant in all aspects.
Rating this album as a 100% is not off in any way because I hear just utmost sincerity of pure imagination. That imagination is not more important than what is real here. We have guitars hitting home with no leads, but just heavy guitar bits, vocals that vary up all of the time, drums that just pound into your cranium with the mixing of these instruments was just mystifying and so well done. The quality is totally there. Some of the songs seemed to indicate a lack of proper definition, but that's where they got experimental with sound. Not everything is considered to be pure metal supremacy, but more so a total outlet of an experience to hear when you're pissed off or just want sounds.
I'd have to conclude that the band as a whole really dominated in all aspects and Demanufacture is just a symbol of metal supremacy that's reinforced time and time again. Yes they did fool around with those wicked keys and not every song on here is totally with aggression, some with stagnant lack of perspiration, on the ones that make you sweat are the ones to capture the most of. Just taste a tune such as "Self Bias Resistor" and total imagination in writing achieves it's peak in complexity, tempo change and sheer metal domination. I'd say that this album as a whole was the bands best contribution to metal that they could've possibly achieved. Own this!
If you've ever heard of this album you'll notice it's sort of popular. Well, I wouldn't be surprised if you didn't know these guys actually wrote more than this album. The best way to put it is that this album is the "Hipster's Industrial Metal Album", but just like a new single from any irritating pop "artist", it's faded out. Probably because people woke up and realized that this album is awful.
We'll start with the vocals on this one. They sound very Max Cavalera-esque, and almost Justin Broadrick's Godflesh. Of course, these are just rip off's of it. Bell sounds like he's having issues when he sings. It's not pleasant on the ears and I listen to death metal too, so that says something. Trying to accurately portray his voice would involve a lot of unintelligent, the only way it's unintelligent is because he thought it was a good idea, screaming. The clean vocals are more bearable but it's hard to shine through the shit-smeared vocals commonly used. Ok, and the way he sings on "A Therapy For Pain" and "Replica". If you have a god start calling him awful because I cat being mutilated is more audibly pleasurable to a PETA member than Bell's vocals are on "A Therapy For Pain" to any human or should be to any human. He just sounds bad, plain and simple. Also, "A Therapy For Pain" is a tortuously long song. It's ten minutes but it drags on and on then they threw on some effects for two straight minutes and that's the worst song on the album in a nutshell.
The guitarists just sound uninspired. Seriously, the whole album is just palm muting and power chords. The same thing for three to five minutes. When "H-K (Hunter Killer)" started I almost expected to hear "Demanufacture" again. I've seen more variety from the various The Crow movies than these guys have when it comes to riffs. Any mongoloid can stand up there in a black t-shirt and cargo shorts, trying to look tough and fondling the guitar neck while they show off the one thousand palm-muting variations they came up with in their free time while head banging to the painful shouts of a man being beaten on stage. It's not impressive and it never will be. Maybe Fear Factory should just quit or change styles. As usual, the bass is buried under the mix. The drumming isn't as impressive as the guitars. It sounds like a drum machine was used since the music is very cut-and-paste oriented. Honestly, I'm just going to save you the same thing over and over because you'll hear it on the album if you don't heed my warnings to stay away.
The production is clear but the band probably needed it so you could hear just how repetitive the music is. There's a lot of effects on this album, but it's nothing to get excited about. It makes Bell's vocals sound worse, like on "Demanufacture". They also add no dynamic to the music. It's like they threw it in because they could not because it truly added anything. They appear in the form as pointless openers otherwise they're tossed in as is evident on "Demanufacture".
I don't like the lyrics on this album. The chorus to "Self Bias Resistor" is cheesy, especially paired with the clean vocals of Burton Bell accompanied with the annoying vocal effect. "Demanufacture" has some bad lyrics too. Espcially the "I've got no more goddamn regrets, I've got no more goddamn respect". Singing like that I'd imagine no one would respect you. Never have I heard anyone utter such foolish words such as "Burton Bell is a great vocalist" or "I draw inspiration from Burton Bell". The part that's worse is when he degenerates it into "Regrets, Respect". It sounds moronic, because it is. They seem to try and mix lyrical themes with something mechanic. It doesn't work and it looks like they tried too hard to make it sound cool. I also have to note on "New Breed" Bell sounds like he's chanting "War bred retard" and "New bride". Not even close to what the lyrics say.
Fear Factory tried too hard to be badass here on this album. These shit-smeared mongoloids have produced one of the worst metal albums to exist. The fame overshadowed the actual ability of the band. It faded out before they could ride it's coattails all the way back into social relevancy. Unless you, just like a one night stand, got drunk and got stuck with this forsaken problem-child are still listening to the other festering bowel movements they've released. If only you noticed it sooner then you could've aborted this fetal issue, but now you've let it get 17 years old and no one wants it. I don't recommend this album to anyone. Whether you're interested in listening to industrial metal or are and avid listener to industrial metal you can live without listening to it. I was going to be nicer to this album and give it a 2% but it wasn't even that good.
"I don't wanna live that way, I don't wanna live that way"- Burton Bell on Fear Factory's social relevancy.
Only a very few albums can be considered as essentials or revolutionary through the history of the metal scene. During the last decades an astonishing amount of works have been released, most of them mediocre, some of them excellent and a few of them masterpieces, but even less deserve the status of groundbreaking or revolutionary as I have said before.
Fear Factory´s sophomore album, the worldwide acclaimed Demanufacture is one of them. It is well known that the 90s were a time for a splendid evolution in the metal world, when the expansion of the range of styles were enormous and demostrated how metal music could be combined with an amazing variety of sounds. Los Angeles located band supposed the perfect example of this tendency. FF was the very first band who combined death metal growls, cutting riffs and extreme drums with electronic sounds, creating a new hybrid style. Today´s yet imitated Burton´s vocals (a combination of growls and clean voices), the precise and fast double bass drums patterns and the electronic atmosphere shocked all the fans who listened to their music at that time.
Demanufacture was born as the perfected version of this new style, where the band took the brutality from this debut, refinned the sound, added some ambient keyboards and created an amazing futuristic atmosphere. This addition was basic to reinforce the sense of their lyrics, which related to how a technological obsessed civilization had lost its humanity and was destroyed by the machines they had created. The album begins with an instant classic, the homonym song, the atmospheric synthetizer mixed with the initial riff and double bass drum is legendary and the perfect definition of the band. The song itself is a crushing continuation of low tunned riffs, tremendous drums and the charismatic vocals which flow from the semi-growls to the amazing clean vocals.
The first part of the cd is absolutely unbeatable. The second song, Self Blias Resistor, is even heavier, and has an amazing final chorus. Zero Signal is one of the most futuristic songs with an amazing atmosphere and a touching final piano. Following these ones we find the most famous composition of the band, Replica, being sincere is not one of their best songs but it is straightforward and has a killer chorus, it was the perfect single and was presented with an original video.
The second part of the work maintains the great level although there are not songs as good as the first ones until we reach almost the end. When Pisschrist begins an industrial anthem smashes our brains, believe me this song is tremendous!. In my opinion it should be considered as the most dramatic, dark an epic piece ever created by these guys. The beginning is very characteristic with the industrial intro and Herrera´s impassive drums, Burton sings here amazingly and with a great ferocity and the rhytmic guitars are very mechanic and hammering. But the best is yet to come, the final chorus is absolutely marvellous, the clean vocals sound apocalyptic, and the keyboards create a dark and majestic atmosphere. All finishes with the repetitive and frightening chorus " Where is your saviour now?". Absolutely tremendous!
In conclusion this album has not only been considered as a masterpice but also as a landmark in the metal music scene, being a reference to the next generations. A must have!!
The 90's was an exciting time for Metal just as much as the 80's folks. Stop bullshitting yourselves into thinking everything about 90's Metal was bad...it was just the last quarter or so of the decade that seemed fucking hopeless but for the majority so many new roads were paved and if there is one road which was paved well, so well that only 1 or 2 bands that can go down on it could not be re-produced by any means. That road was paved by Ministry with their untouchable album "Pslam 69". The only other band that could travel down is none other than Fear Factory. If "Pslam 69" was a dirty drag car hopped-up on speed, then "Demanufacture" is a huge war-torn tank slowly destroying everything in it's path. Fuck Meshuggah, they started almost and found out that they should have taken a left turn at Alberquerque.
1995's "Demanufacture" is THE Industrial Metal album to own. Everything about the album is right on target; the album, lyrical themes, musical composition, sound production, energy, and level of agression has yet to be matched by majority of the bands out there these days. Imagine all those classic sci-fi movies you know and remember; "Terminator" series, "Blade Runner", "Aliens", etc. Imagine the desolation and freezing darkness those movies projected. Fear Factory takes all that and induces it ten-fold. And in some weird way, Fear Factory even gives a history lesson and a glimpse into the future on Industrial music in general....I'll go more into that idea later on. They clearly wear their influences on their sleeves and are not afraid of showing the direction of where aggressive music was headed towards.
The musicians on here are hitting on all creative cylinders. The stand-out performance of Dry Lung Vocal Matyr singer Burton C. Bell did something which no other band had done before. Combining screaming/shouting verses that are clearly inspired by Godflesh/Napalm Death's Justin Broadrick and melodic choruses that would put a smile on Killing Joke's apocalyptic madman Jaz Coleman. Burton's melodic singing is so well-sung that the first few listens you are left with goosebumps. Guitarist Dino Carzares's riffs are well-constructed Death/Thrash metal riffs but appear to be a more down-tuned Ministry. Although Christian Olde Wolbers is credited as bass duties, Dino does all bass duties on here. And last but not least is drummer Raymond Herrera....motherfuck...if there is one drummer to be credited for triggered drums, it's him. No other band maybe besides Morbid Angel were using triggered drums for the most part for the first half of the 90's. Raymond's drums directly influenced the machine-gun drumming. At first I had to double check to see if they weren't using a goddamn .50 caliber machine gun.
Sound production is handled by both Colin Richardson and Front Line Assembly's mainman Rhys Fulber. I seriously believe that Colin Richardson had nothing to do with this album because if it weren't for Rhys' Industrial/Techno background and touch this album would be very skeletal in just drums/guitars/vocals. Rhys' takes his futuristic profession to an entire new level on this album and was definately influenced by FF as well on future albums with Front Line Assembly. In essence, Fear Factory may have changed the entire course of Industrial music. Remember what I said earlier...ok, now stay with me on this one; The bands influences are clearly Godflesh, Ministry, Skinny Puppy, Nine Inch Nails, Head of David(obviously do to their choice of cover), Loop, Killing Joke, etc.etc.etc. To any person who doesn't know, they are already being exposed to a lot of the pioneers in the Industrial genre and anyone in the know of Industrial music can see where the genre is headed for both the Metal and Industrial genres. Keyboardist Rhys Fulber on board providing keyboards and enhancing the Industrial tone, and again a total Catch-22 situation having FF influencing FLA, the teaming of two extremes altered the future. Think about it. Does anything industrial post 1993-1995 sound anything like before? Absolutely not. Most bands left the stark bleakness and depressive misanthropy behind. Skinny Puppy came down off their cocain high, Swans went more melodic/ambient. FLA started dabbling in wimpy dance Electronic crap and even tried introducing guitars. Ministry started sucking. And Godflesh started to become more boring. Fear Factory to the best of what was and put it to a level of agression hat even the founders of the Industrial genre couldn't match in comparison(except for Killing Joke). Even Metal suffered the same fate. Just how many bands these days are using triggered drums? How many bands are using the same start/stop palm-muted riffs mixed with machine gun-like double bass? And don't even get me started on how Fear Factory beat every single band to the shout verses and clean choruses by at least 10 years. Point being...Fear Factory may have set everyone back for at least the next 50 years.
The songs don't stop coming. Oh Allah have mercy on us all, the songs don't fucking stop at all. The opening title track "Demanufacture" sums everything up on the album. In fact it's obvious that the album is the standard man v.s. machine concept; A society crumbling apart and on a downward spiral into violence, hatred and corruption. Burton's lyrics are so fucking anti-establishment and hate-filled it sounds like he's suffering from a bad case of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. But considering the band lived in Los Angeles in the early nineties and were prone to experience the riots, lootings, gang wars, drive-by shootings, earthquakes, and everything else that would make a regular person snap and go postal like Michael Douglas in "Falling Down", it's not too surprising that his lyrics are the every-day soundtrack to someone who is fucking fed-up with everything and wants the bullshit to stop. Burton C. Bell even goes into the person's failing faith in a god that is supposed to provide some answers to his cry out for help in songs like "Zero Signal" where is shows that this miserable bastard is suffering not only externally but internally as well. The tear-inducing "Piss Christ" follows the same dealings with the absence and questioning of the the almighty which provides us with notion that maybe we just made the biblical messiah up for the hell on Earth that we create. The album ends with the person can no longer stand against it all and must accept defeat and failure (A Therapy For Pain) and longs for death because it's the only peace the album's character will ever experience.
I could go on and on on how great and genre-defying this album is, but then again I couldn't because it would sound like I'm repeating or others whom have reviewed this album, but fortunately for Fear Factory, no other album has come close to the level of agression and unfortunately for themselves they haven't either. "Demanufacture" is a glimpse into a violent future.
Standout tracks:
1. Demanufacture
2. Self Bias Resistor
3. Zero Signal
6. Dog Day Sunrise (Head of David cover)
9. HK (Hunter-Killer)
10. Pisschrist
Fear Factory's sophomore effort "Demanufacture"is one of those albums that split the industrial fan base in two. There are those who praise it to the high heavens for being an album that "pushed the boundaries of industrial metal" and those who call it "the first misstep in a series of failures". Both opinions don't really match mine. "Soul of a New Machine" was a lot more unconventional when it came out three years earlier, yet on the other side, "Demanufacture" is definitely not a "sell-out", as the band is still instantly recognizable and clearly able to write coherent songs.
Let's give this album a closer look; production-wise it sounds a lot cleaner, more polished and just overall more professional than its predecessor, without loosing the razor-edge guitar sound of earlier times. The technical proficiency of the band members has risen quite tremendously, therefore allowing them to put the emphasis on more machine-esque songwriting (precise rhythm sections, machine gun-drumming, etc.) which has become the trademark sound of this band up to this day.
The compositions seem to be simpler than before, but only at first glance; "Soul of a New Machine" had lots of songs with few riffs in them. But their shortness made them sound more diverse than they actually were. Don't get me wrong though, this band never was about "how many riffs can I stuff into a one minute song?" and that's why this can't be considered a riff-fest from beginning to end. If you want that, industrial metal might just not be your thing.
Speaking of which, the amount of electronic experiments has risen as well (the Godflesh and Ministry influences are definitely audible), which makes "Demanufacture" sound less one-dimensional than the album before it. Diversity is not lacking here, as the songs can be distinguished from each other easily.
Bell's clean voice appears a lot more regularly and has clearly gotten better with experience. He's one of the reasons why this album always retains its catchiness – especially in the choruses (Replica is probably the best example for a heavy, but accessible song). His harsh vocal-style has definitely lightened up a little, as it's not nearly as guttural as it's been in the past; quite a downer for some, including me, as his voice techniques here remind one of 90s hardcore more than anything else. Calling "Demanufacture" industrial death metal is an oxymoron anyway as the death metal influences are kept to a minimum over its whole duration.
I guess there isn't much left that hasn't been said about this album. It's just a catchy and quite entertaining industrial metal album for those craving for a short blast of simple and undemanding brutality once in a while. Only recommended in full to those who can live with an album that becomes somewhat stale when being consumed regularly. To those who can't, just download "Zero Signal", "Replica" and "Pisschrist" and you're set.
Fear Factory's second album is pure boring. It's more industrial metal meeting their sci-fi and hate lyric theme while Burton Bell is screaming at the top of his lungs for every song. And listening to it all wears you out!
Now don't get me wrong, it's not so terrible that it is almost impossible to listen to. It's just that the way it's put together with the vocals and over the top bass mixed with lame ass guitar makes it tiresome to listen to. And the drumming, it sounds the same on almost every song. It's like he is playing the same song over and over while new vocals and guitar goes over it. To sum what I just said up, if you hear anyone of the songs on the album, expect to hear it ten more times if you buy the album.
Now because of how all eleven songs sound the same, you will get very bored listening to the entire album in one sitting. The guitarist does nothing but power cords. And that means no riffs. And to make things worse, the power cords are played on what sounds like only two of the strings.
The vocals…I hate the vocals. Burton Bell is not a good vocalist. He is mediocre at best. His mediocre mallcore like screams bring out an "I'm 16 and I'm angry at my father," vibe. This is very bad when it comes to singing in a metal band.
To sum this entire album up, BORING! Every song is the exact same in vocals, guitar, bass, and drums. The only people I can see buying this album are the die hard Fear Factory fans. And they might not even like it that much. If you hear one song on this album, that is the entire album. This album is a pass.
Deathy grindings and epic riffage meet sci-fi techno wizardry in this masterpiece.
The title of industrial metal king is hotly contested, and with Nine Inch Nails "The Downwards Spiral", Marylin Manson "Antichrist Superstar", Ministry "Psalm 63" and Rammstein "Mutter" battling for the techno-metal crown, it won't be an arguement that'll die down soon. However, as far as I'm concerned, the genre reached it's apex with Fear Factory's revered "Demanufacture". Here was an album that did the techno, and the metal, to perfection, balancing them wonderfully, while bringing each to the fore when it suits them. Which can only be a good thing considering that this was made while others were simply doing dance music with guitars and the occasional death roar.
This was FF's first industrial album, as they were previously a death outfit, but it is handled with such finesse that it puts them up with the masters. They claimed to want to make a "Futuristic" metal album, and to that effect they've succeeded. The guitars, courtesy of the now-legendary Dino Cazeras, are huge; they're rich, bassy and epic. They match the electronics perfectly, and the drummer is so good that it was initially thought that FF used a drum machine. The combined sound washes over the listener, leaving you breathless and hungry for more.
The vocals, however, are something else entirely; the screams are unlike anything even a seasoned metal fan will have heard before. They are oddly hoarse, not as deep as death metal bands, but deeper than most metalcore bands. You can make out what the words are, and the singing is equally unique, so deep, it's hard to decide whether Burton Bell is a good singer or not, but it compliments the guitars perfectly. The album goes at the kind of pace and progression only a concept album can, and each song is an instant classic, particularly "Replica" and "Flashpoint". A cover of Head Of David "Dog Day Sunrise" seems out of place but the appeal grows over time.
However, the greatest thing about this album is it's almost cyberpunk feel; with it's drum'n'bass-slash-metal mixture, Dave McKean cover art and man-versus-machine storyline, it's like a music equivalent of "The Terminator", "The Matrix" or "Ghost in the shell". Yes, this marrage of meaty riffs and techno beats still sounds fresh today. This is the closest Industrial music will ever come to a true marriage of beeps and metal.
Clever, epic and futuristic, this has survived the 10 years since it's inception and still sounds cutting edge today.
EDIT (6/607): My original rating was a little high, so I fixed it.
I'm actually not sure what all the hype over this album is about. I picked it up recently since I remembered having enjoyed the song "Self Bias Resistor" only to find out that I had already heard the best the album had to offer.
The fact of the matter is, if you've heard one song on this CD, you've really heard them all. Sure they all have some small thing that sets them apart from the others, but in general there just isn't much variety here. Same basic formula: some speedy (but triggered-sounding) drumming, catchy (but repetive) guitar riffs, absolutely no bass (reminds me of Metallica's ...And Justice For All album in that respect), keyboards and samples here and there (to add industrialness?), and mediocre growling plus some instances of clean singing. That's about it.
As for the music itself, I'll get my complaints out of the way first. The vocals are pretty bad. If you're going to do a death growl, do it right. The shouting that Burton Bell does just grates on my nerves. It sounds like death growls watered down enough that they have an edge, but won't scare the mallcore kiddies (that's another thing...this album is BARELY metal). Maybe I'm just a purist.
Another problem I have is the fact that they didn't add Christian Olde Wolbers' bass track to the final mix. Oh, they did? I certainly couldn't tell. Bass isn't as important in metal as the other instruments, but you can really tell when it isn't there. In this case it really detracts from the sound. I think the songs here would come off quite a bit better in concert.
The only other complaint is, as I said before, all the songs are pretty formulaic. But then again, some bands are just like that (*cough* Black Dahlia Murder *cough*)...you learn to live with it.
That having been said, the music on here isn't all bad. There are some songs that really do stand above the rest ("Self Bias Resistor" first and foremost) and it's a good disc to bang you head to in small doses. And when Bell is clean-singing, it sounds oddly cool.
This isn't a CD I would recommend buying, but listen to the title track, "Self Bias Resistor," and "Replica" and see what you think.
I honestly cannot began to understand why the majority of people who have reviewed this Demanufacture are having orgasms over it. Other than a couple of songs that are enjoyable the rest of the CD soon becomes monotonous dribble.
The band makes good use of the industrial metal and death metal elements on this CD. For once in an industrial metal CDs damnation is not caused by the lead singer distorting his vocals so he sounds like a raped robot. For that listen to Blutrausch's "Legions of the Sky".
Instead, where this albums damnation comes from is that it doesn't stand the test of time. During my first ten listens of this CD I too thought it was one of the greatest industrial CDs ever. All of the instruments on this CD had a near perfect use of unity and harmony. The distortion of the guitars only helped to enhance the CD. The additional programming used in this CD also helped it. The drumming of course was coursing with a few double dumbeats, but none the less it maintained the beat of the songs.
Sadly however the CD has now become too boring and too repetive for my personal tastes. Anytime I'm in the mood for industrial metal I'll put on this CD and trudge through the four songs I still enjoy, but then I turn it off just as quickly as I turned it on still craving for some industrial metal.
Fear Factory's "Demanufacture" is much like the bread of a staple heavy metal diet. Everyone needs to own this CD, but repeat listening of it might prove to be too difficult.
Stand Out tracks:
Dog Day Sunrise
H-K (Hunter Killer)
Fast drumming is nice- very nice. Pretty nice vocals are nice- pretty nice, meh riffs are ok- but not very. And thats really what we have here, who really cares about the bass? Me. Its good. I remember when I heard that Dino wrote all the bass lines, and the riffs- I figured that the band was dead with him gone. Apparently those rumors were COMPLETELY false, hell, I bet Christian wrote the fucking riffs. Archetype is better, I'll say that.
I remember hearing so many things about how this album is this, how its awesome, how its that and how its "Essential." None of that really came to be here, its mediocre in my book, and aside from maybe a couple above average tracks (Replica and H-K, and maybe Body Hammer), its just another album.
My problem isnt really with the musicinaship, but how people raved about it, because while its pretty good, its not "Essential" in ANY way. Maybe for someone who likes pretty good metal on industrial standards- but if I wanted that, I'd go back and listen to ...and Oceans' third release, Am God. Its what this album should have been, but in its own style.
Some would say thats exactly what it is, others like myself say any music can be the same but with a different take on it- sort of like covers. Now, once again I'm not saying I don't like it, but that its not perfect and not horrible, but too raved. The drumming is top notch stuff, some of the riffs are too, the bass lines are sick, the vocals are cool, catchy, and simple in the good way- but the lyrics can get repetitive (see New Breed), so thats a bit of a let down in itself. The electronics and the "industrial" elements used are real nice to hear, and fit well with everything.
Note how I say I like all the musicianship, but the songs themselves are only OK. I would definatly reccomend this, as it IS pretty good, but it dosn't deserve the title alot give it.
Lets get this out of the way right now: This is Fear Factory's greatest release easily. Hell, this is probably one of the best metal albums of all time. I haven't heard many albums as super as this one and I doubt I ever will. I also doubt Fear Factory will ever reach this level again.
Anyways... FF started off being a somewhat bland death metal band which threw in melodic vocals. But this album they arose to so much more. The growls were exchanged for angry yelling, and the melodic vox was cleaned up. Machine Gun percission drumming was also introduced, as well as alot of industrial influences. The band made quite the change, and it was all for the better.
The album opens with the title track, Demanufacture. The song is aboslute badass. Nearly every song on this album IS badass, with the exception of two (Flashpoint and ¡Resistancia!). The epic "Pisschrist" which features the most beautiful closing I've ever heard, the catchy "Replica" which is good for working out, the fast and furious "H-K" which will really get your addrenalin going, to an industrial fest you can dance to like New Breed. There's so much positive things to say about this album I don't even know where to start.
Standout tracks are "Demanufacture", "Self Bias Resistor", "Replica", "H-K", and "Pisschrist". But calling them the standouts isn't really fair, as nearly all of the album is superb. If this album isn't in your collection I suggest adding it as soon as possible, you won't be disappointed.
When I wandered into the record store on a rainy afternoon a few years ago, not knowing what I intended to buy, I spotted this album on the shelf, and not knowing what to expect, I took a chance and purchased it. I remember this really angsty chick in my eighth grade class that was obsessed with Fear Factory, so I guess I wanted to find out what all the fuss was about.
Anyway, this album is filled with excellent, Industrial-esque drum and guitar work, but it has much more of a watered down death metal feel to it, overall. Raymond Herrera does such a great job with the double bass that I'd be hard pressed to find a formidable contender. Burton Bell's vocals are yelled with a very throaty rasp to them, sort of like a white version of Max Cavalera, but better (I guess). As for the bass, I didn't notice any outstanding qualities about it, but it's sufficient.
In closing, you can't really go wrong with this album, especially compared to the band's later work. Some of the tracks may sound like filler next to the excellent Zero Signal and New Breed, but don't let that deter you. Fear Factory seemingly showed promise with this album, but God knows what caused them to transition into a typical Nu-Metal band (Gee, maybe their label, Roadrunner records?).


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[Read Before Posting] Blade & Soul General FAQHello Blade & Soul fans, Welcome to the official Blade & Soul Dojo FAQ! This thread contains commonly asked questions about Blade & Soul's Western versions. Have a question? Check to see if it's posted here or use our forums search feature before creating a new thread. This thread will be updated at all times by any of the Dojo staff members. For additional information on Blade & Soul visit our wiki, or check out the official Blade & Soul West website. Table of Contents What is Blade & Soul? Is there an official site for Blade & Soul's Western version? What is Blade & Soul's release date? Has Beta Testing started? What type of pay model will Blade & Soul use? Will the Western clients be censored? Where will the Western servers be located? Will there be Oceanic/SEA servers? Will my characters from the other regions be transferable to the Western versions? Will the Western version be region blocked? What are the playable races? Why did they change the name of the Kun race to Yun for the Western release? What are the playable classes? Are there race and class restrictions? What will be the Western versions initial level cap? Will there be a vigor/fatigue system the the Western versions? What systems will this game be released on? What are the required PC specs for Blade & Soul? I didn't catch one of Blade & Soul's Livestreams, what did I miss? Will there be founder packs for the Western versions? Will Blade & Soul be on Steam? Will Windows 10 be supported? What is Blade & Soul? Blade & Soul is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) by Korean game development studio, Team Bloodlust and is published by NCSOFT. Is there an official site for Blade & Soul's Western version? You can find the official Blade & Soul West site here. What is Blade & Soul's release date? The North American and European versions are currently set to be released on January 19th, 2016. Head Start for founder's pack owners will begin at 10:00am PST on January 15th, 2016, and name reservations for Disciple and Master pack owners will begin on January 11th, 2016. The game has already been officially released in the following regions: Korea: June 30, 2012
China: November 28, 2013
Japan: May 20, 2014
Taiwan: November 20, 2014
Has Beta Testing started? Yes. CBT 1: Oct 29, 10am PDT - Nov 2, 10pm PDT [NA server only]* CBT 2: Nov 13, 10am PDT - Nov 16, 10pm PDT [NA/EU]** CBT 3: Nov 24, 10am PDT - Nov 30, 10pm PDT [NA/EU]** CBT 4: Dec 11, 10am PDT - Dec 14, 10pm PDT (English/French/German)[NA/EU]** CBT 5: Dec 18, 10am PDT - Dec 21, 10pm PDT (English/French/German)[NA/EU]** *NA servers will only support English. **EU servers will support English, French, and German; except on CBTs 1, 2, & 3. What type of pay model will Blade & Soul use? Blade & Soul has been announced as a F2P (free-to-play) title for the West and will have no content limitations. They have also stated that the game will not be "pay-to-win". Will the Western clients be censored? No. Where will the Western servers be located? Blade & Soul's Western servers will be housed in the following location: North America: Dallas, Texas US
Europe: Frankfurt, Germany.
Will there be Oceanic/SEA servers? There are currently no plans to support Oceanic/SEA servers. However, NCSOFT has stated that if the community shows enough interest they will reconsider. A petition has been created for NCSOFT to reconsider. Will my characters from the other regions be transferable to the Western versions? No. Transferring accounts is not possible, but transferring the physical appearance of your character from other versions is possible through the profile screenshot function in Character Creation. Will the Western version be region blocked? There are currently no plans for region blocking. What are the playable races? Jin, Gon, Yun, Lyn. Click here for more information. Why did they change the name of the Kun race to Yun for the Western release? In North America, the word "Kun" closely resembles a derogatory racial slur. What are the playable classes? There are currently six confirmed playable classes for the Western versions. The "Warlock" class can be found in the KR, CN, JP and TW clients but have yet to be confirmed for the North American and European release.
Blade Dancer
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Force Master
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Are there race and class restrictions? Yes. The playable races in Blade & Soul are indeed restricted to a select few classes. Below you'll find what you can play each race as. Jin: Assassin, Blade Master and Kung Fu Master
Gon: Destroyer, Force Master and Kung Fu Master
Lyn: Blade Dancer, Force Master and Summoner
Yun: Blade Master, Force Master and Kung Fu Master
What will be the Western versions initial level cap? The initial level cap on release will be 45. Will there be a vigor/fatigue system the the Western versions? No. What systems will this game be released on? Blade & Soul will be released for Windows PC. What are the required PC specs for Blade & Soul? Below are the PC specs taken from Blade & Soul's Korean client. [Minimum Spec] CPU : Intel Dual core/AMD Athlon 64X2 or better RAM : 2G or better VGA : nVidia Geforce 8600GT/AMD Radeon HD4600 or better HDD : 15GB OS : Windows XP (Service pack 2), Vista, Win7 (32bit / 64bit) DirectX : 9.0c [Recommended] CPU : Intel Quad core/AMD Phenom II X4 or better RAM : 4G or better VGA : nVidia Geforce 8800GTX / AMD Radeon HD4850 or better HDD : 15GB OS : Windows XP (Service pack 2), Vista, Win7 (64bit) DirectX : 9.0c I didn't catch one of Blade & Soul's Livestreams, what did I miss? You can view all past broadcasts here. Will there be founder packs for the Western versions? Yes, you can view their packages here. Will Blade & Soul be on Steam? This has not yet been confirmed. Will Windows 10 be supported? Yes. Updated: December 25th, 2015
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Should service members considered at risk for suicide be denied gun ownership?
Yes. Any measure to reduce the military suicide rate needs to be considered.
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Amidst their 75th anniversary year, Coach has managed to put on yet another amazing show. Creative director Stuart Vevers most definitely gave us major hints at the Pre-Fall 2017 show, as many of the pieces resembled what was seen in December.
Overall, there was a very earthy air to the collection. Neutral shades dominated the color palette and relaxed ensembles were designed. To match the ongoing theme, the runway was designed to resemble a desert, with the tan, dried out bushes and dusty ground. Floral designs were a commonality, whether it be on a flowy dress or a piece of outerwear.
Some statement pieces from the collection included a plethora of shearling coats, a piece that's reemerging in the high fashion world. Additionally, there were multiple leather jackets as well as patchwork trench coats. Moreover, the common trend among the women's fashion was mid-calf length skirts and dresses. Nearly every model sported some sort of piece at this length.
The Rebranding of Coach
Stuart Vevers is the master at brand turnarounds. In the past three years, since he's taken the role of creative director, he has elevated the once mall brand to a top contender in the luxury arena. Recently, Selena Gomez signed on to be the face of Coach, a move that is sure to highlight this shift. Who knows what's to come next, but we can be confidently sure that whatever Vevers chooses, it will be amazing.


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Walter Finlayson was born in Burlington, VT.
Walter Finlayson loved to spend his summers in Maine.
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In the summer Dad used to enjoy a cordial before dinner, but nothing tasted as good as his own Homemade brew! The recipe was simple: some kind of fruit–usually berries, sugar and pure grain alcohol. First he found a clear-glass gallon (or more) container; then he plopped in the washed berries, plenty of sugar and poured in the alcohol. He would insert or create his own stopper and place it in a sunny spot–on a window ledge or even outside on a porch step–to ferment for about six weeks. How he loved holding it up to the sunlight to check on its deepening color.
But since NY State placed a hefty tax on alcoholic beverages the trick was to find pure grain alcohol at an affordable price for a school teacher. Dad would smirk when he announced that he was heading 12 miles west to cross the CT border–where the tax on alcohol was considerably less. Ah–the lure of cheaper booze…
To finish the fermenting process: When Dad judged the brew to be strong enough he would pour it through several layers of cheesecloth (thoroughly soaked in cold water to remove any textile taste) which captured the seeds, skins and vines, while permitting the liquid sunshine to filter through into a deep bowl below. Then it was merely a matter of ladling and funneling the liquid into pre-sterilized bottles or a cute decanter. Boy, was he proud of his "Summer Wine."


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Mute girl stranded in Pakistan returns to India after 12 years
A deaf and mute woman who crossed the Indian border into Pakistan 12 years ago as an 11-year-old girl has finally flown home to a warm and emotional welcome.
Wearing a red tunic, her head loosely covered with a matching scarf, the woman - who had been given the name Geeta - waved to scores of people who had gathered at the New Delhi airport to greet her.
She was carrying a big bouquet of flowers given to her by Indian officials.
More than a decade ago, Geeta was found by Pakistan border troops, alone and weeping, near the border.
Accounts of how she arrived differ, with some saying she had accidentally crossed an unmarked section of the border and others saying she had been a passenger on a cross-border train.
Since she could not explain where she had come from, she was presumed to be Pakistani.
The army handed the girl to a well-known Pakistani charity that ran a number of homes for orphans.
The Edhi Foundation named her Geeta, but not knowing about her family, years passed without much effort to locate them.
Earlier in 2015, Indian and Pakistani officials realised that Geeta was Indian, though details about how they made that discovery have not been announced.
Her plight was highlighted by the media in India and Pakistan after the July release of a Bollywood film, Bajrangi Bhaijan.
In the film, Salman Khan, one of Bollywood's biggest stars, overcomes all odds to reunite a mute girl with her family in Pakistan after she was separated from them during a trip to India.
The similarities between the film and Geeta's story helped accelerate action. In August, India declared that Geeta was an Indian citizen and efforts to trace her family were renewed.
Vikas Swarup, spokesman of the ministry of external affairs, said Indian officials narrowed the search to three families who claimed they were Geeta's kin. The ministry then sent photographs of them to Pakistan.
"About two weeks ago, Geeta identified her family after seeing some pictures provided to us by Indian diplomats," the charity's spokesman, Faisal Edhi, said. "She was very happy over it."
It was a rare friendly moment in the traditionally hostile relations between the South Asian neighbours.
In New Delhi, Geeta and the families will undergo DNA tests to ensure she is reunited with her own parents, said Indian external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj.
Janardhan Mahato, who has been identified by Geeta as her father, said he had no worries about undergoing a DNA test.
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SiBEAM, Inc. Establishes Strong Presence in Japan
Leading Developer of WirelessHD Solutions Opens Japan K.K. to Drive WirelessHD™ Product Development and Support Growing Customer Base Solutions; Appoints Yuzo Tsukui President of Japan K.K., Names Japan Distribution Partners
SiBEAM, Inc. Establishes Strong Presence in Japan to Drive WirelessHD™ Product Development and Support Growing Customer Base
Leading Developer of WirelessHD Solutions Appoints Yuzo Tsukui President of Japan K.K., Names Japan Distribution Partners
Sunnyvale, California and Tokyo, Japan - May 22, 2008 - SiBEAM, Inc. the leading innovator of millimeter wave (mmWave) semiconductor solutions and developer of high -speed wireless communications platforms, today announced the establishment of SiBEAM Japan K.K. and the appointment of Mr.Yuzo Tsukui as the President and Representative Director for SiBEAM Japan K.K. Additionally, after an extensive review process, SiBEAM also announced Microtek, Inc. and Innotech Corporation, as the official distributors for SiBEAM products in Japan.
Formation of SiBEAM Japan K.K. reflects the company's commitment to serving the Japanese market and the unrivaled interest of Japanese consumer electronics companies in SiBEAM's wireless semiconductor solutions for transmitting HD content based on the WirelessHD™ specification.
'Manufacturers in Japan are leaders in developing and building new consumer technologies and products. As demand for viewing, sharing and storing of HD digital content for both home entertainment applications and personal computing continues to grow, we will work with our local customers and partners to ensure the highest level of product quality, customer service and sales support,' said John LeMoncheck, SiBEAM's President and CEO. 'The establishment of SiBEAM Japan K.K. will bring the company closer to this leading edge market and will augment the quality of technical support to our key customers. This announcement underscores our commitment to the region and plays a prominent and strategic role in our growth in the Asian Market."
Yuzo Tsukui Joins SiBEAM, Inc. as President of SiBEAM Japan K.K.
SiBEAM named Yuzo Tsukui as the new President and Japan Country Manager. In his role, Tsukui -san will drive business development initiatives and oversee sales and distribution for SiBEAM in Japan.
'Mr. Tsukui brings to SiBEAM over 20 years of experience in the semiconductor industry. His proven track record in implementing sales strategies that yield extraordinary results and the depth of his business network in Japan gives me confidence that he will successfully promote and accelerate WirelessHD adoption and grow SiBEAM's business in Japan,' said David Yao, SiBEAM's Vice President of Sales in Asia Pacific.
Mr. Tsukui is an expert in the semiconductor and electronics industry. He joined SiBEAM, Inc. from Silicon Optix, a leading provider of video processing solutions for consumer electronics products, where he was the Senior Director of Japan Sales. Before that, he held sales and management roles at companies including AMD and Vitesse Semiconductor, a developer of semiconductor solutions for Carrier and Enterprise Ethernet networks. His accomplishments at Vitesse Semiconductor earned him a Phoenix Award for single -handedly rebuilding the company's Japanese market and growing revenues from $13M to $40M.
'SiBEAM is committed to bringing high -quality, low -cost, all -digital solutions to the market through close working relationships with our regional partners - consumer electronics and PC manufacturers - to enable the wireless delivery of rich, digital media,' said Tsukui -san, 'We will invest in the resources and partnerships across the region to ensure this happens.'
SiBEAM Names Microtek, Inc. and Innotech Corporation its Japan Distribution Partners
In addition to forming the SiBEAM Japan K.K., the company is expanding its Japanese sales and technical support operations. The addition of Microtek and Innotech will enhance SiBEAM's ability to serve its existing and prospective customers in the Japan market through assistance with sales and customer support.
'The wireless home A/V market represents a gold mine of opportunity for our distribution partners; especially when you look beyond the technology and get involved in the value added services these solutions command such as integration and design,' said Yao, 'The addition of Microtek and Innotech to our growing sales and customer support infrastructure radically enhances our ability to serve the Japan market and demonstrates just how serious we are about earning their business and becoming the leading provider of WirelessHD -based solutions.'
SIBEAM's 60 GHz -based semiconductor systems provide the first and only available option to deliver true uncompressed, lossless wireless high definition audio, video and data at an unprecedented 4 Gbps. Its advanced wireless technology solutions are designed for consumer electronics manufacturers, PC manufacturers, network infrastructure providers and others to incorporate into their next generation product lines for wireless communications.
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SiBEAM is a fabless semiconductor company and founding member of the WirelessHD™ Consortium. A pioneer in developing intelligent millimeter wave technologies for wireless communications, SiBEAM is the first to build 60GHz chipsets using standard CMOS technology. The first applications for the company's innovative technology are based on the WirelessHD™ specification for home multimedia content delivery and A/V connectivity. SiBEAM is a global leader in driving the architecture and semiconductor implementation for the distribution and presentation of high -definition content in the consumer electronics and personal computing markets. Solutions for wireless personal area networks (WPAN) and automotive will follow. The company was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, with sales offices in San Diego and Tokyo. For more information please visit: www.sibeam.com.
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I had a melt down, a lot has been going on, I found out your big sister has to have glasses two weeks ago, ordered them the same day and still have not heard back as to when we can go pick them up, they said it would be two weeks, and it has been and I'm on edge.
Then I've been thinking about the ultrasound a LOT, and it was really stressing me out. I trust everything is fine with you, don't have to see pictures of you RIGHT NOW.. I feel totally calm about you, however my midwife wants to know where your placenta is, and if it is over my scar from your sister's birth... if it is she wont keep me as a client... if it is not I can have her as my midwife. I want to have her as my midwife but what is more important is that I know as soon as possible that I can or can not have her, because if I can't I have to find someone willing to give me a good chance at a VBAC.
I also have this tiny nudging in my head that I had with my pregnancies with both of your siblings (oddly not at all with Jaemi, who is now in heaven), and I want to confirm that you are indeed one baby, or find out if there are two of you in my womb. Both of these things weigh on my mind constantly and I can't get them off... even though neither of them feel like they should be that heavy on me.
I cried today, then I put on my big girl smile and called my midwife and told her about my anxiety about being supported in my birth, and she immediately called her PA and got them to submit the order for my ultrasound. I'm so glad I called her.
Your sister had an allergist appointment today to confirm that the last six months of cutting milk out of our diets has indeed helped to ease her eczema. I was sure that is what they would tell me, but just wanted confirmation of it.
They did not tell me that. However on the way to that appointment I got a phone call to schedule the ultrasound! It is TOMORROW!!!! I'm so excited. I'll be perfectly happy if there is one of you, and stunned and happy if there are two... not sure how I will react if your placenta isn't in the right place, but I'll get through that too. I'm mostly just releived that it is finally happening! And just before my next appointment with the midwife!
And just to complete the above mentioned story about your sister's appointment, here are the results.
No Milk alergy at all, though she clearly has something causing some of her symptoms it is not likely that it is causing her eczema (though not entirely ruled out as far as I'm concerned) however she has a severe peanut allergy, so in one month she has gotten both glasses and an epi-pen.
I'll write more tomorrow after my appointment.
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I chuckle as I read posts that compare the president of the U.S. with the president of a regional college as if there was any meaningful points of comparison. Comments kinda wandered away from the original article, I think.
@ursus. OK. So the CofC only represents the interests of the monied and political classes, in your point of view. I'm sure prospective parents and students will flock to a college with such priorities. Over time we'll find out if CofC grows despite the public image of its president.
And then you return to caustic comments and personal remarks. Generally speaking, people that use these strategies illustrate how weak their arguments are. With no real argument to support their views, they simply attack those questioning them.
Oh, and its Dees rather than Deas.
@ursus. Well, I and others in this series of comments have described some of the activities by the SCV that can be interpreted as racist and have provided citations for many of those descriptions.
Other than disputing the significance of marching through Montgomery, providing unsubstantiated claims about one source used to describe the SCV, and engage in arguments about 150 year-old events, you have chosen to avoid justifying the current behavior of the SCV or attempt to defend the racist image Glenn McConnell projects.
I can see you have shouldered the burden of reinterpreting the causes of the Civil War here but that has nothing to do with Glenn McConnell, his behavior, or the PR problems CofC incurred by hiring him as their president.
Do you have anything substantial to say about any of this? My definition of substantial would be something other than caustic remarks, name-calling, and unsubstantiated claims.
@ursus. So you concede that events provide symbolic importance to a place. True for both the Montgomery Convention AND a host of civil rights events that took place in Montgomery. The SCV is able to commemorate both the beginning of a lost cause AND provoke those who place importance in the city's role in the Civil Rights Movement. A bonus for SCV participants.
An example of this double purpose would be the SCV march up Dexter Ave, where several Confederate congressmen lived AND the street where Dr. Martin Luther King first preached his message of hope and brotherhood. Certainly this point is not lost on Confederate enthusiasts who specifically point out the Dexter Ave's importance in civil rights history. WhiteRace.com notes this specifically in its description of the 2011 march: "Hundreds of men in Civil War uniforms marched past the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s church Saturday to commemorate the inauguration of the Confederate president 150 years ago in a city that no longer rolls out the red carpet for them." (http://bit.ly/1dBacZS) He avoids racially-tinged language but even a casual reader gets the point.
I invite you to look at the FBI.gov page I provided a link to. The FBI on their own website states that Southern Poverty Law Center is a partner in the bureau's mission. I don't know how you can refute that. Breitbart certainly cannot.
Glenn McConnell will soon be the face of CofC. McConnell's image and history will be tied directly into the image and reputation of the college. As McConnell comes under increasing media scrutiny more links with neo-Confederacy and white supremacists are likely to be found and those unsavory associations will be transferred to the college's image. McConnell's reputation of consorting with these groups and with those associated with racist acts will leak over to the college and its image and reputation will suffer. It's inevitable.
@ursus. As you point out, the SCV does not spend 100% of its time provoking others. No one is uniformly bad or uniformly good. Pointing out some of the good deeds the SCV perform does not disprove that the SCV has not acted badly elsewhere.
Montgomery indeed existed prior to the SCV marching there, celebrating the Confederacy. But to suggest that Montgomery's image was not transformed by the Civil Rights Movement is no different than arguing the World Trade Center is as well known for business conducted there than it now is for the tragedy of 9/11.
Identification of significant events with a particular place changes the place into, in part, a symbol of those events. To suggest Montgomery's link with the Civil Rights Movement played no part in the decision to stage demonstrations there is obtuse.
Regarding the FBI dropping the SPLC (my source for the stories critical of SCV), as a demonstration of SPLC's unreliability - this claim is false. The FBI website (http://1.usa.gov/1h0Y5A0) specifically lists the SPLC as a partner in its investigation of crimes. To wit:
"The FBI has forged partnerships nationally and locally with many civil rights organizations to establish rapport, share information, address concerns, and cooperate in solving problems. These groups include such organizations as the NAACP, the Southern Poverty Law Center, the Anti-Defamation League, the National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium, the National Organization for Women, the Human Rights Campaign, and the National Disability Rights Network."


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We recently received a question regarding why FxCop violations occur against itself. This topic has already been partly covered by http://weblogs.asp.net/fxcop/archive/2004/01/08/48853.aspx but since there are a few FxCop-specific details for this variant of the question, I thought I'd post some additional comments.
-----Original Message-----
From: <MS Consultant>
Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2004 12:39 PM
To: FxCop Team
Subject: FxCop turned on itself produces critical errors
A customer has been kind enough to point out that FxCop doesn't seem to be following its own guidance. When I analyzed FxCop.exe I get 158 messages with 32 of them being critical errors. If anyone cares to comment I'd be happy to relay to the customer. J
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From: Michael Fanning
Some comments:
1) FxCop messages are not always resolvable; there are often good reasons for not fixing a reported violation. Sometimes, unfortunately, we generate a false positive that's not easily eradicated. This is why we built an exclusions mechanism into the tool. (btw - your customer can use the 'Certainty' figure as a rough guide to how confident the violation is a problem that can and should be fixed).
2) FxCop.exe is not a reusable library so it is not subject to all the guidelines enforced by the tool. FxCop isn't currently localized, so not all globalization\localization rules apply (this will change shortly). Etc.
3) Because we're constantly writing new rules, we sometimes generate a check that reveals existing issues in our own app (which now exceeds 50k lines of non-commented code). We sometimes delay fixing these due to cost to resolve and/or an unacceptable level of churn in the code base while driving to a release date.
4) Finally, it's difficult to measure an assembly's code quality using number of messages as a metric. We generated 158 messages in FxCop.exe but also passed 30,000 other checks. You'd really need to look at the specific messages to gauge our level of irresponsibility. I can tell you that we run FxCop in advance of every check-in to insure that no new violations sneak in unnoticed. In our last internal release, we reviewed every existing violation and made an explicit decision not to fix each one we shipped.
The FxCop blog also has a related posting on this that explicitly addresses why .NET Framework assemblies report FxCop violations.


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