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Prog Archives is a page dedicated to mind blowing, awesome, Roger Waters, Prog Rock. As we know, prog rock is a style that includes weird tempo changes, dark chords, mellotrons, voices in the background, as well as walls, furry animals, may queens, octavariums, hot rats and 21st Century schizoid men.
This site shows the main characteristics of Prog Rock, links to different bands, albums, ratings and other stuff like forums discusing topics such as "Why Chubby Checker left the Beatles in 1972" or "Are frogs considered primates?" It includes variated styles of blowing people's heads out to the sky.
- 1 Famous Archives Users in the Shred Thread
- 2 Survivors
- 3 Prog Archives creative section
- 4 Styles
- 5 Synthphonic Prog
- 6 math not prog
- 7 Polyphonic Prog
- 8 Crossfire prog
- 9 Eclesiastic Prog
- 10 Heavy Prog
- 11 Not-really-Prog/ Proggish
- 12 James Blunt Prog
- 13 Epileptic Prog
- 14 Progressive Mental
Famous Archives Users in the Shred Thread[edit]
If you hunt you will find obscure users such as those who frequent THE SHRED, such as A Person, Slartibartfast, colorofmoney91, aginor, rushfan4, Lizzy, Vompatti, Henry Plainview, AtomicCrimsonRush, KoS, Triceratopsoil, darkshade, Anthony H, Polo, The Truth (more important than DisgruntledPorcupine, despite later comments), SaltyJon, SolarLuna96, Epignosis, Deathrabbit, Ricochet, progkidjoel, irrelevant, Horizons, The Gazzardian, CCVP, NecronCommander, and most notably, DisgruntledPorcupine. A new comer, Smartpatrol attacted the forums in April. His attack continued for several months, and most of the aforementioned users left or reduced their use of the site drastically. If you want to know how to speak to these strange progfreaks just mention that the bands Magma, Kayo Dot, and Frank Zappa suck. Sooner or later one of them will bite.
Now if you log on you may be surprised that there is a thread dedicated to this very website entry and the comments are rather, shall we say, interesting...
If you visit this website make sure to send a Private Message to "Equality 7-2521" saying how a chunk of his income comes from tax payers, and you are proud he is such a noble government employee.
Survivors are a special kind of poll where you vote your least favourite song off albums, and eventually by the band, to determining what is their OBJECTIVE best song. They were introduced to the forum by DisgruntledPorcupine (with help from darkshade, Epignosis and geneyesontle) in mid February of 2012, and within a week made up for 95.6% of the forums total polls. DP introduced them in an attempt to control the poll section, in which the tournament would spread like a virus to other sections until DP's influence was known and he would have control over the entire forum. He would then change progarchives into a site dedicated to conversing about porcupines and the feeling of disgruntlement (with some room for darkness and shades as well).
Prog Archives creative section[edit]
It is well known that the members of the website do get together often in the Just For Fun section and occasionally come up with some fun stuff. An example is the thread where they created their own song one verse at a time. The final result was a very strange piece as follows in this extract. The entire song is over 75 pages long over the duration of the thread.
By EPICOLUCULOUS O)))
Track 2 "THE AMAZING WONDEROUS STORY"
This epic includes Robots, male and female choirs, weird eclectic experimental solos and of course loads of characters including the Minstrel, Wombats, multi coloured Queens, Beavers, Turkeys, Mad Max characters, Magma voices, Gnomes, Court Jester, Fiddler, Nerd, Girl in Berlin, Black Knight, White Knight, The Fireman, and others!
By EPICOLUCULOUS O)))
(fade in very slow mellotron)
She awakened as the dawn was breakin' She went outside and started rakin' Choir: As she raked the leaves did shake! (Low organ pedal-point, making the ground shake)
Robotic Voice:
Huge bombastic choir with metallic voices: Here come the Robots and they will destroy you Here come the Robots and they will annoy you And the Anabaptists they will employ you And the atheists they will encoil you
And the cannibals will boil you!
Choir: In Boiling oil in boiling oil they will boil they will boil In Boiling oil in boiling oil they will boil they will boil In Boiling oil in boiling oil they will boil they will boil In Boiling oil in boiling oil they will boil they will booooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooil!!!!!!!!!!!
Weeping willows, mourning flowers tremble in the morning hours Watch the giant serpents coiling Terror! Hark! The soil is boiling!
Incandescent neon lights brighten up my winter nights the fire has burnt a lonely mark upon my unrepentant dark I look above and see a shining light and it is beckoning
My underwhelming institution understands the reckoning
Tells me where i need to go and now i need to take control
And as i bite the hand that feeds me she's about to break her hold
Let go! And leave it all behind? I have been deaf, I have been blind I'm loosening the nuts, and she slips back to unreality
tragedy follows me to an eternity inside the flight of insecurity is nothing more than i can hide i must be blind she is leaving me for an existence dark and as i fade awy to tears the spell of love has burned its mark
When is the final song posted?
This is the second song (Choir: The second soooonnnggg!!!) The first one was posted on Page 20 (Choir: Twenty!!!)
(echo voiced backmasked): Turn Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack the music is reversible but time is noooooooooooooooooooooot tuuuuuuuuuurn baaaaaaaaaaaaaack! tuuuuuuuuuuuuurn baaaaaaaaaaaaaccccckkkkkkkk!!!!!!!!!!!
I cannot turn back! I must go forward!
Female Soprano Choir: He must go forward! Forward he must! Ashes to Ashes Fun to Dust Try as he might, try as he must! He must go forward and never to rust!
I will start the first song soon enough.
Chorus: hooooow can you start the first song wheeeeeen it's already finiiiiiiiiished?!
Feasting on the introspective moon Hailing August after June Making this a disaster Seeing time moving faster
Arriving at the gates of dawn I rise and shine and yawn It's time to mow the lawn!
I turn on the mower and it roars to life The grass is annihilated Cut with a knife
Choir (whispering): Sssslasssshhhhh
The blades of the mower go gradually slower The grass is all gone, The battle is won.
Choir: Hail the mighty blades of death Cutting faster, sinking depth Engine churns defeating grass (female spoken): What's the next verse, may I ask?
I look above and I see a glider swooping by, a hypnotic spider the land is frozen, crops are dusted spraying poison, eyes adjusted
In this dark hour I await the eternal plague of fate as poison enters in my brain I cry out but it's all in vein
Female Choir: He adjusted his eyes, and to his surprise he saw a glider, looking like a spider
Male Choir: making shadows on the land, Taking life into his hands Feeling death crawl into him, Then he faded to nothing
Female and Male Choir together: Noooooooooooothiiiiiiiiiiiiiiing, Faaaaaaaaaaaaaaadiiiiiiiiiiing Noooooooooooothiiiiiiiiiiiiiiing, Faaaaaaaaaaaaaaadiiiiiiiiiiing awaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I see the most disturbing things: Monster pigs with crimson wings A bible black angel arises and sings:
Choir: Hail the mighty blades of death They met their mark they found their depth The mower a weapon, now blood is shed
(female spoken): What do we do now that we're dead?
choir: WTF UR SPOSED TO POUST UN LAIN ATTATAIM!1!!1
The bible black angel emerges and cries:
"The Lord of the Rings is the Lord of the Flies! The Lord of the Skies is the Lord of the Rings!"
A crimson-winged pig's moving upwards and sings:
(a sudden jump from F# minor to Eb major)
The Minstrel: The piper takes his fife The looter takes his wife The girl is young and cute The piper plays his flute The looter plays his loot
(lute solo)
The sinner takes it all, the looter standing tall
choir: It's really not a question of how long it is, the only thing that matters is that it's exactly one (1) line and not any more which basically means that you're not supposed to cut it like that . . . or else.
(Two percussion quartets (one with tuned instruments and the other with drums) do musical battle on opposite sides of the stage)
Prog + Star Trek + Screams = I don't get how the next lyric isn't
Choir: (all) KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN! (men) Oh (all, with Eb major chord on church organ) KHAAAAAAA....AAAAAAAN!!!
(Meatloaf voice) Well, as I'm recording it, let me at least pick the scale, mr. fail. I'm the father of all living things, all awesome stuff, the hope I bring, NOW you're envying!
'He's STILL recording it?' said the man in white
Choir: Still recording it, still affording it, day and night
In Day time your pyramid of love, In night time your spirit shows that i love And I looooove, Oh I love.... you to show..... me the waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyy!!!
Let's count!
One-lining wombats, two-timing tomcats
Let's count!
One-lining wombats, two-timing tomcats
Five: men with high hats, six: jazzy sextets
Sexy jazz pets!
Messy mad rats!
Messy mad rats poopin' all o'er 'cos they can!
Choir: Yes they caaaaaaaaaaaan! Oh, yes they can!
It's because they eat alotof fibre drink alotof water & exercise regularly.
But wombats don't!
choir: Rats do, rats do, rats dooooooooo, but wombats doooooooon't!
Sludgy guitar break)
the wombat: Those filthy, healthy( Censored) I feel like slaughtering them all!
The rats: Come here little wombat, and we'll take you deep into the sewers and abuse you!
The wombats: Come here, little rat, and we'll take you to the fairground to amuse you!
choir: HE WAS TOO LATE!!!
(Interlude: Yodeling and the sound of 100,000 marching ants.)
Well well well that's just swell! I have to record 100,000 marching ants down by the wishing well...
You can record one ant and multiply it by 100,000.
Male choir: Gone Chopin, Bach in a minute! Female choir: Tried Handel, thought you were Haydn!
Shemale choir: Shostakovich ftw!!!
Morten Harket: Count on me Count me on I'll be gone In a day or 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 trumpets blowin' 8 rolling stones.
No, not at all.
I hate you.
Choir: We luv ya!
Wombat: me?
And the wombat shied away and softly mumbled something that nobody could hear.
James LaBrie: Goodbye (sampled from ACOS)
I tremble and dance as the boojums advance
[Fairlight Synthesizer bottle-blowing sounds]
(A voice from void) -This is the most LOL game I have ever seen!
Choir: That he has ever seen!
If it's pop, it must be LOL-ee-pop.
Choir: but you always hear them saaaaaaay, OH MY GNOME!!!!!!
Funny, I don't.
I should murder you.
You're doing it all the time . . . so slowly that it hurts.
Wombat, I'm sorry but I just can't resist!
One day I will find you and make you suffer.
As if you could reach me... you can't reach anything in life.
Neither could Johann Georg Hamann . . . or so I've heard.
Choir: stop talking about others *sound of hand hitting wombat's cheek*, let's talk about YOU!!!!
There's nothing worth mentioning about me.
He was just a wombat, a scum of the streets.
Whenever he passed by people kicked him with their feets.
Censored bit
No wombats were harmed in the making of this song.
Intense sound of wombat in extreme pain)
choir: Kill the poor thing!
But the wombat flew away and got hit by a meteor.
Wombats can't fly, you fool!
Never heard of the Much Bigger, Scarier And Wombatier Than The Big Scary Wombat Demon Demon?
That demon is only partly a wombat.
Choir: SO WUUUUUUUUT?
So the fact that the demon can fly doesn't implicate that there are wombats that can fly. But I bet there are wombats that can fly.
Prove it.
I'm too lazy.
I knew it.
You know NOTHING!
Who died and made you the epistemologist?
What lived thorugh the quarantine and killed all passengers onboard?
Choir: This song is so wrong Female Soprano: It's going nowhere! Male: There are too many references to silly things Choir: This song is too long Female Soprano: Its beginning to scare Male: I would rather sing about the Queen and Kings
- Synthphonic prog
- Polyphonic prog
- Crossfire prog (old fart rock)
- Eclesiastic prog
- Heavy prog (not to be confused with Healthy frog)
- Not-really-prog (not to be confused with "Not related to a frog")
- Proggish (not to be confused with Irish frogs)
- James Blunt prog
- Epileptic Prog
- Progressive Mental
- Alien Prog
- Proto-Prog(not to be confused with protozoo frog)
- Psychotic-Spice rock.
- Arithmetic/Bulletin Prog
- Related to Prog but not AOR
- Punk Prog
- Sleaze Prog
- Bieber hate club Prog
- Atomic Prog
Synthphonic Prog[edit]
This style is the ultimate prog. It consists of prog bands/artists that played rock in a way that was pretty symphonic, that is to say that they took violins and cellos and turned them into guitars and drums via magic. It also includes keyboards, mainly the synth. A lot of bands were synthessious and symphonic at the same time, so they were called "synthphonic". It is said that if you plug a guitar to a radio and then put it in a microwave, you can hear the words "I'll be the Roundabout", pronounced by Al Gore. Other artists claim that you can also levitate. Bands included here can either be very symphoniousious and synthcrosious at the same time (eg. Camel and The Marlon Brando Band of Merry Men), only symphonic or some people who used syths a lot such as varius DJs and people working in different factories and Brian Eno. This is the mind sucking music 70's bands used to do, such as:
- Genesis (not to be confused with Sui Generis or Genegig)
- Brian Eno
- Yone Trip
- Yes
- No
- Perhaps, but only on Wednesdays
- Emerson, Lake and Palmer
- Eberson, Take and Paulmer
- Paul Oakenfold
- The Marlon Brando Band of Merry Men
- Marlon Brando's Band of Merry Men (without Marlon Brando)
- Phil Collins's brother
- Steve Hackett's Departure
- Brother Collin
- Subsequential Paradise by the Dashboard Lights
- Prog Frogs
- Beard
- Breed
- King Crimson
- Kim-Jong-Ill
- Camel
- People working in different factories.
- Jethro Tull (not to be confused with Jealous Bull)
- Jethro Tull (no, that guy from the 18th century that made some seed thing I think)
- Setro Toll
- Kethro Tell
- Ketro Tal
Key albums[edit]
- In Da Kart Ou Du Toillete (King Crimson/1969) rating: 6.3142547137459237593475/5
- Thick as a prick (Jethro tull/1972) rating: 5.89/5 stars
- Selling England by the pound (Genesis/1973) rating: 4.98/5
- I've selled my new land for a pound (Genegig/1974) rating: 4.09/5
- Close to Bono (Yes/1971) rating: 4.06/5
- My Fairy God-uncle (Brother Collin/1967) raiting:4.891/5
- Setro Toll III (Setro Toll/1970) raiting: 4.57/5
- Kethro Tell Live I (Kethro Tell/1972) raiting: 4.99001/5
- Marlon Brando is the man (Marlon Brando's Band of Merry Men (without Marlon Brando)/1989) raiting: 3.98/5
- This is a bitch (People working in different factories/1981) raiting: 0.98/5
- Imma Chargin Ma Lazah! (Orange guy screaming/2050) rating: 0/0
- The Human Maths Equation (Ayreon) rating 11/5
- Dark Slide of the Spoon (Who's Pink?) rating infinity/5
math not prog[edit]
This type of prog ditches all the masturbatory techinique founded by the wizards and druids of the keyboards but keeps the odd time signatures like 52/4 and 9/17
- The Police
- Deaf To Van Gogh's Ear
- Bullz
- Jew-pitta & The Matt zoes
- Deityslow Me White Peasant
Key Albums[edit]
- Discow E.P. (Deaf To Van Gogh's Ear/2004) rating: 4.5/4
- Reg-ay (The Police/1984) rating: 1/5
Polyphonic Prog[edit]
This is a type of prog that can either consist of choirs or mellotron cannons, or just music written on mobile phones (e.g. polyphonic ringtones and cowbell melodies). Very few bands actually do this style.
- Kraftwerk (not to be confused with Kraft Food)
- Gary Numan(not to be confused with "Numa, numa gay")
- The Movistar personnel
- Cowbell dude
Key Albums[edit]
- Cowbells, cowbells and more cowbells (Cowbell dude/1981)rating: 6.79/5 stars
- The Cowbell dude (The Movistar personnel/2007) rating: 4.21/5
- The hideous hits (concept album) (Kraftwerk/1978)rating:4.61/5
- Electrolisis (Gary Numan/1984) rating: -2.89/5
Crossfire prog[edit]
Crossfire prog contains bands that, although 100% progressive, may have some connection with popular music, or may have burst into flames, thus giving it the "cross-FIRE" tag. This was created when Supertramp (initially a symphonic prog band) released their hit single "Dreamer"(containing "My strawberry bush" on side b). Their fans thought they'd sold out, but Roger Hodgson claimed: "We didn't sell out...we just want our music to reach pop-jerks to make more money". The difference between this and selling out is debatable. Years later, someone claimed that Supertramp's case was the one of a fully progressive band that wanted to reach the mainstream audience. That's why they are included in this sub-genre. The other reason of their inclusion is that, when their hit single came out, a lot of prog fans set fire to it, to show their disapproval. Other bands' discographies have crossed fire many times, due to this same reason. Prog Archives has collected this records from the fire, cleaned them and put them in the market again...hoping no further burning ocurrs.
This category had its name changed from Fart Rock to Crossfire prog, because it caused quarrels among experts, claiming that it was not 100% accurate to call it Fart Rock, since not all fires were lit by intense farting.
Bands include:
- Supertramp (not to be confused with "Superman trap")
- Mike Oldfield (not to be confused with 'my coal field')
- The Moody Blues(not be confused "The Monday Shoes")
- Tony Banks
- John Oboiste(whose albums in the 80's were all burnt by old fans, especially "A Guitar Way to Throw", in 1985)
- Bris Walter(whose most burnt record was "Pop Tart & a Guitar to Throw Away")
- Back Walkman
- Buzz Yogurtlight (not to be confused with Buzz Lightyear nor with Boz Burrell)
- Phil Collins's more popular brother than the one featuring in Synthphonic prog.
- Marillion
- Ice Cube Crossfired many times, as seen in picture.
- Maroon 5 (though their progressiveness is debatable, all of their records have been burnt at one time or another, by everyone of us).
Key Albums[edit]
- Crime of the Century (Supertramp/1974)rating:5.02/5
- A Curious Feeling (Tony Banks/1979) rating: 4.01/5
- I'm more popular than my brother, but not as popular as my more popular brother, whom you all know (Phil Collins's more popular brother than the one featuring in Synthphonic prog/2005)rating:78.98/5
- Our singer doesn't sound like Jon Anderson (Glass Hammer/2023) rating:2.3333333333333333333333333333331/5
- Into the Future (The Moody Blues/2019) rating: 4.9987.67&1987.78/5....$
- A Slash (John Oboiste/1976) rating:4.77/5
- Phantom Afternoons (John Oboiste/1979) rating: 4.89/5
- Back to the String Tour '82 (John Oboiste/2005) rating:4.33332/5
- The trip of the Archibald Right(not to be confused with "The Voyage of the Acolyte") (Bris Walter/ 1975) rating:103/5
- This Love (Gisel, good-bye) (Maroon 5/2005)rating:-28.90/5
- I do not sound like Peter Gabriel (Marillion/ 1984) rating: 6.09/5
Eclesiastic Prog[edit]
This is a subdivision from Fart Rock. Bands in here were taken out of the F.R category because they didn't have any connection to popular music whatsoever and all had certain relegious contents in their music (most bands here are actually formed by priests or monks). This style came from the high mountains of Nonthapting, were Monsenior Beckenburgerbauer started writing lyrics based on visions he had of the Apocalypse and was accompained by his monks, who played percussion on some rocks or skeleton remains of dead priests. Such bands include:
- Holy Henry Cow
- Brother Maynard
- The Monsenior Beckenburgerbauer project
- St. Elmo
- St. Simon & Graaf-funk-el
- Neal Morse
- Randy George
- The Churchills
- The Priests of Mont Herlom
- Procession
- A walk with a priest
- I'm a priest, I'm your king, I'm a saint
Key Albums[edit]
- Sola Scriptura (Neal Morse/2007) rating: 56.908/5
- Walk in Procession (Procession/1974) rating: 4.09/5
- Walk like a Procession (A walk with a priest/2155) rating:7.8/5
- Hey, stop walkin'! (Procession/ 1976) rating: 3.56/5
- Keep Walkin in procession (A walk with a priest/2156) rating: 4.99/5
- Fkuc "A walk with a priest" (Procession/1977) rating: 5/5
- Apocalypse (based on The Apocalypse) (The Monsenior Beckenburgerbauer project/1420) rating: 16.78/5
- God is my Pooper Scooper (Fallen Angel Turds/1982) still not rated
- Clockwork Angles (Rash/ 2012) rated highly but this may change over duration as people really realise it's true intentions.
- Flower Kids do it again (Flower Kiddies/ 2012) Rated 5 stars which may change when everyone realises its just trash.
Heavy Prog[edit]
Heavy Prog defines progressive rock music that draws as much influence from hard rock as it does from "thrown away to the trash" beavers. Although heavy prog has caused much controversy , some pepole think it is, somehow, related to healthy frogs. This association is, of course, erroneous. It is, however, very common that people confuse the term "Heavy Prog" with "Healthy Frog", but this is, may I repeat, a complete misunderstanding. So it is, thus, a terrible mistake to relate this music style with amphibian health conditions. You shan't mistake Prog Rock that is heavier with frogs that can breath normally and live happily without having to suffer diseases. Mistake Heavy Prog with Healthy Frog is what individuals (like you or myself) shall not, by any means, do. So, thus, consider yourself informed that thinking heavy prog and healthy frog are the same thing is a complete misconception. Anyway, bands included here can either be 70's prog bands highly influenced by hard rock or late 80's/90's bands that are more influenced by heavy metal. Rush, for example, was a progressive rock act that got hit by a very hard stone (or rock) in 1973. It was then confirmed by Geddy Lee that the rock was incredibly heavy. This same stone was to hit Queensrÿche and Dream Theater in the mid 80's. Bands include:
- Rush
- Baku Llama (with Barack Obama)
- Flush
- The Mars Volta (not to be confused with John Travolta)
- Queensrÿche
- Dream Theater (not to be confused with Drum Theatre)
- Fates Warning (not to be confused with Fatez Uarnin)
- Pain of Salvation (feel free to confuse it with Pain of Starvation, it's actually one and the same)
- Zed Leppelin
- Ozzy Oscorp
- Grover
- Anathema
- Coheed and Cambria
Key Albums[edit]
- Da Noob Cummin On Da Latina! (Mars volta/2002) rating: 42.2.../5
- In the bed with david and goliath(giant penis) (Mars volta/2007) rating: 69/69
- Live Scenes from Newark (Dream Theater/2001) rating: 55.11/5
- Octafingers (Masterbatory Dream/2007) rating: ~64.68564321/5
- My Chops are Better than Yours (Spooge Theater/2009) rating: 99.999%/5
- Be (Pain of Salvation/2004) rating: 4.68/5
- Operation Nursery Cryme (Queensrÿche/1989) rating: 6.20/5
- 2111112 (Rush/1976) rating: 5.67/5
- Hold Your Helium (Rush/1986) rating: 1.67/5
- W/C (Flush/1977) rating: 4.52/5
Abusive Progressive Rock listening can lead your head to A SPLODE!!!! Nevertheless, Jimmy Hendrix, JIm Morrison, Grover and Ned's Lizard will congratulate you for trying to do it without dying.
Not-really-Prog/ Proggish[edit]
This category includes bands that are actually, not really prog at all. The Proggish style begun into the early 1970s, when bands like Queen, Roxy Music and Led Zeppelin took some stuff they didn't really understand from real prog and added it to their music because of peer pressure. Other proggish bands came out like Iron Maiden (who are pretty much metal, but share some traits with prog, such as extreme mellotronning), and dudes from real prog bands went solo, like David Gilmour, Jon Lord, Santa Claus, Leutennant Steve and Andrew Lloyd Webber. The entire purpose of this section is a failed attempt to make it seem like a lot of popular music is actually prog when it is obviously not and is generally a waste of space and time. Bands include:
- Led Zeppelin (not to be confused with Zed Leppelin)
- Queen
- Jimi Hendrix
- Metallica
- Dire Straits
- Roxy Music
- Jon Lord
- David Gilmour
- Santa Claus
- Andrew Lloyd Webber
- Iron Maiden
- Leutennant Steve
- Phil Collins
- The Ramones
- Ozzy Osbourne
- Erasure
Key Albums[edit]
- Queen II (Queen/1974) rating: 5.44/5
- Led Zeppelin IV (or Soso, or ZaZi, or WTF? or Whateveryoumightcallit) (Led Zeppelin/1971) rating: 20.67/5
- Face Value (Phil Collins/1981) rating: 2.87/5
- I broke my fucking fingers (Andrew Lloyd Webber/1992) rating: 4.23/5
- A distastrous play (Andrew Lloyd Webber/2007) rating:4.76/5
- Pet Samatary (The Ramones/1987) rating: -1.89/5
- We're so gay (Erasure/1985) rating:-1344/5
- I am not Madonna, I am Ozzy Osbourne! (Luetennant Steve/ 1991) rating: 6.45/5
- Jingle Bells (Santa Claus/somewhere in time) rating: 44.13/5
James Blunt Prog[edit]
Now, this is an odd one. To begin with, we have to know who James Blunt is to understand what we are actually talking about when we say "James Blunt Prog". James started his career aspiring to be a huge pop star. He released his single "you're beautiful" sometime in the 2000s and gained much success. Then, he noticed that that was the only song of his that people actually listened to. Shortly after that, he realised he was just another one-hit-wonder. Thus, he went away to the catacumbs of "Wellyabetercumopuithsumthin" and stayed there for about 267 days. There he composed music using nothing else but old and broken cowbells dropped on the way by various ass-backpackers. He had iniciated a new, progressive sound. It was different from normal prog...it was, in fact different from music, itself. His style was so James Blunt, that he decided to call it "James Blunt Prog".
Key Albums[edit]
- James Blunt's James Blunt way of playing James Blunt music (James Blunt/ 2007)rating: 4.56/5
- Pharashootz (Coldplay/2007) rating: 4.2/5
Epileptic Prog[edit]
This category is filled up by bands that, using their music, make you suffer instant epilepsy attacks every 2 and 1/56 hours on the same day. This music is, somewhat obsolete in the media because all of the countries in the world, except, of course, the Cannibal United Butt-heads Alliance (a.k.a. CUBA), have prohibited it for the extremeasploding of peoples' heads. Bands included are:
- Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention
- Captain Beefheart's Band of Merry Men
- Fantomas
- Gabriel Recoleta (not to be confused with Peter Gabriel or The Recoleta Asswipes
- The Progressive Renga (not to be confused with La Renga)
- Phil Collins's Unrecognized Brother
- Phil Collins's Brother-in-Law
- The Progressive Abuelos de la Nada (not to be confused with Abbey Road)
- Christopher Walken & His Comments
- The Betels (not to be confused with Pink Floyd
- Frank Zappa with Father Inventor (see Eclesiastic Prog)
- Severed Corpus Callosum (Also called S.C.C.)
Key Albums[edit]
- How much cocaine do you need to kill a Horse? (Gabriel Recoleta/1970) rating: infinite/5
- Captain Beefheart's Band of Merry Men pt. I: Enduring the Painless enema (Captain Beefheart's Band of Merry Men/1975) rating: 6.0923478/5
- DNA proof (Phil Collins's Unrecognized Brother/2004) rating: 0+65/12
- My Sister is Phil Collins's 56th wife (The Progressive Abuelos de la Nada/1985) rating: ratin' crazin'/5
- More Cowbell (Christopher Walken/ 2016) rating: 8+Q/5
- I know Our Name Sounds like Deep Purple, but we are Another Band (The Betels/ 1978) rating: 4.21/5
- Right Hand Says What Left Hand (Severed Corpus Callosum/Date Unknown) Rating PG-13
Progressive Mental[edit]
Progressive mental defines bands that draw as much influence from prog as they do from metal, but were taken away from the Heavy Prog (not to be confused with Healthy Frog) category because of various reasons. Firstly, the term Heavy Prog is a combination between Heavy Metal and Progressive Rock. The sound was pretty much prog only that heavy, that is why it was decided to use the word "heavy" rather than "metal". In opposition, this bands use to concentrate more on the "metal" aspect of heavy metal, to show their music is made of pure solid metal ( we can identify some of these bands for the use of metal underwear, usually over their pants, and sometimes even whole metal asses). But this genre is not called "prog metal", it is called "prog meNtal". This is due to the severely problematic state of mental health that this bands posses (or at least show in their music). They include such elements as really dirty distored guitars, Cookie Monster vocals or agonizing insect vocals, spiral riffs, insecticides, pesticides, rotten foxtrots, rotten wool or leather jackets, rotten smell of sweat and shit (steeming through the night), inverted crosses, inverted inverted crosses, pig heads and spikes with a fluffy edge. These are some of the sub-genres included here (all are considered mentally ill): Prog Black Metal, Prog Super Black Metal, Prog Scandinavian Nu Metal, Vegetarian Progressive Grindcore, Norwegian Prog Folk Metal, Prog Unblack Metal, Eclesiastic Hell Metal, Progressive Asswipe and Lounge. The creator of the whole prog mental category is Chuck Schuldiner. He did it when he started screaming the lyrics of Metallica's Fight Fire With Fire while driving his van at a tremendous speed inside his old school's kinder garden. This was taped by his friend Rogel. Lyrics deal with such topics as death, mutilation, philosophy, Satan worship, Santa worship, hate, constipation, dark dragons, ghosts, zombies and some shit whispered in some Scandinavian dialect.... and lower intestines.
- Opeth (not to be confused with Oprahdeath)
- Myung's Constipation
- The Oscar Wilde Blood-Sucking Metal Band
- Death
- Stinkhole
- Borknagar
- Valterstrog
- Emperor
- Progressive Horde
- Father Moldoone's Fucked Up Metal Band
- The Marilín Monzon Project
- Othron
- Ass-ylum
- The Nextel Employees
Key Albums[edit]
- Blackwater Park (Opeth/2001) rating: 1,000,000,000,000,000/5
- Death by Mentol (Death/1987) rating: Carlos/5
- Brown Fury (Stinkhole/2007) rating: 4.100/5
- The MetroPølis Attacked pt II: The Blacke Cyrcl (The Marilín Monzon Project/666) rating:-2,565,241,456/5.32
- Bee (Myung's Constipation/2005) rating 8345786/5
- Semi-Architectural flying corpse in the Water (Ass-Ylum/1999) rating: 6/5
- The Ghost of Cantertouille (The Oscar Wilde Blood-Sucking Metal Band/1997) rating: 8.2312514/8.24
- The Ghost Reveries (Opeth/2005) rating: 5.01/5
- Fuck the Movistar Personnel (Father Moldoone's Fucked-up Metal Band/1999) rating: 125/123


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Summer storms set near-record insured loss figures
At least $433.5 million recorded in June and July
The storms that socked Ohio in late June and early July made for the third-costliest natural disaster in the state's modern history, leading to estimated insurance claims of at least $433.5 million, an insurance industry trade group said Monday.
The tally reported by the Ohio Insurance Institute doesn't include the $29 million in damage to infrastructure and cleanup costs reported by 38 affected counties following the severe weather from June 29 to July 2.
The insured losses from those storms fell short of the damage caused by the Hurricane Ike windstorm in 2008, which had insured losses of at least $1.14 billion plus $38.6 million in other damage. The 1974 Xenia tornado outbreak was second costliest.
The recent storms caused widespread power outages, left significant strewn debris, and damaged public facilities and some rural electric cooperatives. Five deaths were blamed on the storms. One occurred in a barn collapse and four others were heat-related.
Ohio insurance claims are expected to be at least 96,725 and could reach as many as 107,300, the insurance group reported.
"The numbers tell us that the storms that came through in late June early July were significant not only in dollar losses but in number of claims," insurance institute spokeswoman Mary Bonelli said.
The preliminary estimates include 74,606 homeowners' claims for $328.4 million, 15,705 auto claims totaling $34.4 million and 6,083 business claims for $65.6 million. The amounts don't include out-of-pocket expenses.
The insurance group noted that the storms were the eighth major natural disaster to hit Ohio since 2011. Those include two winter storms in 2011 and six wind-hail storms.
"What we're seeing is a trend toward more storms," Bonelli said. "We're seeing a higher rate of severity and frequency in the last three to five years."
The major event this summer was the June 29 "derecho" straight-line storm that tore across the Midwest and mid-Atlantic regions with little warning and winds gusts of up to 100 mph.
As many as 4 million customers lost power from Indiana to Virginia, including a million across Ohio. The state then saw another line of severe storms roll through starting on July 1.

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HOTSEAT- Sieg-way: Local boy opens film fest
Derek Sieg is calling from upstate New York. The youthful filmmaker is at the Woodstock Film Festival, his third festival this year. He's done L.A., he's done Athens; but in some ways, the most important event is still to come: opening night at the Virginia Film Festival.
Although Variety gushed that his freshman film, Swedish Auto, "weaves the kind of spell that can only come from a sure-handed storyteller," the impending hometown premiere is giving this writer/director a wee bit of nerves.
"There's enough anxiety showing to strangers," he says, "but we shot the film here, I grew up here, and the Virginia Film Festival is the only film festival I'd ever been to." At least until this year.
Starring Lukas Haas and January Jones, Swedish Auto premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival in June, and that was a "red-carpet kind of spectacle," Sieg says. "When we premiered, we had lots of friends and family. You want to think people liked it– not just family and friends."
The Western Albemarle/UVA grad probably couldn't get an audience full of strangers at the October 26 Paramount screening if he tried. Especially since he filmed Swedish Auto last fall in Charlottesville, including location shots at Mel's Diner and U-Haul on West Main Street.
Sieg says he doesn't remember a cathartic moment when he knew he was going to make films– but he does remember always making movies when he was a kid. "I would ask teachers if I could make movies instead of turning in a paper," he says. "I thought I was getting out of writing a paper. I didn't realize it was something that clicked for me.
"But I always liked to write," adds the English major, who has the requisite unpublished novel tucked under his bed.
Like any aspiring filmmaker, he headed out to L.A. after film school. "L.A. is a good experience because it makes you focus and ups the energy level," he says.
But it was his Charlottesville roots that proved instrumental for Swedish Auto. "People I know in Charlottesville provided the defining forces in getting it made," he says. "The community was most helpful."
Sieg says he can see living here down the road. "It's easier for a director," he notes, to be out of the L.A. scene.
He's still looking for distribution for Swedish Auto, which he made with fellow UVA grad/producer Tyler Davidson. And Sieg has penned another script, The Anthropologist, on which the two will also collaborate. They hope to film it in Harper's Ferry next spring or summer.
In the meantime, there's the Charlottesville premiere at the Paramount, and if any homies decide to heckle their boy, Sieg is ready.
"I'll have to give them an Indian rug burn if they do," he promises.
Age: 30
What do you like best about Charlottesville? Downtown
Least? 29 North
Favorite hangout here? C&O downstairs
Most overrated virtue? Subdivisions
People would be surprised to know about you: My favorite beer isn't Budweiser (but it's a J.W. Sieg product).
What would you change about yourself? I wish I were more patient.
Proudest accomplishment? Winning the Audience Award at the Athens International Film Festival
People find most annoying about you: My persistence
Whom do you admire? Anyone who thinks for him/herself
Favorite book? The End of Oil by Paul Roberts
Subject that causes you to rant? Iraq
Biggest 21st-century thrill? Seeing my movie play with Greek subtitles
Biggest 21st-century creep out? The End of Oil by Paul Roberts
What do you drive? Honda Civic Hybrid
In your car CD player right now: M. Ward
Next journey? Germany for the Mannheim Film Festival
Most trouble you've ever gotten in? Acting in a "love scene" in a student film when I was a teaching assistant (she was six years older than I was, not that they cared).
Regret: That love scene
Favorite comfort food: Chicken parm hero
Always in your refrigerator: Cilantro
Must-see TV: World Cup
Favorite cartoon: Family Guy
Describe a perfect day. Walking to a sidewalk café for a coffee, an afternoon movie, a game of Scrabble on the porch, corner pub for pints
Walter Mitty fantasy: Should I know him?
Who'd play you in the movie? Henry Thomas
Most embarrassing moment? Not knowing who Walter Mitty is
Best advice you ever got? Don't look down.
Favorite bumper sticker? Jesus is coming – Look busy.
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Become a Billionaire & Have More Power to Indulge Insecurities
by Jenn
There are few people who would turn down the chance to become a billionaire. On second thought; you might stay far away from wanting that level of income after reading this post.
It seems that billionaires can be a pretty insufferable and neurotic bunch!
Psychiatrist Kerry Sulkowicz has become the 'go-to guy' for billionaires all over. They come to him for advice about their personal lives, and he has found that many of them are hard to handle!
There seem to be some common patterns with these patients. Many of these rich men have a very difficult time coming to terms with things that have happened in their past, and they have an even harder time being modest.
One of the reasons billionaires can be so flashy is because they can from humble backgrounds in some cases. They didn't have anything growing up, so they feel the need to overcompensate now. That leads to the desire to have a home on every continent, as well as their own island to escape to. They buy these things because they can now and they couldn't back then. Hopefully Kerry helps them understand that having a dozen houses can't quite compete with clearing up those old childhood issues.
Another symptom of overspending that seems to pop up among billionaires is the fact that they always need to outdo each other. Having a house on every continent and their own island is not enough if their rival also owns 8 private jets (that's, hopefully, an exaggeration). Again, billionaires seem to have a tendency to hide behind their money to overcompensate for other issues.
The video of the psychiatrist talking about these billionaires is pretty scary! It's not because Kerry doesn't seem competent or good at what he does, but because he's so jaded by these people. In fact, it seems like he's tired of dealing with them at all.
That begs the question of whether having too much money can eventually lead to losing touch with reality.
If Kerry, who is used to dealing with people who have issues, can't stand these people, can anyone else?
One of the main goals of making a lot of money is to have some sort of social status. It means you can finally buy whatever you want and associate with whoever you want to associate with. But, if no one wants to touch you with a ten foot pole after you're surrounded by your money it's essentially done you no good.
Those who view the video should take it as a warning. When a psychiatrist thinks you're nuts and unpleasant to be around, its time to make some changes. Acquiring more homes, jet skis, and cars isn't going to fill that hole.
Billionaires are definitely an entirely different breed than many of us are used to dealing with. Hopefully, as you reach your own financial goals you will keep track of what's important. We don't want to end up like one of the billionaires who essentially become social lepers because of their own hang ups.
Become rich: but don't become annoying to be around and deal with.


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The new 2012 UNAIDS report Together we will end AIDS is being launched today ahead of the XIX International AIDS Conference in Washington, DC, which is taking place from 22-27 July.
Together We Will End AIDS report launch and interactive discussion hosted by UNAIDS Executive Director.
18 July 2012, 10:30 EDT / 14:30 GMT / 16:30 CEST
The report contains the latest data on numbers of new HIV infections, numbers of people receiving antiretroviral treatment, AIDS-related deaths and HIV among children. It also highlights new scientific opportunities and social progress, and gives an overview of international and domestic HIV investments.
The report will be launched during a high-level interactive panel discussion held at the Newseum in Washington DC. AIDS 2012 represents a historic moment in the global AIDS response — for the first time in more than 20 years, the United States plays host to the largest international conference on HIV. At this critical juncture in the epidemic, UNAIDS will bring together some of today's influential thought-leaders on HIV, global health and development to share insights into the HIV response: where we've come from, where we are today, and where we are going.
Watch the live webcast of the launch of Together we will end AIDS here
The Brussels based United Nations Regional Information Centre for Western Europe - UNRIC provides information on UN activities to the countries of the region. It also provides liaison with institutions of the European Union in the field of information. Its outreach activities extend to all segments of society and joint campaigns, projects and events are organized with partners including the EU, governments, the media, NGOs, schools and local authorities.
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Transversal and sectorial reviews
Two other review types have been developed around the core of the national cultural policy reviews: transversal reviews have the purpose to investigate a specific cultural policy issue in a comparative way; sectorial reviews provide a detailed picture of a specific sector and its policy requirements.
Transversal reviews
National institutions in transition
This study, carried out in 1998-1999, involved six states: Cyprus, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Netherlands and Poland. It analysed how the development of the global economy has encouraged various forms of désétatisation within national administrations. In many cases this has led to a sharing of the responsibility with the private sector. Many national cultural institutions are no longer exclusively the responsibility of the state in terms of management and financing. The changes are expressed in the legal status of these institutions, and in the way in which they function.
Final report: John Myerscough et al.: National cultural institutions in transition: 'desétatisation' and privatisation. Strasbourg: Council of Europe, 2001 - CC-CULT(2001)10 (PDF).
Cultural policy and cultural diversity
This transversal study (2001-2003) dealt with the situation of cultural diversity and the national diversity policy in 15 countries: Austria, Belgium (French Community), Bulgaria, Canada, Luxembourg, Switzerland and the United Kingdom in the first round, whereas the second round put an emphasis on diversity in different parts of Eastern Europe: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Hungary, Romania, Russia, Serbia and Ukraine.
Sectorial reviews
Book policies
The national policies concerning the book sector have been examined in the context of the Electronic Publishing, Books and Archives project which ran from 1992 to 2000. National book policy reviews have been carried out for Albania, Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Romania and the Slovak Republic.
These studies helped the new democracies to adjust their legislation and administrative framework to the market economy, and to adopt policies which support the book sector.
The STAGE project, assisting the countries in the South Caucasus in the transition of their cultural policies, later established similar book sector reviews for Armenia (2002) and Georgia (2003).
Film policies
A study on film support policies in Europe was carried out from 2008: Review of national film policies and led to Recommendation CM/Rec(2009)7of the Committee of Ministers to member states on national film policies and the diversity of cultural expressions.


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...Entomb their child in the creepiest costume on Earth.
Image by snigglefeck.
Sunday, November 7, 2010
Coolest Parents On Earth...
...Entomb their child in the creepiest costume on Earth.
6 comments:
- Husk's Dad said...
I have a new grandchild that will be adding to my life come March... I now know what to do come October :)
- November 7, 2010 at 12:28 PM
- JD said...
Caption: first time lady gaga dressed herself.
- November 7, 2010 at 2:09 PM
- Goneferalinidaho said...
I love the glowing eyes. A friend took a bunch of shots at this year's costume party and every one of mine had wicked glowing eyes!
- November 7, 2010 at 2:23 PM
- Sara said...
And they didn't even bother to photoshop the red out of the eyes, pfft. lol. ;)
Um, I beg to differ: My husband and I are the coolest parents on earth. Thank you very much.
....ok, so I forced my son into a black and orange clown costume, but he was FREAKING ADORABLE, DAMNIT. :)
- November 7, 2010 at 4:15 PM
- Hopsy the beer drinking clown said...
what an intense costume for an infant! wow! the best costumes i got as a child were the ons that came in a box with a plastic mask with a rubber band to hold it on to your head...how times have changed!
- November 7, 2010 at 4:25 PM
- K.O. said...
Makes me want to have a kid.
- November 7, 2010 at 11:41 PM


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Separated by just a single point, the San Jose Earthquakes return home to take on Seattle Sounders FC in a key match in the Western Conference standings. The Earthquakes haven't lost in four games, last playing to a 2-2 draw with the LA Galaxy, while Sounders FC won for the second consecutive week, defeating the Colorado Rapids 2-1.
The Quakes are coming off a 2-2 draw on the road against the Los Angeles Galaxy. San Jose joined the New England Revolution as the only teams to score multiple goals on the Western Conference leaders in 2010. Bobby Convey has rejoined the team after playing 45 minutes for the MLS All-Stars against Manchester United Wednesday night in Houston.
Sounders FC are one of the hottest teams in the league, winning three of their last four matches against MLS opponents.


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The best time to visit Norfolk Island weather-wise is from October to March, when you can enjoy little to no rain for exploring.
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Le nozze di Figaro (1783) [153.06]
Dame Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano) Countess; Eberhard Waechter (baritone)
Count; Giuseppe Taddei (baritone) - Figaro; Anna Moffo (soprano)
Susanna; Dora Gatta (soprano) Marcellina; Ivo Vinco (bass) Bartolo;
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Philharmonia Chorus and Orchestra/Carlo Maria Giulini
rec. Kingsway Hall, London, September and November 1959
MAJOR CLASSICS M3CD304 [3 CDs: 41.54 + 44.40 + 66.21]
This is a reissue, presumably transferred from the original four LPs,
of the celebrated Giulini EMI stereo recording issued in 1961 which
has now come out of copyright. In its day it was justly famous, with
a generally excellent cast and Guilini less soft-centred than he later
became. In later years we have had many superb readings of this ever-popular
score, some of which are more historically informed; but the sound of
this performance is never over-laden with romantic heaviness and the
interpretation that the singers bring to their roles remains as fresh
as ever.
This set retains the traditional ordering of the items in Act Three,
where it has more recently been maintained that Mozarts original scheme,
which was altered to accommodate the double casting at the première
of the same singer in the roles of Basilio and Curzio, should be adopted.
What is more serious is the cutting of the two incidental arias for
Marcellina and Basilio in the final Act. Although these had been included
in EMIs earlier Glyndebourne set under Gui - reprehensibly cut again
for the CD reissue - it does not appear that Giulini ever recorded these
at least, I can find no reference to the matter in any of the original
reviews of the LPs to which I have access.
When they transferred the set to CD, EMI managed to cram the complete
recording onto two CDs, but this necessitated making a break in the
Act Two finale which disturbed the dramatic continuity of this extended
movement. Those who are concerned about this should certainly consider
investing in this new transfer, which by employing three CDs avoids
this problem. The sound is certainly as good as on EMIs original 1990
CD issue I have not heard the later reissues from 2006 and 2013
but the latter may well have been subject to further re-mastering, and
coming as they do on two discs rather than three may also have a price
advantage. Be warned however that Major insert a slight pause in the
Act Two finale - presumably corresponding to an original LP side break
- at the same point that EMI make their break between CDs. Although
not as ruinous as a similar misjudgement in their transfer of the Solti
Tristan which I reviewed recently, this remains a minor annoyance
which rather obviates the point of giving us the finale complete on
one side.
Most of the artists here are well-known quantities, and many prospective
purchasers will have their own views on the interpretations. Dame Elisabeth
Schwarzkopf is her usual perceptive self as the Countess, pointing her
words with her accustomed care and with plenty of sparkle in the recitatives.
Some may find her enunciation over-precious, but her creamy tone remains
a constant pleasure to hear. So also does the voice of the young Anna
Moffo, who has all the required charm for the role of the would-be bride,
and Giuseppe Taddei is a darkly menacing Figaro as well as an ebulliently
chirpy one. Eberhard Waechter is saturnine as the Count, Fiorenza Cossotto
a feminine but very winning page, and the small roles are all efficiently
taken with the young Piero Cappuccilli making a surprise cameo as the
old gardener. Giulini may be rather slow by modern standards in the
more emotional numbers, but better this approach than brisk efficiency.
The harpsichord continuo - no truck with fortepiano here - is nicely
characterised by Helmut Schmidt.
The original mid-price EMI reissue came with full libretto and translation
I presume that their latest reissue does not but new purchasers
should be warned that this Major set comes with only a single page of
notes by John Kehoe, more than half of which consists of biographies
of the principal artists. They should therefore be prepared to look
elsewhere for a detailed synopsis of the plot and for Lorenzo da Pontes
words. The back cover of the set - and one of the discs - contain an
illustration taken from a modern production of Figaro which
clearly post-dates the performance contained on this recording by some
forty years. With the noted reservations, this remains one of the best
recordings of Figaro in the catalogues and in one version or
another should be in the collection of everyone who loves the delectable
score. The way that Giulini handles the closing scene of reconciliation
is sheerly beautiful in a way that defeats many later and more classically
stylish interpreters.
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Her debut album, "Sleeping Beauty: You Are The One You Have Been Waiting For," caused a stir when it was released last November, foreshadowing what Dobson hopes is a long and productive career.
"I always loved singing," said Dobson, who was born in Kingston, Jamaica, and immigrated to East Flatbush when she was six. "It's always been a passion."
Dobson said she realized she might have a special talent the day her aunt discovered her singing and made her perform in front of the entire family. "That's when I realized," Dobson said.
She launched her career around 2000, honing her music skills at area open mics while she worked as a paralegal at a law firm in Manhattan. The first few years were a difficult learning period for the performer, who was intent on developing an original style.
"People were looking for the next Toni Braxton or Alicia Keys," said Dobson, who counts singers like Anita Baker and Whitney Houston among her musical influences. "If you didn't fit [into a musical category] it was harder for you."
Dobson stuck with it. She formed an independent record label - now called Lady Bravebird - and used it to release her 2003 EP, "Soul Stories," and "Sleeping Beauty," a concept album loosely based on the classic fairy tale that comes with a strong message of self-empowerment.
"Rather than waiting on someone outside of yourself to be the driving force, we need to embrace that we are the ones we've been waiting for" to make great things happen, said Dobson, who tries to live by that creed.
The songs on "Sleeping Beauty" are grouped into five cycles or moods with names like "Bliss" and "Mean Sleep." Dobson said they symbolize her emotional journey, and have resonated with fans who share similar experiences.
Since dropping her album, she's played at the Blue Note and Southpaw in Park Slope, among other venues, and appeared on Fox News in Washington, D.C.
"So far the reception has been good," she said, "but I want it to be great."


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XPT100 is NVX's reference headphone, designed especially for studio monitoring. Not much has really been known about this product since its introduction in August of 2012. While the headphone certainly comes with a lot of accessories: a big case, 2 pairs of ear pads, and 2 cables, does it also come with a good sound quality?
PRO: Well-balanced linear tonality, low distortion, and a good extension in the treble & the low end.
CON: Slight dips at 300 Hz & 8 kHz.
ON SECOND THOUGHT #3: I am quite fascinated by the overall design of XTP100's front baffle, driver, and its ear pad coupling mechanism. While the appearance of the front baffle & the driver closely resembles that of Sennheiser HD650, the ear pads are connected to the baffle with a twist-and-lock, just like how AKG K702 is designed. There has definitely been an engineering effort of gathering the best of both worlds, and it actually pays off.
ON SECOND THOUGHT #4: Since when manufacturers start to remove internal damping materials from closed-back headphones? In order to save production cost, almost all of headphone companies decrease the quality of their products by getting rid of damping materials. On the other hand, XPT100's housing is filled with damping material, preventing any kind of unwanted cabinet resonance from occurring. I've never seen such care since Sony's classic MDR-series headphones.
ON SECOND THOUGHT #5: Angled ear pads yield slightly better linearity when it comes down to Dr. Sean Olive's reference target.
IN CONCLUSION: NVX XPT100 not only comes with a bunch of accessories, but also exhibits a good acoustic performance and an uncompromising built quality. Consequently, users are given with more options to choose, and may actively figure out their optimum sound which suits their needs. The people at NVX have kept their philosophy true to their heart, and their reference studio monitor, XPT100, proves it.
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Next version of xcowsay may feature telepathy… Use case? IRC messages appear as cowz!!! Awesome.
Archives for April, 2008
Another xcowsay release!!
Yes yes yes!!! xcowsay 0.7 has been released!!!! This version has: A config file! checkout the man page for details Can specify as many words as you like on the command line and they'll all be joined together Get it here!


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Asus Padfone Infinity A86 codenamed T004 has appeared in NCC website.Few days ago,device was also appeared in Antutu Benchmarks which confirms the presence of Snapdragon 800 chipset with Full HD display and Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean
The device is LTE/W-CDMA and GSM compatible and supports GSM 900/1800Mhz frequency and W-CDMA 2100Mhz frequency bands.
Detailed Specs are yet unclear but device is expected to be successor of Padfone infinity A80 one of the most appreciated device showcased at MWC2013.
The device is expected to be launched by the end of year


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Dr Robert Ward, Head of Groundwater Science at BGS, said,
'Because the current drought has developed over a long period of time and groundwater levels are now so low, it will take four to five months of above average rainfall, like we're experiencing now, to fully replenish affected aquifers.'
'A groundwater drought can be likened to a bank account that is overdrawn.
If we keep spending (abstracting water) the debt will increase (groundwater levels get lower).
If the debt gets too bad, then when we pay in our wages (rainfall recharge) it won't cover the debt.
It'll get even worse if our wages are cut (dry winters).
If we are going to get out of debt we need reduce how much we spend (hose pipe bans and other restrictions) and keep paying in our wages — however much we get.
It may take a long time until we're back in the black just like it will take us a long time to overcome the current drought.'
Just as the first Swallow heralds summer, jokes about the 'wettest drought on record' herald the end of a drought — but is it really the end?
In late April 2012 scientists from the BGS worked with the BBC to provide scientific insight into the drought:
With wet and gloomy weather over much of Southern Britain, many rivers in flood, and with April rainfall breaking records — more remarkably for having been concentrated in the second half of the month — it is hard to conceive that we will still have water resource issues this summer.
But the drought we have been in, and still are in, has its roots over a two year period rather than just two weeks and it affects groundwater more than it affects rivers.
A dry spring in 2011, followed by a dry winter in 2011/2012 seriously reduced recharge to the groundwater aquifers that, in Southern England, supply the majority of water supply.
At the end of March this year groundwater levels over much of the Chalk aquifer, our most important, were at or near record lows for the month.
Soils were dry at the end of March 2012; as dry as we would have expected them to be in May in a normal year.
When rain falls on dry soils the soils soak up the water, and plants use this water for growth, and there is little opportunity to recharge groundwater reservoirs. We confidently predicted that, unless there was exceptional rainfall, drought conditions would worsen.
Now that the exceptional rainfall has happened, does this mean the drought is over?
The simple answer is no!
The slightly longer answer is no, but it may not be as bad as we feared.
The rainfall in April has wetted up the soil, and it's probably approaching its 'normal' wetness for early May.
But we don't normally expect there to be much, if any, groundwater recharge in a normal May — plant growth and evaporation will probably use all the water.
In fact when soils are particularly dry heavy rain can run off rapidly rather than soak in — which has made local flooding worse.
With so much rain there will be some recharge to aquifers.
Limestones in the Midlands, should respond well, and even in the Chalk there will be some effect, although it will take several weeks before it is detectable by BGS and Environment Agency monitoring.
However any effect has to be put in the context of the recharge we lost over the last two years — which has been equivalent to three or more months of winter rainfall; two weeks of heavy rain will make some difference, but as plant growth picks up and uses more water it will be limited.
Unless the really exceptionally wet weather of the last part of April continues through much of May, it's likely that groundwater levels will be still very low, and will fall further over the summer.
The opportunity for significant recharge will await cooler and wetter weather in the autumn.
The water restrictions and hosepipe bans that have been put in place were largely a response to the expected low groundwater levels over the summer, and as we have seen, we are not expecting much change in levels from this rain.
However, continued high rainfall will mean that storage reservoirs will fill further; there is more water in rivers to abstract, and farmers and gardeners will not have to look to irrigation as urgently as before.
These factors should, at least, give water resource managers some breathing space, but drought probably won't be declared over unless we receive autumn rains that can seriously start to recharge our major aquifers.
Of course the lesson of the last two dry winters is that recharge is unpredictable!
Contact Dr John Bloomfield for further information


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I am saying this because, since I migrated to Linux in 2009, I have been listening to Windows fanboys chanting that "according to Netmarketshare and StatCounter, Linux accounts for a skimpy 1% of the total market". And the funny thing is that they believe it!
My eyes, however, show me a different picture. When I migrated, the only Linux computer I ever saw was mine; I never spotted another computer running the Penguin OS in public. During the last two years, however, I've run into students who have Linux computers... but Netmarketshare has kept saying that Linux usage is 1% in 2009, 2010, 2011 and, yes, you guessed it, the first two months of 2012, too!
W3counter.com is another source that is frequently quoted to say that Linux represents a 1% marketshare. Notoriously, in 2009 it said Linux was 2% and then declined. Right now, W3counter is showing a gradual increase (1,67%).
It seems that Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, did not believe those numbers. Back in 2009, as he was giving a presentation to investors, he showed a slide that tells a different story. Wisely, he did not include any numbers (not to disclose critical information and scare investors away, I presume), but the pie chart indicates that Microsoft either:
- Tried to minimize Apple (the shares of "Apple" and Linux are virtually identical)
- Believed Linux accounts for more than the never-changing 1% that Netmarketshare and StatCounter keep measuring since 2009.
Who would you believe, then? I would go for Ballmer in this case: one would expect him to have more reliable data as he was addressing investors, don't you think?
If we take Ballmer's pie chart as reference, then Microsoft believed Linux had a marketshare of around 5% in 2009, judging from the graph proportion.
W3schools.com throws numbers onto the table that match Ballmer's pie chart (and his statements that Linux was worrisome): When Windows 7 retail was released (October 2009), W3schools' Linux count showed 4.2% marketshare and that number has kept going up to 5% in February 2012.
Another interesting observation is the behavior of Distrowatch. Yes, yes, I know that you are going to say that those numbers cannot be taken as an accurate measuring. Point well taken. However, Distrowatch count shows that either:
- The same group of Linux users is keeping track of distros more closely (visiting distro pages crazily and bumping up the count), or
- More people are actually clicking on distro pages.
The latter scenario shows more interest in Linux which, in turn, suggests an increase in Linux use, especially when one pays attention to the last distro reported (#100). Let us see: in 2009 it was MOPSLinux (73 clicks). CD Linux took the spot in 2010 (86 clicks). For 2011, DreamStudio got the #100th position with 90 clicks. During the last three months of 2012, that same position belongs to LFS, with 131 visits.
That means that the last position in Distrowatch jumped from a two-digit number to a three-digit one. If we take that merely as an indication of interest in Linux, then it has increased in a 55.6%.
This matches the reality I see more accurately, the same one that Ballmer inadvertently described in 2009. One wonders what his numbers will show today.


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Earlier today I received this comment about the show:
It was only mentioned in passing on the show but I was wondering if you would have any information on how many young individuals (couples) (20-40)are moving to Mexico. Is there a community in SMA, and are many people coming with young children? Do you know of any other cities (except for Gdl and D.F) which are seeing the immigration on younger peoples from the North? Are there jobs available for academics in smaller cities?
My fiance is Mexican ( I met him in Mexico 6 years ago) and we have been living in Canada for the past two years. I hold a MSc from Mcgill University in Montreal and did my research in Latin America.
I have lots of friends abroad and in Mexico but am curious to know if many couples from Canada and the US have made the move and how there children manage with such things schooling in the public school system?
(It is hard to leave family isn't it?)
This is a good question. I have not done research in other Mexican cities yet, but I know of a few places where expat immigration is common, even younger expats. The first is the city of Puebla and the nearby village of Cholula are another place (and both are among my favorite places in Mexico). Cholula is the home of the Universidad de las Americas (UDLA), a bilingual university that has a substantial number of expat faculty. If you are an academic, UDLA would be a good place to start looking for a position.
If you are thinking about making the move south, I would strongly suggest that you take an extended vacation to the place(s) you are considering first. If you and your kids speak Spanish, there are many good options available to you, especially larger cities that have more educational and job opportunities. SMA does have a good elementary school system, but parents were pretty honest about the fact that they know there are trade-offs raising kids in Mexico. They are bilingual and grow up in a supportive, friendly environment. But they will not get the same types of educational opportunities (i.e., fewer computer classes), but that is not to say that the educational opportunities are inferior. They will be different, but I have yet to meet an expat family that regrets their move to SMA.
One thing that really bothered me is the fact that you really have very little time to make a point on a program like this. I guess this is why the "sound-bite" is so essential. One thing I would have liked to discuss is how easy it is to develop friends and social networks among expats. True, it would be difficult to leave one's family and friends in the U.S., but as I've mentioned here before, many expats in SMA see their friends as pseudo-family. I cannot tell you how many times older expats have talked about the care and support they receive from others in the community. So in a way, the network can mitigate the difficulty of being away from one's extended family.


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I want to find a solution for this problem:
The Fibonacci sequence is the series of numbers 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, .... Formally,
it can be expressed as:
f ib0 = 0
f ib1 = 1
f ibn = f ibn−1 + f ibn−2
Write a multithreaded program that generates the Fibonacci series using
either the Java, Pthreads, or Win32 thread library. This program should
work as follows: The user will enter on the command line the number
of Fibonacci numbers that the program is to generate. The program will
then create a separate thread that will generate the Fibonacci numbers,
placing the sequence in data that is shared by the threads


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#include <Wire.h>#include <Centipede.h>Centipede CS; // create Centipede objectint ledPin = 13;void setup(){ Wire.begin(); // start I2C pinMode(ledPin, OUTPUT); CS.initialize();}void loop(){ digitalWrite(ledPin, HIGH); // set the LED on delay(1000); // wait for a second digitalWrite(ledPin, LOW); // set the LED off delay(1000); // wait for a second}
The only way I can get the Arduino to freeze during execution is to pull one of the I2C lines to ground. You should carefully check along the I2C lines and make sure nothing is shorted to ground, maybe use a multimeter to verify. The I2C connections are on the bottom left corner of the chip if you look at it with pin 1 on the top left.