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Much fuss has been made over Pedersen's safe and poppy delivery, but is she really the biggest problem here? An Elixir for Existence featured the similarly-meek sounding Henriette Bordvik and still managed to embody a more than passable followup to At Sixes and Sevens. No, the biggest problem here on Nine Destinies and a Downfall is deep-rooted and is centered around uninteresting songwriting and bland arrangements. Pedersen is just an easy scapegoat.
Even at that, it certainly doesn't help that Veland feels the need to craft many of these tunes around Pedersen exclusively, with the rhythm section dropping out entirely far more often than it should. This approach can't help but amplify the one major problem with the female vocals, which is undoubtedly the lyrics. These lyrics are just downright embarrassing. What happened to the despondent atmosphere with the gall to tackle controversial psychological themes like on An Elixir for Existence? Instead we get Pedersen whispering sweet nothings into our ears. Don't believe that Veland would pull out such a tried and true cliché of a phrase? Listen to the abhorrent stab at a pop hit in "My Mind's Eye", which other than a somewhat-soaring chorus, falls flatter and faster than a ton of bricks.
At it's best, Nine Destinies and a Downfall embodies some sort of clinical fusion of the disparate approaches present on Sirenia's first two albums, all glossed over with a not-so-subtle attempt at selling out. Opener "The Last Call" is relatively strong overall, but it disappoints me more than anything, since it picks up quite nicely during the final minute. The keyboards get a decent triumphant subtext going, and the always welcome operatic choirs only serve to add sugar on top of the already divine smattering present. Regardless, only one minute of quality material on the opener (which should always be a barnburner as per this album's mainstream sensibilities) doesn't cut it.
Other than that, it's pretty piecemeal, with individual moments of brilliance surfacing at arbitrary moments through no conscious effort on Sirenia's part, only to be pulled under again when Pedersen takes over. "One by One" revolves around an extremely potent melody, but it overstays it's welcome and sputters out well before it's conclusion. "Sundown" deceives mightily, with it's initial driving riff dropping out yet again during the verses, yielding to more of the same regarding the female vocals. "The Other Side" has an absolutely divine chorus, and if Veland gets it right anywhere here it is most certainly on this song. It's concise, to the point, and recycles the chorus as many times as it can within it's sub-four minute running time. Unabashedly stock by Sirenia standards, but it works. Veland's parched roars make very fleeting appearances, mainly during the passable throwback in "Seven Keys and Nine Doors". I never thought of his vocals as a major highlight on the earlier material, but his absence here is actually quite damaging.
At least Nine Destinies and a Downfall's production isn't off the mark, embodying a balanced synthesis of crunchy riffs, ethereal keyboards, and the dense choirs. Veland's riffs tend to drift a bit too far into the background during the choruses, but the tone has a decent amount of weight to it. His six-string cohort Landa is apparently present on this album as well, but whatever little input he had is hard to discern through the performances. I find myself screaming for more keyboards, as the normally ample electronic undercurrents aren't very present here, only exasperated by the lack of memorable riffs or searing vocal melodies.
Nine Destinies and a Downfall is admittedly something of a mess, but it isn't an all-out disaster. It finds itself causing undue stylistic friction by playing up it's weaker points and disregarding much of the eclectic nature that helped define early Sirenia. Just don't place the blame on Pedersen's shoulders entirely, as Veland has a lot of explaining to do after this one.
Sirenia, among many other bands, has fallen under the commercial virus. Like Lacuna Coil, Elis and many others, they're trying to become the next Evanescence. Evanescence aren't exactly bad ("The Open Door" is quite a decent release), but their clones always tend to disappoint. Sirenia is no exception. "Nine Destinies & a Downfall" isn't a very bad album, but it's just not up to the same standard as "At Sixes and Sevens" and "An Elixir for Existence".
To keep some things the same, Morten decided to keep the choirs and occasional clean male vocals. The choirs are quite good, but only sound fitting in two tracks ("Seven Keys and Nine Door" and "Downfall"). The clean male vocalist is also very good. However, he appears too infrequently. If he and the choirs had more lines than Monika, my rating would've been much higher.
Speaking of Monika, she's probably the worst vocalist in metal at the moment. She might be decent to sing nursery rhymes, but for God's sake don't let her lead an entire album. Her voice sounds way too childish, making the album sound like a joke. Henriette and Fabienne were a hundred times better than she is. To make things worse, Morten's growls are very limited here. He's only present on "Sundown", "Seven Keys and Nine Doors" and "Downfall", which makes them obvious highlights.
The music on "Nine Destinies & a Downfall" is as disappointing as the vocals are. The guitars are over-simplified, and keyboards and drums are too far back in the mix. It's very similar to Lacuna Coil's "Karmacode" (no, that's a good thing). Overall, it's just too radio-friendly. They are no heavy riffs like on "An Elixir for Existence" or atmospheric keyboards like on the debut. Also, the songs are structured in the same boring verse-chorus-verse-chorus-bridge-chorus that bands like Within Temptation or Lacuna Coil still believe in.
However, to give it a little credit, it's still a fun listen. I really enjoyed five of the nine songs present on the album (although I hate the rest). These are "The Last Call", "Sundown", "Absent Without Leave", "Seven Keys and Nine Doors" and "Downfall". The other four tracks are very bland and boring (especially the disastrous single "My Mind's Eye").
In conclusion, "Nine Destinies & A Downfall" is a good album, just not a good Sirenia album. I wouldn't recommend it to Sirenia or Tristania fans, because you'll be greatly disappointed (but make sure to pick up a copy of Tristania's latest album "Illumination"). However, if you like Lacuna Coil (or any other radio-friendly metal band, for that matter), this album is right up your alley.
Honestly, who would think this sounds like pop? Well one thing, at least it sounds better than that fucker Justin Bieber or a pregnant Taylor Swift in the hospital. No, this sounded like gothic metal to me, not the pop shit you hear on the radios 24/7. But before I get too much into talking about pop, I'll say that unlike most gothic metal bands, they brought in some instrumental domination in here with a vocalist who typically soars over the top of everyone else, and well, that's what you got here, just that. But let us go in deeper to this, shall we.
As far as instrumental wise, they are well above average to most of the entirely legendary gothic metal bands, while the vocals were really nothing out of the ordinary, they still were probably one of the best parts. Guitars were actually heavier than they are in most gothic metal bands, which is actually one of the pros here, after all this is gothic METAL as some bands don't realize. They sounded as if they were at least one step down, and if not, I'm totally impressed. They definitely sound better and heavier than those fuckers in Nickelback could play in their dreams. As far as bass goes, while the bass lines weren't exactly that audible, I know what it sounds like with no bass, and it doesn't have that sound here so it is totally clear they used a bassist, but the only thing that annoys me is that is seems like every gothic metal band has to have their bassist just play the exact same shit as the guitarists are playing, I'm not asking for a bass solo, I'm asking for a band to have the bassist play something different from the guitarists. Drums were nothing special but definitely didn't suck. As far as vocals go, I wont complain they never used Morten's voice practically at all except in one or two songs, it didn't bother me that much and it's not like Monika doesn't do a good job covering that up. Because first, she doesn't use some stupid shit like auto-tune to sound good like that stupid fuck Justin Bieber, second, doesn't sound like Miley Cyrus taking shit and actually sounds like a real gothic metal vocalist. Third, has a good voice. And fourth, she actually has the pussy to use it. The overall sound is gothic metal, like it should sound like, a high-pitched female vocalist, quieter but heavy guitar parts, some keyboards, and a drummer who sits behind everyone else.
Now for me, out of the obvious, My Minds Eye and The Other Side were the best tracks here, but The Last Call, Absent Without Leave, Seven Keys and Nine Doors, and Sundown were also very good. And since there were six good songs with nine total, I was kept satisfied for pretty much the whole album and is one of those albums when you can listen to the entire thing without having the urge to skip a track or be dying for it to end. It's also one of those albums were you have to dig and search for a good song.
The only real reason why this doesn't go past 90 is because is because of the typical bassist echoing the guitarist and for nothing special vocals. Though the good parts were that, first, they brought some new stuff to the table, second, had a change in musical style, and third, uses a girl who actually can sing without auto-tune unlike some people we know.
Overall, this is definitely worth a buy or download or iTunes download or whatever, any gothic metal fan should just just get their hands on it somehow because even if you aren't a big Sirenia fan, you're missing out on quite a bit here despite the couple of faults it has.
Sirenia's first two full lengths At Sixes and Sevens and An Elixir For Existence are the absolute epitomes of the gothic metal genre. It is rather unfortunate that Nine Destinies and a Downfall doesn't come close to matching the pure stroke of genius that the first two full lengths did but comparisons aside it is an album that has several good ideas but ultimately falls.
Nine Destinies and a Downfall has a sound much different than other previously comparable bands in the genre e.g Tristania and Trail of Tears. Sirenia have decided to go for a much more straight forward symphonic metal with gothic undertones, with song structures perhaps most comparable to the shorter length tracks of Once era Nightwish. The major factors that have attributed to that are less subtle use of guitar, female and choir vocal parts, being dead front and center here, the drastic reduction of Morten Veland's mostly great growling and crisp production values for all areas. Not much to be said about the drum work of Jonathan A Perez, his work is just fine here.
There are no components of Monika Pedersen's vocals that are slightly operatic as being part of the symphonic metal genre would make you assume. She still gives quite a strong performance with a powerful female voice most akin to Floor Jansen or Simone Simons non operatic voices. For most of the album her voice works out quite well except there are some devastating mishaps along the way e.g My Mind's Eye chorus. The choirs are flawless as usual when it comes to Sirenia's work and Morten even provides more contrast using a very good gothic feeling clean voice on a couple of tracks. Songs to measure the amount of good ideas and contrast level at its capacity would definitely be Downfall and/or Sundown.
Nine Destinies and a Downfall simply doesn't live up to the sum of its parts due to it's painfully predictable song structures that run like clockwork. All songs apart from Glades of Summer being a ballad follow very similar formulas and it will become obvious over several listens. Each song has it's intro then verse, chorus, a majority of the songs having another part similar to the intro, verse, chorus, surprising part that if the whole album was like then it would be great and finally closing chorus.
The pace of the album is entirely uneven. Each verse is very melodic and the songs pick up pace during the chorus only to halt then slow back down during the next verse, you will grow tiresome of it after repeated listens. The lyrics upon inspection are really quite dark but Pedersen's voice is much too cheerful here for you to interpret them that way. Veland is really uncreative with the lyrics at times using several combination of words way too many times e.g I've been.
Being my first Sirenia album it was quite enjoyable during my initial discovery of it but the enthusiasm to listen to it over and over fades quite rapidly. It doesn't really fit well in the context of music with lots of replay value but I can see it being quite a competent gateway album into the symphonic/gothic metal genres. There are actually many good ideas here except none are expanded upon very much. It has much more commercialism and straight forward soundings than previous Sirenia full lengths but it's still way too heavy for it to be on mainstream radio stations.
As a standalone album release it has its good and its bad ideas, however the real problem is that there is nothing here that resembles a solid foundry or a reason that will make you want to listen to Nine Destinies and a Downfall again and again after a few initial listens.
The album is quite listenable, providing you avoid the two really popular tracks which have videos. All the elements of good gothic metal are there: hard guitar, clean parts, depressing lyrics, choirs, there are even some growl parts, some clean male vocals and a few violin lines (apparently played from keyboards). But...
...the production sucks. First of all, the tracks are compressed to hell, so instead of stressing the epicness coming from the juxtaposition of the hard parts to the atmospheric parts, it just sounds like crappy pop coming from the radio. Another annoying thing they did was doubletrack Monika's voice and add effects. It's o.k. when they did it subtly, or when they made it sound a little like Enya, but a lot of the time they just made it sound very poppy. I don't know why they did this, Monika has a beautiful voice and there was no reason to ruin the vocals. In pop music, the vocalists are often very bad, so there it is a necessity, but here it's pointless. The sad thing is that the instruments in the song "The Other Side" are o.k., so are the lyrics (yes, I did manage to listen to the whole song once or twice, although it wasn't very pleasant), but the production makes it unlistenable. Especially annoying is the bonus track, which is a radio edit of "My Mind's Eye". It starts out promising with an electronic beat with some vocal sample and nice atmospheric piano, so being a darkwave fan I get my hopes high, then the vocals kick in and the song gets more and more unbearable. This gets annoying in some other songs as well, such as towards the end of the first song, but it hasn't gotten so annoying yet that I can't listen to those songs in their entirety.
One of the best songs is "Sundown". It starts out with a thrashy guitar part, then goes into an atmospheric part with female vocals, then it gets hard again and there's a growling part, even some double-bass drumming, then it repeats the earlier parts, with some different lyrics in the second atmospheric part and some choirs and a guitar solo in the third. It sounds just like the older Sirenia songs, and Monika's voice fits the song perfectly. The only thing I don't like is that I wish the double-bass part was longer, but you can't have everything, I guess.
The other song worth mentioning is "Glades of Summer". That song, despite its production shortcomings, is one of the most beautiful gothic ballads ever.
I suppose they could have made a classic gothic album if they had wanted to, but they would have needed different production ideas.
Sirenia -- Morten Veland, likely the strongest contender for the title of "Greatest Gothic Metal Composer of All-Time", abandons Tristania to form a project of his own. Sirenia he calls it. Fans everywhere grow apprehensive as they await the new album, ready to hear what this ingenious composer could do with out the chains. Unfortunately, it turns out the new albums sounded just like the old ones, with Tristania. Only, with burn-out ideas, little inspiration, and less talented musicians...
Then, something happens. A rebirth of sound, a new path for Veland to ascend. He turns away from the creepy, Gothic-Tristania-metal with his best foot forward, and tries something new. He creates Nine Destinies and A Downfall, an entirely listenable and enjoyable POP metal album. Honestly, just because an album is a bit more commercial does not mean it has no potential. The creative mind and inspiration here is definitely noticeable, which most pop albums, even metal ones, can not boast.
Choruses and catchy melodies abound, even my Hannah Montana-fan sister enjoys songs from this album. It is very approachable metal. The singing is for the most part clean, with the exception of the track, Sundown, and minor parts in a couple others ("Downfall" and "Seven Keys and Nine Doors".) Monika Pederson, NDaaD's newly introduced vocalist, has a simple, comfortable voice that is very easy to listen to, unlike say, Tarja Turunen or Vibeke Stene.
The songs are memorable enough, with standouts and fillers. They are cut at relatively short lengths, the longest track clocking in at 5:35. The musicianship is a bit toned down, however it is much more prevalent than other Gothic-Pop Metal bands. The guitar work is much stronger and noticeable than the majority of other bands in the genre, although there are symphonic keyboards highlighting as well. Veland keeps his trademark strong with the beautifully strong choirs.
Without a doubt, if you somehow wandered to this page and found this review, I recommend this album to you. Anyone with even the slightest interest in gothic metal, Sirenia, or anything like that would find something of value here. Sure, it isn't the greatest piece ever written, nor is it even close, but it is a part of my collection that never gathers dust all the same. Give it a listen, for you never know what you may find.
Highlights: Sundown, The Other Side, Seven Keys and Nine Doors
Finally, what we've been waiting for has come: Morten Veland has decided to leave behind the "Tristania style" that was shown on the previous Sirenia albums, and has also decided to give his own style a try to success. And in order to do this, he hired the talented metal female vocalist Monika Pedersen.
Gothic-doom fans will be surely disappointed with this album, because the doom side of the band is completely dead. But all the gothic metal fans have gained an escellent album to hear. Personally, I love it.
Maybe the only thing that is not good about "Nine Destinies and a Downfall" is that the structure of the songs is almost the same! Few songs defy the lyric style that oustands in the album, and these songs are many of the best of the album.
Harsh vocals do not completely disappear, although they rarely appear. Actually, they're only featured in two songs: "Sundown" (the most aggressive song of the album) and "Seven Keys and Nine Doors" (one of the most weird songs of the album).
All the songs are good, but the ones that I personally like the most are: "The Last Call" (the opening track that indicates the style of most of the songs of the album), "Sundown", "Absent Without Leave" (the only song of the album that features clean male vocals by Morten Veland), "The Other Side" (the second song of the album to have a video made for it) and "Glades of Summer" (the slowest and the longest song of the album, one of my favorites).
CONCLUSION: If you liked Sirenia with its old style, don't even think on buying the album. But, if you want to give the new style a chance, go and acquire it now!
When I first heard that Sirenia was going to release a new album I was excited, but I was very disappointed by the outcome. Yes, I did buy the album, although I wish I hadn't. It's a complete waste of money.
The album opener "The Last Call" starts electronically, then after about ten seconds the guitars start booming in. The guitars have altered to a very power metal-like sound that's very different from the former albums. Then Monika starts to sing and my eyes almost popped out of their sockets. What an awfully poppy sound, like I'm listening to Britney Spears with guitars on the background. Still, I could accept this sound as the verse isn't too bad, but I couldn't accept it anymore when the chorus started. It's like Monika and the chorus are destined for each other, just pop squared (for those who have no mathematical knowledge: it's pop x pop). Now it really IS Britney Spears. The song continues to have a silly verse-chorus structure.
The next songs get worse and worse. "My Minds Eye" is even poppier than "The Last Call", and the rest of the album just sounds like "My Mind's Eye". I can't recognize these different songs as it all sounds exactly the same, cursed with the same verse-chorus structure, the same silly choruses, and the same idiotic vocals.
As you may notice, I dislike the vocals the most. I can accept the guitar work, which is like power metal, but I really can't stand the vocals. It's a very childlike, bubblegumpop-like voice, like my little niece is singing. Also, I really miss Morten's voice. He doesn't show up frequently in this album - only in about 2 songs - and when he does his "grunts" sound pathetic.
Conclusion: It's obvious this album was solemnly created for the purpose of money. Art in this album is far, very far away. Sirenia wants to make loads of money with this album by making it listenable to a 'wider public', but I think Sirenia made a big mistake with this. Also, I fear that the genre of gothic metal is slowly dying as more and more "gothic" bands attain this poppy sound.
Breaking the mold is never easy and often meets with opposition from those unwilling to realize that a band needs to grow and change in order to stave of stagnation. This is case with the latest offering from Norway's Sirenia.
Starting off, this sounds NOTHING like evanescence. This is a true Metal album, specifically Gothic Metal and is infinitely heavier than anything from the aforementioned mall-core stalwarts.
Speaking of heavy, the guitars are rather monstrous in their own right. Typically Goth Metal bands don't play this way. The harmonies are neither clichéd nor expected. The bass doesn't do anything earth shattering but its still good. The drums are more or less in the same boat as the bass; however they do throw some interesting beats for good measure.
The vocals seem to be another point of contention for many here at the archives. They are amazing and fit the music well. They're not of the operatic variety and as such will shock any long time fans who have yet to hear this release. Also Morten doesn't do any singing what so ever.
Over all, the production is outstanding, the song writing is amazing and the band simply sounds wonderful. The band has moved the Gothic Metal style into a fresh and new direction. When Morten left Tristania it was because there were too many bands sounding like them. He wanted to play Goth Metal in a different way. He has finally accomplished this on this record.
When I heard about this new album, I had a bad feeling. There were some praises but also a huge amount of negative rumblings that were all very consistent. The word I saw thrown-around the most was "pop", and while I like pop music, pop and metal usually don't mix too well (unless you're older Sonata Arctica or older Edenbridge). And even though I had a really bad feeling about this, I couldn't resist downloading it to see exactly what happened.
My first thought while listening to this album was "Where the hell is Morten?!" I seem to remember a tiny serving of his vocals on maybe two songs, but I'm going to say that he's absent for at least 98% of this album. What we get instead, however, isn't too bad but it's still nowhere near as enjoyable as Morten's venomous rasp and growls. Monika Pedersen has a very innocent and cute-sounding voice (almost child-like). I'm a sucker for those kind of vocals except that they really don't fit on this album and her singing is pretty generic. Typical pop/rock female vocals you find in too many gothic bands these days just with a different tone.
In spite of the continued use of choirs and symphonies, the album is very very modern-sounding and as a result. the choirs and symphonies don't fit anymore. Heavy distortion, low tunings (probably dropped tunings also), simple melodies and progressions, electronic dabblings, and that blasted verse-chorus structure fill out the rest. The guitar riff you hear in the beginning of a song is the same one you'll be listening to the rest of the song. The songs also kind of all blend-in together and I honestly couldn't tell them apart if quizzed. The keyboards and guitars are simple and extremely repetitive. The other instruments aren't even worth mentioning.
This album demonstrates just how widespread the degenerative gothic syndrome is. Tristania, Cradle of Filth, Within Temptation, and now Sirenia have all fallen victim and I'm about ready to quarantine myself from this bastardized genre.
One of the most anticipated releases of early 2007, Sirenia have finally unleased their latest opus on their crowd, but with one major change: No lead male vocalist! However, this doesn't hold Sirenia back at all, in fact it only pushes them forward! While having the duet gothic aspect blended with doom was what the band was founded on, due to the recent departure, the band has gone strictly gothic with only a female vocalist. The songs on here don't have the same dark aspect they once did, but who will argue with such beautiful vocal work? Nine tracks (one for each destiny) quickly pass by as you become entranced by the constant mid-tempo tracks that will probably leave the harder metal fans screaming for the olden days. But if you crave melody in all aspects, this release is definitely for you. Astounding orchestral keyboard elements blended with simple guitar work make this release a step in the right direction. I just can't think of another band who did this move already...hmm...Oh yes, Tristania! It's becoming a growing trend!
Typically one would say that having a band with the same formulas as many other bands would be a bad thing, but in this case, Nine Destinies And A Downfall would put even Lacuna Coil gasping for air as they quickly suffocate what they built up. There aren't many bands like this who have the same melodic impact as Sirenia's concept portrayed on this release, so let's say keep 'em coming, however stereotypical they may be.
An added bonus is that the CD is enhanced and includes the music video for the track My Minds Eye, which is easily the best song on the CD against the others. But hey, if beautiful female singing vocals against wonderfully orchestrated mid-tempo melodic, gothic metal isn't your thing, then you will definitely want to shy away from this release. While the CD lacks the "duet" aspect like the past few CDs, this full length is well worth the three hours you put in at work.


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ICD-10 Part of Achieving Healthcare's 'Triple Aim'
If healthcare is going to truly be reformed and improved, three areas must receive focus—improving the experience of care; improving the health of populations; and reducing per capita costs of healthcare. This "Triple Aim" can be achieved through data collection and analysis of services received by patients—work that is aided by the implementation of the more specific and versatile ICD-10-CM/PCS code set.
This was the message delivered Monday by Dr. Sam Ho, chief clinical officer at UnitedHealthcare, during his keynote address at the 2013 AHIMA ICD-10-CM/PCS and Computer-Assisted Coding Summit, taking place in Baltimore, MD this week.
The Triple Aim can be achieved by leveraging data—data that is improved by the ICD-10 code set. Better data allows providers to adhere to evidence-based medicine, analyze gaps in care, and discover disparities in appropriate use and cost, Ho said. Meeting quality measures leads to achieving part of the Triple Aim, and ICD-10 helps providers and healthcare stakeholders better measure the feasibility and accuracy of quality metrics, Ho said.
The new code set also provides greater physician performance transparency, which improves a patient's experience of care. Ho said UnitedHealthcare has been actively developing integrated data analytics to help support the Triple Aim, including its myHealthcare Cost Estimator, which allows patients to select providers based on quality care metrics and out of pocket cost info.
Perform Detailed Risk Assessments
ICD-10 is a "significant" event that doesn't just impact payers and providers' technology, but also their processes throughout the organization, Ho said. Other areas impacted by the transition to ICD-10 include policies and procedures, reimbursement, clinical care, operations, documentation and coding performance, and contracting.
Organizations should use data analytics to determine just how their various areas will be impacted by analyzing clinical and claims data in order to assess risks and prioritize ICD-10 remediation efforts, Ho said.
If an organization is going to achieve the Triple Aim, they must have a successful ICD-10 transition. Therefore, organizations must understand the projected impact of ICD-10 and areas of risk in their clinical, financial, and operational performance. This is done with a risk assessment that uses data analytics to identify impact areas, and aids stakeholders to remediate issues before, during, and after ICD-10 implementation.
When assessing clinical operations' ICD-10 risk, for example, the documentation/coding, reimbursement, contracting, financial operations, and policies and procedures should all be examined, Ho said.
Questions to ask include:
- Which codes are of the greatest concern?
- What is the impact on productivity?
- What type of physician clinical documentation improvement is necessary?
- Are changes needed in our contracts to maintain context given the change to ICD-10?
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While risks do exist, ICD-10 has great "potential" to help providers achieve the Triple Aim and transform healthcare for the better, Ho said.
"Develop a sound assessment strategy that includes the applications of analytics—this can help identify most pressing areas of risk to ensure there is a plan for addressing the issues that matter most within your organization," Ho wrote in his presentation.


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Following his performance at Moogfest in North Carolina and sandwiched between his upcoming shows for Barcelona's premier electronica festival, Sonar, Brooklyn-based producer Daniel Lopatin will be gracing our shores with his presence. Promising his stylised, signature erraticism for modularised musings, in both solo and collaborative form, he's sure to wow audiences. Cyclic caught up with the oft-thought elusive Oneohtrix Point Never, seizing the opportunity to unlock where the inspiration for his composition, 2015's Garden of Delete (G O D) springs from, and explore his overall approach to making music. We also hear about what it was like to work with his many friends and collaborates, such as Scotland's Ross Birchwood, (Hudson Mohawke) on the coproduction of one Anohni, yes another pseudonific peformer.
Cyclic Defrost: Do you feel like over time you have built up expectation for what Oneohtrix Point Never is, or should sound like, or the sound world it should inhabit? Is it important to you to subvert or play on this?
Daniel Lopatin: My goal has always been toward something I think of as a hallucination of music. So that can take many forms but that basic idea that's been with me since the very beginning of OPN is important to me. It's hard for me to not write music that way when I'm writing for myself.
Cyclic Defrost: With the new album, there are lots of modern styles/genres of electronic music injected into each track — often with abrupt and unexpected stylistic changes within the track itself—everything from death metal to mutant R&B), what were your motivations, thoughts and fears behind making the album?
Daniel Lopatin: My motivation was to make a kind of memoir of puberty. But in realizing that I couldn't remember that much about that time in my life, it kind of morphed into a science fiction version of my early adolescence.
Cyclic Defrost: When you make music is it a conceptual exercise, or more about experimentation and feel? Do you know where you are going with a piece/album or does improvisation play a major role? And do you feel you can quantify certain influences you have at the time musically or otherwise and hear the links in your music?
Daniel Lopatin: A lot of the music starts as a simple motif I'm working out on keys and expands from there in terms of interesting things I try to do with arrangement or sound or whatever else I find interesting at the moment.
Cyclic Defrost: How do you find it coming together in a live show? Is there a tension between live and pre-recorded material? How do you make it performative? Are you still bringing Nate along for visuals? If so what does his presence bring to your show?
Daniel Lopatin: What's been great about performing G O D live is that it's very close in structure to the recordings, and a lot of the work is in searching for that level beyond what's already there—like, the spirit of the thing—and then addressing that in the way we perform the material, and depending on where and how we are relating to the audience. It's like OPN the rock band.
Cyclic Defrost: You are co-producer with Hudson Mohawke on Anohni's new album, Hopelessness, how did this collaboration eventuate?
Daniel Lopatin: Anohni and I are friends going back six years and have been working on this record for three years, so of course it's very dear to us. It was great to have Hudmo (Ross Birchwood, of Hudson Mohawke) join in and provide some great pieces of music. The collab was very fluid and it was cool to see everyone's contrasting styles in play with each other.
Cyclic Defrost: Last year in an interview you likened 'collaborative working' to beginning to sound like 'multiple personality disorder', do you still feel that way following this latest collaboration?
Daniel Lopatin: I don't recall that statement, but if I am doing my job as a producer it means pulling together disparate ideas into complementary ones. These sources all come together from different places, times, platforms, etc. So it was quite the challenge to link everything.
Cyclic Defrost: Anohni described Hopelessness as 'an electronic album with some sharp teeth' do you agree with this statement?
Daniel Lopatin: Partially, yeah.
Cyclic Defrost: What makes it this way from your point of view? Can you expand on what was driving your choice in composition was it the lyrics, or the themes, or did Anohni give you free reign to create along with Hudson?
Daniel Lopatin: Probably she's referring to her lyrics I'd imagine. It's free reign, and then we discuss and tweak stuff—intuitively refining over many versions.
Cyclic Defrost: What lies ahead, do you have any new projects or anything you're aching to do?
Daniel Lopatin: I've got the studio itch. I'd like to get back in there and start writing again.
Oneohtrix Point Never is playing:
Wednesday 1st June @ Max Watt's, Melbourne. More info here.
Sunday 29th of May as part of the Vivid festival, Sydney. More info here.
Sonar Barcelona 16-18/6. More info here.


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Most people know to check to see if a doctor is in their health plan network before making an appointment. But you may not know to check another list if you start a new medication: the drug list.
The drug list is a list of drugs covered by your health plan. Drugs on the list are chosen based on their safety, cost and how well they work.
The list is updated when the market changes or new drugs are released. When you get a refill or a new prescription, make sure your doctor reviews the list.
The drug list can help you find out what you will pay out-of-pocket for prescription drugs. If a drug is not on the list, you may have to pay more.
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Sometimes, your health care providers will check the list when choosing a prescription for you. But you can also look it up yourself by logging in to your Blue Access for MembersSM (BAMSM) account. After you log in, go to the My Coverage tab and click on Prescription Drugs. If you have Prime as your pharmacy administrator, you can go to MyPrime.com and click on Find Medicines to see if a drug is on your list and get cost information.
What You Can Do if Your Drug Isn't Covered
Because the drug list changes, a drug that was covered in the past may not be included on the list any more. That doesn't mean you can't get the drug, but it may mean you have to pay more for it.
There are two things you can do if a drug you take is no longer on the drug list:
1. Call the number on your member ID card. A customer service representative may be able to help.
2. Talk to your doctor to see if a different drug that is on the list could work for you.You can learn more about drug lists in the FAQ section of our site.
Source: How to Transfer a Prescription from One Pharmacy to Another, Pocket Sense, 2018
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2008: Looking Ahead
TV Technology NewsBytes wishes its readers a joyous and peaceful holiday season with some break, somehow, from their professional obligations, all while keeping the signals going 24-7.
A malfunctioning piece of time-shifting technology somehow gave us a peek at some of next December's year-end wrap up stories. So, here's what happened in 2008, it turns out.
January The NTIA starts accepting applications for the $40 coupons for digital-to-analog converter boxes. The FCC issues streamlined rules on broadcasters' final DTV buildout, giving them the flexibility they've been asking for.
February Critics of media consolidation call for more studies on the matter.
March The writers' strike continues, and networks find innovative and exploitative ways to come up with content. TMZ becomes the most popular show on television, spawning imitators and creating a whole nation of would-be paparazzi. At the Academy Awards, a deranged celebrity drops a cluster of F-bombs and the indecency issue is thrust into the presidential campaign.
April At The NAB Show, broadcasters figure the industry can be saved with a new technology that beams ads directly into the brains of home viewers, even when their TVs are off.
May Fighting to keep his status as Republican frontrunner, Mike Huckabee calls John McCain weak on indecency. FCC Chairman Kevin Martin wakes up in the middle of the night and thinks of three new ways to regulate cable that none of us even thought of before.
June A federal court remands the newspaper-ownership cross-ownership ban back to the FCC, saying that the tests to approve a merger are too easily gamed by clever lawyers.
July Critics of media consolidation call for more studies on the matter.
August The FCC issues rules allowing unlicensed mobile devices in the DTV white space. Microsoft and Google compare the day to the first Moon landing and Archimedes discovering the telescope.
September Confused by a bombardment of messages about DTV, consumers decide to wait till February 2009 just to see if they really lose free analog TV.
October Broadcasters frantically create new Web sites and crank out new multicast channels, just to have more places to sell political ads.
November In an election shocker, the anti-Establishment ticket of Ron Paul and Mike Gravel trounces both the Clinton-Biden ticket and the Republican offering of Alan Keyes and Duncan Hunter.
December Second-generation, fun-styled digital-to-analog converter boxes are the surprise holiday gift blockbuster. President-elect Paul says he wants to disband the FCC and have no RF licenses—just a free-market, strongest-signal-wins free-for-all.
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It's been a pretty bad couple of days in sports, with lots of people acting terribly. There's no need to ignore all that and pretend the world is perfect, but there's no need not to take a minute to watch these puppies playing.
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Every time I think I've hit all the really amazing stuff I saw, I realize there's another set of photos I've yet to scour. People complain that the show was smaller, but it was still too big for me and I scheduled appointments every half hour all day long. For me, the lasting lesson of Interbike is that it contains plenty of great stuff if you go in with an open mind and an appetite for cool.
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zwift is awesome and has totally changed in door training for me. I used to hate, hate, hate, hate doing trainer. Every single minute I just wanted to stop. The mental torture was far more painful than the legs. Zwift support has been good and they are constantly improving it. Other friends say the same thing. The downside is that often when I try to do a easy recovery on zwift, I can't help chase others.
is there no better way to display and caption the photos. They're small, and look disorganized. I must be getting spoiled by sites like Pinkbike, who have really stepped up their photo display game…
@Padraig, clicking on the images results in a pretty modest increase in size (and the split photo effect on the side banners doesn't help much).
"A picture is worth a thousand words"; in your case, given the quality of your writing, that's a pretty high bar. You ain't there yet :). I'll skip the photo threads and stick to the stories.


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Ruins of Crusaders Discovered Beneath Israeli City
One of the richest archaeological sites in a country full of them is just now being uncovered: the walled port of Acre, where the busy alleys of an Ottoman-era town cover a uniquely intact Crusader city.
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workers_in_a_section_of_the_Crusader_townJune, 19, 2011: Workers in a section of the Crusader town underneath the old port city of Acre, on the Mediterranean coast in northern Israel. Off the track beaten by most Holy Land tourists lies one of the richest archaeological sites in a country full of them: Acre, where the busy alleys of an Ottoman-era town cover a uniquely intact Crusader city now being rediscovered.AP Photo/Ariel Schalithttps://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2018/09/918/516/workers-in-a-section-of-the-Crusader-town-1.jpg?ve=1&tl=1
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Tunnel_Built_by_Knights_TemplarJune, 19, 2011: A tunnel built by knights of the Templar order under the old port city of Acre, on the Mediterranean coast in northern Israel. "It's like Pompeii of Roman times -- it's a complete city," said Eliezer Stern, the Israeli archaeologist in charge of Acre. He called the town "one of the most exciting sites in the world of archaeology."AP Photo/Ariel Schalithttps://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2018/09/918/516/Tunnel-Built-by-Knights-Templar.jpg?ve=1&tl=1
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Youths_stand_on_wall_surrounding_AcreJune, 19, 2011: Israeli Arab youths stand on the wall surrounding the old port city of Acre. Today, old Acre is a picturesque enclave jutting into the Mediterranean, home to 5,000 Arab citizens of Israel who live in dense warrens of homes that are themselves historic artifacts. Most residents are poor.AP Photo/Ariel Schalithttps://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2018/09/918/516/Youths-stand-on-wall-surrounding-Acre.jpg?ve=1&tl=1
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Youth_jumps_off_the_seawall_surrounding_AcreJune, 19, 2011: An Israeli Arab youth jumps off the 250-year-old seawall surrounding the old port of Acre. The newly excavated area, part of a Crusader neighborhood, is set to open later this year.AP Photo/Ariel Schalithttps://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2018/09/918/516/Youth-jumps-off-the-seawall-surrounding-Acre.jpg?ve=1&tl=1
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the old port city of Acre on the Mediterranean coastJune, 19, 2011: The old port city of Acre on the Mediterranean coast in northern Israel. In 2001, Acre became Israel's first UNESCO World Heritage site. But whether because of its out-of-the-way location in the country's north or simply because it must compete with better-known sites like Jerusalem and the desert fortress of Masada, Acre has been overshadowed.AP Photo/Ariel Schalithttps://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2018/09/918/516/the-old-port-city-of-Acre-on-the-Mediterranean-coas.jpg?ve=1&tl=1
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Ottoman_era_inn_known_as_Khan_al_UmdanJune, 19, 2011: The Ottoman-era inn known as Khan al-Umdan in the old port city of Acre. Acre has existed for at least 4,500 years, but reached the height of its importance with the Crusader conquest in 1104.AP Photo/Ariel Schalithttps://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2018/09/918/516/Ottoman-era-inn-known-as-Khan-al-Umdan.jpg?ve=1&tl=1
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graffiti_left_by_a_medieval_travelerJune, 19, 2011: Etched in plaster on one wall was a coat of arms -- graffiti left by a medieval traveler. Nearby was a main street of cobblestones and a row of shops that once sold clay figurines and ampules for holy water, popular souvenirs for pilgrims..AP Photo/Ariel Schalithttps://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2018/09/918/516/graffiti-left-by-a-medieval-traveler.jpg?ve=1&tl=1
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The U.S. Treasury Department today released a one-page analysis of the GOP's proposed tax reform plan.
Bottom line: The report acknowledges that the tax plan will not pay for itself via increased economic growth, despite Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin having regularly made such a claim. Instead, getting into the black would require both the tax plan and "a combination of regulatory reform, infrastructure development, and welfare reform."


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Huntington Arts Council Calendar
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Main Street Gallery presents The Human Condition Photography Exhibition
February 1, 2017 @ 8:00 am - February 27, 2017 @ 5:00 pm
The Human Condition juried Photography Show Marc Josloff juror
February 1- 27, 2017
People are affected by their cultures, surroundings, personal relationships and individual situations. The motivation behind this juried competition was to Observe and capture aspects of the Human Condition through individual character studies or person-to person interactions. Congratulations to the participating artists: Frank Esposito, Ken Farrell, Alyssa Fox, Joanna Gazzola, Bill Grabowski, Teri Herzog, Germaine Hodges, Geraldine Hoffman, Warren Jacobson, Niki Kniffin, Herb Knopp, William Mac Millan, Joseph Manor, Stan Mehlman, John Micheals, Jean Miller, Kenny Ng, Alan Richards, Jim Sabiston, Max Schauder, Paul Schmid, Susan Silkowitz, Christina Stow, Donald Thiergard, William Von Gonten, Pamela Waldroup, & Joan Weiss


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Extreme Network's channel program is on fire this year, with multiple award wins under our belt including the 2017 XCellence Award for the Best State and Local Product/Service, which we received at The Channel Company's XChange SLED conference in May. Elected by over 90 solution provider attendees, Extreme Network's Cloud MSP Program was recognized for delivering the most distinguished state and local program represented at the event. Our MSP program offering empowers partners to grow their customer base by acquiring and managing new clients at scale, as well as increase their average revenue per customer by delivering differentiated wired and wireless cloud managed services.
The ExtremeCloud specialization designation is one part of the MSP program which offers increased differentiation and rewards to qualified partners. ExtremeCloud specialists receive business transformation training, access to exclusive webinars and planning tools and increased rebate options for the ExtremeCloud product. The overall ExtremeCloud SMP program offers partners technical multi-tenant training, certification reimbursement options, flexible financing models and more. The 2017 XCellence Award signifies our dedication to partner success and we are honored to be recognized by the industry's leading solution providers. We take these awards seriously at Extreme, as our commitment to partners is one of our guiding principles. We are proud of our global channel team and worldwide partner ecosystem that engages, enables and rewards partners at every stage of their engagement with Extreme, providing the foundation for more predictability and growth.
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Overview Traumatic Brain Injury
Traumatic brain injury is commonly the result of a very sudden, violent blow to the head that launches the brain on a dangerous collision course with the inside of the skull to bruise the brain, tear nerve fibers and cause potential bleeding. This type of injury can occur in auto accidents, slip and fall accidents, or from merchandise falling on a person.
The severity of the injury may vary tremendously, depending on the part of the brain that is affected and the extent of the damage. A mild injury can cause temporary confusion and headache, but a serious one can be fatal.
The brain controls all of your movements, behaviors, thoughts and sensations; a traumatic brain injury causes wide-ranging physical and psychological effects. The immediate physical effects will include bruising and swelling. When injured brain tissue swells, it creates a second, delayed problem- pressure. As the injured tissue starts to expand, it pushes against the skull with increasing force and tends to cause additional damage. Signs and symptoms of a mild traumatic brain injury (concussion) may include a short period of unconsciousness; amnesia for events immediately before and after the injury; headache; confusion; dizziness or loss of balance; sensory problems such as blurred vision, ringing in the ears; mood changes; memory /concentration problems, Moderate to severe injuries can cause persistent headaches; repeated vomiting or nausea; convulsions or seizures; not being able to be awaken from sleep; dilation of one or both pupils of the eyes; slurred speech; weakness or numbness in extremities; profound confusion, agitation or combativeness.
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February 25, 2013 (KHARTOUM) – Two leading figures from Sudan's ruling National Congress Party (NCP) heard some tough words from the party membership in South Darfur's capital city of Nyala this week.
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The NCP dispatched Mahdi Ibrahim and Mohamed Abdulla to brief their base in the state on the political developments in the country.
But the pair were met with criticism and mockery from the NCP members with some even calling on the government to make a public apology for its failures since the 1989 coup and to make way for a new generation to take over.
Others said that the Islamist experience in ruling Sudan has reached a dead end and brought the country backward while creating conflicts in several parts of the country.
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They also accused the NCP in Khartoum of fomenting tribal strife especially in Darfur and one of the speakers described members of the Islamic movement and the party as pursuing wealth while cloaked in an Islamic appearance.
Some speakers urged the central government to acknowledge the reasons for conflict in Darfur as being lack of fair distribution of wealth.
They also blasted the current governor of South Darfur, Hamad Ismail Hamad, for failing to curb insecurity and called for the appointment of a military governor.
Violence has been on the rise in Darfur recently as rebels engaged in battles with the Sudanese army.
On Monday a Sudanese lawmaker said that tribal clashes over control of lucrative gold mines in North Darfur state have killed more than 500 people and wounded some 865 since January,
Law and order has collapsed across the arid western region since mainly non-Arab rebels took up arms against the Arab-led government in Khartoum in 2003, accusing it of neglecting Darfur.


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What is the other 96 percent? The deep web and the darknet. The deep web, the second layer, is a network where data is stored in inaccessible databases. The darknet is the third, deeper layer of the Internet where hackers congregate and facilitate illegal meetings. Customers whose data is breached do not have access to the darknet.
Tor (originally short for The Onion Router) began life as a U.S. Navy project for anonymous online activity but is now used by a wide range of groups, including the military, journalists, bloggers, activists and, yes, criminals. Tor makes communications harder to trace through traffic analysis by routing Internet activity through a series of network nodes, each ignorant of the whole route from beginning to end. The trade-off for increased security is slower speed.
To surf the darknet, we use a browser that allows us to access .onion sites with call browsers like:
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Editor's note: To learn more about this topic, an archived webinar, "The Dark Web – A Threat To Your Business?," is available at www.isaca.org/Education/Online-Learning/Pages/Webinar-The-Dark-Web-a-Threat-to-Your-Business.aspx.


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Final amendment 3 to the fishery management plan (FMP) for the Northeast Skate Complex and final environmental impact statement (FEIS) with an initial Regulatory Flexibility Act analysis
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Keywords:Endangered Species
Environmental Impact Analysis
Environmental Impact Statements
Environmental Policy
Fishery Management
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Skate Fisheries
Skates (Fishes)
Sustainable Fisheries
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Description:"This document serves as Final Amendment 3 to the Skate FMP, the Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) which updates and supplements the original EIS for the skate fishery (available at http://www.nefmc.org/skates/fmp/fmp.htm), and a Stock Assessment and Fishery Evaluation (SAFE) Report (Section 7.0 of this document). The purpose of the amendment is to propose and consider modifications of existing management measures or new skate fishery management measures to address the following issues: Overfished status of thorny skates; Overfishing of thorny skate; Implementation of annual catch limits (ACLs) and accountability measures (AMs), a new mandate of the reauthorized Magnuson-Stevens Act; and A baseline review process that has become obsolete and less meaningful. The amendment also includes a new discussion and quantification of maximum sustainable yield (MSY; Section 4.1.2) and optimum yield (OY; Section 4.3). Quantification of these variables was not previously possible in the Skate FMP, due to problems with catch data and missing life history information about skates. Some of these issues have been resolved, but others have not. However the analysis of rebuilding potential in Section 126.96.36.199 has implications for sustainable catches. The estimated values at the biomass targets can serve as interim estimates or proxy values for MSY and OY, at least until better information comes forth about the population dynamics of skate species and catch reporting improves"--Executive summary (p. 3).
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It was another beautiful day for a walk with the St.Louis Backwoods Hiking Club. I am not sure who Rick knows, but he has ordered the most superb weather for the last two walks. This time they were going to the trail I know very well: Cuivre River Long Spring section. We planned to do the full 6 miles with a stop half way to let anyone who had had enough stop for the day.
34 people showed up for this hike- another great turnout for Rick and Backwoods
Rick togs up for the walk
Most of the trees had lost their leaves already, but that makes the woods a much easier place to see all the rolling hills
Fugus amongus... ;-)
Half way into the first 3 mile section is the Lone Spring itself
A giant walking stick is hard to see against a tree, being the exact color, but against the yellow trail sign it really stands out... wonder what attracted it.. the color?
There was a little navigational challenges following the yellow trail signs, but nothing major and we were all soon moving in the right direction again
The only water in the creeks, were just small clear pools.
We all stopped back in the parking lot after 3 miles, 17 would leave us, but the rest had some snacks and then we were ready to move on.
The second 3 miles loop was done in a little more than an hour
Just another spectacular day in the woods
The group moving on the trail. Not exactly LNT but we did pick up a considerable amount of trail trash, so it all balances out in the end