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Good then your site will be linked here. Well just to say good luck on the site and I will try to post some later this week. Busy with life and 3 jobs makes it hard to spread the wealth. But good luck. The more emulation sites I say the better.

Damn I never knew ya was gone. Oh well welcome back to hell on earth or as I call it. Noobie emulation town.

Ya not the best if you want to send something that you don't want anyone else to see but you and the one you send it too. I have a gmail account but use it rarely. I suggest if you want a true email account that you can trust get on through a hosting site and get yourself a domain name. I have 4 and they have enough space to satisfy all my needs for privacy. Hell I can give ya one at jitway.net if you want. Say BK or BlackKnight@jitway.net....your call. No skin off my back either way.

Another great Zit strip...getting old sure does weird things to ya.

Charlton Heston, who won the 1959 best actor Oscar as the chariot-racing "Ben-Hur" and portrayed Moses, Michelangelo, El Cid and other heroic figures in movie epics of the '50s and '60s, has died. He was 84. The actor died Saturday night at his home in Beverly Hills with his wife Lydia at his side, family spokesman Bill Powers said. Powers declined to comment on the cause of death or provide further details. "Charlton Heston was seen by the world as larger than life. He was known for his chiseled jaw, broad shoulders and resonating voice, and, of course, for the roles he played," Heston's family said in a statement. "No one could ask for a fuller life than his. No man could have given more to his family, to his profession, and to his country." Heston revealed in 2002 that he had symptoms consistent with Alzheimer's disease, saying, "I must reconcile courage and surrender in equal measure." With his large, muscular build, well-boned face and sonorous voice, Heston proved the ideal star during the period when Hollywood was filling movie screens with panoramas depicting the religious and historical past. "I have a face that belongs in another century," he often remarked. The actor assumed the role of leader offscreen as well. He served as president of the Screen Actors Guild and chairman of the American Film Institute and marched in the civil rights movement of the 1950s. With age, he grew more conservative and campaigned for conservative candidates. In June 1998, Heston was elected president of the National Rifle Association, for which he had posed for ads holding a rifle. He delivered a jab at then-President Clinton, saying, "America doesn't trust you with our 21-year-old daughters, and we sure, Lord, don't trust you with our guns." Heston stepped down as NRA president in April 2003, telling members his five years in office were "quite a ride. ... I loved every minute of it." Later that year, Heston was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor. "The largeness of character that comes across the screen has also been seen throughout his life," President Bush said at the time. He engaged in a lengthy feud with liberal Ed Asner during the latter's tenure as president of the Screen Actors Guild. His latter-day activism almost overshadowed his achievements as an actor, which were considerable. Heston lent his strong presence to some of the most acclaimed and successful films of the midcentury. "Ben-Hur" won 11 Academy Awards, tying it for the record with the more recent "Titanic" (1997) and "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King" (2003). Heston's other hits include: "The Ten Commandments," "El Cid," "55 Days at Peking," "Planet of the Apes" and "Earthquake." He liked the cite the number of historical figures he had portrayed: Andrew Jackson ("The President's Lady," "The Buccaneer"), Moses ("The Ten Commandments"), title role of "El Cid," John the Baptist ("The Greatest Story Ever Told"), Michelangelo ("The Agony and the Ecstasy"), General Gordon ("Khartoum"), Marc Antony ("Julius Caesar," "Antony and Cleopatra"), Cardinal Richelieu ("The Three Musketeers"), Henry VIII ("The Prince and the Pauper"). Heston made his movie debut in the 1940s in two independent films by a college classmate, David Bradley, who later became a noted film archivist. He had the title role in "Peer Gynt" in 1942 and was Marc Antony in Bradley's 1949 version of "Julius Caesar," for which Heston was paid $50 a week. Film producer Hal B. Wallis ("Casablanca") spotted Heston in a 1950 television production of "Wuthering Heights" and offered him a contract. When his wife reminded him that they had decided to pursue theater and television, he replied, "Well, maybe just for one film to see what it's like." Heston earned star billing from his first Hollywood movie, "Dark City," a 1950 film noir. Cecil B. DeMille next cast him as the circus manager in the all-star "The Greatest Show On Earth," named by the Motion Picture Academy as the best picture of 1952. More movies followed: "The Savage," "Ruby Gentry," "The President's Lady," "Pony Express" (as Buffalo Bill Cody), "Arrowhead," "Bad for Each Other," "The Naked Jungle," "Secret of the Incas," "The Far Horizons" (as Clark of the Lewis and Clark trek), "The Private War of Major Benson," "Lucy Gallant." Most were forgettable low-budget films, and Heston seemed destined to remain an undistinguished action star. His old boss DeMille rescued him. The director had long planned a new version of "The Ten Commandments," which he had made as a silent in 1923 with a radically different approach that combined biblical and modern stories. He was struck by Heston's facial resemblance to Michelangelo's sculpture of Moses, especially the similar broken nose, and put the actor through a long series of tests before giving him the role. The Hestons' newborn, Fraser Clarke Heston, played the role of the infant Moses in the film. More films followed: the eccentric thriller "Touch of Evil," directed by Orson Welles; William Wyler's "The Big Country," costarring with Gregory Peck; a sea saga, "The Wreck of the Mary Deare" with Gary Cooper. Then his greatest role: "Ben-Hur." Heston wasn't the first to be considered for the remake of 1925 biblical epic. Marlon Brando, Burt Lancaster and Rock Hudson had declined the film. Heston plunged into the role, rehearsing two months for the furious chariot race. He railed at suggestions the race had been shot with a double: "I couldn't drive it well, but that wasn't necessary. All I had to do was stay on board so they could shoot me there. I didn't have to worry; MGM guaranteed I would win the race." The huge success of "Ben-Hur" and Heston's Oscar made him one of the highest-paid stars in Hollywood. He combined big-screen epics like "El Cid" and "55 Days at Peking" with lesser ones such as "Diamond Head," "Will Penny" and "Airport 1975." In his later years he played cameos in such films as "Wayne's World 2" and "Tombstone." He often returned to the theater, appearing in such plays as "A Long Day's Journey into Night" and "A Man for All Seasons." He starred as a tycoon in the prime-time soap opera, "The Colbys," a two-season spinoff of "Dynasty." At his birth in a Chicago suburb on Oct. 4, 1923, his name was Charles Carter. His parents moved to St. Helen, Mich., where his father, Russell Carter, operated a lumber mill. Growing up in the Michigan woods with almost no playmates, young Charles read books of adventure and devised his own games while wandering the countryside with his rifle. Charles's parents divorced, and she married Chester Heston, a factory plant superintendent in Wilmette, Ill., an upscale north Chicago suburb. Shy and feeling displaced in the big city, the boy had trouble adjusting to the new high school. He took refuge in the drama department. "What acting offered me was the chance to be many other people," he said in a 1986 interview. "In those days I wasn't satisfied with being me." Calling himself Charlton Heston from his mother's maiden name and his stepfather's last name, he won an acting scholarship to Northwestern University in 1941. He excelled in campus plays and appeared on Chicago radio. In 1943, he enlisted in the Army Air Force and served as a radio-gunner in the Aleutians. In 1944 he married another Northwestern drama student, Lydia Clarke, and after his army discharge in 1947, they moved to New York to seek acting jobs. Finding none, they hired on as codirectors and principal actors at a summer theater in Asheville, N.C. Back in New York, both Hestons began finding work. With his strong 6-feet-2 build and craggily handsome face, Heston won roles in TV soap operas, plays ("Antony and Cleopatra" with Katherine Cornell) and live TV dramas such as "Julius Caesar," "Macbeth," "The Taming of the Shrew" and "Of Human Bondage." Heston wrote several books: "The Actor's Life: Journals 1956-1976," published in 1978; "Beijing Diary: 1990," concerning his direction of the play "The Caine Mutiny Court Martial" in Chinese; "In the Arena: An Autobiography," 1995; and "Charlton Heston's Hollywood: 50 Years of American Filmmaking," 1998. Besides Fraser, who directed his father in an adventure film, "Mother Lode," the Hestons had a daughter, Holly Ann, born Aug. 2, 1961. The couple celebrated their golden wedding anniversary in 1994 at a party with Hollywood and political friends. They had been married 64 years when he died. In late years, Heston drew as much publicity for his crusades as for his performances. In addition to his NRA work, he campaigned for Republican presidential and congressional candidates and against affirmative action. He resigned from Actors Equity, claiming the union's refusal to allow a white actor to play a Eurasian role in "Miss Saigon" was "obscenely racist." He attacked CNN's telecasts from Baghdad as "sowing doubts" about the allied effort in the 1990-91 Gulf War. At a Time Warner stockholders meeting, he castigated the company for releasing an Ice-T album that purportedly encouraged cop killing. Heston wrote in "In the Arena" that he was proud of what he did "though now I'll surely never be offered another film by Warners, nor get a good review in Time. On the other hand, I doubt I'll get a traffic ticket very soon." What a great actor and gun activate. Charles you will be missed that is for sure. Source HERE

ImageShack’s torrent download service is still in Beta, but it works just fine. The only thing you need to do is point ImageShack to the torrent file and press start. The download will start immediately, and once it’s finished you can download the files via http onto your computer. Services like this are not new, but up until now I haven’t seen one that doesn’t charge money. There are some limitations though. Per month you can download a maximum of 15GB to your computer, and the storage on ImageShack’s servers is also limited to 15GB. Jack Levin, the founder of ImageShack told TorrentFreak: “We think its going to be a great service for users, especially in the light of ISPs ratelimiting torrent traffic.There is a lot of free and legal torrents out there, that people should have easy access too to. We have the capacity to do it, and the world needs it.” For those people who are concerned about the anonymity of the service (or think it’s a honeypot), Levin said: “We will not look at what you download and simply provide you, an account, with bandwidth and space. What you do with it is up to you. The DMCA applies, so, if we get reports from copyright owners to take down content, we will comply” The service comes with some great features. It supports selective downloading, which means that you can deselect files from the torrent if you don’t want to download them all. This can be quite useful if you only need one album from a complete discography for example. ImageShack also provides some basic details about the progress of the downloads. Under the “status” link they list information about the download progress, connected seeds and leechers, share ratio and more. The status reports are not yet working perfectly, as it keeps reporting that a torrent has stopped, while it was downloading just fine. However, the torrents I have tested were downloaded very fast, and I had no problem downloading the files from ImageShack onto my computer. A more serious point of critique is that the torrent seems to disconnect as soon as the download has finished. This basically means that you will be sharing less than you should. I hope that ImageShack will add a sharing friendly feature in the future, and will at least continue seeding until the share ratio is 100%. Levin told us, however, that there are no plans to include such a feature. They will offer (paid) premium accounts, but this will be only for bandwidth and storage upgrades. Overall I must say that Imageshack’s new torrent download service looks very promising, especially for a free service. Decide for yourself, we think it’s worth a try. This is really something. I gave it a try and it works. 15 gb a month is not much but it is something and for free you can't beat it. Source HERE Try it HERE

Children in a New Zealand school have been banned from bringing cakes to share on their birthdays, due to new government healthy eating guidelines. Pupils at Oteha Valley primary school north of Auckland have been told they are allowed to celebrate their birthdays, but the cake must stay at home, the New Zealand Herald newspaper reported. The Ministry of Education has been on a fat-busting crusade, introducing sweeping guidelines against unhealthy food in New Zealand schools. Oteha Valley has a large number of pupils born in September and October, and there can be up to four cakes a week in some classes, principal Megan Bowden told the Herald. It had gotten to the point where parents thought they were required to provide a cake for their child's birthday. The school has advised parents in a newsletter to stop sending cakes to school from the next term. A Ministry of Education spokesman told the Herald the government guidelines only applied to food sold on the premises, and schools did not need to monitor food brought in from outside. This is stupid as crap. Kid at that age eat sweets and lots of them. Denying them cake is just cruel. Another funny way that authorities try to take charge of our lives...lol. Get a life you people in charge and leave them kids alone. Teachers Leave Them Kids Alone....As said by Floyd. Source HERE

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Child welfare officials following up on an abuse complaint took custody of 18 girls Friday who lived at a secretive West Texas religious retreat built by polygamist leader Warren Jeffs. A total of 52 girls, ages 6 months to 17 years, were bused away on Friday to be interviewed, but only 18 were immediately taken into state custody, said Texas Child Protective Services spokeswoman Marleigh Meisner. No arrests had been made. Meisner said welfare officials were looking for foster homes for the girls, most of whom have rarely been outside the insular world of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. They were being housed for now at a civic center, she said. "We're dealing with children that aren't accustomed to the outside world, so we're trying to be very sensitive to their needs," Meisner said. Authorities had interviewed about half the girls since arriving Thursday evening at the remote compound with law enforcers, she said. Interviews were expected to continue over the weekend. The investigation began with a call alleging physical abuse of a 16-year-old girl living there, Meisner said. On Friday afternoon, the Department of Public Safety officials began executing a search warrant. The warrant seeks records dealing with the birth of children to a 16-year-old and any records listing a marriage between a 50-year-old man and the girl, according to the San Angelo Standard-Times, which cited court records released late Friday in Tom Green County. Prosecutors in Tom Green, a larger county north of Eldorado, were handling the case. An arrest warrant was issued, but the individual that public safety officials are looking for had not been located Friday evening, said spokeswoman Tela Mange. She said she could not reveal whose name was on the warrant. "We have been working very closely with the adults at the ranch, and they have been assisting us in our search," she said. The ranch covers roughly 1,700 acres. It is north of this two stoplight town, down a narrow paved road. Authorities blocked access to the compound's gate, keeping onlookers miles away. Only the compound's 80-foot-tall, gleaming white temple is visible on the wind-swept desert horizon. State officials said they did not know how many people lived at the retreat, but local officials in 2006 put the number at about 150, as members of the reclusive church moved from a community on the Arizona-Utah line. The congregation, known as FLDS, and has been led by Jeffs since his father's death in 2002. It is one of several groups that split from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, based in Salt Lake City, decades after it renounced polygamy in 1890. In November, Jeffs was sentenced to two consecutive sentences of five years to life in prison in Utah for being an accomplice to the rape of a 14-year-old girl who wed her cousin in an arranged marriage in 2001. In Arizona, Jeffs is charged as an accomplice with four counts each of incest and sexual conduct with a minor stemming from two arranged marriages between teenage girls and their older male relatives. He is jailed in Kingman, Ariz., awaiting trial. The group's retreat, about 160 miles northwest of San Antonio, is on a former exotic game ranch. The group bought the property in 2004 for $700,000 and began an ambitious construction program anchored by the temple. This is very sad indeed. Children brainwashed and never seeing the outside world. Come on a 16 year old married to a 50 year old. You can't say that the 16 year old truly wanted this. This gives religion a bad name. As well as the human race in general. I say the ones responsible should be crucified like in the old days. Source HERE

Comcast has been promising that DOCSIS 3.0 goodness would be coming to its customers this year, and the cable giant is about to make good. Starting tomorrow, Comcast's new "extreme high-speed" Internet tier will be available to subscribers in the Minneapolis/St. Paul metropolitan area, including Hudson, Wisconsin. Download speeds will top out at 50Mbps while uploads will be capped at 5Mbps. But all of that speed comes at a price: $149.95 per month for consumers, and $199.95 per month for business class service. Related Stories * DOCSIS 3.0, possible 100Mbps speeds coming to some Comcast users in 2008 * Comcast speaks out on bandwidth caps, says they only affect 0.01% of users * Certification testing for 100Mbps cable modems begins, 2008 rollout eyed * Comcast shooting itself in the foot with traffic shaping "explanations" Comcast spokesperson Charlie Douglas characterized the price as "competitive," saying that it's roughly the same as what Verizon charges for similar speeds on its FiOS network. That's more or less accurate, but there's a wide gap between the 50/5 tier and the next one down, 8/2, which costs $52.95 per month for video customers. Still, if you're willing to pay for it, the superfast Internet is there. "This announcement marks the beginning of the evolution from broadband to wideband," said Comcast High-Speed Internet SVP Mitch Bowling. "We believe wideband will usher-in a new era of speed and Internet innovation for today’s digital consumers. Wideband is the future, and it's coming fast." How fast? Douglas said that the company intends to have DOCSIS 3.0 and the accompanying 50Mbps tier available to 20 percent of its customers by the end of 2008. It should be available nationwide by the middle of 2010. And 50Mbps is only the beginning; Comcast plans to up the speeds to at least 100Mbps in the next couple of years. DOCSIS 3.0 is theoretically capable of 160Mbps speeds, which gives the company some headroom to increase speeds. There's something for the rest of Comcast's Twin Cities' subscribers as well. Those on the lowest, 6Mbps/384Kbps tier will see their upload speeds jump to 1Mbps. 8Mbps Performance Plus customers will see 1Mbps upload speeds double to 2Mbps. Since Comcast made its DOCSIS 3.0 intentions official at CES this year, there has been a lot of speculation about where the first deployment would show up. Some analysts believed that those with access to Verizon's FiOS or possibly AT&T's U-Verse networks would be first to see Comcast's "extreme high-speed" offerings. Instead, Comcast is rolling it out in the Twin Cities first, an area served by Qwest and with no superfast broadband competition. "We chose the Twin Cities because they have done an excellent job operationally on other rollouts we have done," Douglas told Ars. When asked if Comcast would manage its DOCSIS 3.0 network any differently, Douglas reiterated the company's decision to alter its traffic management practices that are currently under investigation by the Federal Communications Commission. "We're committed to changing our network management process from what they are today by the end of the year, and we just need time to work that all out," Douglas said. "We're going to work not just with BitTorrent, but a lot of other P2P companies, the Internet Engineering Task Force, academics, and others to get together and come up with a better way to manage the network." Geeks around the country have been salivating at the thought of 50Mbps downloads, and it's great to see such high speeds finally spreading beyond Verizon's FiOS network. The price is likely to be a deal-breaker for a lot of people—$149 is a lot to pay for broadband, even if it's blazing fast. It sounds as though Comcast is open to the possibility of dropping the price if the new offering is widely ignored. "It's too early to talk about future price drops," said Douglas. "A lot of this is going to be about consumer demand and the response that we see. We'll adjust based on consumer demand." The company may have to if it expects to get more than a small handful of subscribers to sign up for 50Mbps speeds. Ok great speed but the price is can I say a bit steep. $150 to $199 a month. This seems a bit much for that speed. If it was say 100Mbps then maybe. I will be waiting to see who actually pays for this. No one would in their right mind. Source HERE

When faced with a burning desire to decipher the lyrics to a song, most of us typically turn to Google for a mishmash of ad-infested sites with inaccurate lyrics. Despite the preponderance of ads on these sites, no royalties are paid to songwriters or publishers. MetyroLyrics, which bills itself as the most highly trafficked lyrics site on the web (and one of the 500 fastest-growing websites in general), became the first dedicated lyrics site to "go legit" Thursday, thanks to a partnership with Gracenote that cuts music publishers in on advertising revenue. Alan Juristovski, CEO of MetroLyrics, said he has wanted to pay licensing fees for the song lyrics on the site for the past three years, but "never approached publishers directly, because [he] felt it would take much longer than if [they went] with somebody who already had a deal in place." Juristovski added that previous solutions were unacceptable because MetroLyrics' business model is different from that of Yahoo, MTV, AOL or Disney, which have included lyrics as a side feature for a while now. Gracenote apparently relayed its partner's concerns as a standalone lyrics site to the hundreds of publishers with which it has agreements, and all parties have agreed to share advertising revenue generated by the site. Songwriters and publishers will be compensated relative to the amount of traffic their songs receive on MetroLyrics or can request that their lyrics not be posted. (Of course, even novice Googlers can easily find those lyrics on sites that pay no royalties.) MetroLyrics' submission engine will funnel lyrics submitted by its users to a Gracenote database where they can be cleared by publishers and cleaned up by Gracenote's staff of lyrics scribes. According to Jim Hollingsworth, SVP of sales and marketing at Gracenote, the company has at times had nearly 100 people working on its lyrics and began transcribing about four years ago. The process has cost millions of dollars, but this landmark announcement reinforces the notion that lyrics could become a legitimate business proposition. To make things easier, some publishers have begun submitting lyrics to Gracenote before the songs are even released. "By working with the publishers and understanding the realities of the marketplace, what's going to be acceptable to the user experience, what's going to be required from a technology standpoint and what's going to be acceptable as a business model, we've taken one of the biggest lyrics sites in the world and brought them into an authorized service," said Hollingsworth. "That is a win-win. [MetroLyrics] like it because it's a better-quality service and a lot of their back-end costs go away. The content community loves it because it's authorized and licensed, and dollars are flowing to the right people at the right times." He said Gracenote even tracks how much back-up singers are owed. When we asked Juristovski what it felt like to be the first site to go legit, he laughed and said, "It's a good question, it's the million-dollar question. Actually, [i feel] very good, and a little nervous as well." The reason for his nerves is clear to anyone who followed Gracenote's acquisition of the CDDB database: People don't like to feel that their work is being hijacked and sold back to them, or that the lyrics they dutifully submitted were deleted. MetroLyrics has in fact lost some lyrics during the conversion to Gracenote's system. But overall, the Gracenote partnership will increase the number of lyrics on MetroLyrics from 400,000 or so to about double that. Besides, as both Juristovski and Hollingsworth pointed out, Gracenote's lyrics will likely be more accurate than those submitted by users. The only real downside, according to Juristovski, would occur if MetroLyrics remains the only lyrics site that pays publishers. Now that Gracenote offers a way for pure lyrics sites to license songs in return for a revenue share, he says, there's no excuse for unlicensed lyrics sites to continue operation. This is great news for all who are looking for lyrics to your favorite tunes. I use this site and gracenote all the time. Great software and site for lyrics. MetroLyrics Source HERE

News Corp. has announced the long-anticipated MySpace Music, a music portal that will let users stream and download music in addition to allowing them to buy concert tickets and merchandise. Three major music labels—Sony BMG, Universal, and Warner Music—have stakes in the venture, allowing them to yank some money out of MySpace's thriving music community, one that has long been known as a gathering place for bands, artists, and their fans online. The three major music labels will represent both content owners and equity holders in MySpace Music, with the last of the Big Four (EMI) apparently sitting out this round. During a conference call this morning announcing the venture, MySpace refused to talk about why EMI was not included, saying that it was up to EMI to explain. MySpace COO Amit Kapur added, however, that MySpace Music won't just be limited to major labels—the companies plan to offer ways for independent and unsigned artists to participate as well. Downloads through MySpace Music will be DRM-free; video content and streaming music will be ad-supported. The company said that users will be able to choose from the full catalog as streaming options and will be able to share playlists with one another. MySpace also plans to offer a mobile storefront and allow users to buy ringtones, and new features will continue to be added to MySpace Music over time. MySpace CEO Chris DeWolfe said that the venture will provide "new revenue models for both MySpace and the music companies," although he declined to offer further financial details. MySpace originally announced its intentions to get into the music business almost two years ago—so why did it take so long to launch? One reason was because of Universal's 2006 copyright infringement lawsuit against MySpace. The record label accused MySpace of complicity in its users' infringement by reformatting the videos for playback once they are uploaded; MySpace called the suit "meritless." MySpace did not acknowledge the lawsuit during its announcement or conference call, but it has been widely speculated that the lawsuit has been quietly settled. Although it can be difficult for new music stores to break into the already crowded market, MySpace Music could give giants like iTunes and Amazon MP3 a run for their money. MySpace, still the leader in social network ing despite Facebook's recent popularity explosion, claims that it has 30 million users in the "music community" and 5 million bands. Unlike other music stores, MySpace offers users the ability to actually interact with many of the bands they're interested in (particularly smaller, independent artists). Combine that with direct integration of MySpace Music with the rest of MySpace, and the company has a strong start. One major downside, however, is that MySpace Music is currently limited to US users only. The company said that it fully intends to roll the site out internationally over time, but licensing issues make the situation "complicated." Even though the streaming will be ad supported I still look forward to it. The more companies that get into this the better it will become in time. They are offering free non DRM music right out of the gate which is good as well. They will also be selling merchandise from artists as well from what I hear. Source HERE

Nice work one and all. Let's keep up the good work and get them reviews out. Btw I just added another one BK.

Formation Of Damnation Testament Release Date April 29 2008 1. For The Glory Of 2. More Than Meets The Eye 3. Evil Has Landed, The 4. Formation Of Damnation 5. Dangers Of The Faithless 6. Persecuted Won't Forget, The 7. Henchman 8. Killing Season 9. Afterlife 10. F.E.A.R. 11. Leave Me Forever Chuck Billy: Vocals Alex Skolnick: Lead guitar Eric Peterson: Rhythm, lead guitar Greg Christian: Bass Paul Bostaph: Drums Genre: l Thrash Metal l Speed Metal Label : Nuclear Blast For those who are not familar with Testament here is their Wikipedia Page Testament Thrash legends Testament have announced upcoming tour dates for 2008. The band will be touring to support their April 29 release of “The Formation of Damnation.” The album marks Testament’s Nuclear Blast debut, and it is the first new studio album from the band since 1999’s landmark “The Gathering.” The Formation of Damnation features the classic lineup of Chuck Billy on vocals, Eric Peterson and Alex Skolnick on guitar, and Greg Christian on bass…PLUS the venerable Paul Bostaph (Slayer, Testament, Forbidden) on drums. The band called on Andy Sneap (Megadeth, Trivium, Chimaira) who has been waiting nine years to engineer and mix the forthcoming album. Testament is one of the most underrated classic bands out there. They should be looked at as one of the pioneers of the metal scene, right up there with Metallica and Slayer. Far and away one of the most influential bands in all of modern metal. While other veteran acts soak up much of the spotlight with sing a-longs, Testament maintains the unsurpassed musicianship, integrity and brutality that continue to create an untouchable legacy. The album is very traditional-sounding," guitarist Eric Peterson recently told Decibel magazine. "The ideology of what we're doing is like 'The Legacy' [1987]. But the musicianship's a lot better, so it's like 'The Gathering' [1999]. As most bands record their first, second and third albums, they're developing, developing, developing… until they've got their sound. Then they get worse. As a rule, you get good when you're starving and start slipping as soon as you're eating well. We never really made it to the big time. But, then again, we didn't fail. Because we've always been on that borderline, we've never had to make the kinds of compromises that end up killing so many bands. As we see it, we're better off doing what we do best, especially since things seem to have turned full circle. Kids even have long hair again. The 2nd track More Then Meets The Eye is explosive out of the gate. The drumline is awesome as hell. The 3rd track The Evil Has Landed is another great tune with killer lyrics. The 4th track The Formation Of Damnation said title track has more of a death metal style vocals but done in a Testament way will the said speed only they could do. The 6th track Persecuted is super fast with great riffs and tempo changes like in the old Testament days. The 7th track Killing Season has a great tempo and rhythm changes as well as fantastic lyrics. The 9th track Afterlife is another great tune with great vocals and some really great solo riffs on guitar. The 10th track F.E.A.R. is another great tune and one of my favorites with speed metal solos out the ass. Here is a vid of The Evil Had Landed

On Thursday, Oprah introduced Oregon resident Thomas Beatie to anyone who hadn't yet heard of him. Beatie, a transgender man who is legally male, is six months pregnant with his and his wife's child. La Winfrey called the expectant situation "a new definition of what diversity means for everybody." And everybody, it seems, is interested. Over the past seven days, searches for "pregnant man" rose 26,879%. Demand for "thomas beatie" grew more than 3,000%. Interest in "oregon man pregnant" has swelled 461%. As for the skeptics who typed "man claims he is pregnant" and "pregnant man?" into Search, we can answer: Mr. Beatie retained his female reproductive organs. Because he has a uterus, he can get pregnant and carry a baby to term. In Buzz, some of the most popular articles from the past week focused on the bun in Beatie's oven. As we posted earlier, Boing Boing and Huffington Post were two of the first sources to surface with articles on the story. Since then, the Huffington Post scored another hit with an item revealing more photos of the fertile daddy. LilSugar, Yahoo! News, and People.com have also polled well with Buzz readers. The People.com article, which offers an exclusive video clip from the Oprah appearance, was one of the most voted-on articles in Buzz after the show aired. So has this childbearing event really redefined what diversity means for everybody? The tale certainly seems to have people thinking about gender issues. We've noted a surge in queries for "transgendered" and "transgender pregnancy." Lookups for "pregnant man" have flowed in from every state in the U.S. and every age group. With the fruitful papa about to enter his third trimester, we may have three more months of this baby buzz. Enjoy it! So this dude has both organs...hmmm. I know they exist but I really doubt he has the true means to carry a baby full term. So what you think? Source HERE

Dangers Of Faithless - Testament

Happy Birthday MissMandyKitten and your sexy self. Hope it is a good one and you get all the pampering and gifts you deserve.

Man somebody needs to update the trivia questions to be more relevant to the site. Say more gaming and music orientated. I try to play but users have all the questions memorized and they are useless trivia. Please someone fix this crap.

Been awhile since I updated this. Actually I forgot I started a blog here till FatalRose asked me about it on IM. So my life lately has been good. Business is great, lots of work in networking and even did a garage build just last month with my side construction job. Console modding has slacked a bit but that is figured since most don't wanna risk frying a new system. I still got 4 ps2 and 1 gamecube mod job last month though. I even has 1 psx mod as well. Been awhile since I did one of those. Soldering 4 wires is a breeze. The Ps2 and Xbox anymore is all soldierless. Just attach with screw and soldier ground is all. Been writing some new songs for a new album with a local group here. I am going to up a song soon and let you all here it as soon as I figure where I can stream it at. Been producing for another local group as well. As well as playing a lot for another at some local clubs. It is great to play live with people half my age. Makes me feel young again. I like playing live more then anything else. Better then writing, producing or even having sex. Today I helped a friend fix a basement leak he was having. We had over 8 inches of rain in the month of March here. That is 4 inches over the average. We have had flood warning out the ass all month. Now for april we already have flood warning out and it has rained all day today. So digging this 6 1/2 foot deep hole about 5 feet wide was one big ass muddy mess. But we found the crack and sealed it. April here is the wettest month of the year so it is good we did it now and not later. Well that is about it except I just listened to the latest Sonata Arctica Deliverance album and got to say it was great. Will do a review for it soon.

I turned on all 5 pc's and all lights inside and outside house. Plus I turned on all mixers and amps and plugged in all guitars at this said time. Just for the hell of it.

Still I would squeeze them!

Ashly

Well see there you go they wanna promote you, so you must be doing something right. And 1 dollar raise is nothing to smurk about. Hell at most my jobs before I went and started my own business I was lucky to get 30 cents a raise...lol.

Your young you are not suppose to like your job. Anyway never quit a job till you get a new one. That is unless you like not having money that is.