Readers pick the top email messaging security products of 2014.
Email is still the primary communications method for most enterprises. It is also one of the top vectors through which attackers infiltrate corporate systems and steal sensitive data. Companies turn to email security software and appliances to combat spam, viruses, malware and data loss, but few products can spare these organizations from employees who download compromised files or click on links in potentially disastrous messages.
One of the top threats many organizations face when it comes to email is spear phishing or targeted attacks. An email security product's ability to perform behavioral analytics, threat detection and incident response will be a critical differentiator in the next few years, says Rick Holland, principal analyst at Cambridge, Mass.-based Forrester Research Inc.
The two honorees in this year's Readers' Choice Awards are past winners. Both products continue to excel as hybrid tools that can help organizations combat email threats and ensure secure communications.
McAfee's Email Protection software received high marks from readers for its onsite, cloud and hybrid deployment options. This product is available in two models -- the McAfee Email Protection Gateway or McAfee SaaS Email Protection and Continuity -- with additional add-ons available, including McAfee Advanced Threat Defense, McAfee SaaS Email Archiving and McAfee SaaS Email Encryption.
The cloud is becoming a vital component of email security, according to Forrester's Holland. "In a very mature market where there's not a lot of differentiation between vendors, the fact that large organizations and, especially, small ones are moving to cloud-based email infrastructure means that vendors must have cloud delivery capabilities," he says. "And vendors must have a strategy for providing security to software as a service models including Google Apps and Office 365."
McAfee Email Protection's integration with existing messaging applications was lauded as one of the product's best features.
Email Protection's integration with existing messaging applications was lauded as one of the product's best features. Readers also commended the product for its ability to detect and block spam, phishing attempts, viruses and spyware, as well as its ease of installation, configuration and administration.
Beyond antispam and antimalware protection, McAfee's Email Protection integrates technologies such as data loss prevention, content-based policy enforcement, click-time link scanning, email encryption, advanced content scanning and continuity services to ensure email access during server outages. The product also contains built-in dictionaries to help organizations quickly create and implement compliance policies.
Winner: Barracuda Spam Firewall, Barracuda Networks Inc.
The Barracuda Spam Firewall from Barracuda Networks received accolades from readers again this year. One voter noted after five years of service, this product still meets all of his organization's email messaging security requirements.
Available as an appliance, virtual appliance or through the cloud, Barracuda's Spam Firewall series comes in eight models, from the low-end Spam Firewall 100 for up to 10 domains and five users, to the enterprise-level Spam Firewall 1000 for up to 5,000 domains and 100,000 users.
Beyond inbound and outbound email traffic filtering, the Barracuda Spam Firewall series offers data leak prevention, spam and virus pre-filtering, distributed denial-of-service attack protection, email spooling and encryption. The products also feature cloud-based centralized management.
While Barracuda touts Spam Firewall's inbound and outbound filtering capabilities, what readers really appreciated is the product's ease of use.
In August, Barracuda announced that the Spam Firewall is now available as an annual subscription on the AWS marketplace, with hourly and "Bring Your Own License" pricing options available.
While Barracuda touts its inbound and outbound filtering capabilities, what readers really appreciated is the product's end-user transparency and ease of use. The technology's ease of installation, configuration and administration were also commended.
Planning ahead is critical when it comes to email messaging security purchases. "When making an investment in email security," Holland says, " [organizations] need to know what their two- to three-year plan is, and what the implications are going to be if they are going to migrate to the cloud." Cloud is becoming a huge differentiator, as readers have shown in their choices for top products of 2014.
View the latest SearchSecurity articles on email security and learn how to improve enterprise email safety.


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Sarah Palin: You Betcha!
Film review by Gar Smith
Friday September 30, 2011 - 09:46:00 AM
Opens Friday at the Sundance Kabuki in San Francisco and in Berkeley at the Elmwood.
If you don't have $25 to spend on Joe McGinniss' new book, The Rogue: Searching for the Real Sarah Palin, you might want to get a quick-read in the form of the new British documentary, Sarah Palin: You Betcha! But, fair warning, you just might find yourself wishing the movie screen came equipped with a fast-forward button. -more-
Eye From the Aisle: Lucrezia Borgia at SF Opera—Star Vehicle for a Celestial Soprano
By John A. McMullen II
Thursday September 29, 2011 - 08:53:00 AM
Donizetti, one of the big three Bel Canto composers, liked to write about technicolor, edgy, and dangerous women: Anne Boleyn, Walter Scott's tragic Bride of Lammermoor, and that purveyor of poison and daughter of a Pope, Lucretia Borgia. -more-
Opera Review: Gounod's Romeo et Juliette at Livermore Valley Opera
By Ken Bullock
Wednesday September 28, 2011 - 10:08:00 AM
Charles Gounod--best-known for his Faust--had a different sense of adapting Shakespeare to opera than Verdi. It's closer to Delacroix's renderings of Hamlet. In Romeo et Juliette, now at Livermore Valley Opera, the sprawling action and passion is concentrated into a few scenes of melodic, lyrical grace. -more-
Film Review: Raul Ruiz's Mysteries of Lisbon at Shattuck Cinemas
Raul Ruiz's extraordinary and original films have been shown at the Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley, notably a retrospective during the San Francisco Film Festival in 1984, and a program of short films, with Ruiz's appearance, in the 90s. Time Regained, his 1999 adaptation of Proust's final novel, with Catherine Deneuve, Emmanuelle beart and John Malkovitch, among others, is maybe his best-known work, one hailed on release as high among postwar masterpieces. -more-
Book Review: Heart of a Soldier
Reviewed by Dorothy Snodgrass
This September marked the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 World Trade Center attack, the worst attack in American history! Who can forget the horrific images of the burning Towers, people jumping out of windows, and dazed workers who managed to escape the building, soot-covered but uninjured, running through the rubble covering the ground? -more-
Free Speech Day Is October 1! Two Unique Ways to Celebrate
By Gar Smith
Tuesday September 27, 2011 - 04:44:00 PM
As the raging debates over a student Republican "bake sale" in Sproul Plaza demonstrate, the exercise of free speech is alive and well on the UC Berkeley campus. But there was a time when staging any kind of student demonstration intended to influence a governor's vote on a pending bill would have been illegal. -more-
"Jobs Not Cuts" Rally in Oakland October 15
By Zipporah Collins
A coalition of workers, educators, students, seniors, environmentalists, peace activists, religious progressives, and other social justice activists from throughout the Bay Area plan to march and rally for jobs, not budget cuts, and other people-serving actions in Oakland on Saturday, Oct. 15. -more-
Despite Rain, the Show Goes On at Free Cal Performances Day
By Steven Finacom
Monday September 26, 2011 - 07:45:00 AM
The first rain storm of the season dampened the morning of the second annual Cal Performances "Free For All" on the UC Berkeley campus and drove many of the attendees and some of the shows inside. But by mid-afternoon the sun was coming out and thousands of spectators had made their way to dozens of free events spread out over several concert halls, auditoriums, and plazas.
The all day, second annual, September 25, 2011 event showcased performances from Gamelan Sari Raras to African music and dance, to Cal spirit songs and improvisational clowning. No tickets were needed, and seating was first come, first served. -more-
Berkeley Arts Festival Concerts this week
Thursday, September 29, 8 pm Mark Miller/Henry Kaiser/Allen Whitman, drums, guitar, bass Improvisation $10-$20 -more-
Farmageddon: America's War Against Small Farmers
Reviewed by Gar Smith
Sunday September 25, 2011 - 11:55:00 AM
Farmageddon is screening at SF's Roxie Theatre and the Rafael Theatre in San Rafael
The first-person stories related in Kristin Canty's new documentary, Farmageddon, may sound like people recounting the post-trauma shock of a drug-raid but these "perps" are not pot-growers or drug-smugglers, they are family farmers and members of organic produce buying clubs. -more-

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Supreme Court: 'Video Games Qualify for First Amendment Protection'
By Evan Narcisse June 27, 2011
In a 7-2 decision with an opinion written by Justice Antonin Scalia, the Supreme Court effectively declared on Monday (PDF file) that video games can be afforded the same constitutional protections as visual art, film, music and other forms of expression.
The case that went before the court, Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association (formerly Schwarzenegger v. Entertainment Merchants Association), strikes down California Civil Code 1746-1746.5, which tried to make the sale or rental of mature-rated video games to underage consumers an illegal offense punishable by fine.
Five years ago, former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed into law a bill prohibiting the sale or rental of games that portray "killing, maiming, dismembering or sexually assaulting an image of a human being" to people younger than 18 years old. However, a lower court's 2007 decision found the law — written by state senator Leland Yee, an assemblyman when he drafted it — to be unconstitutional. That turn of events led California to petition the Supreme Court, which heard arguments last November.
When Brown v. EMA went to the highest court in the land, commentators speculated about whether a more conservative decision could lead to a chilling effect on creativity in the video-game medium.
Burt Neuborne, the Inez Milholland Professor of Civil Liberties at NYU Law School, says, "Of course, this kind of content wouldn't have just gone away. Reversing the decision and reinstating the law would probably have just created a black-market distribution system, so the court decided that we're better off supporting the First Amendment."
(MORE: Violent-Video-Game Law to Get Tested in Supreme Court)
Throughout the text of the decision, the court found that the California law was too broad as written and couldn't satisfy the "strict scrutiny" legal principle. It also held that video games, though different in form, still communicate ideas as other media do:
Like the protected books, plays, and movies that preceded them, video games communicate ideas—and even social messages—through many familiar literary devices (such as characters, dialogue, plot, and music) and through features distinctive to the medium (such as the player's interaction with the virtual world).
The court appeared to bat away the worst fears — about whether games engender violent behavior — which had spurred Yee's legislation:
Psychological studies purporting to show a connection between exposure to violent video games and harmful effects on children do not prove that such exposure causes minors to act aggressively. Any demonstrated effects are both small and indistinguishable from effects produced by other media. Since California has declined to restrict those other media, e.g., Saturday morning cartoons, its video-game regulation is wildly underinclusive, raising serious doubts about whether the State is pursuing the interest it invokes or is instead disfavoring a particular speaker or viewpoint.
Neuborne observes that "the opinion is consistent with this court's vision of the First Amendment." He continues, "This is a Supreme Court with a First Amendment bit between its teeth, and these Justices have viewed the Amendment as a deregulatory device to take government out of as many things as they can."
Despite numerous social-science studies, "it's impossible to prove the negative effect of video games on kids," he says, "and in the absence of proof, the [protection of] free speech wins."
Neuborne elaborates that "we've been through this game before with obscenity cases, and we'll see what kind of culture emerges when we have a totally open society. I don't know if everyone else will be able to, but the video-game industry can sleep better tonight."
(MORE: AIAS President Emeritus Joseph Olin on Video Games' Supreme Court Case)
Footnote 4 of the decision might be the most colorful, illustrative example of the thinking behind the Brown v. EMA opinion. In it, Scalia links the ruling to the landmark 1948 Winters v. New York decision, writing:
Reading Dante is unquestionably more cultured and intellectually edifying than playing Mortal Kombat. But these cultural and intellectual differences are not constitutional ones. Crudely violent video games, tawdry TV shows, and cheap novels and magazines are no less forms of speech than The Divine Comedy … Even if we can see in them "nothing of any possible value to society … they are as much entitled to the protection of free speech as the best of literature."
It's interesting that Scalia invokes Mortal Kombat as an example. (Think he knows it was banned in Australia?)
Nevertheless, the decision means that content in video games is free to be whatever it wants and that the systems in place do a sufficient job of keeping questionable material out of the hands of those too young to see or play it. Whether you prefer Duke Nukem Forever over Portal 2, you'll still be able to get either game just as you did in the past.
Just get your parents' permission, if you need it.
MORE: Games Rated 'Mature' Are Made Less, Bought More


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Datnow, A., Borman, G., Stringfield, S., Overman, L., & Castellano, M. (2003).
Comprehensive school reform in culturally and linguistically diverse contexts:
Implementation and outcomes from a four-year study. Educational Evaluation
and Policy Analysis. 25 (2), 143-170.
Desimone, L. (2002). How can comprehensive school reform models be successfully
implemented? Review of Educational Research, 72 (3), 433-479.
Desimone, L. & Hochberg, E. D. (2010). Professional development in the accountability
context: Building capacity to achieve standards. Educational Psychologist, 45 (2),
Dika, S. L. & Singh, K. (2002). Applications of social capital in educational literature: A
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school-reform-secretary-arne-duncans-remarks-college-board-ap-conference
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Title Improving college participation success in Glendale Unified School District: An application of the gap analysis model
Author Cassady, Dawn Marie
Author email Kedwyn@aol.com; cassady@usc.edu
Degree Doctor of Education
Document type Dissertation
Degree program Education (Leadership)
School Rossier School of Education
Date defended/completed 2011-01-22
Date submitted 2011
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Advisor (committee chair) Marsh, David D.
Advisor (committee member) Rueda, Robert S.
Arias, Robert J.
Abstract From the time of Brown v. Board of Education, the role of education has been on the forefront of our social, political and economic landscape. Legislation such as the Elementary and Secondary Education Act and No Child Left Behind as well as publications like A Nation at Risk have all illustrated the lack of access, equity and achievement in American schools for the last fifty years. Currently, the United States has a 69% average high school graduation rate, which varies between subgroups and of those students only 57% continue their education in college.; Glendale Unified School District (GUSD) is a high-performing, large, urban school district that serves an economically and culturally diverse population. This project examined the root causes of the gaps in college going rates for all students as well as those of the underrepresented subgroups by applying the Clark and Estes (2005) gap analysis model. Gaps between goal achievement (college participation) and actual student performance were examined and then research-based solutions for closing the achievement gap and recommendations based on those solutions were recommended to the school district administrative team.
Keyword secondary education; school reform; college access
Geographic subject school districts: Glendale Unified School District
Geographic subject (county) Los Angeles
Geographic subject (state) California
Geographic subject (country) USA
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AUTHOR COLLECTIONS > DIVING MIMES, WEEPING CZARS AND OTHER UNUSUAL SUSPECTS by Ken Scholes
DIVING MIMES, WEEPING CZARS AND OTHER UNUSUAL SUSPECTS by Ken Scholes
Cover art by Paul Swenson
Return to Ken Scholes' Imagination Forest in this second collection of quirky, off-beat stories. These 17 tales range from his first published story in 2000 to his most recent in 2009, including two stories set in his Psalms of Isaak series. You'll encounter cynical Santas and explore the dating woes of superheroes. You'll join God and Satan in the bar for a glass of merlot and watch the hyjinx unfold as Reverend Sparkle Jones leads his rag-tag gang of misfits across a post-apocalyptic America in search of the holy grail to stem the tide of an alien invasion. You'll meet the Lady of the Lake in the Oklahoma Dust Bowl and bump into Abe and his backup singers as they do their part to save the world. So settle in for the ride and keep your hands inside the vehicle at all times. Here in the Imagination Forest, you never know who — or what — you'll come across.
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Refinement of the Generalized Nash Equilibrium
Ankur Kulkarni University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 117, Transportation Bldg 104 S. Mathews Avenue Urba
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We are concerned with generalized Nash games in which the players' strategy sets are coupled by a shared constraint. A widely employed solution concept for these games is the generalized Nash equilibrium (GNE), which is the natural generalization of the Nash equilibrium. The variational equilibrium (VE) is a specific kind of GNE given by a solution of the variational inequality formed from the common constraint and the mapping of the gradients of player objectives. Our contribution is in providing conditions under which the existence of a GNE is necessary and sufficient for the existence of a VE in such an instance, the VE is said to be a ``refinement of the GNE. Establishment of this result is seen to be of relevance to pure, applied and computational game theorists. We present a theory that gives sufficient conditions for the VE to be a refinement of the GNE. For certain games these conditions are shown to be necessary. This theory rests on a result showing that the GNE and the VE are equivalent upto the Brouwer degree of certains functions whose zeros are the GNE and VE respectively. In the primal space we show equality between the Brouwer degrees of the natural maps of the quasi-variational inequality and the variational inequality, whose solutions are the GNE and VE respectively. Using a novel equation reformulation of the VE, this result is extended to the primal-dual space. These degree theoretic relationships pave the way for the aforesaid sufficient conditions. Our results unify some known results about shared constraint games and provide mathematical justification for ideas that were known to be appealing to economic intuition.
Bio: Ankur is a doctoral student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), USA. He received his B.Tech. in Aerospace Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay in 2006 and M.S. in General Engineering from UIUC in 2008. He was a visiting scholar at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai in 2008. His interests are in the theory of games, economics, mathematical programming and applied probability. His work has been based on providing topological insights into equilibria of generalized Nash games and multi-leader-multi-follower games.


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Courage Conquers campaign - halftrack drivers
apd1004 posted a topic in Combat Mission Final Blitzkrieg
Not sure if anything can be done about this but here goes. I understand that the conditions of this campaign are no replacements and no repairs between missions. Bottom Line Up Front: I got some core unit halftracks as normally scheduled reinforcement groups in the second mission of the campaign and when they appeared on the battlefield the halftracks had no drivers. During the first mission of Courage Conquers campaign, I embarked some units onto halftracks that were not part of their organic platoon transport (i.e. - they were halftracks from a different platoon and just happened to be parked near some infantry I wanted to load up). I do not recall whether or not those particular halftracks did or did not have drivers when I embarked the units onto them, they may have been unoccupied with no drivers. I didn't think anything of it at the time. The mission ends unexpectedly with total US victory before the time was up and I progress to the next scenario in the campaign. So far so good. Fast forward into the second mission and when the same platoon of infantry shows up as a reinforcement group, they appear on the map all mounted on halftracks as I would expect. The problem was that some of the halftracks were showing "disembarked" status with no inherent driver present, even though there were other infantry units embarked on the halftracks. These "disembarked" halftracks were not lighting up as being part of the same platoon as the embarked units, but due to their "disembarked" status there was no other info on what platoon the halftracks actually belonged to. I get it that there are no reinforcements or replacements, but it seems to me that to eliminate this problem, halftracks and other transport should still be re-crewed with drivers between missions to keep driverless transports from morphing into the next scenario. Is there any way to fix this or is it something I just have to deal with? If not then I think I would have rather received the infantry replacements in dismounted mode rather than inside a halftrack that isn't going anywhere for lack of a driver. Or is there a way to re-crew with a driver from an infantry unit? I had no luck with that in-game.
Grog question on 30 mm ammo to our Russian, Ukrainian and other mil/ex-mil types
apd1004 replied to John Kettler's topic in Combat Mission Black Sea
Now that one I will agree sounds easy enough because it takes the human factor out of it. That way it could be done automatically by the ballistic computer according to what range the gunner has dialed in. I'll admit I'm surprised to see that as an ability on such a small round, especially a belted round. In the picture below is a Hungarian BTR-80A in Afghanistan circa 2009. If you can zoom in on the ammo it appears they have the two belts mixed HE/AP with AP being every 3rd or 4th round. The HE rounds look very similar to the ones in the photo further above, but I have no idea if the Hungarians might or might not have this type ammo. I've seen these on the range before and they must have had them set to impact or they were in fact just plain old HE rounds. IMG_2723 by apd1004, on Flickr
Do I believe you can select a specific type of ammunition from the sight, being fed from a different ammunition bin? Absolutely. That's how you do it on the Bradley, you switch between AP and HE by flipping a switch and it feeds from a different storage bin. Do I believe you can automatically change the setting on belted ammunition stowed in a box? Maybe, if the feed/firing mechanism has a way of grabbing the round as it is fed and turning a ring on the round or something to that effect. I'm betting it's the former - they load one bin with regular ammunition and another bin with this type of ammunition, and you flip a switch to change feed between the two different bins. You could probably add a third or a fourth if you have the room for it in the turret. I can even see a different reticle appearing in the sights depending on what type of ammo is being fired. If that's what you mean by "programming", then we are in fact talking about the same thing.
I'm more inclined to think the behavior of a type of round has been abstracted more than it has been modeled to true ballistic performance. Even for tank rounds. A real ballistic computer on a modern MBT takes into account many factors which I doubt are all being modeled in CMBS.
Ok, going to take a stab at this. Re: A670 fuze in CMBS. Do you really believe that the developers have gotten so far down in the weeds and perfected their ballistics model to the point that they have been able to faithfully reproduce a specific type of fuze for a specific type of round? If they have, then I'll eat my slice of humble pie. Re: Programmable timed fuzing on 30mm/25mm HE rounds. I don't buy it for a minute that anyone is taking a belt of several hundred or even a few thousand rounds of 30mm/25mm ammunition and setting time fuzes. First of all, when they load the belt into the ammo box of the vehicle at the resupply point, how do they know what to set the fuzes for? Second of all, for a weapon with max effective range of around 2500m you're talking milliseconds to try to get an airburst. I know for a fact on the M242 Bushmaster HEI round there is no "time fuzing" on that ammo. You load the belt into the ammo box and go. I've been on the range when the 30mm BTR rounds were fired and nobody there was setting time fuzes on anything. 20-100m arming is a safety feature to prevent rounds from arming in the weapon. The 9-14 sec self destruct you are talking about is most likely for when the ammunition is used in AA mode like with the Tunguska, so the rounds fired at high angle aren't coming back down to the ground and killing friendlies. At the typical ranges the 30mm is going to be used in ground mode, the round has long since detonated before 9-14 seconds transpires. And, .002-.004 seconds (that's 2-4 thousandths of a second) is going to look and act like an impact burst. Programmable distance input on a sighting unit is so you can manually enter range to target. Pretty much any sighting unit on an AFV is going to have that feature, or at least a sight reticle with a range scale on it. It doesn't set a time fuze on the ammo. Time fuzing is for artillery type rounds where somebody puts the ballistics dope into a computer and it tells you how many seconds to set the fuze for the desired effect. Some modern time fuzing can be set to go off at a specific height from the ground or a specific depth of foliage penetration, thus eliminating the need for the time computation. Back in the day the old 105mm flechette or "beehive" tank round on the M48/M60 series tanks could be set to detonate at a certain distance. Bottom line is in CMBS when we see "airbursts", we are probably seeing impact bursts in foliage or something. I don't think I've seen small caliber airbursts in open ground in my CMBS experience. If it does happen, it's a bug.
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Please NO Marines or NATO forces module !
apd1004 replied to Wiggum15's topic in Combat Mission Black Sea
If CMBS is just the first step towards a modern-era "construction set", I don't see how you can possibly omit USMC or other NATO countries. There are so many scenario possibilities in and around the Black Sea region besides just the Ukraine that to OMIT USMC and NATO would be overlooking a huge resource for scenario builders. I have never owned CMSF nor do I plan on purchasing it. It came out what, 7 or 8 years ago? So to say "they're already in CMSF" is not a valid argument for others like me who are in the same situation.
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More spotting questions
apd1004 replied to apd1004's topic in Combat Mission Black Sea
In that situation then the CO is the vehicle crew and upon spotting a target he would have issued a fire command to the gunner. CITV is part of the fire control system so in CMBS terms that should count as the crew spotting. In my situation from the first post, the scenario is the first campaign scenario from the 3-69 campaign and the BFV in question is the scout section leader (rank SSG). There needs to be immediate hand-off to the vehicle crew when a passenger spots something. A buttoned up passenger shouldn't even be spotting anything but lets give them the benefit of maybe spotting something out one of the vision blocks. Still, you get on the intercom and alert the crew.
apd1004 posted a topic in Combat Mission Black Sea
Not sure I get how an infantry unit mounted on a closed Bradley can see enemy dismounted infantry, but the Bradley itself can't see them? Capture7 by apd1004, on Flickr
Mord's Vehicle Radio Chatter Mod
apd1004 replied to Mord's topic in CM Black Sea Maps and Mods
Heh, from the mountains of northern Afghanistan it would take a constant loop of an RTO saying "negative contact, out" with squelch OFF followed by several expletives and "are you sure we have the right keys?" for me to be fully immersed. Iridium phone ringer would be a good one, that was the only semi-reliable thing we had. I called in CAS requests by email from a global Blackberry on more than one occasion, so "You've got mail" would be another good one for me. JTAC to aircraft overhead chatter would be the only one resembling what Mord has provided so I would also need some background F-15 or A-10 jet noise. Speaking of which... the distinct ripping of a GAU-8 would make a good mix into the background loop... Glad I saw that, I was also spending way too much time trying to figure out what they were saying.
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Question about observation / detection in this game.
apd1004 replied to exsonic01's topic in Combat Mission Black Sea
First Clash is a great scenario to get the long range spotting & detection experience. I'm in my very first playing of it right now and have yet to lose an M1 (knocking on wood). I've been wondering about the spotting & detection thing myself because like the OP I'm wondering how most of the time the first time one of my tanks finds out about the enemy is after he gets hit by something. With that being said, I'm still trying to figure out how in First Clash my M1's spotted two Khrizan at 2500m+ and killed both of them before the Khrizans could even launch. Maybe the Khrizans were just moving into position and got spotted first.
US Anti Aircraft defences
apd1004 replied to LUCASWILLEN05's topic in Combat Mission Black Sea
There are a lot of professionally written articles on how Russia has invested a lot of time, money, and effort in upgraded and new AD systems to counter western (read that as US primarily) capability in ISR, Stealth, and PGM. Russia actually has some very capable systems for dealing with those 3 concepts which US military strategy relies upon. Many of their newer systems have impressive shoot-n-scoot capability that didn't exist back in 1991 when most of their longer range systems were almost permanent terrain features. Fortunately Russia isn't swimming in cash these days so I would imagine the more capable systems are not forming an impenetrable barrier from the Barents Sea to the Black Sea and will instead be used in most likely engagement areas. Still, I think we have the capability to overcome but it definitely won't be a repeat of 1991 Iraq.
More recently but before CMBS came out, I've been playing around with Command: Modern Air & Naval Operations to game out just those types of encounters. Not much in the way of graphics but the realism is definitely there. It only takes a few minutes to set up a simple scenario to test out different systems and tactics. The database of platforms, weapons, and sensors is incredible.
I had such high hopes for DCS World to get into a tank but when you get down to the ground (be it in a helo or a tank) you can definitely tell the graphics were designed for a flight sim. Ground vehicles were barely more than notional when they finally made some of them playable, at least back in the beginning. Maybe it's better now. The graphics a year and a half ago anyway were meant to be viewed more for when you would be at some sort of altitude or at least flying over it fast enough to not smell the roses. I played Blackshark for a while when it first came out and later I picked up the Thrustmaster HOTAS rig for A-10, but the learning curve on both was so steep just to get the engines started that I stopped playing both. Feeling a little old now. When Longbow 2 & iM1A2 came out I was a 1LT tank company XO. I played the heck out of Longbow 2, not so much iM1A2. There was something about iM1A2 that rubbed me wrong and I can't remember what it was. The first version of Steel Beasts came out just a couple years later and I put way more time into that than I did iM1A2. I think we've totally hijacked this thread by now.
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I love this game.
apd1004 replied to coffeeis4closers's topic in Combat Mission Black Sea
My idea for a DLC expansion: At the US Army CGSC they use a fictional scenario for the culminating exercise. It takes place in the Georgia/Armenia/Azerbaijan/Turkey (known as GAAT) area and revolves around the Iranian government collapsing and the northern 2/3 of the country with the bulk of the former Iranian military splitting off into a new regime called Ahuristan. Basically Ahuristan invades Azerbaijan to "reunite the people" common to both areas and the wargame centers on the US response. I went through it before I knew about CMBS but I couldn't stop thinking the entire time about how it would make a great wargame. I tried with Command: Modern Air/Naval Operations, but the ground forces in that game are pretty much just there for targets and are not really modeled, so I gave up on it. The amount of material CGSC has written about the backstory is incredible, everything from ethnic/economic/political/military overviews of each area in the region to complete orders of battle and equipment lists. We almost have the tools now in CMBS to start making scenarios for it, but we would need some USMC and more of the legacy Russian equipment used by just about everyone in the region along with the Iranian reverse-engineered equipment to really dig into it.
Unofficial Screenshots & Videos Thread
apd1004 replied to agusto's topic in Combat Mission Black Sea
Interesting video, and while the launch sequences look authentic, there is no way of knowing if the target hits are actually from the same missile and I would suspect that they are file footage from other systems. The tank and the bunker almost looked like it could have been placed explosive charges detonating rather than the missile. This is a pretty new system and there aren't a lot of them fielded yet. Russia undoubtedly has similar issues to any other military which is a reluctance to live fire a lot of real missiles because they ain't cheap. The two different versions you see are actually the launcher vehicle and the battery command vehicle, both of which are on the BMP-3 chassis. The launcher vehicle itself is the 9P157-2. The vehicle that comes out first in the beginning of the video is probably the 9P157-4 which is the battery command vehicle. It is also visible at the very end. The launcher has the turret removed and has that stowable radar dish but the command vehicle still has a modified BMP-3 turret on it with only the coax machine gun as armament. The other bling items on the command vehicle are battlefield surveillance radar, daytime TV camera, and jamming suites.


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Q: Why are infinite order Lagrangians called 'non-local'? And in what sense are they 'non-local'?

A: This is the first time I write an answer here. Tell me if it's bad or if I did something wrong.
I think I can contribute something here:
My mental image is the following:
A simple derivative is
$$ f'(x) = \lim_{h\to 0} \frac{f(x+h) - f(x)}{h}\,, $$
for the second derivative
$$ f''(x) = \lim_{h\to 0} \frac{f(x+2h) -f(x+h) + f(x)}{h^2}\,,$$
and so on....
Now if you have a function like $e^{\Theta\partial_x^2}$ acting on f(x)
you have an infinite amount of derivatives, this means you will go out to $f(x + \infty h)$ (don't hurt me, this is just for the mental image) and the limit $\lim_{h\to 0} f(x+\infty h)$ gives an idea that the value of
$$e^{\Theta \partial_x^2}f(x)$$
does depend on more than the point x (or a neighbourhood of it), but maybe whole $\mathbb{R}$. This could be done more rigorous I think.
Every single term of the Taylor expansion
$$ e^{\Theta\partial_x^2} = \sum_{i=0}^{\infty} \frac{(\Theta\partial_x^2)^i}{i!}$$
is local, since it only contains a finite amount of derivatives. The 'last' term with infinitely many derivatives is nonlocal. With this I want to say that truncating the expansion of a nonlocal term can make the nonlocal effects vanish.
The other way of seeing the nonlocality is by Fourier Transforming and inverse Fourier Transforming:
$$ e^{\Theta \partial_x^2} f(x) = e^{\Theta \partial_x^2} \int \frac{\mathrm{d}p}{\sqrt{2\pi}}e^{i x p} \tilde{f}(p) \\ =
  \int \frac{\mathrm{d}p}{\sqrt{2\pi}}e^{-\Theta p^2} e^{i x p} \tilde{f}(p) \\
\int \frac{\mathrm{d}p}{\sqrt{2\pi}}e^{-\Theta p^2} e^{i x p} \int\frac{\mathrm{d}y}{\sqrt{2\pi}} e^{-i y p} f(y) \\
= \int \frac{\mathrm{d}p\,\mathrm{d}y}{2\pi} e^{-\Theta p^2 + i p (x-y)} f(y) \\
= \frac{1}{2\pi} \sqrt{\frac{\pi}{\Theta}} \int \mathrm{d}y\, e^{-\frac{(x-y)^2}{4 \Theta}} f(y)\,. $$
Thus the nonlocal operator $e^{\Theta \partial_x^2}$ is equivalent to the convolution with a gaussian kernel which is clearly nonlocal since it is an integral over $\mathbb{R}$. If you can solve the $p$ integral this should be possible of every nonlocal operator?

A: The higher the number of derivatives the more initial data you have to provide. If you have some Lagrangian that contains an infinite number of derivatives (or derivatives appearing non-polynomially, such as one over derivative) then you have to provide an infinite amount of initial data which amounts to non-local info, in the sense explained below.
If you think in terms of Taylor expansions around your initial value, then you have to provide the full function (and thus non-local information) if you have an infinite number of derivatives. This is to be contrasted with cases where you provide only the field and its first derivative as initial values (and thus rather local information).
Personally, I would not call any higher-derivative Lagrangian "non-local", but only those theories where the number of derivatives is formally infinite in the Lagrangian.
In any discretization scheme you literally see the non-locality induced by higher derivatives: to define the first derivative you need to know the function on two adjacent lattice points, to define the second derivative on three and to define the n-th derivative on n+1 lattice points. Thus, the more derivatives the more non-locality. If you have an infinite number of derivatives you need to know the function on an infinite set of lattice points.

A: Just for info: there is a so called shift operator $\text{e}^{h\frac{d}{dx}}$ that shifts a function argument to another point, for example: $\phi(x+h)=\text{e}^{h\frac{d}{dx}}\phi(x)$. It is obvious that it contains an infinite number of differential operators for any function $\phi(x)$.

A: Clearly, an interaction involving $\phi(x+h)$ deserved to be called nonlocal. But since $\phi(x+h)=\sum_{k=0}^\infty \phi^{(k)}(x) h^k/k!$, any nonlocal interaction can be expressed as a power series involving arbitrarily many derivatives. Therefore an action (or Lagrangian) is called nonlocal if it involves infinitely many derivatives.
If there are only finitely many derivatives, they are not nonlocal. Indeed, by introcing additional fields for the derivatives togetyher with squares of the differences between the new fields and their definition, one can rewrite these in terms of a new action/Lagrangian which leads to identical equations of motions.
(Unfortunately, this doesn't help with quantization, as the corresponding Legendre transformations to the Hamiltonian form is singular.)

A: Disillusionment with systems described by higher order Lagrangians harks back to a 1950 paper by Pais and Uhlenbeck, in which they showed that such systems were prone to pathologies, including states with negative energy and states with negative norm. There's a more recent discussion of this in arXiv:hep-th/0408104.

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Know more about the humble fruit that has been the gift and treasure of royalty: the pineapple!
We see pineapples everywhere and bet you do too! The Pineapple has captured the eye of people!
Why? you may ask... well, pineapples act like magnet to people looking for a fresh and vibrant sensation, this is canalized to clothing, accessories, art and more. This special fruit has taken the attention of men and women for centuries and its impact right now is huge.
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My room mate, Erin, has been talking for a while on wanting to make her own knitting needles for a blanket she is knitting. We finally got around to making some with our friend Karisa and the help of her husband, Brad. So for $1, we each made a set of needles. I will say that Brad made them much faster than I did. It took me a little bit to get the hang of it when I revisited the project on my own, but once I did it was so simple.. So if you try this out you may want to buy an extra wood dowel to practice on.
Materials: Wood Dowel (Get them in every size! They are available practically everywhere and are so affordable), Belt Sander, Table clamps, Steel Wool, Small nails, Wire Cutters, Drill & Small drill bit, Table Saw, Gorilla glue.
Steps: Cut your wood dowel into two 12 inch rods*. Secure Belt Sander to table by using table clamps. Sharpen one end of each dowel by going with the motion of the sander. Rotate the dowel in your hand as you are holding it against the sander at different angles. This may take some practice. After sanding, finish off by rubbing the whole rod with steel wool to make extra smooth.
For the end of the needles: I cut small, one inch blocks of wood and sanded the sides on the belt sander. Be very careful! Hold on to the block very tightly, I suggest using a clamp to hold the block for extra grip. Once you have reached a shape you like, drill a hole into the top of your needle and the bottom of your block piece. Cut off the flat part of your tiny nail and stick into needle and topper by securing it with gorilla glue.
*Twelve inch is just a suggestion, feel free to try out different sizes. Erin bought two rods and made them each into huge needles to make one pair.
I personally love the ends to these needles that I made (one pair doesn't have an end on purpose) so I even made drawer pulls using the same process but with larger blocks, be looking out for a DIY for that! I am also working on crochet needles…so there will be lots of projects coming soon.
I think I'll stain some of my needles and I am currently in the process of making needles in every size. The possibilities are endless.
Homemade knitting needles trump store bought needles. Hands down. Thanks to Erin for the great idea!
Love your blog! And your etsy shop! I might pick your brain as I contemplate opening my own.


Mohamed Muzammil, the spokesperson of National Freedom Front (NFF), has arrived at the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) this morning (29) to record a statement.
This is pertaining to the investigation carried out by the CID on the alleged VIP assassination plot.
On the 12th of September 2018, Director (Operations) of Anti-Corruption Movement Namal Kumara had revealed information on an alleged conspiracy to assassinate the President and former Defense Secretary.
Accordingly, the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) has launched investigations into the incident and recorded statements from several persons.
The CID has been allowed to record statements from MP Wimal Weerawansa, his wife Shashi Weerawansa and MP Namal Rajapaksa and NFF spokesperson Mohamed Muzammil after it was revealed that they were acquainted with the Indian national, who was arrested over the VIP assassination plot.


When we have time for leisure, we usually need something that can interest and amuse us. There are several ways to do this. In big cities it's often difficult to decide where to go in the evening. If we want to go out there are a lot of theatres, cinemas and clubs in our country where we can spend our free time. (But in small towns and villages they have no actors of their own. So they invite a group of actors from a big town to show plays.) People who are fond of music join a musical section where they are taught to play different instruments. Those who like to dance join a dancing section. People who are interested in sports can join sport sections such as tennis, basketball, chess and others.
And, of course, all the people use radio or television. They switch on the radio set or TV set and choose the programme they like best of all. People who are interested in sports listen to or watch football and basket-ball matches. Everyone likes to see skating and dancing on the ice. Some people like music. They listen to concerts of modern and old music, new and old songs and see dances. Television helps us to «visit» different lands, see fish and insects, lakes, rivers and seas. We are shown different countries, cities and people who live there. On TV people could even see both sides of the Moon. Radio and television extend our knowledge about the world. All that we can do at home. So I think that ways in which leisure time can be spent are different and interesting!
1. How do you spend your leisure?
2. Do you have a lot of time for leisure?
3. Do you like to spend your leisure outdoors or at home?
4. Is it difficult to decide where to go out in the evening in big cities?
5. What other ways in which leisure time can be spent do you know?


According to new data from a global snapshot survey from SOTI Inc., provider of Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) and Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) policy management, more than 60 percent of enterprises have experienced a data breach or loss of data.
Employees surveyed in the study admit to engaging in mobile device usage behaviours that puts their business' data at risk. More than 73 percent of consumers accessed corporate data from a free or public Wi-Fi connection; nearly 65 percent of consumers forwarded a work document or file to personal email address; and nearly 65 percent used consumer cloud storage such as DropBox, Google Drive or SkyDrive for work files.
· Almost one-third of IT professionals reported that accidental data exposure is the top security threat compared to only 16 percent for phishing, outside hackers and government spying.
· Nearly 68 percent of respondents receive a mobile device from their company. However, nearly 78 percent of those employees still use a personal device to access corporate work data.
· 60 percent of enterprises have actively prevented a data breach, but less than 50% have a mobility strategy. This highlights a significant blind spot on mobile threat vectors because only 34 percent are using an enterprise mobility management solution.
· 67 percent of IT professionals listed device theft as one of the top user behaviours that concerned them most. However, only less than seven percent of consumers have lost a device.
· There is considerable pull for attention on which threat vectors to target. 36 percent of IT professionals have targeted mobile application vulnerabilities as a top priority over the last 12 months. An equal number also reported that Internet of Things technologies, such as Bluetooth-connected smart devices, increased in priority.
· While 80 percent of consumers are allowed to use corporate-issued devices over public or free Wi-Fi, only 66 percent are allowed to access corporate-owned services over those connections.
Full details and analysis of the survey are available on the SOTI blog.
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Challenge is closed
Andrés Vázquez
Writer-Director
This is a short film recreating a working class apartment moments before, during, and after an ICE Raid. It will be one camera motion dollying out on a cup of coffee, slowly revealing the apartment and the ensuing chaos and violence incurred from the raid. In emphasizing an element of desaparecido (disappearing or being taken), the audience experiences the raid through the camera motion reveal, and the audio design.
The piece works in existing in a multiple spaces of time, that are divided in two moments: the beginning, middle, and end of the raid (done in sound design), and the overall aftermath (as revealed in the camera motion). These two elements are reconciled into a singular narrative existing in present time when the camera finishes its exit out of the front door of the apartment (having been torn open [violence]) and the sound design concludes with a small child, who had been in hiding and now left behind, stepping into frame.
The sound design is the child's auditory experience; it is also representative of the present living in the echoes and conclusion of the past. "We live in the product of inter-generational violence."
The Deafening Silence by Matthew Yongue
The Sound of the Senses by H.A. Sanchez
Sound plays a vital role in telling a story in film. Beyond depicting what we see and lending a heightened sense of reality to a scene, sound can be used in bold and imaginative ways. A creative sound designer can make choices that are not obvious, going beyond the merely naturalistic to a more expressive dimension. Write a scene that provides an emotional landscape where sound can play a major role in telling the story. Please incorporate specific sounds in the scene that could aid a sound designer in producing your scene. Your submission can be in any genre (drama, comedy, action, horror, etc) and should be no more than 10 pages.
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Dara Taylor has emerged as a fresh voice in the world of scoring music to picture as evidenced by her score to the upcoming Lionsgate comedy BARB AND STAR GO TO VISTA DEL MAR starring Kristen Wiig and Jamie Dornan, co-composed with Christopher Lennertz. Her credits include the Netflix docuseries TRIAL BY MEDIA, the independent film TURNER RISK, and the Karen Allen-starred film COLEWELL, for which she won a 2019 Hollywood Music in Media award. Up next for Dara is the FX series PRIDE and the action crime drama ECHO BOOMERS starring Michael Shannon. more...
Christy Carew
Christy Carew is a Canadian-American composer of music for film, TV, advertising, multi-media and the concert world. She considers herself first and foremost a storyteller, and feels honored to collaborate with directors on pieces of art that impact, uplift, transport and comfort those who experience them. more...
Amit May Cohen
Amit May Cohen (she/her) is a Los Angeles based composer for film and TV, best known for Disney Channel's ZOMBIES 2 which she co-composed with George S. Clinton (AUSTIN POWERS, THE SANTA CLAUSE). She has worked as an additional composer and/or orchestrator on projects including FAST & FURIOUS PRESENTS: HOBBS and SHAW (2019), VALLEY GIRL (2018), SWAT (2017-2020), THE SINNER (2018-2020), and the Australian Academy Award nominated documentary IN MY BLOOD IT RUNS (2019). Her score for the short film WRESTLING ZA'ATARI (2016) earned her Best Score nominations in both the Milan and London International Filmmaker Festivals. more...
Glenn Kiser
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Katy Jarzebowski
Katy Jarzebowski is a composer, Sundance Fellow and lifelong cinephile who scores music for film, concert, and multimedia. Combining old world influences with new world sounds, Katy's work balances a strong background in string and orchestral writing with intimate elements of sound design, electronics, and unexpected instrumentations. more...


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Metal Detector: Pantera
By Jerry Ewing published 21 December 05
Ultimately it all ended under the most horrible of circumstances, yet in happier times Pantera were pure metal magic. We track the highs and the lows of this most brutal of bands.
When it comes to putting heavy metal into context, history will note that the 90s served the genre well. Yet no matter how much importance is laid at the feet of the grunge explosion spearheaded by Nirvana, equally important to the metal scene is the power groove metal of Pantera. The Dallas quartet proved, over the course of the second half of their career, that extreme forms of metal neither had to totally abandon such mediums as tunefulness, nor did they have to remain strangers to mainstream commercial success. Today the influence of Pantera hangs heavy over the metal world.
AVOID!!
EXTREME CAUTION
METAL MAGIC
[METAL MAGIC, 1983]
That's not magic!
Woah, hold on there! Yes, this is the same Pantera we're talking about – the ones who released A Vulgar Display Of Power – though the chances are that most Metal Hammer fans won't be too aware of Pantera's debut album, nor the following three or four Pantera releases. Metal Magic – housed in what must rate as one of the most cliched of metal album covers (painted by a friend of the band) – is pure glam metal, slightly rockier than that which stalked Sunset Boulevard, but not by much. The likes of Ride My Rocket (yes, really), Nothin' On (But The Radio) and Rock Out will leave most Pantera fans open-mouthed in horror and confusion. Of course, in 1983 the band were still teenagers, and fronted by Terry Glaze, a rock singer in a far slicker vein than Phil Anselmo, all too young to know any better. More laughter inducing than vomit producing, it must be said.
CAUTIOUS CUTS
IF YOU MUST
PROJECTS IN THE JUNGLE
A bit more meat.
While any of Pantera's first three releases are mirth-inducing at best, much of that is to do with the band that they would become. For an album released on the group's own label back in 1984, Projects In The Jungle might not sound too bad. Placed alongside Vulgar Display Of Power it's like comparing Cannon & Ball with Monty Python. Heavier than the band's debut, true, it still boasts a dire song called Heavy Metal Rules and much less besides. Still, actual tunes such as Out For Blood, Like Fire and Takin' My Life do show a band maturing (slightly) into a more solid metal outfit. The album is also the favourite of original singer Terry Glaze, who says of Projects In The Jungle, "I just dig the tunes, especially All Over Tonight." Yet placed alongside any Pantera album featuring Phil Anselmo, Projects In The Jungle simply sounds like the very different band they then were.
ALL OVER TONIGHT
Defiantly old school
"We were into Iron Maiden," is simply how original Pantera singer Terry Glaze refers to the inspiration behind Pantera's early music. That's as maybe, but given the way this band helped shape the metal landscape in the wake of albums like Cowboys From Hell and Vulgar Display Of Power, any Pantera fan thinking about trying to seek out any of the band's first three albums (only available via the likes of eBay) should be warned. This is traditional heavy metal with a slight glam bent. Songs like Hot And Heavy, Onward We Rock and, ahem, Valhalla are a far cry from Cemetery Gates, Mouth For War or The Art Of Shredding. Pantera released and sold their early albums themselves – with sales eventually reaching the 1000 mark – but times were changing. Major labels would eventually show an interest, Glaze would be off to the likes of Lord Tracy and Crayfish, and there'd be a new singer in town.
NEEDED NOISE
WANT THESE
REINVENTING THE STEEL REINVENTING THE STEEL
[EASTWEST, 2000]
A shot at former glories.
Almost as if the varied tempos and vocal effects of 1996's The Great Southern Trendkill had taken Pantera to areas not everyone in the band was comfortable with, the group's final studio release tries very hard to keep things close to old-school ways. Given this, there is little doubt that Reinventing The Steel is up there with Vulgar Display Of Power as one of Pantera's heaviest releases. Yet Reinventing… lacks the freshness of Pantera's early 90s albums. Perhaps that's because of the in-fighting in the band – Dimebag and Vinnie favoured experimentation, while the drink- and drug-addled Anselmo preferred the doom-laden brutal metal approach. Whatever, it didn't really matter. The resultant live shows were so fraught – the band were falling apart at the seams all over Europe – that the end was obviously nigh.
Nothing cowboy about this one.
Breakthrough album or 'real' debut release, it depends on your point of view. Either way, there's absolutely no doubt about the impact Cowboys From Hell had on Pantera and on heavy metal itself. In place of the traditional approach of Power Metal is an unbridled attack on the senses. Diamond Darrell (as he was still known) proves to be a hitherto unknown virtuoso, calling up the kind of blinding riffage and frenetic soloing he had never hinted at before. Elsewhere, Phil Anselmo, whose fondness for New Orleans' thrash metal band Exhorder was a clear influence, adopts an even greater range than he had on his Power Metal debut. The highlight is without a doubt the seven-minute-plus Cemetery Gates, but it's pushed all the way by the title track and Primal Concrete Sledge. A new dawn for extreme, and extremely good, heavy metal.
NOT FOR ALL
THINK ABOUT THESE
Not that powerful
Although he claims today to have no recollection of a deal being on the table via Kiss bassist Gene Simmons, perceived wisdom is that singer Terry Glaze was involved in talks which ultimately led to his departure. Whatever, by the time of Power Metal, Glaze was gone and New Orleans native Phil Anselmo, complete with big hair, was the man with the mic. Of all of Pantera's early works (ridiculed on the web on sites like the sadly defunct Panterrible!), Power Metal is the one that highlights the way forward to the band they would become. Dimebag's (at this point still known as Diamond Darrell) riffing is more frenetic, and despite Anselmo's high-end vocal performance and song titles like Rock The World, this is early Pantera at their heaviest. There are even slight traces of Anselmo's fondness for the likes of Exhorder that would change the band beyond recognition in the space of two years.
ROCK THE WORLD
OFFICIAL LIVE: 101 PROOF
Only official live document.
Recorded as the band toured 1996's The Great Southern Trendkill, Pantera were not perhaps in quite the best of health. Vocalist Phil Anselmo's dalliances with hard drugs, notably heroin, had served to cause friction within the band, augmented by a deteriorating relationship with the press. Yet the awesome musical power conjured by the band is still more than evident on a set that relies predominantly on the two albums previous, Vulgar Display Of Power and Far Beyond Driven. True, they had begun to experiment with their sound on The Great Southern Trendkill, but here Pantera are all about unbridled aggression and anger, and an almost fanatical devotion to their brand of metal. The inclusion of two brand-new studio tracks, Where You Come From and I Can't Hide, lend the album a feeling that things were better within the band than they actually were.
I CAN'T HIDE (LIVE) - www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJsD6k-bjKg
THE GREAT SOUTHERN TRENDKILL
Is this where it all went wrong?
After three such groundbreaking and essential albums as Cowboys…, Vulgar… and Far Beyond… Pantera were faced with something of a quandary. Should they stick to their guns and deliver another high-octane set of brutal, headcrushing metal, or try to do something slightly different? Brothers Dimebag and Vinnie Paul were both keen on the latter, singer Anselmo favoured the former. Bassist Rex, never the most voluble member, probably kept his opinions to himself. The resulting album proved the brothers had won out, and The Great Southern Trendkill is easily the most diverse of the modern-day Pantera albums, even dipping into balladry on the likes of 10's and Suicide Note Pt. 1. Lyrically, Anselmo's normal poetic angst was replaced by drug-related diatribes and rants at the media, showing something, somewhere, was very wrong indeed.
SUICIDE NOTES PARTS 1 & 2
FAR BEYOND DRIVEN
Just far beyond their best.
It was Pantera's third album in four years, it entered the Billboard chart at Number One, and rocketed the band's seemingly never-ending touring schedule into the arenas. With Far Beyond Driven, Pantera had truly arrived. But yet it's not Hammer's essential recommendation. Why? Simply, the songs aren't as good as those featured on Vulgar Display Of Power, and in the likes of Good Friends And A Bottle Of Pills and their inclusion of a cover of Black Sabbath's Planet Caravan there are even hints Pantera might be running out of ideas. Not so, however, on the likes of Strength Beyond Strength, the Grammy-nominated I'm Broken and the quite malevolent Slaughtered, which prove that Pantera were still adept at creating near-lethal metal. Commercially they'd never be as big again, but the cracks would soon show.
STRENGTH BEYOND STRENGTH
MUST HAVE METAL
NEED THIS!
VULGAR DISPLAY OF POWER
A brutal display of efficiency.
If Cowboys From Hell surprised anyone who had been aware of the hair metal line-up of Pantera, then the following Vulgar Display Of Power certainly laid to rest their 1980s ghosts. Diamond Darrell (it would be his last appearance as Diamond, opting for the decidedly less glam 'Dimebag' after this album) churns out an even heavier selection of downtuned riffs, while Phil Anselmo drops the more histrionic vocals in favour of an overall hardcore style. This proved to be a winning formula for the band.
Opening with the abrasively impressive Mouth For War, and delivering a second knock-out punch with Walk (the first metal single to debut at No.1 on the US charts), this is Pantera's songwriting at its most impressive. There's little to say about Fucking Hostile not relayed by the song's title, and even when they drop the tempo, on the likes of Hollow and This Love, there's an almost insidious heaviness to the band's overall sound. Vulgar Display Of Power is very much, from start to finish, an unrelentingly heavy album.
This is, perhaps, why things took a while to take off for the band. Cowboys From Hell was closer in spirit to the thrash-metal sound which had slowly moved to the fore in metal. Yet in the early 90s, the big thrash pioneers like Metallica, Megadeth and even Slayer had become more mainstream in sound. For fans of heavier matter, the arrival of Pantera's new, more brutal metallic approach couldn't have come at a more apt time. Bearing this in mind, it was MTV's acceptance of their videos that went a long way to breaking the band. This, you could say, is ironic.
MOUTH FOR WAR
Outside of Pantera's official releases, all of which reside on our overall Top 10, there's not a hell of a lot of material out there. As far as compilations go, the most thorough was 2003's quite excellent The Best Of Pantera: Far Beyond The Greatest Southern Cowboys' Vulgar Hits! The title might be a mouthful, but the album features the finest from the band from Cowboys From Hell onwards. Singles 1991-1996 was released in Australia in 1998 and is available from various shop websites. On the DVD front, 1991's Cowboys From Hell and 1999's 3 Vulgar Videos From Hell can be tracked down on the Internet, as can 1997's live performance Watch It Go. All of which can be recommended. If you're so inclined, you should also be able to find any of the band's first four albums on eBay. Be prepared to pay a hefty price, however. And be prepared to be underwhelmed as well…
THE BEST OF PANTERA
METAL HAMMER'S BEST PANTERA ALBUM EVER!*
DOWNLOAD THIS FOR THE ULTIMATE PANTERA COMPILATION ALBUM…
COWBOYS FROM HELL from Cowboys From Hell (1990)
Cemetery Gates from Cowboys From Hell (1990)
PRIMAL CONCRETE SLEDGE (LIVE) from Cowboys From Hell (1990)
Mouth For War from Vulgar Display Of Power (1992)
WALK from Vulgar Display Of Power (1992)
FUCKING HOSTILE (LIVE AT DONINGTON '94) from Vulgar Display Of Power (1992)
HOLLOW from Vulgar Display Of Power (1992)
Strength Beyond Strength from Far Beyond Driven (1994)
*This album is unavailable from any good record shop. Make it yourself.
_This feature was first published in Metal Hammer issue 148. _
Jerry Ewing
Writer and broadcaster Jerry Ewing is the Editor of Prog Magazine which he founded for Future Publishing in 2009. He grew up in Sydney and began his writing career in London for Metal Forces magazine in 1989. He has since written for Metal Hammer, Maxim, Vox, Stuff and Bizarre magazines, among others. He created and edited Classic Rock Magazine for Dennis Publishing in 1998 and is the author of a variety of books on both music and sport, including Wonderous Stories; A Journey Through The Landscape Of Progressive Rock, as well as sleevenotes for many major record labels. He lives in North London and happily indulges a passion for AC/DC Chelsea Football Club and Sydney Roosters.
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