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12. | Tibia | ||
Basically, One of the oldest and coolest MMORPG's out there. Many US servers have been overrun by roaches(brasilians,mexicans). Tibia can run on almost any computer. Depeniding on the world. you will find oneo f three things. Power Abusers, Player Killers, Or N00bs. Power abusers usually use their high level and ability to kill you almost anywhere to rule said server. Player killers are like power abuser's, but they kill for fun. And noobs are just new to the game, or aren't new, but act like douchebags anyway. in the past couple years, the creators have modified the game to an extent where it's fair, but you get boned at the same time. Especially if you are a mage(druid/sorcerer) Tibia Power Abuser: Noob, leave or die.
Tibia Noob. ok,plz don't kill me. Tibia Player Killer: Look! someone we can kill! kill it!! <proceeds to kill noob and PA> |
1. | tibia | ||
My definition of the certain Tibia MMORPG. This definition is completely neutral.
Disclaimer: Just kidding. Tibia is one hell of a game to say the least. I got as high as lvl 24 before I finally quit. I recently took a look at it again. Then quit 45 minutes after reinstalling. Lets throw some facts out about tibia: 1) Tibia is from some german university students, and they dont give a fuck about YOU. 2) The "US" servers have successfully been hijacked by south american players, so learn portugese today. 3) You can play on different country servers, but since it lags on "US" servers, be prepared for 5 second click delays and lag deaths. 4) Even the new anti-PK measures are shit, so your going to get hours of work training deleted by high levels everyday. 5) The last topic is about the disgusting community around tibia. So lets analyze. In #1 we talked about the creators. They really just want tibia for a quick buck, and thats what its been like. And now they are a big company who still don't give a fuck about you. In #2 we talked about the take over. The north american servers are 90% portugese/spanish so if you dont know those, your going to get raped. Its funny I find mostly englsih speakers in pay-to-play games and thenf ree games are totally packed with barbarians- i mean brazilians. On to #3, it was self explanatory. #4 I talked a little about the PK problem. The time it takes to hunt in the high levels is completely insane. You really need to be unemp... |
2. | tibia | ||
A MMORPG that some hate some love. It's one of the oldest mmorpg arround and it's getting more players everyday. Because it's so old and the graphics got only one real update it looks pretty crappy/old school therefor it's scares off alot of people. Also the first island is very boring. When you reach the mainland things get more interesting cause now you can use spells, kill bigger monsters and you can actually kill other players.
The game is free instead of alot of games that give you short trial periods or you have to buy in the store. For a monthly fee players can upgrade to a premium account, unlocking some additional game features and areas. Players often train and level their characters or try their luck on finding rare items in beaten monsters. There are several quest in the game, some are still hidden and alot of players try to solve those quests. The game is growing steadely, and has at the moment 50000 players online at the same time. With 54 server and 4 new servers coming every 2 months. The game is updated every half year, so it keeps interesting. Updates include new area's, monsters, items and what ever they can come up with. 1. Friend - Most people use their runes to hunt big monsters, you use them to heal from rats.
2. Friend - What are you going to hunt, rats? Me - No, i gonna try out bugs today. ;) |
3. | Tibia | ||
Horrible, network game played by my friends which involves Macroing on rooftops for many hours on end and falling down holes. Stirfry_Ninja: Im stuck down a hole again
Chrissum!: hahah Stirfry_Ninja: Daves, gone to get a rope Stirfry_Ninja: lol Chrissum! says: The joys of tibia :D Stirfry_Ninja: hell yeah Chrissum!: Boorah |
4. | tibia | ||
1a. The inner and larger of the two bones of the lower human leg, extending from the knee to the ankle.
1b. A corresponding bone in other vertebrates. Also called shinbone. 2. The fourth division of an insect's leg, between the femur and the tarsi. 3. An ancient flute. 4. A slightly below-average MMORPG. At the moment it has 44 servers holding around 35,000 players at a time between them. There are 4 types of characters: Knight, Paladin, Sorcerer and Druid. Paladins would have been better named "Rangers" or something, since they are archers. Paladins are traditionally Holy Knights, using swords or a warhammer, and on horseback. But no... in Tibia they are archers. The graphics are average, but are miproving with each update. The player base is highly elitist and very anti-newbie which can make it difficult to get started. PKing used to be a big problem but the creator of the game put in some features which helped calm it down a bit. The gameplay is very repetitive and restrictive. For example, training is simply... click... wait for hours doing nothing, or chatting. The game has no real plot, which makes the quests quite boring and only worth doing for the items, really. The spell system is flaw... |
5. | Tibia | ||
My saviour and my destruction. 'You ready for your exams?' "Dunno, it's up to Tibia"
6. | tibia | ||
A frustrating game that has made great advancements in graphics and GUI and control quality. Now avatars actually walk around instead of warping. However, the gameplay and newbie-friendlyness is at a all-time low.
Idiotic down-syndrome patients usually talk to shopkeepers, unable to say "bye" when they are idling, they idle in front of pathways to stores and bridges, causing much abuse in newbie island by laming everything with kill/corpse stealing. I never actually got to the mainland because of this. Nor do I want to, since the people populating Tibia's forums talk like illiterate "l33t" wannabes, just because they probably managed to install Linux. Who fucking cares, linux is free, which further makes it easier to install, and now they boast this shit on free-game forums. Tibia player (rookguard):N00B! N00b! N00b! You suxx0rs! LOL!
Tibia abuser (rookguard:town): (to shopkeeper) Hi Hi Hi Hi Hi Hi Hi Hi Hi Hi Hi Hi ! Why isnt he answering me! Hi Hi Hi Hi Hi ! Tibia forummember: You didn't get to mainland yet? Go buy a premium account and get there in 2 hours n00b! Hey look! This n00b wasn't smart enough to buy a premium account so he can play in mainland! N00bs! He suxx0rs to the maxx0rs! W00t! I'm fuggin l33t! Tibia forummember # 2: Hey lets get him banned if he doesn't like our game! Tibia forum member: yeah! |
7. | Tibia | ||
A mmorpg that is a great game and very addictive. It is easy to waste away all your time playing this game. It has sucky graphics but it doesn't take away from the gameplay. You can play the game for different reasons - some people roleplay, make friends, train, mass level, do quests, etc. - ways to play are pretty much limitless. It's really challenging and not as bad as everyone says. Most people who don't like the game just suck at it.
Noob:dis game suxxx i die 3 times & lose itens & cant hunt w/ all da nOObs & i quit!! no1 play tibia it suxxorz
Tibia player: maybe you should try buying a premium account, and try getting past lvl 20 before you start complaining. |


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Dawei Inspirit Quattro
Dawei Inspirit Quattro reviews and ratings on this inverted table tennis rubber.
Ratings (rated 26 times)There are 4 users using the Dawei Inspirit Quattro. From manufacturer:
Description of Dawei Inspirit Quattro
(typos included) Awesome Power and Extra Performance Without any Speed Glue Quattro allround tecnique take New Inspirit around the World What's the difference between INSPIRIT Quattro allround edition and INSPIRIT? Only the package style? Is there not more colorful than the INSPIRIT? Only these? Waiting for What? Let's try it! The New INSPIRIT Quattro allround is simply and outstanding packaging. The reason is we need you to pay more attention on this label What's Quattro? Quattro created a maximum effect of speed glue inside the rubber, but it's 100% without speed glue to take more effect, more control, more power. Although the sponge is softer, it take you more effect of first speed and second speed unimaginably. It's suitable for offensive and technique style. INSPIRIT Quattro allround is designed specially for attacking and tecnique player. It without any speed gluing demonstrates more powerful performance than any rubbers normally glued. Extra consistency and precision greatly improve the success rate of technical strokes in the high speed and technique game. Adoption to Quattro may take a few days of practice, because the power from the maximized built-in speed is far beyond your experience. Please apply the glue just enough to attach the rubber to the blade. Over-gluing or re-gluing will rather reduce the performance of INSPIRIT Quattro around. which is already at the peak of speed glue effect. |
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jaredg said this on March 1, 2008:
The Dawei Inspirit Quattro is very fast! If you're moving away from using speed glue, use this.
tommyzai said this on March 3, 2008:
The sponge makes a difference in this case, adding more speed and a nice sound (for those who like speed glue clicking). If you like the fast grippy, not sticky, Euro rubbers, this is a cost effective way to go! I'm a sticky kind of guy so it's not for me, but it might be for you!
bsalter5 said this on March 25, 2008:
I liked this rubber quite a bit, but it was really heavy. With speed glue it became very fast, but isn't too fast without glue.
Definitely plays better than regular Inspirit without glue.
ffxme said this on March 27, 2008:
Its a great rubber for driving and looping backspin as well as top but it lacks topsheet spin therefore the serves are soso. I prefer tacky rubbers so this one wasnt for me, its very fast and has a nice click though.
MtBikerE said this on March 29, 2008:
I first purchased this for my father who likes Euro style rubbers & I found myself using his blade quite often. I now have switched to the Quattro as my main set up. I find the speed, spin & control to be a very good mix, especially on the mid distance attacking style of play. It has a nice click to it. I use a tackier rubber to serve with though.
gulcagulca said this on April 6, 2008:
I find the rubber is tackier than Sriver. It is faster compared to Sriver but less control. Spin wise it is almost the same.
jeff_attc said this on April 29, 2008:
I use this rubber for my backhand. It pushes well, counters well, loops well. I don't speed glue but this rubber is fast. I hear it's a monster when it's glued up. Has a light tack that wears away after a few sessions. Has a dense springy sponge.
ppgear said this on May 4, 2008:
This is a very fast rubber (though I'm used to Chinese rubbers only). I find it hard to control so I stick to my trusty 729 Cream Transcend on FH. The topsheet is lightly tacky, moreso than the regular Inspirit which becomes completely non-tacky.
Marios said this on May 4, 2009:
Very fast. Mine, hardness around 40, was somewhat hard to control and do mechanical spin with.
Tuning with PO helped in every respect, including weight. The rubber expanded almost half an inch in diameter and after cutting off the excess rubber, the weight went down to a more comfortable level.
Woo said this on August 18, 2010:
Felt quite hard at first. Sponge was hard. Gets better after a while when its broken in.
Bit tacky aswell. More of a looping/driving rubber for me than a speed rubber. Top-sheet thickness seems to make a big difference. The UltraLight version with thinner topsheet is clearly better in speed and control imo... and of cource, its LIGHTER Throw-angle seems very low too. I seem to be a bit off on this rubber compaired to everyone else. Perhaps I got an odd sheet, who knows? At least i will be buying quattro ul in future.
tomizui said this on October 18, 2010:
its tackinees godd sereve and block ,very god speed and last explotin
Anonymous said this on June 11, 2011:
Firm feel because of top sheet, but sponge is soft. Good backhand rubber even for long drives. Not so spinny, but you can easily keep the ball in play with long topspin drives. It's a good choice for many blade types.
james said this on December 9, 2011:
I fix to Yasaka masusi deluxe so it realy nice to drive,push and smash .I think it look like bryce fx as a low edition price.
Anonymous said this on January 15, 2012:
Switching from a premade paddle with a soft flextra, it really took me a while to get used its speed. I use the 42 version and it definetely is meant for power. Though, looping espescially against backspin is easy, some of the brush loops are hard to control. Its advisable to have a good technique before buying. Once you have your technique, MAN THIS RUBBER IS QUITE FAST. Especially for loop drivers. Im a brush looper and it did take me some time to get used to it. Good rubber, i use it on Fh
Anonymous said this on January 19, 2012:
Not as fast as Gambler Outlaw or Focus III Snipe, but spins just as well. I use it for more control over these two because it has a bit of a cushy feel. Control is very good.
invadertim3 said this on August 4, 2012:
Very grippy surface. A bit on the heavy side, but very good for the price.
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The Internet and telecommunications blackout in Syria started Thursday around noon local time, but many Syrian government websites were available to the public because they were hosted by Western providers, according to the New York Times. Several of those hosting providers took down the Syrian websites when reporters contacted them.
President Barack Obama, in an April executive order, prohibited U.S. providers from hosting Syrian government websites without U.S. government approval.
As of early October, the official websites of four Syrian ministries, the state-run Sana News Agency and the Hama city government were hosted by U.S. providers, with other Syrian websites hosted in Canada, Germany and the U.K., according to an investigation by Citizen Lab, an Internet and human rights research organization at the University of Toronto. Western providers also hosted several websites of Hezbollah, classified by the U.S. and Canadian governments as a terrorist organization, the group said.
The issue raises "complex and highly nuanced" ethical and legal questions, said Ronald Deibert, director of Citizen Lab and the Canada Centre for Global Security Studies. "We are impartial, and make no claims as to what should or should not be done," he said by email. "We certainly do not see ourselves as an Internet police."
Citizen Lab called for an international debate on the role of hosting providers in offering services to repressive regimes.
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Iraqi painter Muayad Muhsin gestures towards a painting while in his studio during an interview with The Associated Press in Baghdad, Iraq. Iraq's artists are using their work to try to process the turmoil since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, and what they are producing shows a profound anger over their country's traumas and uncertainty over its future. AP Photo/Hadi Mizban.
By: Hamza Hendawi, Associated Press Writer
Iraq's artists are using their work to try to process the turmoil since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, and what they are producing shows a profound anger over their country's traumas and uncertainty over its future.
They have a lot to deal with: A change of regime, foreign occupation, an insurgency, sectarian massacres and, now, the prospect of a divided nation left by the Americans in the hands of unpopular politicians, unprepared security forces and a fragile democracy.
The ambivalence is clear.
Many of the artists lament Saddam Hussein's ouster but don't wish to see one day of his rule come back. They are grateful to America for having rid them of his tyranny but they vilify it as a foreign occupier. The majority Shiites see justice in their post-Saddam empowerment after decades of oppression, but say their own politicians are ruining the country.
"The Iraqi people are victimized by everything and everyone," declares Fadel Saddam, who directs short films. "They are victimized by both the ruler and the foreign occupier."
Muayad Muhsin is venting while he paints.
"What we need in Iraq is a ruler who shares Saddam's tyranny but who fights oppression and corruption and champions the poor," he barked in one of several outbursts to an Associated Press reporter as he worked on his latest canvas.
It was another of the all too frequent 110-degree days when electricity is out and fans and air conditioners sit useless. Muhsin's stuffy, sparse apartment was covered in dust from the previous day's sandstorm, and the heavyset Muhsin, in shorts and a T-shirt, repeatedly wiped the sweat off his face.
The merciless heat is even enshrined in his work. On the back of one canvas is written: "Painted in 48 Celsius in the shade (118 Fahrenheit) while the power is continuously out in the summer of Iraq."
Like many Iraqis, the 47-year-old Muhsin is filled with anger and feelings of betrayal. He blames everyone and everything for Iraq's present predicament.
The work in progress depicts a man standing desolately by the side of a road that bends until it disappears into a burning, apocalyptic orange sunset. The man is headless, holding in his left hand an oud, the Middle Eastern lute-like instrument that holds a cherished place in Iraqi culture.
In place of the man's head is a street light pole.
"He is screaming, How long will we stand still like light poles on deserted roads?" explained Muhsin. "The sunset gives the impression of the end of the world, the end of a conflict, a horizon that promises new but not necessarily good things."
Muhsin hauls other paintings from a store room. One also shows a headless man "The head represents rationality, but we Iraqis are headless because of our sectarianism," Muhsin said standing by a railway that abruptly ends behind him. His body is cracking, as if about to crumble. In the background are the famed ruins of Babylon.
"Before the Americans invaded, we had Saddam and his Baath Party. Now, we have several Saddams and several Baath parties," Muhsin said.
His next work, he says, will be about President Barack Obama.
It will depict him shooting hoops. The hoop will be hanging from a wall depicting the mythological winged bull of Assyria. The Statue of Liberty will be in the background, its back turned on the U.S. leader.
At 30, Omar al-Saray already is a prize-winning poet, published literary critic, popular college lecturer and chairman of Baghdad's prestigious Society of Iraqi Poets.
But none of those lofty distinctions could help him when Shiites and Sunnis turned against each other in Baghdad with murderous force in 2006 and 2007. Like the hundreds of thousands who feared for their lives, al-Saray fled the country, traveling in Syria and Lebanon for four months in 2006 after suspected Shiite militants left a threatening note on his doorstep.
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Ironically, al-Saray is a Shiite, though a secular one. The militants assumed he was Sunni because his first name, Omar, is rarely given by Shiite families to their children. It's the name of one of the Prophet Muhammad's 7th century successors who, while revered by Sunnis, is reviled by many Shiites.
"The sectarian violence has divided the city into cantons and a man's name has become a problem," said al-Saray, mourning a bygone Baghdad where religious tolerance prevailed over sectarian boundaries.
The blood-soaked days of the sectarian violence' height in 2006-2007 are gone, and al-Saray is taking advantage of Baghdad's current relative security. His office is littered with empty soda cans, water bottles and overflowing ashtrays from a late night poetry recital two nights earlier, an event that would have been impossible two or three years ago when many feared leaving their homes.
Still, the young poet is less than happy with his country's state.
"After the fall of Saddam's regime, the margin of freedom was widened, but we were shocked and disappointed when we found out that they were false freedoms," he lamented.
"The future is scary. The Americans are leaving after they have destroyed so much. They never solved anything. They occupied us, but never took us to the safety of the shore."
Al-Saray's 2005 poem, "Locks of Hair from the Staircase of Sorrows," speaks of his grief over his nation:
So, God, in the name of war,
We pray and recite your neglected names,
We know that no paradise of peace will open its gates, even late,
And that our dreams are locked,
We have death, we have death, we have what explodes and what kills.
Abdul-Kareem Khalil won international fame back in May 2004 when he exhibited an alabaster statue of a crouching, naked man, his hands tied behind his back and his head covered with a hood.
It came only a week after photographs had emerged showing remarkably similar abuse of Iraqi prisoners by American guards at the Abu Ghraib prison on Baghdad's western outskirts. Khalil said he based his sculpture on stories he had heard from former Abu Ghraib inmates freed before the scandal broke.
Six years on, Khalil continues to be inspired by Abu Ghraib and his deep resentment of America's military presence in Iraq.
One recent statue depicts a woman flanked by two men. All three have paper bags over their heads, recalling the hoods used on detainees by U.S. jailors. One of the men has a protective hand placed on her shoulder. The other man is groping her thighs.
"The second man may be a symbol of evil," explained Khalil.
Like many Iraqi artists, Khalil laments Saddam's overthrow, not out of love for the dictator, but because of the anarchy that ensued.
His most disturbing sculpture depicts a man raping a woman. Both on their knees, the woman struggles to break free while the man restrains her, his hands pawing her bare breasts.
"The woman is Iraq and the rapist is the American occupier," said Khalil.
"Saddam was not an angel, but he was the head of a regime that had functioning institutions," he said. "We thought that those who will come after him will be better, but that never happened."
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Just to confirm programme as below. First session next week. All welcome!- 1 Feb [Rm 113, 43 Gordon Square]. 'The Soundproof Study: Victorian Professional Identity and Urban noise' in John M. Picker, Victorian Soundscapes (Oxford: OUP, 2003), pp.41–81 [also look at pp.15–16 from Ch.1]- 15 Feb [Rm 113, 43 Gordon Square]. Emily Thompson, 'Noise and Modern Culture, 1900–1933', in The Soundscape of Modernity: Architectural Acoustics and the Culture of Listening in America, 1900–1933 (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2002), pp.115–168- 29 Feb [Rm 114 – Keynes Library, 43 Gordon Square – NOTE DIFFERENT ROOM]. 'The Noise of Almost Nothing' – talk by Hillel Schwartz (author of Making Noise)- 14 Mar [Rm 113, 43 Gordon Square]. Kittler. Extracts from Gramophone and forthcoming ch. 'The God of Ears' (on Pink Floyd's 'Brain Damage') [selections TBC]Hopefully the Picker and Thompson books are easily available for people to access.
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The next session,on Wednesday 22 June 2011 [note change of date!] will be lead by Carlo and will be on digital sound. The readings are:
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Due to diary clashes (mostly, but not exclusively mine), the date has been changed from 15 June to 22 June. Same time (4.30pm). Usual place (Rm 112, 43 Gordon Sq). Apologies if that causes any problems!
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Usual location: Rm112, 43 Gordon Square (assuming I can book the room).
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Wheatsheaf Lectures – New Ecologies of Sound
In the first three months of 2011 a series of four talks will explore the nexus of 'sound', 'noise' and 'music' from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. In the context of a bourgeoning sensitivity to the auditory across a range of disciplines, these talks will consider how particular formulations of these interdependent notions transform 'sound' from an isolated attribute of sensory experience into a embedded, ecological means of world-inhabitation.
As has been an ongoing tradition for the London Consortium, the series will be held in the Wheatsheaf pub (25 Rathbone Place, W1T 1DG) – a favourite of 1930s writers such as George Orwell and Dylan Thomas – a venue that will also provide a great opportunity for continuing informal discussion following each paper.
The current series has been organised by London Consortium and Birkbeck College postgraduate students Matt Clements and Jonathan Tee, and is also associated with the London Sound Seminar. It is free and open to all.
If you would like more information about these events please contact: Jonathan Tee (jonathantee [at] cantab [dot] net) or Matt Clements (m.clements [at] bbk [dot] ac [dot] uk).
Wednesday, 19th January, 7pm
Eric Clarke – Musical Meaning: an Ecological Approach
Eric Clarke went to the University of Sussex to read for a degree in Neurobiology, and graduated with a degree in Music. In 2007 he was elected to the Heather Professorship of Music at Oxford, and is currently an Associate Director of the AHRC Research Centre for the History and Analysis of Recorded Music. For 10 years he was a member of the improvising string quartet The Lapis Quartet. Eric Clarke's research embraces a number of areas within the psychology of music, music theory, and musical aesthetics/semiotics. He is the author of a recent monograph on listening (Ways of Listening. An Ecological Approach to the Perception of Musical Meaning OUP, 2005) and co-editor of a volume on Empirical Musicology (OUP, 2004). He has also published more than 60 papers and book chapters on music related topics.
Tuesday, 1st February, 7pm
David Toop – 'A Sinister Practice: The Uncanny Space Between Improvisation, Composition, Live Performance and the Digital Domain'
David Toop is a composer/musician, author and curator who has worked in many fields of sound art and music, including improvisation, sound installations, field recordings, pop music production, music for television, theatre and dance. He has published five books, including Ocean of Sound, Haunted Weather, and Sinister Resonance: The Mediumship of the Listener. He has released eight solo albums, including Screen Ceremonies, Black Chamber and Sound Body, As a critic he has written for many publications, including The Wire, The Face, Leonardo Music Journal and Bookforum. Exhibitions he has curated include Sonic Boom at the Hayward Gallery, London, Playing John Cage at Arnolfini, Bristol, and Blow Up at Flat-Time House, London. Visiting Professor at the University of the Arts London, he is a Senior Research Fellow at London College of Communication.
Wednesday, 16th February, 7pm
Henry Stobart – 'Saturating the Soundscape?
Conceptualizing Sound and Silence in the Andes and Beyond'
Henry Stobart is Reader in Music/Ethnomusicology in the Music Department of Royal Holloway, University of London. His research has principally focused on indigenous music of the Bolivian Andes; examined from a wide range of perspectives. His books include the monograph Music and the Poetics of Production in the Bolivian Andes (Ashgate, 2006) and several edited volumes: The New (Ethno)musicologies (Scarecrow, 2008), Knowledge and Learning in the Andes: Ethnographic Perspectives (co-edited with Rosaleen Howard; Liverpool University Press, 2002), and Sound (coedited with Patricia Kruth; Cambridge University Press, 2000). He is currently working on a monograph provisionally entitled Digital Indigeneity and has been invited to write a theoretical volume on ethnomusicological perspectives to Music and Environment.
Tuesday, 1st March, 7pm
Karin Bijsterveld – Car Sound Ecologies: A History of Listening to and in the Automobile
Karin Bijsterveld is historian and professor in the Department of Science, Technology and Society Studies, Maastricht University. She is author of Mechanical Sound: Technology, Culture and Public Problems of Noise in the Twentieth Century (MIT Press 2008), and co-editor (with José van Dijck) of Sound Souvenirs: Audio Technologies, Memory and Cultural Practices (AUP 2009). With Trevor Pinch, she is working on The Oxford Handbook of Sound Studies. She has recently been awarded with a NWO-VICI grant for the project Sonic Skills: Sound and Listening in Science, Technology and Medicine, 1920s-now.
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Pupils are elected by their classmates at the start of the school year after making a short speech tp their class outlining the reasons why they feel they would make a good class representative.
The School Council meets every month and is wholly student-run with teacher advice only as and when necessary. Governors are regularly invited to listen in and take part in meetings. In this way, the Council provides a basis for learning important life skills such as speaking and listening, teamwork, emotional lieracy, problem-solving, moral reasoning, self-esteem and self confidence.
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Flight controllers were updating the station's flight software Tuesday morning when the ISS' data relay stations malfunctioned around 9:45 a.m. Eastern time. While the station flew above Russia about an hour later, mission control in Houston was able to check on the crew--they're fine--and instruct them to connect a backup computer to restore communications. That happened around 12:30 p.m. Eastern time, NASA said.
The problem stemmed from a computer that would not let the station talk to NASA's Tracking and Data Relay Satellites. The ISS does have a ham radio on board for emergency communications, but that wasn't necessary today.
Commander Chris Hadfield apparently may have seen this whole thing coming. The best news is that now he can start tweeting again.
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Christopher Meeks will be among 34 other writers signing their books at the 11th Annual Author Fair in El Segundo, not far from the LAX airport. Copies of his brand new novel, "Love at Absolute Zero," will be available, along with his previous books.
The Author Fair is held annually at the El Segundo Public Library. Thirty-five authors are invited, and each author will have an opportunity to host his or her own table for book signings. There will be discussion panels, poetry readings, children's activities, and music. The event and parking are free, and it's at 111 West Mariposa Avenue in El Segundo near LAX. For more information, please call (310) 524-2728.
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Ngatu is the Tongan name given to tapa cloth or decorated bark cloth. It is made from the inner bark of Hiapo (paper mulberry tree). The pieces of bark are beaten with a mallet, widened and joined together to make larger pieces of cloth. Groups of women work together to decorate the cloth with natural dyes and pigments.
Ngatu are often decorated with motifs and patterns taken from the natural environment or associated with important people and events. Some of the events may be small and very local in nature, others reference bigger moments in time.
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This distinctive ngatu features the image of a Lockheed P-38 Lightning fighter plane. This type of aircraft was used by the United States Air Force in the Pacific theatre during the Second World War. They were usually associated with the 44th Fighter Squadron of the 18th fighter group, which operated out of several stations in the Pacific throughout the war. It is not clear from the records whether the squadron was based in Tonga, but we know that with its long range, the Lightning was used to devastating effect in the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and Papua New Guinea.
British Spitfire aircraft have also featured on Tongan ngatu. Under the influence of Queen Salote, Tonga raised money to purchase four Spitfire aircraft for Britain during the Second World War. Two of them saw service in battle. Te Papa has a one ngatu with a Spitfire on it and several other examples exist in museums around the world.
Today, the main social function of ngatu is to be a constantly circulating gift, given at weddings, funerals and other special occasions. Very large pieces of ngatu are considered a symbol of wealth. They are important cultural treasures; but can also be historical documents, offering insight into the little and big moments in time as Tongans saw them.


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Oct 28, 2011 07:37 AM WV Sound
Keeping a beat in the Mountain State
Bud Carroll: A Musical Force
Best known for his work with WV-based southern rock band American Minor, Bud Carroll and the Southern Souls, and indie/powerpop band AC30, Huntington resident Bud Carroll plays guitar, drums, bass, piano, cello, and, well, even more instruments. Lately, though, he says, "I mainly consider myself a songwriter."
Bud is finishing up a solo record titled At Least I Can Still Smoke in My Car, and he plays guitar on the AC30 self-titled album out now. He also records his own music and runs a residential recording studio in Barboursville called Trackside.
Looking to distance himself from the southern rock sound he became known for with American Minor, Bud explores influences across several genres in his current songwriting. "I like to keep the melody at the forefront of everything I do, but I have a definite pop sensibility, and there's definitely no way for me to keep out the blues and country influence," he says. "I try to keep some punk rock involved as well as a huge Anglo influence, but it's my sound, through and through."
Bud has experienced some real highs along the way to finding his unique sound. He's been playing guitar professionally since he was 12 years old, won the River City Blues Competition in Marietta, Ohio, and performed in various clubs all throughout his teenage years. On his 21st birthday, he joined American Minor, who moved to Illinois and signed a major deal with Jive Records. The band toured extensively for a couple of years playing gigs across the U.S., Canada, and England. Bud was doing exactly what he always wanted to do.
He says things began to fall apart, though, and Jive Records neglected promotions for American Minor. The band broke up in 2005, and Bud returned to Huntington and struggled somewhat—trying to find his place as a musician again. "Everything I always wanted to do came and went before I turned 25," he says.
But Bud began staying in his apartment more nights, writing new material and learning how to record. "I started to realize how much music meant to me and no one could ever take that away from me," he says. "In the end, it wound up better this way because I became a more accomplished musician and songwriter. The way you have to live when you are on a label and touring, it takes you to the extremes of your sanity and wears you thin."
After American Minor, Bud Carroll and the Southern Souls formed with Steve Barker on drums, Jon Cavendish on keyboards and organ, and Jimmy Lykens on bass. "We had a bunch of different gears. We could play a punk song, then turn around and do a ballad, a country song or something that sounded like Radiohead," Bud says. They recorded their full-length debut, Wasted Words & Best Intentions, in Athens, Ohio, and performed on Mountain Stage in 2010. After some of the musicians moved out of state, the band dissolved.
These days, Bud enjoys recording at his home studio and working on his soon-to-be released album, At Least I Can Still Smoke in My Car, on which he played many of the instruments. Though he does not have any gigs of his own scheduled, he is looking forward to performances this winter with AC30 to promote their new album as well as preparing for his solo project (which will include a band for live shows). At Least I Can Still Smoke in My Car will be available on iTunes and at gigs.
"My goal is not to have my face on anything," Bud says. "I just want to make something that feels great to me and resonates with people, and I don't see how being on record label has anything to do with that."
I loved reading this. I've known Bud since both of us were just kids. At that time we were probably just a minor annoyance to the employees while hanging out (daily) at the, now defunct, Pied Piper in the Huntington Mall spending countless hours playing guitars, amps, and effects that neither of us had any intention of buying. We both grew up playing in bands in the area. Occasionally we'd end up in the same band and countless times we've recycled the same group of musicians in various different incarnations. I'd steal musicians from him and, invariably, he'd steal them back. A lot of time has passed and I'm more than happy to say that he and I have kept in touch fairly regularly. I was so proud of him and the rest of the American Minor guys when they were doing so well. There are few who could argue that they were truely a force. Yet another fantastic band brought to it's knees by the major-label music machine because it needed a tax write-off. We've all heard "music business" stories and, sadly, American Minor became one of those statistic.
I now live in Nashville and see fantastic guitar players and songwriters daily. It's often that I think of how Bud could be right in the middle of them holding his own and even showing more than a few of "guitar town's" finest a thing or two (like how to play with soul). He and I have had that conversation and I completely respect his decision to remain in WV and a stick to his guns...writing better and better music all the time. I was fortunate enough to see The Southern Souls a few times and I can not wait to see and hear AC30. I am confident that this will be another amazing musical chapter in the cataloge of Bud Carroll. Love ya, Bud!


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Portrait Virus
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Prince, Patric D. (curator)
Crimzon, Liz (artist)
Kaul, Paras (artist)
Pike, Tom (artist)
Reiser, Beverly (artist)
Wright, Michael (artist)
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Colour slide photograph in carton slide frame
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Given by the American Friends of the V&A through the generosity of Patric Prince
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Prints & Drawings Study Room, level E, case PAT, shelf 5
The inaugural Portrait Virus event, curated by Patric D. Prince, took place at Cyberarts, Pasadena Convention Centre, Oct. 29 - Nov. 1, 1992. The event was organised to create digital portraits via a computer network.
The Amiga computer system, operated by Michael Wright, was established as the first link of the network and was used to scan in black and white portraits of participants in real time.
Next file formats containing portrait data were converted to Macintosh file formats and transferred to a second link, a Mac workstation. Artist Liz Crimzon, painted backgrounds for the portraits,
A second Macintosh, linked to the first Mac by an internal network, was operated by Paras Kaul who sent the computer enhanced portraits by modem from a phone line at the Convention Centre to Paras Productions in Washington, D. C.
At this location computer graphic campaign buttons for the democratic party were added.
Portraits were then sent back to the Amiga workstation which was connected to a 16 monitor video wall at the Convention Centre where they were viewed by Cyberarts participants.


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Great soul from Detroit – two rare Dave Hamilton productions, making a debut on vinyl! "Never Ever Leave Me" is served up in a different version here – great vocals from Ortheia Barnes, and this cool flute doing a solo in the middle – a great match that works perfectly over the bumping groove of the tune! Dave Hamilton serves up an instrumental on the flip – "What Should I Do", which mixes vibes, strings, and a sweet Detroit groove! © 1996-2013, Dusty Groove, Inc. |
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