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Not as figure flattering as it looks
This jacket is super soft and the fabric etc is beautiful. Unfortunately I was hoping for two things that it failed to provide:
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The butt half of this jumper fit amazingly and looked great. The top half however had too much fabric and it fell in an odd way, made me look block shaped from the butt up. The ruched fabric on the chest part also added to the weird way the fabric hung...I wished I could cut the bottom half off and wear it as shorts because that part fit so perfectly. I wear size 6 normally and got the medium.
The color and fabric were nice, but I couldn't get over the weird looking top half and returned it.
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These shoes are adorable and amazingly comfortable. My mom tried to steal them from me after trying them on because they are so comfy to walk in despite the sexy platform/rise.
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I usually wear L top, M bottoms and went with the medium on this which was a good choice. The top fit except that it latches in the back and could have been a little tighter, but I will just cut and sew to reduce the length of the strap around the back (Im usually a 34 C).
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Jirarchi. Celebi has too many weaknesses
Jirachi's concept is cool, but I don't like the design that much. So, in design, Celebi wins, I always had a soft spot for white and GREEN!! Cough. Also, Celebi looks huggable... Jirachi, eh... well, it's a steel type, I wouldn't hug it I guess...
In battle... The best Celebi has is HP fire and Earth Power, while Jirachi has Flinch Hax, Fire and Ice punch, U-Turn... their stats are even, so Celebi's best hope is to use trick to lock Jirachi into some move other than the ones it is weak too, T-Wave it and then sweep / stall it... Jirachi gets an easier way around.
Usefulness? Overall, it's Celebi... For me, supporters are the most useful team players, while the best Jirachi can do is wish passing... unless there is some move I missed. Although, Jirachi is an awesome solo player, with that freakin' Serene Grace Iron Head and good coverage it is able to sweep entire teams if some conditions are met...
I voted both, though, because Jirachi's concept makes up for its design which doesn't appeal me.
Jirachi has a great typing with all the resistances Steel provides and I have one (haven't tried using in battle yet, though: LV5 :P), but I really like Celebi as well. Like what you don't have? Celebi is also a time-traveler Pokemon which (I think) is much more interesting than a Wishing Pokemon that grants one every 1,000 years. They both have great designs, though, I'll give them that.
Voted both.
Gotta go with Jirachi ^^
Sorry Celebi, but Jirachi takes this one. DOOM DESIRE!!!
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And Tony Perkins didn't like that designation.
Blue Texan calls Tony an Imam. And with his requirement for adherence to his own revealed faith, his pretense to speak for Values Voters (what are the mujahideen, after all, if not Value Voters with automatic weapons and IEDs?), and vast media presence, that's what Tony Perkins is.
His words make him a hater too.
So why did CNN provide him a platform to spew this junk?
What are the qualities they are looking for in exchange for their passionate support? First of all the candidate has to have credibility. Are they genuine?
Does Tony mean "genuine" like George W Bush, who bought a Crawford Texas pig farm in in 1999 to clear brush when he decided to run for President? And ignored the intelligence that America was about to be attacke? Who then lied America into a war of choice?
Or does Tony mean "genuine" like the divorced Ronald Reagan whose family values extended to estrangement from his own children, as well as the largest peacetime tax increases in American history?
Or 'genuine' like Old GHWBush, whose 'no new taxes' pledge hasn't gone down in history, but whose 'read my lips' has?
Tony Perkins is not genuine himself. Tony Perkins lies. Tony Perkins hates. Why does CNN provide him op-ed space to blather about Values nowadays, as if his opinion is important and valuable to GOP primary voters?
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Following the initial release of the well-known and controversial 2010 GAO report concerning alleged abuses in the for-profit sector, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan issued a public letter to Senators Tom Harkin and Mike Enzi, in which he stated that the Department was "in the process of hiring more than 60 additional staff to strengthen oversight of schools and conduct 50 percent more program reviews of postsecondary institutions each year."
In the years subsequent to this declaration, the Department appears to have made good on Secretary Duncan's promise, with increased program review activity reported not only among for-profits, but among non-profit institutions, as well. These program reviews range from general reviews of an institution's student aid administration to focused audits examining Clery Act compliance, online consumer information disclosures, and other select topics.
Despite the overall increase in program review activity, most schools have given little thought to preparing for a potential review. And this, of course, is understandable. Postsecondary institutions face very real challenges on a daily basis, and have little free time to spend contemplating hypothetical audits. Unfortunately, as a result, most administrators are ill-prepared to receive "the call" when it does occur. With this in mind, we've provided below a short list of objectives for an institution's very first interaction with the Department.
With regard to the call, when it does come, it will be made by the "team lead." This is the Federal Student Aid (FSA) staff member from the school's regional Participation Division who will serve as the senior member of the program review team. The team lead first will attempt to call the institution's president. Following the conversation with the president, the team lead will reach out to the financial aid director (FAD). If the team lead's effort to reach the president is unsuccessful, he or she will leave a message (standard protocol), then immediately call the FAD. Because, either way, the FAD will get a call, it may make the most sense for the FAD to take primary responsibility for ensuring that the following objectives are met during this initial round of correspondence:
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Blown outboard prop shaft seal?
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We stored it all winter on its (correct) side then transported it up to the boat in the back of our car, again on the correct side. We left it in the (hot) car most of the day and when I went to take it out I noticed a couple of drops of oil under the prop area. There were a couple more in the cart and it should have been enough to stop me then but I was not thinking. When I tipped the motor into the vertical position oil dripped out of the prop area at a pretty high rate. it slowed down then stopped when I laid it down again. The oil is discolored but not black and it is pretty thick so I am assuming it is transmission oil.
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How do you normally mount a floppy? If you use a GUI, you will have to edit your /etc/fstab file. As root, open it up, and find the line which begins with
add another line exactly like it, but instead of /dev/fd0 and /mnt/floppy (this might be a bit different depending on the distro, I can't remember what it looks like in knoppix) use /dev/fd1 /mnt/floppy2. Basically, /dev/fd0 is the first floppy device, /dev/fd1 is the second.
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The Dark Side of Game Audio: The Sounds of Mimetic Control and Affective Conditioning
It's an all too familiar movie trope. A bug hidden in a flower jar. A figure in shadows crouched listening at a door. The tape recording that no one knew existed, revealed at the most decisive of moments. Even the abrupt disconnection of a phone call manages to arouse the suspicion that we are never as alone as we may think. And although surveillance derives its meaning the latin "vigilare" (to watch) and French "sur-" (over), its deep connotations of listening have all but obliterated that distinction.
This month, SO! Multimedia Editor Aaron Trammell curates a forum on Sound and Surveillance, featuring the work of Robin James and Kathleen Battles. And so it begins, with Aaron asking. . ."Want to Play a Game?" –JS
It's eleven o'clock on a Sunday night and I'm in the back room of a comic book store in Scotch Plains, NJ. Game night is wrapping up. Just as I'm about to leave, someone suggests that we play Pit, a classic game about trading stocks in the early 20th century. Because the game is short, I decide to give it a go and pull a chair up to the table. In Pit, players are given a hand of nine cards of various farm-related suits and frantically trade cards with other players until their entire hand matches the same suit. As play proceeds, players hold up a set of similar cards they are willing to trade and shout, "one, one, one!," "two, two, two!," "three, three, three!," until another player is willing to trade them an equivalent amount of cards in a different suit. The game only gets louder as the shouting escalates and builds to a cacophony.
As I drove home that night, I came to the uncomfortable realization that maybe the game was playing me. I and the rest of the players had adopted similar dispositions over the course of the play. As we fervently shouted to one another trying to trade between sets of indistinguishable commodities, we took on similar, intense, and excited mannerisms. Players who would not scream, who would not participate in the reproduction of the game's sonic environment, simply lost the game, faded out. As for the rest of us, we became like one another, cookie-cutter reproductions of enthusiastic, stressed, and aggravated stock traders, getting louder as we cornered the market on various goods.
We were caught in a cybernetic-loop, one that encouraged us to take on the characteristics of stock traders. And, for that brief period of time, we succumbed to systems of control with far reaching implications. As I've argued before, games are cybernetic mechanisms that facilitate particular modes of feedback between players and the game state. Sound is one of the channels through which this feedback is processed. In a game like Pit, players both listen to other players for cues regarding their best move and shout numbers to the table representing potential trades. In other games, such as Monopoly, players must announce when they wish to buy properties. Although it is no secret that understanding sound is essential to good game design, it is less clear how sound defines the contours of power relationships in these games. This essay offers two games, Mafia, and Escape: The Curse of the Temple as case studies for the ways in which sound is used in the most basic of games, board games. By fostering environments that encourage both mimetic control and affective conditioning game sound draws players into the devious logic of cybernetic systems.
Understanding the various ways that sound is implemented in games is essential to understanding the ways that game sound operates as both a form of mimetic control and affective conditioning. Mimetic control is, at its most simple, the power of imitation. It is the degree to which we become alike when we play games. Mostly, it happens because the rules invoke a variety of protocols which encourage players to interact according to a particular standard of communication. The mood set by game sound is the power of affective conditioning. Because we decide what we interact with on account of our moods, moments of affective conditioning prime players to feel things (such as pleasure), which can encourage players to interact in compulsive, excited, subdued, or frenetic ways with game systems.
A game where sound plays a central and important role is Mafia (which has a number of other variants like Werewolf and The Resistance). In Mafia, some players take the secret role of mafia members who choose players to "kill" at night, while the eyes of the others are closed. Because mafia-team players shuffle around during the game and point to others in order to indicate which players to eliminate while the eyes of the other players are closed, the rules of the game suggest that players tap on things, whistle, chirp, and make other ambient noises while everyone's eyes are closed. This allows for the mafia-team players to conduct their business secretly, as their motions are well below the din created by the other players. Once players open their eyes, they must work together to deduce which players are part of the mafia, and then vote on who to eliminate from the game. Here players are, in a sense, controlled by the game to provide a soundtrack. What's more, the eeriness of the sounds produced by the players only accentuate the paranoia players feel when taking part in what's essentially a lynch-mob.
The ambient sounds produced by players of Mafia have overtones of mimetic control. Protocols governing the use of game audio as a form of communication between bodies and other bodies, or bodies and machines, require that we communicate in particular ways at set intervals. Different than the brutal and martial forms of discipline that drove disciplinary apparatuses like Bentham's panopticon, the form of control exerted through interactive game audio relies on precisely the opposite premise. What is often termed "The Magic Circle of Play" is suspect here as it promises players a space that is safe and fundamentally separate from events in the outside world. Within this space somewhat hypnotic behavior-patterns take place under the auspices of being just fun, or mere play. Players who refuse to play by the rules are often exiled from this space, as they refuse to enter into this contract of soft social norms with others.
Escape: The Curse of the Temple relies on sound to set a game mood that governs the ways that players interact with each other. In Escape, players have ten minutes (of real time) where they must work together to navigate a maze of cardboard tiles. Over the course of the game there are two moments when players must return to the tile that they started the game on, and these are announced by a CD playing in the background of the room. When this occurs, a gong rings on the CD and rhythms of percussion mount in intensity until players hear a door slam. At this point, if players haven't returned to their starting tile, they are limited in the actions they can take for the rest of the game. In the moments of calm before players make a mad dash for the entrance, the soundtrack waxes ambient. It offers the sounds of howling-winds, rattling chimes, and yawning corridors.
The game is spooky, overall. The combination of haunting ambient sounds and moments where gameplay is rushed and timed, makes for an adrenaline-fueled experience contained and produced by the game's ambient soundtrack. The game's most interesting moments come from points where one player is trapped and players must decide whether they should help their friend or help themselves. The tense, haunting, soundtrack evokes feelings of high-stakes immersion. The game is fun because it produces a tight, stressful, and highly interactive experience. It conditions its players through the clever use of its soundtrack to feel the game in an embodied and visceral way. Like the ways that horror movies have used ambient sounds to a great effect in producing tension in audiences (pp.26-27), Escape: The Curse of the Temple encourages players to immerse themselves in the game world by playing upon the tried and true affective techniques that films have used for years. Immersed players feel an increased sense of engagement with the game and because of this they are willingly primed to engage in the mimetic interactive behaviors that engage them within the game's cybernetic logic.
These two forms of power, mimetic control and affective conditioning, often overlap and coalesce in games. Sometimes, they meet in the middle during games that offer a more or less adaptive form of sound, like Mafia. Players work together and mimic each other when reproducing the ambient forms of quiet that constitute the atmosphere of terror that permeates the game space. Even the roar of bids which occurs in Pit constitutes a form of affective conditioning that encourages players to buy, buy, buy as fast as possible. Effectively simulating the pressure of The Stock Exchange.
Although there is now a growing discipline around the production of game audio, there is relatively little discourse that attempts to understand how the implementation of sound in games functions as a mode of social control. By looking at the ways that sound is implemented in board and card games, we can gain insight of the ways in which it is implemented in larger technical systems (such as computer games), larger aesthetic systems (such as performance art), economic systems (like casinos and the stock market), and even social systems (like parties). Furthermore, it is easy to describe more clearly the ways in which game audio functions as a form of soft power through techniques of mimetic control and affective conditioning. It is only by understanding how these techniques affect our bodies that we can begin to recognize our interactions with large-scale cybernetic systems that have effects reaching beyond the game itself.
Aaron Trammell is co-founder and Multimedia Editor of Sounding Out! He is also a Media Studies PhD candidate at Rutgers University. His dissertation explores the fanzines and politics of underground wargame communities in Cold War America. You can learn more about his work at aarontrammell.com.
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Experiments in Aural Resistance: Nordic Role-Playing, Community, and Sound- Aaron Trammell
Resounding Silence and Soundless Surveillance, From TMZ Elevator to Beyoncé and Back Again
This September, Sounding Out! challenged a #flawless group of scholars and critics to give Beyoncé Knowles-Carter a close listen, re-examining the complex relationship between her audio and visuals and amplifying what goes unheard, even as her every move–whether on MTV or in that damn elevator–faces intense scrutiny. Last Monday, you heard from Kevin Allred (Women and Gender Studies, Rutgers) who read Beyoncé's track "No Angel" against the New York Times' reference to Michael Brown as #noangel. You will also hear from Liana Silva (Editor, Women in Higher Education, Managing Editor, Sounding Out!), Regina Bradley (writer, scholar, and freelance researcher of African American Life and Culture), and Madison Moore (Research Associate in the Department of English at King's College, University of London and author of How to Be Beyoncé). Today, Priscilla Peña Ovalle (English, University of Oregon) gives us full Beyoncé realness, from TMZ Elevator to Beyoncé and Back Again,–Editor-in-Chief Jennifer Stoever
Less than six months after Beyoncé released Beyoncé, she was momentarily silenced on the small screen when the gossip site TMZ released silent elevator security footage of a fight between her famous husband and sister. Doubly framed by the black and white of a surveillance video screen surreptitiously captured on a security guard's camera-phone, the video's silence left plenty of room for speculation. But the footage also revealed a woman conscious that her life is on record: Beyoncé's body seemed to elude the camera's full view and she emerged from the elevator with a camera-ready smile.
Like Kevin Allred in his powerful reading of "No Angel," I could not help but rethink Beyoncé in the wake of Michael Brown's murder. I already read Beyoncé as a sophisticated response to the visual and aural policing of black female bodies, but the closed-circuit images of Beyoncé on TMZ (and in Beyoncé) made me reconsider silence as a damning convention of video surveillance; like Aaron Trammell in "Video Gaming and the Sonic Feedback of Surveillance," I questioned (the lack of) sound as a technique of control. When the camera-phone recording of Kajieme Powell's murder, photographed and narrated by a community member in real-time, was released with silent surveillance footage of the alleged theft, my appreciation of Beyoncé—as a response to those silent damnations—took a new turn.
"Resounding Silence and Surveillance" argues that Beyoncé returns the media's visual-aural gaze. Because of its pop package, the album's artistic composition and socio-cultural merit are often underestimated. Like the silence of surveillance footage, omitting any one sensory element from Beyoncé distorts the holistic meaning. To untangle this critically complex interplay of audio and video, I analyze the visualized song "Haunted" and briefly address the single "***Flawless" to show how the artist's triple consciousness anchors Beyoncé. She is on to us: Beyoncé is the culmination of an artist who has spent her career watching us watch her. Temporarily silenced by footage that she could not control, Beyoncé resounds that "elevator incident"—and our sonic/optic perceptions of her feminism—with a flawless remix.
"I see music. It's more than just what I hear," declares Beyoncé. Her voiceover runs over the black screen that opens the promotional video "Self-Titled." Released the same day Beyoncé premiered on iTunes, "Self-Titled" directs audiences to "see the whole vision of the album." By design, Beyoncé is an immersive experience—like watching Michael Jackson's "Thriller" as a television event on MTV.
Because Beyoncé was born the same year the cable music channel MTV premiered, she has never known a world without the ability to "see music." In many ways, her visual album reinvigorates the early spirit of MTV: after Beyoncé, we will "never look at music the same way again." Though music videos exacerbate the pop single obsession that Beyoncé explicitly resists with Beyoncé, they also produce a unique kinetic connection with the listener-viewer, whose experience of sound is visually registered by the body as it processes shots and edits. This is especially true when strong imagery, rhythmic editing, and dance movements are expertly employed, as in Beyoncé.
Beyoncé deftly critiques the beauty and music/media industries that have been central to her pop success. If taken piecemeal, these critiques can be easily dismissed: the sustained gloss of her image works all too well. There is much to say on a video-by-video basis, but I focus here on the specific aural elements of "Haunted" that articulate Beyoncé's refusal of the music industry's status quo. This visualized rejection reveals the layers of racism and sexism that nonwhite female artists (even Beyoncé, even today) must negotiate.
Because of my personal and professional interest in music videos, I consumed Beyoncé as she intended: a sequence of MPEG-4 videos rather than AAC audio files. But it was not until I solely listened to the album that I could discern Beyoncé's maturation as a black female multimedia pop/culture artist. One refrain from "Haunted" was especially effective:
I know if I'm onto you, I'm onto you/ Onto you, you must be on to me
The song's ethereal quality is amplified by Boots (Jordy Asher), one of Beyoncé's (then-unknown) collaborators with whom she shares "Haunted"'s writing and producing credit. The track builds slowly, supporting Beyoncé's "stream of consciousness" delivery with layers of reverberation and waves of synth sounds like "Soundtrack" or the Roland TR-808 kick drum. Punches of bass accelerate the beat until Beyoncé riffs her explicit desire to create something more than a product:
The music winds to a halt, but the song is not over. Breathy, reverberating vocals transition the track and a piano is delicately introduced:
It's what you do, it's what you see
I know if I'm haunting you, you must be haunting me
It's where we go, it's where we'll be
I know if I'm onto you, I'm onto you
Onto you, you must be on to me
At this point, the song "Haunted" is split into two videos: "Ghost" (directed by Pierre Debusschere) and "Haunted" (directed by Jonas Åkerlund). The videos' visual differences exemplify the various points of view—from active subject to object of desire and back again—employed across Beyoncé. "Ghost"'s hypnotic visuals underscore the song's sentiments: close-ups of Beyoncé's immaculately lit visage soberly mouthing lyrics are intercut with medium shots of her still body swathed in floating fabric and wide shots of her athletic movements against sparse backgrounds. The ar/rhythmic cuts of "Ghost" enunciate an artistic dissatisfaction with the industry: visuals build against/with the synthetic beat, mixing Beyoncé's kinetically intense movements with her deadpan delivery.
The fiery agency of "Ghost" sets up the chill of "Haunted," a voyeuristic tour in which Beyoncé watches and is watched. The "knowing-ness" of her breathy refrain ("I know if I'm haunting you") is heightened when the tempo accelerates in the song's second half. There is much to say about "Haunted"—from the interracial family of atomic bomb mannequins to Beyoncé's writhing boudoir choreography. Most significantly, she is the video's voyeur and object of surveillance: her face appears on multiple television screens and her voyeur-character is regularly captured on closed-circuit footage. The "Haunted" video soundtrack features the foley and stinger sounds of a horror film, but these surveillance shots feature the low whirr of a film projector rather than silence. The silence of a moving image is so jarring that it compels us to watch differently, so much so that "silent" film scenes utilize a recorded sound of "nothing" ("room tone") to focus the audience.
When Beyoncé finally resounded the silence of the "elevator incident," she chose to do it through "***Flawless," her explicit response to anti-feminist accusations. While the multifaceted anthem gained attention because of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's audio, the song is uniquely infused with a kind of docu-visuality thanks to Ed McMahon's well-known voice and the Star Search jingle. These bookends cite a young Beyoncé losing to an all-male rock band, the kind heavily programmed during MTV's early days. The clips reinforce the album's critique of racial and gender hierarchies while questioning the double-edged "work ethic" required to surpass them. Of course, Beyoncé pre-emptively frames this discussion for us in "Self-Titled," a necessary step that helps audiences appreciate the many moving parts of her tour de force, including her creative business mind.So when Beyoncé swapped the audio of Adichie and McMahon for Nicki Minaj, it was no less of a feminist move. Instead, Beyoncé silences TMZ gawkers:
Of course sometimes shit go down/
When it's a billion dollars on an elevator
She then offers herself as a medium of empowerment. Beyoncé may be part of a billion-dollar empire, but she willingly shares that pleasure with us:
I wake up looking this good
And I wouldn't change it if I could
(If I could, if I, if I, could)
And you can say what you want, I'm the shit
(What you want I'm the shit, I'm the shit)
(I'm the shit, I'm the shit, I'm the shit)
I want everyone to feel like this tonight
God damn, God damn, God damn!
Beyoncé's last word is an image. She and her creative team remixed the visuals of the "elevator incident": the remix single website features black and white photos of Beyoncé and Minaj, simultaneously evoking surveillance footage and the photo booth images of a girls' night out. Beyoncé is the work of an artist who has spent her career watching us watch her: this minor moment exemplifies Beyoncé's multimedia resonance as an artist whose power is visible and audible across iTunes and TMZ screens alike.
Thanks to Elizabeth Peterson, Charise Cheney, Loren Kajikawa, André Sirois and Jennifer Stoever for providing research and intellectual support for this essay
Priscilla Peña Ovalle is the Associate Director of the Cinema Studies Program at the University of Oregon. After studying film and interactive media production at Emerson College, she received her PhD from the University of Southern California School of Cinema-Television while collaborating with the Labyrinth Project at the Annenberg Center for Communication. She has written on MTV, Jennifer Lopez, and Beyoncé. Her book, Dance and the Hollywood Latina: Race, Sex, and Stardom (Rutgers University Press, 2011), addresses the symbolic connection between dance and the racialized sexuality of Latinas in popular culture. Her next research project explores the historical, industrial, and cultural function of hair in mainstream film and television. You can find her work in American Quarterly, Theatre Journal, and Women & Performance.
REWIND!…If you liked this post, check out:
Aurally Other: Rita Moreno and the Articulation of "Latina-ness"-Priscilla Peña Ovalle
Music Meant to Make You Move: Considering the Aural Kinesthetic–Imani Kai Johnson
Karaoke and Ventriloquism: Echoes and Divergences–Sarah Kessler and Karen Tongson
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"Baddygirl" – M.I.A.
"The Walker" – Fitz and the Tantrums
"Watch Us Work It" – DEVO
"Summertime" – DJ Jazzy Jeff
"Givin' Them What They Love" – Janelle Monae
"Mt. Olympus" – Big K.R.I.T.
"Inner City Breathin' feat. Tammi Terrell" – Amerigo Gazaway
"MakeMoney" – Knxwledge.
"Corre, Corre Erê" – Karol Conká
"Magic" – Olivia Newton John
"Bongo Bong" – Manu Chao
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Blog-O-Versary #Flawless 5.0!
HAPPY 5th BLOG-O-VERSARY! Parabéns!
As I write this, I am sitting on the return flight from Portugal, where I spent an utterly transformational four days at the Invisible Places, Sounding Cities conference (deftly organized and elegantly curated by Raquel Castro), a sensory torrent that still has me buzzing. While there, I was thrilled, provoked, taken, shaken, intrigued, pleased, taught, energized, exhausted, re-energized, puzzled, lifted up. . .all of the things I hope a truly great meeting will do (and then some). What I wasn't prepared for—and when going to a conference featuring sound artists and performers, I imagine myself ready for anything—was the flood of gratefulness and gratitude that I felt every time I had a conversation about Sounding Out!, every time all of our stickers disappeared off the registration table, every time I introduced myself and there were nods of recognition from people I had never met—people located thousands of miles from my home IP address—and every time my scouting attempts were met with enthusiasm that matched (and often rivaled) my own.
And, while I cannot deny that I my work on Sounding Out! has generated personal pride—speaking honestly, sometimes I go to soundstudiesblog.com just to LOOK at it—but the feeling I enjoyed in Viseu was different from "accomplishment." I felt grateful for the support of our editors, writers, and podcasters—sharing the best of themselves, tirelessly and without compensation other than mad props and 'nuff respect—for our readers, ever stretching across the globe, sharing, liking, and ReTweeting, until this endeavor became a networked community, and for our fans—Yes! We have received fan mail!—whose enthusiasm always seems to arrive at the right time, the Hail Mary eleventh hour when the editors are fighting sleep and/or needing another reason to allow Dora the Explorer to play a little longer to steal time to finish a piece. I also felt gratitude for the diverse and full-bodied sound studies community, particularly its rigorous but generous, inviting embrace, which extended to the fledgling Sounding Out! experiment five lightning-quick years ago.
In that time, I hope we have expressed our gratitude in return, by deepening and extending our mutual community, binding us in new and unexpected ways, showcasing our best and giving air to our challenges, and, most importantly, enabling us to greet each other as familiar colleagues—in Viseu, Berlin, Toronto, San Juan, Los Angeles, Copenhagen, New York, Sao Paolo. . .—even if we had never before met "In Real Life." Know that as we continue to grow and renew the site that the function of community will always remain a prime directive of SO!. I welcome the responsibility we have collectively invested in Sounding Out!; it makes my decisions both more contemplative and surefooted. Thank you, everyone, for the last five years—lets raise a glass of Grão Vasco Dão Tinto toward many more together!
As we sip, let's also partake in the annual SO! tradition of taking stock of the last action-packed year, with soundtrack supplied by another artist having a #flawless year, Ms. Beyoncé Knowles herself. . .
- "Irreplaceable" (Goodbye, Liana): I write this first update completely under protest. I know I am not supposed to admit to affective reactions, especially in cyberspace and especially as a woman with her feet in several male dominated fields, but when Liana Silva-Ford, our stalwart and smoothly bad-ass Managing Editor and Co-Founder, told me she was considering leaving SO!, my eyes welled up instantaneously. Okay, so she very straightforwardly told me she was leaving—even now I still have to sneak in the modifier "considering." Liana was recently named Editor-in-Chief of the longstanding publication Women in Higher Education (now on Wiley-Blackwell)—read her first "Editor's End Notes" here—and she is embarking on a book project on her not-so-secret passion, postcards. Liana has, rightly and deservedly, decided to bestow more of her time on these two *amazing ventures. Even though none of us has yet to successfully visualize SO! without her, we know this is right and we wish her all and only the best. Thank you, Liana for your steady hand but light touch, your sharp yet generous editorial eye, and the intelligence, professionalism, and enthusiasm you brought to every meeting, every challenge, and every writer. Working (and SO!-hiveminding) with you has been an exquisite pleasure. And thank you for letting me twist your arm into a permanent "Editor-at-Large" position (whew!).
- "Green Light" (Welcome Cara, Neil, Will): On the other hand, I am pleased to announce that the O.G. SO! triumvirate has happily expanded to a sextet. Media scholar Neil Verma (Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Radio/Television/Film at Northwestern University) our new ASA/SCMS Special Editor, came on board in late 2013, curating our new Thursday stream that launched in January 2014. Neil has already proved himself to be a skilled editor, an intuitive curator, and a natural at the brand of humor and enthusiastic tomfoolery we thrive on behind the scenes. We initiated our "L.A. Office" in December with the addition of William Stabile, our new Assistant Visual Editor, who is responsible for many of the mighty fine layouts that that you have seen this year. He is flexible, patient, and extremely gifted in the visual arts, with a wit dryer than Riverside, California this time of year. We value his work and presence immensely. And, drum roll please (especially with our crowd), we are pleased to announce right here today, that Cara Lynne Cardinale is our new Managing Editor, coming to us live from the East Bay in Northern California with a soaring collection of great ideas and her feet firmly planted on the ground of spreadsheets, calendars, and deadlines. Cara graduated in 2010 with her Ph.D. in English from the University of California, Riverside, with a brilliant dissertation that I am constantly telling my graduate students to seek out: "'Through the Eyes': Reading Deafened Gestures of Look-Listening in Twentieth Century Narratives." A unanimous selection for her intensity, sharpness, and style-for-miles, Cara will undoubtedly turn this mother out!.
- "Upgrade U" (Thursday Stream!): You may have noticed that there has been twice the SO! to love in 2014, thanks to Neil Verma's work on the Thursday stream, with his cadre of guest editors and an array of media-related subjects that has greatly expanded and deepened the site's threshold. The year is only a little more than half-over and already we have been treated to forums on Cuban radio history (Tom McEnaney's "Radio de Acción"), Lou Reed's voice and sonic influence (NV's "Start a Band"), and Justin Burton's rumbling "The Wobble Continuum" of dubstep sounds and scholarship. Jump on the most current series of the stream, "Sculpting the Film Soundtrack" (guest edited by Katherine Spring), a collection of posts that re-frames the cinematic soundtrack to to be heard anew. The media stream + our monthly podcast series + SO!'s monthly pass-the-mic "Sound Off! // Comment Klatsch" = vibrant sounding Thursdays. We like this new math.
- "Check on It" ("SO! Amplifies") b/w "Schoolin' Life" (Book Reviews): Sounding Out!, by design, is not a clearing house for any-and-all sound-related events [however, you CAN get all that information by following us on Twitter, liking us on Facebook, and Tumbling with us too]. BUT, we realized this year that relationships are built and connections are made through support of one another's work, and, more often than not, it takes more than 140 characters to properly accomplish this important task. So, in 2014, we launched two new ongoing series, "Sounding Out! Reads," reviewing the latest monographs of interest to Sound Studies peeps, and a curatorial series called "SO! Amplifies" that enables selected makers, artists, authors, researchers, designers, and other creative/creating folks to introduce their work and tell SO! readers how/why it is important to them (and should be to us). In addition to amplifying the signal sent out by our featured works, we also hope to enable the production of new research, art, and other types of projects and connections through the introduction of these new tools, models, information, and archives. At the very least, we will be hipping your ears and eyes to some seriously cool new ish.
- "Satellites" b/w "Rocket" (War of the Worlds collabo extravaganza): Neil Verma came to the SO! team last summer in search of a site to host observations on the occasion of the 75th Anniversary of Orson Welles' 1938 broadcast of War of the Worlds. Knowing the brilliance and exceptional quality of Neil's work—please buy and devour his 2012 Theater of the Mind (University of Chicago Press, SCMS First Book Award Winner) ASAP—I automatically said an enthusiastic "YES." BOOM. Just like that, an international multimedia fandango was born. On the ground, or since we are talking radio, terrestrially, #WOTW75 sounded like a three-hour radio broadcast on Binghamton University's WHRW 90.5 with 2 hours of original content produced by Team SO! (one of them live!) bookending a re-broadcast of Welles' original at the precise date and time of its debut, 8:00 PM EST, October 30th [1.5 hours are available via our podcast series: EPISODE XXII: Remixing War of the Worlds presents an original creative sound composition by Monteith McCollum and his Performative Processes class at Binghamton University that re-imagined act three of WOTW and EPISODE XXIII: War of the Worlds Revisited, the new 60-minute audio documentary featuring interviews with top media scholars engineered by our very own Multimedia editor Aaron Trammell]. BUT, out in the aether and Twittersphere, #WOTW75 looked like so much more: simultaneous listening parties dotting the globe—a special shout out to Jake Smith's event at Northwestern U in Chicago—a months-long supergroup collabo between the Sounding Out! crüe and the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Antenna—mad props to Andrew Bottomley—a real-time Twitter conversation using the hashtag #WOTW75 that sparked myriad reactions from excitement to snark—NV has curated the best of these for the upcoming sound special issue of Velvet Light Trap—academic panels, radio interviews, podcasts—thank you Aca-Media!—TV interviews, live dramatic radio performances—you rock, Charles Berman and the WHRW drama dept—a live collaging project put on by Toronto's Collage Collective at the Textile Museum of Canada, martian-themed cupcakes, commemorative T- shirts by artisanal screen printers Muckles Ink, a theme-song (!!) written and performed by Binghamton's finest ambient surf-noise band The Short Waves, and, we dearly hope, renewed excitement for the experience of "liveness" in the twenty-first century, an experience greatly changed since 1938, but no less vital in importance and thrilling in affect.
- "Run the World" (Citations, Reposts, and Writer Updates): It has been a great year for our writers, who have found their work cited and re-blogged in many venues including The Society Pages, The Feminist Wire, Twentieth Century Music, The New Inquiry's Sunday Reading, Radio Survivor, Repeating Islands, Past and Present, About Place Journal's 1963-2013 Civil Rights Retrospective, and American History Now [for the full bibliographic details see our SO! Media page].
We also congratulate our writers on their recent news and updates!
- Kaj Ahlsved is working hard on his PhD dissertation "Music and sport: soundscape, identity, context and function." He published his first article in the 2013 Yearbook for the Finnish society for Ethnomusicology. His second article, "Let's Play Hockey," is currently under peer review. He is also part of a research project called Kiekkokansa that will publish a book on Finnish ice hockey culture in April 2015. For this project he and a few other researchers had the opportunity to do ethnography in Minsk during the 2014 World Ice Hockey Championships.
- Regina Bradley released her video dialogue series called Outkasted Conversations. She has a chapter titled "Kanye West's Sonic [Hip Hop] Cosmopolitanism" in the collection The Cultural Impact of Kanye West. She also has an article forthcoming on Edward P. Jones' The Known World and the Hip Hop Imagination in Southern Literary Journal.
- Dolores Inés Casillas was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure at the University of California at Santa Barbara.
- Kariann Goldschmitt will be a Visiting Lecturer in the Faculty of Music at the University of Cambridge this upcoming October. Her essay on mobile tactics in the Brazilian independent music industry has been published in The Oxford Handbook of Mobile Music Studies, Volume 1.
- Carter Mathes saw the release of his new book this year, titled Imagine the Sound: Experimental African American Literature after Civil Rights.
- Jonathan Sterne is co-organizing, with Nick Mirzoeff and Tamar Tembeck, the first-ever sound studies-meets-visual culture studies conference. Called Sound, Vision, Action, it puts scholars and artists in dialogue across sonic and visual traditions. They are especially interested in how each field addresses questions of power. The lineup is still being confirmed, but it will be hosted by Media@McGill in Montreal, 14-15 November 2014. Sterne is teaching a graduate seminar in conjunction with the conference in the Fall. More details will be available at http://media.mcgill.ca.
- Jennifer Stoever was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure at the State University of New York, Binghamton where she was also awarded a 2014 Chancellor's Award in Teaching.
And now. . .because this is how we do year after year, roll up your rug or roll down your partition, please, it is time to celebrate our #flawless 5.0 blog-o-versary, 'Yonce-style. –JS, Editor-in-Chief
Jennifer Stoever is co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of Sounding Out! She is also Associate Professor of English at Binghamton University.
Click here for Sounding Out!'s Blog-O-Versary #Flawless 5.0 mix with track listing
(Just in case you missed last year's 4.0 celebration and mix click here; 3.0 click here; for year two, click here; and for our first Blog-O-Versary party mix click here)


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WSe have a 5600SE system that is not delivering soft water. Did all the standard trouble shooting (bypass valve closed, salt in brine tank, injector/screen clean, regen stages all work, distributor tube seems OK, flow meter cable connected). I do not hear the clicking that used to occur when water was flowing through meter and I also wonder if resin might be worn out. It is a 6yr old system, has 9 x 48" tank w/ 1sq ft of resin, have regenerated every 14 days (some times more often) and our town water is 14gpg hardness. Untreated water tests 7.4ph while water in resin tank is 6.4ph (seems kind of high). System has worked very well up until now. I have done all I can think of, to no avail. All/any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
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- Posted by justalurker (My Page) on Thu, Jun 30, 11 at 17:47
Whenever someone says they've done all the standard troubleshooting and can't find the problem I always cringe. You missed something. Check that the motor is working. Without that, there will be no regeneration. |
- Posted by justalurker (My Page) on Thu, Jun 30, 11 at 22:22
Make triple sure the softener is NOT on bypass. When you run water in the house you should see a flow indicator in the display. If you don't then you could have a problem in the turbine, a bad display, or a wiring problem. If the softener can't count the gallons used then it will regenerate at the calendar override setting which might be 14 days... that may be where your 14 days between regenerations came from. With your softener regenerating every 14 day the resin life can be shortened and I suspect the softener was not set up correctly or for efficient operation. With your water conditions I'd expect the resin to last 10+ years easy if the softener was setup to operate efficiently and IF the softener regenerated every 7 days or less. If you can't figure it out hit the Yellow Pages looking for an independent water treatment professional. There's always someone pretty much everywhere that services Fleck control valves. |
You did not state how many people are in the home. It sounds like you do not have the system set for the proper gallons. If it is relying on the 14 day over ride most of the time you are probably running out of soft water. RJ |
The motor is working and when the house calls for water the meter led light flickers and the gallons are counting down. The only difference I notice is the faint clicking sound that use to occur during flow metering is not happening now. We watched the motor/gears (back cover off) go through the cycles and every thing seems OK (nothing moves when water is flowing, but maybe this is normal). I am positive that the bypass value is allowing water flow into the system. We have two people in the house and don't use a lot of water, but even after a regen the water tests 6.4ph. Would it be worth replacing the resin and changing the regen to run every 7 days (what is the most efficient lenght for the 4 stages of the regen cycles)?. Thanks for all your help. |
- Posted by justalurker (My Page) on Sun, Jul 3, 11 at 10:48
Don't be changing any stage settings in the programming unless you know what you are doing. Without knowing the details of your water conditions (hardness, iron, manganese, etc) along with the # of people (2), # of bathrooms, and any water hogging appliances it is difficult to know if your softener is sized or set up correctly or ever was. When a softener is correctly sized and set up for the water conditions, water usage, and SFR it will regenerate every 6 to 7 days which is best for the resin and use an efficient salt dose cutting down on operating costs. You've checked all the obvious things so at this point it would be prudent to get a local water treatment professional in there to diagnose the problem. |
You stated the PH is changing through your softener. The PH should never change through any softener. A softener is designed to remove hardness, iron and manganese. If the PH levels are changing through the system then you have Chinese made resin. There was/is a severe problem with Chinese made resin not being rinsed properly and causing low PH levels as low as 3.0. This was also causing the resin to degrade. This may be the cause with your system. I suggest pulling the head off, inspecting the bed depth of resin. Re-bedding the tank is recommended (with american made resin). RJ |
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So I've been brewing for a few years now and decided I'd like to come up with a logo. Unfortunately, i'm not the most creative person in the world so i'm reaching out to you all for help. I call my brewery Backwater Brewhouse since I spend most of my time skiing and wakeboarding the "backwaters" of Missouri and Arkansas. Initially, I was going to do something vintage/retro, but have no idea... Any thoughts or ideas?
When you say retro & vintage, what kind of font are you thinking about? You could check out this page for some free fonts, they have a list of 30 vintage/retro font. http://webdesignledger.com/freebies/...o-style-design Are you using illustrator? If so i could help you out.
I make my own labels with picmonkey its free and the possibilities are endless.
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Peak is a populated place located in Anderson County at latitude 36.064 and longitude -84.121.
The elevation is 928 feet. Peak appears on the Powell U.S. Geological Survey Map. Anderson County is in the Eastern Time Zone (UTC -5 hours).
Anderson County: Cities & Towns | ZIP Codes | Schools | Features (airports, churches, hospitals, etc.)
BIG Map |
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Data Source - USGS GNIS FID: 1297058
BOUNDARY MAPS: Commissioner District 1 | Anderson County
South Clinton, TN
(< 0.1 mile) Peak, TN (< 0.1 mile) Claxton, TN (1.4 miles SSE) Clinch View, TN (1.9 miles NNW) Edgewood Heights, TN (1.9 miles SSW) |
Sherwood Estates, TN
(2.4 miles SSW) Valley View, TN (2.7 miles SSW) Clinton, TN (2.7 miles NNW) Valley View Heights, TN (3.1 miles SW) Westwood Estates, TN (3.9 miles NNW) |
Bull Run, TN
(2.7 miles SE) Spring Hill, TN (3.4 miles S) Twi-lite Zone Mobile Home Park, TN (3.4 miles SE) Cumberland View Mobile Home Park, TN (3.9 miles SSE) Grand Oaks, TN (4.1 miles SE) |
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