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Macka B & Royale Roots Band – Land Of Sensi
January 9th, 2009
Macka B is a British-born reggae artist, performer and activist with a career spanning almost 30 years in the United Kingdom and Jamaica. He is also a practicing Rastafarian.
On leaving school, Macka B became a technical apprentice for Ever Ready GB Ltd, made redundant three years later due to the factory closure. In 1980 completed an engineering inspection course. Macka B has always been interested in music. At school, he played the violin, and also joined the school choir. Whilst at school, he became more interested in Reggae music, especially DJ’s, I-Roy, U-Roy, Prince Jazzbo. He started to practice at home, but never had the courage to perform to an audience. He and some friends started a sound system call “Exodus”, they had good reaction wherever they played, and this encouraged him to write his own lyrics.
In 1982, a trip to Jamaica inspired him greatly, improving his talent. He entered a talent competition in 1983 at the Rising Star night club, Bilston, (including Pato Banton, Ranking Ann) Macka B won, and from this, was invited on radio several times, his name became more known. Also at this time, he was in a band called Pre-wax, they did many live shows, and appeared on Channel 4’s Rockers Roadshow. A record entitled Maggie’s Letter was recorded with a producer called Papa P, which became a local success. Derek Nelson, producer of Ebony BBC2 heard Macka B perform on radio, and as they had a show planned for Birmingham, asked him to perform on that show, He went down well, and so obtained a regular spot on the next series. Macka B never stopped working with sound systems, Wassifa, and Skippy & Lippy being the main ones. A tape of a show Wassifa v Saxon sound in Leicester, was heard by Chris Lane of Fashion Records, who invited Macka B to do some recording. “Bible Reader” on disco mix was released, and reached No 15 in the Reggae Charts. Also released, a track called “Gentleman with Manners” on an LP entitled Great British M,C’s. Met the Mad Professor, joined the Ariwa label and recorded an LP called “Sign of The Times”. This reached No 1 in the Reggae LP charts. Appeared on Channel 4 Club Mix, and on the 1986 Sunsplash at the Wembley Arena. Released “Don’t Judge Me” in late 1986. Macka B has had a successful tour of Germany in January 1987, along with the Ariwa Possee. His 2nd album for Ariwa “We’ve Had Enough” was released in June 1987 to coincide with his 2nd European tour for 1987. Later that year, Macka B visited Bern in Switzerland. 1968 Macka B visited Jamaica and “Love It In Jamaica” was recorded. Later in ‘88 he recorded his 3rd Ariwa album “Looks Are Deceiving”. This album proved to be quite successful, and included current single “Unemployment Blues” which was recently featured on BBC2 in the programme DEF II – Behind The Beat. On the flip side is the self explanatory “Don’t Sell Your Body”. Macka B has since recorded his fourth album “Buppie Culture” which was on general release in mid 1989, with encouragingly good response. The album contained tracks including “Dread a Who She Love” a duet with Kofi. It was also released as,a single in September of 1989, and went to No 1 in the.Reggae charts in the November of that year and stayed at that spot for 6 weeks. It was also featured on a video which was shown in places as far afield as Jamaica, Germany, Sweden and Zimbabwe. Macka B did the Buppie tour which took him to Ireland, Holland, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Poland, Finland, Sweden, and Denmark. 1990 saw the recording and release of “Proud of Mandela” which celebrated the release of Nelson Mandela, it went straight to No 1 and was also featured on his 5th album “Natural Suntan” – ‘Black Man’ the flip side was also very popular. Staying with the social comments, Macka B recorded “Pam Pam Cameroon” as his commentary of the Cameroon’s performance in at the 1990 World Cup. This record was heard and appreciated in places far as Cameroon, later that year Macka B played Australia, thus becoming the first British Reggae artist to tour this continent.
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DiViNCi and Kevin Stever jamming at Full Sail
December 26th, 2008
This was taken from one of DiViNCi’s monthly lectures/demonstrations he does at an audio engineering school in Orlando, FL called Full Sail. DiViNCi is the crazy “MPCist” and producer for Solillaquists of Sound. In the lectures he does some solo performances, answers questions, and talks about his creative and technical process and how he came to be doing what it is he does. At the end of this particular class he and his good friend, Kevin Stever (a ridiculous Orlando-based bassist/composer), perform a thrity minute impromptu jam session. This video is taken from the last couple minutes of that session.
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CE 398 Civil Engineering Systems
December 19th, 2008
CE 398 Civil Engineering Systems
Fall 2008
A Systems Approach to the Development of Civil Engineering Facilities
by
Samuel Labi
Assistant Professor
School of Civil Engineering
Purdue University
Duration : 0:9:51
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University of Washington
December 12th, 2008
Just touring around U of W.
The University of Washington, founded in 1861, is a public research university in Seattle, Washington, United States. Also known as Washington and locally as The U or UW (usually pronounced “U-Dub”), it is the largest university in the northwestern United States and the oldest public university on the west coast. The UW maintains three locations, with its flagship campus in Seattle’s University District and branch campuses in Tacoma and Bothell. Its operating budget for fiscal year 2005 was $3.1 billion.[3] The university is known as a Public Ivy, an American term for state-funded institutions of higher learning that “provide an Ivy League collegiate experience at a public school price.”
Many of the UW’s programs are ranked in the top ten by U.S. News and World Report including #1 rankings for both the UW School of Medicine (primary care) and nursing school.[20] UW’s rank for medical research has recently moved up from seventh in 2007 (along with Stanford) to sixth in 2008.[21] UW Medicine received $573.2 million in grants from National Institutes of Health in the fiscal year of 2006, second highest among all universities in the US. By 2006, UW School of Medicine has overall been ranked #1 for 14 consecutive years by U.S. News. UW is also the only medical school in the nation that ranked in the top 10 for all eight specialties.[22] The UW School of Nursing has been ranked #1 in the nation since 1984, when the first survey of nursing schools was conducted. However, U.S News & World Report only began ranking nursing schools in 1993, ever since which UW has also always been #1.[23]
In addition, its graduate program in social work is ranked third by U.S. News and World Report along with Columbia University, the University of Chicago and the University of California-Berkeley.[24] The UW also boasts third ranked graduate programs in both audiology and speech-language pathology,[25][26] and a third ranked specialist program in the fine art of ceramics.[27] The School of Public Health and Community Medicine is as well ranked third by US News.[28] The UW’s bioengineering department was ranked fourth and the computer science program ranked 7th. The specialist field of nuclear physics also ranked 2nd in the country.[29]
The graduate school of education was also ranked 8th in the nation.[30] while the school of engineering tied for 21st alongside Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University and Northwestern University[31] in the U.S. News and World Report rankings. The undergraduate and graduate business schools ranked 18th and 29th, respectively. The UW School of Law has consistently ranked 27th out of a field of 180 American Bar ociation accredited law schools. The UW also holds a #1 specialist ranking for its graduate program in law librarianship[32]
In the 2008 rankings of “America’s Best Colleges” by U.S. News and World Report, the UW tied for 42nd among doctoral universities and tied for 11th among public doctoral universities.
History:
The city of Seattle was one of several settlements in the mid to late 19th century vying for primacy in the newly formed Washington Territory. In 1854, territorial governor Isaac Stevens recommended the establishment of a university in Washington. Several prominent Seattle-area residents, chief among them Methodist preacher Daniel Bagley, saw the siting of this University as a chance to add to the city’s prestige. They were able to convince early founder of Seattle and member of the territorial legislature Arthur A. Denny of the importance of Seattle winning the school. The legislature initially chartered two universities, one in Seattle and one in Lewis County, but later repealed its decision in favor of a single university in Lewis County, provided locally donated land could be found. When no site emerged, the legislature, encouraged by Denny, relocated the university to Seattle in 1858.
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Top Rated Engineering Colleges in the Northeast
December 12th, 2008
You can focus on studying science at these schools, where cutting-edge research can lead to grad school, MIT, Rensselaer Polytechnic, Clarkson University, and SUNY-Environmental Science Forestry.
For more on America’s Best Colleges, visit: http://www.usnews.com/features/education/best-colleges/college-road-trips.html
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