Midwest Electronic Gaming (MEG), founded in 2010 by Chad Brunsvold and Tony Williams, is a North American professional electronic sports organization, headquartered in Iowa. MEG has held official video game tournaments throughout the United States. MEG's goal is to raise awareness and grow the theme of eSports in the Midwest United States.
History
Midwest Electronic Gaming was founded by Chad Brunsvold with his brother in-law Tony Williams in the late 2010. Disappointed with the quality and lack of established video game tournaments in the region, Chad and Tony decided to do something great with their extreme passion for competitive gaming and create a business. Since founding MEG, Chad and Tony traveled to many regional LAN oriented events meeting and building a core community of other organizations surrounded behind the same idea and vision behind their own, the mutual agreement that the Midwest lacks representation and attention though the eyes of the gaming world. MEG continues to actively pursue grabbing the attention of gamers in the Midwest, and also give them a home and place to compete for the recognition they deserve. “Focus on the gamers, focus on making it fun for the players,” is the mantra of the MEG team. In May 2013 Brunsvold absorbed ownership of Midwest Electronic Gaming. Today Brunsvold continues to operate MEG with its original vision.
Midwest Electronic Gaming Convention
In the late 2012 planning began for MEG's first original large scale convention titled after itself (Midwest Electronic Gaming Convention) shortened to being known as "MEG-CON". In April 2013 a crowd funding campaign began for MEG-CON and raised $1,650.00 for the development of the event. MEG-CON took place on July 12-14, 2013 at the Clarion inn event center in St. Paul, MN. The event featured an over one hundred man BYOC/LAN, tournaments for both console and computer, and live commentated tournament game play. The event was deemed a major success and evolved into being an annual event to take place every year.
Organizations that were involved with MEG-CON production.
* FRAGfinity
* Heartland eSports Association
* IA_Clan Gaming
* Iowa Gamers Online
* Iowa LAN League
* JtechTV
* Kitty McScratch
* Extra Life Gaming
* Video Game Scoreboard
History
Midwest Electronic Gaming was founded by Chad Brunsvold with his brother in-law Tony Williams in the late 2010. Disappointed with the quality and lack of established video game tournaments in the region, Chad and Tony decided to do something great with their extreme passion for competitive gaming and create a business. Since founding MEG, Chad and Tony traveled to many regional LAN oriented events meeting and building a core community of other organizations surrounded behind the same idea and vision behind their own, the mutual agreement that the Midwest lacks representation and attention though the eyes of the gaming world. MEG continues to actively pursue grabbing the attention of gamers in the Midwest, and also give them a home and place to compete for the recognition they deserve. “Focus on the gamers, focus on making it fun for the players,” is the mantra of the MEG team. In May 2013 Brunsvold absorbed ownership of Midwest Electronic Gaming. Today Brunsvold continues to operate MEG with its original vision.
Midwest Electronic Gaming Convention
In the late 2012 planning began for MEG's first original large scale convention titled after itself (Midwest Electronic Gaming Convention) shortened to being known as "MEG-CON". In April 2013 a crowd funding campaign began for MEG-CON and raised $1,650.00 for the development of the event. MEG-CON took place on July 12-14, 2013 at the Clarion inn event center in St. Paul, MN. The event featured an over one hundred man BYOC/LAN, tournaments for both console and computer, and live commentated tournament game play. The event was deemed a major success and evolved into being an annual event to take place every year.
Organizations that were involved with MEG-CON production.
* FRAGfinity
* Heartland eSports Association
* IA_Clan Gaming
* Iowa Gamers Online
* Iowa LAN League
* JtechTV
* Kitty McScratch
* Extra Life Gaming
* Video Game Scoreboard
Daniel Schwindt (born November 4, 1985) is an American writer and social critic. His work focuses on popularizing the principles of Catholic social teaching. In 2015 he published Catholic Social Teaching: A New Synthesis, for use as a textbook on the subject. The book was favorably received. In early 2016 he published a companion volume, The Papist's Guide to America which used Catholic social teaching as a point of departure in order to launch a fierce critique of Liberalism in general and American political and economic structures in particular, claiming that America is the only country founded exclusively on liberal principles. Some saw in this volume an exaggeration of the role of the pope, and accused Schwindt of arguing for a kind of "papalotry." Eventually, Schwindt extended his argument to the modern world in general with The Case Against the Modern World: A Crash Course in Traditionalist Thought.
Ideas
Ignorance
Borrowing heavily from the writings of Alexis de Tocqueville, Schwindt explains that modern democratic societies have combined egalitarianism with individualism in order to create an unprecedented level of individual ignorance, since in such a climate each individual trusts only his own reason and experience, both of which are always very limited in scope. The result is an exaggerated view of one's mental capabilities:
When man viewed himself as generally ignorant of most things from the start, which is true of us all, then knowledge was able to maintain a position of authority and to direct the affairs of men. Once ignorance was forgotten—or denied altogether, particularly in regard to our social consciousness of the fact—the power and influence of knowledge began to evaporate. It began to wane, and has not stopped waning since, and it is reasonable to suggest that it may be ignorance, rather than knowledge, that gives direction to politics, economics, and the sciences of our world today.
Schwindt argues that ignorance in itself is not evil, and when acknowledged it is not a threat to society in general. But when it is denied, and when every individual believes himself capable of dealing with subjects he really knows nothing about, then ignorance is allowed to direct politics, and chaos is the result.
Propaganda
Following Jacques Ellul, Schwindt argues that an inevitable outcome of this situation is widespread government and corporate propaganda. The government, seeing that the individual does not know how to choose what is best for the country, tries to manipulate him into letting the government choose for him. Corporate propaganda, on the other hand, attempts to leverage individual ignorance in order to influence buying decisions. According to Schwindt's view, even the individual craves the guiding hand of propaganda, and is usually a willing participant in the process. This is because the modern citizen is deeply distressed by an awareness of his inability to deal with an incomprehensibly complex society.
Here secularism is also a factor. The great problems of life were once answered by religious authorities. However, in modern societies religious ideas are devalued and discredited, and the individual is left to himself to make sense of life. Inevitably the individual fails and again looks to social authorities for explanations, but since there are no priests he instead turns to politicians, celebrities, and media pundits. He turns to propaganda.
Catholic social teaching
As a positive vision for society that minimizes the dangers posed by human moral and mental frailty, Schwindt offers the principles of Catholic social teaching. Taken as a coherent whole, he believes these principles offer a stable vision of society that could restore economic and political activity to health. This vision would avoid the negatives aspects of both capitalism and socialism, while at the same time minimizing the political disorder which characterizes modern liberal political systems since the Enlightenment.
Schwindt rejects socialism, but has vehemently criticized other Catholic writers who have tried to present a view of Catholic social teaching that can be reconciled with capitalism and the neoconservative vision of society. In a review of Michael Novak's Social Justice Isn't What You Think It Is, co-authored by Paul Adams, Schwindt claimed that the authors "are engaged in a re-invention of Catholic Social Teaching in the image of Hayek...The resulting construction is a bizarre creature indeed."
Positions
* Monarchism
* Catholicism
* Traditionalist School
* Social disintegration
Works
* ', 2013.
* ', 2014.
* ', 2015.
* [https://www.amazon.com/Catholic-Social-Teaching-Synthesis-Novarum/dp/0692470387/ Catholic Social Teaching: A New Synthesis (Rerum Novarum to Laudato Si')], 2015.
* ', 2015.
* The Papist's Guide to America, 2016.
* ', 2016.
Ideas
Ignorance
Borrowing heavily from the writings of Alexis de Tocqueville, Schwindt explains that modern democratic societies have combined egalitarianism with individualism in order to create an unprecedented level of individual ignorance, since in such a climate each individual trusts only his own reason and experience, both of which are always very limited in scope. The result is an exaggerated view of one's mental capabilities:
When man viewed himself as generally ignorant of most things from the start, which is true of us all, then knowledge was able to maintain a position of authority and to direct the affairs of men. Once ignorance was forgotten—or denied altogether, particularly in regard to our social consciousness of the fact—the power and influence of knowledge began to evaporate. It began to wane, and has not stopped waning since, and it is reasonable to suggest that it may be ignorance, rather than knowledge, that gives direction to politics, economics, and the sciences of our world today.
Schwindt argues that ignorance in itself is not evil, and when acknowledged it is not a threat to society in general. But when it is denied, and when every individual believes himself capable of dealing with subjects he really knows nothing about, then ignorance is allowed to direct politics, and chaos is the result.
Propaganda
Following Jacques Ellul, Schwindt argues that an inevitable outcome of this situation is widespread government and corporate propaganda. The government, seeing that the individual does not know how to choose what is best for the country, tries to manipulate him into letting the government choose for him. Corporate propaganda, on the other hand, attempts to leverage individual ignorance in order to influence buying decisions. According to Schwindt's view, even the individual craves the guiding hand of propaganda, and is usually a willing participant in the process. This is because the modern citizen is deeply distressed by an awareness of his inability to deal with an incomprehensibly complex society.
Here secularism is also a factor. The great problems of life were once answered by religious authorities. However, in modern societies religious ideas are devalued and discredited, and the individual is left to himself to make sense of life. Inevitably the individual fails and again looks to social authorities for explanations, but since there are no priests he instead turns to politicians, celebrities, and media pundits. He turns to propaganda.
Catholic social teaching
As a positive vision for society that minimizes the dangers posed by human moral and mental frailty, Schwindt offers the principles of Catholic social teaching. Taken as a coherent whole, he believes these principles offer a stable vision of society that could restore economic and political activity to health. This vision would avoid the negatives aspects of both capitalism and socialism, while at the same time minimizing the political disorder which characterizes modern liberal political systems since the Enlightenment.
Schwindt rejects socialism, but has vehemently criticized other Catholic writers who have tried to present a view of Catholic social teaching that can be reconciled with capitalism and the neoconservative vision of society. In a review of Michael Novak's Social Justice Isn't What You Think It Is, co-authored by Paul Adams, Schwindt claimed that the authors "are engaged in a re-invention of Catholic Social Teaching in the image of Hayek...The resulting construction is a bizarre creature indeed."
Positions
* Monarchism
* Catholicism
* Traditionalist School
* Social disintegration
Works
* ', 2013.
* ', 2014.
* ', 2015.
* [https://www.amazon.com/Catholic-Social-Teaching-Synthesis-Novarum/dp/0692470387/ Catholic Social Teaching: A New Synthesis (Rerum Novarum to Laudato Si')], 2015.
* ', 2015.
* The Papist's Guide to America, 2016.
* ', 2016.
Record Union is a startup music distribution service owned by DFP Group AB music industry and is based in Stockholm, Sweden with North American office in New York City. Record Union focuses on creating opportunities for independent artists and labels since it's launch in 2008. Record Union aids musicians in distributing their music across multiple platforms such as: Spotify, iTunes, Google Play, Tidal(which is owned by Jay-Z)and many other streaming services and online stores. Artists keep 100% of their rights when releasing music with Record Union and music is released instantly. Record Union became a member of A2IM in 2016, A&R's gain access to streaming views per track and sort it by country. Record Union is in competition with other distributors such as CD Baby and TuneCore. Record Union hosts a showcase series called The Breakfast Sessions where independent artists who have released with Record Union get to perform for industry professionals. There are guideline pages for publishing music on Tidal and Spotify
Circuit Static is an electronic trance band, featuring Chisholm Morris aged 32. Initially known as "Sex with the Alchemist", he has also released music under the name's "DJ Dash" & "Mixmaster Circuit".
Starting in 1995 Circuit Static created music under the name "Sex with the Alchemist". This includes his first ever Electronic Acid-Rock song, also titled "Sex with the Alchemist". Since music was initially just a hobby for Circuit, he also previously released works under the name since settling on branding was not yet important. Then in 2014 all other names were dropped and now all works are done under the name "Circuit Static".
On 4 April 2016, Circuit Static was mentioned for his distinctive theme song entry for Littlegeeklost Pod #35: Rebrand
Some of the more notable live performance's include OktoberCon in Boise Idaho 2004 and Fandemonium in Nampa Idaho in August 2005.
== Red, White & Jam! ==
Following the success of these earlier appearances, Morris, in partnership with Eddie Rodriguez, Chris Paiano, and Erica Patrick founded "Red, White & JAM! a none profit organisation with the goal of helping to promote independent music . This led to them hosting an electronic dance festival with the music mixed by live performance DJs Mixmaster C!RCU!T and DJ ED-E, as well as an opening performance from local synthesizer musician Ryan McEntire. The event took place on July 2nd 2011 at the Igloo Centre in Elko County.
Discography
Demonstration Circuit: Music to Hack to (Released 3 August 2014)
"Demonstration Circuit: Music to Hack to" was the first official Circuit Static full length original Trance style composition album. A month after its release, it had hit #3 on the Amazon Rave charts (September 4, 2014).
<u>Track List</u>
1. Into the Beyond -
2. Login to Your Dreams
3. Hash Bar
4. One of the Crowd
5. In too Deep
6. Comes the Dawn
7. Rotten Samples
8. Carrying On
9. In Motion
10. Retrospect
11. Void
12. Dark Desires
13. Drop Spot
14. Dreams Delayed
15. Into the Fray Once More
16. Save and Continue
17. Final Formula
10010110 (Released 13 November 2015)
Track List:
1. Trance Circuit Minimix
2. Euphoric
3. Zone
4. Progress
5. Quickie
6. Mind Games (Extended)
7. Into a Trance
8. Demonstration Circuit Side A
9. Demonstration Circuit Side B
10. Comes the Dawn (Extended)
11. Dreams Delayed (Extended)
12. Hash Bar (Under the World ReMix)
13. Abstract
14. Static Cling
15. Realization
16. British Broadcast Network
17. Daft & Retro
18. One Night in Prague
19. VIP Access
20. Electron-ICA
21. Nu-Trance
22. Cyber Owl
23. Tech House
24. Cochlear Implants
25. Still Alive
26. Rave Demo
27. Retro-Futurism
28. Electro Boom
29. Da Diggity Bomb
30. Feeling Insane
31. Vini Vidi Vici
32. Frequency
33. Acid Jungle
34. Eye Juices
35. Order Up
36. Beat the Dancefloor
37. Beatbox with a Backbeat
38. New Choice
39. Count of the Dracul
40. Hack the Planet
41. Teaser Mix
42. Space Flight
43. Haunted Forest
44. Master of Arcanum
45. FunkTune
46. Glitched Out
47. Funk that Glitch
48. Temple
49. Glitchy Spaceman
50. To Demonstrate
51. Q the Master
52. Circuits Adventure (Theme)
53. Old Field
54. Todesspiel
55. Drum Circuit
56. Int Rhodes
57. Piano Movers
58. Serenity
59. Outer Space
60. The Facts about Mr. K
61. Water on Mars
62. White Light
63. Dueling Pianos
64. Someones Here
65. Composed of the Dead
66. I Dub Thee Chant
67. Chanting in the Darkness
68. Friends Underwater
69. Night Base
70. Oktober Mitternacht
71. Classics
72. Masquerade
73. Horde War March
74. Mixing Death
75. Dark Chimes
76. Darkest Days
77. Dark Love
78. Stage 1 (Classic)
79. Chase (Classic)
80. Village (Classic)
81. Stage 1 (Original Mix)
82. Sex with the Alchemist
83. Fire
84. 1980s
85. Mech Warrior
86. Leave Me to Dream
87. Beautiful Day
88. My Teeth Sigh
89. Why My Jazz
90. Keys
91. Don't Take it Away
92. Game Over (Classic)
Split Personality (Released 24 February 2016)
Track List:
1. Saturday Trance
2. Showstopper
3. Home at Last
4. Cultists
5. Digital Freedom
6. Recovery
7. Melancholy
8. Into the Light
9. Chaos
10. Far Away
11. Hump Day
12. Mellow
13. Shimmering Oasis
A Single Journey (Released 15 April 2016)
Track List:
1. Q the Master
2. Hump Day
3. Gravity
4. hello world
5. Cultists
6. Ticket For 124
7. Recovery
8. Old Field
All Glitched Up (Released 2 May 2016)
Track List:
1. Saturn
2. Prowl
3. Sunset
4. Engineered For Your Ears
5. Up Up Down Down
6. Delta
7. Dancing In My Dreams
8. Keep'n It Real
9. Crow
10. Oh Epic One
11. Center of the Earth
12. Spring Time
13. Chucky
14. Possession
15. Rolling Tide
16. Smooth Sailing
17. Davy Jones
The EDM Files (Released 16 June 2016)
Track List:
1. Machine Music
2. Never Surrender
3. Together
4. Déjà vu
5. You
6. Sounds Phishy
7. Say Hello
8. Do Something for Me
9. Gusher
10. I Ask Little
11. Dilly-Dally
12. Spud
13. Kiss Hand, Shake Baby
14. C Synths by the C Shore
15. Rhythm & Guitar
16. Run Through
Starting in 1995 Circuit Static created music under the name "Sex with the Alchemist". This includes his first ever Electronic Acid-Rock song, also titled "Sex with the Alchemist". Since music was initially just a hobby for Circuit, he also previously released works under the name since settling on branding was not yet important. Then in 2014 all other names were dropped and now all works are done under the name "Circuit Static".
On 4 April 2016, Circuit Static was mentioned for his distinctive theme song entry for Littlegeeklost Pod #35: Rebrand
Some of the more notable live performance's include OktoberCon in Boise Idaho 2004 and Fandemonium in Nampa Idaho in August 2005.
== Red, White & Jam! ==
Following the success of these earlier appearances, Morris, in partnership with Eddie Rodriguez, Chris Paiano, and Erica Patrick founded "Red, White & JAM! a none profit organisation with the goal of helping to promote independent music . This led to them hosting an electronic dance festival with the music mixed by live performance DJs Mixmaster C!RCU!T and DJ ED-E, as well as an opening performance from local synthesizer musician Ryan McEntire. The event took place on July 2nd 2011 at the Igloo Centre in Elko County.
Discography
Demonstration Circuit: Music to Hack to (Released 3 August 2014)
"Demonstration Circuit: Music to Hack to" was the first official Circuit Static full length original Trance style composition album. A month after its release, it had hit #3 on the Amazon Rave charts (September 4, 2014).
<u>Track List</u>
1. Into the Beyond -
2. Login to Your Dreams
3. Hash Bar
4. One of the Crowd
5. In too Deep
6. Comes the Dawn
7. Rotten Samples
8. Carrying On
9. In Motion
10. Retrospect
11. Void
12. Dark Desires
13. Drop Spot
14. Dreams Delayed
15. Into the Fray Once More
16. Save and Continue
17. Final Formula
10010110 (Released 13 November 2015)
Track List:
1. Trance Circuit Minimix
2. Euphoric
3. Zone
4. Progress
5. Quickie
6. Mind Games (Extended)
7. Into a Trance
8. Demonstration Circuit Side A
9. Demonstration Circuit Side B
10. Comes the Dawn (Extended)
11. Dreams Delayed (Extended)
12. Hash Bar (Under the World ReMix)
13. Abstract
14. Static Cling
15. Realization
16. British Broadcast Network
17. Daft & Retro
18. One Night in Prague
19. VIP Access
20. Electron-ICA
21. Nu-Trance
22. Cyber Owl
23. Tech House
24. Cochlear Implants
25. Still Alive
26. Rave Demo
27. Retro-Futurism
28. Electro Boom
29. Da Diggity Bomb
30. Feeling Insane
31. Vini Vidi Vici
32. Frequency
33. Acid Jungle
34. Eye Juices
35. Order Up
36. Beat the Dancefloor
37. Beatbox with a Backbeat
38. New Choice
39. Count of the Dracul
40. Hack the Planet
41. Teaser Mix
42. Space Flight
43. Haunted Forest
44. Master of Arcanum
45. FunkTune
46. Glitched Out
47. Funk that Glitch
48. Temple
49. Glitchy Spaceman
50. To Demonstrate
51. Q the Master
52. Circuits Adventure (Theme)
53. Old Field
54. Todesspiel
55. Drum Circuit
56. Int Rhodes
57. Piano Movers
58. Serenity
59. Outer Space
60. The Facts about Mr. K
61. Water on Mars
62. White Light
63. Dueling Pianos
64. Someones Here
65. Composed of the Dead
66. I Dub Thee Chant
67. Chanting in the Darkness
68. Friends Underwater
69. Night Base
70. Oktober Mitternacht
71. Classics
72. Masquerade
73. Horde War March
74. Mixing Death
75. Dark Chimes
76. Darkest Days
77. Dark Love
78. Stage 1 (Classic)
79. Chase (Classic)
80. Village (Classic)
81. Stage 1 (Original Mix)
82. Sex with the Alchemist
83. Fire
84. 1980s
85. Mech Warrior
86. Leave Me to Dream
87. Beautiful Day
88. My Teeth Sigh
89. Why My Jazz
90. Keys
91. Don't Take it Away
92. Game Over (Classic)
Split Personality (Released 24 February 2016)
Track List:
1. Saturday Trance
2. Showstopper
3. Home at Last
4. Cultists
5. Digital Freedom
6. Recovery
7. Melancholy
8. Into the Light
9. Chaos
10. Far Away
11. Hump Day
12. Mellow
13. Shimmering Oasis
A Single Journey (Released 15 April 2016)
Track List:
1. Q the Master
2. Hump Day
3. Gravity
4. hello world
5. Cultists
6. Ticket For 124
7. Recovery
8. Old Field
All Glitched Up (Released 2 May 2016)
Track List:
1. Saturn
2. Prowl
3. Sunset
4. Engineered For Your Ears
5. Up Up Down Down
6. Delta
7. Dancing In My Dreams
8. Keep'n It Real
9. Crow
10. Oh Epic One
11. Center of the Earth
12. Spring Time
13. Chucky
14. Possession
15. Rolling Tide
16. Smooth Sailing
17. Davy Jones
The EDM Files (Released 16 June 2016)
Track List:
1. Machine Music
2. Never Surrender
3. Together
4. Déjà vu
5. You
6. Sounds Phishy
7. Say Hello
8. Do Something for Me
9. Gusher
10. I Ask Little
11. Dilly-Dally
12. Spud
13. Kiss Hand, Shake Baby
14. C Synths by the C Shore
15. Rhythm & Guitar
16. Run Through