Livealbum of Death

Livealbum of Death is the only live album by Farin Urlaub, incorporating his live-band Farin Urlaub Racing Team (FURT). At the same time it's the third album of Urlaub. It was released on 3 February 2006 as a CD- and a vinyl-edition, the latter consisting of six 7" discs. Each of the twelve sides of the vinyl-edition was named after one FURT-Member. The CD-edition utilized a new technology that enabled it to contain more than 85 minutes of music.

It contains recordings of live shows at Leipzig (30 May), Dresden (1 June), Berlin (2 June), Hamburg (20 and 21 June) and Bremen (22 June).

The single "Zehn" (Ten) was released on 13 January 2006. This song is only performed live and was therefore never released on any studio albums. The video for the song was already aired on 14 December 2005.

The title

The title "Livealbum of Death" was invented by a fan during the FURT-Tour Sonnenblumen (Sunflowers) of Death, referring to the title of that tour and posted by him on the fan page dieaerzte.at. Urlaub and his Management were amazed by the suggestion and asked for allowance to use it. Then fan granted them to use it and in exchange was mentioned in the booklet of the album.

Karōshi

Karōshi (過労死), which can be translated literally as "death from overwork" in Japanese, is occupational sudden death. The major medical causes of karōshi deaths are heart attack and stroke due to stress and a starvation diet.

History

The first case of karōshi was reported in 1969 with the stroke-related death of a 29-year-old male worker in the shipping department of Japan's largest newspaper company. The term was invented in 1982 to refer to an increasing number of people suffering from fatal strokes and heart attacks attributed to overwork. It was not until the mid to late 1980s, during the Bubble Economy, however, when several high-ranking business executives who were still in their prime years suddenly died without any previous sign of illness, that the term emerged into Japanese public life. This new phenomenon was immediately seen as a new and serious menace for people in the work force. In 1987, as public concern increased, the Japanese Ministry of Labour began to publish statistics on karōshi.

The Linux Schools Project

The Linux Schools Project (formerly Karoshi, which can be translated literally as "death from overwork" in Japanese) is an operating system designed for schools. It is a Linux distribution based on Ubuntu (operating system). The project maintains two custom distributions, with one designed for use on servers and the other for use with the server version on client machines. The server distribution is the official Karoshi, while the client is known as Karoshi Client.

TLSP uses prepackaged GUI scripts in order to simplify the install and configuration process for inexperienced users.

History

TLSP was originally developed using Red Hat, early in the 2000s with the aim of making Linux adoption easier for schools in the UK. Linux, at the time, was considered difficult to use in educational environments where computing expertise mainly comes from teachers who are not dedicated IT staff.

With version 5.1.x, TLSP moved to the PCLinuxOS platform - but has since adopted Ubuntu in its place. The current production version of TLSP is 7.0.3.

Karoshi (video game)

Karoshi is a puzzle platformer game series created by Jesse Venbrux and developed by YoYo Games Ltd. The word "karoshi" means "death by overwork" in Japanese, and the goal of the game is for Mr. Karoshi, a salaryman, to die.

The series titles include "Karoshi", "Karoshi 2.0", "Karoshi Factory", "Karoshi: Suicide Salaryman", "Super Karoshi", and "Mr. Karoshi", which were released on platforms ranging from the PC to Flash games to iOS.

"Mr. Karoshi" was released for the iOS on February 11, 2011. It won the Android game of the year at Pocket Gamer for 2012.

Critical reception

The game has a rating of 86% based on 11 critic reviews.

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