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That comes from a long career working his way up through the London music scene. After leaving school at the age of 18, he started as a runner at a talent-scout company called MPC and says he was so junior he was "getting the secretaries sandwiches." Desperate for a job in music, he started cold-calling record-label bosses in the Music Week directory until he got through by chance to Maurice Oberstein, a senior executive at CBS Records. His persistence was rewarded with a job in the company's artists and repertoire (A&R) division, hunting...
...some modeling to indicate that objects of a few hundred meters across would [cause damage] comparable to what we saw in the tsunami in the Indian Ocean a few years ago,” said Brian G. Marsden, the director emeritus of the Minor Planet Center (MPC) at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in a phone interview. And they’ll come eventually: kilometer-wide NEOs strike the earth every few hundred thousand years, with Tunguska-size NEOs striking about once per century...
...What’s unique about this scientific task—identifying and cataloguing the orbits of NEOs—is that can be accomplished without using tremendous resources. In the past decade, 20 professional and 100 amateur astronomers across the globe, led by the Garden Street-based MPC, have identified three-quarters of asteroids at least one kilometer across, and all on a budget of a not-so-gargantuan $4 million per year (in 1996 dollars). Within the next two years, he expects that the MPC-led teamlet will have identified 90 percent...
...recorded, and produced the entire album by himself in his basement studio, it’s hard not to be impressed by the scope of the project or the seemingly limitless number of tracks making up each song. Among other instruments, RJD2 uses electric guitars and pianos, synthesizers, an MPC 200XL sampler, and his own vocals on nearly every track—no small feat. But the energy of RJD2’s unique compilations wears off after about the fourth track, once it becomes apparent that nearly every song has the same intro. First there’s about...
Doyle said that the complimentary service would not interfere with regular MPC operations, but pointed out that the service is not usually offered free-of-charge...