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SOCORRO, N.M. April 26, 2011 -- Elizabeth Barteau and Jacob Douglass won the New Mexico Tech's Sportswoman and Sportsman of the Year for 2010-2011.
|Jacob Douglass and Elizabeth Barteau won the top sports awards at New Mexico Tech for the 2010-2011 year.
Their selections by a panel of their peers representing Tech's 15 sport clubs were announced at the annual sport club awards banquet April 17. Barteau is a member of Tech's shooting sports club while Douglass represents the men's soccer club.
With more than 150 collegiate athletes, coaches and advisors in attendance, outstanding members of each Tech sport club were recognized for their achievements and contributions. Clubs in attendance were caving, climbing, cricket, golf, paintball, tennis, ultimate Frisbee, shooting sports, and women's and men's teams in rugby, soccer, and men's and women's volleyball.
Several club members enjoyed an afternoon golf outing on the New Mexico Tech course, and a slideshow of the year's sporting highlights was shown prior to dinner and ceremonies at the course's outdoor pavilion.
Barteau took up shooting as a girl in the national 4H program. She was one of four Tech shooters, along with Coach Virginia McLemore, who traveled to
|The 2010-2011 Athletic Club Award Winners
|Caving Club
Lumberjack Award: David Hunter
Bravest Navigator: Sam Rochelle
Climbing Club
Most likely to bail on a climbing session for a girl: Jason Hebert
Best Crimps in Socorro: Sophia Sigstedt
Cricket Club
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Distinguished Service: Jitendra Tummala Venkata
Golf Club
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Paintball Club
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Men's Rugby Club
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Most Dedicated: James Chavez
Women's Rugby Club
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Coffin Nail Award: Lynnae Gisela Logan
|Shooting Sports Club
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Top New Shooter: Alex Egerton
Men's Soccer Club
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Most Dedicated Player: Alan Benalil
Women's Soccer Club
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Tennis Club
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Most Dedicated Female Player: Kristen Martinez
Ultimate Frisbee Club
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Biggest Mooch: Sheng Lundquist
Women's Volleyball
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Most Improved Player: Lomeli Carpio
Men's Volleyball
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Most Improved Player: Sean Chester
Under the pressure of advanced competition,
After playing for the Miners soccer team as a freshman Jacob Douglass had to step back from the Miners for a time in order to honor his commitments as a residential advisor and later as vice president of the New Mexico Tech Student Association.
Now a junior chemistry major, Jake returned to the fold this year and became an inspirational captain. In a nominating document a teammate singled Jacob out for being "always on task, giving 110 percent, and urging everyone else to do the same . . . willing and able to play anywhere on the pitch."
Jacob's enthusiasm was not in vain as the Miners finished with their best season ever in a tough league featuring much larger institutions including
Douglass' commitment to the team carries outside the lines as a self-motivated fundraiser and representative of his club on community volunteer projects. He is a graduate of
Other Tech sport clubs enjoying banner years were women's soccer, cricket, volleyball, and the revitalized ultimate Frisbee club.
New Mexico Tech's sport club program is administered by the Department of Physical Recreation. Individuals interested in joining or forming a sport club at NMT can contact club coordinator Dave Wheelock at (575) 835-5854, firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Following the market failure of their previous 5.56mm caliber assault rifle, the CAL, famous Belgian company Fabrique Nationale began to develop the new assault rifle for 5.56mm NATO cartridge in the early 1970s. The final design, called the FNC (Fabrique Nationale Carbine) was produced circa 1978 and was consequently adopted by the Belgian Armed forces. It was also adopted by Sweden and Indonesia, and both those countries purchased the licenses to build more or less modified FNC carbines at their own facilities. Swedish version is known as Bofors AK-5 and Indonesian version is known as Pindad SS1. The FNC also was sold to some police forces around the world, and, in limited numbers for civilians - as a "Sporter" model, limited to semi-automatic mode only.
The FNC is a sound design which accumulated best features from other famous designs, such as Kalashnikov AK-47, Colt/Armalite M16, and others.
FNC is a gas operated, selective fire, magazine fed weapon.
The gas drive and rotating bolt of FNC strongly resembles the AK-47 system, but adapted for more advanced production technologies such as CNC machining and with some modifications. The long stroke gas piston is located above the barrel and is linked to the bolt carrier. Unlike the AK-47, the gas piston rod could be separated from the bolt carrier when gun is disassembled. The gas system featured two-position gas regulator (for normal or adverse conditions) and a separate gas cutoff, combined with folding rifle grenade sights. When grenade sights are raised into the ready position, the gas cutoff automatically blocks the gas supply to the action, allowing for safe launching of rifle grenades. Both gas cutoff and grenade sight are located on the gas chamber, just behind the front sight. The now common rotating bolt has two massive lugs that locks into the barrel extension.
The receiver is made from two parts that are linked by two cross-pins. The receiver could be opened for disassembly and maintenance by removing the rear pin, so the parts could be hinged around the forward pin (which also can be removed to separate receiver parts). Upper receiver is made from stamped steel, the lower receiver, along with magazine housing, is made from aluminum alloy.
Barrel of the FNC is equipped with flash hider which also served as a rifle grenade launcher.
FNC is equipped with hooded post front sight and a flip-up, "L" shaped rear diopter sight with 2 settings, for 250 and 400 meters range.
The controls of the FNC consist of the 4-positions safety / mode selector switch on the left side of the receiver. Available modes are Safe, Single shot,3-rounds bursts and Full automatic fire. The cocking handle is attached to the bolt carrier at the right side and does reciprocate with the bolt group when gun is fired. The rear part of the cocking handle slot, cut in the upper receiver for cocking handle, is covered by the spring-loaded cover which automatically opens by the handle when it goes back and automatically closes the opening when cocking handle returns forward.
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NOTABLE GAMES: [what is this?]
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Kramnik vs Kasparov, 1994 0-1
Kasparov vs Karpov, 1990 1-0
Kasparov vs Portisch, 1983 1-0
Kasparov vs Anand, 1995 1-0
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Niksic (1983)
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Corus (2000)
Sarajevo (2000)
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The nine member Board is chaired by the Director of Finance and includes the City Solicitor, the Managing Director, the City Personnel Director, the City Controller, and four employees elected by the members of the four municipal unions. The pension benefits available to City employees are determined by City ordinances and by the CityÕs collective bargaining agreements.
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Police in riot gear began closing in early Monday on some 2,000 anti-Wall Street activists who defied a midnight deadline to vacate an eight-week-old encampment outside Los Angeles City Hall as some protesters blocked traffic.
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa had given Occupy LA protesters until midnight local time to dismantle their tents, pack up their belongings and clear out of the City Hall park, or face a forcible removal.
But Jim Lafferty, a National Lawyers Guild attorney and leading advocate for protesters in talks with the city, said two hours after the eviction deadline that police had assured him ``there will be no move against this occupation tonight.''
He said he expected police would end up giving Occupy LA a two-day reprieve and that the only demonstrators risking arrest before then were those who remained in the roadway.
A police commander on the scene, Andrew Smith, confirmed the encampment would be allowed to stay put until at least daybreak. But he said protesters who continued to block traffic had until 4:30 a.m. to move or face arrest.
``We have no plan at this time to go into the park and evict people,'' Smith said. ``That could change in the near future, but right now we are hoping to clear the streets, and that'll be the end and people can relax for a little while.''
Clark Davis, an OccupyLA organizer, said to Smith and a group of officers standing by, ``You guys have been fantastic.''
But some protesters expressed suspicion at word of a reprieve, saying it could be a ploy by police to get them to let down their guard.
The Los Angeles encampment is among the oldest and largest on the West Coast aligned with a 2-month-old national Occupy Wall Street movement protesting economic inequality, high unemployment and excesses of the U.S. financial system.
Staking its place since Oct. 1 on the grounds surrounding City Hall, the compound has grown to roughly 400 tents and 700 to 800 people, organizers and municipal officials said. At least a third are believed to be homeless.
By Sunday night the size of the crowd outside City Hall swelled further as supporters from organized labor, clergy, civil rights and other groups streamed into the area, answering a call for an eleventh-hour show of support for the campers.
Police estimated the overall number of protesters, some wearing gas masks, had grown to at least 2,000.
Police, who had kept out of sight during the day, began to make their presence known as the eviction deadline came and went, and the mood of the protesters, which had been calm and festive, turned more boisterous and rowdy.
Shortly after midnight, throngs of demonstrators began blocking traffic along a street running between City Hall and the Los Angeles Police Department headquarters across the street, finally moving to take over an entire intersection.
One group of protesters left the park and marched about a block away, where they were met by a phalanx of officers wearing helmets, carrying night sticks and what appeared to be tear gas rifles.
Some in the crowd advanced to the line of officers, shouting: ``We are peaceful!'' But police held their positions.
Smith's police truck was briefly surrounded by protesters, prompting more riot police to converge on the area.
At one point, a separate group of about 50 protesters gathered around a tent in the center of the park holding candles and linking arms. They had scrawled telephone numbers of lawyers on their arms anticipating arrest.
Dozens of others formed a human chain around the perimeter of City Hall, holding hands as they stood on the sidewalk.
After the announcement that eviction had been postponed, most of those protesters and others who had been disrupting traffic drifted away. But about a dozen remained in the intersection, sitting or lying in the street.
Hours earlier, the mayor issued a statement saying the park ''will officially close tonight,'' but that police would allow campers ample time to remove their belongings peacefully.
``I wouldn't leave if they tell me to leave,'' said Jennifer Mawias, 24, who identified herself as a two-month veteran of the camp. Dressed in a black leather jacket with a black bandanna over her nose and mouth, Mawias said she was ready to be arrested even though she is due at work in the morning.
Occupy LA campers spent much of the weekend removing and placing into storage their more valuable equipment to keep it from being damaged or confiscated, including an array of solar panels, power generators, computers and a makeshift library.
Los Angeles has been relatively accommodating to its Occupy group compared to other major cities, with Villaraigosa at one point providing ponchos to campers when it rained.
But after the collapse of negotiations aimed at persuading protesters to relocate voluntarily, the mayor said last week the encampment would have to go. He said he hoped to avoid violence that erupted in other cities when police used force against Occupy protesters.
Former U.S. Marine Scott Olsen was critically injured in one such confrontation last month in Oakland, California, a clash that helped rally Occupyprotesters nationwide.
(Writing by Steve Gorman; Additional reporting by Lucy Nicholson; Editing by Cynthia Johnston and Todd Eastham)


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I hope we never lose the three-tier system. If we do, the terrorists will have won.
My uncle went to his local bar three times a week from 11 AM until 5 PM. He was a drunk. If he'd gone wine tasting, he'd have been a connoisseur.
"Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine."--Fran Lebowitz
You certainly got that voice down tight.
Incidentally, if I may be serious: your analogies regarding bringing wine to a restaurant are perfect. I've always said that if I was ever crazy enough to own a restaurant, I would throw people out who brought in their own drinks.
Of course, that's because I would hire a perfect sommelier and stock perfect wines.
Thanks. It's an interesting voice, really, and serves as a grab bag for random, meaningless, thoughtless, odd opinions that perhaps don't merit an entire post.
And, by the way, "perfect sommelier" is a semantic pleonasm. OOH, look at me getting all grammatical. "Sommelier" would have communicated the same message--ask any M.S.
Now I'm going to be picturing toenails in nostrils all damn day, thanks for that....
It seems that I've been brightly enlightened.
In my next life, I am going to be a sommelier. It is so much easier than being a writer. I mean, we both engage in fiction, but I had to study before I could produce my fictions.
I went to a restaurant in San Francisco the other day and tried to order a CA sparkling wine. The sommelier, who will one day know enough to study for the MW, so she tells me, put none on the list despite having some 30 or 40 French wines (and no, Sam, I am not talking about you).
When I asked her why she said they are all sweet and low in acid despite the fact the even Jon Bonne, no fan of CA anything except those wines we have never heard of, has now accepted.
So, I asked her if she ever tasted them blind against comparably priced French wines and she said she was planning to do so next week.
Andy Rooney was right.
Puff Daddy,
As a supposedly veteran sommelier, now a retired veteran (you may be seated), I like making fun of my former profession. It is a very strange job, and one populated with more pretenders than mediums, psychics and FOX news anchors.
It's always struck me as funny that wine experts will often say that comparing Champagne to CA sparkling wine is like comparing apples to oranges. In the next breath they declare that apples are superior to oranges. Stupid.
Ah well, we all still have so much to learn about wine. Especially me.
What you need is more interviews with other writers and critics. A five hundred part series with !STEVE would be good....
I had a semantic pleonasm once. I was en vacances in the south of France. She was young and beautiful, I was drunk and enchanted. Those were the days! I actually could have more than one pleonasm in the same evening.
I prefer to channel dead guys. So maybe Parker...
OK, now you're bragging. I recently had a simultaneous semantic pleonasm, which was odd because I was alone.
Pleonasm: isn't that a reference to red blood?
Mr. P--
I believe you are confusing the term with protogasm.
What's Hemotology, Ducktor Daddy?
I'll be here drinking my malk awaiting your reply...
Hemotology Daddy,
You are mistaken, of course. Protogasm has two meanings:
adj.; your first orgasm
adjstupidive; your first orgasm achieved from playing a game rather than from having sex.
All I know is that "The Lord of the Rings" gave me a Frodogasm. My Gandalf staff was very happy.
Aha! leave it to the H'master to come up with oozing hot, black humor...
Hemotology--having to do with the study of blood. See Mr. P.'s early definition of pleonasm.
Of course, he was mistaken as I pointed out.
And now he has attributed certain powers to the Hosemaster that even the mighty Jose does not possess.
Namely, the power to ooze black when he experiences a Frodogasm.
By the way, there is no truth the rumor that Proctologists experience protogasms.
Presbyopic Daddy:
It's Hem*A*tology.
Hematology baby...
You flabbergasm me in your didactagasmistic way.
Careful, now! From Hematology to Hemotology to Homotology is only one Hosemaster Proctology step away by the MCS PDR-- GEFY?
First: I'm not sure if there is anyone better at cutting through the confidence trick that is often intrinsic to the business of wine.
Second: in a world where offending people appears to border on the illegal, the Hosemaster piles in. No one is safe."
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One of the most exciting projects currently running on Kickstarter (aside from Neal Stephenson's awesome sword-fighting game) is Antarctica: A Year on Ice, a documentary that looks at the icy continent from the perspective of the people who live and work there, and will give us a view of Antarctica rarely seen before.
Anthony Powell, a photographer and filmmaker who has shot footage for the New York Museum of Natural History, the National Geographic Channel, the Discovery Channel, and the BBC's Frozen Planet, has spent the last 10 years filming his Antarctic documentary. The nature segments that we usually see depicting Antarctica are filmed during the summer, giving us only a partial view of the continent. Powell's film documents what life is like for the workers who keep the stations up and running - even through the dark and incredibly windy winters - so that scientists and documentarians can study the coldest continent on Earth.
Powell is looking to raise $40,000 to fund the full soundtrack, including hiring engineers and, potentially, a full orchestra. He hopes to have the entire film completed in time for the Antarctic Festival in Christchurch, New Zealand in September. The trailer is up top, and if you'd like to help out, you can pledge over at Kickstarter. For a $20 pledge, you'll receive the movie on DVD when it becomes available. For a $30 pledge, you'll receive it on Blu-ray.
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Small Businesses Urged to Grow through Exporting
This February, the inaugural conference for a national tour in support of the National Export Initiative came to Minneapolis, Minnesota. The conference, which focused on federal and state resources that help small businesses export, brought a message of encouragement and growth.
For a Small Pennsylvania Company, Department of Commerce Program Helps Guarantee an International Sales
When Chinese customs officials impounded U.S. products destined for reexport to Australia, the International Trade Administration made sure that China honored commitments it had made under international trade agreements, thereby ensuring that a Pennsylvania-based company's business was not jeopardized by the improper application of regulatory standards.
New Agreement and Bilateral Talks Signal Continued Growth of U.S.–Turkish Commercial Ties
A recent visit to Ankara and Istanbul by Michael Camuñez, assistant secretary for market access and compliance, underscored the importance of enhancing economic and commercial links between the United States and Turkey.
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This is the amazing restaurant I told you I'd post on - GustOrganics - the first and only 100% USDA certified organic restaurant in New York. Not to mention the world's first certified restaurant using all organic ingredients. I stumbled upon it via the Food Network website because Rachel Ray made a visit here during one of her travel episodes. I was intrigued by the name, went to their website and immediately fell in love with the idea and the menu of GustOrganics. (P.S. the bar is also 100% organic!)
In the photos above there's Grilled Pizza, Squash & Pear Soup, Baked Empanadas, Beet Turnip & Parsnip Soup, Oven Roasted Sweet Tomato Salad - we also ordered Homemade Squash & Cheese Ravioli, Lentil Stew... and Bloody Mary's. Each dish was extraordinary. It was obvious that the ingredients were of extremely high quality... clean and fresh.
The decor in the restaurant is colorful, unique and comfortable. The service was fantastic, I felt very welcomed. Stumbling upon this restaurant is one of my favorites discoveries yet - a place I could see myself eating at every single day if I lived closer ;)
GustOrganics received the Environmental Business Leadership award in NY, as well as the Green Business of The Year. It is the greenest restaurant in New York state, soon-to-be the greenest in the US. They're open 365 days a year for breakfast, lunch, and dinner!
If you're planning a trip to NYC you have got to visit - check the website here.


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Reviewed by Tiana A. (age 8)
I liked the book because it was funny. It made me laugh because George is always getting himself into trouble. He is just like a kid. My favorite part was when George saved the puppy from a terrible accident. Then, George wasn't in trouble any more. So the lesson is no matter how bad you are, you can always do something to make things better, just like George.
I think all children would enjoy reading this book, because it tells about getting out of trouble. It has cute puppies and it is funny too.


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Washington's Role in Fallout 3 -- Radioactive
Todd Howard, executive producer at Rockville-based Bethesda Softworks, spoke to us last week about the video game studio's latest release, Fallout 3.
For gamers, the new Fallout game -- which is a revival of a computer game franchise that was originally popular a decade ago -- is one of the most anticipated new titles of the year.
Like the previous Fallout games, Fallout 3 is set in a retro-futuristic version of the world that has been turned mostly to rubble by a nuclear war with China. The original Fallout games were set on the other side of the United States, on the West coast and in the American Southwest. But when Bethesda bought the rights to revive the game franchise a few years ago, the studio decided to put its own twist on the series by setting it close to home, in the Washington area.
In the new game, players take on the role of a young person who has spent his (or her) entire life growing up in Vault 101, just outside Washington. Mom's out of the picture, unfortunately, but dear old Dad is always around -- until one day, he leaves in a hurry without any explanation. The Fallout 3 storyline follows our protagonist as they venture into the outside world for the first time to try and solve the mystery of what happened.
For game fans who live in the Washington area, the terrain will feel a little familiar. Howard talked to us about using the city and its environs as the setting for the new game's world.
Towards the end of the conversation, Howard refers to a Metro Center ad campaign for the game, which I blogged about here
Q: How did you choose Washington, DC as the setting for Fallout 3?
Howard: Obviously, we're from D.C., so that immediately jumps to your mind: "Maybe we should do the game here." The previous games were on the West coast and part of it was to tell our own story and separate the game and make it its own thing from the previous games.
I think there's this interesting idea with a post-apocalyptic world: Who's in control? What's the government like? And so, just the immediate visual of the Capitol and the Washington Monument and things like that, they tell a story immediately. The imagery is really evocative, these American icons, these big, epic structures kind of destroyed. It has the feeling of, what would you do? How did it get that way and what would you do in that world?
It came up over and over when we talked about locations that [Washington] hadn't been done a lot in games and, who better to do it than us, with the way we put our games together and being from here. We go down to the Mall often, we go to DC often, it just became perfect source material.
Q: How close did you try and stick to the real-world map?
Howard: Not that close.
When it comes to really high-level geography, we did that, but the timeline in Fallout splits after World War 2. We did a lot of studying of D.C. and the history of D.C. and how it was built. We wanted to do the big things [like] the Mall and we did Dupont Circle and various other sections of the city in the flavor they are. Georgetown, the Key Bridge, the Pentagon -- but the Pentagon is now this big fortress that the Brotherhood of Steel lives in, they're kind of like the knights of this world.
The problem is, when you get into a game, when you're actually playing and walking around, the scale doesn't work. It doesn't feel right. So we would go down [to Washington] and walk around and see how it felt and translate that to an appropriate scale in the game. So it has a similar feeling but it's dramatically compressed in some places, and some places are opened up a bit.
Q: So you guys, your team, would go down and time how long it took to walk from point A to B in the real world?
Howard: We never timed it. You don't want the real numbers. Some of us would just go there and hang out. How does it feel? How does the space between there and there feel in the game? And then take some pictures and look at other reference things that people had taken.
A number of us got in trouble taking pictures. [Laugh.] Evidently you're not supposed to get really close to buildings and take pictures of them.
Q: What buildings?
Howard: One of our guys got thrown out from around the Capitol. I think that was just a misunderstanding. I think you need a permit, which we didn't have.
Q: Were there any advantages or disadvantages to using D.C. as the backdrop for a game?
Howard: I think there were a lot of advantages to using D.C. We used the Metro System as a great connectivity piece and a scary dungeon. The Metro by itself, the architecture of it -- the big curved halls have this retro feel to them automatically.
The other thing is, you have this nice mix, in D.C., of neoclassical architecture that we could mix with 1950s stuff that we assume they would've built, that would've been even bigger in the Fallout world.
It really helped, because it really has its own unique flavor that we could mix with this sci-fi stuff. So, you have the Jefferson Memorial but it's been turned into this giant industrial site with pipes coming out of it. So it's, really, really cool imagery.
Q: For people who aren't familiar with the previous Fallout games, what's with that 50s retro look?
Howard: The world of Fallout, the world that got blown up, was this retro-futuristic world. It's like if you take the 1950s and what they thought the future was going to be, with laser guns, this "world of tomorrow" with nuclear-powered cars and robot butlers, but they still sit on these very 1950s style sofas watching Leave it to Beaver-style shows and things like that.
We got very interested, in designing the game, in what was the world that existed before it was destroyed.
Q: So you had to build a world first, then destroy it?
Howard: On paper, we definitely had to do it twice, yeah. We did a lot of studies on what it would've looked like. What would a neighborhood look like? How would they mow their lawns and clean their streets? You have this crazy car with a nuclear engine that's probably unsafe. There's dad smoking his pipe.
We looked at a lot of 1950s advertisements, there's some great books on that stuff and they're really unintentionally hilarious.
Q: What sort of audience are you trying to reach with Fallout 3?
Howard: Ourselves? [Laughs] I think, it's people who are really into video games. We cut a pretty wide arc among people who are gaming fans.
It's got a lot of depth to it, it's fairly easy to pick up and play, if you play video games. But I think people who don't play a lot of our stuff, or things like this, are very shocked at how much you can do in the game and how much depth there is and how big it is. There are very few barriers, compared to other video games.
Q: Do you think a casual audience picking up your game might be intimidated by the number of decisions you have to make?
Howard: Potentially at first, yeah. Yeah, I think they would. At first, people want to be told, well how do I win? And so there's this moment of, well, it's really up to you,
Some people just want to know how to win, but I think the game does a pretty good job of teaching itself. But there is definitely a hump to get over... they need someone to push them and say, you should try this out.
Q: You've sometimes talked about how you'd like people to see games not just as toys but as a new medium of entertainment. Can you talk about where you think status of games are right now in popular culture?
Howard: It's getting better, but it's still not close to where I think it needs to be for 2008, honestly.
I think the Metro Center ads we've done are a good example, I think people look at them. First, they're like, 'Whoa! What is this? Why are these [Washington landmarks] destroyed?' Then they immediately assume this is a television show or a movie. The ads don't jump out and say this is a videogame, so people find that out a bit later. I think that's good, that's how we try to approach everything.
I think [video games are] getting good in the fidelity of the visuals. Most Joe Public looks at the visuals of an Atari 2600 and it's very toy-like, blinking dots... but when they see a game now, OK now maybe they're more interested, because it doesn't look like a kid's plaything, it looks like the sort entertainment like they're used to looking at.
Then they have to get used to the controller in their hand, and I think that's where the barrier-intimidation factor is.
But I definitely think it's getting... better. I don't have a "here's what's need to happen."
Q: Some analysts have put it out that they think video games are recession proof or recession resistant? Any thoughts?
Howard: I don't have inside information or anything like that about it.
If someone's going to Best Buy last Christmas they might be splurging for an HDTV, where this year ... maybe their big present will be a video game, so they'll trade down to the $50-$60 things as opposed to the thousand dollar things
I think there's some truth to that. I was reading an article about the Great Depression how well movies did, people were going to theaters as a relatively cheap way of having some fun. And I think, particularly with the games we do, there's so much value, so much time you can get out of your money there.
And we have a lot of hype as a top-tier game. I think the top ten games will get their percentage of the money pretty well, I don't know about the games below that. I don't know if people will be buying multiple games this year.
Q: I have to say that playing a bombed-out, depressed, bleak version of D.C. has felt strangely topical for me...
Howard: Yeah, and it's coming out the week before an election!
Like, you'd think we would've planned this four years ago, but no, we really didn't. It was like, oh! When it came time to [plan] the Metro ads, that kind of came up.
[Howard mimics an office conversation]
'You know we're doing this we're doing this in October 2008, right?'
'Yeah, so?'
'Before the election...?'
'Oh! Oh yeah. Huh. Wonder how that will go over...'
Q: How did the Metro Center ads go over?
Howard: [Laughs] Well, people definitely stop.
Previous Bethesda Softworks coverage:
Fallout 3 Hits Metro Center
Bethesda Softworks Parent Goes Global
ZeniMax Goes Virtual With New Game Studio
An Inside Play To Sway Video Gamers
Bethesda Softworks Hires Liam Neeson for Upcoming Game
Oblivion Game Rating Changed To Mature
To Oblivion and Beyond
Out of the Dark and Into the Spotlight
From Basement Operation in Rockville, Video Game Maker Finds Its Way to Fame
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Tech Robotics Teams Dominate International Contest, May 17, 2001
SOCORRO, N.M., May 17, 2001 -- Students on robotics teams from New Mexico Tech were called to the awards stand more times than anyone else during last month's Eighth Annual Fire-Fighting Home Robot Contest, an international robotics contest which is held each year at Trinity College in Hartford, Conn.
Five out of the nine robotics entries fielded by New Mexico Tech placed among the top ten positions in the senior division of the fire-fighting robot competition, coming out ahead of more than 50 other competing robots designed by individuals and teams from throughout the United States, Canada, Korea, Israel, Romania, and Kuwait.
"New Mexico Tech 2," an entry submitted by Tech graduate student Jose Guilberto, placed second overall in the senior division; while "New Mexico Tech 1," another robot designed and built by Guilberto, ended up in 11th place.
Other New Mexico Tech entries also fared well in the robotics contest, including a fourth-place finish by "Tail," a robot designed and developed by Tech students Michael Berg, Seth Schuyler, Bill Willems, and Thomee Wright.
"Hades," a robot built by team members Michael Carpenter, Kyle Lamb, and Daniel Rodriguez finished sixth; "The Robert Paulson Project," by Scott Dearie, Kevin Fisher, Brian Rajala, and Steve Wasson finished seventh; and "New Mexico Tech 3," designed and built by Tech electrical engineering professors and robotics teams faculty advisors Stephen Bruder and Kevin Wedeward, finished ninth.
All contestants at the Fire-Fighting Home Robot Contest were challenged to build a computerized, autonomous (not remotely controlled), robotic device, which could move through the hallways and rooms of a scaled-down, one-story house, detect a lit candle, and then extinguish the flame. The team which accomplished the task in the least amount of time was declared the winner.
The other New Mexico Tech fire-fighting robots entered in this year's international competition included:
- "B.J." (which placed 11th) and "B.J. 2" (which placed 19th), team members were Jonathan Andrews, David Baird, Jon Carmignani, and Miguel Provencio; and
- "El Patron" (which placed 21st), team members were Anthony Montoya, Jr., Ivan Olguin, and Randy Sena.


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Harvard University, the world's richest school, won't sell its investments in fossil-fuel companies amid pressure from students, President Drew Faust said in a letter released today.
"I do not believe, nor do my colleagues on the Corporation, that university divestment from the fossil fuel industry is warranted or wise," Faust said in the letter, referring to Harvard Corporation, the school's governing board. "The endowment is a resource, not an instrument to impel social or political change."
Students at more than 300 schools in the U.S. have formed groups in the past year seeking to pressure colleges to divest from Exxon Mobil Corp., BP Plc and about 200 other companies with the largest reserves of oil, gas and coal. While some smaller institutions such as Unity College in Unity, Maine, and Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, endorsed the campaign, most have declined.
Academia: University seeks bids for fracking on its own land
The movement was started by a group formed by environmental writer Bill McKibben called 350.org, a reference to the 350 parts per million of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that scientists say is the safe limit for humanity. In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, which some blamed on climate change, McKibben led a 21-city tour last November seeking to enlist students in a college divestment campaign.
Largest Endowment
"It took Harvard five years to figure out it didn't want to be involved with apartheid in South Africa," McKibben said in an e-mail, referring to the divestment campaign in the 1970s and 1980s aimed at companies doing business in South Africa, before that nation ended its regime of race-based laws. "One hopes that the efforts of students, faculty and alumni mean this will happen more quickly."
Harvard has the world's largest university endowment, valued at $32.7 billion, and counts on the fund to finance more than a third of its operating budget, Faust said. The university can more effectively address climate change through teaching and research while reducing greenhouse gas emissions on the campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, she said.
Faust also said divestment "is likely to have a negligible financial impact on the affected companies," because universities own a very small fraction of the market capitalization.
"Such a strategy would diminish the influence or voice we might have with this industry," she said.


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On Never Quitting
I used to think Joe Konrath was full of shit.
Here's the thing. Since 1980, I've worked in the book business. I've been a bookseller, a writer, a publisher. Currently I co-own an independent specialty bookstore, Mysterious Galaxy (locations in San Diego and Redondo Beach, CA). The bookstore has never made anybody rich, but we've been in business for going on 19 of the most tumultuous years in the history of bookselling, and we're still going strong.
I've worked for two start-up comic book publishers, in different capacities, both of which printed comics and books on paper, and both of them got to be major forces in that industry, and were acquired or partially acquired by much bigger companies with lots of money.
As a writer, I've published 45 novels on paper, most from the so-called Big 6 (my main publishers have been Simon & Schuster and Penguin, but HarperCollins and Tor and Warner/Hachette have been in the mix as well). In addition to those, I've published more than 100 comic books and graphic novels, a handful of nonfiction books, some short stories. Again, I haven't gotten rich, but I was working as a full-time writer, having quit the publishing jobs and bought my little dream ranch in the high desert.
And then Konrath—Joe, who had put ungodly amounts of his advance money into promoting his books—got a book rejected and self-published it digitally and said he was actually selling copies. Then he started blogging, bragging about how many copies he was selling, and how he had found a way to make a living as a writer without using the traditional publishers.
See? Full of shit. The industry doesn't work that way.
Only, he wasn't. He really was selling books and writing more books and selling those, and making money on this new e-book thing.
I couldn't see it. I'm a print guy. For decades. I collect books, mostly signed modern first editions. Some of Konrath's included. Working in publishing, I was responsible for felling dozens, if not hundreds, of trees. Ditto bookselling. Ditto writing. Trees and books went together.
Then last year, the game changed.
I was looking out at 2010 and there were no book contracts on the horizon. The Great Recession had finally clobbered publishing, hard. Editors were getting laid off, lines were being cut. And e-book sales were cutting into print sales, but the big publishers had not yet figured out how to monetize that end of the business. They were treating it like just another format, not understanding that virtually everything about it is different than selling paper books. Those editors who remained were being more cautious than ever about what projects they took on.
With the day job as buffer, I could afford to take some time and write the best book of my career, rather than having to write three or four or five books a year to make ends meet. I did that. I sent it to my agent.k on. My pitches went out, but no offers came back. I was forced—and this is hard to admit, even now—to take a day job again.
It has not yet sold.
I kept working on other projects. I've had two novels out this year from Simon & Schuster, one a CSI tie-in novel, one a revised and updated reissue of a teen horror series, now titled Dark Vengeance.
And over there sat Konrath and then Barry Eisler, and my friends J. Carson Black and Scott Nicholson and Lee Goldberg, and some guy with the unlikely monicker of John Locke, and others. The list was growing. These folks were publishing e-books. Self-publishing e-books.
And as an aside, let me just tell you—in the interwoven worlds of publishing and bookselling, the only thing lower than someone who self-publishes is someone who publishes through a "vanity" press, like Vantage or iUniverse. The rule was, if you had to pay money to be published, you weren't really published. If the only criteria the publisher used before they accepted a manuscript was whether your check cleared, you weren't really published.
So that Konrath guy—he had to be full of shit.
Because I was doing it the right way, submitting my work to the same big publishers that had published me so many times before, and I was getting nowhere. But he and those others, they were self-publishing and building audiences and selling books.
Okay, I finally thought. I'm a print guy. But I'm a writer, and if that's what it takes to make it as a writer, then sign me up.
I put out an e-book reprint of my one-and-only small press novel, a horror epic called The Slab. I put out an original thriller that I didn't even try to sell traditionally, called The Devil's Bait. I pulled together a collection of short horror fiction called Nine Frights. I did it all myself, even the covers. I self-published.
Now, I'm not here to claim that I've had anything like the success that Joe et al have had. I've been selling some books, but not boatloads of books.
Nor am I going to claim that I'm giving up on the world of print. I love it too much. My agent is still out with the thriller, and in a few weeks he'll have another novel to shop.
What I will say is that I want to write, and I want to be paid for my writing. And to that end, I will, as much as possible, try to keep a foot in both camps. Because—you already knew this—Joe was not full of shit, and there is a world over there in e-book-land. There are people there who love to read but who don't need to hold a paper book in their hands to believe it's worthwhile. There are people who don't need to see a publisher's colophon on the spine—who don't need a book to have a spine, in fact.
Every bookseller knows writers who have given up. They get a book published, or a few books, and they don't sell. Offers stop coming, and they stop writing. Who knows what great writing we've been deprived of because the business, as it has been established for decades, didn't see a way to turn a profit on those people?
Some of us are more tenacious than that, or more driven. We write and if we don't sell we write something else. We don't quit because we have faith in our abilities, even if the people in New York don't.
And, it turns out, there's another way. There are options.
Who knew?
Yeah, okay, Konrath knew. Some others knew. It just took this print dinosaur a while to catch on.
Guess I have to apologize to Joe. Sorry, man. I take it all back. I was wrong.
But you? You were right all along.
Joe sez: This is a ballsy post by Jeff because it goes against basic human nature. One of my truisms is that people would rather defend their beliefs to the death before opening their minds and considering alternatives. Jeff is entrenched in the world of paper, yet is willing to pursue other options. That isn't easy to do, and kudos to him.
Joe sez: This is a ballsy post by Jeff because it goes against basic human nature. One of my truisms is that people would rather defend their beliefs to the death before opening their minds and considering alternatives. Jeff is entrenched in the world of paper, yet is willing to pursue other options. That isn't easy to do, and kudos to him.
He's not asking me for advice, but that never stopped me from giving it, so here it is.
1. Change your self-pub covers. They look homemade, and are probably limiting your sales.
2. Obviously I think searching for a legacy publisher is a waste of time, but even if that is your goal, there is no reason why you can't self-pub those as ebooks while your agent shops them around. There have been many cases of self-pubbed ebooks being picked up by publishers, and you could be making some money on these titles right now. Amazon in particular is buying a lot of self-pubbed titles for their imprints, and they are incredible to work with.
3. Read the post I did with Blake Crouch about how to save indie bookstores. Not a single bookstore has taken us up on our offer, and I know many authors willing to do the same thing Blake and I are suggesting.
4. Start self-pubbing your out-of-print backlist. It's buried treasure, just waiting to be unearthed. The more self-pubbed ebooks you can release, the more virtual shelf-space you occupy, the easier you are to find.
5. Raise the prices on your novels to at least $2.99. Various mounting evidence, along with insider info I can't go into, has convinced me $2.99 ebooks are pretty much always more profitable that 99 cent ebooks. I know that "insider info" comment smacks of bullshit, but I've been talking numbers with certain entities who have proof of this.
I don't believe there is a race to the bottom, and even though ebook prices will go down, pricing a novel between $2.99 and $5.99 seems to, according to my super-secret sources, generate more income than the 99 cent price point.
Now, you shouldn't take my tight-lipped word for it. But you should, as I have always encouraged, experiment with price points. Raising your prices $1 per month (November $1.99, December $2.99, January $3.99) then comparing figures, is a smart idea. It takes some guts, but you've already shown you have guts.
Recently, Blake Crouch and I raised all of our novel prices to $3.99 on Nook. Amazon will probably be next, once we sort through the data. We've also agreed that Stirred, which will be released at $2.99 on November 22, will go up in price after the initial launch.
And to those who whine, "But Joe, you said $2.99 is the perfect price point!" reread my previous comment about keeping an open mind and considering alternatives.
Paper books won't ever go away completely. But they will become a niche market. The legacy paper publishing industry can't survive on a niche market, and they haven't shown authors any value when it comes to the ebook market (and certainly nothing worthy of keeping 52.5% royalties.)
I'll continue to warn authors against pursuing legacy deals until I see substantial change. But so far, no change has come, other than the pathetically laughable announcement that they're finally sharing sales figures with authors.
Are you fucking kidding me? After decades of purposely obtuse, criminally slow royalty statements, they've actually chosen to allow authors to see how many books they're selling? Atta boy! How very progressive!
Correct me if I'm wrong, but shouldn't this have been available to authors TEN YEARS AGO, when Nielsen Bookscan was launched?
How about just saying, "Sorry we've treated you thousands of authors so unfairly for the last decade in regard to your numbers, but now we're willing to release this data you already should have had."
There are multiple reasons publishers have been obtuse with sales figures. Because keeping authors in the dark suits a number of purposes, not the least of which is maintaining control over them. Because it is easier to hide the money that way. Because they themselves are so poorly run they often may not know how many they've actually sold. Because authors have never been treated fairly in other aspects of the biz, so why treat them fairly in this instance.
The fact that they decided to announce this in a big way is like a celebrity going on national TV and proclaiming, "I know I've said some shit in the past, but I really don't hate minorities anymore! Really!"
Ack. Fail. What a comedy of errors.
But I've gone off on a tangent...
Whichever path you choose to walk, keep an open mind and consider your options. That goes even if you are doing both legacy publishing and self-publishing. There are always more options to consider, more experiments to try. Don't get tied down to ideology, tradition, or loyalty.
You are the author. You are the essential component in the reader/writer relationship. Treat yourself accordingly.


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Dorothy Perkins, Burtons and Evans are closing their stores in Dartford town centre this Saturday.
Signs have gone up in all the shops in the Orchard Shopping Centre in High Street confirming the news which has been rumoured for many months.
The stores have been open in the centre since it opened on September 28, 1989.
Customers have expressed their disappointment of the closures to staff.
It is believed most of the staff will be transferred to other branches- the nearest being Bluewater, Gravesend and Bexleyheath.
The reason for the closure is believed to be that the 25 year leases are now up and will not be renewed.
A spokesman for Arcadia said: "We are constantly reviewing our store portfolio across the group, and leases continually expire or come up for renewal.
"We are always looking at how to shape our store portfolio, investing in flagship stores, and increasing our brands' presence on-line.
"When leases expire that we do not renew, we endeavour to re-deploy staff affected to another store within the Arcadia Group as much as we can."
It's been bad news for shops in north Kent in the last few months- Waitrose recently shut in Dartford but will be replaced by Aldi and Marks and Spencers will be closing in Gravesend in August this year.
A spokesman for Montagu Evans LLP, which represents the Orchard Shopping Centre, refused to comment on the closure of the stores.
She said: "Aldi will be opening a large store next year (in the former Waitrose unit) and we have very strong interest in the adjacent unit therefore it isn't all doom and gloom.
"The client has asked us not to make further comment."
The former Waitrose unit is being split into two units and it is believed the shopping centre owners are referring to the one that Aldi is not opening in.
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Jeff Mangum Redux
Well, it's going to happen. Jeff Mangum is going to tour again, and this intrepid writer will get to see him. Righteous.
Posted by Mr. Eff on 03/12/2011 || link
Jeff Mangum: Live at the Schoolhouse
Normally, I would post something like this on Facebook, but I'm increasingly finding that being "friends" with so many different people means that only a quarter of them will have any interest in what I might be excited about, and the other three quarters will just be annoyed. This quandary is why someone has a vanity project web site, though, right?
Anyway, Jeff Mangum, bard, genius, recluse, etc, played a very low key show in New York last night, and a kind soul has posted some recordings here.
The prospect that Mr. Mangum might be emerging back into the world of music has me all a twitter (but not on Twitter...err..). There are a lot of people out there who don't understand the fascination with him and don't particularly like the music. I don't understand what it is about him, but In the Aeroplane Over the Sea is one of those desert island discs for me.
And finally, if you can't get enough of live Jeff Mangum, go to Youtube!
Posted by Mr. Eff on 12/06/2010 || link
Don't Change
I started listening to INXS when I was ten or eleven years old. I think I still have the tapes kicking around here...although, I don't have a tape deck to play them in. Lame.
The song that always stuck with me was "Don't Change," off Shabooh Shoobah. That was a powerful song for a depressed, melodramatic kid like me during the ages of eleven, twelve and thirteen. By the time X came out in 1990, my interest in the band had waned, but looking back, INXS was definitely one of the better parts of the 80's.
Please ignore the hair and the fashion. The synth marks this as a totally 80's sort of song, but damn it's good.
Posted by Mr. Eff on 06/16/2010 || link
Zooey Deschanel is ridiculously cute
Posted by Mr. Eff on 03/10/2010 || link
White Denim
The most fun show I went to last year, and I went to plenty of shows, featured White Denim. It was an hour and a half of non stop psychedelic, rolling, rocking, wailing, and carrying on. It was easily the most energized show I attended. I went there not knowing much about the band and left it one of the converted.
The bassist, in particular, was sort of a little guy, playing a gigantic looking Rickenbacker bass with an amazing level of intensity and skill. He was a lot of fun to watch and listen to, and really captured the core energy of the band.
Check 'em out:
Posted by Mr. Eff on 03/08/2010 || link
The Trapeze Swinger
I have been lukewarm on Iron and Wine for a while, despite his wonderful cover of Such Great Heights. But one song has me completely reevaluating my stance on Mr. Sam Beam. Listen and enjoy...
Posted by Mr. Eff on 11/29/2009 || link
Women with Ukuleles
We're almost at the end of another year, so of course it's time for me to update my web site again. Of course, after false starts again and again and again, I doubt anyone ever comes by here anymore. Well, so be it. I'll post anyway, in case some is hoping to find a web site talking about women with ukuleles.
10 years ago, I would have never thought very many people, outside Hawaii, would have much interest in making music with ukuleles. But lo and behold, there are a plethora of people making fun little music videos all over youtube sporting that funny little instrument. Here are three of my favorite ladies who flex their golden pipes to the sweet sounds of the ukulele:
First up, Danielle Ate the Sandwich. She's funny, cute, a good song writer, and most importantly, an incredible singer. I encourage you to check out all of her videos.
Next is Liz Wood: College student, sporadic youtube poster, and cracking good singer.
And last we have Julia Nunes. She's opened for Ben Folds, and probably has the most notoriety of the ukulele women I've mentioned (She won her current ukulele in the Busman World Ukulele Video Contest).
Posted by Mr. Eff on 10/29/2009 || link
More from 2008: Santogold and Animal Collective
Our journey through my recent musical discoveries takes us further into 2008's bounty. Granted, I may have been living under a rock for the past year, but I still think this is some good shtuff.
First, we have Santogold; a successful songwriter, producer, and singer who released her first solo album this year. I've had a chance to listen to it, and I'm understanding why it's shown up on so many "best of" lists. It's pop music with a great edge to it. Her most notable track, although not necessarily my favorite, "L.E.S Artistes" is a great example of this. She sounds like a robotic cousin of Karen O as she bemoans the vapid lower east side hanger-ons. The whole album is a collection of solid, approximately 3 and a half minute songs with great pop hooks.
Santogold -- "L.E.S. Artistes"
She's no frilly pop diva. I dig it.
Next up is a band that is nowhere near new, but one that finally produced something that I REALLY like. Animal Collective has been around for years, but I've never heard an example of anything that could be defined as very accessible. I like plenty of "difficult" music, but I just didn't get them. Then, they released the Water Curses EP. The title track is an electronic, underwater, bubbling jaunt. It's the closest thing to a pop song that I've heard from them and it's fantastic.
Animal Collective -- "Water Curses"
I need to dig deeper into their discography now. The song is like a gateway drug, leading to harder stuff. I'm a step closer to becoming a junkie. Good times...
Posted by Mr. Eff on 12/13/2008 || link
More from 2008: Bon Iver and Pale Young Gentlemen
More music from 2008 that recently caught my ear.
The first band, you'll recognize from yesterday's clip with Lykke Li. It's Bon Iver, a band I am just starting to explore, but that I'm already really excited about. This live performance of "Skinny Love" stands out as exceptional. The emotion that pours from Justin Vernon's throat is palpable. It's a simple, powerful song that should be listened to in the dark, with headphones on, and with lots of wine.
The thing that I really love about that video is the looks on people's faces. They look happy. They look like they feel the music in their guts. Maybe it's because of the weed, but I like to think that it's because they got to experience something special that night, in that little room, with those musicians and they knew it.
Now for something a little more upbeat, you should check out this next track by Pale Young Gentlemen, a band hailing from good, old Madison, WI. Their album came out a little late to make it onto anyone's "best of" list, and I'm not sure that the whole album is consistent enough to be on a "best of" list (it's still growing on me), but this track is fun! A friend of mine recently requested "music recommendations that are heavy on the strings yet still have drumming in them."
Well, look no further. This tune rocks and it's the cello that makes it so.
Pale Young Gentlemen -- "Crook of My Good Arm"
Posted by Mr. Eff on 12/11/2008 || link
It's the time of the season for...
It's winter. I'm hibernating. I'm not outside running around. I'm here, on my couch, with headphones on, searching for new music. Of course, when the winter ends, and I come out of hibernation, I'll stop my hunting/gathering of music until the winter forces me indoors again. Oh sure, I'll listen and I might find something here or there, but I won't be obsessed like I am now. I'll be obsessed with cycling or photography, but not music. Summer is when I recharge for the fall.
Of course, it's easy to discover new music this time of year. Starting in November, every music related web site began posting lists of their favorite songs, or albums, or albums by women over the age of 45, or videos.
I'm trying not to get too pissy about Paste Magazine posting their year end list in November, but, well, I think it's rather sad. That and the fact that they have Okkervil River in the top 10, TV on the Radio at number 50, and Portishead nowhere on the list. Ridiculous.
Actually, I shouldn't get mad. It's not some egregious injustice. You need the Grammys for real egregious injustice.
Despite how misguided some of the rankings are, these lists do allow me to notice bands I missed during the year and reconsider bands I might have consciously ignored. I'll come out with my own list, probably in January, but until then, I'll just post some of the interesting tracks I find.
The first is a low-key collaboration between Lykke Li and Bon Iver in a park in LA, performing Lykke Li's "Dance Dance Dance." I don't know if I'm firmly on the Lykke Li bandwagon yet, but I do love this.
And now, for something completely different, we have The BPA, a project of Norman Cook (aka Fatboy Slim), that produced this extremely catchy tune featuring David Byrne and Dizzee Rascal. The song is good, but the video is brilliant.
I have a lot more to post, but I've rambled enough for tonight. Until next time...
Posted by Mr. Eff on 12/10/2008 || link
Frightened Rabbit
You might have noticed from the current sidebar that I'm quite keen on Frightened Rabbit these days, specifically their album, Midnight Organ Fight, which came out earlier this year. The band is made up of 4 fellas from Scotland, which is one of the first things you'll notice when their vocals come through the speakers. The next thing you'll hear is some of the most emotionally honest indie rock that I've heard in quite some time.
It's sad bastard music, but tremendously upbeat for sad bastard music. There really isn't a dud on the album, but the immediately outstanding tracks are "The Modern Leper," "Keep Yourself Warm," (which was heard on a recent episode of Chuck) and most especially "Good Arms vs Bad Arms;" a song about the jealousy felt when your ex starts dating someone. It's been a long time since I felt that sort of jealousy, but it's a feeling you never quite forget, and a feeling that they nail.
I'm terrible at really describing what I love about the music I find. What I really want to do is put some headphones on you and make you listen to these songs. Although, what I really wish is that I could make you feel what I feel. Even though in the grand scheme of things this music isn't as important as other things going on in the world, it feels important because it's so beautiful in a world that seems so ugly.
Posted by Mr. Eff on 11/30/2008 || link
Amanda Effin Palmer
Monday night, I had the pleasure of seeing Amanda Palmer, well known lead singer of the Dresden Dolls, perform a solo show at the Paradise in Boston. To sum my review up quickly, I'd say the show was fun. I had fun. Amanda seemed to genuinely have fun. Everyone in the crowd looked to be having fun. And the fun lasted from the opening acts through the final confetti fluttering notes of "Leeds United."
Part of that was just due to the enthusiasm Amanda had to be back in Boston. She and the other performers played a longer set, including a lot of different songs than what she had played during the rest of the tour, which everyone seemed to eat up. I didn't hear the buzz of conversation during a song like "Ampersand," which is rare at any show at a small club. And everyone was bowled over by the energy she poured out in "Runs in the Family" and "Bad Habit" (still my all time favorite Dolls song).
It was pretty over the top and theatrical, which people might have lost patience with in other towns. But the whole atmosphere felt like a big gathering of all the kids from the high school drama clubs of the last 20 years, and in that sort of environment, all the theatrics felt completely appropriate. The Danger Ensemble and the "Who Killed Amanda Palmer?" theme created pure theater. The Boston Globe thought, simply, that it was all a bit much. Everyone can have their own opinion, even if not many people at the Paradise would have shared it.
Posted by Mr. Eff on 11/26/2008 || link
Choose Life
Have you people seen the new Life photo archive over at Google? It, along with Shorpy, are two of the best archives of classic photography I've seen online, and a lot of it is really amazing. The scans are high quality and they span 150 years of events ranging from the historic to the mundane.
Some are realy strange. I mean, really.
Ozzy...way back when we just thought he was crazy.
Candid Stanley Kubrick. Classic.
It's all good stuff. Check it out!
Posted by Mr. Eff on 11/22/2008 || link
The Election
This sums up the election quite nicely.
Posted by Mr. Eff on 11/03/2008 || link
I like these guys
A couple of guys, one from MIT and the other from Harvard, are preparing to race in a mountain bike stage race next year. They don't yet know which crazy race they are going to enter, but they started a blog to chart their preparations. They are just getting started, but they wrote one thing so far that really stuck with me:
"Bike racing isn't about having a deathwish, or an ego, or needing an excuse to spend $5-10k on something shiny to impress your friends, it's about feeling alive--alive with real pain, real fear, the ecstatic joy of success and the devastation of defeat. It's about learning to appreciate the coffee shop and the hot cider because they're the polar opposite of everything you experience in racing. It's about having your life be more than a flatline of comfortable homogeneity that you trace from office to couch to restaurant until you get married, you have kids, you get old and you die. We race because we love life, and life is best experienced at its limits."
Well said.
Posted by Mr. Eff on 11/03/2008 || link
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