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FOXBOROUGH, Mass. – Only time will tell if last weekend's inspiring victory over the New York Red Bulls ignites a spark for the New England Revolution going forward with the rest of the 2010 season.
For now, all we know is that the Revs entered their showdown with the Red Bulls in serious need of a pick-me-up. Winless in seven games (0-5-2), the Revolution had only scored 10 goals in its first 10 matches and was in danger of digging itself into a hole even before the league-wide break for the group stage of the 2010 FIFA World Cup. Depleted by injuries, the club hadn't even filled out a full 18-man game-day roster since the beginning of May.
There was hope even prior to kickoff against the Red Bulls, however, as captain Shalrie Joseph returned from his five-game absence the previous weekend in Toronto and provided a major boost both on the field and in the locker room. With Joseph leading the charge – he recorded his second and third assists of the season against the Red Bulls – the Revs battled to a 3-2 win in front of the appreciative home fans.
While the three points earned in the standings were critical for New England, at least one Revolution player believes the triumph will be even more beneficial in its long-term effects.
"This is huge for us," said stand-in central defender Pat Phelan. "We're going to look at this as a turning point in our season. We played much better than we have in the past few games. We gave [New York] some soft goals, but on the whole, I think it was a much better performance and it's always nice to end a streak like that at home."
Many factors contributed to the Revolution's improved performance against the Red Bulls – not the least of which was Joseph's return to action – but Phelan believes there was a little something extra pushing the Revs last Saturday night.
In the 34th minute, goalkeeper Preston Burpo charged off his line to cut out a through ball, but collided with Red Bulls midfielder Dane Richards in the process. The result of the impact sent a shockwave through Gillette Stadium, as Burpo suffered a broken right fibula and tibia, ending his season.
Burpo's broken leg was merely the latest in a slew of unfortunate injuries in New England, and Phelan said it served to bring the team together in a surprising way.
"We've had so many injuries, so many setbacks – Preston's obviously being the worst, by far – and we can't worry about what's happening around our team with guys getting injured," he said. "We can't make excuses for that. I think we pushed through it, and we put together a good performance."
The performance certainly showed promise, as the Revs maintained possession more easily than in recent weeks, strung together some dangerous attacking moves and scored three goals, matching their total from their previous five league contests.
"(The win) was crucial," said Chris Tierney, who played alongside Joseph in central midfield against New York. "We came into the game thinking it was a must-win for us. If we can get a result at Seattle, then we'll feel like we have some momentum going into the World Cup break. Then we'll have some time to get our fitness back a little bit, get some key players back and go forward from there."
As valuable as last weekend's win against New York was for the Revolution's morale, the victory has made this Saturday night's visit to Seattle to face Sounders FC even more important. The Sounders match is New England's last regular-season game before going on break for the World Cup, so this weekend's result – win, lose, or draw – will stick in the team's memory until its next league game on June 27 against the Chicago Fire.
If the Revolution aims to use the New York match as a turning point, it must take at least one point home from Seattle – with three preferable – in order to build some momentum heading into the unofficial "second half" of the season.
Tierney went so far as to call the game "crucial," hinting that this weekend's result in the Pacific Northwest could provide a springboard into the rest of the schedule.
"Momentum going through (the World Cup break) when we have some time to get guys back (from injury) is important," he said. "We got a result there last year, so I think we're confident. It's always fun to go and play in that atmosphere – it kind of drives us on, so I'm thinking that we're going to get a good result this weekend."
The Revs were one of only two visiting teams to taste victory at Qwest Field in 2009, when the Sounders went 7-2-6 at home in their inaugural season. Joseph scored the only goal in the Revolution's visit to Seattle, bundling home a 21st-minute shot to hand New England a 1-0 win in the first-ever meeting between the two teams. When the clubs met one month later in Foxborough, Joseph was again the hero, scoring twice to earn the Revs a come-from-behind, 2-1 victory.
Seattle hasn't quite had the same success at home in the early part of 2010, going 2-3-1 while scoring just four goals. Even so, the Revs are fully aware that the environment at Qwest Field will provide a unique test.
"You don't want to go on a break with a loss," said Phelan. "It's a tough place to play, although I don't think we've ever lost to Seattle – only two games, but still. They're a team that's struggling, too – a bit like New York was, a bit like we were. They're a dangerous team, but I think it's definitely possible for us to go out there and get a result."


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The downside for IT? Computer programming positions are expected to decline by 4 percent, the 22nd biggest loss overall. Overall, job growth in the next 10 years is expected to increase slightly less than it did between 1996 and 2006. The Bureau attributes the small drop-off in growth to the aging and retiring of the Baby Boomer generation. "As a result, the need to replace workers who retire or leave the labor force for other reasonscalled replacement needsis projected to create a significant number of additional job openings," the report states.
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As we all know, and according to Queen Bey, girls run the world. That being true, we ladies should be taking special care of ourselves in order to ensure that our legacy lives on for as long as possible.
You most likely already know that I am an advocate for regular exercise and pushing yourself physically to see growth. For me, it's mentally gratifying to see physical progress in myself. I believe mental satisfaction is one of the most important things a woman can have. Confidence is next. If you have those two things you are light years ahead of some. If you have a healthy, fit body then you're unstoppable!
Let's discuss these each in depth:
- Be Active/Eat Right: If you're a regular exerciser, you'll sleep better, handle stress better and feel sexier in your skin. Your heart is going to beat better and stronger and you'll be around this earth longer for your family. This is all good stuff! Find something active that you LOVE to do. For me, its punching and kicking my fat away! Whatever your thing is, do it and do it regularly. It's not a luxury to workout, it's a necessity. Make it part of your life and part of your schedule. It's one of the most important appointments you can make for yourself.
- Do the Things You're Supposed to Do: Get your yearly checkups, don't text and drive, wear your seatbelt, don't smoke or do drugs, limit alcohol intake, drink tons of water, and get 6-8 hours of sleep every night. This stuff is simple to do. It's also simple NOT to do. But, the quality of your life depends on it. You're worth it.
- Take Care of Your Mind: As I stated earlier, your mental satisfaction is super important! If you're skinny and rich, but not mentally happy, nothing else really freakin' matters, does it? What makes you happy? Do it! The most loving thing you can do for your loved ones is to take care of yourself first. When you're an empty vessel, you have nothing to give them. When you are a full vessel, you can give to others from your own overflow. This is how a rich and satisfying life is created. You create your life! Make it a good one. That starts with your mind, period. Think positive thoughts and learn to see the best in situations. Keep a journal and record your thoughts without judgement. Have close girlfriends. Don't be in relationships where you aren't respected. Get up 15 minutes earlier and sit and enjoy your coffee before the day's chaos begins. Take YOU time.
Check out this pledge put together by womenshealth.gov. I think it's awesome and recommend you taking it: http://www.womenshealth.gov/nwhw/pledge/
My favorite part is the recommendation to work out just 30 minutes most days. I know a place…. ;)


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I am an IT person at Jason's. We are a family restaurant serving healthy food. We've been around since 1976.
Our target audience is our own employees. These range from executives to restaurant managers. Most are low-tech and traditional.
I simply want our logo with the word "Gateway" on it. You can be as creative with it as you feel necessary.
Our old intranet was called the "Portal". We are moving to a new platform. We are calling it the "Gateway". Gateway is a nice word because it is also the name of the shopping center that is where our first store was opened (and continues to operate).
I've included several blank logos. I've also included our old Portal and iDeli.net logos.
The end result must be: 143 x 59 pixels
It must work on a variety of backgrounds (ideally using transparency).
It will mostly be used in the header of our intranet webpage.
Larger versions would be a bonus, but the end result must be clear and legible at 143 x 59.
Design ideas: Possibly making reference to the fact that Gateway is a reference to our first store--our heritage so to speak. Possibly include the year 1976. Maybe make it look a bit retro-ish to imply the heritage. Although, simple text next to the logo in a stylish and well-designed manner may be all that is required to be chosen for this.


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A Saudi linguist convicted of sexually assaulting a housekeeper and keeping her a virtual slave for four years in Colorado has cleared initial administrative hurdles to be transferred to Saudi Arabia under a U.S. treaty, angering prosecutors who put him in prison.
Homaidan al-Turki's application to serve the remainder of his sentence in Saudi Arabia cleared reviews by prison officials and is awaiting final approval by Colorado Department of Corrections Director Tom Clements, department spokeswoman Katherine Sanguinetti said Friday. The foreign-national offender-transfer application would then undergo a federal review, and if approved, al-Turki would be sent to Saudi Arabia.
Al-Turki was convicted in 2006 of unlawful sexual contact by use of force, theft and extortion — all felonies — as well as misdemeanor counts of false imprisonment and conspiracy to commit false imprisonment. He was sentenced to 28 years to life in prison. The U.S. Attorney's Office dropped similar federal charges.
A judge in 2011 reduced al-Turki's minimum sentence by 20 years, based on a Colorado Supreme Court ruling that now makes al-Turki eligible for parole. Sex offenders in Colorado, however, typically must participate in rehabilitation programs while incarcerated before being considered for release.
18th Judicial District Attorney George Brauchler, who took office last month, opposes the transfer, saying there are no assurances that al-Turki will serve the remainder of his sentence once he's out of the United States.
"It is completely unacceptable that a sex offender of any nationality be released before completing his sentence," Brauchler said in a statement. "Mr. al-Turki has never accepted responsibility for his crimes nor undergone any rehabilitation as a sex offender. I am hopeful that the Department of Corrections will put the interests of justice and the protection of women above the interests of the Saudi government."
Prosecutors said the Indonesian housekeeper, who was in her early 20s, has since returned to her home country.
Federal prosecutors had no immediate comment.
Al-Turki says he's innocent and a victim of anti-Muslim sentiment. He testified at trial that FBI agents persuaded his housekeeper to accuse him of imprisoning and sexually assaulting her in his basement after they failed to build a case that he was a terrorist.
His 2006 conviction angered Saudi officials and prompted the U.S. State Department to send Colorado Attorney General John Suthers to Saudi Arabia to meet with King Abdullah, Crown Prince Sultan and al-Turki's family.
Al-Turki brought his wife, five children and the housekeeper to Colorado in 1995 and was a student at the University of Colorado.
According to court documents, al-Turki first came under investigation when authorities examined whether his operation of a business violated terms of his student visa. Al-Turki owned Al-Basheer Publications & Translations, which distributed Islamic works in English and holds the copyright to recordings by U.S.-born radical cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, who was killed in a 2011 drone strike in Yemen.


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Still time to save the NHS?
Dr Grumble's reader has been in touch with him to find out why he has not been posting recently. The answer is that he has been worn down. The progressive changes that have been taking place to the NHS are approaching their zenith. Always inexorable they are now unstoppable. The faux listening exercise and the apparent response has silenced the dissent. For Grumble it is very sad. The service that he has devoted his working life to is on the verge of destruction. The NHS the public loves will be no more. Not, anyway, in its present form.
That is the negative view. Others, like the redoubtable Clare Gerada, take the alternative view. Clare, or St Clare as Dr Grumble likes to call her, takes the view that all is not lost. Is she right?
Mrs Grumble has noticed the depths of Grumble's depression over the reforms. She took Grumble back to the time of the Iraq war when millions protested and reminded him that he stayed at home that day and left others to waste their time demonstrating. And she reminded him that this is a decision that he now regrets. Not, of course, that it made a blind bit of difference. Is there any point in simply registering a protest when it's clear that it's not going to alter anything?
What puzzles Dr Grumble most about major governmental decisions is just how wrong they can be. You just would not think that any committee of sensible people could get things so utterly wrong. Committees do make mistakes but not on the scale the government does. There must be a reason for this.
What is the reason when it comes to the NHS? There is evidence that relatively dispassionate parliamentary committees, after listening carefully to the evidence, can actually see the truth. Here's what Kevin Barron, Health Committee Chair, said about commissioning:
"It is a sorry story if, after 20 years of attempting to operate commissioning, we remain in the dark about what good it has actually done. The Government must make a bold decision: if improvements fail to materialise, it could be time to blow the final whistle."
The final paragraph of his Committee's report reads:
A number of witnesses argued that we have had the disadvantages of an adversarial system without as yet seeing many benefits from the purchaser/provider split. If reliable figures for the costs of commissioning prove that it is uneconomic and if it does not begin to improve soon, after 20 years of costly failure, the purchaser/provider split may need to be abolished.
So there you have it. The problem is not with committees. The problem is at the highest level of government where decisions are made based on a prevailing dogma driven by intense outside financial interests. The latter have enormous resources at their disposal and they use them to maximum effect. They are very clever, clever enough to defend the indefensible. Only this week Grumble nearly crashed his car as he heard somebody from KPMG extolling the virtues of PFI. The piece was masterly. But wrong. All the pros came across but none of the cons. It didn't take Grumble long to find evidence of a vested interest.
What interests Grumble are the drivers to the government's NHS reforms. Why have successive governments got it so wrong? How is it that the ConDems are able to press on with their misguided plans to essentially sell off our NHS against the wishes of the electorate? Read Liberating the NHS: source and destination of the Lansley reform to find out more.


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While we heard a few days ago that Google was preparing to release its netbook-friendly Chrome OS this week, it now seems that a special Chrome event set to take place tomorrow will instead show off what the OS can do in preparation for a 2010 launch.
TechCrunch got wind of the planned event, set to take place at Google's Californian headquarters tomorrow morning, and has been told the plan is to out more technical details and show off some demos of the OS in action.
It's also been said that Google will be giving a "complete overview" of Chrome OS, suggesting it could be on track for an early 2010 launch.
Google's VP of product management Sundar Pichai, and the Engineering Director for Google Chrome OS Matthew Papakipos are said to be speaking at the event, so hopefully they'll be able to shed more light on the OS, which has so far been kept tightly under wraps.
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Adults acting like children, child caught in the middle
"What Maisie Knew" is a loose, modern-day adaptation of the Henry James novel, about self-centered, useless parents who get divorced and the little girl who is caught between them. It's a study of human nature, not at its worst, but at its most typically pathetic, and it goes to show that the more things don't change, the more they stay lousy.
The opening is shrewd. We follow the wife, Susanna (Julianne Moore), as her marriage to Beale (Steve Coogan) is breaking up, and the natural inclination, as a viewer, is to assume that she is the injured party in the relationship. But we soon catch on that Susanna is a frightening mess, which makes for a magnificent showcase for Moore, who, at all times, shows both what Susanna thinks she is (fun-loving, affectionate, artistic, no-nonsense) and what she really is (sleazy, needy, mediocre, vulgar). Susanna is the kind of genuinely loving but disturbed parent who could land a child on a therapist's couch for the rest of her life.
As Maisie, Onata Aprile floats through the movie in what starts out as innocent oblivion and graduates into discreet observation. At first, her silence is that of a child with little to say. Later, it's that of a child who knows what she shouldn't say. Her scenes with Moore are a marvel: Maisie is scared of her, but she's also protecting her. Maisie is more defenseless against her blithe, detached father because his mental corrugations are too deep for a child to navigate. That all this was understood by a child actress means that directors Scott McGehee and David Siegel found a way to communicate with her in a child's terms and elicit the performance, which is heartrending and sophisticated.
You know that the movie has placed you inside Maisie's skin when just the sight of Moore, or the sound of her voice, raises your blood pressure and makes you want to run.
While the James novel was more grim and sardonic, "What Maisie Knew" finds the benefits of playing it completely straight. Joanna Vanderham is luminous as the loving Scottish nanny, who becomes the second wife of Beale - who still treats her like a nanny after the marriage. And Alexander Skarsgård plays the bartender second husband of Susanna. Only with these stepparents can Maisie find warmth and affection, but they have no legal power.
"What Maisie Knew" is an impassioned film that inspires anger and frustration. To see an innocent little girl and have to wonder what pole she's going to be dancing from in 10 years because her parents were selfish infants, is an awful thing. But it's also a true and useful thing, something that apparently needed to be said when James first wrote it in 1897 and that bears repeating.
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verb (used without object), un·der·stood, un·der·stand·ing.
Origin of understand
Synonyms for understand
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Word Origin for understand
Old English understandan "comprehend, grasp the idea of," probably literally "stand in the midst of," from under + standan "to stand" (see stand). If this is the meaning, the under is not the usual word meaning "beneath," but from Old English under, from PIE *nter- "between, among" (cf. Sanskrit antar "among, between," Latin inter "between, among," Greek entera "intestines;" see inter-).
That is the suggestion in Barnhart, but other sources regard the "among, between, before, in the presence of" sense of Old English prefix and preposition under as other meanings of the same word. "Among" seems to be the sense in many Old English compounds that resemble understand, e.g. underniman "to receive," undersecan "to investigate," underginnan "to begin." It also seems to be the sense still in expressions such as under such circumstances.
Perhaps the ultimate sense is "be close to," cf. Greek epistamai "I know how, I know," literally "I stand upon." Similar formations are found in Old Frisian (understonda), Middle Danish (understande), while other Germanic languages use compounds meaning "stand before" (cf. German verstehen, represented in Old English by forstanden). For this concept, most Indo-European languages use figurative extensions of compounds that literally mean "put together," or "separate," or "take, grasp" (see comprehend). Old English oferstandan, Middle English overstonden, literally "over-stand" seem to have been used only in literal senses.
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#1 Geert Wilders party makes massive gainsSonnabendGuest03-04-2010, 03:42 AM
The anti-Islam party of far-right politician Geert Wilders has made major gains in local elections held in the Netherlands. The party took part in two cities and has become the largest party in Almere and the second largest in The Hague. The Freedom Party has taken around 20 percent of the vote in these cities. Geert Wilders told Dutch TV that it was fantastic day for his party.
"This is a springboard for the vote on June 9," said Wilders referring to the forthcoming national elections. An opinion poll held at the same time as the local vote showed that Wilders' Freedom Party had the most support in the Netherlands and would be the biggest party nationally should a general election be held now, another poll put them as the third biggest party just a few seats behind the main established political parties.
Votes were cast in almost four hundred districts altogether. Turnout was 56 percent, which meant that some 7 million people voted. The Christian Democrat CDA from caretaker prime minister Jan Peter Balkenende and the Labour Party of Wouter Bos were the biggest losers. The coalition government combining these two parties, plus the much smaller Christian Union, collapsed just two weeks ago over the question of extending the Dutch military mission in Afghanistan - it seems voters have lost much of their faith in these parties following the break.
Other parties who did well in the local elections were the centre-right D66 and the left-wing Green Left party, notably both parties have been vocal in their opposition to Geert Wilders Freedom Party.
The BNP will now move forward if this is any indication. - S
Only in Europe would a truly feminist politician like Geert Wilders be called "far-right" or "anti Islam", when he is neither.
Wilders is not against Islam, he is against allowing muslims in the Netherlands to create their own laws. He supports womens' rights and is mistrustful of the way women are treated in the muslim world, and that makes him far right?!
I guess the dutch view the political spectrum differently than we do.
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The middle cushion in this sofa is wider than the other two. I think it looks great and wonder if it's a vintage piece? Love the mirror and the built-ins.
Notice the cat in this pic? He/she is near the triangle glass end table, something you don't often see. Over to the right, love how the homeowner stacked art from the floor to ceiling for such great effect. A console table behind the white sofa creates interest and pulls the piece in for a more intimate conversation area.
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Fab light fixture.
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In his prime, Mike Tyson was one of the most celebrated athletes of all time. Through out the '80s and '90s, there wasn't a professional boxer in the world who held a candle to his razor sharp precision. His trademark right hook, uppercut combo knocked out the biggest names in the sport, earning him the nickname "Iron Mike.†With the distinction of being the youngest heavyweight-boxing champion in history, he pulled in a $300 million fortune. But over the years, Tyson's boxing career unraveled and he became better known for his antics outside of the ring.
Arrested 38 times since 1986 for everything from DUI to rape, the once-undisputed heavyweight champion of the world made fans believe he was down for the count. But after retiring from boxing in 2006, a down-and-out Tyson began to make a name for himself in Hollywood. In 2008, he was the subject of the stirring, self-titled documentary, Tyson. One year later he received praise for his comedic cameo in The Hangover (2009), and again in its sequel, The Hangover Part II (2011). He recently took on a short stint as a reality star in Animal Planet's, Taking on Tyson (2011), which chronicled his interest in pigeon racing.
Today (April 13), the 45-year-old will return to the MGM Grand in Las Vegas for six days to take the stage at the Hollywood Theater, where he'll star in an 80-minute, one-man show about his storied past called Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth–Live on Stage. From jail cells to the big screen, BlackEnterprise.com Decodes the prominence of the former champ from his heyday to now, examining the bouts and endorsements that made him a multi-million-dollar superstar athlete, and the reckless decisions that marred his life and stripped him of his fortune.


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Let's face it, most of us don't have the time (or the bag space!) to execute this type of outfit updating, yet no one should have to miss any hot happenings because of fashion-neglect! Here, the how-to's on breezing through your Saturday-summer-time-fun schedule in budget- friendly fashion.


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BEST BEACH FOR: Skimboarding, cooking, and schlepping a boatload of gear onto the sand (as long as you score a spot in the lot).
Laguna Beach actually founded the sport of skimboarding when Laguna Beach lifeguards began skimboarding on pieces of wood in the 1920s.
With the help of Tex Haines, the founder of Laguna Beach's Victoria Skimboards, the sport of skimboarding is now a global sport. You will primarily find many professional skimboarders (with amateurs right alongside them) working on their moves at Victoria, Aliso Creek, West Street and 1000 Steps beaches. Because skimboarding is highly technical in nature, beginners are encouraged to try skimboard lessons, which are offered regularly through skim schools such as Solag Skim School and private instruction with these same pros.
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ContentBridge Systems
In short, we make software & systems that move digital assets from data warehouses to Broadcast, Satellite, Cable, Internet retailers (Netflix, Amazon, iTunes, Hulu).
Boilerplate: ContentBridge is a web accessible content management and supply chain automation platform for the media & entertainment industries. It provides easy to use yet robust workflows for automating and managing the distribution and marketing functions of content centric businesses in the movie, television, recorded music, and music publishing industries. With video, audio, image and meta-data transcoding & electronic delivery capabilities, ContentBridge drastically reduces cost and time to market while significantly increasing revenue, efficiency, and quality control.
We like the clean 'white space' and focus on the content area in this site template:
* http://www.templatemonster.com/joom…32007.html
But also the 'brochure' feeling of this template and the presence of the navigation bar. We don't like how the orange area is on every page though and only feel that it should be on the main/first page
* http://www.templatemonster.com/joom…31601.html
We also like how this website uses a vertical secondary navigation bar to change the highlight image or jump to an anchor within the page
* http://www.bolwell-rv.com.au/the-edge/
Additional web sites from other companies in our industry that we like:
* http://www.encompass-m.com
* http://www.racana.com
* http://www.godigitalmg.com
We are looking to completely re-design and replace our current website, which is static and hard to update. We are moving to Joomla CMS and need designs that evoke cutting edge design for media/software company, but with corporate flair for added seriousness.
We are the foremost experts in digital supply chain management and our site needs to convey that. We are not a playful Web 2.0/3.0 startup. Our product is similar to that of a professional software application (FinalCut Pro, Avid, After Effects, Autodesk Inferno) and is not for consumers but rather for enterprise installation or usage. Our audience is Content Centric Businesses: Copyright Owners, Distributors, Licensors, & Syndicators, Post Production & Service Providers, Media Technology Vendors / Value Added Resellers.
Your deliverable is a layered Photoshop file that can be cut and split into regions which we will transform into a template for our site.
Your design may incorporate lots of open space (in white or the current site's dark blue background) and almost no structural pixels to be seen. Big titles, and colorful solid panels are suggested to illustrate and highlight product offerings & content elements that visitors are likely to be interested in.
Essential Elements:
1. Color
2. Contrast
3. Motion
4. Depth (Transparency or Z Axis).
Overall site elements:
Logo/branding: top left, serves as link back to root
Navigation bar: top of page
Search: top right
Example menubar items:
About Us
Page 1: Homepage/Primary landing & entry point -
* Featured element on the main page is to be a CSS-based (not flash based) slide scroller that will feature images that we want to highlight.
* Below the slideshow/scroller will be general marketing copy that highlight our products and solutions
* Designer's choice: 1, 2, or 3 column layout
Page 2: Content Detail Page
* No slide-scroller dominating the page
* Clean, easy to read, accessible content areas for text, graphics, embedded media.
* Defined heading and body text styles, image borders/padding
* 2 column layout: 1 wide column, 1 slim
The name of the company is ContentBridge Systems, LLC. but our product is called ContentBridge.
The target CMS is Joomla, but please be creative, we're looking for a great design that is more creative than the typical CMS layout.
Keep mobile users in mind when designing page layouts. Site design should play well on small screens.


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LIBEREC, Czech Republic (Jan. 12) - Andy Newell (Shaftsbury, VT) skied to his best classic sprint finish in three seasons, taking sixth in Liberec. He was the only American to qualify for the heats. Sprint leader Kikkan Randall (Anchorage) took a planned weekend off to recover from the Tour de Ski but retained the World Cup sprint lead. Theodor Peterson won the men's sprint and Mona-Lisa Malvaletho of Finland won the women's. A team sprint is on tap for Sunday with three U.S. teams expected to compete.
Andy Newell (shown here racing in Tour de Ski) was sixth in a classic sprint at the FIS Cross Country World Cup in Liberec, Czech Republic. (Getty Images/Bongarts)
Chris Grover, Head Cross Country Coach
Andy had another good day, making his third A-Final of the season and maintaining his fourth place standing in the World Cup sprint. Also, a bit of a relief to see Falla end up in third place today and thereby ensuring that Kikkan stays in the sprint lead for women. Sadie and Sophie were near misses in qualification only having been in Europe for two days, having come directly from Nationals. This was good acclimatization and preparation for Sophie, Skyler, and Erik, all three of whom will be racing the classic sprint here in Liberec at the U23 World Champs in just over a week. The idea was to give them some experience at this venue on these courses.
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So, to answer this then, my current project is Circle, an IRC client. Actually, it's much more than an IRC client, but that will do as a first approximation.
Rather than being Just Another IRC client, this one is split into two programs; a backend server that runs on some machine somewhere, likely your co-located shell hosting box, or home server. This maintains all the connections to the IRC networks, persists the scrollback and so on; it is the guts of the logic. Then there's the frontend program, a lightweight GTK application that draws the UI for the backend logic. The frontend doesn't really understand IRC, the backend has no knowledge of GTK. Several readers may recognise something of the MVC pattern about this.
Without going into too much detail here (you can read the above link), this gives you the advantages of a real local native-UI client, plus the advantages of a persistent server. The UI interactions are local, no network latency or bandwidth to get in the way of line editing, backbuffer scrolling, window switching, and so on; yet all the data is persisted in the server so you can just disconnect the thin client and reconnect it from anywhere else.
A common way people usually solve this sort of problem is to run irssi in a screen session, and reconnect over SSH. The primary downside of this setup is it requires a low-latency, high-bandwidth connection to the server, as every keypress of the line editor to send your next line, will have to round-trip over that network. Every backbuffer operation, scrolling up and down, or switching between windows, has to redraw over the link. If that link has high latency, or low bandwidth, the user experience will suffer. If the network charges for bandwidth, you will end up paying many times to keep re-sending the same screenful of scrollback as you switch windows. By not having a real presence on the local desktop, irssi-in-screen also cannot take advantage of local desktop features such as notification sounds or highlight popups, nor can it access the local filesystem to perform DCC transfers or similar.
Another solution to remote persistant IRC is to run an IRC proxy server or bouncer, and point a regular IRC client at that. These either don't support backbuffer refills, or save and replay events, possibly by prefixing timestamps in the message text. They suffer many shortcomings by being a hacked-on proxy in front of an existing IRC client, which overall doesn't really support the disconnect/reconnect model. These solutions almost exclusively are also IRC-specific, and cannot integrate non-IRC (such as Instant Messaging) alongside.
Right now this is pretty-much all there is to it, though the design is such that it can accommodate much more. There's also a plain telnet-alike backend module, but it could quite easily accept Instant Messaging, Email, PIM, whatever. Right now, the only frontend is GTK, but nothing says one couldn't also be written for Qt, Windows, or any other GUI toolkit. I'm also slowly in the process of writing a terminal-mode one.
The code is available on CPAN:
- Circle (backend)
- Circle-FE-Gtk


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VICTORY: Monique White Wins Negotiation to Save Her Home!
After a 7 month campaign led by Occupy Homes MN, Monique White has been offered a new loan by US Bank. In October of 2011 Monique was perhaps the first homeowner in the nation to approach the Occupy movement and ask for help in defending her home from an unlawful foreclosure . The 6 month campaign to save her home set an historic precedent in the Bank and foreclosure reform movement. The new loan was offered some 15 months after the end of the Redemption period and with a payment in keeping with the homes current value.
Supporters have camped out in and around her home, led over a dozen marches on US Bank, collected over 6,500 petition signatures, packed the courtroom, shut down Bank branches, and even marched to the homeof US Bank CEO Richard Davis. Occupy Homes MN has worked with White and her family since October 2011, making national and international news in the process.
"I'm so thankful for all of the support during this process." Said White, "Through it all I kept my faith in God and fought for what's right. Right now I'm just thankful that my family and I will get to keep my home."
"Monique is truly a hero of the Occupy movement," Said organizer Anthony Newby with Neighborhoods Organizing for Change (NOC), "Monique may have been the first in the country to invite the Occupy movement to defend her home from an unfair eviction. This deal sets an historic precedent for what communities can accomplish when they unite around this issue. The new loan offer came some 15 months after the end of the Redemption period and involves a payment in keeping with the home's current value. If this deal can work for Monique White, it can work for homeowners around the country."
"We couldn't be more proud of Monique and the example she has set for homeowners around the country. Her victory gives hope to the millions of American's around the country facing foreclosure by showing that the banks can and must enact a grand bargain that would help every homeowner to stay in their home, whether they are in foreclosure or underwater on their mortgage, by reducing the principal on their homes to the actual market value." Said Nick Espinosa, an organizer with Occupy Homes MN whose family's home is also in foreclosure.
Occupy Homes MN is currently working with dozens of other families in the Metro area and around the State to bring Big banks to the table to negotiate a reasonable solution to the foreclosure crisis.


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- Inspiration for my palette:
- When designing our dining room, I started out with the dark mahogany table and warm camel leather chairs. The richness of those two items inspired the rest of the room. From the wall color to the rug and all of the accessories on the buffet, I balanced my use of colors and neutrals to reach my ultimate goal: a room where my family and friends can sit for hours and enjoy each other's company.
- Colors used in my room:
- I chose to combine warm golds and browns with touches of jewel tones to complete this room. The most dominant colors in the room are varying shades of browns, golds and greens, and I brought the jewel tones into the mix through the table runner, large framed print and accessories.
- Tips for using color successfully:
- I've found that it's best to start with a neutral foundation that can easily be manipulated with the use of accessoires. Most of the rooms in my house have neutral wall colors and furniture, and then I inject color in my use of accent pieces, pillows, art and accessories. Do what feels right and more often than not, it will reflect your personality.
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Tickets are on sale for the Rockin' Oldies Harvest Dinner & Show, which will benefit the Grundy County Housing Authority. The event will be held from 5 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 8, at the VFW Hall in Morris.
Cost is $30 per person or $50 per couple. There will be a cash bar, and attendees should wear casual dress.
The evening will celebrate the Housing Authority's ability to provide services for low income people with disabilities and elederly in Grundy County.
Maria's Restaurant will cater the event, and entertainment will be provided.
Tickets are available at www.gcha.us/harvest or call Jennifer Olson at (815) 600-2907.


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Since its release two years ago Facebook Messenger has taken the instant messaging world by storm, but as an app for your Windows computer it does have a number of deficiencies. This article discusses 10 things that they don't tell you about Facebook Messenger for Windows and argues that you should also consider unofficial alternatives when choosing your Facebook Messenger application.
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You can't engineer the passion that we have for building great Facebook software, however we have tried to produce the best Facebook cover software possible. Find out about Make a Cover for Facebook.
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This Facebook game is reely good fun. Pun intended. Tight Lines Fishing introduces you to a virtual world in which you can fish all day without the concern about the weather.
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Facebook game "Hidden Chronicles" encourages users to search for items in various enviroments. The game has an original story, and you'll have fun discovering what "your uncle" has left waiting for you inside his manor.
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Facebook gamers are in for a treat with Pet Society. If you loved "The Sims" and love pets, then your sure to love Pet Society by Playfish. Rodrigo reviews one of the most popular Facebook games: Pet Society.
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Facebook beat MySpace hands down in the 6 year battle for social networking supremacy. But now MySpace has new owners and is been turned back into a music discovery site, with great success. Find out how MySpace failed, why it is back on track, and how Facebook is assisting its revival.
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Have you ever fancied an easier way of living, perhaps like a Frenchman with his Vineyard. Facebook users can experience a taste of that lifestyle with the Facebook Game "My Vineyard." Rodgrio reviews this interesting RPG.
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Uploading your Facebook photos from your digital camera or smartphone is great way to share your images. However, what if you could improve those images without investing in an expensive photo editing software app? Rodrigo checks out the rising Facebook photo editing suite PhotoMania.
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According to it's creator, Gardens Of Time is one of the most popular Facebook Games. Rodrigo investigaves what people like about this popular Facebook game that blends two topics that aren't usually that popular - History and Gardening.
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Can your Facebook wall posts be made more interesting and engaging? Rodrigo investigates the recently released Facebook Wall posting application "Eyescores."
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As Facebook finally submits its IMO prospectus, we ask: How will the social networking bohemoth fair in the dog-eat-dog arena of stock market trading, and will a publicly owned Facebook spell misery for Facebook users?
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Setting up an internet business, or indeed, any business isn't easy. However, there are a few basic things that you can do when starting out that can make your business appear to be more professional - and therefore, more likely to obtain sales, leads or other actions that are desirable to your bottom line.
This article considers a variety of aspects that can make your business more professional, from professional email addresses to virtual assistants.
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Getting started in Internet Marketing can be both challenging and expensive. There are as many lessons to learn as advice to avoid. That said, it's not all gloomy, with some common sense preperation work and a little bit of advice you can get your internet marketing career on the road to success.
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Over the past two years I've outsourced over two hundred different projects - some very small requring just a few hours of work, others very big requiring on going development.
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An hour down a dirt road stands the most beautiful natural treasure in Kenya's Western Province—the Kakamega Forest. The forest is a fraction of its former size, and it grows smaller every day because of the insatiable demand for firewood.
One reason for that demand is people need to boil water from local rivers and streams so it's safe to drink. Not only does this deplete the forest and release CO2 – a contributor to climate change — but often, those who go looking for firewood and carry it home are young girls, spending time in the forest instead of in school. With little money, many people make unfathomable choices every day between buying food to feed their children, or buying firewood to boil their water.
In 2010, my husband Evan Abramson and I had just completed "When the Water Ends," a documentary on the water crisis in East Africa. We were looking for a story that offered solutions when Mikkel Vestergaard of Switzerland-based Vestergaard Frandsen described his company's Carbon for Water campaign, which is run in collaboration with the Kenyan Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation, at a conference at the U.N.'s Digital Media Lounge in New York City.
The company hired 8,000 community workers in Western Province to distribute for free nearly 900,000 advanced LifeStraw Family water purifiers. The filters are designed to filter water for a family of five over three years, reducing risk of disease and the need for firewood.
When we heard how a for-profit company could bring so much good to so many people just by doing things a little bit differently, it made us realize that there is still a lot of hope to solve the problems of the developing world. So we partnered with Vestergaard Frandsen to tell the story of Carbon for Water.
Evan and I went into the field, interviewing nurses, doctors, environmental experts, clergy, civil servants, and program staff, as they compared their experiences before and after the distribution of the water filters. The difference, even within six weeks of the initial distribution, was marked. Every home Evan and I visited had a new filter. One nurse raved about how she had already seen a reduction in typhoid among children in her district. (Health impact studies are underway, and anecdotal evidence is already pointing to improvements in several indicators.)
Now over 4.5 million Kenyans have the ability to purify their water at home. No family, government, or donor has paid for this. The program, which will last 10 years, is financed by carbon credits, earned by Vestergaard Frandsen for effecting a decrease in the demand for wood.
Third-party auditors found that almost 1.4 million tons of CO2 emissions were avoided in the project's first six months. These offsets will be sold on world carbon markets and much of the proceeds reinvested in ongoing community education efforts.
One of the reasons we love this project is because it is so self-sustaining. And a survey has indicated that more than 90 percent of families that received the filter have been using it regularly, so we're looking forward to some positive health impacts once the data is obtained.
Telling this story in a short documentary format (only 22 minutes) was a challenge—I spent many nights whittling footage under a bed net. While making the film, I learned that I was five weeks pregnant. Malaria, along with pneumonia and diarrhea, is a major killer of children in Western Province, and is also especially dangerous for pregnant women. I avoided bites by using mosquito repellant, hiding under the mosquito net promptly at sundown, and wearing long sleeves and trousers despite the heat—taking every precaution.
The story was just too important, and of course the five million people who live in the province confront these dangers daily.
Since we returned from Kenya, the documentary has sparked important conversations in Paris, Durban, Geneva, and New York about the intersection of public health and climate change, and we were thrilled to learn that it will be screened at The World Bank on March 22, 2012 for World Water Day. We'll be bringing our brand new baby Luz on her first film festival circuit and we'll continue to raise awareness of the complex issues surrounding water and climate change in the future. Our goal is to inspire business leaders, policymakers, and consumers to challenge themselves to do things a little bit different towards the common good.
You can learn more about the film at www.carbonforwaterfilm.com.
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Supply Chain Snags Weigh Down Apple's Stock
Mar 13, 2013 5:00 AM PT
Jefferies on Tuesday became the latest Wall Street firm to downgrade its Apple price target as it blamed a delay with an iPhone product launch and slower smartphone sales.
Analyst Peter Misek trimmed his target price from US$500 to $420. Several other analysts also have downgraded the stock since it fell from its $705 peak last September. It is currently trading around $428.
Misek said in a research note that the company had been planning to launch an "iPhone 5S" in June, but supplier troubles with casing colors were causing a delay in operations. Instead, he predicted Apple will launch a new smartphone in late summer or early fall -- about a year after the iPhone 5's debut.
Apple did not respond to our request to comment for this story.
Stock Volatility Is Sticking Around
Apple's stock began the week with a better start than seen in recent weeks, spiking in the afternoon more than 1 percent to hit $438. The increase was likely due to reports that Apple would announce what it has planned for its massive cash hoard.
Negative reports about Apple's supply chain woes, however, brought the price back down again on Tuesday. It fell about 2 percent throughout the day to close at $428.43.
That volatility and recent analyst downgrades aren't indications that serious trouble is afoot in Cupertino, said Trip Chowdhry, senior analyst for Global Equities Research. The company has a hold on several key markets and an infamous cash pile to bail it out of any trouble, but with sluggish sales and no new product in the next quarter or Apple's stock probably isn't going to be a Wall Street darling.
"Apple is still a company that other companies look to and want to be," he told MacNewsWorld. "But investors are uncertain about what the company is going to do next, and the market is getting really competitive. Apple hasn't made any big moves lately and the supply chain and the stock is going to reflect that."
Talent On Its Way Out?
The lack of new products has Apple observers wondering if some of the company's top talent is thinking about taking their skills elsewhere.
In a radio interview featuring Daring Fireball's John Gruber and iPhone developer Guy English, the two discussed whether some of Apple's finest engineers might feel better working elsewhere in Silicon Valley. During the conversation, they noted that the culture at Apple doesn't give some of its most creative and innovative workers a chance to pursue initiatives in other areas, where they would get more recognition, money and satisfaction.
That's not necessarily a bad thing for the company, however, said Joseph Pastore, professor emeritus at Lubin School of Business at Pace University.
"Entrepreneurial-minded individuals taking a de facto leave from Apple may actually be beneficial to the firm," he told MacNewsWorld. "If they hit upon a new direction, they will need the financial and brand strength of the established firm to make it work. Sometimes innovation is spurred more by allowing entrepreneurially-minded individuals to separate from the more bureaucratic, permanent organization and go off on their own, less impeded by organizational constraints and politics."
Losing talent isn't a concern that is specific to Apple, Pastore pointed out. It's a popular Silicon Valley refrain, and Apple won't let it dictate how the company operates going forward.
"There will always be shifting competition, and the intensely entrepreneurial nature of the sector will always have shifting alliances and changing personalities. To the extent that is happening at Apple, it is no surprise, nor should we see it as a game changer. Apple won't let that happen"


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There is a new post category on the CSTheory StackExchange Community Blog — Conference/Workshop Reports — and Dave Pritchard (who often goes by the nick daveagp online) has just posted the first such report, covering the sixth annual meeting of EuroComb in Budapest, a conference in honor of Gyula Katona's 70th birthday, and the European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA), which is part of ALGO this year (so the link points there). Dave's post is excellent, thank you very much!
I mentioned recently on this blog that we are looking for more people who can blog from conferences and workshops they attend, but there is a new wrinkle. StackExchange has just inspired a formal policy of sponsoring (some) site bloggers who attend conferences. (See this post, especially the section "Sponsoring Community Leaders to Attend.") Further, Jeff Atwood, founder of StackExchange, just posted on the CSTheory meta site, encouraging theoretical computer scientists to take him up on this. Suresh Venkatasubramanian has started a thread, looking for reporters for the upcoming FOCS.
Here are five other conferences that are starting soon; all have a significant TCS component (with TCS broadly defined).
- Conference on Computer Science Logic (Sept 12-15)
- International Conference on Functional Programming (Sept 19-21)
- International Conference on DNA Computing and Molecular Programming (Sept 19-23)
- International Symposium on Distributed Computing (Sept 20-22)
- International Symposium on Graph Drawing (Sept 21-23)
Anyway, you get the idea, I'm sure. I just wrote someone who will be at DNA, asking about blogging. If you will be attending an upcoming TCS event — or if know someone who will be, please share this information — please contact Joe Fitzsimons or me, or leave an answer on Suresh's thread. Thanks.


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As I write these words, I am in the company of friends, family and furry pets nestled within a comfortable home during the middle of a Midwestern ice storm. Beautiful but deadly, glistening and electric I think to myself as I look out of the large bay window while stroking my smoky gray cat. Kitty is looking at a Cardinal flying about taking seed from the snow. A mug of hot chocolate is sitting by my laptop waiting for me to finally focus and write something. It is so hard to think about politics when the Christmas ducklings are in the fridge thawing for our feast tomorrow. The fireplace is adorned with feathered stockings – one green, one red both with bells at the tip of their toes. Wrapped gifts sit beneath the tall green tree. There is something special in every package for everyone, even Francois the galloping Dalmatian. Santa brought her the most adorable iced "canine cookie" treats all tied with red satin ribbon. I smile at the ironic picture of wrapped pet gifts. There was a time when mother and I could hardly afford gifts or food for us. Now I am confronted with carob coated rawhide, four paw snow booties, and catnip laced mice made of felt.
Earlier this Christmas Eve, I spent the afternoon doing charity work with the Kiwanis Club. We wrapped gifts for people at the local mall. All proceeds go to help youth in shelters. Basically people come to us to with their just purchased gifts and we wrap them for a fee. We work in shifts. I have fun doing it and frankly get a kick out of watching men scramble to Victoria's Secret and come to us asking if we can wrap a size blush pink 34B Angel Bra with fringes. As my wrapping shift unfolded I realized that this gift buying stuff really is not a man's forte. Most looked nervous and uneasy with their purchases. I think paying us to wrap the gifts made them feel better about the Lucky Brand purse they bought for grandma. It felt good to help others on both ends. Rather than sticking curling ribbon to their heads, people got to have their gifts nicely clothed in Christmas paper and we got to make money for a good cause.
Especially the young adults–you know the demographic that voted for Barack Obama in record numbers? Whenever I volunteer at one of these charity events, I wonder where are the Kool Aid drinkers. I am usually the youngest person there—and at my age that is sad. Most working alongside of me are senior citizens. Most are Caucasian. .. Many are conservatives and independents. Of the four people I volunteered with today, only one person voted for Barack Obama.
Ooops there I go again. Darn! I was trying to keep a safe distance away from politics this Christmas Eve and the risks associated with Afro-Grinch opening her mouth. Otherwise I may get another email like the one I received last night:
Dear Afrocity:
Obama is our last and best hope to pull this crumbling mess up from destruction. And you Republicans who would rather watch the country fail than see it succeed right now…well… you are selfish pigs, basically. It's all about money for you, and who gets it, not about people. Go polish your fucking gold.
Nothing personal, of course.
So this is my shrine of Christmas spirit from Afrocity , the selfish Republican pig who polishes her gold after she volunteers at Kiwanis.
I will take my lumps of coal from the liberal reader along with the ice storm, the cocoa, the fireplace. ..the wrapped gifts under the tree and the ones which required no wrapping in my heart. I may be a conservative PUMA, but I have my peace of mind. I have my health, my family and most of all I have my freedom. I am thankful that our troops are fighting for our safety and the freedoms of others. I remember those soldiers giving their time and service so we may have a safe holiday season. After seeing this clip of President Obama neglecting to give a Christmas shout out to the troops, I pray that my president also remembers our service men and women.
I pray to God that they are watched over and kept safe in order to return to their loved ones
Merry Christmas!!!!
Autographed Letter Signed,


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It wasn't B.J. Thomas, exactly, but musical raindrops seemed to be falling in a white-walled rehearsal room next to Walt Disney Concert Hall, courtesy of Milo Talwani, one of the L.A. composers least likely to write melody, let alone ear candy, into a piece of music.
At 16, he's one of four area high school students taking the royal road to composing careers, at least at the outset, via the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
Talwani, a lanky epitome of precocious Bohemian-intellectual cool who's a junior at the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts, had placed pizzicato plinking sounds that evoked the first spatterings of a cloudburst into a musical fragment from a work in progress. It was being given its first test run by the Calder Quartet, a string ensemble that over the past 15 years has gone from USC undergraduate beginnings to international acclaim.
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Hearing the Calders play their music is something most contemporary classical composers can dream about. For the current crop of L.A. Phil Composer Fellows, it's part of the curriculum. Their two-year apprenticeships will peak the coming two Saturdays when the full Los Angeles Philharmonic, conducted by Christopher Lees, will play their short orchestral pieces in Disney Hall alongside Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition," as part of the Toyota Symphonies for Youth series.
A.J. McCaffrey, a composer who's been instructing the Phil's teen fellows since the program's inception in 2007, liked Talwani's raindrop effects.
"Milo, it's really cool — different for you," he said. McCaffrey, who's receiving his doctorate in composition from USC this spring, would later explain that "Milo loves working in almost static fields, big shapes that kind of move glacially. I've been encouraging them to try things they normally wouldn't do."
Orchestras such as the Los Angeles Philharmonic and quartets such as the Calders are among the most forceful and finely tuned creative tools humanity has devised that do not require electricity. Handing the keys to four teenagers could be construed as potentially a bit reckless. "An orchestra is a dangerous weapon, and in the wrong hands all kinds of chaos can ensue," admits James Matheson, who directs the Composer Fellowship Program and at 42 is himself a young classical composer, in the more common sense of the term — and a highly decorated one at that.
Along with McCaffrey, it's his job to make sure these particular hands have the skill, sensibility and discipline to be the right ones.
The fellowships were launched out of the conviction that turning over a great orchestra to high school kids is a risk that classical music can ill afford to duck if it wants to improve the odds for vital new music in the decades to come.
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Early in odd-numbered years, the Phil puts out a call for teenage applicants in the L.A. area who can demonstrate an aptitude for putting music on paper. The chosen four, picked for sparks of originality, embark the following fall on a cost-free two-year regimen of writing for wind instruments, percussion, strings, brass — the whole panoply. They meet every two weeks, and in between the Phil comps them concert tickets to provoke their ears and expand their musical thinking.
Small pickup groups of Los Angeles Philharmonic musicians perform the composers' scores in private workshop sessions, and the fellows also write for local youth orchestras that perform in an annual festival at Disney Hall.
Steven Stucky, a Pulitzer Prize-winning composer who served from 1988 to 2009 as the Los Angeles Philharmonic's consultant for new music programming, launched the fellowships near the end of his tenure.
The initial culminating concert in 2009, he said, was "something the first four fellows are never going to forget, and neither am I. You go into Walt Disney Concert Hall, the street's lined with school buses and it's full of school kids. After the concert, the composers come on stage to take a bow, and the auditorium erupts with something that sounded to me like hero worship for these nerds who otherwise would never have gotten attention for what they were doing. It was sort of a 'Rocky' moment."
The Los Angeles Philharmonic didn't pioneer this concept — the Tucson Symphony has had a Young Composers Project for 20 years, according to its website — but it's by far the most prestigious professional orchestra working consistently with teen composers. The New Haven Symphony and Kansas City Symphony also have programs.
Stucky said the idea was literally thrust upon him by Mary Ann Cummins, a longtime music instructor at Crossroads School in Santa Monica.
"She's a force of nature, and she had been urging me, to put it politely, for many years to do something about young composers," he recalled. "I went to Crossroads one day in about 2006 to give a talk or master class, and she takes a boy and shoves him in front of me: `Here's Anderson Alden, a very talented composer, and what are we going to do about this?'"
The Phil mustered money for the program; orchestra officials said they don't break down the annual costs separately from other education offerings.
After overseeing the first group of fellows, Alden among them, Stucky tapped Matheson, his former Cornell University grad student, to shepherd subsequent flocks. At the end of 2011, Matheson won a $200,000 Charles Ives Living award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, designed to buy composers the freedom to do nothing but write music for two years. But he's continued overseeing his charges in L.A., flying in from New York because he gets a kick out of working with teenagers and because, as Stucky puts it, "if you send 20 kids over a decade into American music, with experience at the highest level, you're really doing something to the culture."
Katya Richardson, a 15-year-old sophomore at Orange County High School of the Arts, is the only fellow who's the offspring of a professional musician: Her father has played trumpet behind Buddy Rich, Tom Jones and Brian Setzer, among others.
The others are Jason Griffin, a senior at Palos Verdes Peninsula High School whose current big challenge in life is deciding among recent acceptances to Stanford, Columbia, USC, UC Berkeley and the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, N.Y.; and Richard An, also 17 and a senior at Crescenta Valley High in La Crescenta, who will be making up his mind about USC, UCLA or Oberlin. Their college applications included musical scores and recordings of L.A. Phil members playing their music, a practical benefit of being a Composer Fellow.
All four fellows began music lessons at a young age, thanks to supportive parents, and a musical restlessness soon set in that prodded them to make up their own music instead of sticking to what was placed in front of them.
An's father is a plumber; he said his dad and his mom, who died shortly before he began the fellowship, supported his music-making from the day when at 4 he pointed at a piano player on television and said that's what he wanted to do.
It's not just a fellowship in name, An said. "I was surprised at how little competition there is between us. Maybe it's because we each have such individualized voices or sounds that there's no niche to fight over. We can do exactly what we want, and we won't be elbowing into any other fellow's territory. I wouldn't have the knowledge I do without the other three, and hopefully the others feel the same way."
While taking the royal road, for now, the students do get reality training about just how tough — make that all but impossible — it is to earn a living writing music for classical ensembles.
"I make sure they know life is not always like this," Matheson said. "They're not going to be protected under the blanket of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and things get a lot rougher down the road. They come out of it with their eyes open. We try to give them skills and knowledge that will give them the best chance they can have. All the other variables are not under anybody's individual control."
The variables seem to be breaking favorably. Recently Tamzin Elliott, who finished her fellowship in 2011 and is now a sophomore at Bard College in upstate New York, received critical thumbs-up in the New York Times and Washington Post for songs she'd written for members of the Bard College Conservatory to sing at New York City's Morgan Library and for a percussion tribute to John Cage that was played during a Cage festival at American University in Washington, D.C.
Saad Haddad, who was part of the first composer fellows group that finished in 2009, is a junior at USC. One of his recent compositions is scheduled to be played by the American Composers Orchestra, which is dedicated to fostering fresh talent, on Monday and Tuesday at its annual festival of new works in New York City.
Stucky said he met with Anderson Alden a few months ago in New York. The high school kid who was shoved forward in Santa Monica as an argument that the L.A. Phil needed to nurture its community's teen composers is about to get his bachelor's degree from Yale. He wanted advice about graduate schools.
"They're competing at the highest level," Stucky said. "It's like having your kids grow up."
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