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Friday, January 23, 2009
The Fraser Gap Wind
One of the more interesting local weather features of our region is the gap flow through the Fraser River valley...and this phenomenon will be quite evident this weekend. In fact, it has already started.
Take a look at the topographic map I have attached. The most substantial weakness in the Cascades north of the Columbia Gorge is the Fraser River Valley, located just north of Bellingham. When cold, dense air fills the interior basin of BC, a big pressure difference occurs down the Fraser..and as a result cool, dry air pushes along its axis to the SE. Bellingham often gets strong NE winds and cool, dry air as a result.
The surface chart for tomorrow at 4 PM shows cold air (blue and purple colors) and high pressure over the interior of BC. This will enable a strong Fraser River flow.
In fact, the Fraser Gap flow started already this afternoon. The plot of wind speed (attached) showed a decided acceleration at Bellingham around 20 UTC (noon PST). At the same time, the relative humidity plummeted as the continental air from the interior hit that location (see plot). Another plot of temp and temp point shows a drop in humidty (dewpoint declined), but the temperature rose quickly. Why? The reason is that strong winds from the Fraser mixed up the air, destroying the inversion and scouring out the cold air that was in place. Later on, as the primo cold air from the interior pushes through the Fraser, Bellingham will be a relative cold spot.
The winds exited the Fraser will be quite strong, especially Sunday morning. Take a look at the computer simulation for 4 AM on Sunday...sustained NE winds of 35 knots are being predicted around the northern portion of the San Juan Islands...people there should be prepared for a good blow.
On Sunday, dry cold air will spread across the region...and it is clear that lowland snow will not occur. Only the mountains will get a light dusting late Saturday and early Sunday. Expect sun the second half of Sunday from Seattle northward and Monday should be sunny too. But the period will be cool, particularly Monday morning, when temps will drop in the 20s and even upper teens in the colder interior locations.
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- JewelyaZ said...
We'll be in Portland so we'll miss whatever happens in Bellevue, but my weather station will record it for me. :-)
Does the same thing happen down the Columbia Gorge to a lesser extent when the air is cold in Eastern Washington? It seems like it should... but I am pretty unfamiliar with the weather to the south of us.
- January 23, 2009 at 11:08 PM
- Cliff Mass Weather Blog said...
Yes..there will be easterly flow through the Gorge...cliff
- January 24, 2009 at 7:23 AM
- mb in Port Angeles said...
Great topo map. Where can I find it online? (Hope it's not Google Earth. Google earth gives my poor old PC the pip.)
As always, 10,000 thank-yous, Cliff, for sharing your knowledge with us.
- January 24, 2009 at 8:04 AM
Cliff, is the inversion gone?? As I sit here on the banks of Hood Canal, Kitsap county, I wonder why there is after this the third day of 'good' quality air in Bremerton I can't fire up my space age catalytic wood furnace and HEAT my house rather than huddle in one room around an inadequate space heater!
- January 24, 2009 at 9:25 AM
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- andycottle said...
From what is seen in the GFS models as of late, it looks like this is going to one dry trough with no precip for us at all. At least up here in Western Wa. Still the best chance for any frozen precip to fall looks to be NW OR where perhaps a dusting to just flurries may fall in that area. Also, it does`nt really look like 925mb temps go above freezing until about Wed or so. So certainly some chiller days coming up!
EDIT: Re-adding my post as I did`nt say say were precip may fall when I first posted.
- January 24, 2009 at 10:33 AM
- mb in Port Angeles said...
yaay. found it. It's just Google Maps terrain view. That my PC can handle...
- January 24, 2009 at 1:16 PM
- Unknown said...
Thank you for this information - it was very helpful.
I don't understand the 3rd graph - Bellingham Airport temperature - at 1900 the F and C diverge - how's that work?
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The German word Landschaft a precursor of landscape originally denoted the totality of people that populated a country. It was not until later that it took on the geographic meaning that led, primarily through its representation in painting, to the landscape becoming the epitome of emotionally charged contemplation. Both of these meanings come together in Rainer Fettings playful title Manscapes that of the pleasurable study of beautiful forms and colours, and that of a multiplicity of people, men in particular. The pictures of men, painted between 1974 and 2010 and assembled in the exhibition at the
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Tuesday, January 19, 2010
A Family Forum...
I have over 45 people in just my immediate family alone, needless to say, we had trouble in keeping up with one another, even though most of us live fairly close to each other. About 7 years ago, my niece & I came up with the idea of starting up a forum for the family to post about their daily lives, share photos, etc. It especially came in handy whenever one of us was sick &/or in the hospital to keep everyone abreast of the latest update on them. And the best thing of all? It gave us a chance to get to know one another that we hadn't had a chance to before. We have threads tailored to what fits our needs, such threads for Chat, Recipes, Photos, Books, Movie/TV, etc. Occasionally we will even do fun/silly things on there by having a Game thread & play "Hangman" or "21 Questions".
Like I said, though we mostly lived in the same area, many were busy with their own family....raising their kids, attending school functions, work, etc. And besides with that many people, it was hard to find a good time when we all could get together as a group. By having a Family Forum, everyone then could chat/post when they could. And in doing that, though it was slow at the beginning, we've become a much closer family. I know I've gotten much closer to my own family, especially the "in-laws" (i.e. niece-n-laws / nephew-n-laws) that otherwise it would have taken me years for me to get to know them as I do now.
And having a Family Forum is an excellent way for those who live out of state to be a big part of the family & share what all is going on in their own lives. Makes them feel just that bit closer to home & family.
Now how is this such a good tool for the family genealogist? On our Family Forum, I have added a thread "just" for Genealogy. Anytime I need to ask a question of them, I post it on there & 99% of the time I get a response back from everyone. I have also done what I call "group questions". Like right now the one I have up, I've asked them to all tell me "How They Met Their Spouse", as well as tell me a bit about their wedding. So far, I have gotten great feedback on it & have some wonderful stories to add to our family history that otherwise I might never had gotten.
Here are a few suggestions to give you an idea of what you could have for questions/topics on your own family forum:
1. What was your weight/length at birth?
2. What college did you go to & what was your degree in?
3. Once a week you could name a person in the family (past or present) & ask them to list facts about that person.....or to tell a favorite story about them.
4. List the church/place where you got married.
5. Have them share a favorite photo of themselves &/or maybe a relative that is no longer with you.
As I said, those are just a few things you could start with on a Genealogy Thread.
FYI: To start your own family forum.....do a Google search by using "Free Forum Hosting". A good list of free ones will come up. Check through them & find one that will suit your needs & ease of use. (((several of them out there are very easy to manage & maintain))) One thing to make note of, you will need an administer for it....someone to manage it -- hopefully you. Anyhoo, I would recommend that you lock the settings where only the administer(s) can add any new thread(s) to the forum. Otherwise, no matter what you tell them in the beginning, they will eventually start adding their own threads left & right & your forum will grow too big, becoming hard for others to navigate. EDITED TO ADD: Also, you might consider (& I highly recommend it) making your forum password protected & all members have to be approved by the administer(s) before they can join & get on your forum. Reason, sad to say there are sources (i.e. idiots) who will spam a forum. By making those two settings will stop that & give you control on who can see your forum.
Hope you will consider this as an option for your family & that you have as much fun as we have had in my own family. If you have any questions about starting your own Family Forum, please feel free to ask me. Enjoy......
Later, Deb
SPECIAL NOTE: I want to personally say "Thanks" to Judy from the Tennessee Memories blog for the Kreativ Blogger award she gave me back in November. Sadly its been that long since I last posted here. But as you know, I don't stick to any type of a writing schedule....just whenever I think of something to share with you all do I post. -_-
2 comments:
- Rose Mary said...
What a great post, Aunt Deb! I want to thank you and Kelly for starting our family forum. It has brought all of us together in a way that I hadn't dreamed was possible. We are all finally a part of each other's daily lives--not just someone we see a couple of times a year at holiday events.
As for the genealogy part, it gives everyone a chance to share memories or remember something that someone said to them in times past. There is so much that we never record--things everyone would want to know later on. I hope that you have inspired others to try this unique idea for genealogy--and more important, for their 'present' family!
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Thanks Mary for the kind words. And as you said, it is nice to get to know your past family, it is even better to be close to your current one. We have been so blessed with our family & I wouldn't give up the close relationships we've made through our family forum.
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Cushman & Wakefield/Commercial Advisors Asset Services LLC has launched a Capital Markets Group, a new service line to complement the firm's tenant representation and third-party leasing and management businesses.
Capital Markets is led by principal Shane Soefker, a Memphis native and former senior managing director of Cushman & Wakefield's South Florida offices. Soefker will work closely with Kemp Conrad, principal of Commercial Advisors' Asset Services division, as well as Jacob Biddle on the tenant advisory side, on directing sales and investment activity, strategic planning and client relationship management.
"We're really good at tenant rep, property management and construction management, leasing, and the execution side on investment sales, but where that gap was on development services," Conrad said. "With Shane, it allows us … more sophisticated analysis that affects building valuation at exit, or how a lease deal changes the value."
Conrad said there is a "whole of strata of opportunities in the market," especially with private client deals from $5 million to $20 million.
"That's kind of an untapped segment for us from a business development standpoint," Conrad said. "In bigger deals, there's a whole debt/equity component, which we really have even not done much of here at all."
And because lender parameters are requiring more equity, now is the time to act. Soefker said as all of the 2006 and 2007 loans start to mature, sponsors deleveraging are poised to be a big part of the investment sales business going forward.
"There are plenty of sponsors and owners out there, whether they have needs to refinance or new debt – there are limited opportunities," Soefker said. "There's nobody here really focusing on the smaller deals, the middle-market, private-client type of opportunities."
For years, capital markets have been common in the major markets like Atlanta and Tampa, where brokers focus on deals in the $20 million-plus range. Soefker said secondary markets like Memphis are well positioned to benefit from private dollars moving forward.
"We will always see institutional ownership in this market, especially on the industrial side, but you're going to see more and more private money to be spent in this market," Soefker said. "You've got so much capital out there right now and it's just looking for opportunities."
Examples of that activity in the past 24 months include Raleigh, N.C.-based In-Rel Properties Inc. and Santa Monica, Calif.-based Hertz Investment Group LLC in the office sector and Loeb Properties Inc. on the retail front.
Soefker said development deals can run the gamut, from more "cookie cutter" type projects to extremely complex with multiple variables. Capital Markets will be selective about the deals it gets involved in, and the majority will be fee-based starting off.
"They have a project, they need some sort of advisory service to help them execute," Soefker said. "We can step in and provide that link from design to pre-construction to development to lease up and stabilization."
Collectively, Commercial Advisors currently leases and/or manages more than 20 million square feet of office, retail and industrial properties. About 4 million square feet of that has been awarded to the firm in the last six months with special servicers like MIAC Owner Corp.'s Memphis International Airport Center, CWCapital's Willow Lake Business Park and Corporate Park and Lenox Office Park A and B.
Conrad attributed a lot of that growth to Joey Bland, a court-appointed receiver who joined Commercial Advisors Asset Services in 2009 to oversee distressed assets.
Over the next year, Soefker said special servicers could account to up to 10 percent of the Capital Markets Groups' bottom line.
"Special servicers are really just now getting active," Soefker said. "They want to make sure they can reposition and add value."
Commercial Advisors Asset Services has entertained the idea of a Capital Markets Group for quite some time, but Conrad said it boiled down to securing the right candidate with a specific skill set.
"It was really fortuitous that Shane was running South Florida for Cushman and … coming back here to work in the summer with his family," Conrad said. "You rarely find someone with that kind of track record that understands the services business, understands development, especially in a market like this."
And having a "symbiotic relationship" between Capital Markets and Asset Services is imperative to staying in the asset's life cycle for as long as possible, Soefker said.
"It's a performance-based business and it's competitive market share," Soefker said.
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ooVoo to Give Away $75 Million in Android Phones
Jay Samit, president of video chat company ooVoo, discusses the business's plans to give away $75 million worth of Android phones to its users.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
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An excerpt from state Rep. Daryl Metcalfe's latest newsletter, dated Winter 2013, reads:
"In addition to the battles I am involved in on behalf of taxpayers with state elected leaders, I also oppose the efforts of local elected officials, community organizers and bureaucrats who want to gain access to more of your tax dollars from the state treasury. For example, the Butler County Commissioners, who have raised our property taxes, also lobbied me to vote for the gas tax increase."
After reading this statement, I thought something is just not right, and here is why.
First: "Battles ... with state elected leaders." These leaders were also elected by their constituents and should be worked with and not battled to find solutions.
Second: "Oppose efforts of ... elected officials, community organizers and bureaucrats ... to gain access of tax dollars from the state." Again, oppose and not worked with to find solutions. They don't want to gain access, just properly and smartly appropriated tax dollars.
Third: "Commissioners ... raised our property taxes ... (and) lobbied for the gas tax. What? Raised property taxes once in the past 5 years that amounts to about a $25 increase on a house worth $150,000? And wanted a yes vote for the transportation bill? Liquid fuels tax had not been increased in 12 years — I'm sure that made quite a strain on the local municipalities and county budgets to fix our roads, it's an unfortunate tax that sorely needed to be raised.
A good legislator should not berate commissioners, elected officials and community organizers but use civility and work to try to find good solutions.


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In lieu of the Quotes of the Day, a thread to carry us overnight and collect any late-moving debt-ceiling shenanigans. Boehner's holding a conference call with the GOP caucus at 8:30 p.m. to talk about the deal, but Republicans aren't the key obstacle right now:
Democrats in the House of Representatives might decide not to support a last-minute deal to raise the debt ceiling when they meet on Monday, House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi said on Sunday.
"We all may not be able to support it, or none us may be able to support it," Pelosi told reporters.
A Republican aide tells NRO that if the final agreement on defense cuts looks ugly, Boehner could lose another 40 to 50 Republican votes on top of the 22 who voted against his bill Friday. That's not bad: All they'd need are 40 to 50 Democrats out of a caucus of 193 to make up the difference, but the left's lather over this deal is getting foamier by the hour. What's it going to be like by tomorrow morning, when Pelosi meets with the caucus, when liberals like Emanuel Cleaver are already calling it a, er, "sugar-coated Satan sandwich"?
And yet, and yet, as I write this, Boehner's still holding out:
Two congressional aides said Boehner is holding out to reduce roughly $350 billion in cuts to defense spending that would be part of an initial $900 billion in deficit cuts tied to a debt ceiling increase of a similar amount. Boehner also is refusing to agree to an even split between cuts to defense and other spending that would be triggered if Congress failed to enact a deficit reduction plan produced by a special congressional committee or doesn't pass a balanced budget amendment, the aides said. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., has left negotiations on defense spending to Boehner, staffers in both parties said. A Democratic congressional aide said McConnell had also signed off on the deal. McConnell spokesman Don Stewart would not confirm the senator had agreed.
If he and McConnell join Reid in signing off on the deal tonight, the full weight of approving the deal will fall on Pelosi and the House Democrats tomorrow. That would leave liberals doubly screwed, not only stuck with a deal they hate but in danger of destroying the left's relentless messaging that Republicans are the obstructionists here. For six months we've been told that those crazy wingnuts are willing to hit the debt ceiling and throw America into economic chaos to make their point; if Pelosi walks away 24 hours before the ceiling deadline after all three other congressional leaders have blessed the deal, that'll blow up right in her face. I'm amazed, frankly, that Reid publicly approved the deal before she had a chance to talk to House Democrats. All that does is weaken her leverage in holding out and hand the GOP a talking point about how radical House liberals are even by the standards of Harry Reid. But maybe that was Reid's point: By offering his approval early, he's maximizing the odds that House Democrats will cave and that this thing really will pass.
But wait, you say. Isn't Senate action tomorrow subject to unanimous consent to move ahead on a vote without debate? Won't DeMint or Mike Lee object and slow things down, which will shift some deadline pressure back to the GOP? Actually, probably not: Both of them said today that they're not going to delay this thing for the sake of delaying it, which keeps the ball squarely in Pelosi's court. That's going to be sooooome caucus meeting tomorrow. While we wait for news, here's Krauthammer on tonight's very special Special Report insisting that this is a laudable first step by tea partiers towards rolling back ruinous spending. Do any tea partiers actually agree with him? (Maybe a few.) Stand by for updates and click the image to watch.
Update: Just announced: Obama will speak in the White House briefing room at 8:40, which can only mean he's signed off on the deal. And if that's true, then Pelosi's already signed off too. The leadership's bringing intense pressure on the Democratic caucus to play ball tomorrow by going public tonight.
Update: Reid's on the Senate floor right now hailing "bipartisan compromise."
Update: JPod puts it bluntly for House Democrats.
Update: Obama in a nutshell: We have a deal, I would have preferred a "grand bargain," but it's a move in the right direction and, hey, at least this thing is over. Video forthcoming.
Update: Here's the PowerPoint about the agreement that Boehner's going to roll out at the next Republican caucus meeting. The deal is just what we thought it would be this morning, but note how Boehner's framing it explicitly as a version of Cut, Cap, and Balance. The key detail on across-the-board cuts, which will go into effect if Congress ends up rejecting the Super Commission's recommendations:
Total reductions would be equally split between defense and non-defense programs. Across-the-board cuts would also apply to Medicare. Other programs, including Social Security, Medicaid, veterans, and civil & military pay, would be exempt.
So they settled on a 50/50 split after all between defense cuts and other discretionary spending. That was Reid's price in exchange for dropping tax hikes as an automatic trigger.
Update: John McCormack has excerpts from Boehner's conference call with House Republicans. "There's no agreement until we've talked to you."
Update: If you're worried about the Super Commission coming back to Congress with a package of tax hikes, read James Pethokoukis's post about baseline budgeting. Because CBO is forced to assume that the Bush tax cuts will expire next year, the Commission can only hit its goal in savings by raising taxes above and beyond the additional $3.5 trillion in revenue that CBO already expects from that expiration. Ain't going to happen.
Update: Here's Obama.
Update: The Senate vote shouldn't be a problem but could be a bit narrower than expected too:
However, less than an hour later during a procedural vote, a group of 15 Senate Democrats crowded around one of their leaders, Sen. Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.), demanding to know why the framework did not include any increased revenue through tax hikes on the wealthy or the closing of corporate loopholes. The group included the Democratic caucus's most outspoken liberals, such as Sens. Tom Harkin (Iowa), Barbara Mikulski (Md.) and Al Franken (Minn.)
Afterward, Sen. Carl Levin (Mich.), who was part of the huddle, said the group had "mixed" feelings toward the possible deal. "It's not balanced, it doesn't have revenues," he said, disappointed that President Obama's prior demand for "balance" was not assured. "There are a lot of people who are really withholding judgment."
I'm curious to see what vulnerable red-state Democrats like Tester, McCaskill, and Nelson do.
Update: "Overwhelming support for Boehner on conf. call." Supposedly, Paul Ryan told the caucus that this deal is better than the bill passed on Friday.
Update: Aha, here's why Boehner finally signed off on the 50/50 split involving defense cuts:
Compromise on defense was to include foreign aid, Homeland Sec., etc. in "security" category of cuts so they didn't fall so heavily on DOD
Update: Here's Cleaver, summing up the liberal reaction. Click the image to watch.
Update: Timothy Carney reminds the left that when you elect a guy whose main goal is his own reelection, don't be surprised when the deals he strikes reflect that priority.
In this light, consider Obama's willingness in April to compromise on taxes and most spending, but to stand firm on Planned Parenthood subsidies. It looks like liberal principles took a back seat to 2012 fundraising.
And this debt deal is similarly Machiavellian: Substance was subjugated to political framing. Republicans had their demands: no tax increases, yes spending cuts. Democrats' demands had a different tone.
First, Democrats wanted to ensure this was the last debt-limit increase before the 2012 elections. Raising the debt limit, as Sen. Obama said in 2006, is "a sign of leadership failure" and politically unpopular.
Second, they wanted to ensure that the right issues would be debated in the election year. A high-stakes debate over a balanced budget amendment — as required by the bill the House passed on Friday — would make it clear that Democrats, unlike most Americans, do not want a balanced budget…
Democrats' willingness to compromise doesn't reflect superior maturity to the more rigid Republicans. Quite the contrary: It reflects caring less about policy than about politics.


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Wilson executed almost perfectly in this game, and by that I mean there was a game plan for Wilson to follow, as Pete and all the other Coaches had studied the weaknesses in the Patriots Defense, and gave Wilson the heads up on how to exploit those weaknesses ,and he did it almost perfectly.
Every team has some weak areas and that should be the focus, because the deep passes will not work against every opponent.
That's why Belichek said that he'd been outcoached in this game.
I know that Pete & Co. have probably been studying the next team we face looking for any chink in their armor.
I promise you that Pete has more than likely told his players to bask in this win for that good feeling you just earned, but the next game (4 days later) has to be their focus and they need to get prepared.
You can bet that the 9rs are going to throw everything they have at the Seahawks, so's to NOT lose at home against a Division rival, and this is going to be a tough game for BOTH teams.


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Yes, I know, when this column first appeared, it was titled simply "The 2013 Top Forty Composer Countdown, Part One." But once I realized that there was no way I'd finish all ten or so installments of the this column by the end of the year, and that it was equally unlikely that I'd get around to continuing the series by the end of 2014...oh, you get the point.
2011 RANKING: Not ranked
BIRTHPLACE: England
BEST PICTURE NOMINEES: The Social Network
ONGOING FILMMAKER RELATIONSHIPS: David Fincher, The Hughes Brothers
BACKGROUND: Music programmer and producer, collaborator with Nine Inch Nails, TV composer
FAN FAVORITES: The Social Network
TYPECAST IN: Thrillers
1. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo--102 (U.S. gross in millions)
2. The Social Network--96
3. The Book of Eli--94
4. Broken City--19
Atticus Ross and his frequent film music partner Trent Reznor followed up their Oscar-winning score for The Social Network with another high-profile film from director David Fincher, the stylish English-language remake of the Swedish hit The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. The film was a reasonable success in U.S. theaters though probably didn't gross high enough to inaugurate the desired franchise, and while Ross and Reznor were not among the film's several Oscar nominees, the duo did manage to snag a Grammy for their soundtrack (the score's commercial release was actually a three-disc set that favored their original approach to the score instead of the final film versions of the cues). The multi-story drama Days of Grace featured contributions from several composers, including Ross and his frequent collaborators Leopold Ross and Claudia Sarne (as well as Shigeru Umebayashi and Nick Cave & Warren Ellis) but never received a wide release, though the score is available on CD. Ross was at one point the composer assigned to the period martial arts fantasy 47 Ronin, starring Keanu Reeves, but that troubled production (filmed in 2011) is finally due to reach theaters this Christmas with an Ilan Eshkeri score. Ross's one feature released this year (co-composed with Sarne & Ross) was the political noir Broken City, but despite the presence of A-listers Mark Wahlberg and Russell Crowe the film made little impression at the box-office. It is not known yet if Ross and Reznor will be scoring Fincher's highly anticipated film of the bestseller Gone Girl, starring Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike and Tyler Perry(!).
2011 RANKING: Not ranked
AGE: Unavailable
BIRTHPLACE: Salvador Bahia, Brazil
REP: Unavailable
RELATIONSHIPS: Andrew Niccoll
BACKGROUND: South American cinema
FAN FAVORITES: City of God
TYPECAST IN: Gritty drama
1. Snitch--42
2. The Host--26
3. Lord of War--24
4. Perfect Stranger--23
5. City of God--7
6. Central Station--5
7. Love in the Time of Cholera--4
8. Senna--1
Pinto has been scoring feature films only intermittently in the last few years, with some major projects not receiving a U.S. theatrical release. Whale Rider's director Niki Caro and Oscar-nominated young star Keisha-Castle Hughes reunited for the period romance A Heavenly Vintage (aka The Vintner's Luck), but the 2009 production has yet to appear in the United States. Mel Gibson returned to Payack turf as producer-star-story-writer with the south-of-the-Border caper thriller Get the Gringo (aka How I Spent My Summer Vacation), but the film went directly to DVD in the U.S. Pinto scored the critically acclaimed racing documentary Senna, and this year he had two fiction films in major release -- the fact-based action drama Snitch, starring Dwayne Johnson, and the film version of Stephenie Meyer's bestselling sci-fi romance The Host, which reunited him with Lord of War writer-director Andrew Niccoll. Next up is a documentary called JR.
BIRTHPLACE: San Diego, California
REP: Kraft-Engel
RELATIONSHIPS: Bryan Singer, Joel Silver,
BACKGROUND: USC, film editor
FAN FAVORITE: The Usual Suspects
TYPECAST IN: Superheroes, horror
2. Superman Returns--200
3. Fantastic Four--154
4. Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer--131
5. Valkyrie--82
6. Jack the Giant Slayer--65
7. Unknown--63
8. The Cable Guy--60
9. Gothika--59
10. Halloween H20--55
Director Bryan Singer and producer Joel Silver continue to be the crucial filmmaking collaborators of Ottman's career, employing him with impressive regularity. He had a modest success in 2011 with the Silver production Unknown, a twisty thriller starring Liam Neeson (Ottman shared the scoring credit with Alexander Rudd) but the thriller The Resident, a production from the newly reformed Hammer Films starring two-time Best Actress winner Hillary Swank, went straight to DVD in the U.S. Singer's Jack the Giant Slayer was a charming homage to the great Harryhausen age of fantasy cinema, but did a disappointing $65 million in U.S. theaters ($17 million less than the last Singer/Ottman collaboration, Valkyrie). Next year Ottman has two plausible hits lined up -- another Liam Neeson/Joel Silver thriller, Non-Stop (for those who've felt it's been too long since Red Eye and Flightplan), and the first film to merge the two sets of X-Men casts, Bryan Singer's X-Men: Days of Future Past, which will make Ottman the first composer to score two entries in that hit superhero franchise.
WHAT'S NEXT: Non-Stop, X-Men: Days of Future Past
2011 RANKING: Not ranked
BIRTHPLACE: Akureyi, Iceland
REP: First Artists
RELATIONSHIPS: Olatunde Osunsanmi
BACKGROUND: Berklee College of Music, North Carolina School of the Arts, Icelandic pop/rock group "Salin hans Jons mins," TV composer, Media Ventures/Remote Control
FAN FAVORITES: Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters
TYPECAST IN: Supernatural thrillers
1. Vantage Point--72
2. Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters--55
3. The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones--31
4. The Fourth Kind--25
5. Season of the Witch--24
6. Babylon A.D.--22
7. The Eagle--19
Atli Orvarsson has been working regularly in television for the last few years, scoring the all-star, short-lived Law & Order: LA as well as the current hunky-firemen drama Chicago Fire, but he's recently had a resurgence big screen projects. The revisionist horror fantasy Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters waited a long time on the shelf before hitting theaters, but the film did surprisingly good business, enough to inspire an in-development sequel. Orvarsson was originally announced to score director Harald Zwart's hit remake of The Karate Kid but the assignment ultimately went to James Horner. When Zwart's latest film, The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, lost its first composer, Gabriel Yared, Orvarsson won the assignment, whose romantic horror fantasy mixture proved an ideal musical canvas for the composer. Two other recent films, the thrillers Evidence and A Single Shot, had only limited releases, with the latter appearing on video on demand before it hit theaters.
BIRTHPLACE: San Diego, California
REP: Gorfaine/Schwartz
BACKGROUND: Concert composer, music producer
RELATIONSHIPS: Nick Cassavetes, Tyler Perry
FAN FAVORITE: John Q.
TYPECAST IN: Romantic comedy, African-American comedy, tearjerkers
1. The Proposal--163
2. Sex and the City--152
3. Sex and the City 2--95
4. Madea Goes to Jail--90
5. The Ugly Truth--88
6. Bridge to Terabithia--82
7. The Notebook--81
8. John Q.--71
9. Madea's Witness Protection-- 65
10. Step Up--65
Zigman has been as prolific as ever, but hasn't had a true box-office smash since The Proposal in 2009. His most famous collaborator, actor-writer-producer-director Tyler Perry, is as prolific as ever, making up to two films every year, but some of the box-office shine has worn off the Madea brand, and Perry's biggest attempt to stray from the brand he created, For Colored Girls, was not the award winner its makers had hoped for. Along with the Madea films, and Perry's dramas including Good Deeds and Temptation, Zigman scored the charming comedy Peeples, advertised as Tyler Perry Presents Peeples. Writer-director David Talbert is considered to be Tyler Perry's forerunner, so it only makes sense that Zigman should score Talbert's recent romantic comedy Baggage Claim, giving the enjoyable but indefensible formula film more musical charm than it probably deserved. He apparently did not score director NIck Cassavetes' largely unreleased Yellow, but he is reuniting with the director for The Other Woman, starring Cameron Diaz. He returned to the Step Up franchise (after skipping chapter 3) with the visually striking, 3D Step Up: Revolution, and other recent projects in the last few years include the failed film version of I Don't Know How She Does It (on which he replaced Rachel Portman) and the amusing romantic comedy What's Your Number. His biggest recent hit was the animated Escape from Planet Earth ($57 million), and along with the new Cassavetes, he's reuniting with Perry for his seventh Madea movies, a film I'm sure everyone who reads these columns will rush out and see. [UPDATE: I've just read in Film Music Reporter that it will be Christopher Young, NOT Aaron Zigman, composing the score to Tyler Perry's A Madea Christmas.]
WHAT'S NEXT: The Other Woman
2011 RANKING: Not ranked
BIRTHPLACE: San Jose, California
REP: First Artists
RELATIONSHIPS: Judd Apatow, Nicholas Stoller
BACKGROUND: Rock-jazz guitarist (with Bourgeois Tagg, Jellyfish), studio and session musician, documentary and TV composer
FAN FAVORITES: Superbad
TYPECAST IN: Comedy
1. Superbad--121
2. The 40 Year Old Virgin--109
3. Yes Man--97
4. Forgetting Sarah Marshall--62
5. Get Him to the Greek--60
6. American Reunion--56
7. 21 and Over--25
8. The Incredible Burt Wonderstone--22
9. The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard--15
10. Win Win--10
After scoring a film only every year or two, Workman unexpectedly had three films in theaters during the first months of 2013, and though none was a hit on the caliber of Superbad or The 40 Year Old Virgin, they reinforced his status as a go-to guy for comedy. Short Circuit co-star Fisher Stevens directed three Oscar winners, Al Pacino, Christopher Walken and Alan Arkin in the mobster comedy Stand Up Guys, and the project proved worthy of none of their talents, but Workman's music was well regarded enough that it received its own score CD separate from the song CD. The Incredible Burt Wonderstone was a surprising flop at the boxoffice despite a cast of top comic actors (including Steve Carell and Jim Carrey) but it gave Workman the chance to expand his range, while the amusing college farce 21 and Over featured a more song-dominated musical approach, typical of the genre. His biggest critical hit of late has been writer-director Tom McCarthy's comedy-drama Win Win, which shows he can work comfortably with less broad subject matter.
2011 RANKING: Not ranked
AGE: Unavailable
REP: Kraft-Engel
RELATIONSHIPS: Lasse Hallstrom, Joe Nussbaum
BACKGROUND: USC, rock arranger-producer, short films composer (George Lucas in Love), stage musical arranger
TYPECAST IN: Films about women and teenagers
1. Dear John--80
2. Justin Bieber: Never Say Never--73
3. Safe Haven--71
4. Footloose--51
5. 9--31
6. One for the Money--26
7. Katy Perry: Part of Me--25
8. Sydney White--11
9. Prom--10
10. Sleepover--9
Fourteen years after the film version of Message in a Bottle was released, Hollywood is still bringing Nicholas Sparks' bestselling romantic tearjerkers to the screen, and quite unexpectedly, Lasse Hallstrom's 2010 film version of Dear John (pairing Amanda Seyfried and Channing Tatum) was by far the best one yet. For its score, Hallstrom brought on Deborah Lurie, who had written the replacement score for his Robert Redford/Jennifer Lopez drama, An Unfinished Life. Lurie's Dear John score (only released as a composer promo) was refreshingly restrained, and she teamed up with the director for another Sparks adaptation, Safe Haven, but though box-office was comparable, this rehash of Sleeping with the Enemy (with a Shyamalan twist) was no Dear John. While adapting Danny Elfman's themes for the striking animated feature 9 was a nice change in genre for the composer, the comedy mystery One for the Money (with Katherine Heigl as Janet Evanovich's fictional bounty hunter Stephanie Plum) was something less than a franchise starter. She seems to be cornering the market in films geared toward teenage girls -- she's not only scored comedies like Fun Size, Prom, Sleepover and the underrated remake of Footloose, but composed the incidental music for the Justin Bieber and Katy Perry concert documentaries. She also provided additional scoring for Sacha Baron Cohen's The Dictator and produced Joss Whedon's original score for his critically acclaimed Much Ado About Nothing
2011 RANKING:Not ranked
BIRTHPLACE: San Diego
REP: First Artists
RELATIONSHIPS: Jay & Mark Duplass, Paul Feig, Jake Kasdan
BACKGROUND: Rock songwriter-performer (Elgin Park, Metric, Greyboy Allstars), TV composer (Freaks and Geeks)
FAN FAVORITE: Donnie Darko
TYPECAST IN: R-rated comedy
1. Bridesmaids--169
2. The Heat--159 (as of 10/27/13)
3. Bad Teacher--100
4. Funny People--51
5. Orange County--41
6. She's Out of My League--31
7. The Five-Year Engagement--28
8. Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story--18
9. Unaccompanied Minors--16
10. Out Cold--13
While Andrews has been scoring features for over a decade, in the last few years he suddenly broke out with three hundred-million-dollar hit comedies. His longterm collaboration with director Jake Kasdan, beginning with scoring Kasdan's debut film, Zero Effect, as part of the group Greyboy Allstars, had its first true box-office smash with the 2011 comedy Bad Teacher, with Cameron Diaz and Justin Timberlake. His working relationship with writer-director Paul Feig goes back to TV's cult classic Freaks and Geeks, and in the last three years the team has collaborated on two box-office smashes, both featuring Melissa McCarthy -- the Oscar-nominated Bridesmaids, and this summer's morally indefensible but very funny female buddy cop comedy The Heat. He maintains his indie credibility by working with the Duplass brothers on offbeat comedies like Cyrus and Jeff, Who Lives at Home, and he showed he can work outside of comedy with Mira Nira's recent political thriller, The Reluctant Fundamentalist. Next up is another low comedy -- Neighbors, pitting young parents Jason Segel and Rose Byrne against a frat house led by Zac Efron and Dave Franco.
WHAT'S NEXT: Neighbors
BIRTHPLACE: New Rochelle, New York
REP: Kraft-Engel
BACKGROUND: New York University, off-Broadway and Broadway songwriter
BEST PICTURE NOMINEE: Beauty and the Beast
FAN FAVORITES: Beauty and the Beast, Enchanted
TYPECAST IN: animated musicals
1. Aladdin--217
2. Tangled--200
3. Beauty and the Beast--192
4. Pocahontas--141
5. Enchanted--127
6. The Little Mermaid--111
7. The Hunchback of Notre Dame--100
8. Hercules--99
9. Mirror Mirror--64
10. The Shaggy Dog—60
There was a time in the 1990s where it seemed as if every animated film had to be a musical or quasi-musical -- even Toy Story had extraneous songs woven into its Randy Newman score -- but these days the animated musical is an increasing rarity, and even Newman's score for the hit Monsters University lacked the expected, surefire Oscar nomination song. 2010's Tangled was the first animated musical scored by Menken since Home on the Range in 2004, and was a deserved smash with yet another Oscar-nominated Menken song, "I See the Light." He scored a rare live action feature, Mirror Mirror, the revisionist comedy version of Snow White, but the film was only a modest hit. His next animated musical was supposed to be a Disney version of The Snow Queen, but that long-in-development project is finally reaching the screen this fall as Frozen, with songs by the husband and wife team of Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez, and score by Christophe Beck. Like Marc Shaiman, Menken may have decided that his talents are better suited to the stage, as he's been busy in the last few years with stage musicals such as adaptations of the films Sister Act, Leap of Faith, and the Broadway smash version of Newsies.
BIRTHPLACE: Brazil
REP: Kraft-Engel
BACKGROUND: Studied guitar and composition at conservatory; solo recording artist; session musician; collaborator with Hans Zimmer
FAN FAVORITES: Despicable Me
TYPECAST IN: Kids movies
1. Despicable Me 2--364 (10/27/13)
2. Despicable Me--251
3. The Smurfs--142
4. Spy Kids--116
5. It's Complicated--112
6. Beverly Hills Chihuahua--94
7. The Smurfs 2--70 (10/27/13)
8. Curious George--58
9. Riding in Cars with Boys--30
10. Dirty Dancing: Havana Night--14
Heitor Pereira has probably never received quite the credit he deserved for his score to the animated hit Despicable Me, as singer-songwriter Pharrell Williams received first billing and is the kind of music world star name that gets all the attention from critics, but with luck that has changed with the release of Despicable Me 2. The sequel had made over a hundred million more than the original at the U.S. box-office, making it only the second film this year to cross the $300 million mark, while Pereira received credit for the score while Williams is credited with "songs and themes." This year he followed the hit The Smurfs with the less successful The Smurfs 2, and he is expected to score the upcoming Despicable Me spinoff Minions.


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craigasaurus needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 313 designs submitted by 90 freelance designers.
Servants is a Christian mission that works in slums and inner cities in Asia and the West (have a look at our website: http://www.servantsasia.org). We think of ourselves more as a movement than an organization.
We are mostly youngish, very relational, non-corporate, non-institutional, grassroots, committed to social justice and a simple lifestyle, building community.
Our personality is low key, humble, relational, friendly (but not cuddly or cutesy), informal, a bit edgy.
The target audience is fairly broad but with an emphasis on people committed to social justice mainly in their 20's and 30's.
Our target audience are people just like us!
The logo should reflect our grassroots ethos (nothing too corporate, shiny or professional looking, nothing web 2.0, nothing computer-y or futuristic).
The logo should incorporate the word "servants" and should also be able to use geographical modifiers that show the country or city. (eg. Servants Vancouver, Servants Cambodia, Servants Australia)
The logo should not use the words "to asia's urban poor" which were part of our previous logo.
It should be simple (we are simple!)
Some continuity with our old logo (see attached) would be nice but is not essential.
It would be good if the logo reflected our commitment to relationships and people (without corny stick figures holding hands across a globe)
If you incorporate a cross or some other Christian element it should be subtle rather than tacky.
Attached is a lino print that turned out to be too complex for our logo but we like the feel of this image (ancient, yet postmodern, grassroots).
Please do not use any stock images or clip art in the logo.
The files we will require are: high resolution web file format - .jpg and layered .psd (RGB) [with just the word "servants" and also a couple of examples of "servants" + country name]
Find out how a design contest works or learn more about our logo design services.


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