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If you thought going green was a fad, think again. Environmental consulting is a robust and growing industry, valued at $17.8 billion, according to IBISWorld. Growth of 9 percent a year over the next five years is expected. This industry is well suited to independent contractors with the skills to install environmental gear such as wind turbines, solar panels, and green roofs. Every sector, from government to the individual household level, is expected to thrive. Looking to specialize? Expertise will be in demand in the fields of air-, soil-, and water-quality management, as well as sustainability studies as they pertain to development projects.
Talk is cheap, but solid communications are priceless in this global economy. The U.S. military and businesses expanding overseas are two of the translation and interpretation industry's best customers. Overall, the market grew some 18 percent last year. According to AnythingResearch.com, the translation and interpretation services industry is a $2.7 billion market that has grown an average of 22 percent a year since 2004. The healthcare industry is another area in need of language, due in part to the growing U.S. immigrant population. Many opportunities exist in the business-to-business space as well, which includes website translation and creation of multi-language marketing materials. There are also related tech opportunities in the burgeoning market for mobile on-demand translation via SMS.
Despite this year's legislation, health care costs – particularly at hospitals and primary-care providers – are soaring. As the elderly population also grows and demands less expensive, out-of-hospital care, the industry is expected to expand by an average of 4.9 percent through 2014, according to IBISWorld. This industry, which was also on Inc.'s 2009 list, has been strong for years and yet retains a low barrier to entry. Sub-sectors of the field include physical therapy and ambulatory delivery of new technologies. Non-medical home-care hiring is expected to grow by more than 50 percent before 2018.
Sure, iPhones have been around for a while. But with the advent of the iPad, explosive sales of Android phones and an ever-expanding market for mobile apps that work on any Web-enabled phone, there is plenty of fresh territory for programmers, developers, and designers. One tip: Keep location in mind. Venture capitalists and industry experts alike expect the location-aware economy to grow at the rate social media, such as Facebook and Twitter, have over recent years. In the past three years, companies that make location-based apps alone have received $656 million in 67 deals, according to Dow Jones VentureSource.
As highways in and around urban centers become more congested, the old-fashioned ferryboat is making a comeback. Privately run ferry services, as well as tourist excursions, are thriving along the Pacific Northwest coast and on the Great Lakes. Given that significant spending for building ferryboats and terminals is part of the 2009 economic recovery act, opportunities are expanding. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, job growth in the water transportation industry is expected to grow 15 percent through 2018. The industry grew 17 percent last year, according to AnythingResearch.com. Barriers to entry, though, are steep. A new Coast Guard-certified ferryboat that carries 150 passengers costs about $6 million.
The top four teamakers control 88 percent of industry revenue, according to IBISWorld. But the remaining 12 percent represents a $264 million market for small, independent manufacturers. Tea, the 6th most popular beverage in the U.S. after carbonated soft drinks, bottled water, beer, milk, and coffee, is growing due to increasing consumer health consciousness, particularly among the boomer population. The industry averaged annual growth of about 5 percent over the past five years. Other healthy beverages with promising growth prospects include antioxidant-rich juices and vitamin-enhanced waters.
It's not just guitar hero: it's real guitars, bongos, and violas. Past growth in hobby, toy, and game stores has been tied to general consumer spending, but these days stores that sell crafts, hobby goods, and musical instruments have been performing better than the retail industry as a whole. AnythingResearch.com found a growth rate of 9 percent, which also took into account toy and game retailers. This might be a result of people cutting back on larger entertainment expenses and choosing instead to spend more on pastimes and skill-cultivation.
Parents always want their kids to do better on tests. A large number of adults returning to school are also looking for an edge. Given the low barrier to entry, this field is competitive. But if you carve out the right niche, it could be lucrative. The industry, which includes tutoring in such fields such as special education, language, and music, grew about 7 percent last year, according to AnythingResearch.com.
Little treats have a sugar-glazed forecast. Bakeries, pastry shops, and bagel sellers are growing at a rate of 5 percent, according to AnythingResearch.com. Research suggests small indulgences are picking up whereas big purchases such as vacations are not – but blogger and baked goods expert Nichelle Stephens, co-editor of the prominent sweets blog Cupcakes Take The Cake, says the movement is expanding into high-end foodie territory. "It's focused on small batches, local suppliers, seasonal ingredients, and lots of creativity when it comes to flavors and combinations," she says.
After a period of slowed growth during the U.S. housing crisis, self-storage has bounced back – largely because it was already better insulated against economic forces than the housing market. The subprime mortgage crisis caused a wave of foreclosures, meaning families needed places to store their possessions. The $22 billion industry has a remarkably low barrier to entry, with 90 percent of self-storage companies owned by small business entrepreneurs. According to the Self Storage Association, there are 2.2 billion square feet of self-storage in this country. That means there's more than 7 square feet of storage per U.S. resident.
Forget Main Street: This industry is comprised of retailers with no physical retail presence. Instead, they sell solely online – and are especially thriving in the areas of quality handmade jewelry and vintage clothing. After Web retail saw revenue fall as the recession decimated 2009 sales, expectations are high this year. The industry has a remarkably low barrier to entry (have something to sell? Get a PayPal account and you're set). Online sales of independent merchants – mostly via sites such as Etsy, eBay, RubyLane, and Supermarket – grew at an annual 6.6. percent over the past five years, according to IBISWorld.
With the sale of marijuana for medicinal use legal in nearly one out of three U.S. states, and California considering total legalization, pot's cultural tide is rising. So is its business side. California's biggest dispensaries are starting franchise operations and establishing branding. There's an emerging industry trade show and a lobbying, marketing, and consulting firm strictly for cannabis in Oakland, California. Harvard Economist Jeffrey Miron in a February 2010 paper estimated the market to be $14 billion. Others have pegged the medicinal retail market at $10 to $40 billion, based on usage, demand, and pricing data.
While the price tags of blockbuster video game titles have been steadily rising, the barriers to entry for small game developers have never been lower. Self-publishing through Apple's iTunes app store as well as through Microsoft's Xbox Live allows entrepreneurs and code geeks with a solid idea to elbow their way into this highly competitive field. "This is the best time to be a small garage shop, or a mom-and-pop shop of just a few developers," says David Riley, who specializes in video games and entertainment at the market-research firm NDP Group. "They don't need to sit down in front of a venture capitalist and sweat blood" anymore. The $44 billion market has also been thriving due to the influx of non-traditional gamers such as baby boomers, women, and young children.
As technological advances allow a broader palette of life-saving surgeries, the organ and blood reserves that make these operations possible will continue to be in demand. Blood and organ banks make up 55 percent of the $23.8 billion ambulatory health services industry, and the financial barriers to entering this field are relatively low, despite some regulatory hurdles. Perhaps a more surprising growth category in this industry is the increased demand for sperm donation. This is largely due to legislation in a number of European countries that no longer permit sperm donors to remain anonymous or receive compensation. This leads to a severe drop in supply and now "you have all of those infertile people buying sperm from U.S. cryobanks," says Corey Whelan, the program director for the American Fertility Association.
Clean and consistent water supply is an essential service of modern living, so the industry remains untouched by economic fluctuations. According to IBISWorld, the industry should see steady 3.5 percent revenue growth per year until 2015. While traditionally the industry has been dominated by municipally owned operations, there may be increasing opportunities for independent companies to enter the market as it trends toward privatization. Why? Challenges in adhering to stricter water-quality standards could drive cities to look elsewhere for solutions. They'll also likely face hardships in keeping up with technological developments. Tech and consulting are two hot areas for breaking in.
Companies that help manufacturers perform safety and quality testing on consumer products and materials, a.k.a. "laboratory testing services" comprise a $15 billion industry, according to data from IBISWorld. Over the next five years, the industry is expected to grow 5 percent each year, as fueled by increased government regulation of consumer and food products. Growing consumer concerns over the safety of products – especially in regards to children's products – will also add to the demand for testing laboratories. Additionally, the industry will be driven by the amount of money that companies put into research and development, which appears to be increasing. IBISWorld predicts that in the coming years, companies will invest even more in new products and technologies, therefore giving R&D a healthy boost. – By Christine Lagorio, Tamara Schweitzer, and Josh Spiro.
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[2] http://www.inc.com/ss/best-industries-for-starting-a-business
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[4] http://www.inc.com/ss/9-businesses-you-can-start-your-pajamas-2010
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Gaston County commissioners are calling for two hospital trustees to resign due to questions about potential family-related conflicts of interest.
David Smith Jr. co-founded Immortology, the marketing firm the hospital hired to oversee its rebranding. The campaign included a name change for the hospital, now CaroMont Regional Medical Center, as well as CaroMont Health's controversial and short-lived slogan "cheat death."
His father, also David Smith, serves on the CaroMont Health board of trustees.
Immortology also employs Haddon Mackie, the daughter of hospital board of trustees Chairman Spurgeon Mackie. She accepted a position with the firm in March and began work there within the last week, according to sources who attribute the information to Spurgeon Mackie.
On Monday, that realization prompted County Commission Chairman Mickey Price and Commissioner Chad Brown to call for Mackie and Smith to resign. The commissioners appoint 13 of the 14 hospital trustees.
CaroMont spokeswoman Dallas Paddon stressed Monday that hospital administrators — not the board of trustees — made the decision to hire Immortology.
"As stated before, our professional relationship with Immortology posed no conflict of interest," she said in an email. "They and other firms were interviewed prior to making a hiring decision. We chose to work with this company based solely on their proven track record in successfully transforming and reviving companies' brands."
Price and Brown are among those criticizing the mere appearance of a conflict of interest, even if no laws were broken. Both say the hospital should have done more to disclose the family connections in recent weeks.
"Now that this has come to light about employees of this company being related to two board members, it doesn't look good and it doesn't sound good," said Price. "No matter how much they say they didn't know about it or influence it, half the people out there don't believe that."
Mackie and Smith could not be reached for comment Monday. Their fellow hospital board trustee, Donnie Loftis, agreed Monday that it doesn't look good — and that's not good for a public board.
"That's the bad part," he said. "The perception, you can't defeat that."
Hospital management's call
Gastonia's hospital, the flagship of CaroMont Health, is a county-owned building on county land. CaroMont leases both from the county for $1 a year.
CaroMont has long contemplated how to respond to studies that show the health of Gaston's residents compares poorly with the rest of the state and nation. Their solution was to inspire people to prevent sickness through healthier living, rather than simply relying on the hospital once they're already ill.
Immortology, a Chapel Hill research and marketing firm, was hired to help craft the new wellness movement, branded with the "cheat death" tagline before CaroMont backed away from the slogan over the weekend.
The price tag for the campaign will be $2.5 million over three years, although only a portion of that money will go to the marketing firm, Paddon said.
She did not provide details about how much money would go to the firm or how much CaroMont will spend on advertising and other promotions.
CaroMont's annual budget, by comparison, is about $500 million.
The hospital's new name rolled out Thursday, along with the "cheat death" tagline. By Saturday, negative reaction from county commissioners, employees and numerous others prompted hospital leaders to pull the plug on the tagline.
Commissioners knew of the family tie between David Smith and his son last week. Several of them said they learned about Spurgeon Mackie and his daughter over the weekend.
Bad impression?
Public boards in North Carolina are bound by state ethics laws. On the surface, it doesn't seem CaroMont Health or its trustees committed any violations, said Amanda Martin, an attorney with the N.C. Press Association.
The law says public board members cannot cast votes that directly benefit themselves or their spouses. Children aren't covered, Martin said.
"Second, if the board was not the decision-maker, then I don't think the statute applies," she said.
But even something that's not illegal isn't necessarily "right," Martin said.
"Don't mistake that I'm saying this is a case of good government," she said.
That's what bothers Brown, the county commissioner. It gives the impression there are favors being exchanged between hospital administrators and trustees, he said, even if there aren't.
"I think the smell test is really out there saying 'wait a minute,'" Brown said.
When members of the public begin to view a board that way, it undermines its mission, Price said. A public, nonprofit board has a greater obligation to divulge such details about family relationships ahead of time, to dispel notions of under-the-table dealing, he said.
"When you're a nonprofit organization, you need to be a little more open," he said. "To move ahead, (Smith and Mackie) ought to just get off the board, for appearance's sake. It's unfortunate, because they're two good board members."
Commissioners Tracy Philbeck and Tom Keigher are among those who feel the board of trustees should have voted on the hospital name change and new slogan. Philbeck said questions about the credibility of the trustees fall to the commissioners, because they appoint them
"Am I saying anybody did anything illegal? No," said Philbeck. "But the Bible's very clear on things like this: 'Don't let your good be evil spoken of.'"
You can reach Michael Barrett at 704-869-1826 or twitter.com/GazetteMike.

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himalayanspirit wrote:Recently, I am getting a "bad feeling". About sadness and tragedy that is going to descend to humanity.
himalayanspirit wrote:Thanks everyone.
Could you share something about events that are about to happen that you had visions of?
Like related to economies of the world, doom and gloom... lol
GesarMukpo wrote:Yes I see into the future all the time.
I see in my future that someone will flame me for sasying I can see in the future.
retrofuturist wrote:Greetings,
When I was in late primary school and early high school (ages 10-14?), I had very strong "deja vu" moments.
In some circumstances I knew what was going to happen as it began to unfold (and even what I was going to do in response, physically or mentally) before it transpired. Usually these 'known paths' lasted for 10-15 seconds at most. Sometimes I would also remember the cognition of it being a deva ju moment.
There was nothing particularly useful or practical in any of this, except that I managed to pull off a couple of cool pre-emptive sporting moves, being confident about what was about to transpire and preparing for it.
There was certainly nothing "prophetic" about any of it, although I do remember watching "Honey I Shrunk The Kids" at the cinema upon release and 'remembering' parts of it.
I don't think I can do any of this any longer.
AdmiralJim wrote:This may sound harsh. But big deal, animals have clairvoyant abilities and they are still stupid . Much better to sit on your meditation cushion rather than indulging your mind when it decides to have a bit of fun.
himalayanspirit wrote:Xabir,
What was the timeline in which the Asteroid would impact Earth according to your Teacher?
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Is there a connection linguistically between the word for "Seven" and for "Sabbath" in the Biblical languages, Hebrew/Aramaic/Greek? If so, could someone explain it to me.
This is related to the textual phrase "first day of the week" in the New Testament. see "The first day of the week in Corinthians 16:2" related also to Peshitta--the difference between "Sabbath" and "week"


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In case after case, mammoth IT systems that were supposed to improve the management of the Defense Department have overrun their schedules by years, expended billions of dollars more than they were supposed to, and in at least one instance, delivered almost no new capability at all. But the Pentagon says that it's learned from those mistakes and that among its enterprise resource planning systems, there is good news among the bad.
Among more than a dozen large ERP systems DoD has been working on over the last several years, the Air Force's Expeditionary Combat Support System has emerged as a favorite target for lawmakers who want to rail against wasteful spending in DoD. At a conference earlier this week, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) decried ECSS, which was supposed to help reinvent the Air Force's processes for managing logistics and its parts supply chain.
The Air Force canceled the program outright last year after spending more than $1 billion over seven years and getting only about $100 million worth of usable capability.
"The Air Force even managed to pay the contractor over $100 million more between when the Air Force told it to stop work and when the program was officially terminated. And to my knowledge, no one has been held responsible," McCain said. "What happened with ECSS is a travesty, and in terms of how little benefit was realized compared to how much was spent, it was one of the most egregious examples of mismanagement in recent memory."
Preparing the workforce for change
Asked about ECSS at a hearing of the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Intelligence, Emerging Threats and Capabilities Wednesday, Beth McGrath, DoD's deputy chief management officer, did not attempt to defend the program. But she said the Pentagon had learned from it.
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"In terms of size and scale, this program was clearly way too big," she said. "We need to chunk these IT systems into smaller capability sets so that we're delivering something and then adding to it, instead of trying to deliver the whole thing all at once."
McGrath said DoD also needs to take more care in preparing its workforce to transition from legacy IT systems and the business processes they operate within to a new generation of ERPs.
She said it also needs to pay closer attention to the issue of data quality.
"For any of these programs, you're really trying to take data from really old systems and bring them into a new, modern, much more tightly-controlled environment. Also, the importance of infrastructure can't be overstated in terms of the network, how it runs and how it's optimized. In every one of these programs, we find too much infrastructure, so it adds to latency and all those kinds of issues," she said. "We've captured all of these lessons learned along with standardization across programs. We weren't managing or monitoring them in similar way. We've made those changes so that we and the program offices can monitor their health across the lifecycle."
While ECSS is an extreme example of a failed ERP system, it's not alone in failing to meet the military's original cost and schedule projections.
Last year, the DoD inspector general examined six systems that it determined would be critical to meeting the Pentagon's legal deadlines for passing a financial audit. It found all six were years behind schedule, and each of them had exceeded their original lifecycle cost estimates for a collective total of $8 billion in cost overruns so far.
Capability are real
But McGrath said it's not as though those systems aren't producing real capability for the department.
"We share both a desire to get this better and a frustration when it doesn't, but I don't want to lose sight of some of the capability that's been delivered," she said. "We have around 14 of these major business programs. In 2009, we were in a highly-developmental stage. The number of users back then was around 27,000. Today, those same programs have 195,000 users. So we've delivered capability. We tend to talk about the programs that are really big and expensive and don't go so well, but there has been progress made in delivering supply chain capability, financial management capability and also contracting. I don't want that to get lost."
McGrath said her office has begun to review the department's large business systems to nail down the root causes of problems at every stage of the programs' acquisition lifecycles and look for leading indicators that might show that a program is headed for trouble. She said DoD also will require the sponsors of large business systems to draft a comprehensive business case to justify all of the IT functionality they're asking for at the very outset of a given program.
Lawmakers are also concerned about the future of an IT program outside the sphere of ERPs: the effort to integrate the electronic health records of DoD and the Department of Veterans Affairs.
The two departments decided to change course late last year. Rather than building one system from the ground up, they'll each begin from separate starting points and try to incrementally add joint data sharing capabilities.
McGrath said the department's leadership arrived at that decision after realizing the original concept might prove unaffordable.
"The interagency program office did a bottom-up lifecycle cost estimate that really put the affordability of the approach in question. Secretary (Leon) Panetta and Secretary (Eric) Shinseki asked whether there was a more economical way to still deliver an integrated electronic health record, but in a less-risky way," she said. "So the goal is to reduce the risk, decrease the cost and maintain the schedule we were on."
Decision on AHLTA soon
As to the core starting point each department will use, VA will begin with its existing health record system, VistA. DoD wants to eventually jettison its current system, AHLTA, and will make a decision soon about what will replace it.
"We want to ensure we've explored all opportunities, so when we're looking at our core capability, would it be VistA? Would it be something commercial? The health space has made tremendous leaps in terms of modernization over the years, and we want to make sure we're assessing the capabilities the commercial market brings," she said. "We issued a request for information in February, and we have all the responses in. We'll make a determination as to whether we'll go with a [commercial off-the-shelf] solution or a government solution by the end of March."
McGrath said DoD and VA are still committed to using a common system architecture and data standards, and she insisted none of the work the two departments have done so far in pursuit of a joint record system will go to waste.
"All the foundational things we've been working on since 2011 will all be carried forward," she said. "We're not scrapping anything. We'll continue to use all those foundational pieces."
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- Matthew Ellman, Julie Rosenbaum, Margaret Bia. Development and Implementation of a New Ward-Based Program to Help Medical Students Acquire End-of-Life Care Experience Academic Medicine .Academic Medicine 82(7):723-7, 2007.
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DEEP RUN — Jeremy Barnett didn't have to say much to his South Lenoir boys basketball team following its narrow victory against Richlands on Tuesday.
His body language spoke for him.
Jonte Midgette scored 19 points but the league-leading Blue Devils struggled mightily against the Wildcats until pulling away in the final minutes for a 49-43 win that left Barnett scratching his head and searching for answers.
"We had no energy, we had no enthusiasm," he said, after his team had to overcome yet another second-half deficit — this time to a team that was in sixth place entering Tuesday's play. "Besides the scoreboard there was not a lot to be happy about.
"It's nothing that they don't know. They know it's unacceptable the way we played. I didn't say a whole to them after the game, they know."
Outside of the rebounding edge — South Lenoir outrebounded Richlands 50-40 — and the scoreboard, the Wildcats (7-11, 2-7 East Central 2A) fought their way to more loose balls, played with more heart, Barnett felt, and turned a nine-point halftime deficit into a five-point lead before the Blue Devils (11-5, 8-1) could put the ball through the basket in the third quarter.
Barnett subbed five-for-five on several occasions, trying to find a spark for a team that had suffered its first league loss of the season Saturday at East Duplin on a late 3-pointer.
But it wasn't until South Lenoir found itself on the losing end again in the second half that it began to turn things around.
Richlands, playing without its go-to player Tyree Best, hit its first four field goals of the third quarter on its way to a 14-0 run that turned a 24-15 South Lenoir lead into a 29-24 Wildcats advantage.
The Blue Devils couldn't find the net or hold on to the basketball during the stretch, committing seven turnovers and missing their first 12 shots before Midgette finally connected on a layup with an even 3 minutes remaining in the period.
The layup sparked a 10-0 run for the home team, which put it ahead for good. But the Wildcats didn't go away quietly.
Richlands answered with a little run, and a pair of free throws by Antwan Thompson with 2:29 to play pulled his team into a tie at 41. But a 3-pointer by reserve Wyatt Janning — South Lenoir's only made 3 of the game — put the Blue Devils out of reach.
"If it wasn't for (the reserves) we don't win that game tonight," Barnett said.
Dion Jones added 10 points, six rebounds and five steals for South Lenoir, which rebounded from a 56-55 loss to the Panthers on Saturday. Jaquan Wooten had 12 rebounds and Ishmael Baldwin grabbed nine boards and added four steals but the individual performances weren't enough.
Barnett is searching for more of a group effort from a team that shot 28 percent (16 for 57) and got outhustled in the second half.
"If what happened to them on Saturday night had happened to me, I'd been spitting nails to get back on that court," he said. "We weren't.
"It's a conference win, we're 8-1 (in conference) and we took care of home court so I'm happy about that. But this will hopefully be a wakeup call."
In contrast to the boys game, South Lenoir's girls didn't disappoint.
Heather West had 16 points, seven rebounds and five steals and Hanna Meready added 11 points for a Blue Devils team that continued to win in league play and remained in a three-way tie with East Duplin and Jacksonville Northside, also winners Tuesday, for second place in the league.
The Blue Devils (13-4, 7-2) outscored the Wildcats (5-13, 1-8) 15-4 in the first 8 minutes and led 28-8 at the break.
Demeiya Adams had eight points, seven rebounds and three steals and Marquia Suddeth scored 10 points and grabbed four rebounds for South Lenoir, which hosts Topsail on Friday.
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Messiaen's music is rhythmically complex (he was interested in rhythms from ancient Greek and from Hindu sources), and is harmonically and melodically based on modes of limited transposition, which were Messiaen's own innovation. Many of his compositions depict what he termed "the marvellous aspects of the faith", drawing on his unshakeable Roman Catholicism. He travelled widely, and he wrote works inspired by such diverse influences as Japanese music, the landscape of Bryce Canyon in Utah, and the life of St. Francis of Assisi. Messiaen experienced a mild form of synaesthesia manifested as a perception of colours when he heard certain harmonies, particularly harmonies built from his modes, and he used combinations of these colours in his compositions. For a short period Messiaen experimented with the parametrization associated with "total serialism", in which field he is often cited as an innovator. His style absorbed many exotic musical influences such as Indonesian gamelan (tuned percussion often features prominently in his orchestral works), and he also championed the ondes Martenot.
Messiaen found birdsong fascinating; he believed birds to be the greatest musicians and considered himself as much an ornithologist as a composer. He notated birdsongs worldwide, and he incorporated birdsong transcriptions into a majority of his music. His innovative use of colour, his personal conception of the relationship between time and music, his use of birdsong, and his intent to express religious ideas, all combine to make Messiaen's musical style notably distinctive.
On the outbreak of World War I in 1914 Pierre Messiaen became a soldier, and their mother took the two boys to live with her brother in Grenoble. Here Messiaen became fascinated with drama, reciting Shakespeare to his brother with the help of a home-made toy theatre with translucent backdrops made from old Cellophane wrappers. At this time he also adopted the Roman Catholic faith. Later, Messiaen felt most at home in the Alps of the Dauphiné, where he had a house built south of Grenoble, and he composed most of his music there.
He commenced piano lessons after having already taught himself to play. His interest embraced the recent music of French composers Claude Debussy and Maurice Ravel, and he asked for opera vocal scores for Christmas presents. During this period he started to compose. In 1918 his father returned from the war, and the family moved to Nantes. He continued music lessons; one of his teachers, Jehan de Gibon, gave him a score of Debussy's opera Pelléas et Mélisande, which Messiaen described as "a thunderbolt" and "probably the most decisive influence on me". The following year Pierre Messiaen gained a teaching post in Paris, and the family moved there. Messiaen entered the Paris Conservatoire in 1919, aged 11.
At the Conservatoire Messiaen made excellent academic progress, many times finding himself top of the class. In 1924, aged 15, he was awarded second prize in harmony, in 1926 he gained first prize in counterpoint and fugue, and in 1927 he won first prize in piano accompaniment. In 1928, after studying with Maurice Emmanuel, he was awarded first prize for the history of music. Emmanuel's example engendered in Messiaen an interest in ancient Greek rhythms and exotic modes. After showing improvisation skills on the piano Messiaen began to study the organ with Marcel Dupré, and from him he inherited the tradition of great French organists (Dupré had studied with Charles-Marie Widor and Louis Vierne; Vierne in turn was a pupil of César Franck). Messiaen gained first prize in organ playing and improvisation in 1929. After a year studying composition with Charles-Marie Widor, in the autumn of 1927 he entered the class of the newly appointed Paul Dukas who instilled in Messiaen mastery of orchestration, and in 1930 Messiaen won first prize in composition.
While he was a student he composed his first published compositions, his eight Préludes for piano (the earlier Le banquet céleste was published subsequently). These already exhibit Messiaen's use of his preferred modes of limited transposition and palindromic rhythms (Messiaen called these non-retrogradable rhythms). His public debut came in 1931 with his orchestral suite Les offrandes oubliées. Also in that year he first heard a gamelan group, which sparked his interest in the use of tuned percussion.
In 1932, Messiaen married the violinist and fellow composer Claire Delbos. Their marriage inspired him to compose works for her to play (Thème et variations for violin and piano in the year they were married), and pieces to celebrate their domestic happiness (including the song cycle Poèmes pour Mi in 1936, which Messiaen orchestrated in 1937). Mi was Messiaen's affectionate nickname for his wife. In 1937 their son Pascal was born. Messiaen's marriage turned to tragedy when his wife lost her memory after an operation, and she spent the rest of her life in mental institutions.
In 1936, Messiaen, André Jolivet, Daniel-Lesur and Yves Baudrier formed the group La Jeune France ("Young France"). Their manifesto implicitly attacked the frivolity predominant in contemporary Parisian music, rejecting Jean Cocteau's manifesto Le coq et l'arlequin of 1918 in favour of a "living music, having the impetus of sincerity, generosity and artistic conscientiousness". Messiaen's career soon departed from this public phase, however, as the music he was composing at this time was not for public commissions or conventional concerts.
In 1937, in response to a commission for a piece to accompany light- and water-shows on the Seine during the Paris Exposition, Messiaen demonstrated his interest in using the ondes Martenot, an electronic instrument, by composing the unpublished Fêtes des belles eaux for an ensemble of six. He included a part for the instrument in several of his subsequent compositions.
During this period Messiaen composed several multi-movement organ works. He arranged his orchestral suite L'Ascension ("The Ascension") for organ, replacing the orchestral version's third movement with an entirely new movement, Transports de joie d'une âme devant la gloire du Christ qui est la sienne ("Ecstasies of a soul before the glory of Christ, which is its own glory"). This movement became one of Messiaen's most popular pieces. He also wrote the extensive cycles La Nativité du Seigneur ("The Nativity of the Lord") and Les corps glorieux ("The glorious bodies"). The final toccata of La Nativité, Dieu parmi nous ("God among us"), has become another favourite recital piece.
At the outbreak of World War II Messiaen was called up into the French army, as a medical auxiliary rather than an active combatant due to his poor eyesight. In May 1940 he was captured at Verdun, and was taken to Görlitz where he was imprisoned at prison camp Stalag VIII-A. He soon encountered a violinist, a cellist, and a clarinettist among his fellow prisoners. Initially he wrote a trio for them, but gradually incorporated this trio into his Quatuor pour la fin du temps ("Quartet for the End of Time"). This was first performed in the camp to an audience of prisoners and prison guards, the composer playing a poorly maintained upright piano, in freezing conditions in January 1941. Thus the enforced introspection and reflection of camp life bore fruit in one of 20th-century European classical music's acknowledged masterpieces. The "end of time" of the title is not purely an allusion to the Apocalypse, the work's ostensible subject, but also refers to the way in which Messiaen, through rhythm and harmony, used time in a way completely different from the music of his predecessors or contemporaries.
Among Messiaen's early students at the Conservatoire were the composers Pierre Boulez and Karel Goeyvaerts, and the pianist Yvonne Loriod. Other pupils later included Karlheinz Stockhausen in 1952, György Kurtág in 1957, and George Benjamin in the second half of the 1970s. The Greek Iannis Xenakis was briefly referred to him in 1951; Messiaen provided encouragement and exhorted Xenakis to take advantage of his background in mathematics and architecture, and use them in his music. Although Messiaen was only in his mid-thirties his students of the period later reported that he was already an outstanding teacher, encouraging each of them to find their own voice rather than imposing his own ideas.
In 1943, Messiaen wrote Visions de l'Amen ("Visions of the Amen") for two pianos for Loriod and himself to perform, and shortly afterwards composed the enormous solo piano cycle Vingt regards sur l'enfant-Jésus ("Twenty gazes on the child Jesus") for her. He also wrote Trois petites liturgies de la Présence Divine ("Three small liturgies of the Divine Presence") for female chorus and orchestra which includes a difficult solo piano part, again for Loriod. Messiaen thus continued to bring liturgical subjects into the piano recital and the concert hall.
Two years after Visions de l'Amen, in 1945, Messiaen composed the first of three works on the theme of human (as opposed to divine) love, particularly inspired by the legend of Tristan and Isolde. This was the song cycle Harawi. The second of the Tristan works was the result of a commission from Serge Koussevitsky for a piece (Messiaen stated that the commission did not specify the length of the work or the size of the orchestra); this was the ten-movement Turangalîla-Symphonie. This is not a conventional symphony, but rather an extended meditation on the joy of human love and union. It lacks the sexual guilt inherent in Richard Wagner's Tristan und Isolde because Messiaen's attitude was that sexual love is a divine gift. The third piece inspired by the Tristan myth was Cinq rechants for twelve unaccompanied singers, which Messiaen said was influenced by the alba of the troubadours.
Messiaen visited the United States in 1947, his music being conducted there by Koussevitsky and Leopold Stokowski, and his Turangalîla-Symphonie was first performed there in 1949 conducted by Leonard Bernstein. During this period, as well as giving an analysis class at the Paris Conservatoire, he also taught in Budapest in 1947 and Tanglewood in 1949; in the summers of 1949 and 1950 he taught in the new music summer school classes at Darmstadt. Though he never employed twelve-tone technique himself, after three years teaching analysis of scores using it, such as works by Arnold Schoenberg, he did experiment with ways of making scales of other elements (including duration, articulation, and dynamics) analogous to the chromatic pitch scale. The results of these innovations was the piece "Mode de valeurs et d'intensités" for piano (from the Quatre Études de Rhythme) which has been incorrectly described as the first work of total serialism, though it had a large influence on the earliest European serial composers, including Pierre Boulez, Karel Goeyvaerts, and Karlheinz Stockhausen. During this period he also experimented with musique concrète, music for recorded sounds.
Messiaen's first wife died in 1959 following her long illness, and in 1961 he married Yvonne Loriod. He began to travel widely, both to attend musical events and to seek out and transcribe the songs of more exotic birds. Loriod frequently assisted her husband's detailed studies of birdsongs, which he notated in the wild, by walking with him and making a tape recording for checking later. In 1962 his travels took him to Japan, where Gagaku music and Noh theatre inspired him to compose the orchestral "Japanese sketches", Sept haïkaï, which contain stylised imitations of traditional Japanese instruments.
Messiaen's music was at this time championed by, among others, Pierre Boulez, who programmed first performances at his Domaine musical concerts and the Donaueschingen festival. Works performed here included Réveil des oiseaux, Chronochromie (commissioned for the 1960 festival) and Couleurs de la cité céleste. The latter piece was the result of a commission for a composition for three trombones and three xylophones; Messiaen added to this more brass, wind, percussion and piano, and specified a xylophone, xylorimba and marimba rather than three xylophones. Another work of this period, Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorem, was commissioned as a commemoration of the dead of the two World Wars, and was performed first semi-privately in the Sainte-Chapelle, then publicly in Chartres Cathedral with Charles de Gaulle in the audience.
His reputation as a composer continued to grow. In 1959 Messiaen was nominated as an Officier of the Légion d'honneur, and in 1966 he was officially appointed professor of composition at the Paris Conservatoire (although he had in effect been teaching composition for years). Further honours bestowed on Messiaen later included election to the Institut de France in 1967, the Erasmus Prize in 1971, the award of the Royal Philharmonic Society Gold Medal in 1975, the Sonning Award (Denmark's highest musical honour) in 1977, and the presentation of the Croix de Commander of the Belgian Order of the Crown in 1980.
Messiaen had been asked as early as 1971 for a piece for the Paris Opéra. Initially reluctant to undertake such a major project, in 1975 Messiaen was finally persuaded to accept the commission and began work on his Saint-François d'Assise. Composition of this work was an intensive task (he also wrote his own libretto), occupying him during the period 1975–79, and then the orchestration was carried out from 1979 until 1983. The work (which Messiaen preferred to call a "spectacle" rather than an opera) was first performed in 1983. Some commentators at the time of its first production thought that Messiaen's opera would be his valediction (indeed, at times Messiaen himself believed so), but he continued composing, bringing out a major collection of organ pieces, Livre du Saint Sacrement, in 1984, as well as further bird pieces for solo piano and pieces for piano with orchestra.
Messiaen had retired from teaching at the Conservatoire in the summer of 1978. In 1987 he was promoted to the highest rank, Grand-Croix, of the Légion d'honneur. An operation prevented his participating in events to celebrate his 70th birthday, but in 1988 tributes for Messiaen's 80th birthday around the globe included a complete performance in London's Royal Festival Hall of St. François, which the composer attended, and Erato's publication of a seventeen-CD collection of Messiaen's music including recordings by Loriod and a disc of the composer in conversation with Claude Samuel.
Messiaen's last composition resulted from a commission from the New York Philharmonic Orchestra; although he was in considerable pain near the end of his life (requiring repeated surgery on his back) he was able to complete Éclairs sur l'au-delà…, which premiered six months after the composer's death. Messiaen had also been composing a concerto for four musicians he felt particularly grateful to, namely Loriod, the cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, the oboist Heinz Holliger and the flautist Catherine Cantin. This was substantially complete when Messiaen died, and Yvonne Loriod undertook the final movement's orchestration with advice from George Benjamin.
It is almost impossible to mistake a Messiaen composition for the work of any other Western classical composer. His music has been described as outside the western musical tradition, although growing out of that tradition and influenced by it. Much of Messiaen's output denies the western conventions of forward motion, development and diatonic harmonic resolution. This is partly due to the symmetries of his technique — for instance the modes of limited transposition do not admit the conventional cadences found in western classical music.
Messiaen's youthful love for the fairy-tale element in Shakespeare prefigured his later expressions of what he called "the marvellous aspects of the [Roman Catholic] Faith" — among which may be numbered Christ's Nativity, Crucifixion, Resurrection, Ascension, Transfiguration, the Apocalypse and the hereafter. Messiaen was not interested in depicting aspects of theology such as sin; rather he concentrated on the theology of joy, divine love, and human redemption.
Although Messiaen continually evolved new composition techniques, he integrated them into his musical style; so, for instance, his final work still retains the use of modes of limited transposition. For many commentators this continual development of Messiaen's musical language made every major work from the Quatuor onwards a conscious summation of all that Messiaen had composed up to that time. However, very few of these major works contain no new technical ideas — simple examples being the introduction of communicable language in Meditations, the invention of a new percussion instrument (the geophone) for Des canyons aux etoiles…, and the freedom from any synchronisation with the main pulse of individual parts in certain birdsong episodes of St. François d'Assise.
As well as discovering new techniques for himself, Messiaen found and absorbed exotic music into his compositional style, including Ancient Greek rhythms, Hindu rhythms (he encountered Śārṅgadeva's list of 120 rhythmic units, the deçî-tâlas) Balinese and Javanese Gamelan, birdsong, and Japanese music (see Example 1 for an instance of his use of ancient Greek and Hindu rhythms).
While he was instrumental in the academic exploration of his techniques (he published two treatises, the later one in five volumes which was substantially complete when he died), and was himself a master of music analysis, he considered the development and study of techniques to be a means to intellectual, aesthetic and emotional ends. In this connection, Messiaen maintained that a musical composition must be measured against three separate criteria: to be successful it must be interesting, beautiful to listen to, and it must touch the listener.
Messiaen wrote a large body of music for the piano. Although a considerable pianist himself, he was undoubtedly assisted by Yvonne Loriod's formidable piano technique and ability to convey complex rhythms and rhythmic combinations; in his piano writing from Visions de l'Amen onwards he had her in mind. Messiaen said, "I am able to allow myself the greatest eccentricities because to her anything is possible.
Messiaen also had a great admiration for the music of Igor Stravinsky, particularly his use of rhythm in earlier works such as The Rite of Spring, and also his use of colour. He was also influenced by the orchestral brilliance of Heitor Villa-Lobos, who lived in Paris in the 1920s and gave acclaimed concerts there. Among composers for the keyboard Messiaen singled out Jean-Philippe Rameau, Domenico Scarlatti, Frédéric Chopin, Debussy and Isaac Albéniz. He also loved the music of Modest Mussorgsky, and Messiaen incorporated varied modifications of what he called the "M-shaped" melodic motif from Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov into his music, although Messiaen characteristically modified the final interval in this motif from a perfect fourth to a tritone (Example 3).
Messiaen was also influenced by Surrealism, as may be seen from the titles of some of the piano Préludes (Un reflet dans le vent…, "A reflection in the wind") and in some of the imagery of his poetry (he published poems as prefaces to certain works, for example Les offrandes oubliées).
George Benjamin said, when asked what Messiaen's main influence had been on composers, "I think the sheer […] colour has been so influential, […] rather than being a decorative element, [Messiaen showed that colour] could be a structural, a fundamental element, […] the fundamental material of the music itself.
From his earliest works Messiaen often used non-retrogradable (palindromic) rhythms (Example 2).
Messiaen sometimes combined rhythms with harmonic sequences in such a way that if the process were allowed to proceed indefinitely the music would eventually run through all the possible permutations and return to its starting point. For Messiaen, this represented what he termed the "charm of impossibilities" of these processes. In practice, of course, Messiaen only ever presented a portion of any such process, as if allowing the informed listener a glimpse of something eternal. In the first movement of Quatuor pour la fin du temps the piano and cello together provide an early example.
Messiaen considered his rhythmic contribution to music to be his distinguishing mark among modern composers. As well as making use of non-retrogradable rhythms, and the Hindu decî-tâlas, Messiaen also made use of "additive" rhythms. This involves lengthening individual notes slightly or interpolating a short note into an otherwise regular rhythm (see Example 3 or to Danse de fureur from the Quatuor), or shortening or lengthening every note of a rhythm by the same duration (adding a semiquaver to every note in a rhythm on its repeat, for example). This led Messiaen to use rhythmic cells alternating between two and three units, a process which also occurs in Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring which Messiaen admired.
A factor that contributes to Messiaen's suspension of the conventional perception of time in his music is the extremely slow tempos he often specifies (the 5th movement Louange à l'Eternité de Jésus of Quatuor is actually given the tempo marking infiniment lent); and even in his quick music he often uses repeated phrases and harmonies to make the speed seem static.
Messiaen also used the concept of "chromatic durations", for example in his Soixante-quatre durées from Livre d'orgue, which assigns a distinct duration to 64 pitches ranging from long to short and low to high, respectively.
Messiaen, in addition to making harmonic use of the modes of limited transposition, also cited the harmonic series as a physical phenomenon which provides chords with a context which he felt to be missing in purely serial music. An example of Messiaen's harmonic use of this phenomenon, which he called "resonance", is the last two bars of Messiaen's first piano Prélude, La colombe ("The dove"); the chord is built from harmonics of the fundamental base note E.
Related to this use of resonance, Messiaen also composed music where the lowest, or fundamental, note is combined with higher notes or chords played much more quietly. These higher notes, far from being perceived as conventional harmony, function as harmonics that alter the timbre of the fundamental note like mixture stops on a pipe organ. An example is the song of the golden oriole in Le loriot of the Catalogue d'oiseaux for solo piano (Example 4).
In his use of conventional diatonic chords, Messiaen often transcended their historically banal connotations (for example, his frequent use of the added sixth chord as a resolution).
In a related development, Messiaen introduced what he called a "communicable language", in which he used a "musical alphabet" to encode sentences. This technique was first introduced in his Meditations sur le mystère de la Sainte Trinité for organ; in this work the "alphabet" also includes motifs for the concepts to have, to be, and God, and the sentences encoded include sections from the writings of St. Thomas Aquinas.
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The Santa Fe Civic Housing Authority (SFCHA) opened the new Hopewell Community Center/Public Computer Center on June 3, 2010, and, four days later, kicked off daily classes for the community. Mayor David Coss and children from the neighborhood cut a ribbon to mark the opening. English as a second language and computer classes were almost at capacity from the beginning and General Equivalency Diploma (GED) classes were generating similar interest. The new center will offer broadband access and computer training to low-income families, minorities, and disadvantaged youth as well as disabled and elderly Santa Fe residents. SFCHA expects to complete improvements on a second PCC by fall 2010.
Last Updated: November 22, 2010
The School Board of Miami-Dade County launched the Learn Ideas, Navigate Knowledge (LINK) program in 35 low-income elementary, middle, and high schools across the Miami-Dade County Public Schools district. This program promotes broadband adoption among economically distressed populations by providing the necessary training and equipment to students and their families. The school board partners with non- and for-profit organizations to provide computers, Internet service, and multilingual digital literacy training to participating families.
The LINK program created an Introduction to Computers class through its partnership with The Parent Academy. Through this class, participants learn computer basics, Internet fundamentals, and how to use LINK's Parent Portal. Once completed, participating families receive a free personal computer and access to its Parent Portal, an online tool that allows parents to view students' grades and keep in contact with teachers. Additionally, a video of the Introduction to Computers class, available in English, Spanish, and Creole, is pre-loaded onto each computer along with anti-virus and word-processing software.
As of July 2011, BTOP funds have helped the school board distribute computers and provide Internet service to more than 2,400 families. Additionally, BTOP funding has allowed the program to employ instructors from The Parent Academy for its Introduction to Computers class. By the end of the project, the LINK program is expected to provide computers and Internet access to approximately 6,000 households.
Last Updated: October 18, 2011
On June 21, 2011, Sho-Me Technologies, LLC began construction on the first new fiber segment of the Sho-Me MO middle-mile project. Combined with 880 miles of existing fiber, the project will deploy a total of 500 miles of new fiber to complete a 1380-mile fiber network across 30 counties in south and central Missouri. Sixty workers are diligently constructing the network to bring high-speed access to 100 community anchor institutions, including K-12 schools, community colleges, public libraries, health institutions, and various local governments. This middle-mile fiber backbone will enable distance learning and telehealth, enhance public safety applications, and expand opportunities for economic development across Missouri.
As a middle-mile project, Sho-Me MO is a part of a five-year initiative, MoBroadbandNow, launched by Missouri Governor Jay Nixon in 2009. The initiative is seeking to expand broadband accessibility to 95 percent of the total state population, a significant increase from the current projected accessibility of 80 percent. During the State Fair, Sho-Me Technologies' Jerry Hartman presented project updates to Governor Nixon and other state legislators. The Governor also acknowledged the Sho-Me MO project is advancing his "MoBroadbandNow" initiative to expand broadband access throughout Missouri.
Sho-Me Technologies recently connected the State Fairgrounds near the city of Sedalia to the network, so the Department of Agriculture, State Fair Community College, Sedalia school district buildings, and other public safety agencies operating at the State Fairgrounds could have high-speed Internet access. Missouri's state government has taken an active role in moving agriculture into the Internet age by educating rural farmers on how to use a variety of online tools. For example, the state is teaching farmers how to use smart energy meters to reduce utility bills through energy efficiency methods. In another class, the state is training farmers how to use broadband and GPS technologies to track weather patterns for crop irrigation. The state is also educating farmers on how to trade commodities in real time with global markets using video conferencing and YouTube instructional videos.
Once completed, the network could provide affordable and accessible broadband service for up to 260,000 households and 66,000 businesses by enabling local Internet service providers to utilize the project's open network to extend and improve their offerings.
Last Updated: December 7, 2011
SDN Communications is moving swiftly to deploy the state's new middle mile network before the ground freezes this winter. Throughout South Dakota, SDN crews are hard at work deploying a network that is the core of a $25 million investment to connect more than 300 anchor institutions – schools, hospitals, public safety agencies, and government offices – in 75 South Dakota communities.
SDN has two years to complete connectivity, an aggressive timeline since South Dakota winters will halt construction for four months a year. One of the first BTOP infrastructure recipients to break ground, the company put an estimated 50 construction workers on the job, not to mention the administrative workers and consultants managing the projects. Work started in Rapid City in August, and crews broke ground in Vermillion, Watertown, and Yankton in September. Vermillion's nine anchor institutions will be service-ready by mid-November. The other three communities will be ready by year's end.
To see local news coverage, please visit here. To experience the impact of the project up close, watch SDN's BTOP Stimulus Project video.
Last Updated: May 9, 2011.
The State Library of Louisiana's BTOP project, "Louisiana Libraries: Connecting People to Their Potential," has held more than 1,200 free digital literacy and software classes and will supply 640 laptop computers to libraries throughout the state by the end of the year. With these efforts, the State Library seeks to improve the workforce skills of Louisiana citizens and provide a solid economic foundation for strengthening Louisiana communities.
The free classes offer provide workers and job seekers the technology skills needed to succeed in the digital economy, including professional-grade classes in the most widely used business software, such as Microsoft® Office, Adobe® Creative Suite, and Quicken®. Louisianans also can take business skills classes to improve their proficiency on topics like Getting Your Job Search Started, Mastering the Interview, and Business Etiquette. Additional training helps people make maximum use of technology with classes in Computer Foundations, Introduction to Home Wireless Setup, and Home Computer Security.
In addition to the classes, the State Library will deploy 10 Internet-ready laptops to each parish, so citizens can borrow them through their local library and connect to any hot spot to get online. The primary goal is to promote broadband use so that citizens may become comfortable and familiar with this technology. The State Library also created the Louisiana Jobs & Career Center website, www.lajacc.org, which offers career tools and displays searchable job postings for the public.
Last Updated October 18, 2011.
"Having access to the Internet is like having a stove or refrigerator or a phone. You can't function with it," said Jerome Ryans, President and CEO of Tampa Housing Authority (THA). THA is turning this idea into a reality at its 23 housing sites in Tampa, Fla. As part of its AccessALL Tampa project, THA has turned on Internet access in all of the area's 3,554 public housing and low-income housing units.
Since receiving a $2.1 million BTOP grant in August 2010, over 150 residents have completed THA's "Intro to Microsoft Windows 7®" course. An additional 200 students are enrolled in sessions beginning in April 2011. Instructors provide individualized attention to small classes of 15 or 20 students encouraging them to interact and ask questions. A total of 68 students are enrolled in an A+ Certification program, a course designed to teach students how to configure, troubleshoot, install, and upgrade computers. THA hopes these training courses will not only increase broadband adoption, but also provide tenants with marketable skills to increase their employability.
In keeping with the idea of a computer as an appliance, THA is also implementing a SmartUnit pilot program in 197 housing units. Computers are being installed at permanent kiosks in each of the participating units. Tenants in these units are required to attend a six-week introduction to Microsoft Windows 7®. The course also includes Internet safety information targeted towards parents since many of the SmartUnits house families with young children. As part of the pilot program, THA is conducting a survey of school children to determine how access to a computer and the Internet at home affects grades. THA is surveying grades received prior to installing the computer kiosks and plans to compare them to grades received in subsequent semesters. THA hopes that broadband and computer access will have a significantly positive impact on the grades of students living in SmartUnit communities.
Last Updated: October 18, 2011.
In 2011, Technology for All's (TFA) Texas Connects Coalition project created or refurbished 71 public computer centers. These centers are a part of a statewide campaign to help those without access to computers and the Internet acquire the digital literacy skills needed to participate in today's modern workforce.
Using BTOP funds, TFA has been able to make available approximately 350 computers to underserved community members, providing free Internet access to an average of 13,600 users per week. Along with free computer access, the centers provide a variety of resources to help local residents develop technology skills that will make them more competitive in the job market. The centers offer workforce development assistance for resume creation, job searches, and interview preparation. The centers also provide classes covering topics such as computer basics, Internet fundamentals, word processing, and business software, such as Microsoft® Office.
TFA's job training efforts are already making a huge impact on Texas residents. More than 46,000 students have participated in TFA's classes. According to TFA, in many communities, residents are using their newly developed computer skills to find and retain jobs. For example, a single parent who was on a fixed income and could not to purchase a computer or broadband service for her home was able to use a TFA center in Houston, Texas, to connect to the Internet. At the center, she developed computer skills, and learned how to update her resume and search online for employment opportunities.
Last updated: April 17, 2012
As of July 2011, the Texas State Library & Archives Commission has upgraded public computer centers at 11 libraries throughout the state. Known as the Technology Expertise, Access and Learning for all Texans (TEAL) project, this initiative is providing computer access and training opportunities for the state's most underserved populations across 38 partnering library systems. BTOP funds already have helped these learning institutions replace 153 existing computers and deploy an additional 163 workstations, connecting an average of 3,500 users per week to online resources.
TEAL also offers professional development webinars for library staff. These webinars provide librarians with tools and techniques to manage and promote computer resources, enabling libraries to better meet patrons' technology needs. To date, TEAL has facilitated 10 webinars for approximately 744 library staff members, helping them improve their understanding of technology to boost sustainable broadband adoption. TEAL offers webinars on a variety of topics including a series on how to promote and teach computer technology with seniors and people with disabilities. TEAL also partnered with the Texas Workforce Commission to create a series of workforce skills webinars, teaching librarians how to help library patrons with their job searches and career development.
TEAL is using approximately $8 million in BTOP funds and $3.7 million in non-Federal matching funds to provide 2,200 new workstations in 155 new or upgraded public computer centers and directly create more than 100 full- and part-time jobs. As of July 2011, BTOP funds have allowed the Texas State Library & Archives Commission to hire four full-time employees to conduct training workshops and help manage the public computer resources. To see local media coverage, please visit The Smithville Times.
Last Updated: October 18, 2011
The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System connected 92 community anchor institutions to Metropolitan Unified Fiber Network (MUFN) through June 2013. The 130-mile network connected schools, public safety organizations, and a community college to new fiber-optic infrastructure. The new access will allow ambulances to send patient information to hospitals en route, clinics and hospitals to access electronic health records, and students to share information and resources between campuses.
The network provides high-capacity broadband Internet connections for community anchor institutions, and enable broadband services throughout the Madison, Middleton, and Monona, Wisconsin regions. In addition, the University of Wisconsin System hopes to spur new or improved broadband Internet access for local residents and businesses, including as many as 47,000 households and 5,000 businesses, by enabling Internet service providers to connect to the project's open network.
Philadelphia Mayor Michael A. Nutter helped launch the Freedom Rings Partnership at the April 26, 2011, official opening of the FIGHT Computing Center, the first of the project's 77 public computer centers to provide digital literacy and workforce training opportunities.
FIGHT is one of 13 local agencies working with the city's Division of Technology to provide broadband Internet access, computers, and training to Philadelphia's most economically and socially vulnerable populations. The Urban Affairs Coalition, a lead partner in this initiative, will provide computer and technology training opportunities at many computer center locations.
The Freedom Rings Partnership plans to create 177 full-time and part-time jobs. The 77 computer centers will include 19 recreation centers, 29 community-based organization sites working with high-risk populations, 10 homeless shelters, 15 other affordable housing sites, and four mobile labs that will reach communities lacking space or the capacity to house a computer center.
In addition to services provided at citywide computer centers, the Freedom Rings Partnership will encourage Philadelphians to "get connected" to technology in their homes. The participating partners expect to serve approximately 15,000 people per year and use a citywide outreach campaign to deliver information about the importance of broadband technology to more than 100,000 households.
To see local media coverage of the April 26 event, please visit The Philadelphia Inquirer. To read the mayor's official report about the Recovery Act at work in Philadelphia, please visit here.
Last Updated: October 19, 2011.


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