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by Chuck Israels
Lesson 18 - Writing for The Whole Band
Overall Instrumentation Considerations
Most school bands will have at least 5 saxophones (2 altos, 2 tenors, and a baritone), 4 trumpets (some of whom may own flugelhorns), and 3 or 4 trombones (bass trombone is often also available). Woodwind doubles are usually available in the saxophone sections of professional bands, but it is not safe to assume that this will be true of school bands. However, schools often have flute and clarinet players who may be happy to make themselves available to fill in those parts. Saxophone players will often have soprano saxophones and be able to double on them. If you find that a tuba and/or horns are available, and your musical concept includes those sounds, use them. Find out before you begin, and write for the forces you have. Doing this is a long-standing composers tradition.
Most bands will have a pianist (electric keyboards are a poor substitute and are a different kind of instrument do not write for them as if they were a piano), a bassist (again, an electric bass is not any kind of substitute for a string bass and should be written for as a different instrument, suitable for music with intentionally dominating bass parts only), and a drum set with snare, bass drum, 2 tom-toms, high hat cymbals, and one or two ride cymbals.Guitarists are ubiquitous, but good arch-top jazz guitars are not, so it is a good idea to know what is available. Solid body guitars, designed for the high volumes of rock music, can be used (carefully) in jazz bands, but they are unsuited for playing rhythm section parts in the style of Freddie Green.
Vibraphone and extra percussion are often available in school bands.
Maintain ideals of instrumentation, but write for what you have.
Open a big band template (included with this material), stare at the empty screen for a while and work up a good case of writers block. This is the first step for most people. Here are some ways to get over it and get on with your work. Assuming you have a piece in mind, a good place to start your band arrangement is with a lead sheet version that includes the melody and basic harmony. Enter that in an extra staff created on the bottom of your big band template. If your screen doesnt have enough room to see the whole instrumentation when you are in scroll view at a decent viewing percentage, you can create staff sets that will allow you to see enough of the score to orchestrate the music. Obvious sets might be, reeds, brass, rhythm section, and various sub-sets like trumpets, trombones, and any of the above combined with the rhythm section and the lead sheet staff.
Once the screen view is comfortably set up, make the basic decisions: what will be the tempo and rhythmic feel of the piece and in what key will it start? Enter a tempo marking in the score. (This should be placed above the time signature on the first page with a staff list selected that shows it only in that position on the score but prints it on the top staff of each extracted part.) Dont worry if the idea for the beginning of the piece doesnt occur immediately. Start the piece at a point where you know what you want to do. you can always go back and add measures at the beginning for introductory material after more of the piece is written. It is a reliable phenomenon that though ideas for a beginning can be elusive as the work on the arrangement begins, they often occur easily when the emotional pressure is relieved by the confidence that comes when the body of the work has been written.
(I wonder if Shakespeare wrote the verse, Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble, as he started work on the 4th act of Macbeth, or if it might have occurred to him later as he considered how to set a scene for which he had already written dialog for the main characters. Does it matter? As composer/arrangers [and as playwrights], we get to control the audiences future while we work in non-consecutive order, if it suits our creative needs.)The question of key will be best answered after a decision about the choice of lead instrument for the melody. For instance, if it is to be in the singing register of the trombone, the highest note should be between a G above the bass clef (G above middle C) and the Bb above that for most players. That key range might also suit a tenor saxophone in its rich middle register, though the trombone will have more intensity on the high notes than the tenor sax. Understanding instrument ranges and how they sound in each register is an acquired skill. Garritan JABB playback can help somewhat in this respect; the samples will not play beyond normal instrument ranges but, since the sounds are being played by a machine rather than by a human body, the differences in timbre and physical effort are not well represented by the samples. The piano keyboard is equally deceptive in this respect. There is no substitute for the experience to be gained from memorizing instrumental ranges and registers.
Its useful to remember that all the saxophones have the same written range, and that the registers are also similar. However, the last two or three low notes on the soprano and alto are harder to control than those same notes played on the baritone or tenor. Experience and critical listening will inspire confident choices.
Considerations of form should be another early step. Is this to be a conventional piece with an introduction, head, solo choruses, a final chorus, and a coda; or will there be interludes, tempo changes, meter changes, key changes, rubatos, or other large formal divisions? Even if ideas about such things change in the process, its helpful to start with a plan. Larger structural ideas help pull details into focus.
There are a number of ways to make use of the whole band, and one of the most obvious is also rather underused; that is having the entire wind section (and sometimes even the piano and bass), in octave/unison. Full band unison can be a good choice. There is nothing stronger.
Here is the unison ensemble chorus from David Bergers Monkey Business shown in a condensed, concert pitch, score. With the exception of one note that exceeds the normal range of the alto and baritone saxophones by one half step (a common extension easily within the comfort zone of experienced players), everything fits within the range of the instruments and takes advantage of that range to express the emotional contour of the line. In order to perform this passage well, the players must not play too loudly and must exaggerate the expression of the dynamic nuances that are implied by the line. If this is done successfully, the music will communicate all its mercurial humor and rhythmic vitality.
Score References & Musical Examples Using JABB:In David Bergers music for the Harlem Nutcracker, there is a rapid unison passage that starts in the high trumpets, swoops down through the band to the lowest notes of the baritone saxophone, goes back up to the high trumpets, and ends with another swoop down and up to the middle register. It is a moment that generates tremendous excitement, and even a good recording misses the spatial effect that comes from hearing the sound move through the band in three dimensions.
Click on Play Button below to Play from the Score
Used by Permission from David Berger
In this passage, the first two trumpet players are reserved for the high notes, and the remaining instruments are used through their entire range. Each instrument group enters on the highest practical note as it becomes available in the line and continues the line as long as the range of that instrument will allow.
Entrances of new instruments can create friction, so these are placed on offbeat pickups in order to minimize the interruption in the line. Exits are less obtrusive. They occur more often on downbeats. The desired effect is one of a continuous line that changes color as it travels smoothly through the entire range of the band, with the players handing off the line to the entering section, as racers hand off the baton in a relay. This is a unison passage and it swings accordingly. Thickening the rapidly moving line with harmony would be likely to detract from its effect. As a contrast to that linear activity, the passage ends with percussive chords in the high brass (particularly high in the trombones for professional use only) and a rich, rangy saxophone texture.
The charm and excitement of the music are contained in its speed and range, and the impression of energy it creates is stronger than would be made by a louder passage with less movement and athletic fluidity.
Here is an analysis of the passage in a concert sketch followed by a condensed transposed score.
Score References & Musical Examples Using JABB:
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Used by Permission from David Berger
Example 10-3 (score only)
Here is the opening chorus of Kevin Woods Levitt or Leave It, written in homage to the music of Rod Levitt. It captures Rods special use of effects in extreme ranges and wide intervals and demonstrates how the whole sections of the band can be used in unisons and simple two-part harmony and the result can still sound complex and interesting because of the orchestration and varied rhythms.
(Its worth comparing Kevins use of the interval of a tritone as a motive with David Bergers use of it in the theme for Monkey Business ex. 5-7.)
Score References & Musical Examples Using JABB:
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The full band tutti, in which there are 4, 5, or more real parts distributed across the winds, is another texture that is nearly as powerful as a full band unison, and it has the extra dimension of adding harmonic color to the line. Ellingtons music has passages that demonstrate effective ways to do this, and David Berger is another expert in the use of this technique.
The standard (and sometimes most appropriate) technique for accomplishing this texture is to voice the brass first, often with the trombone parts duplicating the trumpet voicing down one octave, and then to use the saxophone section to fatten the middle register. David Berger uses this kind of texture in different ways. Heres an example of a subdued tutti passage, where the lead trumpet part remains below a written Bb above the staff, allowing the baritone saxophone to double the lead an octave below without exceeding the upper limit of its range (concert Ab above middle C). The trumpets are voiced in close position harmony, and the trombone parts double those voices one octave lower. The rest of the saxophones double the lower trumpet parts in unison. In the case of this example, the first alto saxophone is omitted, since it had just finished a solo in this arrangement.
AN IMPORTANT CHARACTERISTIC OF THIS TEXTURE IS THAT NO INSTRUMENT DOUBLES THE LEAD TRUMPET PART AT PITCH.(A note on notational style: David Berger writes off beat anticipations as quarter notes, and all quarters are assumed to be played short unless otherwise marked. This is in contrast to the notation of most of the examples in this book, in which short anticipations are notated as eighth notes, and quarter notes are full value unless otherwise marked.)
Score References & Musical Examples Using JABB:
Click on Play Button below to Play from the Score
Used by Permission from David Berger
When the tutti passage needs more power, the lead trumpet needs to remain in a higher register, substantially above the staff. In this instance, the brass voicing remains the same, but the lead alto saxophone doubles the lead trumpet one octave lower, the rest of the saxophone section is arrayed below that, doubling trombone parts, and the baritone saxophone doubles the lead trumpet two octaves lower. If the rest of the arrangement is in a key that is unsuitable for a passage using this texture, this can provide a good reason and opportunity to use a modulation!
Here is an example of this texture.
Score References & Musical Examples Using JABB:
Click on Play Button below to Play from the Score
Used by Permission from David Berger
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That's great, Stephen! Very encouraging and a good reminder to focus on the small steps. I think we all make the mistake sometimes of looking at other people's super cool accomplishments and assuming it all happened overnight.
greta article Stephen! And reminded me of the things we've been talking about.
Awesomeness. This principle is crucial.
Aha, so ask and ye shall receive only goes so far, hunh? Ah well. I'll be oerrding a copy anyway, but I'm in germany, so maybe I can get a Spiekermann signature.
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Hi, thank you for clarify this whit a comic stripe… now im in this strange path to descover what I really want to do…and is taking me a year of time to start to know that…
This was so encouraging to me. I frequently come back to trying to draw and get disheartened quickly from comparing my efforts to work I admire. Then I give up for a while and tell myself maybe I just don't have the right skills for drawing or designing. This is a great reminder to just keep at it and even if the "bricks" are a bit crumbly and rubbish to start with, they're still bricks and can only get better. Thanks for giving me a bit of motivation, I really enjoyed reading these comics so far, keep it up! Thank you, Anne
Thanks so much for this comic Steve! This is so relevant for so many things. I'm working on my Master's Thesis right now, and I'm working in an area that has relatively little scholarship so that my idea is new and interesting, but there is just enough scholarship that I frequently end up comparing myself to these Herculean academics who are "so much more brilliant than me and I'll never be that smart and know that much and make such clever arguments!" when really they've just been working in their fields for 20 years longer than I have. It's nice to be reminded of this every so often, so that I can now continue laying the bricks
I've been on a real downer with my art lately- I'd love to be concept artist but couldn't ever see myself being employed as one.
This comic has really given me some hope and motivation back. And if ever I feel discouraged again, you can be sure I'll be back to read through this for inspiration.
Thanks very much for the encouragement and the motivation!
Hey Stephen, thanks so much for your art! It really means a lot to me, this concept about building something brick by brick.
I have many large goals which I really want to accomplish, but I often look towards the immediate results(which discourages me), and forget this crucial principle about building things a little bit at a time.
So I guess I would say it again, thanks for the reminder!
I really do love your art and the message it conveys, so keep the good work up!
Awesome! David Ramsey's recent book Entreleadership goes over this in his chapter on Goals. It was a paradigm shift for me.
Your cartoon illustrates it nicely.
I didn't think I'd stumble upon such an inspiring message today. And yet, it speaks only the truth.
It reminds me that I spend more time on my project. I'm already proud of my work 'til now, but I'll be even more once I'm done and get to share it.
Thank you!
Really inspiring stuff. I love your perspective. This article really increased my hope and confidence towards achieving BIG DREAMS or GOALS! Thanks for taking the time to share your wisdom, its much appreciated.
Your picture blog here is very inspiring and this one in particular has put a great big smile on my face, I'm sure whenever I'm feeling down about my artwork or any big goal for that matter I will most definitely look back on this blog and regain some of my enthusiasm! Thanks a bunch keep up the great work here and in your comic career doing Mal&Chad!
This story reminds me of the true story I heard actor Will Smith tell in an interview.
Will's father,wanting to teach his boys a tangible lesson about goal setting, took Will and his brother to a wall that he had demolished and ordered them to rebuild it. Will's dad gave him and his brother no interactions on how to re build the wall, nor did he supply the materials. It was left to them to rebuild it on their own.it took a year to complete the project, but the two brothers successfully completed the task alone, and as a result learned valuable lessons in resourcefulness, persistence, ingenuity, and working progressively towards a goal. Smith credits this as one of his greatest accomplishments.
Art is not question of skill. It is the human way to do things with heart.
Aww. This is very inspiring! Thank you very much for this! And, nice art
Ahh This is so true! Very encouraging, inspiring, and makes so much sense. Thank you for this!! ♥ I needed that
… I really needed to read this. Thank you.
Thank you for this…
You saw this sentence many times before, but this little story is VERY inspiring… When I usually just hide in the corner – there are SO much more greater people than I am, that can create WAY better things… I simply want to die sometimes, because I feel useless.
But then I saw this. Simple little idea. Just small steps. We shouldn't be afraid to make them… Because it's PRECISELY it, what leads us to those greater people…
Thank you again you made me to let myself try one more time
omg again! that's me, looking at the picture that came out into the world, vs the one that was in my head. lol!
have you seen… man, i can't remember where i saw it, on someone's blog… i can't find it. it was a graph, showing how your visual acuity as an artist evolves vs how your manual skill in creating art progresses. and where the two lines overlap, that's when you feel you are at the top of your game, and where the vision gets ahead of the skill, that's the periods where you feel you suck. but the point of the graph is, it's a cycle. so if you feel you suck now, it will get better.
anyway, this one reminded me of that, too.
Your comics are deeply inspiring and moving. Thank you so much for them!
I'd love a print of this. I'm imagining it exactly as it's laid out here—as vertical panels. Any chance of you selling those?
I would love for this to end with him making a second picture better than his first.
Thank you for this! I'm just in the start point of that road and feeling very small. Now I have hope again. PS: Sorry for the english, not native language.
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I must say these little comics are really inspirational.
I feel like your in my head >< Its so hard not to put ourselves down at times. I'm well known for this. Thanks for the inspiring words. If only I can pain the walls over my art station with stuff like this.
Thank you so much for this blog. Just an immense amount of gratitude here. Your comics have pulled me out of creative funks twice now, and always seem to be exactly what I need to hear to get going again. I want to say they're inspiring, but I find a lot of things inspiring that don't result in action. These are motivating, effective. And lovely to boot. So, thanks.
I loved this. Very inspiring.
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¡So true! Every big thing needs time to buid, fail, learn, grow in the meantime…
What I love about what you post is that it can be applied to so many things in our lives. We seem to have this sad thing where our nature is to forget, we forget details, hows, whys, even the beauty around us. I'm glad there are people like you around who still notice and can remind others. So thanks, you made my day. <3
This reminded me of a poem I wrote a number of years ago – I hope you don't mind me sharing it here.
The Great Wall of China.
From space you can see it
it's really that huge,
a structure of cosmic dimensions,
and yet it was built long before JCB
or other earth moving pretensions.
These days we may feel
we cannot make change
with mankind pitted brother'gainst brother.
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I loved your idea of expression with lucid pictures. The principle of 'brick by brick' needs a clear idea of their placement too. Doing small bits every day add up only if they are placed in an order. I believe master artists know where to place their bricks
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This is incredibly encouraging. Thank you!
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Thank you: this was what I was needing today!
Have a good day,
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How do you know your tower of accomplishment is made out of the kinda bricks you can make? Iffy way to follow the analogy I know but what do you do when you don't know the path you need to reach your goals? Or any milestone on the way? All you do is the end goal but nothing in between and nobody you ask from knows any better either?
I keep referring back to this and quoting and forwarding it to anyone and everyone!! Really one of the best messages for artists ever. We all struggle to really live it, but by golly I do try every day.
It also reminds me of my favorite quote by Samuel Beckett 'No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.' I think 'failing better' or 'failing up', as some people call it, is the key to any long-term success. Also reminiscent of Ira Glass and his wonderful talk on the subject – "Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it's just not that good. It's trying to be good, it has potential, but it's not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase, they quit. Most people I know who do interesting, creative work went through years of this. We know our work doesn't have this special thing that we want it to have. We all go through this. And if you are just starting out or you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week you will finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions. And I took longer to figure out how to do this than anyone I've ever met. It's gonna take awhile. It's normal to take awhile. You've just gotta fight your way through."
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Sinopec to Buy Stake in Chesapeake Assets for $1.02 Billion
China Petroleum & Chemical Corp (Sinopec) will buy half of Chesapeake Energy's Mississippi Lime oil and gas properties in Oklahoma for $1.02 billion to increase its presence in the booming North American shale gas industry.
Output from shale fields in the United States and Canada has jumped over the last three years due to the advent of drilling methods such as hydraulic fracturing.
Companies in China, which has the largest shale reserves in the world, are keen to get the know-how of drilling in such unconventional fields.
China's state-owned CNOOC has struck a deal to buy Canadian oil and gas company Nexen for $15.1 billion, while Pioneer Natural Resources said last month it would sell a stake in its assets in the Wolfcamp shale field of Texas to Sinochem Group for $1.7 billion.
Sinopec, Asia's largest oil refiner, will buy 50% of Chesapeake's 850,000 acres of net oil and natural gas leasehold properties in the Mississippi Lime shale field in northern Oklahoma, the companies said.
The Mississippi Lime assets will be bought by Sinopec International.
"The deal is about $200 million below our modeled assumption for similar acreage but (with) more production," analysts at investment bank Tudor, Pickering, Holt & Co said.
However, SunTrust Robinson Humphrey analyst Neal Dingmann, said the deal was very positive for Chesapeake.
"The price based on all metrics appears better than what myself or the Street expected, especially the $2,400 per acre metric," he said.
Chesapeake has about 2.1 million net acres of leasehold in the Mississippi Lime region, which straddles northern Oklahoma and southern Kansas.
Chesapeake's production from the Mississippi Lime region jumped 208% to an average of 32,500 barrels of oil equivalent per day in the fourth quarter, the company reported this month.
About 45% of the total output was oil, 46% was natural gas and the rest was natural gas liquids.
Sinopec's deal with Chesapeake, the second-largest gas producer in the United States, will help the Oklahoma City-based company cut down its debt, which stood at $12 billion as of Dec.
Chesapeake, which closed $12 billion of asset sales last year, is targeting asset sales of $4 billion to $7 billion in 2013, the company said in a presentation earlier this month.
Chesapeake said in December it would sell most of its natural gas processing and gathering assets for $2.16 billion to Access Midstream Partners.
The company's board and big shareholders are trying to rein in spending, pay down debt and increase production of more profitable oil.
Chief Executive Aubrey McClendon, who co-founded the company in 1989, is stepping down on April 1 following a tumultuous year during which the company faced a liquidity crunch and a governance crisis.
Sinopec struck a deal with Devon Energy in January 2012 to buy a third of the U.S. oil and natural gas producer's interest in five developing fields for about $2.2 billion.
A unit of Sinopec signed a deal to buy Canadian oil and gas explorer Daylight Energy for more than $2 billion in October 2011.


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Anisha received her very own Bible, a treasured gift. She carefully turned the pages and traced her finger over the life-giving words. She keeps her Bible safely tucked away, and carries it proudly with her to weekly Bible study. She is prayed over and with by her caregiver, and she loves to express her joy by singing loudly during worship. Anisha is exploring her own belief system, and she is beginning to understand that she can go to Jesus whenever she is hurting.


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From the DVD case:
This psychological chiller tells the story of a man who pushes his mistress out of a lighthouse to her death, only to have her ethereal body parts return to haunt him.
With mostly laughable special effects this film proves that the best fissions are those created by the imagination. (1960, b&w)
Mark says:
Ok, so you're not going to go to sleep with the lights on after viewing this film, but I think you'll find it entertaining.
Tormented stars one of my favorite B-actors, Richard Carlson (It Came from Outer Space, Creature from the Black Lagoon), playing the part of Tom Stewart, a jazz pianist, who is about to marry Meg Hubbard (Lugene Sanders). Unfortunately, Tom has a former mistress, a Marilyn Monroe knock-off named Vi (Juli Reding) who is not so willing to let him go.
Lucky for Tom, Vi leans against a lighthouse railing that gives way. Vi dangles from the top of the lighthouse, and though Tom could easily save her, he pauses long enough to let Vi fall to her death. As Vi's body washes off to sea, Tom believes all his troubles are over.
But we know better.
Vi, of course, comes back to haunt Tom (one body part at a time, it seems) and to ensure his marriage to Meg never takes place.
The acting is what you'd expect from a B-picture horror film of the era, mostly schlock. Even Richard Carlson seems awkward in his role, especially as he feigns his jazz piano numbers. The other acting is barely noteworthy, though Joe Turkel (Village of the Giants) turns in an amusing performance as Nick, the blackmailer.
Tormented probably could have been a spooky little film, but the effects and acting are just too cheesy to make the viewer uneasy.
This movie was written and directed by low-budget king, Bert I. Gordon (Beginning of the End, Empire of the Ants). You may not experience many genuine chills, but you will be treated to some entertaining B-movie camp goodness created by a master of the genre.
Scene to watch for: Tom gets in an argument with a disembodied head.
Line to listen for: "Tom Stewart killed me! Tom Stewart killed me!"
Notes of interest: Bert I. Gordon's daughter, Susan Gordon, plays Meg's little sister, Sandy. Also, Joe Turkel, who plays Nick, the blackmailer, later went on to play the ghostly bartender, Lloyd, in Kubrick's The Shining.
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Banga is punk legend™ Patti Smith's eleventh studio album and as usual Smith's rough and soulful voice is still capable of sending shivers down the spine. Smith has always been a poet through and through and on Banga she gives the nod to other literary and musical figures from Russian writer Nikolai Gogol who inspired the record's first single 'April Fool' to tragic songstress Amy Winehouse for whom 'This Is the Girl' was written.
The problem with Patti Smith is that some of her greatest strengths can also be her greatest weaknesses. She naturally gives a poetic feel to all her lyrics but sometimes the poetry can get a little bit too much. And she likes her tracks epic, certainly on this album. For 'epic' you can read 'long' if you like, but generally with some big ass build up, which can sometimes veer into the territory of overblown. Whilst Smith bears the status of 'punk priestess', she is, let's face it, a bit of a hippy. And this is coming from a long-time fan of Patti Smith, but we have to level here. Some of this album sounds like you should be getting naked on a hillside to it. Which is fine sometimes but when she starts going on about how the "eternal son runs to its mother" on 'Tarkovsky (The Second Stop Is Jupiter)' you do find yourself rolling your eyes a bit as it's not the first time on the album such imagery has been alluded to. Elsewhere on that track, the imagery gets more exciting and bleak, "The sea is a morgue… these things that float in blood that has no name". Nice. It appears to be an epic meditation on the planets. Trust Patti.
'Constantine's Dream' is the longest track on the album, clocking in at around ten minutes and I have to admit my mind was wandering by the end. It's great to have a build up but by the end of a lot of tracks on Banga, the enormous build up then swirling climax feels a bit formulaic. Impressive as it undoubtedly is.
Not all the tracks follow this path; 'This Is The Girl' the Winehouse memorial, comes across as an attempt at an old skool soul crooner ballad. It doesn't do it amazingly well but is saved, as are most of the gripes I have with the album by Patti's voice, when she sings high and long drawn out as she does when singing "This is the blood that turned into wine" you feel it viscerally in both words and sound. The vocals could bore into your soul.
After the marathon of 'Constantine's Dream', a cover of Neil Young's 'After The Goldrush' is tender, naïve sounding piano balladry, highlighting the raw strength of Smith's voice. Perfect for putting on and collapsing on your bed thinking about what you've lost. Only slightly tainted by the children she gets on to sing with her for the choral reprise.
A bit of musical beauty, some interesting lyricism and a pinch of hippy bollocks - still distinctly Patti Smith.
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It's not always easy for the smaller companies to survive against the conglomerate studio system but several companies here have made successes.
Leomark Studios, headed by composer Erik Ludmark and Maria Collis, do just about everything from production to distribution. They even can help with financing films with their own investors. "We are interested in a wide diversity of films not just low budget horror. WE want something that is well crafted which will grab the emotions of the audience and are tired of the found footage homemade type films. If we like it, we will develop a script with the notes. They currently have a Western in pre-production and they found that it's important to have at least one name in your film. Something, like a Western, which requires expensive horses, need the bigger budget. If you have a name, almost anything goes. Right now, they are finding that action pictures and thrillers are still the biggest sell. Comedy, unless it's outrageous like Hangover or American Pie, doesn't sell without a strong cast. Some buyers won't even hear pitches for the later." Most of the pictures they do are between 1-3 million.
A composer and producer, Erik didn't like the deals he was getting from distributors and decided to do his own. As distributors, despite being only a year and a half old, they sell their products world wide. "A producer knows they are getting an honest deal here. Since we also create content, we know what it takes to sell it." He tells producers to know your genre and the marketing for your film. Understand that there needs to be money put behind it, or it will be buried, especially with the larger companies. Many distributors will ask for up front fees, plus expenses, to take your film on. You don't want to go with them. "While some places will charge a retainer fee, we don't charge unless you approve expenses a head of time and while we do supply some P &A for the films, you have to understand to put some money aside for the selling of the film. Make sure your distributor knows that there's a cap on the expenses, but filmmakers have to understand that advertising is a big expense.
"If you want to succeed at filmmaking, you have to be practical. Understands what sells and doesn't sell and while you should film from your passion, know that straight artistic expression isn't going to make the buyers notice. Wait til you make a name for yourself, then you can go with the artistic film.
One of their recent success at the market is Blue Collar Boys, written, directed and edited, by young filmmaker Mark Nistico. The story of the economy, of construction workers being shafted and families struggling to stay together, the film was awarded best microbudget film in Toronto. "One of my biggest mistakes," says Mark, "was not being fully prepared to shoot. You need a powerful infrastructure to keep a film afloat, especially if you are working on a tight budget. Know that investors will want you to shoot earlier than you are ready. They want to see the film out and making money. Don't be rushed." He had 40 locations in the 27 day shoot and made the film for $75,000.
Located in the western San Fernando Valley, Fries Films, run by Alice and Charles Fries (yes, they're related to the great Chuck Fries of TV fame) do production, sales agent and distribution, as well.
Their current slate includes a female action thriller post apocalyptic, a Western, family drama and thrillers. Another is Meeting Spencer, which won best screenplay at the Miami Film Festival. "Diversity is what the buyers today want," says Alice. They just recently did a Pinocchio in 3D, which has been favorably accepted. "Family films almost always do well. It's the universal connection for everyone.
Rex Media by Romania born Geroge Lascu lauds the budget cutting production facilities in Romania. "I can shoot there for half of what it takes here and the crews, having done numerous films already, are quite professional. His favorite films are fantasy and adventure. Among the current offerings he has are a sci fi thriller "Photica" and "Five Dogs of War," staring Andy Garcia, Sharon Stone, Val Kilmer and Heather Graham. "Yes, it's possible to get the stars, if you have a good script. The difference between going straight to DVD and having a theatrical release is often the cast."
David Suarez of Ytinifini Pictures also found that he needed a distributor that he could trust and, after producing several pictures, began to do his own thing. He deals a lot with the Chinese as they are an ever expanding market. "Of course, the story has to have something culturally Chinese within the script for them to want to do it. Every movie is very different and every deal is different. Some things you can do pre-sales with and some you cannot. Everything has to make sense from the business plan and the script to the cast and the director." He urges filmmakers, when doing their business plans, to be sure to mention comparables. Working as both a sales agent and a distributor, he makes deals film by film. His tastes are diverse from thriller and horror, to family, adventure, martial arts, comedy, psycho drama and sci fiction.
A slightly bigger company, TriCoast Worldwide, they, nevertheless, have to fight the conglomerate studio giants. Run by Marcy and Strath Hamilton, the company has been around for 27 years and while they like all genres, they are especially fond of family fare. "Christmas movies also do well." "We are producers, but we do finance, co-production and like to have our hand in the casting choices." They, too, started off as just producers and realized that they had to be distributors, as well. As far as being distributors, Marcy says, "We are transparent is all our dealings. We're happy to show all contracts and give referrals" (Something that's very important…doing your due diligence.) "We want to be able to give our investors their money back and then some. In fact, we won't take on a film unless we can pay the investor back." While they see dozens of scripts, they are very selective on what they take on because they want to make sure they have buyers for the films.
Another successful small company is Cinetel run by Paul Hertzberg. He tells producers to be sure that the distributor you are choosing actually handles films in your genre. Look at their track records and see what they have sold and to whom. He advises producers always to have collection accounts when dealing with distributors. It keeps everyone honest. "And make sure you have a good attorney." Paul likes high concept horror and thriller as well as action and disaster films. Produce what the market is buying, at least until you make a name for yourself. Be realistic. Don't think that just because you have made a film that it deserves a theatrical release. Those are reserved for films with great subject matter and good casts.


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1 small onion, minced
2 cloves of garlic, minced
2 chili peppers, minced
2 tablespoons green onions
1 small tomato, diced and gently squeezed (to remove excess liquid)
4 soft corn tortillas, cut into 1 inch strips
4 soft corn tortillas, warmed (to serve along side)
1 tablespoon salsa
1 tablespoon sour cream
4 eggs
1/3 cup, cheddar cheese cubed
1 tablespoon butter
1 tablespoon oil
Saute onion, garlic, chili peppers, tomato, and tortilla strips in the oil and butter for 10-15 minutes until vegetables are soft. Whisk eggs with sour cream, green onions, and salsa. Stir cheese into egg mixture and scramble together with the vegetable / tortilla mixture until the eggs are to the desired consistency. Serve with the warm corn tortillas.


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After winning an Annie Award, a VES award, and having a successful opening at the Universal Studios theme park in Orlando, the Despicable Me: Minion Mayhem ride I helped previs is now coming to my city. After seeing the Hollywood Universal Studios last summer, I am definitely looking forward to returning so I can finally check out this 3D ride the way it was meant to be experienced.
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I am a Visualization Supervisor and Senior Animator in Los Angeles with over eighteen years of experience crafting powerful, cinematic moments for the entertainment industry. Clients include Disney, Marvel Studios, 20th Century Fox, Universal Studios. Before my career in the film and advertising industry, I worked at Rockstar Games, where I was a Senior Animator on Red Dead Redemption. I also illustrate and create visual art in my spare time.
Visualization is a process that allows a complicated production to be imagined in advance, usually with the use of computer animation. It is commonly used to help plan out sections of entertainment projects like films, television shows, commercials, VR experiences, and theme park rides.
An example of visualization in action is "previsualization" artists using 3D software to animate an early version of a feature film sequence that will rely on complicated visual effects. The extra amount of detail provided by this first pass of the sequence is a crucial blueprint for the director, cast, and crew once production begins.
After the film is shot, "postvis artists" use software to finish a rough pass of incomplete shots that feature bluescreens and other stand-in material. These updated shots become clear enough for editors and test audiences to follow the action of the film, so studios can get a sense of what is working as a film evolves in post-production. By the time the final VFX are finished, the previs and postvis work is fully replaced, with no trace left for audiences other than the guide for compositions and timing that only a team of skilled visualization artists can quickly provide.
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The wind did not cooperate on the final day of the 2010 Course Racing Worlds in Corpus Christi, Texas, and so the standings after day two and 10 races are final.
2010 World Course Racing Champions are Adam Koch (USA, Ozone) and Kari Schibevaag (NOR, Ozone).
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The Media Support and Asset Management Fund (known in Hungarian as Médiaszolgáltatás-támogató és Vagyonkezelő Alap, abbreviated MTVA) is Hungary's public media organisation, formed last year through the merger of the two television broadcasters MTV and Duna TV, the radio company Magyar Rádió and the news agency MTI. In an effort to bring the organisation together, a new corporate identity was launched on July 27 for the start of the Olympics. It includes new logos for seven radio networks and four TV channels.
The new logo system really stands out among its peers for its minimalist simplicity. It relies on a circle as a unifying element with a few lines and circles to represent the different services. MTVA credits the new logos to an in-house team lead by a designer named Vida Zoltán, which took inspiration from the four classical elements.
The logos have also been turned into large physical models that appear in idents filmed around the Hungarian countryside. These models also appear in promos for the broadcaster.
The logos for the original TV broadcaster MTV use vertical lines, one red line for the primary channel (M1) and two green for the second channel (M2). The second TV broadcaster, Duna TV, named after the Danube, uses wavy blue lines. The radio networks use horizontal lines in different colours and probably some built in symbolism.
Hungarian radio has an interesting practise where its three primary networks are named after famous Hungarians, for example the classical music networks is called Bartók Rádió after Béla Bartók. Previously, they have also been numbered from 1-7, but it seems those numbers have been deprecated with this redesign.
The new logos launched on July 27, and were unveiled at a press conference in Budapest on July 24.
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Despair! Everybody's Doing It!
Mad Men Season 6 Episode 1 recap
Did you feel warmed and welcomed by your friends? Were you filled with the holiday spirit? Do you feel invigorated because 1968 is here and feeling fresh and new? Or are you only focused on the fact that Betty Francis said what she said and the world didn't explode at 10:17?
I feel like we should save that, because the episode wanted me to see that Don is Falling Apart, so let's acknowledge that first. So. He's a different person in Hawaii – so much so that he not only gives away a bride, but picks up another man's lighter, as though it would be easy to become someone else. But, given the usual clichés about how you can't stay in paradise forever, Don returns home to an endless series of elevator rides and skirmishes with doormen, all conspiring to tell him that he's not on the top of his game anymore.
I thought the Hawaii pitch, in particular, was indicative of this. Maybe Pete and Roger have gotten so comfortable they don't know the difference between a magic Don pitch and a terrible one – that's assuming Roger was paying attention at all, of course – or, that they feel they can't step in to course-correct. I could be wrong, but it seemed a lot like Don went with his first idea, assuming that would be good enough for the eager Hawaii people. Kind of like he assumed his "getting cigarettes" ruse would be enough for Megan not to suspect what he was doing for hours while he was out in the wee hours of the new year. I wish she did suspect. I wish Don's ever-more-public embarrassment, which Mona made sure to notice, included not being smarter than a 26-year-old actress whose focus is on how many lines she gets the next week. How long has this been going on? Am I wrong in feeling that the only reason Don has chosen this woman in particular is because she's so close it feels even more illicit, because, like any addict, he needs bigger and bigger hits of fear and drama to keep his adrenaline going?
The biggest question for me, at this point, is where to find the charm left in Don. When we met him he believed in goodness, just not necessarily that he could achieve it. He believed in the perfect alchemy that hard work and long nights could provide – that magic could appear out of his fingertips over and over. Not only does he not seem to remember how to do those things, he doesn't seem to want to. Who is Don Draper these days?
Roger, by contrast, I find much easier to understand. Not just because he talks at length about his feelings so that we can hear them, but because he's always been up front about being a pleasure seeker. About wanting what's next, and next, and next. That's what made it so poignant when Jane showed up to the funeral. In fact, I have a real soft spot for the way people in Roger's life continue to take care of him. Not the awful Margaret, of course, but Mona understands Roger better than anyone else ever will, and can't help but comfort him because she knows how. Partly it's that he's a child, of course, but partly it's that he's so open about not understanding why he's unhappy. How can you be angry with someone who just looks at you with an open face and is all "I thought I would be happier"? What do you say to that guy? To the guy who can't release over his mother but for whom the loss of the stalwarts in his life – like the shoeshine guy - reduce him to tears? What I really thought about as the despicable Margaret pressed him for money and didn't care at all about the sentimental gift he gave her was that Roger is one of the first true work casualties whose coworkers and consorts were his true family.
In fact, I thought about this as I watched Peggy on the phone with Stan. Peggy has a work husband! She will be one of the first who will think back on a colleague with as much true comraderie as anything else. It's not hard, too, to look at the signals we've seen. Not just that she's turning into Don, which we all knew she would, professionally, but that her personal life is like Don's, too. Look at how her (gross) boyfriend spends his time with her – shut away, or under earphones. By contrast, Stan – who may be blocks away but knows the real her – he hears everything. Isn't that how a real, intimate relationship is supposed to go?
Speaking of...
I cannot even begin to process what I thought when Betty Francis started chatting idly about raping the girl next door. I had to go "Okay, what do the writers think they're doing vs. what does Betty think she's doing"? What I've come up with is that Betty's trying to prove to Henry that she can be playful and irreverent. It was horrifying, sure, but then, that's always been Betty – a little off the mark where jokes and social involvement are concerned. But nonetheless, she's wanted to prove that she can be young. Her interest in Sandy is, of course, nothing to do with parental concern and everything to do with seeing herself as a young girl again, with all kinds of potential and lies in front of her. (P.S. Kudos to the music director for having the kid play a pleasant, but by no means Juilliard-ready piece. Nice work.) It's interesting to me, too, that Betty is dealing incredibly well with Sally Draper's monstrous behavior – not bothered by teenage attitude perhaps because she sees herself in a time of renewal and regrowth, too. It's not just the dark hair that's going to let her be someone else, nor the adventures to New York, but the fact that Henry smiled when she made her horrific joke, and that Sally is a brat (on the phone! Hooray!) but is still talking to her, and Betty may well think she has this second act thing down.
Overall not a bang of a premiere – but when has it ever been? When has Mad Men ever done anything but beg us to wait, and be patient, and "think of something important"?
Attached -- Jon Hamm out with Jennifer Westfeldt and their dog this weekend.


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Hello everyone!
Cardmaking and blogging have taken a back burner here, as I am guessing it has for you as well. But, I wanted to take part in Deep Oceans challenge when I saw it, "Your own absolute No. 1 Card or Project 2016".
I created this in early winter, in good time before Christmas and I must say I love it.
Thanks so much for stopping by, and in case this is my last post before New Year,
I wish you all a Happy New Year!
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Inside the 15 foot unit all the amenities of a home are provided... and more! The versatile, well-thought out design offers a warm and inviting space to spend your travelling days. The interior design is luxurious yet functional and durable, with contemporary yacht design influences.
By using solid bamboo panels, Corian and yacht-quality textiles the interior breathes quality and luxury.
Safety comes first, immediately followed by comfort. The 15 foot Bliss Mobil is suitable for travel in extreme conditions and is equipped with several smart features to guarantee your comfort at all times.Read more
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Separate from the lavatory and with dimensions of 670 (L) x 600 (W) mm with 1.910 mm of headroom, the bathroom offers enough room to comfortably enjoy a refreshing shower.Read more
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This whole fiscal cliff situation is funny. The financial media broadcasts a daily countdown to the "cliff" as if the world will undergo a seismic change if no agreement is reached by Dec. 31. You hear many television interviews with financial types who raise concerns about the stock market if we go over a cliff. You hear the talk about how businesses will stop buying, selling, hiring, spending and investing. Yet here we are, with perhaps two more working weeks in December and the market -- collectively thousands of investors voting each day -- is showing no concern, at least for now. By my last count, I believe there were fewer than 25 stocks making up the list of 52-week lows on the U.S. exchanges.
Readers of my columns know I'm not losing any sleep over what happens comes Dec. 31. The Adam Smith in me says let's go over the cliff if that leads to attractive equity valuations. Ultimately, we will get an agreement because voters will only allow their elected officials to grandstand for so long. My investment criteria come down to valuation, or what I am paying for the underlying assets and cash flows.
Indeed the market is behaving as if the politicians will ultimately come to an agreement by year-end. So if they don't, perhaps the shock factor will lead to a rapid multi-day or multi-week selloff. After all, the markets biggest movements occur when the unexpected happens. Perhaps one way to insure against such an occurrence to sell covered call options, or call options against securities held in your portfolio. With many equity prices stretching for higher and higher valuations, selling covered calls provide you with a little incremental income if prices decided to go on a temporary decline. And if prices continue to rise, you have locked in a sale price above today's current prices.
Housing related stocks have been on a tear this year but it's still not clear if we are on a permanent path to a recovery in housing. PulteGroup (PHM) had moved up over 200% in the past year and now trades at $17. Perhaps owners of the stock might find it attractive to sell the January 2013 $17 calls for $1. If the stock is called, you effectively netted $18 from the sale price and call premium, or a 6% return in about one month's time. Of course, if housing sentiment turns sour, you will keep the call premium but that would offer little comfort if the shares plunged back to say $12 a share or so.
Instead of citing more examples of stocks that may or may not be in your portfolio, the idea behind selling covered calls as way to contain any effects from the fiscal cliff is subject to a few simple factors. First, sell short-term covered calls -- perhaps out to January or February. You don't want to lock yourself down to deliver shares at a certain price for long periods of time because over time, one hopes that companies grow and increase in value. Second, sell covered calls against positions that you feel are nearing or are close to a peak valuation. I wouldn't sell calls against a name like Deere (DE) or Apple (AAPL). In an ideal world, a favorably valued stock that is trading in tight range is the perfect candidate. Finally, be completely aware and comfortable with the contract you are getting into. If you are going to get upset about selling a covered call on a stock that continues to climb higher and regret missing the additional upside, then I would hesitate from doing so.
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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 89 diseños de 23 diseñadores freelance.
Located in San Diego, California, we are working on a jobsite for exceptional college students called PremierGrads.com. It is designed to attract students with a career game plan and to allow Fortune 500 companies to access them for employment opportunities. We will have other related sites such as PremierRecruits.com so we need a central "Premier" concept for cross branding.
Our site is going to be both educational and fun.
We are targeting the best and the brightest college students and recent graduates in the country for internships and entry level jobs. Long term we will target MBAs and Junior Military Officers as an extension of the Premier brand.
We are looking for a logo that says "PremierGrads.com", but because we are looking to extend our brand into other segments such as PremierRecruits.com and PremierMBAs.com, we are looking for the word "Premier" to have the ability to be cross branded with the other targeted consumers. We need to appeal to prominent corporations while also targeting the most talented college students and graduates in the country. We want the same look for the word Premier across all of our website segments. Feel free to be creative with colors, fonts, imagery, and style. Possibilities certainly include using different fonts for the words Premier and Grads.
We feel we have a very strong word/brand with "Premier" so imagery should reflect appeal to both outstanding students and prominent corporations.
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EA chief John Riccitiello to step down
Electronic Arts CEO John Riccitiello will step down from his role March 30, as the video game publisher navigates an industry undergoing major changes.
Larry Probst, the publisher's former CEO from 1991 to 2007, will take over leadership duties in the interim while EA begins the search for a new CEO.
"EA is an outstanding company with creative and talented employees, and it has been an honor to serve as the Company's CEO," said Riccitiello in a statement. "I am proud of what we have accomplished together, and after six years I feel it is the right time for me pass the baton and let new leadership take the Company into its next phase of innovation and growth."
Riccitiello helmed a video game publisher that has gone undergone a significant transition since he took over in 2007. Upon taking over, home consoles and dedicated gaming handhelds dominated the market. Now, more platforms such as smartphones and tablets have grown more prominent, as well as business models such as free-to-play games. Also, more video games have shifted away from retail discs to digital downloads.
"John has worked hard to lead the Company through challenging transitions in our industry, and was instrumental in driving our very significant growth in digital revenues," says Probst in a statement.
Analyst Colin Sebastian of Baird Research says likely candidates for the CEO position include Frank Gibeau, president of EA Labels, and chief operating officer Peter Moore, who once helmed EA Sports and previously worked at Microsoft during the launch of the Xbox 360.
Where Riccitiello seemed to struggle is in bolstering EA stock. On September 30, 2007, months after Riccitiello took over, EA stock reached $61. In after hours trading on Monday, shares of EA sit at $19.35, up nearly 4%.
EA also announced revenues and earnings for the current quarter would be near the bottom or slightly under company estimates. The company will host an earnings call in May.
"My decision to leave EA is really all about my accountability for the shortcomings in our financial results this year," says Riccitiello. "It currently looks like we will come in at the low end of, or slightly below, the financial guidance we issued to the Street, and we have fallen short of the internal operating plan we set one year ago. And for that, I am 100 percent accountable."
Last month, the publisher announced layoffs at development studios in Los Angeles and Montreal as part of an ongoing transition, said Gibeau.
EA publishes popular franchises including Battlefield, Madden NFL, FIFA Soccer and Need For Speed. The company has also beefed up its library on smartphones and tablets with titles such as Real Racing and Plants vs. Zombies.
"EA's strategy and future are rock solid," says Probst. "Our business is built on more than a dozen powerful, globally recognized brands. We are clear leaders in the fastest growing category in games – mobile – and we are positioned to lead on the next generation of consoles."
The change in leadership also arrives as the industry braces for a fresh generation of home video game consoles. While Nintendo released the Wii U in November, Sony unveiled the PlayStation 4, which is expected to launch this holiday, at an event last month. Meanwhile, Microsoft is expected to unveil details this year on the successor to the Xbox 360.
As for EA, the "painful" transitions are only the beginning, says Digital World Research analyst P.J. McNealy. "The changes at EA are far from over."
However, Sebastian believes the company is still in good shape despite the leadership change. "Despite the company's challenges over the past six years, we believe EA is well positioned for the console refresh cycle, and the company has made progress in building a digital platform and more recently controlling expenses."


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Mariah Carey seems to be everywhere lately, and she almost bared it all for the 'Good Morning America' crowd on Friday morning.
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This isn't the first time this year that a dress decided to go all Minaj on Mariah's chest. Back in February the world got a quick peek at one of Mariah's peaks. That one was also a bit underwhelming, but we feel like we're getting really close to a full boob flash as her clothes keep getting smaller and tighter.


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ORNL researchers have long been engaged in research to protect the critical infrastructure that generates and delivers electricity. Today the work has a new sense of urgency as grid-focused cyberattacks are on the rise and utilities tackle the challenge of integrating intermittent renewable energy with traditional power plants.
ORNL engineer Ben Ollis has spent the past few years researching grid resilience. Recently, Ollis has led the deployment of a microgrid governed by an ORNL-developed open source controller—called CSEISMIC, for Complete System-level Efficient and Interoperable Solution for Microgrid Integrated Controls—in Alabama Power's Smart Neighborhood located in Hoover, Alabama.
How do you defend the world's largest machine? This is the question scientists and engineers have faced as the power grid presents an increasingly attractive target for hackers bent on societal disruption.
Ten years into its program to create an automated smart grid supported by an all-fiber-optic communications network, the Electric Power Board of Chattanooga, Tennessee, has seen tremendous benefits. Power outages are down by 60 percent, and operational costs have fallen by some $60 million a year for the municipal utility operating in the town nicknamed America's first Gig City.
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