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Thursday, August 07, 2008
The Wow Factor: Bernard D'Andrea
This is not the Bernard D'Andrea of even a year or two earlier. This is exciting stuff!
I believe this piece and the one that followed it (below) represent a turning point in Bernard D'Andrea's style. You can see he is still sticking to the kind of literal representation he was comfortable rendering for the main figures in the picture...
... but just as we sometimes get the real story when we read between the lines, we get the real picture...
... when we look between the figures.
D'Andrea painted a green ground and then covered it with opaque paints, leaving areas between his brushstrokes exposed to create a sort of random patterning (as well as a green outline around objects). This might seem inconsequential, until you consider that this was a new technique a young maverick named Jack Potter was introducing to the market as a signature element of his own style.
Potter was doing a series of Coca-Cola ads that same year, and their prominent placement on the back covers of the Post might have inspired D'Andrea to experiment with a similar technique. Looking closer at the figures and props in the background of D'Andrea's illustration, we see how he set aside his usually accurate draghtsmanship in favour of a sort of decorative stylization that again reminds one of Potter, Phil Hays... or even a bit like early Bob Peak.
While the advertising industry (and the Post's art editor) might not have been ready to accept the styles of those young mavericks, D'Andrea's work must have been within their comfort zone... and at the same time, he would have enjoyed the opportunity to stretch a little - with even more exciting experiments to follow shortly thereafter!
Some time soon I hope to devote a week to the work of Bernard D'Andrea, but for those who missed it the first time, take a look in my Bernard D'Andrea Flickr set to see what I mean about just how far the artist pushed the envelope.
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- rich2:29 PM
Isn't it an art by itself, being able to get
..."the real story by reading between the lines, getting the real picture"...
as you point out to us,
Excellent evaluation Leif, as usual you are right on target. Impressionism and Post Impressionism techniques were emerging in experimental magazine illustrations in the late 50's. I think that had an influence on letting color outline and bits of background color show through.ReplyDelete
While an illustration student in 58 and 59, I clearly remember Bernard D'Andrea's name and some of his illos, but Jack Potter, Bob Peak, Phil Hayes and a few others who were exploding on to the scene, seemed to eclipse other very good, but more conservative illustrators such as D'Andrea. At least that's how we perceived it in our early years as students.
In retrospect, D'Andrea's illos certainly stood up to the others in the magazines. And, today I am even more impressed with his.
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- Dan Z2:08 PM
Potter was influenced by Vuillard and I think he got that technique from him.ReplyDelete

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Researchers at the University of Dundee and the University of North Carolina, part-funded by the Wellcome Trust, have created an algorithm that can design drugs that act on several proteins. After entering in the set of proteins you want the drug to target, the algorithm screens compounds to decide which are likely to do that. Simulating and screening chemical variations of these compounds, and then variations of the variations, means they can be 'fine-tuned' to discover which possible drugs would meet the desired targets to the best effect.
Every stage described so far is done on a computer, saving a lot of time and effort otherwise spent in a lab. It means you don't have to synthesis every intermediate compound on the path to finding the best ones. Once identified, the leading contenders can be made and tested in real life.
Details of the research have been written about in Nature Reviews Drug Discovery and on In the pipeline, a blog which discusses the finer points of the chemistry, if you are interested. This kind of automated design system gives us a glimpse into the future of drug discovery, when we will be able to design a single drug to hit multiple therapeutic targets.
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With the continued popularity of the Dungeon Finder, many players have been asking for a way to group up with real-life friends who play on other realms to take on instances together. Today, we wanted to give you a heads up about a new feature currently in development that will allow players to invite Real ID friends of the same faction to a party regardless of the realm they play on, and then queue up for a 5-player regular or Heroic dungeon.
As this is a fairly complex service to develop, we don't have a release date to share quite yet. It's important to note that as with some of the other convenience- and connectivity-oriented features we offer, certain elements of the cross-realm Real ID party system will be premium-based, though only the player sending the invitations will need to have access to the premium service. We'll have more details to share with you as development progresses -- in the meantime, you may begin to see elements of the feature appear on the World of Warcraft PTR.
Those of you who've read by blog for a long time may remember that I'm not against Micro Transactions and Premium Services as a general rule, but I do think there is a line that shouldn't be crossed.
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- Premium Services: Fee's for server transfers and race changes also make sense to me because they are a bit of an extraordinary situation. Plus you want some disincentive to prevent people from using them frequently and fees are good at that.
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JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (Sept. 25, 2013) – Senior two-way player Clinton Freeman (Jonesborough, Tenn.) continued with his strong efforts this past weekend on the diamond in the ETSU Blue-White scrimmages.
Freeman, who has tossed five scoreless innings this fall, threw three scoreless frames along with striking out eight consecutive hitters this past weekend. At the plate, the all-conference selection went 4 for 8 with a home run, two walks and two RBI.
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Below are all core requirements needed to earn the Venturing Quest Award.
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- Requirement 2: First Aid for Coaches on the RedCrossOnlineTraining.org web site. If Sports Safety Training is not available at a Red Cross chapter in your region, this online course is equivalent as long as you also enroll in a separate CPR training course.
- Requirement 3, Nos. 5 and 7: Exercise Safety Excellent resource for exercise aerobic and muscular development procedures, equipment and biomechanical principles, on the ExRx.net web site. Includes videos of exercises.
- Requirement 3, No. 6: Six factors that influence body fatness:
- Unilever research
Six Factors for Losing Weight and Keeping It Off: 1) having the right mental attitude, 2) sticking to a calorie-reduced diet, 3) getting support from family and friends, 4) tracking your success, 5) exercising, and 6) managing stress.
- Nutrition for Health, Fitness and Sport by Melvin Williams, see Healinghandswellness.org Nutrition Overview (6.2MB PDF)
Six Factors Determining Calories Needed to Maintain Body Weight: 1) age, 2) body weight, 3) sex, 4) resting energy expenditure (REE), 5) thermic effect of food (TEF), and 6) physical activity levels (TEE).
- Fit4Life Personal Training and Physical Therapy, Inc.
Six Exercise Factors Contributing to Fat-loss Effectiveness: 1) discriminated weight loss, 2) increased basal metabolism, 3) improving body shape, 4) continued preoccupation, 5) depressed appetite, and 6) increased caloric expenditure.
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Sociodemographic factors associated with long-term weight gain, current body fatness and central adiposity: 1) smoking status, 2) physical activity, 3) daily alcohol intake, 4) past change in diet, 5) educational and occupational obtainment, and 6) marriage status and living arrangements.
- Six Factors of Weight Gain: 1) hormones, 2) diet, 3) drugs, 4) stress, and 6) environment.
- Unilever research
- Requirement 3 No. 7: Biomechanical Principles and Applications (68K PDF) Biomechanical Principles and Applications. Provides seven principles and three laws of Newton's "model universe".)
- Requirement 3 No. 7: Biomechanics of Sport and Exercise Provides textbook information on biomechanics and exercise, found on Google Books.
- Requirement 4: Fitness Testing Yuhasz Equation for calculating percentage of body fat, on the TopEndSports.com web site.
- Requirement 4: FITNESSGRAM Scorecard (108K PDF) Sample scorecard used for weight health, aerobic fitness, and muscular strength, endurance and flexibility. Includes male and female scoring. (Rev. 2, 11/08)
Related awards
- Requirement 4: Cub Scout Physical Fitness
- Requirement 4: Webelos Athlete Activity Badge
- Requirement 5 No. 4: Cub Scout Badminton, Cub Scout Ice Skating, Cub Scout Roller Skating, Cub Scout Table Tennis, Cub Scout Tennis, Cub Scout Basketball, Cub Scout Flag Football or Cub Scout Ultimate Sports Pin and Belt Loop. Consider incorporating the Venturing requirement as part of a Cub Scout den meeting. If your charting organization does not have a Cub pack, check with your local council's Scoutreach director for pack who's advancement program could use your help.
- Athletics merit badge
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- Physical Fitness Award
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- Venturing Bronze Award on the BSA scouting.org site.
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Legendary Spanish Pop Singer Julio Iglesias will quench the longing of his fans for romantic hits when he appears at the Jakarta Convention Center, Jakarta on 3rd December 2013 for his second concert in Indonesia's capital city.
Returning after his first performance to Indonesia in 1996, the concert is hailed to be the most prestigious show near the turn of the year since it will also feature American renowned singer/song-writer, James Ingram. To add to the sparks of the concert, Indonesia's own pop star Bunga Citra Lestari will be performing with Iglesias in a number of songs.
Grammy Award-winner and a two-time Academy Award nominee for Best Original Song, James Ingram will open the concert with a 60 to75 minutes performance. The audience will undoubtedly be indulged with some of Ingram's popular hits such as "Somewhere Out There", "Just Once"," Where Did My Heart" "Go, Baby Come To Me", and "There's No Easy Way". While Julio Iglesias, the Spanish Pop living legend himself will definitely take the audience on a 90 minutes heart melting ride through some of the most everlasting romantic hits ever such as "Crazy, When I Need You"," To All The Girls I've Loved Before"," When You Tell Me That You Love Me"," Can't Help Falling In Love", and more.
Acknowledged by Sony Music Entertainment as the best selling Latin music artist in history, Julio Iglesias has sold over 300 million records worldwide in 14 languages and released 80 albums, and more than 2,600 gold and platinum records certified. Although it is his second ever concert in the country, for Iglesias Indonesia is no stranger. Julio Iglesias had collaborated with Indonesian artist Andre Hehanusa in the 90's for the song "To All The Girls I've Loved Before". He also played a duet with Indonesian Diva, Anggun in the song "All of You".
The concert forms part of Julio Iglesias' First World Tour which will kick off in Azerbaijan on 28th-29th November. After his performance in Jakarta on 3rd December, the tour will continue to Hong Kong on 7th December, and end in Tokyo on 9th-10th December 2013.
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As the video game industry gets set to show off the games that will dominate the charts in the back half of 2010 and early 2011, what better time to see what has been driving sales for the first half of the year?
After a disappointing 2009, software sales are down 8 percent so far this year, according to the most recent numbers from the NPD Group, which tracks game sales. That's a shortfall of over $500 million. The numbers should begin to rebound in the coming months – but so far, 2010 hasn't been too encouraging.
A look at the top 10 follows, based upon US sales. But with a strong title catalog gearing up for the end of the year, expect a much different list by the end of the year.
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Ok, so can I just be honest? I'm afraid to tell you, because maybe you'll think this means I'm defunct or something, not a real writer. Try not to judge me, okay?
Alright, so, a while back I was kind of in a slump when it comes to books. It's just...I think maybe...I fell out of love with reading. Maybe that's normal, inevitable even when you're struggling to keep working in a heartbreaking industry, struggling just to believe that YOU ARE A WRITER DAMMIT. It's like books themselves sort of become heartbreaking. So I stopped picking them up.
When I was trying to work out what was wrong with me, I wrote this to a friend of mine: "Why, [Friend], I think I've left publishing's Never Neverland."
It's like I couldn't read a book without seeing all its flaws and questioning why, why, why can't I fall into you and forget you're just a book? Reading was making me so anxious. Like stupid restless. So I delved into movies instead--so. many. films--because stories themselves are an addiction I can't ever quit, but books just...hurt.
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Joined: 30 Mar 2008
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Posted: Sun Mar 30, 2008 4:31 pm
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First time poster. I've wanted to be involved in theme park lighting since I was a kid, and I've finally made my first steps into the industry... I'm working on a dark ride / roller coaster that's going into a major US park and its great to finally get to work on something like this.
I have an extensive theater background and am on an internship with a lighting company. I'll be there through the summer, hopefully getting to do some more theme park stuff, but most of our attention will turn to the Olympics pretty soon.
I guess my big question is... what's a good next step? I'd love to work for Uni on Strongarm or for Disney, but don't really know how to go about it. I'm a TEA member, is it ok to cold e-mail someone on the directory? or is that seen as somewhat amateur?
Also, a specific question, probably for Nate... does Universal Creative have in-house LDs, or do they contract out? I've heard Visual Terrain has done some work for Uni.
PS> if theres anyone out there interested in lighting design, I'd be happy to chat about how I got started thus far.
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Well, i have no advice to offer but it's good to see another theater person working their way toward a god job in the industry
Most people i run into are engineers who want to design coasters and ride system. I'm a scenic designer so to me that's very.. bleh. Not that I dont appreciate the systems, just that i dont want it to be my focus.
I'm at the end of my undergrad and looking at grad schools, so my question is what sort of degree did you get and where from? Did the school have any particular ties to any of the larger companies in the industry? Did you pursue a masters or did you go right into the field?
Oh, and for the show that is going on for me right now - know of any way to make color scrollers less noisy? I'm not the lighting designer, but i've been sitting in on the cue-ing, and they sure are noisy - even when set to the color in an earlier cue so they have plenty of time to cycle. I can deal with the electric whirr of technobeams and even the odd sound of the pani's changing slides, but scrollers are like nails on a chalkboard
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I did my undergrad at Syracuse University, which was an amazing school and I went straight to grad school at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. The drama program there does have some connections to lighting companies, but I don't know as far as scenery. They don't have a strong connection to places like Landmark Entertainment Group or other subcontracting companies.
There are two programs there to consider, the drama program and the Entertainment Technology Center. I came close to leaving drama for the ETC but ended up staying, partly because the ETC is signifigantly more expensive. But the ETC is the first program I'd look at if you think grad school is the way to go and you want to be in themed environments. They have connections to Imagineering and many other companies. Another thing thats nice about it is its a two year program, instead of three for most MFAs.
As with any school I suggest you spend at least a day sitting in on classes and meeting with students and professors and decide if the fit is right for you.
As for scrollers, scrolls that are 1) new and 2) professionally made will be a lot quiter because the gel will not be warped and won't crackle as it gets rolled to one side of the other. But I'm assuming in a school situation this is not an option.
Cueing is the normal solution, though it sounds like their already on long fade times. Based on the fact that there are moving lights, projectors, and scrollers I'm guessing this is a musical? A great trick is to hide the scroll moves in applause, sound effects, or crescendos in the music. The loud noise floor will allow the quicker changes to happen without noticing them in the house.
Of course the other option is to not have scrollers front of house, which is generally good practice, but not always possible.
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The show is Metamorphoses - non musical, but is has a swimming pool - and one of the directors is a choreographer so it's kinda like a spoken musical in a swimming pool.
About the ETC and Carnegie Mellon in general.. I worry that it is all too, i dunno.. too much? Like it seems like a school people would burn out on. I'm very much a quality before quantity person and some schools seem to want to do so much in such a short period of time. Thus their students never sleep and never have days off.
I dont want to goto a school that's going to kill me physically. I've been doing this long enough to know when a schedule is too insane to be realistic and when people are really asking for way too much. It's one thing to pull an all nighter to finish something should things get behind - but it's another to have those sorts of schedules planned as if they were the norm. Ya know? They say the theatre industry is horrible for your health. I intend not to die from stress or overworking.
So how would describe the quality of life while attending school there?
Second - the ETC - isn't it heavily focused on virtual reality? I will integrate technology in my sets (projectors used to establish a scene in Metamorphoses for example) but I am not willing to goto the current trend of believing that VR is everything and that guests on attractions want to play video games while riding through an otherwise empty building.
That's an artistic choice of mine i suppose, but i think real sets and real reality is the way to go over VR. Doesn't the ETC focus so heavily on VR and even though it might be a great opportunity i might clash mentally there?
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Good to have you here on the site. You seem to be doing the right things.
Keep participating in TEA and go to the mixers. Good people there and networking is what will make it all happen.
ETC has a great program. They do a project at Give Kids The World in Orlando - real world experience and a chance to give to a great cause.
Where is the internship? Are you looking at being in Orlando?
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right now I'm in San Francisco, but my brother lives in Orlando, and I'm young enough that I'm definitely willing to go where the work takes me.
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If you're in San Francisco you should look up Nancy McCoy. She's associated with the architectural lighting design community there and is a great designer... a good person to know. If you want to get into the themed entertainment aspect of it, I highly recommend you contact Pat Gallegos of Gallegos lighting. Great guy and has been doing themed entertainment lighting for years! You can look up his information on in our company directory. As for lighting designers on staff, yes, entertainment design companies do have lighting designers on staff depending on the project.
Definitely keep in touch and let me know how it goes...
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You're doing the right stuff and still have a great attitude, too!
BTW, check out the lighting on a new show on MTV, starting on the main stage April 3, called Rock The Cradle. The set and the lighting have a great look to them. I was there for the rehearsal on Wed. The show is about rock star's kids that want to be rock stars themselves, and it is run sort of like American Idol with people voting... A good idea for a show and the kids are pretty good, too.
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Van Halen's 'Hot for Teacher' Covered on 'Glee'
Van Halen's 'Hot for Teacher' will be performed by the cast of 'Glee' tomorrow night (Nov. 15), in yet another shocking and appalling example of popular television-on-classic rock crime. The song originally appeared on the band's '1984′ album, their last (so far) to feature original lead singer David Lee Roth.
If you're thinking of cancelling whatever plans you had tomorrow night in hopes of seeing some faithful recreation of the band's witty and titillating music video, well, don't bother. Having been required to watch past episodes of this overly peppy and family-friendly show we can say it's a safe bet that's not happening.
In fact, according to our sister site PopCrush, the episode, entitled 'Mash Off,' reportedly centers on some intra-band rivalries, as different women from the McKinley High School singing group will be forced to face off while singing Mash-ups of various pop songs.
It does seems possible that 'Hot for Teacher' will be used in a logical context. The show's synopsis reveals that Noah 'Puck' Puckerman (glee club singer / football player / faux-hawk wearer) will sing the song, and also will fall in love on tonight's episode. So presumably, he becomes smitten with one of his teachers — maybe a new substitute? — and uses this song to express his exciting and confusing new emotions.
As you can hear, the 'Glee' band and singers don't rearrange the track much, as they typically do in order to feature the group's vocal talents. Instead, the band plays a faithful if somewhat canned rendition of the music while Puck proves to have about 3% of Roth's charisma and charm.
Maybe the visuals will add something new. Sadly, we won't know till Wednesday morning. We're going to be rocking the heck out at a concert featuring Judas Priest and Thin Lizzy and Black Label Society tomorrow night. But hey, by all means, let us know how this goes, will you?
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This National Diabetes Week, Specsavers in Pembroke Dock is lending its support by encouraging residents to book a sight test to help manage their eye health.
Eye checks for diabetics
In Wales, individuals who have diabetes are screened for diabetic retinopathy through the Diabetic Eye Screening Wales (DESW) Service.
However, this National Diabetes Week, Specsavers in Pembroke Dock is reminding diabetics that they should also have regular sight tests with an optometrist, in addition to their annual diabetic retinopathy screening, to check the overall health of their eyes and to detect for other sight-threatening conditions such as glaucoma and cataracts.
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Gary Owen, store director at Specsavers in Pembroke Dock, says: 'In Wales alone, it is estimated that there is around 177,000 people living with diabetes and a further 70,000 that have the condition but are unaware of it. In addition to this, it is suspected that more than half a million people in Wales could be at high risk of developing it.
'Looking after your eye health is extremely important, particularly if you are diabetic, because a person is more at risk of developing a complication with their eyes. That's why we're urging diabetics in the local area to make sure they have a routine sight test every two years, to have an overall check-up on the health of their eyes, which is in addition to diabetic retinopathy screening.
'Regular eye examinations can prevent eye damage associated with diabetes as early detection and treatment prevents sight loss.'
Diabetes is the most common cause of blindness in the UK's working age population. Around 40% of those suffering from type one diabetes and 20% with type two diabetes will develop some sort of diabetic retinopathy, which is a form of damage to the layer of cells at the back of the eye that can become blocked or leak, affecting a person's retina and vision.


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Olav Kjørven: First Public Service Dialogue of the UNDP Global Centre for Public Service Excellence, SingaporeMar 5, 2013
Salutations to Ambassador Vanu Menon, Ambassador Tommy Koh, Distinguished Scholars and my colleagues from UNDP.
I am delighted to be with you in Singapore today for the first public service dialogue of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Global Center for Public Service Excellence.
Our task here today is to deliberate and deepen the focus of this new Centre's work under the two broad themes of inequality and sustainability at a time when it is clear that knowledge and know-how are the most valuable of global commodities.
UNDP's upcoming Human Development Report points out that harnessing the wealth of knowledge, expertize and development thinking from more and more diverse sources will require new institutions, and that such institutions should help to build understanding on why and how policy decisions taken in one place can inform or have substantial impact on those taken in another.
This, I anticipate, will be a calling card of our new Centre in the years to come, and it could not be at a more fascinating time.
The Human Development Report sets out that, for the first time in 150 years, the combined output of the world's three leading economies, Brazil, China and India, is about equal to the combined GDP of the longstanding industrial powers of the North: Canada, France, Germany, Italy, the United States and the United Kingdom. This is a shift with far-reaching implications for people's lives.
The Report also argues, however, that economic growth does not automatically translate into greater human development progress; that the governance structures to which we have become accustomed do not reflect the new economic and geopolitical environment; and that the path ahead should be paved with transparency, accountability, participation and innovation.
This is a moment, therefore, for reflection and reinvention. We must figure out how to build this road as we walk it.
A practical first step is to look to public service.
Public service is at the core of good governance and good government. An efficient civil service, a functioning services delivery system, a fair and equitable justice system, a system that upholds the rule of law and such other building blocks are the key to effective and performing nations.
In some countries this is taken for granted; in others, public service is not yet at the level where it can rightly stand as foundations of government and the first port of call for citizens. There is much to be learned and shared among and between countries about effective and responsive public services. UNDP is committed to this learning about and to sharing these experiences.
We know that the nature of the public service is changing.
As the New Synthesis Project, in which Singapore has been a lead player, says, it is no longer about the government administering citizens through the instrument of the public service.
It is about governments and citizens getting together to solve complex problems, co-creating value, and collaborating to run government smoothly, keep the peace, deliver services, maintain law and order and ensure fairness, equity and justice.
The 'Arab Spring' highlighted the inadequacies of administrations out of touch with their citizens. The public service of the present day is responsive, in touch with and working with people to address their concerns. It needs to cross boundaries, reach out to civic groups and the private sector to co-address emerging challenges.
The demands made on the public service are becoming more complex.
Allow me to illustrate with three examples:
a. Rising inequalities within countries: As the gaps among developed and developing countries are closing, we are seeing a toxic rise in inequalities within countries. Rural areas are getting left behind with 80% of the world's GDP value now coming from urban areas.
Similarly, most countries are seeing the emergence of pockets of affluence while at the same time, remote areas often inhabited by minority populations or indigenous and ethnic groups, are falling behind.
Likewise, social inequities are on the rise. Urban populations have much better access to health and educational opportunities than rural areas. This will perpetuate structural inequalities across generations.
Women have less educational opportunities than men, are disproportionately impacted by social and family violence, and do not have the same voice or participation as men in the governing institutions or decision-making processes that take decisions about their and their families' future.
At the same time, evidence shows that building equal opportunities for women into a new political order can affect the trajectory of economic growth and social policy.
This message came through strongly in the results of a Global Thematic Consultation on Inequality, the final meeting of which I joined in Copenhagen two weeks ago.
As part of its outcome, it stated that political inequalities, including deficits in opportunities for participation at community level, are a significant cause of persistent structural inequalities, reinforcing inequalities in all other domains. The Leaders recommended a series of targets for state accountability, including:
a. state accountability for the implementation of measures to ensure the informed participation of marginalized people at all levels of the administration, including at the decentralized level;
b. state accountability for legal, policy and institutional guarantees for equal access to justice, and for the implementation of special measures to address shortcomings.
c. The implementation of legislation providing for transparent corporate governance and accountability, including but not limited to transparency in revenue payments and in collection and publication of relevant environmental information.
d. And time-bound requirements for the strengthening of data collection and dissemination of disaggregated information.
This consultation is one of 11 global thematic consultations currently underway on the World we Want after the current global development agenda, captured by the Millennium Development Goals, reaches its deadline in 2015. Other areas covered include demographics, growth and employment, and health. This dialogues are taking place alongside nearly 100 national consultations in developing countries, and a global dialogue that leverages an online, phone and offline survey called 'My World', created by UNDP and partners, which asks those surveyed to identify the things they think would bring about the most change for good in their lives.
All the material and insight gathered will be synthesized and made available in raw format online to inform world leaders and negotiators.
b. Which leads me to my second illustration of how things are different today: the impact of information technologies and social media on citizen's participation
What I find fascinating about the My World survey right now is that people's second choice across the board for what is most important to them of the 16 choices provided is "an honest and effective government". [The first choice is consistently education, and the third better healthcare.]
The internet and social media have the nature of public service, both in terms of what they provide, and what is expected of them.
Citizens are now constantly engaged in the business of government through widespread access to information, through feedback channels accorded through social media, through real-time monitoring and reporting using cellphone technology.
This has created many opportunities.
It has also challenged public services to be accountable for their actions, make transparent decisions, and be inclusive in their choices of trade-offs and prioritization.
Overall, the need for knowledge, the need for know-how and the need to know what is happening on some of these issues is at an all-time-high.
c. My third illustration, then, is in the context of global public goods and sustainability.
As climate change, demographic transitions, migration, urbanization and similar phenomena begin to present unprecedented complexity in policy and practice around the world, the public services are increasingly challenged by issues of policy making that cut across sectors and actors.
For example, climate change requires negotiated settlements between producers and consumers, industry and conservationists, the transportation sector and agriculturalists.
Migration and changing demographics challenge the public service to address issues of citizen security and peaceful co-existence among co-located or rapidly mixing ethnic and religious communities, often also differentiated by income and occupational profile.
Similarly, while public services are confronted by issues of ageing populations and the need for social safety nets, they are at the same time witnessing youth bulges and the challenge of widespread employment for younger people.
These three issues: inequality, participation through ICT and social media, and sustainability, speak to the need for a new and as yet not fully defined relationship between the public service and the people it serves.
That relationship needs to be grounded in a whole-of-government mentality, where the public service, cuts across and connects ministries and sectors to advance 'triple-win' decision-making with economic, social and environmental dividends, not trade-offs.
Brazil, which has struggled with some of the world's worst inequality, has made huge progress on citizen participation in budgeting and national planning – influencing policy and resources - since the adoption of a new constitution in 1988.
In 1990 in Chile, after almost seventeen years of military dictatorship, the ruling center-left coalition led a successful transition and brokered important bipartisan agreements on key economic and governance issues.
My favorite story is that of the reform of the Singapore prison system. Through the decade of the 90s, Singapore changed its prison system from one that was focused on imprisoning criminals, to one that involved rehabilitation of prison inmates as productive members of society by imparting technical and life skills, working with communities to be more accepting of former inmates, and psychological and behavioral rehabilitation of the former inmates. This I understand has been a very successful initiative, and also proven to be a good antidote to overcrowding of prisons. This is an elegant example of a modern public service moving from a paradigm of purely efficient administrative results, to one that worked with citizens, people and communities to create societal results.
Which brings me to UNDP's contribution, and our vision for the Global Centre for Public Excellence in Singapore.
UNDP is committed to helping its partner countries grapple with the types of issues I have illustrated. We will do this by digging into the inventories of our own knowledge and experience, but more importantly, by capturing, codifying, sharing what is being researched, studied and implemented by different governments, think tanks, scholars, and practitioners, and making these experiences broadly available.
UNDP is increasingly the connector, the convener of knowledge and best practice, a 'crossroads' of excellence, where those who seek examples of excellence meet with the best knowledge globally available.
And where challenges are new and complex, and where solutions do not yet exist in historical inventories, UNDP will provide the platforms for co-created solutions.
We will bring together the best minds for collaborative action, and by the joint pursuit of innovative ideas and solutions.
This is work we at UNDP are familiar with. As you know, the Global Centre for Public Service Excellence joins UNDP's other Global centres as incubators for policy research and ideas that can be harnessed shared.
Last November, for example, UNDP's Oslo Governance Center organized a very unique gathering of representatives of three countries who had experienced transition in the 1980's – Brazil, Chile and Indonesia – to identify key challenges and opportunities for people in the midst of the ongoing transitions in Egypt, Myanmar and Tunisia.
The choice of these countries was informed by the fact that they share a number of features, in particular a political economic situation with destabilizing social consequences, a military with a major political role, and a society fraught with major inequalities both economically and socially.
The diversity of the participants, including practitioners, civil society actors, policy makers, military leaders, researchers and representatives from both multilateral and bilateral organizations, ensured a vibrant exchange of ideas across nations and regions, focusing in on issues of inclusiveness and accountability.
This kind of vibrant dialogue – on and offline – speaks to the ambitious agenda I want us to set for this Global Centre for Public Service Excellence together with the Government of Singapore.
Indeed, Singapore is at the cutting edge of the public services.
Not only does it have an exemplary public service that countries around the world admire and wish to learn from, but also it is putting a lot of thought into the role, the nature, and the performance metrics of the public service in the new era, particularly touching on the emerging issues I described earlier.
In UNDP, we have kept ourselves up to date with the work that is coming out of the universities and think tanks in Singapore, as well as the rich experiences of the Government of Singapore.
A little over two years ago, we commissioned a study by Dr. NC Saxena, who I am delighted could join us here today, to look at the public service in Singapore and the role it played in the amazing development story of this country.
The study eventually became a book, which is now in high demand by UNDP's partners around the world. [We have the book available for you here to take with you should you wish.]
It was released by the Singaporean Government at approximately the same time as which our discussions with the Government began to give shape to this idea of a joint center of excellence. This idea has been on the drawing boards for the past two years and I am truly delighted to see it come into fruition.
Looking ahead I see the Center as a think tank, engaging on and with partners around the very best know-how on the art and craft of public service; a convening ground for scholars; and a hub that can present, harness and share the essence of this knowledge to UNDP's programme countries around the world.
Our mission today, therefore, in what will be the first of a series of such policy dialogues, is quite straightforward.
It is to welcome your knowledge, your insight, your depth of expertise and your commitment to your craft in helping us to build the Centre's future path.
And I hope you will be reflective, deliberative, insightful and communicative as you do so!
I would like to again thank our Singaporean colleagues, counterparts and hosts without whom this centre would not be possible, as well as all the UNDP colleagues who have worked so hard to bring this about.
We are fellow-travelers down this new path, on what promises to be a fascinating journey.


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When the Virginia Aquarium Stranding Response team found Kermit washed ashore, the small green sea turtle was wasting away. X-rays showed balloons and plastic bags blocking Kermit's throat.
Kermit and many turtles like him inspired the students at First Colonial High School in Virginia Beach to use the trash to get people talking. The student-artists created turtles stuffed with the balloons collected on the beach to demonstrate what turtles swallow.
The trash-talking turtles are now on display at refuges along the Bay, including Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge, along with pledges from the trash sculptors promising never to release another balloon.
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Levers and Pulleys: Introduction to Simple Machines Education Kit
This building set is designed to introduce students to the scientific concepts associated with two types of Simple Machines – levers and pulleys--while providing opportunities for them to acquire skills using a hands-on, inquiry-based approach to information and concepts. The kit includes 178 building parts, a full instruction booklet, and a Teacher's Guide aligned to Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math Standards on CD. And everything comes packed in a sturdy storage tray with a snap-on lid. Recommended for grades 3-5.
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"A modern theme suite written in filmic style by the highly acclaimed Brazilian composer Rogerio Duprat".
Mainly notable for forging the Tropicalia movement and his associations with Caetano Veloso, Gilbert Gil, Tom Zé, Gal Costa, Nara Leão and Os Mutantes. Rogerio Duprat was to abandon the commercial market following problems with deafness caused by interminable hours of studio time, and began to dedicate himself to the production of library music.
This early example for the legendary London based KPM library was never to be bettered in my opinion. A melting-pot of percussive and funky rhythms and moods, imagine a movie score to a spy flick set in Rio that never was - and you'll have some idea.
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Netflix gambles big on 'House of Cards'
The streaming service bets $100 million on original, high-profile programming. Will it be a winner?
Netflix is playing politics with television.
The online streaming service barges into big-budget original series with House of Cards, starring Kevin Spacey as conniving congressman Francis Underwood. The first 13-episode season is available as of Friday — all at once — in 40 countries to Netflix's 30 million subscribers, and a second season is already promised for early next year.
This month only, the first episode can also be watched free by non-subscribers at netflix.com/houseofcards.
Netflix has built a business streaming movies and TV repeats for $8 a month. Now it's hoping to rival pay-cable channels HBO, Showtime and Starz by offering up exclusive programming as a lure to keep customers paying those monthly fees. Cards alone marks a high-end, $100 million-plus investment, topping rival bids by HBO and AMC; Netflix is also reviving Fox's canceled cult comedy Arrested Development with 14 new episodes in May.
Spacey calls it "a new paradigm," noting he expects "other companies that have done very well as portals for content start to make their own content and want to compete. Whether or not we're a big splash or we're at the beginning of something, I do think that's where things are headed."
And Modi Wiczyk, co-CEO of producing studio Media Rights Capital, says he chose Netflix because of its offer of complete creative control, the unprecedented 26-episode commitment before a single frame had been shot, and for the show's role as trailblazer: "It gave us the opportunity to be the anchor, the defining show," he says, the way The Shield, Mad Men or The Sopranos were for their cable networks. "It was really kind of rare air."
Borrowed from the BBC
Cards was adapted from a novel by Michael Dobbs (a former adviser to Margaret Thatcher) and a subsequent 1990 BBC miniseries. David Fincher (The Social Network, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo) shepherded the project, directing the first two episodes and creating sprawling film-style sets in Baltimore and on location in Washington. Fittingly, production wrapped on Election Day.
It borrows the British setup, with American tweaks: As a new president takes office, Francis Underwood (Spacey), a South Carolina Democrat and House majority whip who has paid his political dues, is in line for a coveted post as secretary of State (consider him John Kerry). When he's suddenly denied the job, he looks for payback and another ladder to climb, aided by his equally ruthless wife, Claire (Robin Wright). Among his pawns are a naïve but ambitious reporter (Kate Mara) and a misbehaving congressman (Corey Stoll).
The setting of this series is the corridors of Capitol Hill, but "the show isn't about politics; it's about power," insists the show's head writer and executive producer, Beau Willimon (Farragut North,The Ides of March). "Politics just allows us to see master power players at work: people who are experts at manipulation, intimidation, persuasion, seduction and deception. It's like watching grand-master chess players at a game."
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Though the initial premise implies a revenge fantasy, "what will be clear to people in the first several minutes of the show is this is a story about ascendancy," Willimon says. "This is a man, really a couple, that is interested in power for power's sake. They are unabashedly self interested, they are remorseless in their self-interest. When you're already in a fairly high office and you want more, and up, where do you go, and how do you get there, and what's the highest you can go?"
Like Scottish actor Ian Richardson, who starred in the original Cards, Spacey has portrayed Shakespeare's Richard III on stage, and he sees similarities in both roles. Each addresses the viewer directly at times, in soliloquy fashion. And each has the unbridled "ambition, politically, although I don't think there'll be as big a body count at the end" of Cards, Spacey says.
Essentially, Underwood has one goal, says Wright: "If you're thinking about dealing with the rules of war, what are those laws? To be feared. (And) if you need to be feared, you have to annihilate everyone else in some sense." Which she does, as a tyrannical boss at a charity and a fiercely protective wife, in a role that Spacey likens to Lady Macbeth.
"But I also think what's quite different about Richard and this show is Richard doesn't have a relationship with a wife he trusts implicitly and whose character is as formidable as he is," he says.
But modern political cynicism may resonate more deeply. "I'm endlessly fascinated by the paradoxical nature of our political systems," Willimon says. "We expect our leaders to be bastions of moral integrity, and then we expect them to be effective. And those things do not mix well in the martini glass. To be an effective leader, you have to be willing to do things that most people would find morally abhorrent. And at the same time (people) want them to be saints."
Spacey finds further parallels in recent reassessments of politicians such as Lyndon B. Johnson. "Yeah, he was ruthless, he was a bastard, he was a manipulator, but he got three civil-rights bills passed," he says.
"We have seen over the last four years the most ineffectual congress in the history of the United States," says Spacey. So "it will be very interesting for an audience to observe a character who gets (stuff) done. For them, the question will be, do the ends justify the means?"
What has changed since the four-hour British miniseries first aired, spawning two sequels?
"Certainly starting from 2000 on, people have been a lot more politically conscious," Willimon says. "It doesn't mean they are more politically sophisticated, but they're more engaged. There are moments veering (between) consensus and deep polarization; they see the virtues of political system, but more often its flaws."
And perhaps a bigger change is in the media's coverage of politics as a 24/7 sport, "and not even just the media; everyone has a phone, everyone is a journalist," Willimon says.
Unlike her British counterpart, Mara's Zoe Barnes is "working at a time when print journalism is very much up in the air, and struggling with how it will be as relevant as it once was. She's naïve, but she's savvy, and she's taking chances. She throws her journalistic ethics out the window, and it works. Some people lose their careers as a result of that. Others are where they are because they're doing things they're not supposed to do."
Another first for Spacey
Cards marks Spacey's first lead TV role, though he grew up watching the tube, back when standalone episodic television was designed for viewers with "short attention spans." (The Wild Wild West was a favorite, he says.)
But since a string of movie hits that included L.A. Confidential, The Usual Suspects and American Beauty, he has been drawn to the theater, running London's Old Vic, and now television. "As studios moved further and further away from making movies I was involved with in the '90s," he says, TV become a more hospitable home "if you want to explore complexity and you want to have really interesting characters to play and plot lines to go off in different directions."
Cards' choice of a non-traditional TV home prompted changes in the usual marketing model. Instead of a blanket ad campaign that began weeks before its debut, Cards has been recommended to Netflix's subscribers who've watched similar types of movies and TV shows, and is being promoted with a more traditional campaign that starts today, including the free episode for non-subscribers.
And Netflix doesn't care whether viewers flock in droves to the show right away, as a commercial TV network must. The company only hopes that they show up in sufficient numbers over the long haul. Other networks "have a lot of pressure to get people to watch in a narrow time frame," says chief content officer Ted Sarandos. "We don't think that's conducive to making great television."
At Wednesday's New York premiere, he called Cards "the first series created for the on-demand generation." But the risk in the all-at-once strategy is that viewers can sign up for a free month-long trial at netflix.com, watch all 13 episodes and then quit without paying a penny.
And the Netflix model caters to the binge viewing that TV fans crave: "We want people immediately when they finish a chapter to want to go to the next one," Willimon says.
"It seems that's the way people are consuming their entertainment these days, in big blocks. So it shows you audiences do have a long attention span," adds Spacey.
Whether it's long enough to sustain Cards beyond two seasons is a question only Netflix can answer: Unlike other TV shows, the streaming service does not use Nielsen ratings as a report card. Instead, it can easily (and privately) track what, when and how each of its subscribers watches.
"We've known for a long time where we want Hour 26 to be," Willimon says. "Whether or not we have privilege of going to a third season, or fourth or fifth, there will be a certain completeness to our story … and a door open should we have the opportunity to walk through it."


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James P. Connolly is a stand up comedian and radio/TV host known for his playful, confident style and unique sense of humor.
He attended Harvard University on a Marine Corps ROTC Scholarship. While serving in Desert Storm, he was ordered to write jokes for a Colonel. Arriving in Hollywood, he began to perform at LA's major comedy venues and soon popped up on television, commercials, and in small films.
James has appeared on Comedy Central, HBO, VH1, Comics Unleashed, hosted "Live From Here" for National Lampoon XM Radio, is a frequent guest on the nationally syndicated Bob and Tom Radio Show and recently recorded a "Blue Collar Radio Comedy Concert" for SiriusXM, as one of their most requested acts. James has made multiple trips overseas to entertain the troops and produces an annual Veterans Day Comedy Show benefiting Veterans in Film & Television (VFT). He is currently the host of "Vet on the Street" for We Are The Mighty TV.


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Arsenal midfielder Mathieu Flamini was involved in a bust-up with kitman Vic Ackers for cutting the sleeves off his match shirt during the Gunners' 1-0 defeat against Manchester United.
Robin van Persie consigned Arsenal to their first league defeat since the opening day of the season just before the international break.
According to the Daily Star that wasn't the only cause of unrest in the Arsenal dressing room afterwards.
According to the paper, Arsenal have a policy which means all of their players have to wear the same length sleeves for match day, as deemed by the captain.
However Flamini is said to have used scissors to cut the sleeves off his shirt, which Arsenal's backroom staff only noticed in the second half at Old Trafford, prompting Ackers, 67, to confront him afterwards.
An 'Arsenal source' told the paper: "Vic and Mathieu had heated words at the end of the game.
"It is a tradition that all players wear the same shirt. Why he can't simply roll his sleeves up rather than cut them off is beyond most of us.
"But only Bacary Sagna gave Vic any support over the issue.
"It didn't help that the shirts were ones with a poppy on, that are sometimes auctioned off to raise money for charity."
Flamini rejoined the Gunners over the summer on a free transfer after departing for AC Milan in 2008.
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The purpose of the Vermont Historical Records Advisory Board (VHRAB) is to support the identification, preservation, and use of records with continuing or historical value in Vermont.
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The New York Mets are finally giving Wilmer Flores his opportunity as they promoted him from Triple-A Las Vegas and will start him tonight at third base against Colorado. Ironically, today is Flores' 22nd birthday.
The Mets, currently in an overall team-hitting slump, could use an offensive boost from Flores, who is hitting .321 with 15 homers and 86 RBI. The thought of Flores coming close to that with the Mets is enticing. They certainly aren't going to get production from Justin Turner.
To make room on the roster for Flores, closer Bobby Parnell was placed on the disabled list with pain in his neck. Parnell received an anti-inflammatory injection Monday.
The Mets could make another roster move this weekend if Jonathan Niese is activated from the disabled list. Niese, rehabbing from a partial rotator cuff tear, will make what is hoped to be his final rehab start tonight for Double-A Binghamton. If all goes well, he could start Sunday at Arizona.
If not, he'll make another rehab start.
Here's tonight's lineup, the 82nd different one this season, against Colorado:
Eric Young, LF: Has 15 steals since joining the Mets.
Daniel Murphy, 2B: Has 20 RBI since July 6.
Marlon Byrd, RF: Has at least one hit in 16 of his last 20 games.
Ike Davis, 1B: Batting .194 (13-for-67) with RISP.
Juan Lagares, CF: Is hitting .303 (47-for-155) since June 5.
Wilmer Flores, 3B: Makes major league debut on 22nd birthday. Are all the stars aligned?
John Buck, C: On a 3-for-28 (.107) over his last eight games.
Omar Quintanilla, SS: Drew 19 walks in July, third in the NL.
Jenrry Mejia, RHP: Will make his third start. The first two were quality starts.
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