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Between Federal, State, and Local Governments
Encourage State and Local Governments to Become More Open and Inclusive
President Obama's historic commitment to open government has inspired people across the country with a renewed belief that government can and should be transparent, participatory and collaborative. In Seattle, WA, the City Council has formed an Open Government Committee to explore and recommend ways to improve citizens' access to public documents and seek more diverse community input on issues affecting the city in advance of legislative action. In Owensboro, KY, citizens have signed an Open Government Pledge and asked local government leaders to adopt a set of principles committing to more transparent and participatory practices.
As President Obama develops and implements his Open Government Directive, he should support local governments in doing the same by offering guidance for the steps that cities, towns and counties can take to become more transparent, participatory and collaborative. The President should convene mayors, city administrators, city council members, county executives and county commissioners who have distinguished themselves for their commitment to open government principles. This Local Open Government Commission would pursue the following objectives:
1. Develop a set of Open Government Principles that may be adopted by local governments
2. Develop a set of Open Government Best Practices in the areas of Transparency, Participation, and Collaboration
3. Develop an Open Government Seal of Approval that may be awarded to those local governments that demonstrate a commitment to open government principles by adopting the best practices described above
4. Create a program to recognize local leaders for excellence in open government
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This idea was developed in April 2009 by federal agency managers attending "Champions of Participation". http://www.americaspeaks.org/champions
The President absolutely should convene mayors, city administrators, city council members, county executives and county commissioners who have distinguished themselves for their commitment to open government principles -- but in that mix should also be engagement practitioners who already work for local governments... in the City of Salinas, where I work as a Neighborhood Services Coordinator under a Council-approved Work Plan with a Neighborhood Engagement Strategy that is modified from year to year, we are already doing this but have lost one Neighborhood Services Coordinator and could use more funds to hire more people and integrate engagement across departmental boundaries.
The principles above suggested for a Local Government Commission are good, but already there is a very good guidance document called PEP (Public Engagement Principles) which was collaboratively created by hundreds of practitioners with the aid and coordination of Sandy Heierbacher, Director of the National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation (NCDD) - she and various other leading practitioners met with the White House in March of this year to discuss a draft of public engagement principles, a final version is now available at www.thataway.org - the site of the NCDD. The PEP principles should now be circulated to the federal, state, and local governments -- (including City, County, Town / Township and Regional governments) -- across the nation -- to fulfill a collaborative effort which would result in a final draft of Open Government Principles based on the PEP (Public Engagement Principles). The White House Office of Public Engagement and all State and Local governments should use the PEPs as the founding document for Open Government Principles and Best Practices which would then lead to locally developed plans which should be approved individually by each local government (Cities and Counties particularly) so that each local government has an engagement plan which is locally tailored to its needs, like the City of Salinas Neighborhood Services Work Plan and Neighborhood Engagement Strategy, which the Salinas City Council approves and modifies each year.
On the program to recognize local leaders for excellence in open government -- start by recognizing line staff, engagement coordinators, neighborhood services coordinators, neighborhood services and leadership staff that are employed by Cities around the country -- many cities now have a Neighborhood Services section -- and give them an award, recognize them for their efforts! Then jointly recognize them and the Councils or Boards of Supervisors that have funded and supported the engagement / neighborhood services coordinators, and link them to state and federal government leaders so that people can utilize the neighborhood services offices to constructively organize and fund dialogues to develop serious engagement actions in tandem with deliberation that must occur on federal and state issues as well as local issues!
I believe that the assertion that the American people cannot know what government is doing is pure nonsense. Information is available if someone is willing to do the research unless, of course, it is classified. I attend several community and city meetings on an ongoing basis to keep myself aware of the local issues.
Thanks for mentioning the Public Engagement Principles, Colin! I'm going to add a new post about the principles now, and I think I'll borrow some of your text. :)
Thank you, Sandy. The PEP needs to be moved to local governments for their review and possible adoption as I suggested above. In fact, a few days before I went out on leave, I suggested that to my supervisor that the PEPs be considered by the City of Salinas in the context of the Neighborhood Services Work Plan and Neighborhood Engagement Strategy which is coming up for a vote in the next few weeks I think.
I think that confining these activities to local governments will not work, because most people do not attend meetings, run for office, read internal publications, and so forth.
The Federal government must contact not merely local state, county, and city governments. Government-to-government communication is fine, and necessary - and strictly internal, with some few exceptions (as with the exceptional person below who attends city meetings).
What is necessary are open letters, memos... or some sort of communications published in **local news**, either in newspapers, or local TV and radio. These communications should alert people to a) the means by which they can communicate with Federal government programs such as this, and b) some few of the issues with which the government is concerned.
This will do two things: first, let the huge number of people who do not keep up with blogs, websites, and so forth know that they *can* participate, and how they can do that; and second, counter the enormous amount of right-wing venues which *do* use those avenues. The right has not, by and large, expanded into the high-tech area, and their spokesmen (and I use gender deliberately here) are most active in the older communications media. The Obama government must use those also.
To digi3446 and others: You are absolutely right that confining the activities to local government alone will not work.
The whole purpose of the local government engagement office (Neighborhood Services) where I currently work is to foster engagement in the form of interaction between government and residents (and vice versa) and activities that feature elected officials, staff, and numerous members of the public. I am not unique in my efforts: what I do is based on direction from a City Council that itself approved an engagement Work Plan and continues to approve it annually as part of its implementation of the Salinas City Council Goal known in the past as "Consistent Community Outreach and Engagement" and now referred to as simply "Community Engagement." Additionally, many cities across the country, not just Salinas, also have their own Neighborhood Services section, each one being a little different but many of the Neighborhood Services sections of the various Cities across the nation having many similarities.
To pull these sort of activities off requires massively collaborative planning -- usually, months of preparation -- far more than what you can accomplish simply by having a local government employee sending out a mailer to residents describing an event or posting some announcement in the newspaper.
The real success I have found in my efforts as a Neighborhood Services Coordinator for the City of Salinas has happened (and has worked) when I have had the chance to build coalitions and networks of City residents over months or even years, during which time I identify both volunteers who can and will come back time and time again, but in addition, and critically, the most success I've had is when I've found a core group of City resident leaders (people from all different parts of the City who are ordinary residents, not elected or appointed officials, but who exhibit leadership traits) that can be called upon to special policy sessions or leadership development sessions (usually about six to ten such sessions per fiscal year). As I do this I have noticed that some local private development firms that attempt to do engagement work of their own may spend upwards of 200,000 dollars for several sessions involving the public in some sort of community planning and design sessions, often with minimal impact and minimal influence on the final outcome when the project arrives in front of the decision-makers. The best engagement work is done what somewhere between 20 and 400 dollars (at most) is spent on facilities rental, a few hundred dollars is spent on mailers and door hangers, and where the real effort and expenditure involves resource allocation that enables staff to work full-time connecting with and coordinating residents over the course of a year or two (in other words, spending 200,000 on a series of a couple of forums is not helpful, but spending the same amount annually on a staff person who constantly labors specifically on engagement facilitation, is worth the effort and expenditure). Salary and benefits for two full-time engagement staff, plus somewhere in the realm of 25,000 to 35,000 annually (maximum) for events and activities costs (facilities rentals, food, water, various related services, mailings, etc.) -- when you add it all up, this costs each City that does it (assuming two staff persons) between 200,000 and 250,000 dollars annually, and what can be realized with this budget is typically between 25 and 30 engagement event / training / activity / policy session / leadership session opportunities that are highly productive, assuming staff are set free to develop networks with non-governmental residents (neighbors) and cultivate neighborhood activities freely and without much administrative interference.
The key "leader-neighbors" (non-governmental resident leaders[including employed and unemployed, even including one or two homeless persons] who are ordinary folks), once identified by staff efforts which typically last a year to build the neighborhood networks, these neighborhood resident leaders actually develop neighborhood improvement projects and do a vast amount of stuff completely on their own after minimal government training and involvement by me as a local government employee.
It is vital that you identify and cultivate neighborhood leadership as part of the process of conducting various engagement activities - at least, that is what I have learned over the past three years of doing full-time civic engagement work for the City of Salinas (beginning in early 2007 through the present day), and I learned similar lessons during my three years in El Salvador when I was a Peace Corps Volunteer when I was called upon by residents of a village to help them facilitate development of a local government in a postwar setting, seven years after the conclusion of the Salvadoran civil war (I was in-country from 1998-2000).
That is why the Public Engagement Principles referenced in my original post above, as developed by the National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation, call for the following to occur as general principles of engagement:
The Seven Core Principles (as quoted from a document collaboratively produced by hundreds of civic engagement and dialogue practitioners and reviewed at the White House in an earlier version in March with the assistance of the National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation):
In practice, people emphasize or apply these principles in many different ways, and often embrace
additional principles. These seven principles reflect the common beliefs and understandings of those
working in the fields of public engagement, conflict resolution, and collaboration.
1. Careful Planning and Preparation
Through adequate and inclusive planning, ensure that the design, organization, and
convening of the process serve both a clearly defined purpose and the needs of the
2. Inclusion and Demographic Diversity
Equitably incorporate diverse people, voices, ideas, and information to lay the
groundwork for quality outcomes and democratic legitimacy.
3. Collaboration and Shared Purpose
Support and encourage participants, government and community institutions, and
others to work together to advance the common good.(See footnote 1)
4. Openness and Learning
Help all involved listen to each other, explore new ideas unconstrained by
predetermined outcomes, learn and apply information in ways that generate new
options, and rigorously evaluate public engagement activities for effectiveness.
5. Transparency and Trust
Be clear and open about the process, and provide a public record of the organizers,
sponsors, outcomes, and range of views and ideas expressed.
6. Impact and Action
Ensure each participatory effort has real potential to make a difference, and that
participants are aware of that potential.
7. Sustained Engagement and Participatory Culture
Promote a culture of participation with programs and institutions that support ongoing
quality public engagement.
Footnote 1: In addition to reflecting the democratic ideals of liberty, justice, and freedom for all, the term "common good" refers to
things that optimize the well-being of all (like a traffic light in a dangerous intersection) or conditions that serve to benefit all
involved (as in a consensus agreement focused on cleaning up the water supply).
View full document, background, and endorsers online at www.ncdd.org/pep/
Just for clarification, I have now developed a username on this site and the posts above shown as posted by "colingallagher" are posts I have made. This is my first post using a login with userid and password, those above I did not post using a login.
I came up with a more tech savvy solution to this problem, please see idea on Federal, State and Local data consolidation.
This is important for state government as well.
Regarding the comment by espalding_bbr above, you are correct, it is absolutely critical for State government as well as local governments! Imagine how different things might have been where I live here in California if the State had used a dialogue site like this one we are using now to generate ideas and get a sense of the public feeling _before_ putting Propositions 1A-1F on the ballot. I imagine that if the California State government had done this, at least some if not most of Propositions 1A-1E never would have gone on the ballot at all, and other more viable ballot propositions would have been floated to the voters -- and today, California's State government would not be in the unenviable position of trying to figure out how to deal with 20 billion dollars of deficit before the June 15 State Constitutional deadline! Imagine the positive power of dialogue (online and in-person) for correcting such problems -- preventatively.
This is such an important idea! Openness and transparency is important for government at all levels. Perhaps people would feel that their voice mattered more if, at the local level, they felt empowered in their participation.
While many hands make light work, unfortunately many heads make light thinking when people are not trained to have productive democratic inquiry sessions in which the goal of reaching the best answers in the community is established. I suggest beginning in early grammar school, and not stopping until high school, that effective democratic inquiry and problem solving in community is taught and practiced. This will require a curriculum that comes out of the same kind of inquiry process.
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We as citizens have the right to embrace and support government of the people, by the people, and for the people that is effective, efficent, and ethical in working for the public good. We need to look to a governing body that will generously share its power by sharing facts and knowledge of the process in which it is engaaged. These facts and knowledge is to be expected from local government to the state government,and federal government.
When governments operate with full transparency, everyone wins. When citizens take an active role in thier neighborhoods, thier communities, and thier governments, they have the power to impact positive action, and when necessary, to make positive change. Elected officials gain powerful allies when citizens support governmental policy they helped to shape.
As a citizen I am committed to commit time and effort to participate with governing bodies and public boards to guarantee positive results.
I would all citizens to actively participate in public forums, hearings, and seek to understand the truth and purpose of issues under cosideration. These issues being local to nationally, and world wide.
There is a need of an informed and educated citizenry on issues facing our communities, state level, and nationally. We the people have a voice, sometimes we feel whats the use; they have thier minds made up, they do not listen. Lobbist control all that takes place. It is time our government bring backt our government to the people and listen to the whole.
I would like for President Obamma's team bring this openness and transparenct to local communities to hear what we the people feel, and hear us with our ideas. I would like to see them come to my community where we have citizens engaged to help our elected officials.
My passion is to see a goernment that is passionate about them public good, not just special intrest groups, and programs. It is about WE THE PEOPLE.
Owensboro, Ky
Larry Bidwell
Over the past two years, I have been studying attitudes toward government by inviting myself into coffee klatches among a wide variety of people across the state of Wisconsin. I have been surprised by the pervasiveness of the sentiment that government does not listen. All levels of government need to become more open, and not just by communicating outward (e.g., providing more information, holding public hearings). All levels of government need to send public officials out into the public to meet with people in the course of their daily lives to listen to their concerns and become acquainted with their lifestyles.
Kathy Cramer Walsh
Madison, Wisconsin
While I am not opposed to the idea I am opposed to the scope. What the Federal government needs is transparency, standardization and accountability for reporting the use of Federal dollars granted to state, county and local municipalities. Transparency issues outside of the Federal scope should be left to the state, county and local municipalities to devise and implement on their own accord.
Have you heard of the 10th Amendment. It's not the federal governments place to tell the states or the people how to run their business:
"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
The President and Federal government should stay out of state and local government business. Period. It is up to the citizens of each state or local government to decide how they want to run their own state and local government. If you don't like something in your local government, work to change it; don't ask federal person some thousands of miles away using taxpayer monies from people that don't live in your area to fix problems you need to fix yourself.
Re. powers enumerated in the U.S. Constitution / Amendments, having federal government help or facilitate positive and transparent interactions, dialogue, etc., that local government would implement, or having federal/state/local government mix perspectives and communicate with each other better, or having a federal program of engagement which would -- as suggested by the person who created the idea we are commenting on -- "develop a set of Open government principles that may be adopted by local governments" (see item 1 in the idea we are commenting on above) - and having best practices, seals of approval, award programs, etc. -- None of this is unconstitutional at all.
stan.sso cited our Constitutional language: ""The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." But engagement is not the exercise of "powers." It is, at the most basic level, a process which involves a series of activities that foster communication and involvement between citizens, government, and various groups in society that may not normally interact, but need to communicate with each other. -- de Toqueville saw it happening when he visited the United States, the notion of social capital was developed by a teacher in the early 1900s, civic engagement discussions about what it means have been going on for many years, notably involving such persons as Putnam, Peterson, Heierbacher, and may others, but one thing that civic engagement and public engagement are not is unconstitutional. Don't even go there, what a crazy argument. Next you will say that my posting here is unconstitutional?! No, it's simply part of the civic engagement process. Communicate. Engage. Live and let live. And learn while you are at it.
Inconsistent with the 10th amendment.
The bible says something about the mote in your brother's eye versus the log in your own. It's not just a warning against hypocrisy, it's just good management. The federal government needs to concern itself with failures of the federal government. When it interferes with local governments, its attempts will likely be short-sighted and not responsive to the actual localized needs of the citizenry. It would be nice if every localized government in the whole nation provided a high level of openness and accountability, but the federal government is simply not in a position to make it so.
This post is popular but not nearly as popular as the posts asking for Obama to make his birth certificate, college record, health records and the like available.
Count Birth Certificate comments here and you will get over 7,000 But, this site has been rigged so that the posts asking for Obama to support transparency by providing his own birth certificate, health records and college records are not properly counted, even when they do not get deleted. All of the multiple posts would not need to exist if the honest reporting of this site showed the number one request here is for Obama to release his records.
I have done a personal count of more than 1,000 requests for his birth certificate. My analysis suggests there have been at least 7,000 request for Obama to produce his real birth certificate, college records, health records and other financial records.
It is possible to review this site to find the most requested ideas by scanning "Top Rated" posts, but the requests for Obama's records do not show up as being top rated. Those runnig this site are cooking the results. If the results were honest people would be able to continue to vote on a single post asking for transparency of Obama's records.
According to the liars running this website the most requested item has NOT been Obama's birth certificate.
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The Federal Government needs to shrink into a tiny, manageable size and leave state and local governments alone.
The concept of American Constitutional federalism demands 2 different forms of separation: horizontal, with the federal government broken into 3 distinct branches; and, vertical, with the federal separate from the state and local.
Once the federal government begins managing the state and local governments (beyond the very limited requirements of the constitution) the federalist concept will break down, with local and state governments becoming branches of the federal bureaucracy.
autonomy has already been severely eroded by the deceitful carrots of federal monies.
But then, how should Obama and his goonies encourage any other part of government to be more open and transparent when they are NOT open and transparent? They ignore the rule of law, ignore (SHRED) the U.S. Constitution and basically, use the "do as I say, not as I do" rule? Hmmmm?
I wouldn't use Obama as an example for anything except how NOT to lead, how NOT to do it.
Let's let the local and state people do the leading and let the federal government take the orders from the people from now on? That's the way it is supposed to be.


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Annoying part with the new Azure Nebula: Will it do away with the Empire Defense: Romulans mission? If so, what will replace it's 1440 dil, to allow for daily grind towards 8k?
Oh, haven't you heard? They want to give us YET ANOTHER useless currency that we can't trade. Yeah, I've got stockpiles of fleet marks I can't use because even if I do get to use them on a fleet project, I spend about half of what I got and fill the bar up single-handedly ... and I have tons of GPL because nothing I want uses it. Oh, and let's not forget the small quantity of Lobi that's taking up space in my bank because I don't care to spend $20 opening enough boxes to get enough to buy something (because none of the Lobi store items really seem worth that much to me, and none of the box rewards seem to be worth the $1.25 it costs to open said box, except
the ships that are like a 2% chance).
No, now we're supposed to care about "Romulan Marks" and some "reputation system" because apparently, we're supposed to care what OUR ENEMIES think of us. I don't care if they're paying us in some worthless currency that will buy a new gun or a crappy outfit. I don't even care if they dangle a new ship in front of us, because I don't want to go around looking like one of them.
Seriously, if I don't get to roll in on the front lines and slaughter these guys for no reason other than their mothers dress them funny, I'm going to be

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TOKYO, June 27, 2007 -- Action in this year's K-1 World Max series heats up tomorrow with a do-or-die showdown featuring 18 of the best fighters in the popular 70kg/154lbs weight class. Set for the historic Nippon Budokan in central Tokyo, the Final Elimination tournament will advance fighters to October's K-1 World Max final.
Today, participating fighters shared their pre-event thoughts with the media in a standing-room-only press conference at the Meridian Pacific Hotel.
The Main Event tomorrow will feature the '03 World Max Champion Masato of Japan; and the defending Hero's mixed martial arts middleweight champion, JZ Calvin of Brazil.
Masato was relaxed as usual, saying "I will just go to the fight and do my best. The only thing I'm worried about, with this hot weather, is drinking too much water and getting bloated. So I'll watch out for that!"
JZ was similarly casual: I am a fighter but I am also a fan, and this is an awesome card so I'm looking forward to the event. In my fight with Masato we have two champions, and I hope people will enjoy it!"
The penultimate match up will see defending and two-time World Max Champion Buakaw Por Pramuk of Thailand take on Western European World Max Champion Nicky Holtzken of Holland.
Buakaw: "I want to show the fans a both interesting and entertaining match"
Holtzken: "This is my first time fighting in Japan and I am happy and confident and I can't wait -- there will be fireworks in the ring I promise!"
The 2005 World Max champion and runner-up in last year's final is shoot boxer Andy Souwer of Holland. Tomorrow he will meet muay thai fighter Ole Laursen of Denmark, one of several "producer's picks" on the card.
Souwer did not attend the press conference, as he was in the steam room sweating off a little extra weight to qualify later today at 70kg.
Said Laursen: "I trained hard for this match, and I hope Andy did too. I am ready!"
Armenian muay thai fighter Drago made it to the World Max semifinals in '06. For another shot at glory, tomorrow he will have to get past a little guy with a big punch, producer's pick Mike Zambidis of Greece.
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Zambidis: "I haven't decided what I'll wear tomorrow, but I do know I will put on a spectacular fight -- I want the audience to get their money's worth!"
The World Max Japan Champion for the last two years is Yoshihiro Sato. Tomorrow, the lanky kickboxer will be tested by World Max Eastern Europe Champion, muay thai fighter Denis Schneidmiller of Germany.
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Albert Kraus of Holland was the first-ever World Max Champion. Kraus made it to the final eight last year, and tomorrow he will face fellow boxer and '06 final eight fighter, Virgil Kalakoda of South Africa.
Speaking in Japanese, Kraus promised to do his best.
The easy-going Kalakoda joked, "There are already three Dutchmen in this tournament, Albert -- I think that's too many and so I'm afraid you aren't going to make it through!"
A producer's pick, muay thai fighter Artur Kyshenko of the Ukraine, will step in against Asian World Max Champion Soo-Hwan Lee of South Korea.
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NEW YORK The "Ring" has arrived, all 90,000 pounds of it. And, for the most part, it's worth its weight in gold.
The object in question is the most talked-about set in years at the Metropolitan Opera, a high-tech machine designed by Canadian director Robert Lepage for his new production of Richard Wagner's "Ring" cycle.
After years of construction and months of rehearsal, it finally went on public display Monday night as the company opened its season before an enthusiastic gala audience with the first installment in the four-part work, "Das Rheingold."
If not yet a complete triumph, it has the ingredients to become one, with enough awe-inspiring effects and haunting images to create a sense of wonderment that befits Wagner's mythological epic. At present, the effect is marred by a few glitches and head-scratching moments - but this is, after all, a "Ring" in progress.
Lepage's "machine" consists of 24 aluminum planks attached to a central spine like so many parallel seesaws. They can rotate together, bend in the middle or move independently to take on almost any shape, from the banks of the Rhine River to a spiral staircase to an underground cave. Computerized projections and lighting do the rest.
The magic begins before a word is sung, as the orchestral prelude conjures up the beginnings of the world at the bottom of the Rhine. The planks, stretched flat on the stage floor, begin to undulate gently, mimicking the music. Suddenly the planks rise up to reveal the three Rhinemaidens swimming upward in harness, exhaling bubbles as they sing.
After they have taunted the dwarf Alberich and he steals their gold to make into a magic ring, the first scene ends with an indelible image: the three of them lying almost motionless in despair atop the set. Then, during the musical transition to the next scene, the set slowly rotates to drop the Rhinemaidens out of sight while a new configuration takes shape - an upward-sloping hillside in the land of the gods.
Another breathtaking effect comes after the second scene, when Wotan, king of the gods, and Loge, half-god of fire, descend to the underground world of Nibelheim to steal the ring from Alberich. As the music swells, the planks contort themselves into a steeply slanted staircase where stunt men doubling for the singers gingerly make their way.
There are lots of felicitous small touches, like the platforms that open up for the giants, thrusting out toward the audience like the menacing fingers on a hand. Or the way Loge scampers backward up a steep slope, a ring of fire dancing around his feet.
Among the bugs that need to be ironed out: The set creaks a lot when it moves, Loge's shoes squeak when he walks backward and at one point a stagehand had to emerge from beneath the set to free a wire that apparently became tangled.
A more serious disappointment is the anticlimactic ending, when the gods are supposed to cross a rainbow bridge to reach their new home, Valhalla. Strips of shifting colored lights move up the center of the stage and patches of color light the back, but they look more like a test pattern than a real rainbow. And instead of walking on the bridge, the gods simply exit to the side of the stage, leaving it bare during the final triumphal measures.


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Rebecca Eaton: 25 years mastering 'Masterpiece'
NEW YORK With a name like "Masterpiece," it has to be good.
For a quarter-century, Rebecca Eaton has overseen this weekly British drama showcase whose reputation for excellence is undisputed.
But now, with "Masterpiece" marking its 40th year (it first aired in January 1971), the pressures of maintaining that masterpiece tradition might have reasonably begun to wear on the person in charge.
"It's my life's work," declares Eaton, looking anything but pressured, "and I love it."
The PBS series' summer phase - "Masterpiece Mystery!" - is now under way. On Sunday (check local listings for time), David Suchet stars as the dapper detective Hercule Poirot in a new adaptation of the novels by Agatha Christie. The week after that: another Poirot mystery. Then a new Miss Marple whodunit, "The Pale Horse," starring Julia McKenzie. Then three weeks of mysteries set in modern-day Italy with Rufus Sewell as Detective Aurelio Zen, before an August break.
Eaton runs things from the show's home base in Boston. But lately she has made two trips to Manhattan. She was feted as one of this year's Time 100 (the magazine's annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world, which also included such luminaries as President Barack Obama and Justin Bieber). On a subsequent visit, she collected a Peabody Award for last season's "Masterpiece" airing of "Sherlock: A Study in Pink."
A native of Pasadena, Calif., she grew up in a cultured household. Her father taught Shakespeare at the California Institute of Technology. Her mother, Katherine Emery, had been an actress on Broadway and in the movies. An alumna of Vassar College, Eaton became a production assistant for the BBC World Service in London before arriving at WGBH, where she joined what was then known as "Masterpiece Theatre."
"What else WOULD I do?" she explains with a laugh. "It was perfect."
Since becoming executive producer in September 1985, she could lay claim to such admired productions as "Prime Suspect," "House of Cards," "Traffik," "The Forsyte Saga," "Bleak House," "Inspector Morse," "The Complete Jane Austen" and "Little Dorrit" as the series won 28 prime-time Emmys and 14 Peabodys.
But receiving accolades hardly sums up her job description.
Over eggs Benedict one recent morning in a restaurant near Central Park, Eaton listed a few of her responsibilities.
"I choose the shows - what we will invest in to co-produce," she began. (More than half of the projects are co-productions, rather than acquisitions.)
"I give notes on the writing and consult on the casting," she went on. "I read the scripts with a fairly educated eye. I very rarely go to the set or look at rushes, but I do look at cuts."
The result is 40 weeks of new "Masterpiece" programming each season.
At the same time, Eaton must keep the money coming in. The series gets funding from PBS and from PBS stations, but has never landed another corporate underwriter since Mobil (which later became ExxonMobil) dropped its sponsorship after 33 years in 2004.
To help meet the budget, Eaton early this year launched The Masterpiece Trust, an opportunity for individual donors and families to make major contributions directly to the series while supporting their local PBS station. Thus far, it has collected $750,000.


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Relax! Bamboo floors throughout, so take your shoes off and go barefoot. Two TV's and DVD player for down time. Magazines and books provided. Wall air and heat, with a ceiling fan in the living room. Kitchen with full size fridge, microwave, and two stove top burners. Plenty of kitchen equipment. Nice enclosed shower to rinse off the beach sand. Two coin- op washers and dryers available for your convenience. All the fun of the amusement rides just steps away.
This was my family's first vacation to Wildwood. The condo was clean and close to everything.
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Participants will be returned to this location to retrieve their vehicles at the conclusion of the event. This year's crawl has expanded to include nearly a dozen venue locations and features some of Naples' best bars and restaurants throughout the Mercato, 3rd Street South, 5th Avenue in Downtown Naples.
The fun holiday tradition, produced by local Realtors Craig Ekonomos and Lisa Stevens, will be raising funds and friends for Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Southwest Florida. The inaugural Naples Claus for a Cause Pub Crawl sold out in the first two weeks of promotion. Raffle tickets will also be available for purchase during the crawl. The grand prize is a new beach cruiser courtesy of Big Mommas Bicycles.
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In Miami's bid to maintain its reputation as America's sexiest destination, South Beach is its red carpet. With hotels, bars and clubs like glittering starlets flashing canned smiles to the cameras, SoBe's exhibitionistic brand of luxury sometimes borders on sensory overload. So while its hot-list neighbors peddle the lifestyles of the rich and famous, the Hotel St. Augustine instead offers a refreshing dose of modesty, set in a 1937 Art Deco landmark in the burgeoning South of Fifth district.
With only 24 rooms, the St. Augustine functions more as a guest house than a full-service hotel. It's not unheard-of to have only one staff-person on-hand, hopping back and forth from reception duties to tending the small in-lobby bar (which also doubles as a breakfast lounge). The unassumingly hip décor keeps it simple, with the requisite Scandinavian clean lines, light woods and chromatic minimalism.
Designed around the concept of bringing the spa experience to the individual level, the bathrooms are by far the highlight of the hotel, and its primary claim to bragging rights amongst South Beach's indulgent properties. While the main quarters of the rooms run on the smallish side, the bathrooms are expansive, featuring multi-head European steam showers and a spa-bar of products for self-pampering.
And that may be the key to this place: self-pampering. Prima-donna tendencies and celebutante fantasies are better played out elsewhere, but set only two blocks from the beach and minutes from the velvet-ropes, the Hotel St. Augustine is a perfect refuge from SoBe's more ostentatious glamour.
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Nothing, had a wonderful stay!
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The Collector will forward the report to the State government, which has to find a solution acceptable to both parties.
The expert committee appointed to look into the row between the Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB) and SmartCity Kochi has submitted its report to the District Collector. The onus is now on the State government to find an amicable solution to the issue acceptable to both parties.
KSEB's decision to construct an electric tower on the land belonging to SmartCity Kochi has resulted in a prolonged confrontation, with both parties differing on the mode and extent of compensation.
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The expert committee headed by C.A. Babu, head of the electrical division of the Cochin University of Science and Technology's School of Engineering, submitted its report to the Collector last week after hearing out the positions of both KSEB and SmartCity Kochi.
District Collector P.I. Sheikh Pareed told the Hindu that he will study the report and forward it to the State government along with his recommendations by Wednesday.
Mr. Pareed said that as per the expert committee report, power lines of a length of 222 metres pass over the SmartCity land. The actual width of the passing lines comes to about 11 metres. The total width, however, has been calculated as 25 metres, leaving seven metres on either side of the lines as safety precaution.
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As per KSEB norms, it needs to compensate only for trees or vegetation removed along the 222-metre stretch through which the lines have been drawn. It further claims that future buildings need to be situated 16 metres away from the lines for safety.
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SmartCity Kochi disagrees with this norm stating that as per international standards, electrical lines drawn at a length of 222 metres should leave 50-metres as safety width and not 25 metres. The company says the presence of high voltage electric lines in the vicinity will also pose a grave threat to any future buildings that will have highly sophisticated electronic equipment and hence it was not possible to compromise on the safety parameters.
SmartCity claims that it is eligible for 1.03 acres in compensation for the land consumed by KSEB's tower and electric lines. However, KSEB is of the view that it need not give land in compensation as per existing norms, Mr. Pareed said.
The expert committee, he said, has not recommended exact compensation either in terms of money or land but makes a suggestion for an amicable solution based on the stated facts.


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Forum Post: Ugggh!! I hate the new ESPN website!
Posted 04/04/2015 05:12:49 EDT
Speaking of hating web pages, lost my favorites list and no longer have the link to the Pats forum that is current. Having to suffer through the sports forum link. Can someone help me out? New ESPN st more »
Forum Post: Pats online
Posted 12/08/2013 03:07:09 EST
Just got off the hill feom a morning of skiing. The game isn't on in Colorad. Can someone give me the online link. Thanks.
Posted 10/27/2013 11:17:22 EDT
I live in Telluride, CO and due to the Donkeys being the only thing that matters in Colorado the Pats gasme isn't on tv. Can someone recommend where to watch online?
Forum Post: ESPN - The Mag: Pats don't make playoffs and Miami WINS AFC EAST!!
Posted 08/21/2013 11:17:08 EDT
Odds to win Super Bowl NE 7-1 Mia 40-1
Odds to win AFC NE 3-1 Fish 18-1.
Guess ESPN needs to sell mags with their own version of reality.
Noone ever got rich betting against Vegas.
Forum Post: Disappointed in No. 12
Posted 06/17/2011 06:38:36 EDT
In Response to Re: Disappointed in No. 12: I don't think he tweets, so that's probably why you are overreacting. Can Brady take a dump without fans making a big deal out of every move or non-move? Goo more »
Forum Post: BRADY FINALLY ORGANIZES TEAM WORKOUTS +SHOWS OFF HIS FORM WITH MORE MASCULINE HAIR AT CHARITY!
Posted 05/30/2011 09:09:13 EDT
In Response to Re: Y CAN'T BRADY ORGANIZE TEAM WORKOUTS, WATER SLIDE WITH MALLET OR STOP MERRIWEATHER FROM RAPPING?: In Response to Re: Y CAN'T BRADY ORGANIZE TEAM WORKOUTS, WATER SLIDE WITH MALLET OR more »
Posted 05/29/2011 11:36:15 EDT
Ever think maybe Brady is recovering from foot surgery? Seem like a lot of jealous folks begrudging the fact that he has a life and isn't holed up in his mothers basement during his recovery. Is there more »
Forum Post: who will slide in this draft?
Posted 04/23/2011 10:48:23 EDT
Gotta agree with Newton. After watching the ESPN(sorry killa) special with Gruden I can see him falling. He could not tell Gruden how they called play at Auburn, told John he was putting him on the sp more »
Forum Post: VINCE WILFORK!
Posted 12/20/2010 12:36:24 EST
Yes I did. more »
Posted 12/20/2010 11:45:14 EST
Without Vince we would make the playoffs this year.
Forum Post: Crable Arrested
Posted 07/29/2010 12:54:22 EDT
He got cut. Guess we need to talk about something else. more »
Forum Post: rate the 5 top teams on your hate meter.
Posted 07/21/2010 09:48:55 EDT
I'm really surprised the Raiders didn't get more votes. In the late 70's the Raiders took up spots 1-5. Does time heal all wounds? more »
Forum Post: Too much business, too little heart
Posted 09/07/2009 02:01:23 EDT
For the most part the days of players playing for one team their entire careers are gone. Free angency has seen to that. Before you get too sad about his departure just remember that in all llikelyhoo more »
Forum Post: Merriman might be in serious trouble with the Player Conduct Policy!
Posted 09/06/2009 02:53:05 EDT
A walking perti dish and roid rage. New reality series? more »
Forum Post: BRADY OR BELICHICK... Who is most responsible for our dynasty?
Posted 09/06/2009 12:34:04 EDT
Without Bill there is a very good chance we never have Brady. Maybe even a chance Brady never played in the league. No dis to Tom, but it's Bill. more »
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