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COLUMBUS - Three state boards Monday approved five grants and tax credits and loans aimed at spurring job creation in northwest Ohio.
The Lucas County Improvement Corporation was recommended to receive a $2.7 million Logistics and Distribution Stimulus Loan for the $7.2 million expansion of the Toledo Express Airport intermodal cargo hub operated by BAX Global. The project is intended to protect 800 jobs at BAX and create 17 construction jobs. The balance of the project's cost is budgeted to come from a $3.4 million federal grant and $1 million from BAX Global.
The BAX facility, opened in 1991, was designed to handle domestic freight and needs modernizing to accommodate international cargoes, according to a port authority staff report presented to the agency's board last week.
The Ohio State Development Financing Advisory Council also approved a 10-year, $1.3 million loan to assist Roppe Corp. in Fostoria with a $4.6 million expansion of the company's facility, where it makes rubberized building materials.
The project is expected to create 33 positions and retain 306 jobs, the state Department of Development said.
Roppe was also awarded a 45 percent job creation tax credit for a six-year term in support of the expansion project by the Ohio Tax Credit Authority. The value of the tax credit is estimated at $65,890 over the term.
The company would be required to maintain operations at the project site for 12 years.
The State Controlling Board yesterday approved a $62,000 Rapid Outreach Grant to Turbine Standard Ltd., an aviation maintenance firm.
It plans a $675,000 expansion of its operations at Toledo Express Airport that is to create 35 jobs and retain 17.
The board also approved a $400,000 roadwork development grant for a planned $39 million distribution center for Home Depot Inc. in Hancock County's Allen Township. When it is built, the distribution center is expected to create 300 jobs.
Also yesterday, the Ohio Tax Credit Authority awarded a 10-year, 55 percent job creation tax credit to Johns Manville Corp. in hopes of luring the building materials company to open a $43 million facility in Milan to produce roofing membranes for commercial, industrial, and residential customers.
The plant would take over production of the material from a facility outside the United States. It would create up to 100 jobs.


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One afternoon in late August, Bob Barr, the Libertarian Party's candidate for President, stood in a greenroom at Stephen Colbert's television studio staring at a closed-circuit monitor. Barr, who was about to appear on "The Colbert Report," was wearing a dark Brooks Brothers suit and an orange tie. As he watched, the monitor displayed Colbert's opening segment—a routine involving footage from Burning Man, the annual culture festival in the Nevada desert known for copious amounts of body paint and psychedelic drugs. Colbert pretended that the footage was from the Democratic National Convention. Speaking over shots of a mud-drenched orgy, he claimed to see "Howard Dean stroking the buttocks of Nancy Pelosi"; a bearded naked man was "Wolf Blitzer out of 'The Situation Room' and out of his situation clothing." In the broadcast version of the segment the relevant body parts were blacked out, but on the closed-circuit monitor the images were uncensored. Barr smiled; when the naked man appeared, his eyes widened and he mumbled, "Did he really show it?"
In the nineteen-nineties, Barr, then a Republican congressman from Georgia, led the charge to impeach President Bill Clinton and argued on the House floor that "the flames of hedonism, the flames of narcissism, the flames of self-centered morality are licking at the very foundation of our society." The Christian Coalition gave his voting record a perfect rating, and he became so well known for his dour, ultra-conservative image that he told the voters in his district, "You don't send me to Washington to smile." But in the past few years, Barr says, he has profoundly changed. He now devotes himself to the advance of personal liberty and no longer cares to play the role of law-and-order conservative and culture warrior. After all, America is a free country, or at least this is why Barr says he is running for President: to abolish as many laws as society can bear to lose, to cut away the sinews of federal power, to "get the government out of it."
To be a third-party nominee for the Presidency, one must achieve a state of mind that in some respects resembles that of the holy fools of Eastern Orthodox Christianity. Such candidates are destined to wander the land with little money, yearning for attention and respect while suffering ire and mockery and bad hotels. They persist—whether through force of ego or some inner reservoir of will, or a little madness—though their mission is doomed. "It's like climbing a cliff with a slippery rope," Ralph Nader, who is making his fourth run for President, told me. Even Ross Perot, the Texas billionaire who won twenty million votes in 1992, failed to create a viable party.
For the most part, Barr seems to find the dim limelight of the political fringe uplifting. He is fifty-nine but has the stamina of a college freshman—he consumes up to fifteen shots of espresso a day, typically in five-shot installments. He has a graying mustache, and his hair, which was curly when he had more of it, is white and combed flat across his head. He is trim and compact, but can be expansive in his movements. While making an argument, he often furrows his brow, puts one hand in his pocket, and thrusts the other above his shoulder, in the manner of a prosecutor driving home a point. Throughout his career, aides have struggled to soften his image, urging him to get new glasses—his preferred frames are rectangular and black—or swap his jacket and tie for a sweater. For a political advertisement, a media strategist once had Barr filmed surrounded by bubbles. "There is this sweet little shimmer to the picture, and I think it subtly makes you go, 'Awww,' " the strategist told me. "You have to go to troubles like that with Bob."
Booking a politician on a comedy show is another way to soften his image. Barr was hoping that his appearance on "The Colbert Report" would allow him to air his views at length; his staff had debated the merits of flying him to New York for the taping, or to Denver, where they thought he could attract press attention on the sidelines of the Democratic Convention. Because Barr did not have money for ads—his campaign has raised only a million dollars—he was trying to get as much "earned media" as he could. But the interview with Colbert lasted only three minutes. Between jokes, Colbert asked Barr how he was doing. "Campaign's going good," Barr said. "We're in double digits in a number of states, about six per cent across the country." (He often cites these numbers, from online Zogby polls taken during the summer. They suggested that he had far more public support than any Libertarian Presidential candidate since the Party was founded, in 1971; a double-digit vote for Barr in some states could affect the electoral balance between Barack Obama and John McCain.) Colbert asked him whether he hoped to win over Hillary Clinton supporters.
"I don't think the disgruntled Hillary supporters will be big on Bob Barr," he said, but Colbert was already setting up his next line: "You misunderestimate your mustache, sir."
Back in the greenroom, Barr told one of Colbert's producers, "He loves the mustache. Somebody suggested at the start of this campaign that I shave it off, but people wouldn't recognize me."
Barr lost his House seat in 2002, after serving four terms, and he began to ease himself out of the Republican Party, much like a man removing his tie at the end of a night of overindulgence: first he loosened the knot, then he undid it, and finally the thing came off completely. He held a chair at the American Conservative Union Foundation, but also worked as a consultant for the A.C.L.U. He opened doors in Washington for Libertarian operatives, and in 2006 he joined the Libertarian Party. His departure from the G.O.P. was notable because Barr didn't just work in Congress; he often lived there, sleeping on his office couch. And when the Republican leaders wanted to be sure the far-right wing would support a measure they frequently went to him first. Barr didn't just advocate Second Amendment rights; he held a seat on the board of the National Rifle Association. Although he voted in favor of some civil-liberties and small-government measures, he was also an ardent supporter of the war on drugs. He repeatedly sponsored legislation to undermine ballot initiatives legalizing medical marijuana—"bogus witchcraft," he called it—in Washington, D.C. Barr vehemently opposed abortion, and once argued that even if his wife were raped he would do what he could to prevent her from having one. He wrote the Defense of Marriage Act, voted for a constitutional amendment outlawing flag desecration, and even tried to legislate against Wiccan soldiers who wanted to practice their faith while in the service. A churchgoing Methodist, Barr rarely invoked religion when discussing policy with his aides, but he told constituents that "God's hand" was guiding his votes. In 1998, he traversed the country, trying to persuade people that President Clinton was leading America into amorality. "You can lie, cheat, steal, shoot someone," Barr said in Iowa, at an event attended by Republican Presidential hopefuls. "You can do whatever you want and it doesn't matter—it's a cartoon world." In 1999, Congressional Quarterly labelled Barr a "Conservative True Believer."
For many people, including skeptical libertarians, Barr still has the reputation of a partisan, but his self-imposed exile from the Republican Party is representative of a broader disaffection among conservatives who did not immediately rally behind McCain. Republicans in the mold of Barry Goldwater, who believe in small government, minimal constraints on the free market, and expansive civil liberties, have become profoundly uneasy about the direction of the country under President Bush, who has presided over the largest increase in federal spending since the Great Society, raised the national debt to more than ten trillion dollars, suspended habeas corpus for enemy combatants, and recently proposed the seven-hundred-billion-dollar bailout of Wall Street. David Boaz, the executive vice-president of the Cato Institute, and David Kirby, the executive director of America's Future Foundation, have argued that, because of such policies, the libertarian vote, which for decades has been solidly Republican, "may be the next great swing vote." According to surveys, as much as a fifth of American voters hold libertarian values, and in recent years more than seventy per cent of them have voted as Republicans. But Boaz and Kirby noticed that in the 2004 Presidential election only fifty-nine per cent of them voted for Bush, and between the midterm elections of 2002 and 2006 three million of them drifted away from the Republican Party—a shift that Boaz and Kirby argue "may well have cost Republicans control of Congress." In this year's Republican primaries, Ron Paul, the congressman from Texas and a longtime libertarian, earned more than twenty per cent of the vote in Idaho, Washington, Montana, and North Dakota. "His supporters are the equivalent of crabgrass," Frank Luntz, a Republican strategist, told Time. "It's not the grass you want, and it spreads faster than the real stuff." In August, Newt Gingrich warned that if McCain chose as his running mate Senator Joe Lieberman, of Connecticut, Barr would win fifteen per cent of the vote.
For Barr, the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and the subsequent expansion of executive power under President Bush, were a political turning point. "I went through Reagan National after 9/11, and saw guardsmen with automatic weapons," he told me. "It dawned on me that we've entered a whole new world. It may have made other passengers feel more secure, but it made me feel dramatically less free. Freedom is a lot more important than security. You can never buy freedom through security." Barr reluctantly voted for the Patriot Act; he says it's among his greatest regrets, and privacy issues are central to his campaign. "When the government can invade the information in your bank account, when the government can listen in to your telephone and e-mail conversations, simply because they think it is necessary to protect us from terrorists, or whoever, they are undercutting the very basis of our free civilization," he says.
Barr does not like to think of his campaign as an insurgent operation. He isn't accessible to reporters in a Straight Talk Express kind of way; he prefers formal interviews. His posters suggest that his is a household name, stating simply "Barr '08." He likes to say that he is competing against "the two other major parties," and his short-term goal has been to reach fifteen per cent in national polls—the price of admission set by Republicans and Democrats to join them in a Presidential debate. "Then we get a level playing field," he says. "Then we can win."
The notion of winning a Presidential election is somewhat novel for the Libertarian Party, which for decades ran candidates for high office mainly as a way to propagate ideals. As David Nolan, one of the Party's founders, wrote in 1971, "This very mania for 'winning now' is one of the factors that makes both of our present major political parties unlikely vehicles for libertarianism." He argued that "a third party, in contrast, can take a long-range approach—running candidates with no intention of immediate victory." The Libertarian Party was for many years controlled by radicals who wanted to drastically reduce the scope of government and expand liberties in a way that would seem reckless to many mainstream voters—by legalizing prostitution, for instance. The Libertarian slogan is "Party of Principle," and its founders believed that principles were more valuable than votes.
In the past decade, libertarians outside the Republican Party have tried a number of ways to overcome their marginality. In 1997, a Libertarian writer named L. Neil Smith encouraged Libertarians to run as spoilers against Republicans who had won elections by five-per-cent margins. Invoking a line from the science-fiction novel "Dune"—"The people who can destroy a thing, they control it"—he hoped to force the Republican Party to adopt libertarian-oriented positions. (In at least five recent Senate races, the Libertarian vote was larger than the Democrats' margin of victory.) In 2001, activists formed the Free State Project, a planned migration of twenty thousand libertarians to New Hampshire—one of the most libertarian states—to concentrate their influence. Nearly nine thousand people signed up; so far, though, only a few hundred have moved.
Barr has been pursuing a different course. "What I have been trying to do in recent years is to get the Libertarian Party to think of itself as a political party that operates in the real world," he told me. "If you present to the American people a program that says, 'Elect us and we will radically change everything you know about the political system as soon as we get into office,' then people aren't going to vote for you." In 2006, Nolan told me, the Party had a "civil war" over its platform, most of which was subsequently dropped. The following year, the Party's dues-paying membership grew by twenty-eight per cent.
Building on this momentum hasn't been easy for Barr, who sometimes demonstrates discomfort with orthodox libertarian positions, including those on abortion and on the legalization of drugs. He often deflects questions on these issues by saying, "It's a mistake to say libertarians believe this, libertarians believe that," or by arguing that the federal government should not have a say in such things. Barr has reversed his position on medical marijuana, but earlier this year when Sean Hannity, of Fox News, asked him, "So if a state wants to legalize heroin and crack, you're O.K. with that?" Barr attempted to dodge the question. Finally, he admitted, "I would not vote to legalize heroin or crack."
In August, I visited Barr at his home in Marietta, a conservative suburb of Atlanta, where he lives with his third wife, Jeri, who runs a nonprofit organization affiliated with the United Way. Storm clouds on the perimeter of Hurricane Fay were gathering overhead. When Barr opened the door, he had a Starbucks cup in his hand and seemed relaxed. His home is meticulously well kept and contains a startling number of elephant objets d'art: lamps, bathroom tiles, coffee-table legs, mirror frames, figurines lined up in rows on a shelf. "Left over from my Republican days," Barr said, and shrugged. "Elephants still make nice knickknacks." The telephone numbers for his home, office, and cell phone all end in 1776.
In his living room, Barr directed me toward a bookcase holding several Presidential biographies and a cuneiform tablet. The tablet was a relic that he and his family had discovered in a pile of ruins in Iraq. "We found it in Babylon," he said. "I suspect the statute of limitations has run out on it." Barr's father, a graduate of West Point, was an engineer who specialized in foreign civil-infrastructure projects, and Barr—who was born in Iowa City, and has five brothers and sisters—spent most of his childhood overseas. He was entering the third grade when his family moved to Baghdad and rented a house near the Tigris. Barr often played along the river, until a brigadier general named Abdul Karim Qasim seized power, in 1958, throwing the country into turmoil. "There was a twenty-four-hour curfew," Barr told me. "You could not leave the house. The only communication we had was among friends and colleagues, and short-wave radio. It was a fairly bloody revolution. I didn't see it, but I certainly knew what was going on."
The family's experience in Iraq established a pattern. As an expatriate, Barr enjoyed unusual personal freedom, but often against a backdrop of tyranny or political upheaval. He was detached from American society as well as from the culture around him. In Panama, where his father briefly took a job, the family one night attempted to have dinner in the American-controlled Canal Zone, but were turned away because their car had a Panama license plate. ("Even though we were U.S. citizens, and this was considered U.S. territory, we were second-class citizens," Barr told me.) Before Panama, Barr's family lived in Peru, where, as a teen-ager, he learned Spanish. He went to parties, drank, and smoked. A friend of his recalled, "Really, there were no rules, and we didn't like rules, and the few rules that there were we really didn't follow." On expeditions into the Amazon, Barr fished for piranhas, and hunted alligators at night. "You would take a .22 rifle and creep along the riverbank with a flashlight," he told me. "The light would catch their eyes, and you would see these two glowing points of red, and you would shoot for that." Barr learned to adapt. "You make friends quickly," he told me. "But you don't become too attached, because you know you're not going to be with them for that long." His hobby was astronomy—the single geographic constant in his life at the time was the sky.
In college, at the University of Southern California, Barr joined the Young Democrats, but his parents, who were Republicans, told him that they would pull him out of school if he didn't give up his membership. He switched to the Young Republicans. Mostly he spent time at his fraternity, TKE. He avoided antiwar protests. (Later, on the campaign trail in Georgia, he said, "The peace symbol is very offensive to me.") After graduation, he worked for the C.I.A. as an analyst of Latin-American issues, and then in the Office of Congressional Affairs. Frederick Hitz, who ran the O.C.A. then, told me that Barr "was quite serious and he got a lot of teasing as a consequence." Barr attended Georgetown Law at night and, in 1978, moved to Atlanta to practice criminal law. He was aggressive and took risks. Once, fearing that policemen might harm a client, an accused cop killer, on an airplane, he hired another plane and flew behind them. When the brother-in-law of Baby Doc Duvalier, the Haitian dictator, was apprehended in Puerto Rico on drug-smuggling charges, Barr and his law partner, Ed Marger, flew to Port-au-Prince to help. ("Ed and I were sitting on this couch in this beautiful residence with Baby Doc and his wife, and all of a sudden this big rat runs across the room," he recalled.)
Barr arrived in Georgia at a time when "the only people willing to be identified as Republicans were the folks who couldn't get into the Kiwanis Club," Chuck Clay, a former Republican leader in the state senate, told me. "They were moving into this area, and felt with some justification that they were looked down on as either Yankees or foreigners, or folks that were not welcome." Barr became the G.O.P. chairman of his county, and as more social conservatives migrated to the area he listened carefully to what they were saying. Marger told me, "He absorbed the right-wing ideas of his constituency"—for instance, hardening his position against abortion. One of his former consultants told me, "Bob is a politician, and that means you do what is necessary to get elected. He was from a conservative district northwest of Atlanta, and he needed to cultivate that conservatism."
When Barr ran for Congress in 1994, Pat Buchanan hailed him as a symbol of "the core of the Republican Party," and he entered the House as a member of Gingrich's Republican Revolution. But he did not befriend many fellow-legislators. In his 2004 book, "The Meaning of Is," he complained about his party's leadership, especially with respect to Clinton's impeachment, and wrote about periods of "intense loneliness." In 1999, Larry Flynt paid Barr's second ex-wife, Gail, to sign an affidavit stating that Barr drove her to a clinic for an abortion and paid for the procedure. (Barr has said, "I have never suggested, urged, forced, or encouraged anyone to have an abortion.") The story, along with his lack of diplomacy during the impeachment process—he insisted on calling senators "jurors," and accused witnesses of not belonging to "the real America"—alienated him from his peers, and Representative Henry Hyde, who managed the impeachment, forced Barr to give up some of his responsibilities.
Barr claims that he lost his congressional seat in 2002 largely because of redistricting, but his campaign also suffered from missteps. A few weeks before the election, he was at a fund-raiser in a supporter's home and someone handed him an antique .38-calibre pistol, which went off in his hands. No one was injured, but afterward Barr was ridiculed. His opponent called him a "loose cannon" and promised to "wear a bulletproof vest" at their next joint appearance. At a campaign event, one of Barr's two sons attacked a man who had come dressed as Yosemite Sam, claiming to be "Bob Barr's Official Gun Safety Trainer." The scuffle was filmed by a news crew. "Everybody was trying to say, 'Oh, no, we don't know who did that,' and then we look at the footage and it is Bob's own son," one of Barr's former advisers told me. "Lots of mistakes happened in that campaign. Bob never blamed anybody. I mean, he was the one who shot the dang bullet. We were a point or two ahead, and we were moving in the right direction, but that was by far the last straw."
In the spring, while Barr was toying with the idea of running as a Libertarian, his biggest practical consideration was, What would Ron Paul do? Paul attracted much more grassroots support during the Republican primaries than anyone expected. "At the beginning of the campaign, we concentrated on four states, and it didn't work," Paul told me. But in the primary debates he defined himself as a politician willing to speak his mind. He argued that the September 11th attacks were a reaction to American foreign policy, advocated the elimination of the I.R.S., and invoked the importance of hewing to the Constitution's "original intent" (at one point prompting MSNBC's Chris Matthews, a moderator, to mutter, "Oh, God"). People who had not heard of Paul began sending money to his campaign. Last year, on Guy Fawkes Day, thirty-six thousand Paulites, as they came to be known, raised four million dollars on the Internet—one of the biggest-grossing single-day fund-raising events in electoral history. (All told, Paul raised thirty-five million dollars.) Paul's book, "The Revolution: A Manifesto," is a best-seller. When he withdrew from the race, in June, many supporters encouraged him to run as a third-party candidate. He had run as a Libertarian in 1988, winning just over four hundred thousand votes, and this year he was poised to do much better.
Barr called an old friend, Fred Davis, the Republican media strategist (a McCain supporter, who produced the "Celebrity" ad comparing Obama to Paris Hilton). Barr wondered whether the Libertarian Party was "desperate for someone to just fill the shoes of Ron Paul," Davis told me. Barr thought that Paul might return to the Libertarian Party and run at the top of its ticket, but Paul eventually said that he had no interest in doing so and encouraged Barr to run. In May, two weeks before the Libertarian Party Convention, in Denver, Barr announced his candidacy. He won the nomination only after forming a backroom alliance with an opponent, but in a speech he adopted a reassuring tone, saying, "I may not have committed as early as y'all, but don't cast me aside because I'm a latecomer."
Barr began to court Paulites, telling them that the Texas Republican was "a very good friend of mine." However, it soon became obvious that an imbalance of power separated the two politicians. Paul's supporters could not vote for him in the Presidential election, but they were committed to him nonetheless; Barr was the only libertarian on the ballot, but he lacked a wide base of support. There was also a difference in style. Paul can assert a policy of radical change, but his Texas lilt makes it sound innocuous, and he often yokes disparate issues—the war in Iraq, the behavior of the Federal Reserve, the right to bear arms—into a single failing, the erosion of a great "moral imperative": individual liberty. Barr shares most of Paul's political beliefs but not his record, and he talks in PowerPoint.
To Barr's frustration, Paul's encouragement did not evolve into an endorsement. After withdrawing from the race, Paul decided to maintain a "neutral stance" toward the November election. He invested his money and energy in Campaign for Liberty, an organization he created to promote his philosophy, and he urged supporters to run for low-level office. "I don't have a rule that I say, 'Hey, look, now everybody is going to infiltrate the Republican Party and take it over,' " he told me. "A lot of them want to do it. And we may have a bunch of state representatives and others who will be winning seats this year, and so that has a lot more momentum in that area than I ever dreamed. Young people are always attracted to principles, because they see through the hypocrisy of an older generation, and I think that is what has energized so many of them."
As the Republican National Convention was taking place in St. Paul, Ron Paul hosted an event in Minneapolis that he called Rally for the Republic. It was held in the Target Center, an arena not far from where McCain was planning to accept the nomination. Ten thousand supporters showed up, as did a dozen speakers, including Tucker Carlson, the political commentator, and Grover Norquist, of Americans for Tax Reform. Barr was not asked to speak, but his staff bought tickets, and he decided to campaign on the rally's margins. I got there early, and as people waited to enter I met two Paulites from Georgia: David Williams, a musician and former Republican, who had long hair and was wearing a Statue of Liberty T-shirt, and his friend Sean Mangieri, a real-estate agent, whose T-shirt identified him as a member of the "Revolutionary War Veterans Association."
Williams said that he became interested in Paul last year, when he "just heard his name on the Internet, and found that he was the real thing. I wasn't really looking, just heard discussions in chat rooms and from other news." He was uncertain about Barr. "I'm not sure I totally trust his character yet," he said. "Much of his voting record is non-libertarian—"
He was cut short by a commotion nearby. A bald man with a mustache and a goatee had begun shouting excitedly, "I'm in a state of bliss being among so many freedom-loving people!"
"It's about human rights," Mangieri said, picking up where Williams had left off. "I'm a Republican. I actually pay dues, but I've felt disaffected with the Party since high school. Ron Paul's message—you can say it is about small government, or about tax reform, or any of those things, but it is fundamentally a human-rights issue. Our Constitution is the only document that protects human rights, and those fundamentals are the things that we want to get back to." Mangieri said that he might support Barr, but he wasn't sure, either.
When Barr's entourage arrived, there were a few hundred people on the sidewalk, and it was drizzling. A couple asked him to sign their lucky two-dollar bills. A Libertarian, unbidden by the campaign, followed Barr around holding a "Barr '08" poster above the candidate's head. ("I've got the fun task of being a sign holder," the man said.) "We've got Fox News," Steve Sinton, Barr's communications director, said. Barr's staff ushered him toward a camera and made sure that a few supporters were standing nearby.
Sinton was hoping to cause a disturbance that would attract reporters—a strategy he calls "causing a riot, getting used, and killing electrons." The previous day, a group called Minnesotans for Limited Government had invited Paul and Barr to speak at a small picnic in Langford Park, and Barr did so, but then refused to leave when he was asked. When an organizer said that Paul would not appear unless Barr left, Sinton told the man, "The Congressman just got up and talked about liberties, one of which is freedom of speech."
"Yeah, right, that's fine, and this is our picnic," the organizer said. Security guards began to close in.
At the Target Center, Paul's security team was less vigilant, and Barr set out to win over skeptical Paulites. A man who shook his hand said, "I'm debating about writing in Ron Paul or voting for you. I don't know if it would matter." Someone asked whether the C.I.A. should be abolished. "No," Barr said. "We need a strong foreign-intelligence capability. The key is to make sure that it doesn't become too powerful." Barr walked over to a woman who was in a wheelchair; they spoke quietly, and then he moved away. Moments later, the woman's husband, a thin man with a beard, became agitated. He started yelling, "Get out of here, Bob!" and "No to Barr!" I asked them what had happened. They were libertarians, they said, but their daughter had severe epilepsy, and Barr had told them that he did not support the Americans with Disabilities Act.
By early autumn, Barr's campaign had drifted even farther toward the political margins. McCain had announced Sarah Palin as his running mate, a choice that helped restore some conservative support to his campaign. John Zogby told me that the six-per-cent national figure that he had recorded for Barr this summer was inflated—his most recent polls put Barr at one per cent.
In mid-September, Ron Paul decided to hold a press conference at the National Press Club, in Washington, to encourage his supporters to vote for a third party, and he invited the Green, Libertarian, and Constitution candidates to participate. All of them attended except Barr, whose campaign advisers decided that he shouldn't be "reduced to their level." Ralph Nader, who is running as an independent, told me, "He got Ron Paul so angry. I was right in the greenroom"—at the National Press Club—"and Ron Paul was pacing, and it was ten-oh-two, ten-oh-three, and then he heard that Bob Barr was not going to show up, and he went furious. He said, 'I can't believe he let me down like this. I was about to say a good word for him.' " Two hours later, Barr arrived at the National Press Club and invited Ron Paul to be his running mate; the theatrical gesture only further angered Paul's supporters, and some libertarians circulated a petition demanding that Barr withdraw his candidacy. (Two weeks later, Paul endorsed the Constitution Party candidate, Chuck Baldwin.)
That evening, Barr was scheduled to attend a benefit called the Funniest Celebrity in Washington Contest, held at the D.C. Improv, a comedy club. He had asked Steve Young, a political humorist who sometimes uses the name Dr. Failure, to help him write material for a standup routine. When I arrived, Young was scribbling one-liners on cue cards as he waited for Barr. "That tightness," Young said, holding his chest, referring to Barr. "I wonder where that comes from." He had wanted Barr to deliver his lines in the deadpan style of Steven Wright, but Barr was unfamiliar with Wright's comedy. In any case, once Barr arrived, it was clear that he was not in the mood for jokes. He had barely rehearsed, and he had toned down Young's humor—he refused to ask the audience to imagine how Libertarians would "screw up Washington." Instead, he said onstage, "Now, Libertarians have never been in charge of anything, you know. In 2008, I say, Vote Libertarian. It's high time that we get our chance. It can't get any worse." Then he concluded, "My name is Bob Barr, and I did approve this standup routine." ♦

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How can we create systems that provide a safe, nutritious, and consistent food supply while also reducing the strains placed on natural resources such as land, water, and air? A new workshop summary from the Institute of Medicine (IOM) considers the issues.
The report is based on a workshop held by the IOM's Food Forum and Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine in May 2013. Workshop participants explored the food and nutrition policy implications of increasing environmental constraints on the food system as well as the relationship between human health and the environment. The workshop also examined the role of the food price environment and how environmental sustainability can be incorporated into dietary guidance.
Read or purchase the report.
Explore more about nutrition and healthy choices in the Koshland Science Museum's online exhibit, Life Lab: Food For Thought.


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Reported by: | rdworth | Owned by: | rdworth |
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Component: | ui.selectable | Version: | 1.5.2 |
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When attempting to do a multiple selection on the Mac, the Ctrl-drag causes the context menu to appear. This is unexpected. The correct behavior is for the Cmd-key to be used on the Mac. This currently does a new select instead of a multi-select.
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Un Mom: From her Random Tuesday Thoughts and hand-drawn cartoons to musings about motherhood and the upcoming zombie apocalypse, the UnMom is hilarity in motion.
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Pleated-Jeans: You won't be able to stop laughing when you visit this outrageous website. Pleated-Jeans finds funny in everything under the sun from goofy animal pics, movie and TV screencaps to humorous how-to posts and hilarious flowcharts and diagrams.
Mommy Has a Headache: From the hilarious author of Cocktails at Naptime and Confessions of a Cake Addict comes the blog that will make you do a spit-take every time. This blog covers every subject from wife-swapping and synchronized swimming goldfish to the Top 10 Reasons Why She Couldn't Be a Man.
In Pursuit of Martha Points: If you regularly attempt to channel Martha Stewart but in reality are lucky if you can find a pair of matching shoes in your cave of a closet, In Pursuit of Martha Points is the blog for you. Join Lori (Domestic Goddess in Training) as she tries to score Martha Points, draws stick figure cartoons of impressive moments in her life, and tries not to break any state, county or federal laws in the process.
Baby Banter: Want to know what your average 13-month old thinks of current events, celebrity gossip, manscaping, potty training, doggie yoga and more? Check out the hilarious tykes at this website and you will never look at another baby the same again.
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The Micro Menu is a collection of small buttons located between the main Action Bar and the character's bag slots. The buttons open various UI panels.
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Character Info window (sometimes called the "paper doll"). The icon changes to match the character's appearance. | |
Spellbook & Abilities window which includes companions and mounts. | |
Talents window which includes glyphs. | |
Achievements window (includes Statistics). Introduced in Patch 3.0. | |
Quest Log; Icon changed from . | |
| Guild window. The icon changes to match the character's guild crest. As of Patch 4.1, changes to Guild Finder button if character not in a guild. Replaced Socials window in Patch 4.0.1. |
| Player vs. Player window (honor and arena points, as well as battleground queueing). The icon changes to match the character's faction. Introduced in Patch 3.0. |
Dungeon Finder window. Replaced LFG/LFM window in Patch 3.3.0, which also replaced the World Map button in Patch 2.0. | |
Dungeon Journal window. Added in Patch 4.2. | |
Options (Game Menu) window (Help, Options, Interface, Key Binding, Macros, Logout, Exit Game, and Return to Game). Since Patch 3.0, the monitor changes color based on your latency (green, yellow, or red). As of Patch 4.0.1, icon changes to when streaming non-critical data downloaded in the background. Icon replaced from . Moved to far right end of the Micro Menu in Patch 5.4.2. | |
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Help Request for making Game Master tickets and other options via the Customer Support window. Removed in Patch 5.4.2, but still accessible via Game Menu (press Esc or click ) Help button (at top). | |
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The Barnes & Noble boardroom was quite the happening place a couple days ago!
Barnes & Noble put on a NOOK Color app development workshop aimed specifically at Corona SDK developers…
…Naturally, we were invited to help answer questions about what's coming in the (very) near future from us for the NOOK, and how we're working with Barnes & Noble to make NOOK development a reality for many Corona developers. B&N's own Chief Developer Evangelist Ted Patrick was on hand to show attendees the ropes of developing for the NOOK and collecting revenue from sales.
One of the questions was about how apps are chosen by Barnes & Noble for the NOOK. Currently, there is not an "open" app submission process for the NOOK, as B&N want to exercise some quality control over the types of apps that make it onto the NOOK. However, given how successful Corona apps have already been on the NOOK Color, we are quite optimistic that more of your iOS and Android apps will be summoned by B&N for the NOOK. 😉
Some of the sales numbers that Ted revealed to us at the workshop were quite eye-opening (in a good way, of course!). Despite it being a newcomer in the tablet and apps space, sales from the NOOK Apps shop are already yielding huge profits for NOOK developers — then again, with millions of units already sold in the past year, I guess that should be too big of a surprise.
Speaking of profits, Ted also went into detail about how the payment process worked from Barnes & Noble to NOOK developers. This is the main reason why the NOOK currently is open only to U.S.-based developers, as foreign bank accounts aren't always very dependable for B&N to deal with. However, if you're a developer abroad and still want to develop for the NOOK, Ted said that all you need to do is simply get a U.S. bank account and tax ID number — then, they'll be able to pay you just like any other domestic developer or studio.
One big question that Ted asked us and the rest of the Corona developers there was whether there actually was a huge interest within the Corona community for NOOK development. If so, then he is going to convince Barnes & Noble to put on more and larger-scale workshops like this one, so that more of you can attend. So, feel free to let Ted know in the comments section here how much you would love that! 🙂
After passing around a few valuable, dev-related goodies on a USB stick (no, I won't tell you what they were!), the workshop concluded with many a Corona developer and Barnes & Noble staff quite happy and excited about the prospects of Corona on the NOOK.
As we exited the boardroom, I may or may not have heard a Corona developer and one of the B&N staff members walking off saying "Ted, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship."


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Hearty Jambalaya Recipe
- 1 pound smoked kielbasa or Polish sausage, cut into 1/2-inch slices
- 1 pound boneless skinless chicken breasts, cubed
- 1 large onion, chopped
- 1/2 cup chopped celery
- 1/2 cup chopped green pepper
- 4 garlic cloves, minced
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 1 can (14-1/2 ounces) diced tomatoes, undrained
- 1 can (6 ounces) tomato paste
- 1/2 teaspoon hot pepper sauce
- 1/4 to 1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper
- 1/8 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1/8 teaspoon white pepper
- 1/8 teaspoon pepper
- 1/2 pound uncooked medium shrimp, peeled and deveined
- Hot cooked rice, optional
- 1. In a Dutch oven, saute the sausage, chicken, onion, celery, green pepper and garlic in butter until chicken is browned. Stir in the tomatoes, tomato paste and seasonings. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 6-8 minutes or until chicken is no longer pink.
- 2. Stir in shrimp; cover and simmer for 4 minutes or until shrimp turn pink. Serve over rice if desired; or cool, cover and freeze for up to 2 months. Yield: 8 servings.
Nutritional Facts
1 cup: 220 calories, 6g fat (3g saturated fat), 101mg cholesterol, 675mg sodium, 16g carbohydrate (8g sugars, 3g fiber), 24g protein. Diabetic Exchanges: 3 lean meat, 1 starch.
Reviews for Hearty Jambalaya
"This was great! I made a couple of changes - used Johnsonville Andouille sausage, no hot sauce because I was out of it, and only 1/8 of a teaspoon of cayenne pepper. We'll definitely make it again the same way except to cut back a little more on the cayenne. I made 7 cups of white rice and once both were done cooking I mixed them together in the Dutch oven and served from there. My husband and I both liked it a lot and I already know that I'm going to make it for company."
"Made this according to the recipe.., was thinking there would be some left over to freeze... nope, none left!!"
"I've tried a few jambalaya recipes, none of which really appealed to me. This one, however, is excellent! I used leftover roasted chicken & left out the shrimp, as I didn't have any on hand. Otherwise, I followed the recipe exactly. We gobbled it up! We love Cajun-style food, so I'm very pleased that I now have a jambalaya recipe to add to our dinner rotation."
"This is the best jambalaya I have ever tasted. Will definitely make again."
"Totally loved this Jambalya. Easy to make and delicious."
"This was the best jambalaya I have found so far. I have made several recently, all different recipes, and this is the best. Next time, the only thing I would do differently is use tomatoes with chiles instead of plain diced tomatoes.."
"LOVE IT!!! Reminds me of Po' Folks gumbo!"
"great comfort food. easy to make. will make again."
"As Cajun food fans, this has become a fave for us! We appreciate the full, spicy flavor even diabetics can enjoy. Treat family and friends to this wonderful easy dish from the Bayou!"
"The only thing I did different was throw it all in a crockpot and added the shrimp last."
"This really is a fantastic dish! We all can't help but gobble it up in record time. The leftovers certainly don't last very long."
"Delicious! I left out the cayanne pepper to scale back on the heat."
"This is the best Jambalaya I've ever made! It's easy to double the recipe and hard to stay out of while cooking it. My husband and I love it and so do my four kids.
Sarah""This is by far my favorite Jambalaya recipe. It is very rich and robust!"
Wine Pairings
Light-Bodied White Wine
Enjoy this recipe with a light-bodied white wine such as Sauvignon Blanc or Pinot Grigio.


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Nicolas Cage: The Biology Textbook Secret
I interviewed Nicolas Cage during the 63rd Berlinale. The occasion was the animated movie The Croods where Cage gave the voice to daddy caveman Grug. I cannot really say I saw the movie because I fell asleep half way through, but did see enough to get the plot and discuss Cage's character. In all honesty, I was absolutely not interested in the movie. I was there to unravel the mystery of Cage appearing on the cover of a Serbian biology textbook.
The interview took place in hotel Adlon, a place with a vivid history but probably most famous as the hotel where Michael Jackson waved baby Blanket from the window. Although I did my fair share of interviews with presidents of states, PMs, ministers, heads of numerous international organizations etc. – the code of conduct for talking to Cage beats them all. No photos, no autographs, no touching, no interrupting, no telling him that he needs to change his hairdresser because it was more then obvious that he dyed his grays and so on. Despite all that, Cage was totally ok to talk to and both the impressive view from hotel Adlon suite overlooking the Brandenburg gate, as well as seeing his diamond bling ring were all worth it.
The Unsold Stories: How was it for you playing Grug the caveman?
Nicolas Cage: With the risk of sounding trite – it was a hell of a lot of fun. I was working with two wonderfully playful film makers Chris Sanders and Kirk De Micco and there was a lot of laughter. What was very liberating about working with them was that they allowed me to explore. They didn't mind me exploring a certain sound or an accent or a voice, they just went for it.
Earlier at the press conference you said that the voice takes 50 percent of acting. How do you feel about your movies screening in Germany when every time a dub actor takes 50 percent of your role?
Martin Kessler seems like a very good actor and he takes it very seriously and is very careful so I like meeting him. I'd like to know him a little better, I think we could be friends. I have trust in the people they choose to channel whatever the performance was that I've put down. Nowadays, everybody is real shabby with the Internet, DVDs and all that and I am sure if you wanna hear my voice in a movie you can go pick it up at a video store, or download it via some sort of Internet mechanism, so I am not too worried about that.
How much do you enjoy telling stories in front of other people like your character does?
I haven't been sociable as I'd like to be, so I'm really working on being more sociable. Somebody said that if you can go and have conversations, meet people and talk, that's really good for your mental health, memory and staying alert and as older we get the more we need to do that. I started becoming more sociable with some folks from Las Vegas and I found that I was still pretty good at it – telling stories in a conversation. I like that and I'll be doing more of that. So yes, I like to tell stories.
You mentioned that you haven't been as sociable as you'd like. Why?
Well, I had stopped. I'd be in my house and I'd just watch movies and didn't wanna go out, didn't wanna be photographed. I just wanted to be able to relax. So, I thought we'll I don't wanna get too comfortable with that. It's time for me to go out, put a nice jacket on, meet some new people and talk.
You are known as a big comic fan. Do you see any parallel between comics and animation movies?
In a lot of ways comic books are cartoons. They are very colorful visual images that stimulate your psyche as a child. But let's be clear, I am not reading a stack of Batman comics at 49. This is something that got largely blown out of proportion in the press simply because people have documented that I've had some comic books. Having said that, if you look at the effect that these stories have had now on the world, movies like The Dark Knight, Ironman, Superman, they are enormously successful. And it's not just Americana, it's affecting the world. That means that there is something to it. There is almost something like an archetype mythology that appeals to people even subconsciously.
When you were a young actor and you thought ahead about your future career is this what you dreamt about?
I didn't know that I was going to become a source of interest on the Internet, because when I started considering my life seriously as a film actor, or a film maker, we didn't have the Internet, nor did we have reality TV, nor did we have gossip media. We had me going to see James Dean or Marlon Brando in an art house theatre and I said that's what I wanna do. Film acting was the most powerful art form, because it made me feel more then any other art form. But I did not get into this to become some sort of Internet target.
Would you say that you are still as passionate as you were as a young actor?
More so. My goal is to return to independently spirited drama where I came from. I more than ever feel the need to reinvent myself. I had a wonderful opportunity with David Gordon Green to work on a movie called Joe, we both got to dig deep on that together, it's a very dark movie. Than Scott Walker's The Frozen Ground is a movie I did with John Cusack – it's a true story about an Alaskan serial killer who John plays and the cop who arrested him. This guy was actually hunting women as if they were animals in the snow. It's a terrifying story. Both film makers really care, they are both young, enthusiastic and I am excited to work with them, so I am still passionate.
Why do you feel that you have to reinvent yourself?
You always have to. Once I asked David Bowie how do you always do it, how do you do this, how do you always come up with a new sound. He said because I just never got comfortable. I took those words to heart because I knew what he meant. You can't get comfortable. If you listen to prays any more than you listen to criticism you can get too comfortable doing one thing, and if you listen to criticism you can get it personally and shut down as if you have had a verbally abusive father. So you can't listen to either, you just can listen to your instrument.
How important is curiosity?
Very, very, important. You gotta stay interested. I have to listen, I have to find something in the Zeitgeist, something in the world that stimulates my psyche. I have to be careful sometimes about what I take in because sources sometimes might not be the most pure.
Is that a part of reinventing yourself?
Sure, it's also a part of staying inspired.
We talked earlier about the certain kind of isolation connected to becoming a famous actor. Do you ever get used to it and were there times when you struggled with that?
The thing is I never see myself as famous. I don't wake up in the morning and go oh boy I'm famous. Some of the most embarrassing pictures have been taken of me simply because I wasn't thinking that I was famous. Someone on an airplane wants to take a picture with you and you wanna be nice and before you know they print it on Huffington Post. So you think to yourself, ok this is a new age. Maybe I should just be signing autographs.
Two years ago there was a vintage car show where a silver Aston Martin 85 was labeled from the collection of Nicolas Cage. Are cars still your passion?
No, you are talking about another life, it's another life. I am not a car enthusiast anymore. I started acting professionally when I was 15, and now I'm 49 years old. I went through all the lust and urges of a teenager who liked James Bond and wanted to be that and than became someone else. I keep finding different interests.
Are you aware of the fact that your photo is on the cover of a Serbian biology textbook for 8th graders (showing him the photo of the book)? One would assume the image is supposed to portray a happy family, but it's actually a film still from brothers Coen's Raising Arizona where you and Holly Hunter kidnap the kid.
I don't know why I'm on a cover of a biology textbook. I don't know what the story behind it is, but it's a nice picture. Holly and I seem to be getting along very well there and there is a little baby. That's cute.
Do you have any special connection to Germany given the fact that you are half German?
My connection with Germany is simply because my father is Italian and my mother is German. Any time you have that in your family background you wanna know about it and plus I'm an enormously thankful admirer of the music that came out of your beautiful country, music that has touched the world.
Thank you for the interview.
You are welcome.
By the way, my dad says hi.
Well, say hi to your dad for me.


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The BT-3DL2550 25.5" 3D LCD Video Monitor is a rugged, high-end production monitor offering a 1920 x 1200 display and the ability to monitor high-definition 3D video both in the studio or in the field. Its assortment of professional inputs--dual HD/SD-SDI, DVI, component, RGB--timecode display, and 8-channel audio metering provide the flexibility necessary for monitoring 3D footage directly from a Panasonic 3D camera, high-end NLE system, or any other professional interface. The included polarizing glasses let you view the footage in full 3D, using one of 3 types of input: simultaneous Left and Right signals (separated across two monitors), line-by-line alternating Left and Right signals, or side-by-side images on a single display.
Other useful features include five customizable function keys, pre-installed calibration software, Cine-gamma Film-Rec compensation, Standard Markers and Blue-only, H/V delay display, monochrome and Cross Hatch overlay display, and split-screen/freeze frame--all contained within a lightweight, ruggedized frame with an aluminum alloy back panel designed with VESA-mount compatibility.
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The 2012 Sun Bowl is just hours away. We're sure you have so many questions. We're here to help. (For an X's and O's breakdown, click through to Ben Glicksman's game preview.)
The Trojans have arrived in El Paso. Yup, that is Lane Kiffin sporting a sombrero. #USC #SunBowl twitter.com/USC_Athletics/…— USC Trojans (@USC_Athletics) December 26, 2012
• What's all this, then? Hail to the Sun Bowl, sure is a fun bowl! Ra! Ra! Ra! Ugh. Look, somebody has to be excited about the Sun Bowl.
• Where will this game be played? The Sun Bowl takes place within the Sun Bowl, a stadium in El Paso, Texas, used as a home base by the UTEP Miners.
• When is it on television? Coverage begins at 2 p.m. ET on CBS. This is your last chance this college football season to bask in the chortlings of Verne Lundquist.
• Whom does it feature? The Pac-12 and ACC are the current tie-in conferences.
• What about this year? Georgia Tech versus USC, and boy oh boy do we ever wish we'd been in El Paso this week to watch Paul Johnson and Lane Kiffin interact.
• Does the bowl have a social media presence? It does, and it has alerted us to the presence of giant helmet-shaped pinatas constructed for participating teams:
Amigo man!!! twitter.com/HyundaiSunBowl…— Hyundai Sun Bowl (@HyundaiSunBowl) December 31, 2012
• What wacky activities will be on offer during bowl week? The Sun Bowl's Fan Fiesta was held yesterday, featuring "THE LARGEST FIREWORKS DISPLAY IN THE SOUTHWEST" and face-painting and magic tricks from something called a "Clown Internship program." We have been unable at the time of this writing to determine whether these clowns are interning with the Sun Bowl itself.
Right, so, that, and then this happened:
Monte Kiffin dancing to mariachi music! #SunBowl twitter.com/HyundaiSunBowl…— Hyundai Sun Bowl (@HyundaiSunBowl) December 30, 2012
• What shiny baubles will be showered on the players? This game no longer operates as the Brut Sun Bowl, but participating players are still given Helen of Troy hair dryers. We were re-gifted one of these a couple years back. It's a pretty great hair dryer. Congratulations to all the players' moms on their impending late Christmas presents.
• What's the pick? When SI.com's bowl predictions were released, Stewart Mandel called for a resounding Trojans win. With Matt Barkley out of the picture, the scoreboard will likely get a little tighter. We still have trouble imagining a Jackets win here, but we've never been very imaginative. • Please impart any miscellaneous knowledge you might have concerning the 2012 Sun Bowl. This is one of those games that comes with pageant queens. Meet the frightfully accomplished young ladies of the 2012 Sun Court.


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Tricks and illusions give 'Fantasticks' magical new life
Try to remember the kind of musical where the sets were small and the pace so mellow...
You have to go way back: before the Andrew Lloyd Webber spectacles, before the Sondheim brain-teasers, to the reign of kings Rodgers and Hammerstein.
In the 1950s a young, eager duo yearned to offer a new kind of alternative to the grand creations of R & H – something simple yet sophisticated that would appeal to cultural neophytes as well as those who knew the Western literary tradition.
Thus "The Fantasticks" was born. Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt's modest story about a neighboring boy and girl and their tortuous paths to enlightenment and romance succeeded beyond their (or anyone's) wildest predictions. Its original off-Broadway production, which opened on May 3, 1960, lasted 17,162 performances and almost 42 years, a record that will probably never be broken.
These days, "The Fantasticks" is showing its age. You can hear the creaks at certain points in South Coast Repertory's production, which opened Friday on the Segerstrom Stage. The show's many literary and Biblical allusions, which once seemed fresh and clever, now come across as labored and overly obvious.
But Director Amanda Dehnert, who has a knack for reinventing the classics, has come up with an ingenious and surprisingly resonant new context for "The Fantasticks": an abandoned amusement park. The locale works for several reasons.
The sad detritus and rusty signage (mined from a real Rhode Island amusement park, Rocky Point, that operated from the 1840s until 1995) is a graphic evocation of moribund joys and passions -- the fleeting diversions of youth that the story's foolish teens, Matt and Luisa, leave behind. It reminds us that the world into which this musical was born – a more innocent and less cynical America – is long gone, too.
The setting is also the perfect backdrop for this production's biggest asset: its use of classic magic routines, once a common form of entertainment in such places.
Master illusionist Jim Steinmeyer has worked with the performers to create familiar yet amazing tricks, from the simple (the ball-and-cup sleight-of-hand, with a few neat twists) to the "How'd they do that"? (making people appear and disappear). This kind of legerdemain is probably small potatoes for the man who made the Statue of Liberty vanish during a David Copperfield TV special, but in a dusty theme-park setting the tricks connect us viscerally to the timeless magic of theater and its ability to astound.
The musical's story owes a big debt to Shakespeare and the Bible. It's part Adam and Eve, part "Romeo and Juliet," with a little "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and "The Tempest" thrown in.
Two neighboring fathers, Bellomy and Hucklebee, pretend to have a feud in order to trick their children, Luisa and Matt, into falling in love. The dads hire a mysterious enabler, El Gallo, who sub-contracts two itinerant actors to stage a mock abduction so that Matt can heroically save Luisa, ending the fake dust-up. (El Gallo, a bit of a drama queen, throws himself into the act as well.)
It works, but everyone's happiness is short-lived. The kids discover their fathers' ruse, which ruins the love match. Going their separate ways, they're brutalized by the outside world, reuniting sadder, wiser and finally ready to wed.
In Dehnert's production, most of the cast members perform some magic. Even minor roles have been significantly changed as a result.
The illusions are smoothly integrated into the show, and they're accompanied by some wonderful performances. Addi McDaniel and Anthony Carillo play the young lovers without a trace of knowingness, and both have remarkably pliant singing voices (McDaniel deftly handles a few operatic moments).
Perry Ojeda's El Gallo nicely captures the mysterious character's many layers. El Gallo must play the villain, but his ulterior motives are pure. And he must be sexy. Ojeda is up to the complex task.
Two enjoyable veterans, Gregory North and Scott Waara, slyly underplay the dads, Hucklebee and Bellomy. Nate Dendy, deeply skilled as a mime and trickster, is perfect for the expanded role of the Mute. And SCR stalwarts Richard Doyle and Hal Landon, Jr. steal a few scenes as the bumbling hired players. Doyle's improvised ramblings are a hoot.
This production, which has been seen back east at Trinity Repertory Company, the Long Wharf Theatre and Arena Stage, works seamlessly. Eugene Lee's scenic design, more elaborate than most "Fantasticks" sets, combines Rocky Point's remains with newly built elements to create a stage-in-stage effect and an onstage bandstand for the musicians. They're ably led by frequent SCR guest Dennis Castellano at the piano.
Dehnert's vision and its crisp execution are the reasons to see this "Fantasticks." Whether you think it reinforces the musical's genius or hides its flaws, you'll come away entertained. And you'll ask the same question the crowds asked at Rocky Point back in the days of corsets and top hats: How'd they do that?
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