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Hottest Articles on BWW from Sunday, Jun. 1
Below are BroadwayWorld.com's most popular articles from Sunday, June 1, 2014. Catch up below on anything that you might have missed from today on BroadwayWorld.com!
All the Winners for the 59th Annual Drama Desk Awards- Updating Live!
by BWW Special Coverage - June 01, 2014
Drama Desk and Tony Award winner Laura Benanti ('The Sound of Music Live!', Gypsy, Women On The Verge of a Nervous Breakdown) will host the 59th Annual Drama Desk Awards tonight, June 1, 2014 at 8:00 PM at The Town Hall (123 W. 43rd Street). BroadwayWorld will be updating you with winners throughout the night. Check back later for the full list! (more...)
Emily Blunt Says INTO THE WOODS Movie Is 'Absolutely Beautiful'
by Pat Cerasaro - June 01, 2014
Versatile screen star Emily Blunt discusses her central role in the hotly anticipated big screen adaptation of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's INTO THE WOODS as part of a new interview. (more...)
Hugh Jackman & Anne Hathaway In THE DROWSY CHAPERONE? Barbra Streisand? Fred Schepisi Teases
by Pat Cerasaro - June 01, 2014
In a fascinating new interview, versatile director Fred Schepisi reveals new details on the forthcoming big screen edition of hit multi-Tony Award-winning musical THE DROWSY CHAPERONE and muses on casting for the film. (more...)
Ben Forster Comments On JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR Arena Tour Cancellation
by Pat Cerasaro - June 01, 2014
UK SUPERSTAR reality star winner and announced headliner for the JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR US arena tour that was abruptly cancelled on Friday, Ben Forster, has taken to social media to share his dissatisfaction with the decision by producers to abandon the tour, but remains hopeful even so. (more...)
30 Days Of The 2014 Tony Awards: Day #8 - A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC Vs. PIPPIN
by Pat Cerasaro - June 01, 2014
Today we continue the 2014 edition of our annual BroadwayWorld feature series spotlighting the very best Tony Awards-related moments of all time with a special focus on another major battle for Best Musical with 1973's PIPPIN versus A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC. (more...)
Photo Coverage: 92Y Lyrics & Lyricists Presents GREAT SONGS FROM FLOP SHOWS
by Stephen Sorokoff - June 01, 2014
Even the legendary Broadway gods and goddesses have come face to face with failure. On May 31, June 1, and 2, Lyrics & Lyricists pays tribute to musical theater's most thoroughly panned musical bullion as artistic director and Tony Award-winning lyricist and director David Zippel closes the season with Panning for Gold: Great Songs from Flop Shows. (more...)
STAGE TUBE: Broadway's ALL THE WAY Serenades JERSEY BOYS
by Stage Tube - June 01, 2014
The cast of Jersey Boys and the cast of All the Way have a Saturday Night on Broadway tradition in which they wish each other well. This past Saturday, All the Way was caught serenading Jersey Boys with a medley. Check below to watch the video! (more...)
BWW TV Exclusive: Celebrating the 2014 Tony Nominees- Spotlight on HEDWIG AND THE ANGY INCH's Lena Hall!
by BroadwayWorld TV - June 01, 2014
In two short weeks, the 2014 Tony Awards will broadcast live from Radio City Music Hall in New York City, on CBS, on Sunday, June 8th 8:00 - 11:00 p.m. BroadwayWorld is celerating this year's nominees with a series of Below, Richard Ridge catches up with Lena Hall- a nominee for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Find out how she's preparing for June 8th, what she's wearing on the big night, and more! (more...)
Elaine Paige Performs CHESS & Interviews Tim Rice On THE ELAINE PAIGE SHOW
by Pat Cerasaro - June 01, 2014
Internationally celebrated performer and vocalist Elaine Paige headlines a new weekly theatre-themed talk show titled THE ELAINE PAIGE SHOW and a First Look at the actress interviewing acclaimed lyricist Tim Rice is now available to view. (more...)
Photo Flash: Saturday Intermission Pics, Part 2 - 5/31- MOTHERS AND SONS Sends PHANTOM a Message, LES MIZ Planks, and More!
by BWW News Desk - June 01, 2014
BroadwayWorld collected as many of yesterday's evening Saturday Intermission Pics as we could to bring you Part 2 of our May 31st SIP round-up! Check out part one HERE. Yesterday's SIPs come from Broadway's LES MISERABLES, PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, MOTHERS AND SONS, WICKED, and more! (more...)
Theater People Podcast Welcomes WICKED & RENT Star Eden Espinosa
by Matt Tamanini - June 01, 2014
On Monday, June 2nd the Theater People Podcast welcomes Broadway star Eden Espinosa. Topics discussed include her humble beginnings as a Disney theme park performer, her breakthrough performance in the title role of the 2004 musical BROOKLYN, being Idina Menzel's standby in the original company of WICKED, and performing her dream role of Maureen Johnson in the closing company of RENT. (more...)
BWW Interview: Justin Guarini Talks Bringing LOVESICK to 54 Below, His New WICKED Gig & More!
by Nicole Rosky - June 01, 2014
Tomorrow, Broadway veteran and current star of WICKED Justin Guarini brings his new cabaret show LOVESICK to 54 Below. Directed by Gordon Greenberg, the show is a tribute to all the horrifying places love has taken him - from a Catholic school closet in Doylestown, PA to the revolving hotel rooms at American Idol, and, ultimately, to Broadway. With a seven-piece band, back up vocalists Shayla Benoit, Rashidra Scott and Rebecca LaChance, and music from Burt Bacharach to Beck to Mika, LOVESICK promises to be an evening of raucous and revealing storytelling - and a full-on party. Justin recently took the time to chat with BroadwayWorld all about the new show, what it's like stepping into Fiyero's shoes, and so much more. Check out he full interview below! (more...)
STAGE TUBE: On This Day 6/1- YOU'RE A GOOD MAN CHARLIE BROWN
by Stage Tube - June 01, 2014
Today in 1971, You're A Good Man Charlie Brown opened at the John Golden Theatre, where it ran for 32 performances. You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown is a 1967 musical comedy with music and lyrics by Clark Gesner, based on the characters created by cartoonist Charles M. Schulz in his comic strip Peanuts. Directed by Joseph Hardy and with choreography by Patricia Birch, the 1971 cast included Grant Cowan as Snoopy and Dean Stolber as Charlie Brown. (more...)
BWW TV Exclusive: Meet the 2014 Tony Nominees- CASA VALENTINA's Harvey Fierstein Reveals Where He Keeps His Six Tonys!
by BroadwayWorld TV - June 01, 2014
Today we continue our Tonys coverage with Harvey Fierstein, a nominee for Best Play for Casa Valentina, who chats about how he originally got involved in the New York theatre scene, the joy of working with Joe Mantello, and more. Check out what he had to say below! (more...)
BWW TV Exclusive: Tony Honors Charlotte Wilcox - A Tony Awards Special Feature by Jerry Mitchell
by BroadwayWorld TV - June 01, 2014
BroadwayWorld.com thought it would be interesting to go a little more 'in-depth' about the recipients, to help you better understand their being chosen and to look more closely into their lives, worlds and work. In addition, we wanted them to be interviewed by someone with whom they shared some sort of history. Next up in the special series is General Manager Charlotte Wilcox. We reached out to Jerry Mitchell, who has worked with Wilcox on many of his Broadway projects over the course of their careers. (more...)
STAGE TUBE: Leslie Uggams Performs JUNE IS BUSTIN' OUT ALL OVER in Honor of June 1st
by Stage Tube - June 01, 2014
In honor of the 1st of June, watch Leslie Uggams perform 'June is Bustin' Out All Over' from CAROUSEL, then check out on the next page an interview in which the singer reveals how she almost had to 'invent a new language to cover the 'slipped' lyrics' in the now You-Tube famous performance of the Rodgers and Hammerstein tune. Click below! (more...)
2014 Gershwin High School Award Winners Announced; Sarah Liddy and Steven Telsey Take Best Actor and Actress
by BWW News Desk - June 01, 2014
The 4th annual Gershwin Awards, a celebration of outstanding achievement in musical theater performance by high school students, was held yesterday at the Davenport Studios to select the Best Leading Actress and Best Leading Actor in the New York City metropolitan area. (more...)
BWW's On This Day - June 1, 2014
by - June 01, 2014
Here are the Broadway, Off-Broadway and West End shows which opened on June 1 along with all of the upcoming show openings, closings and special events! (more...)
In the Spotlight Series: In the Tonys Photo Booth with Nominee Sarah Greene
by Walter McBride - June 01, 2014
Below you can check out photos of Sarah Greene, nominated for Best Featured Actress in a Play for The Cripple of Inishmaan, in the BroadwayWorld.com series 'In the Spotlight' by acclaimed photographer Walter McBride! (more...)
Upcoming CD Releases for June 2014
by - June 01, 2014
Check out the latest in upcoming releases of Broadway and theatre related CDs for June, 2014. (more...)


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NASHVILLE, Tenn. - The National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA) bestowed its Community Service Award for Community Investment on Habersham EMC recently.
The electric co-op was cited for the "Experience Northeast Georgia - John Kollock's Guide to 75 Special Places" audio travel guide set. Each year, NRECA recognizes and honors community service with the National Community Service Awards at their annual meeting, attended by some 8,000 representatives from over 900 cooperatives across the nation.
This award recognizes "investments of financial and other resources to improve the economic conditions and overall quality of life in the community." The emphasis of the award is on long-term, comprehensive approach, creative ventures, and partnerships with other entities. The visibility of the program within the community was considered heavily as part of the judging criteria.
As part of HEMC's 75th anniversary, President/CEO Todd Pealock wanted to do something to benefit the community.
"We asked John Kollock and Emory Jones to collaborate and highlight 75 'must see' locations in Northeast Georgia. The result exceeded our wildest expectations. It is not only entertaining and informative, but it also preserves an incredible amount of history." The guide's purpose was to not only benefit the retailers, but also many other sectors of the tourism industry by visitors spending money on lodging, food, fuel and shopping while in the area."
"Habersham EMC's audio travel guide shows the cooperative difference in action. Only an organization deeply connected to the community could conceive of and produce such a unique product. This project also shows how a strategic investment can boost the local economy in a tangible way," said NRECA CEO Jo Ann Emerson.
(EDITOR'S NOTE: John Kollock died Monday night, five days after the award was presented. See separate story.)


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"What is the liturgy?"
I remember when some Presbyterian Korean students put the question to
Nagel in a class he was teaching: "Luther as Servant of the Liturgy." But in
any case, his answer was informative, frustrating, and right on:
"The liturgy is wherein we live as the people of God."
One of the Korean students asked after class why Dr. Nagel hated
them! We told them, he doesn't hate you, but he's trying to answer a
question that avoids taking a living thing and making of it a corpse
for dissection and study. Then we showed them the text in the book
and I think they were more perplexed than ever. And well they might
be, because the Church's liturgy is not just text in a book.
My answer will likely be as frustrating but let me give her a whirl.
The Church's liturgy is her prayed confession. Loehe: "The Church
not only learns, she prays. She prays not only in her single members
in their closets, but together in her houses of assembly. She prays
in speech, she prays in song, and the Lord dwells amid her praises
with His Sacraments. Her approach to Him, His approach to her, the
whole form of her approach and of His coming, we call the Liturgy."
Now the next section is important and vital and we should not ignore.
"These forms are free, few parts are commanded."
But THIS is the part I would emphasize:
"but in spite of her freedom the Church from the beginning has
accepted certain forms. A holy manifoldness of singing and praying
has developed itself, and a lovely course of thought in drawing near
to and departing from the Lord of Lords has been her delight. Like
the planets go round the sun, so the congregation in its services,
full of loveliness and dignity, moves about her Lord. In holy
childlike innocence, which only a childlike heart rightly
understands, the host of redeemed sanctified children of God moves in
worship about the universal Father and the Lamb, and the Spirit of
the Lord of Lords leads them. The spiritual joy and heavenly delight
which such enjoy in their participation in the Liturgy cannot be
described; it impresses even those who are less devout, and the *pure
confession has no lovelier form, no more attractive manner, than when
it is engaged in adoration and praise.*" (Three Books, Book 3,
Chapter 9)
Wherein we live as the people of God.
Wherein God pours out His life to us and we delight and dance in that life, that light.
The whole round then: the Divine Service and the little daily prayer offices,
our prayers at funerals and weddings, our whole manner of being
before the altar of God and the throne of the Word, these are what I
mean by the Liturgy
Bach would not have come to be, I don't believe, without the delight
in that liturgy which he had grown up in from his youth. He learned
the dance early and when he embellished the dance, it was precisely
an embellishment from within - from wherein he lived as a Christian -
and that's what made it truly great indeed.
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Answering the Unanswerable
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Your enthusiaism and obvious love for the liturgy is infectious. When explained in such a way I dare anyone to say it is so much dead, man-made weight that tears the soul out of worship.
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Midnight Express | 1978
A young American is arrested in Turkey for smuggling hashish and is sentenced to unreasonable time in a hellish Turkish prison, where he begins to self-destruct until he musters the courage to plan his escape.
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Brad Davis and John Hurt star in this riveting true story of a young American's nightmarish experiences in a Turkish prison and his unforgettable journey to freedom. Busted for attempting to smuggle hashish out of Istanbul, American college student Billy Hayes is thrown into the city's most brutal jail. After suffering through four years of sadistic torture and inhuman conditions, Billy is about to be released when his parole is denied. Only his inner courage and the support of a fellow inmate give him the strength to catch the Midnight Express... and escape his living hell.


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FMX Welcomes AWOLNATION To Lubbock on March 8th
FMX had a surprise 'hit' a while back. We took the recommendation of The Painman and started spinning a tune called "Sail" by AWOLNATION. It may not seem like much to you, but ROCK stations are always a little shy when it comes to "Alternative" tunes. We tend to stick with the straight up hard rock from today and yesterday, but this song paid off. More after the jump.
Instead of FMX listeners rejecting this very different song, they embraced it. Anywhere there was a radio blaring the song, you could hear people yelling "SAIL". Yeah, it really was that catchy. We're now playing another song from the band called Kill Your Heroes. It's also a really different song for FMX, but we think this band is worth taking a chance on.
AWONATION will be returning the favor with a Lubbock appearance March 8th. The band will kick off it's 2013 tour right here in the Hub City. More details are forthcoming. Here's some videos to hold you over.
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Seventeen Millburn High School students and six Montclair High School students have received prestigious Regional Gold Key Awards for their outstanding artwork through The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, the 88-year-old national program that recognizes outstanding creative teenagers and offers scholarship opportunities for graduating high school seniors. The program is administered by the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers, for which the Montclair Art Museum (MAM) is the affiliate sponsor for the northern New Jersey region.
In total, Millburn students were recognized with 17 gold key, 14 silver key and 20 honorable mention individual awards and 2 gold key and 1 honorable mention portfolio awards. This year's Gold Key Award recipients from Millburn are:
Emily Bary
Caroline Bencivenga
Chandler Bernstein
Chelsea Castro
Emily Draper
Hannah Flaum
Jade Gardner
Morgan Gruer
Saranya Kanagaraj
Maria Khutoretsky
Krystal Li
Emily Sefcik
Hannah Sotnick (2)
Perri Wertheimer
Wenyun Zou
Simran Malhotra (Millburn Middle School)
The Gold Key Award recipients from Montclair are:
Jordi Artigas
Greyson Bruwer
Kayla Ephros
John Lee
Savannah Strenz
Garret Steffe (Mount Hebron Middle School)
The following Montclair students received Regional Silver Key or Honorable Mention and will be honored at an awards ceremony at the Museum: Adria Spivak, Brielle Haynes, Ian Langehough, Indigo Nelson, Carly Richman, Helen Laser, Tyler Malave.
The Montclair Art Museum will exhibit a selection of these winning works of art from Thursday, February 10 to Sunday, March 6 in the Art School Arcade of the Museum.
After receiving awards locally, the work of these students will be evaluated by an esteemed panel of jurors in New York City, alongside thousands of entries from other regional affiliate programs across the country. Notable past jurors include Robert Frost, Chuck Paluhniak, Gary Panter, Elizabeth Bishop, Frank McCourt, Judy Blume, Billy Collins, Peggy Noonan, William Saroyan, KiKi Smith, Faith Ringgold, and Lesley Stahl.
The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards has a long list of distinguished alumni including Andy Warhol, Robert Redford, Sue Miller, Richard Avedon, Zac Posen, Joyce Carol Oates, Tom Otterness, Sylvia Plath, John Lithgow, Ned Vizzini, Abdi Farah (winner of the reality show Work of Art: The Next Great Artist), and John Baldessari, who will accept this year's Alumni Achievement Award at a Carnegie Hall Ceremony next May.


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Congressman, thanks very much for coming in.
REP. RON PAUL (R-TX), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: You're welcome.
BLITZER: What do you think about the president's support today for a proposal in the Senate for a 5.6 percent millionaires' surcharge -- income over a million dollars paying an additional 5.6 percent, in other words, on that second million. It would be $56,000 going to the U.S. Treasury.
A good idea?
PAUL: It's a magic cure. Everything will be OK as soon as we pass it. Of course, I'm being cynical. No, it's not going to do any good at all. It's not a lack of taxation that's going on. There is just too much spending and this doesn't solve the problem. So I -- I see no advantage to doing what he's doing.
BLITZER: You know that all the polls show that the majority, in some cases, an overwhelming majority of the American people want higher taxes on millionaires and billionaires, as the president likes to say.
Why are the American people wrong when answering that question?
PAUL: Well, because pure democracy sometimes leads to these ill- advised positions. You know, when there's a war propaganda going on and they drum -- and beat the war drums and everybody says 75 percent of the people want us to go to war and then after 10 years, they're sick and tired of it, it doesn't mean it was right when 75 percent said something.
This is the danger of pure democracy, when you demagogue and you attack somebody and say that we have to attack the wealthy.
I don't mind criticizing, you know, the wealthy, at times. And I criticized the bankers and the bailouts and the corporate people who got all the benefits, both when the financial bubble was being built, but then when it burst. They got bailed out and then the people suffered.
So -- but this doesn't mean we should attack wealth for the sake of wealth. We should stop all the subsidies to the wealth. If anybody's getting wealthy because they get contracts from the government or because they're on the inside of a -- of the program where they get the bailouts, that's quite a bit different. We should stop that, but not blanketly penalize people who make wealth and who have created wealth and provided great services for the consumer.
BLITZER: That seems to be a line that you hear from a lot of those demonstrators, the Occupy Wall Street demonstrators in Lower Manhattan right now.
What do you make of those demonstrations?
PAUL: Well, it's hard to tell because we don't know where they're coming from. And I think it is going to be a mixed bag. And this is something I've predicted for many years, because I said that what would happen is eventually, we would destroy our economy. Jobs would go overseas. We would have inflation.
And we've encouraged people to be very dependent, both the wealthy and the entitlement system means that people believe they have rights to certain things from their neighbor or from their government.
But when the pie shrinks, there's going to be a lot of anger.
So my guess would be that there's a lot of people out there, some complaining about paying the bills and some who are scared to death they're not going to get it. But this is, you know, a symptomatic thing that we're seeing and it doesn't address the problem, why do we have business booms and why do we have recessions and depressions and why do we have inflation?
So unfortunately, this doesn't give us the answers. But I think it tells you something about the depth of the concern about the people in this country, something that I've tried to talk about for quite a few decades.
BLITZER: I asked -- I -- I spoke with a whole bunch of people about this issue, this Occupy Wall Street demonstrations.
But I want you to listen to what one of your presidential rivals, Herman Cain, told "The Wall Street Journal" about what's going on with these demonstrators in New York.
Listen to this.
HERMAN CAIN, REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I don't have facts to back this up, but I happen to believe that these demonstrations are planned and orchestrated to distract from the failed policies of the Obama administration. Don't blame Wall Street. Don't blame the big banks. If you don't have a job and you're not rich, blame yourself.
BLITZER: Blame yourself, he said.
What do you think about that?
PAUL: Well, I imagine that applies to a few people in the country, but, no, I don't quite come at it that way, because the system has been biased against the middle class and the poor. When you destroy a currency, you transfer wealth from the middle class to the wealthy, because they have access to the capital and they have a lot of benefits and they get the bailouts.
So the poor and the people losing their jobs, it wasn't their fault that we have followed a very deeply . And this means economic system. So I am not so anxious to say, yes, it's all your fault. If you want to be rich, you can be rich.
People are begging and pleading for jobs. But there are no jobs as a consequence of bad economic policy. It's the fact that we have still accepted the notion that central economic planning and central banking, under the Keynesian model, can provide prosperity.
That's where the flaw is.
But to blame that on the average person who wants a job, I don't agree with that.
BLITZER: Rick Perry, the governor of your home state of Texas, if he were to get the Republican presidential nomination, could you support him?
PAUL: Well, I don't know, because his policies have changed.. And maybe if he came a little bit closer to what I'm talking about and would agree the troops ought to come home and look into the Fed, I'd certainly give it consideration.
BLITZER: What about Mitt Romney?
If he were to get the Republican nomination, could you support him?
PAUL: Well, the same -- the same answer. None of them are advocating my positions. But they're starting to talk a little bit like what I am, because I think Governor Romney has actually said we should bring some troops home from Afghanistan.
So I would have to find out exactly what their positions are and -- and what the platform is that they would be running on.
BLITZER: Who's better, from your perspective, right now?
PAUL: I don't choose to pick on those, because I see the -- I see all the other candidates sort of in one group that is -- that -- and they're all different than what I'm talking about, because the foreign policy I advocate, neither one of them do. And a Federal Reserve with tremendous emphasis on that. And I have a tremendous emphasis on personal liberty, the right to life and liberty and civil liberties.
So I put -- if I put all the candidates in another category and I think, in many ways, we are competing with all of them as one group.
BLITZER: So if the Republican nominee, if turns out not to be you, Congressman, didn't change his or her positions and didn't come around to where you stand, would you consider running as a third party, perhaps libertarian candidate for -- for the presidency?
PAUL: I haven't thought about it and I have to plans to do that. So, no, that wouldn't be in the cards for me.
BLITZER: Now in the cards for you.
All right, let me -- let me move on and ask you about Newt Gingrich.
He's running for the Republican nomination, as well.
He was here in THE SITUATION ROOM yesterday. And he strongly disagrees with you when it comes to President Obama's decision to order the killing of Anwar al-Awlaki in Yemen.
Listen to what the former speaker told me.
FORMER REP. NEWT GINGRICH, R-GA., PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: The fact is, Congressman Paul is wrong about the -- the law. He's wrong about the constitution. And the president was exactly right legally and he was exactly right morally in killing somebody who was a threat to everybody.
BLITZER: All right. So go ahead and respond to Newt Gingrich.
PAUL: I'd -- I'd ask him to read the Fifth Amendment. It's pretty clear that you can't take a life without due process of law, especially of an American citizen. So I would say that he's way off base.
This is historic. We've never had a policy that said that we can put somebody on a -- and on a -- on an assassination list by a secret tribunal, so to speak. We don't even know what the qualification is or the -- or -- or the criteria to put somebody on this list.
I think this is a most dangerous precedent and respect for the constitution the rule of law needs to be looked at, because I think we have lost a lot of it. I consider this one of the most dangerous things that we have done. And this president has done it in the open -- opening. He announced this policy in February of last year. I gave a speech on the House floor shortly thereafter advising how dangerous this was. And this -- this means that we have very much violated the whole concept of the rule of law.
BLITZER: Because Newt Gingrich, in defending the president's decision, says al-Awlaki was an enemy combatant of the United States. And over all the news of warfare, the U.S. has been able to kill so- called enemy combatants.
So what do you think of that argument?
PAUL: Well, I -- I would ask him and the president to produce some evidence of exactly what he did and why -- why is he an enemy?
What are the charges?
And, you know, if we can try Adolph Eichmann -- the Israelis tried him in 1961 -- don't you think we could try somebody like al-Awlaki or at least, you know, recognize that individuals should be captured when possible and tried?
But this enemy combatant, anybody can -- you know, one of the -- and the word, I think, has already been used, is that he was a threat. I think Gingrich used that word.
A threat?
Well, I'm antiwar. And I might go to an anti-war rally.
And what if the administration said Ron Paul is a threat?
Somebody in the media says he's a threat. He's preaching that the government is doing wrong with the foreign policy. This, to me, is a very, very dangerous precedent.
BLITZER: So would you support articles of impeachment against President Obama for his -- for this decision?
PAUL: I haven't introduced them, but I think it's an impeachable offense, if the mood of the country was such that they wanted to do it. Yes, I could support that.
BLITZER: Ron Paul, Republican presidential candidate.
As usual, thanks very much for coming in.
PAUL: OK, Wolf.
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What Is War For?
There is no shortage of wartime horror in Among the Chosen Few, the ambitious production inaugurating California Repertory Company's new downtown Long Beach theater. Tracing war's bloody lineage from the ancient Greeks and medieval crusaders through Nazi Germany to a post-apocalyptic society, playwright Howard Burman's four plays illustrate that humanity's capacity for destruction hasn't ebbed since it was first exercised.
The point? Based on the final image of this four-hour saga-when small children appear amid carnage and the cast breaks into an uplifting hymn about preserving the Earth for future generations-the point would seem to be that the end (conquest and glory) never justifies the means (rapes, pillages, massacres and ritual sacrifices).
That tired aphorism is also a fit critique of the play. In this frequently stunning theatrical ride, spectacle can't obscure the fact that Burman's ideas never rise above the obvious: war is hell. Religious and patriotic zealotry have sparked some of history's cruelest excesses. Men of moral conviction can arise in the worst of times.
On their own, the four plays that make up Among the Chosen Few are just fine. But together? An underlying blueprint seems to be missing, as well as an answer to a big, overarching question: Why? Why does war produce our greatest leaders and our most barbaric actions? Why is so much of our killing done for God and country? Why is humankind so demonic?
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Dramaturge Charles Marowitz supplies two possible answers in his customarily brilliant style. "Perhaps the most disturbing question thrown up by these plays is whether the havoc that regularly wreaks our civilization is due simply to history repeating itself or to certain indigenous flaws in human nature, which no amount of progress can ever eradicate," Marowitz said. That's something I would have liked to experience onstage, not in Marowitz's program notes.
Though I found it hard to see Burman's forest, a lot of the trees look great, thanks to Joanne Gordon's visceral, avant-garde-ish direction. This is a highly creative, visually stimulating production filled with surprises and effects, from stylized movement and sliding floors to a massive steel monolith (designed by Danila Korogodsky) and evocative lighting courtesy of David Jaques. The three-member band led by Rob Woyshner is also excellent, as is Burman's decision to use a 10-part chorus to comment ironically on the play's action.
Part One consists of "Setting Fires" and "Heirs to the Kingdom," which take place, respectively, during the Greek invasion of Troy as related in Homer's Iliad and the so-called Peasants Crusade of the 11th century. The plays in Part Two, "The Last Knight" and "White Ash People," deal with German field marshal Erwin Rommel and a post-apocalyptic society of subterraneans. Props are minimal, the same set is used throughout, and the 25 cast members (including the 10-member chorus) are draped in the same costumes of overalls of muted gray and rust colors not too far removed from concentration-camp attire. Burman's one nod to a narrative line is the character of the Old Soldier (played by Ashley Carr Jr.). He's an eternal foot soldier who, with Southern drawl and homespun wisdom, introduces each play before he takes his place within the ensemble.
The four plays are connected thematically by fanaticism-the zeal that creates the conditions for otherwise impossible atrocities-and the moral dilemmas men face when they attempt to balance social duty with individual responsibility. In "Setting Fires," for example, Agamemnon (Richard Kinsey) must decide whether to appease the gods by sacrificing a loved one. In "Heirs of the Kingdom," the tension between duty and morality is played out against the backdrop of the Peasants Crusade. This crusade, a pre-emptive strike launched in 1096 by the perhaps-apocryphal Peter the Hermit, was composed of ragtag peasant pilgrims with no military training, crude weapons, and little money and supplies. In their eagerness to reach the Holy Land, they wound up raping and pillaging throughout Eastern Europe. By the time they reached Asia Minor, they were primed for slaughter at the hands of the far-more-disciplined, battle-ready Turks.
"Heirs of the Kingdom" includes Burman's best writing and one of Gordon's finest staging moments. A woman (the magnetic Dawn K. Flood) chooses to play camp prostitute in order to keep the male pilgrims from raping the camp's virgins. As Flood acts out her subsequent dance with the fleshy devil, the chorus belts out a passionate gospel tune led by the stirring Jacqueline B. Arnold. It's anachronistic as hell-medieval death meets Mississippi Delta-but mighty effective, one of the few moments during which onstage action transcended the moment.
"The Last Knight" doesn't seem to fit. Where the other three plays feature large casts and the chorus is integral, this stripped-down version feels too slight. Kinsey once again plays the man in crisis, Rommel, whose love of duty and a greater Germany runs counter to his disillusionment with Nazi atrocities. The always versatile Peter Zapp plays the dastardly General Burgdorf, who is out to get Rommel to cop to a plot to assassinate Hitler, and Katie Johnson convincingly plays Rommel's long-suffering wife.
"White Ash People" is the only play that doesn't lean on historic or literary precedent. Instead, Burman opts for a world in which nuclear winter has fallen and humanity is forced underground. It's also the goofiest play, with Zapp and Reed Boyer (who does fine work in all four plays) serving as slapsticky stooges named the Ordinator and the Assistor. Once a year, the pair call on every village to enact a bizarre ritual of digging and lottery. The lottery, as it turns out, is anything but goofy: it's the way these people choose who will be sacrificed, à la Shirley Jackson. The key players here are April Hall (who also does fine work in all four plays, including dying not once, not twice, but thrice) and a passionate Diana Jordan as two sisters who realize the futility of the village ritual but are unable to bring themselves to rebel.
The final image of the play is nothing less than orchestrated madness: the villagers lower the sacrificial victim into the grave and then hurl white ash throughout the space as the ensemble sings. It's frightening and emotionally powerful-a perfect way to end this rather bleak evening.
But, alas, we don't end with this perfect punch to the solar plexus. Instead, we're kissed on the cheek, with the aforementioned small children and the anthemic "We Are the World"-like final song. After four plays that have tried, in Marowitz's words, to "identify the DNA out of which all armed conflicts arise," we're asked to buck up, smile and save the world for the children. After four hours of atrocity, this little bit of sugar tastes bitter, indeed.
Among the Chosen Few at Edison Theatre, 213 E. Broadway, Long Beach, (562) 432-1818. Part One: Wed., 7 p.m.; Fri., 8 p.m.; Sat., 2 p.m. Part Two: Thurs., 7 p.m.; Sat., 8 p.m. Through Nov. 21. $15-$20 per part.
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Toyota Vietnam has just issued a three-month work suspension against an engineer who exposed the company's technical faults leading to the biggest vehicle recall in Vietnam's history.
Mr. Le Van Tach
During the period, the company still pays 50% of salary to Le Van Tach.
On June 11, Tach unexpectedly received the suspension notice on the ground that he negatively affected work and had a bad influence on the prestige of colleagues in the company.
"I am very surprised because the general director of Toyota Vietnam tries to deny the truth to shrug off responsibility", Tach complained.
Tach said that after exposing several technical flaws of Toyota cars assembled in Vietnam, he received threats and insults from colleagues.
On May 31, Tach sent a complaint letter to the company's general director, notifying that 7 senior officials in the company have insulted and threatened him.
He wants the company to officially apologize to and compensate him.
But on June 10, the general director replied in writing that Tach's accusation lacks evidence.
The company's investigation found that many employees only joked. Some said they did not remember and talked only in individual capacity, not representing the company.
The company thus ruled that it will not compensate nor apologize to me, Tach said.
Tran Quoc Hung, head of Toyota Vietnam's planning department told Nguoi Lao Dong Sunday that the suspension was not related to Tach's whistle-blowing but to his groundless accusation causing disunity among employees.
"Engineer Tach has accused a number of individuals in the company and requested the company to compensate. After investigation, we found that such acts are not related to production activities and cause rifts among the company".
"This [suspension] is necessary for Tach to think of his recent acts", Hung said, adding that the suspension is in line with the labor law and company's regulations.
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Earlier, Toyota production director for Vietnam Tadashi Yoshida told a press conference on April 1 that he welcomed employees' contributions towards improving products.
"Engineer Tach will not be fired or discriminated", Tadashi Yoshida then affirmed.
Due to Tach's expose, since April this year, Toyota Vietnam has recalled over 70,000 cars for problems related to bolts, pressure and seats.
In the latest recall - on June 7, the company announced that it will offer free checks for oil pressure on 6,108 Innova J cars produced between December 26, 2005 and November 24, 2010.
On April 15, Toyota Vietnam officially offered an apology and released a recall plan on 65,703 cars including a mere 167 Innova J vehicles.
The recall revolves around Innova and Fortuner vehicles that suffer three technical problems (oil pressure at the rear wheel being higher than standard, bolt No 8 that used under rear seat and camber bolts beyond standard).
The company earlier had announced a recall on 278 Camry cars.
Hero or villain?
Tach in late April received the "Responsibility Prize" from the Center for Research on Communication Development under Hanoi-based Vietnam Union of Science and Technology Association.
Tach was lauded for his efforts in ensuring benefits of over 650,000 consumers in Vietnam and ensuring traffic safety in Vietnam.
Tach told the ceremony that he had many times told Toyota leaders about the technical flaws but was paid no heed and was even threatened.
"I understand that Toyota Vietnam is a big enterprise, with a brand name and is trusted by many consumers. But the way it acted is surprising due to its shying away from responsibility and announcing false information".
"They initially said only 8,830 vehicles [actual number is over 70,000] suffered from technical faults and announced the flaws would not affect quality", Tach said at the awarding ceremony.
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URBANA, Ill. – New wiring and computer network upgrades at a University of Illinois research facility, located over 200 miles south of the main campus, will allow 24-hour video access to the cattle housed at one of the country's largest beef research centers.
Video cameras newly installed in the Dixon Springs Agricultural Center cattle barn will give U of I faculty, researchers, students on campus, and others beyond campus, the next best experience to being on site to observe procedures such as calving or vaccinations being administered, all in real time, said Frank Ireland, a U of I animal science researcher and superintendent of the research facility located in Simpson, Ill.
"The cameras are a big piece of the whole picture," Ireland said. "The DSAC animal science program, particularly beef cattle research, is one of the largest in the country because of the available acreage of land here. There's a need for it because fewer and fewer places have the number of cattle that we do."
Ireland cited a recent report out of Texas A & M University that stated that most land-grant universities had reduced the number of beef cattle for research at their facilities during the last five years. "If that is true, it leaves the U of I as one of the few land-grant universities that has not reduced its numbers because we have Dixon Springs as a resource," he said.
There are currently 1,400 to 1,500 head of cattle in the U of I system, with 850 to 900 of those cows at the Dixon Springs center. The center spans 5,000 total acres, facilitating research in animal science, agronomy, and natural resources and environmental sciences.
"This allows us the opportunity to do research that other universities can't," Ireland said. "From a size and scope perspective, what we can do in a one-year research trial with 900 cows could take other facilities four years to complete using the same number of animals, which has really lent itself for U of I to be a leader in beef cattle research.
"This has resulted in major funding and research projects for U of I in genetics and genomics research with the American Angus Association, the American International Charolais Association, and the American Simmental Association. We have the ability to conduct feed efficiency studies with the GrowSafe system. Those organizations represent the largest breeds of cattle in the United States and they have put quite a lot of funding into the U of I system," he said.
Looking beyond the opportunities for U of I research, Ireland said the vision is to allow not only U of I researchers, students, and veterinarians access into the broadcasts from the cattle barn, but to give access to other universities and programs
"Some colleges have teaching facilities with no live animals, and livestock judging is often done online using pictures," he said.
He also noted applications such as using the cameras to help in discussing and diagnosing illness or injuries in the cattle with off-site veterinarians as a benefit of the cameras. "Instead of me placing a phone call and describing what is happening with the cow, I can give the veterinarian the ip address and we could both be viewing the animal at the same time," he said.
Engineering and installation of new Internet network infrastructure at the center has allowed the center to move to a high-speed Internet connection that now enables connectivity between the center's 10 buildings, as well as the capability to broadcast video via the Internet from the facility. The network upgrade now provides upload and download speeds of 100 megabytes per second at the facility.
Shawnee Communications, a southern Illinois telephone and Internet company, has been the Internet service provider for the project.
Aaron Brown, a senior research programmer with U of I's campus information technology group (CITES), said his group originally got involved with the project to bring wireless Internet to all the buildings at the research center, especially in the dorms and student housing facilities.
"The network upgrade is the key and the root to all of this," Brown said. "We set out to make their Internet use look and feel as though they were on campus. You shouldn't know you're away from campus; they will be supported the same."
In addition to expanded wireless Internet and the ability to broadcast real-time video, the upgrades will assist in the tracking of data that is part of the GrowSafe data collection program. GrowSafe nodes on the cattle collect feed-intake data for each cow, sending it to a central database for U of I's beef cattle feed efficiency studies. Brown said GrowSafe data alone was consuming the available bandwidth on the center's previous network before the upgrades were put into place.
For now, three network-based cameras have been installed in the barn, positioned to capture different angles of the chutes and other areas of the barn. From a remote computer, the user can control the angle and zoom of the camera. For example, Ireland said when cows are calving in the stalls, the camera can be zoomed in on the cow to see if she is lying down, drinking, or breathing rapidly.
"There are vet students who graduate from vet school and never see a calf born," Ireland added. "These students will be going out in May and starting in a practice with cattle producers. They may have to assist in difficult deliveries, but they have never seen a calf born. Now we can put cows who are calving in the chutes and broadcast that to a classroom of 130 vet students."
During a recent research trial on behavior involving measuring bulls' reactions to being electro-ejaculated, Ireland said the cameras could have allowed students to observe from their on-campus classroom, and logged and recorded movement of the bulls during the process, without having to send students down to the research center. "This has applications for research," he said.
"Students could watch us take blood samples from 50 or 100 cows to see how we go about it, how to halter and position heads to get to the jugular vein, etc.," Ireland said. "A still photo doesn't show them that. There are a lot of tremendous educational opportunities here for university students or the public."
In addition to the cattle barn, all the facilities at the research center, such as the crop sciences greenhouse and the Illinois Forest Resource Center, are wired for the capability to install and use cameras for distance learning, Brown said.


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Solving The Small Problems
On Wednesday I said "Why can I solve one-of-a-kind complex problems at lightning speed but can't figure out how to solve the problem of doing my dishes with regularity."
I then added "(More on that one on Friday.)" Welcome to Friday.
My thought was about how whenever I'm doing dishes, I'm doing five days worth of them. When I'm doing laundry it's two weeks worth. Yes, I have that much clothing, thanks to impulse buying. But that's another issue, isn't it?
I know the feeling of having all the laundry done, washed, dried, folded and put away. It's a hazy memory, but I do remember that. I also remember having all the dishes done and my kitchen squared away, ship shape and Bristol fashion. But these days, with no one in my home to clean up for or to … shall we say, 'encourage' me????, I often finish one part of a job and move on to a completely different job.
So, sometimes I have to move the clean dishes that have air dried, out of the sink to make room to do the dirty ones. Okay, that's all the time. There's always dirty dishes in one side and clean ones in the other.
And there will be clean, dry, unfolded clothes on the couch that have been there for several days, even as I start another load in the washer (and sometimes discover a forgotten load in the dryer).
This way of life, this constantly being in the middle of my chores, never finished, is depressing much of the time. And I don't need depressing. I can get along quite fine without it, thank you.
So what do I need?
In trying to figure out a better way, I've been concentrating on better ways to get dishes and laundry done. I've tried to concentrate on the task at hand. I've used my clip on timer set at 5 minutes, resetting it each time it goes off and checking to make sure I'm still on task.
But the truth is that even when I succeed and get, say, all my dishes cleaned, dried, and put away, the slight euphoria of success lasts only until I think "Yeah, it's clean, until you have a sandwich or a cup of coffee while you're too busy working to be able to clean up. Then it all starts again."
In other words, managing to get it all cleaned up only serves to make me feel worse.
The other day …
A few days ago I had the sudden epiphany that I'm being hard on myself for nothing. I have clean dishes. I have clean clothes. I have systems that work. I can't stop being vigilant about doing dishes and laundry, but I really don't need to be feeling so bad about them never being done. The truth is, they are being done, constantly.
I should just learn to enjoy doing dishes and laundry … okay, that's a bit of a stretch, but I think I'll just try to feel good about the fact that I am drinking a cup of coffee out of a clean mug. Well, it was clean 'til I put coffee into it.
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Search for pretty girl fails to produce entry for state fair contest: Where are Contra Costa County beautiful girls? Iona M. Booth, general manager of the Contra Costa Development Association, asked the question this week as she bemoaned the fact that there has not been a single entry thus far in an announced contest to select a Miss Contra Costa to participate in the California State Fair's Maid of Magic Beauty Competition.
"We have not received a single entry. We have not even had a question asked," Mrs. Booth said. "It seems incredulous that such could be the case in a county of 351,000 persons."
Contestants must be between 18 and 28 years old as of Aug. 30 and will be judged 80 percent for face and figure, 10 percent for poise and 10 percent for personality.
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Dewey does the job: A lot of planning and hard work went into organizing and making this year's Byron Elementary School Career Week a reality. But Paul Dewey, with the guidance of his teacher, Cathy Gilligan, managed to orchestrate the affair like a professional. The eighth-grader did not forget about the event after plans for a Career Week fell through last year.
"Paul approached me this year when I was discussing the subject with him in class," she recalled. "He volunteered to make the necessary phone calls and arrangements. That stared four and a half months of planning and preparations, which ended with a successful Career Week from May 17-19." Dewey said he likes talking with people and knew if he was interested in learning about various career opportunities his classmates would be also.
Dewey and Gilligan listed all the careers they wanted featured during the week. They narrowed their choices to: dentist, veterinarian, attorney, pilots, disc jockey, journalist, firefighter, law enforcement, real estate and local business. Next Dewey extended invitations to speakers. In order to help Dewey, Gilligan said she suggested exhausting the student-parent file to determine if there might be any parents who would qualify.
— Brentwood News files
Gilligan said Dewey actually did all the work on preparations. "My part was really easy," she said. Paul brought his rough draft to me and we refined it. And he is very responsible so I never felt I had to stand over his shoulder to make sure was doing things correctly."
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Allegheny County Executive Rich Fitzgerald's plan to use $3 million from the Allegheny Regional Asset District for public transit drew a less-than-enthusiastic response from Pittsburgh Mayor Luke Ravenstahl on Wednesday.
"Our folks will be happy to take a look at it," the mayor said at a ceremony to reopen the Lower McArdle Roadway bridge. "We need to make sure it isn't going to affect other organizations that are funded."
Saying he wasn't fully aware of the specifics of Mr. Fitzgerald's request, the mayor also noted that "there are a variety of regional assets in the city that would be happy to receive that $3 million."
"We need to focus on a long-term solution" to the financial woes of the Port Authority, he said. "The RAD certainly is not that solution."
Mr. Ravenstahl's opinion matters because he appoints two of the seven asset district board members, and six votes are required to approve funding.
The $3 million was a small part of a funding announcement by Mr. Fitzgerald and state Transportation Secretary Barry Schoch on Tuesday. The state committed $35 million in additional funding and the county $4.5 million as part of a plan that headed off a scheduled 35 percent transit service cut that was scheduled for Sept. 2.
Local 85 of the Amalgamated Transit Union approved a new contract with an estimated $60 million in savings over four years, and Port Authority said it achieved another $10 million in savings from management cutbacks.
Mr. Fitzgerald said he would offer $1.5 million in surplus revenue from the county's 7 percent tax on poured alcoholic beverages and ask the asset district board for the rest. He said he wanted the board to make the $3 million an ongoing annual commitment.
"It's a significant commitment if it is made," Mr. Ravenstahl said.
From New York City, where he met Wednesday with the agencies that rate the county's creditworthiness, Mr. Fitzgerald said he had left a message with the mayor Sunday with details of his proposal and previously had mentioned to him the possibility of funding transit.
"I feel very confident that this is an asset that is worthy of the district's support," he said. "Many of the [other] assets we fund use transit, both for patrons and their employees."
He reiterated what he said at Tuesday's announcement: The asset district expects enough increased revenue this year because of a strengthening economy to cover a transit grant without taking away from other funding recipients.
The asset district draws its revenue from a 1 percent county add-on to the 6 percent state sales tax. It funds parks, libraries and cultural attractions, along with the city's major sports venues.
"Most cities across the country use sales tax to fund transit," Mr. Fitzgerald said. "I can't think of a bigger regional asset that we have than transit."neigh_city - breaking - region - Transportation - electionsmunicipal
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WATSONVILLE >> After five weeks of suspense, Lisa Dobbins said she "cried her eyes out" at the reveal.
Dobbins, the former executive director of Action Pajaro Valley, and husband Patrick had been nervous about handing over their outdated beach cottage to the HGTV show, "Vacation Houses for Free," for an overhaul. But the remodel of the Pajaro Dunes home they bought as a family retreat turned out better than they ever imagined.
"Monterey Bay Escape," the episode featuring their two-bedroom cottage, airs at 10 p.m. Sunday. Filming included shots in Capitola and at the Crow's Nest and Zelda's in Santa Cruz.
"Everything they touched was an improvement, and it was unbelievable how many touches it needed," Dobbins said. "Our friends who saw it before come over and say 'Wow! What a change.'"
The couple, who live in Royal Oaks, dreamed of a vacation house, and the opportunity came when they found a 1,000-square-foot foreclosure in the resort community west of Watsonville.
But the bank-owned cottage they bought for $555,777 had been vacant for a couple of years and was in disrepair. A crumbling wooden walkway led to the shabby front door. To go inside was to step back to the 1980s.
They expected remodeling to be a gradual process, but then their Realtor, Bettsy Tyler, referred them to Departure Films, Dobbins said. The production company pitched the idea of showcasing remodeled vacation homes that could be rented out part-time to finance owners' use the remainder of the year to HGTV, which bought 12 episodes.
The couple applied, interviewed and won one of spots.
"It was a good fit," Dobbins said. "To have our dream of a vacation house we could use, we realized it would have to be a rental."
In March, film and construction crews showed up and transformed the small cottage, which faces the Pajaro River and is just steps away from a miles-long stretch of beach.
Outside, old decking was ripped up, replaced and expanded. A new facade was installed on the fireplace, inside and out. The kitchen was gutted, and rebuilt from scratch. A dining room was opened up to flow into the living room. Walls were painted, new lighting installed.
"The whole thing feels more modern," Dobbins said.
Patrick Dobbins, a civil engineer, pointed to the way the gray paint accenting a living area wall tied together white-washed open beams, countertops and darker flooring.
As the production company picked up most of the tab, the Dobbins family saved more than two-thirds the cost.
Elite Construction Services of Santa Cruz did the work. Owner Eric Lamascus said he and partner Craig Yates took the job on for the experience, not for the national exposure since the business caters to local homeowners. He does have a photo gallery of the work slated to go live on the company website, discoverelite.com, after the episode airs.
"Maybe it was the cool factor," said Lamascus, explaining that his only claim to fame is being from the same small Oklahoma town as country singer Carrie Underwood.
Lamascus said working under the constraints of a reality show was a challenge. The full film crew was on site only four days — a single cameraman stayed for the entire job to shoot daily progress — and his work had to be scheduled accordingly.
"It's definitely an eye-opening experience. I had no idea how many people it takes to make a small reality television program."
Dobbins said the hardest part was giving up control. The couple worked with the designer, but in the end, she said, there were a few surprises, fortunately, happy ones.
Both Dobbins and Lamascus said they would do it again.
"(Host Matt Blashaw) had a lot of energy," Dobbins said. "He made it a fun thing to do."
Monterey Bay Escape
What: Episode of HGTV's Vacation House for Free features remodel of Pajaro Dunes beach cottage.
Who: Features homeowners Patrick and Lisa Dobbins of Royal Oaks; Eric Lamascus and Craig Yates of Elite Construction Services in Santa Cruz.
When: Airs 10 p.m. Sunday on HGTV.
Details: www.hgtv.com/vacation-house-for-free/monterey-bay-escape/index.html


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La qualità e la customer satisfaction di un servizio aeroportuale: una metodologia da affiancare a quella tradizionale
Airport service quality and customer satisfaction: a methodology that supports the traditional one (by Valerio Gatta). Objectives In this paper we consider the problem of service quality measurement. In marketing literature the study of service quality has focused on customer evaluation. Often, the global service quality index is simply computed as the average of the clients' responses on the overall service evaluation and then, through the relationship among the latter and the judgments on each service dimension, the importance weights of the single service characteristics are calculated. Sometimes, the importance of each dimension is obtained by directly asking respondents to allocate a certain amount of points across the dimensions. It is to stress that these procedures may lead to partial or biased measures. With the aim to overcome this problem and to obtain a more precise satisfaction index, we consider a Stated Preference survey to be used in combination with the traditional customer satisfaction survey. Methods and Results Stated Preference methods refer to a family of techniques which foresees interviewing individuals concerning their preferences regarding a set of different options to estimate utility functions. In particular, we use a choice-based conjoint analysis which asks people to choose among hypothetical alternatives of the services. These options are described in terms of combinations of levels of the various airport features. By means of discrete choice models we analyze the data and we get the information required. We present findings from an empirical study. The data considered for this application is derived from a survey on airport customers conducted on a large Italian airport. Given our objective, in the actual study attribute levels are simply selected according to the items and verbal scales used in the general survey. We found that waiting time and airport services have the largest relative importance weights, while shops and duty free the smallest. Moreover, for each attribute, the effect on utility increases moving from the lowest category very poor to the highest category excellent, but this growth is not perfectly linear. Another aspect which is worth mentioning regards the substantial difference between the overall satisfaction index derived by linking up the two types of survey and the global judgment on the airport. Finally, through simulations we show the main elements in which airport management should concentrate their efforts. Conclusions The results obtained from the analysis are very interesting and potentially useful for airport marketing. By employing the methodology proposed, we are able to get the relative importance measures of the attributes, jointly evaluated, that is, based on an explicit trade-off between attributes, and through the latter information to calculate the service quality index.
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Bohdan Schneider received his M.S. degree from the Prague Institute of Chemical Technology, Prague, Czech Republic, in 1982, and his Ph.D. degree from the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Praha, Czech Republic, in 1989, in crystallography and drug design. For a postdoctoral stay, he joined Professor Helen Berman at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA (1990–1992), where he worked on oligonucleotide crystallography and bioinformatics of nucleic acids (solvation, design of the NDB). After returning to Prague, he continued the research of DNA structure, dynamics, and mainly solvation. During his second stay at Rutgers with Professor Berman in 1998–2000, he worked on the design and maintenance of structural databases PDB and NDB. Currently, he works at the Institute of Biotechnology, the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, where he studies nucleic acid structure and dynamics, protein-DNA, and protein-protein recognition and is responsible for developing a research program structural biology and protein engineering at the center BIOCEV (http://www.biocev.eu) that is being established with help from the European Regional Funds. His main scientific contributions include description of structural and dynamic features of RNA, DNA, and protein-DNA interactions. His earlier work dealt mainly with DNA solvation. For many years, he devoted a substantial part of his time to the service of the scientific community as a Coauthor of the NDB and also as a Long-Time Collaborator of the PDB. He has published over 50 papers in peer-reviewed journals that have attracted over two thousand citations and have an H index of 21.
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French hottie Marion Cotillard just squeezed past fellow French hottie Eva Green for an 11 to 9 win in last week's Face Off. Difficult decision between two superb specimens of French beauty. I'm still leaning towards Eva, though. I'm all about the sultriness, which Eva personifies better than most other hotties today.
This week we bid adieu to those lovely French ladies and head east, into the Carpathian mountains and the breadbasket of Europe. This is a place where the only thing more abundant than the wheat fields, abandoned nuclear contamination zones and periodic political uprisings, are the amazing assortment of gorgeous women. They grow 'em especially tasty out there. Being the crossroads of Europe has given this part of the world a unique genetic diversity, melding the best of all the world's hotties into one miraculous soup of hotness. One of the bigger countries in this part of the world, Ukraine, is home to the rusting remains of the former Soviet Union and also the two hotties we feature here today, Olga Kurylenko and Milla Jovovich. Tough call to judge which one of these Eastern European hotties gets the proletarian salute, but I'll give it the old Communist try anyway.
I've never seen Olga look bad. Even when she's not trying to look good, say if she's out and about without make up on or something like that, she still looks amazing. One aspect of these Eastern European ladies that intrigues me is that they get their beauty naturally. They're not pretty because they're made up. They simply are beautiful, as a result of whatever magic coursed through their DNA when they were coming together as a human being. Olga certainly fits into that category.
The thing about Milla that annoys me sometimes is that she seems to want to sabotage her beauty in favor of various freaky or strange or simply unflattering looks that don't do her justice. It's as if she's bored with being beautiful, so she does things like cut her hair really short, which doesn't suit her. Or gets some freaky make up application that doesn't flatter her at all, nor does it seem intended to do so. She likes to experiment when it comes to her style. Which keeps her entertained, but doesn't always benefit her looks. She's much more beautiful when she goes the simple and traditional route.
Round yet trim, soft but fit, smooth as well as contoured, Olga has got the perfect mix of all the best things about the feminine form all packed together in one sexy little frame. And if that weren't enough for you, she also has no qualms about proving how worthy she is in this area by showing it all off on screen, which is one of the surest ways for a lady to merge onto the express lane to my affections. Display your hottest body trophy with pride, Olga.
Milla has always had a perfectly fine body. With the exception of a few brief forays into pregnancy, she has kept herself looking pretty good over the years. I've never found anything particularly wrong with her. She loses here only because I prefer my ladies with a bit more in the boob area. That's not because I want all women to be double D's or anything like that. I just prefer something a little more substantial to grab on to. If they're boyish in the chest, I'm not feeling it - literally.
I think it's become a foregone conclusion that if a woman wins in the beauty and the body categories, you're pretty much obligated to give her a third winner vote in the hotness area as well. What can you say? Olga is beautiful, built and hot - that's the holy trinity of MovieHottie's most elite women. Add to that her Eastern European heritage as a sexy little cherry on top and you have the world's tastiest hot fudge sundae. I have no idea what that's supposed to mean.
So Milla hasn't got the most to work with up top. That doesn't stop her from turning on the hotness when she wants to. She can be quite the seductive type with that bewitching gaze, those kissable lips and cute little overbite. Any struggles she might have with the bra size are simply turned into opportunities to accentuate the other 90% of her that's hotter than a firecracker. I recently caught her in that movie STONE, with DeNiro. Fairly shitty movie, but damn was she hot in that. Even if she was getting it on with a 67 year old guy. She didn't let that stop her from being the hottie she is.
Olga has had a few high profile movies and TV shows, but they pale in comparison to my personal fondness for some of Milla's work. Not to say that Olga isn't good. I wasn't very fond of QUANTUM OF SOLACE, but she did okay as a Bond girl. Her performance on MAGIC CITY is quite good and no doubt she will hold her own with Tom Cruise in the upcoming OBLIVION. It's just that when my Blu-ray player cranks up, you're more likely to find one of Milla's movies in there than Olga's.
There aren't many folks from my generation who weren't at least somewhat charmed by Milla's performance as Leeloo Dallas Multipass in the classic sci-fi adventure THE FIFTH ELEMENT. Though, I was already smitten with Milla well before that, when she played Kevin Pickford's mute, hippy girlfriend in DAZED AND CONFUSED. She was only like 17 at the time, but then again so was I. And despite their increasingly cheesy and convoluted nature, I still enjoy her in the RESIDENT EVIL movies as one of my many guilty pleasures. So, Milla and I go way back.
Being a long time fan of Milla, I feel kind of bad about not giving her the overall vote here. But Olga is hot enough that she overrules any historical bias I might have. Milla is damn hot and were she and I in the same room, I'd probably be reduced to a pathetic mixture of drooling, horny idiot and smitten fanboy. However, given the choice between the two, I'd probably whine and panic for a bit, then chose Olga. So there you go.


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Family accused of taking US$70m in bogus charges
A Montana, United States, family and their accountant are accused of tacking US$70 million in bogus charges on to customers' phone bills nationwide, then funnelling some of that money through a religious organisation to buy land and pay for the husband's legal bills.
Steven Sann, his wife Terry, son Nathan, and accountant Robert Braach run a maze of nine companies engaged in "cramming" or adding unauthorised charges to customers' phone bill, according to a civil complaint filed this month by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).
When customers complained or phone companies grew suspicious about one of the Sanns' companies charging phone bills, they would switch over to another company, the complaint says.
The FTC is asking a judge to issue a preliminary injunction that will force the Sanns to stop operating the companies and freeze their assets. In a court filing last Friday, Sann's attorney, Sarah Rhoades, asked US District Judge Dana Christensen for a stay in FTC civil action, saying there is a criminal investigation already under way.
Allowing the government to pursue both criminal and civil cases against Sann and his companies is improper, Rhoades said in the filing. The civil case would let the government examine company information that it is not entitled to under criminal procedure rules, she wrote.
Some of the money went to buy 94 acres in western Montana where Steven Sann runs a youth camp, the FTC alleges. Some went to pay for Sann's defence in an unrelated medical marijuana case. In those instances, the money first was deposited in the bank account of Bibliologic, a religious organisation set up by Sann and Braach.
Bibliologic Ltd was incorporated in 2009 as a charitable religious organisation without any members, according to Montana Secretary of State registration records. The organisation has no physical address.
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Steven Sann recently reached a plea agreement with federal prosecutors investigating large medical marijuana operations. According to a federal affidavit, he was an investor in two medical marijuana dispensaries.
Sann struck a deal with prosecutors in September to plead guilty to conspiracy to maintain a drug-involved premises. He had been scheduled to be sentenced on Thursday, but his attorney in that case has asked for a delay because of illness.
The Sanns' nine companies are voice mail and electronic fax services that charge a customer's phone bill through an intermediary called a bill aggregator. The companies are American eVoice, Emerica Media Corp., FoneRight, Global Voice Mail, HearYou2, Network Assurance, SecuratDat, Techmax Solutions and Voice Mail Professionals.
The charge is typically US$14.95 and appears near the end of the phone bill month after month until the customer notices and challenges it.
Hundreds of complaints have been filed against the Sanns' businesses with the FTC, the Better Business Bureau and with phone companies, the FTC complaint says.
Of the US$70 million billed since 2008, the Sanns' companies have returned more than US$40 million after customer challenges, according to the FTC complaint. But data collected by the federal agency show many more don't know that they're being charged.
Last April, the Sanns' companies had 119,810 voice mail accounts open, but only 12 customers actually accessed their accounts. From March 2010 to April 2012, fewer than 1 per cent of the people purportedly with voice mail accounts through the companies actually accessed them.
"These abysmally low usage rates strongly suggest that consumers neither ordered the services nor knew they were being billed for them," the FTC complaint says.