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Paul Simon is one of the most successful and respected songwriters of the rock era. Rising to fame in the mid-'60s, Simon's songs were mature and literate, but also melodically engaging, and spoke to the concerns and uncertainties of a generation. As the 1960s gave way to the '70s and '80s, Simon's work tended to focus on the personal rather than the larger world, but he also expanded his musical palette, and helped introduce many rock and pop fans to world music.
Paul Frederic Simon was born in Newark, New Jersey on October 13, 1941. His father, Louis Simon, was an educator who also led a small jazz combo, while his mother, Belle Simon, taught English; when Paul was a few months old, they moved from Newark to Queens, New York. Paul grew up with a passion for baseball and music, particularly jazz and folk, and as he entered his teens, he developed a taste for the doo wop and R&B sounds that were a staple of Alan Freed's radio broadcasts, as well as first-generation rockabillies such as Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Carl Perkins. When Simon was 11 years old, he met Art Garfunkel, and the two became fast friends who discovered they shared an interest in music. Paul and Art formed a harmony duo in the style of their heroes the Everly Brothers, and made their stage debut at a junior-high talent show. By the time they were enrolled at Forest Hills High School, the two were calling themselves Tom & Jerry (Art was Tom Graph, Paul was Jerry Landis), and they filled their spare time playing teen dances and parties. In 1955, the two wrote a song together, "The Girl for Me," which Simon registered for copyright with the Library of Congress. In 1957, Tom & Jerry were cutting a demo acetate of Simon's song "Hey Schoolgirl" when the president of a small record company (ironically named Big Records) happened by the studio. The label head liked what he heard, and "Hey Schoolgirl" b/w "Dancin' Wild" was released in the fall of 1957. The record rose to number 52 on the Billboard pop singles charts, and scored Tom & Jerry an appearance on American Bandstand, but while they would cut a number of follow-up releases, "Hey Schoolgirl" was destined to be Tom & Jerry's only hit.
By March 1958, Simon was already looking toward a solo career, cutting a single, "True or False" b/w "Teen Age Fool," under the name True Taylor. Jerry Landis also landed his own record deal, releasing his debut single, "Anna Belle" b/w "Loneliness," in 1959, while Simon also worked with a studio group called the Cosines, who specialized in cutting demos for songwriters. (Another member of the combo was Carole Klein, who would soon enjoy a successful career of her own as Carole King.) By the end of the decade, Paul and Art were both enrolled in college, and Tom & Jerry took a back seat to academics, though Simon would record occasional sessions and wrote songs for others. In 1961, Simon teamed up with a handful of vocalists to form a group called Tico & the Triumphs; the group cut a single, "Motorcycle" b/w "I Don't Believe Them," which barely broke into the Billboard singles charts, making number 99 for one week, but received extensive airplay in Baltimore and became a local hit in the Charm City. "Motorcycle" was released by Amy Records, who soon turned to Simon to write and produce material for several of their artists, including Ritchie Cordell, the Fashions, Dottie Daniels, and Jay Walker & the Pedestrians. Simon also found time to cut another Jerry Landis single, and "The Lone Teen Ranger" spent three weeks on the Billboard charts in early 1963, peaking at number 97.
In the early '60s, the folk revival swept New York City, and a new breed of singers and songwriters introduced a new approach to the craft of creating tunes. Simon, who had been studying English literature, was influenced and encouraged by the new breed of folkies, and in 1963 he re-teamed with Art Garfunkel, this time using their real names and performing the more topical songs Simon was writing. Simon & Garfunkel started playing Greenwich Village folk clubs, and they scored a deal with Columbia Records, releasing their first album, Wednesday Morning, 3 AM, in the fall of 1964. The album was initially a flop, and Simon headed to England, where he made the rounds of folk clubs, recorded some BBC sessions, and even cut a solo album, The Paul Simon Songbook, which was released only in the U.K. Simon also co-wrote a few pop tunes with Bruce Woodley of the Seekers, one of which, "Red Rubber Ball," would become a big hit for the Cyrkle. In late 1965, Tom Wilson, who produced the Wednesday Morning, 3 AM album, learned that one of the songs from the LP, "The Sound of Silence," was getting scattered radio airplay, and he struck upon the idea of dubbing a rock & roll rhythm section over the acoustic track and issuing it as a single. The strategy worked: the new version of "The Sound of Silence" was a big hit, and Simon & Garfunkel quickly re-formed, cutting the album Sounds of Silence, which was released in 1966 and spawned the singles "I Am a Rock" and "Kathy's Song."
Simon & Garfunkel would enjoy impressive success over the next several years, and were one of the few acts from the early-'60s folk revival that would enjoy success with acoustic-based music during the psychedelic era, thanks in large part to Simon's songwriting. But while 1970's Bridge Over Troubled Water was a massive commercial and critical success (and a superb reflection of the end-of-the-decade Zeitgeist of the day), long-simmering creative differences between Simon and Garfunkel came to a head while making the album, and a hiatus from collaborating became a proper breakup when Simon released his self-titled solo album in 1972. Paul Simon featured two hit singles, "Mother and Child Reunion" and "Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard," and found Simon experimenting with reggae and Latin music, as well as polished soft rock.
Released in 1973, There Goes Rhymin' Simon was a more ambitious follow-up, sounding largely optimistic and dipping its toes into gospel and New Orleans jazz as well as R&B-based rock and pop. In 1975, Simon released Still Crazy After All These Years, an album informed by his divorce from his first wife, Peggy Harper. Still Crazy included the song "My Little Town," which reunited Simon with Art Garfunkel for the first time since Bridge Over Troubled Water. Simon's next project proved to have a long gestation period; he wrote a screenplay about a musician struggling to save his marriage and his career, and penned a set of songs to accompany it. Simon also starred in the subsequent film, and while One Trick Pony wasn't his first bit of film acting (he played a small but memorable role in Woody Allen's Annie Hall), he didn't fare well alongside a cast of seasoned professionals when the movie debuted in 1980. One Trick Pony's soundtrack album (his first album for Warner Bros. after a long working relationship with Columbia) spawned the hit single "Late in the Evening," but otherwise proved to be a disappointment in terms of sales.
In September 1981, Simon & Garfunkel played a massive reunion concert in New York's Central Park, which led to a brief reunion tour. The Central Park show was released as a live album that was a major commercial success, and the duo made plans to record a new album. But Simon and Garfunkel found themselves at odds in the studio, and Simon's next album, 1983's Hearts and Bones, featured no contributions from Garfunkel. The album sold poorly, and by Simon's own admission he was running short on inspiration when he heard an album of "township jive" by the South African group the Boyoyo Boys. Fascinated by the eclectic blend of creative elements, Simon began creating an album inspired by South African pop, recorded primarily in Johannesburg with a band of South African musicians. The result was 1986's Graceland, which became an unexpected smash hit, spawning several hit singles, introducing an international audience to South African rhythms, and prompting a renewed dialogue about the nation's repressive apartheid regime. (The album also generated a certain amount of controversy, as some believed the recording sessions violated a United Nations-led cultural boycott against South Africa; also, several members of the group Los Lobos, who appeared on the album, claimed Simon lifted their melody for the tune "All Around the World, or the Myth of Fingerprints" without giving them songwriting credit.) Simon turned to Brazilian music for inspiration on his next album, 1990's The Rhythm of the Saints, which also incorporated a number of the South African players who contributed to Graceland. If not as successful as Graceland, The Rhythm of the Saints still fared quite well with fans and critics, and the two albums reestablished Simon as a vital contemporary artist.
After releasing a live album from the tour in support of The Rhythm of the Saints, Simon retreated to work on another unusual project, a Broadway musical called The Capeman, which was based on the true story of Salvador Agron, a Latino gang member and convicted murderer turned poet and activist. Simon wrote the book for The Capeman in collaboration with Derek Walcott, and composed a set of new songs for the show. However, the production proved difficult and the play, which opened in 1998, received poor reviews and closed after just 68 performances due to slow ticket sales. (A revised version of the show was staged in 2010, and received significantly better notices.) An album of Simon's interpretations of the show's songs was issued, but was only a modest success; the original cast recording received a belated digital release in 2006.
Stung by the disappointing response to The Capeman, Simon returned to the studio in 2000 to record You're the One, an album that suggested a compromise between the African and Latin sounds he'd embraced and the more intimate approach of his early work. Two years later, Simon once again reunited with Art Garfunkel for a concert tour, and a live album, Old Friends: Live on Stage, was released in 2004. Simon returned in 2006 with Surprise, which found him working with an unlikely producer, Brian Eno. Released in 2011, So Beautiful or So What captured Simon returning to a more organic songwriting style than he'd employed since Graceland, though the tenor of the lyrics confirmed he was still keenly aware of the sounds and ideas of the present day. The album was also his first release for Hear Music; the same label released 2012's Live in New York City, taken from a special intimate hometown concert from the tour in support of So Beautiful. Simon returned in the summer of 2016 with Stranger to Stranger, an album co-produced by his longtime collaborator Roy Halee and released on Concord Records.
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Big Papi Magic
Posted by Jon Hanson & Michael McCann on April 15, 2008
Last June, we wrote about Red Sox designated hitter David Ortiz and how attributional biases may have explained his increased acrimony toward umpires. Back then, Ortiz was slightly off his normal torrid pace at the plate. One of the top three or four hitters in baseball had morphed into a player about 95% as good and seemingly (if not actually) as clutch. In other words, still one of the best players in the game, if subjectively seeming a bit less heroic, particularly given his constant bickering with umpires over called balls and strikes.
If only Ortiz could go back in time to June 2007. Though the 2008 season is still in its infancy with only 13 of the Sox's 162 games having been played, Ortiz has the lowest batting average of all Major League Baseball players who have enough plate appearances to qualify for the batting title. Put differently, Ortiz–who was second in all of baseball last season in OBS (on base plus slugging) and who led the American League in home runs in 2006 — has been the worst hitter in baseball this season. Until last night, he was batting .070, which even if you are not a baseball fan, you can probably tell is awful. What makes it especially damaging for Ortiz is that he is a designated hitter and thus does not contribute defensively. He's paid to hit, and he's currently the worst hitter in baseball. Big Papi has lost his pop!
No doubt, Ortiz will rebound at some point, just like he did last season. But he's been dogged with assorted questions about why he is slumping so badly. There is speculation about whether minor surgery on his right knee after last season may be a problem, whether the Sox season-opening trip to Japan may have have affected his performance, whether he's devoted too much of his attention to starring in advertisements, whether his weight and age are beginning to take a toll on his ability to swing the bat, or whether something else is going on. Ortiz has responded by saying the problem is in his head:
This game is very mental. Your mind takes over. I know in my my situation, my mind works more than anything else. Once you get physically prepared your mind takes over and sometimes you're fighting, fighting, fighting (yourself). Sometimes you have to chill out and come back with a fresh mind . . . I'm fine. I don't get frustrated at all. I'm just trying to get back to being Big Papi again.
He has a point. As discussed elsewhere on this blog, baseball players are no less dependent on their minds for their job performance than rocket scientists are on theirs–albeit in different ways. Despite the obvious physical nature of sports and the related demands for elite athletic talent, social psychologists and related mind scientists have found that baseball players, like other athletes, depend almost exclusively on the unconscious brain, and its ability to streamline information, to actually play the game. (For related Situationist posts, see The Situation of a Baseball Pitch, (Young) Minds Over Body, The Batting Situation, and the Unconscious Genius of Baseball Players.)
It is in part because of the unconscious automaticity of their behavior that leaves them vulnerable to the potentially harmful interference of conscious or subconscious intrusions–athletes can end up "fighting, fighting, fighting" themselves. As David Ortiz struggles "to get back to being Big Papi again," some of his fans and foes are left also guessing as to the cause of his aberrational slump.
As noted above, they offer and debate numerous possible causal sources, but there is one that we especially want to highlight (in part because it evinces another common theme on this blog): namely, the surprisingly widespread belief in magic:
Often we don't even register our wacky beliefs. Seeing causality in coincidence can happen even before we have a chance to think about it; the misfiring is sometimes perceptual rather than rational. "Consider what happens when you honk your horn, and just at that moment a streetlight goes out," observes Brian Scholl, director of Yale's Perception and Cognition Laboratory. "You may never for a moment believe that your honk caused the light to go out, but you will irresistibly perceive that causal relation. The fact remains that our visual systems refuse to believe in coincidences." Our overeager eyes, in effect, lay the groundwork for more detailed superstitious ideation. And it turns out that no matter how rational people consider themselves, if they place a high value on hunches they are hard-pressed to hit a baby's photo on a dartboard. On some level they're equating image with reality. Even our aim falls prey to intuition.
(For a sample of previous Situationist posts on magic go to "The Situation of Magical Thinking," "Patriots Lose: Justice Restored!" and "The Magic of Jonathan Papelbon's 'Knuckle Knock,'" "Red Sox Magic," and "Think You've Got Magical Powers?")
So, here we go: David Ortiz's sudden struggles at the dish are analogous to the street light going out.
What is the honking horn? As it happens, the other big Red Sox story this week is about the faith that baseball fans as well as certain baseball-team owners seem to place in the power of a curse. The New York Post had reported that a Red Sox fan, attempted to curse the Yankees' new stadium by burying a Red Sox jersey at the site. Not just any Red Sox jersey, it turns out, but a David Ortiz jersey. (For more details, see the remarkable four-minute video below; for a legal analysis, check out Geoff Rapp's post on Sports Law Blog.)
How do you explain Ortiz's struggles? Honk! Or, as one blogger put it:
The big news on this chilly Sunday in the Fens is that David Ortiz has been given the night off, a chance to clear his head while in the throes of a 1-for-29 slump since April 2. The other big news comes out of New York, where a David Ortiz jersey has been removed from the new Yankee Stadium, after workers jackhammered their way through to remove the offending article. The thought was that the Sox jersey in Yankee foundation would curse the Yanks. But maybe it's been the other way around? Maybe the jersey, ensconsed in Yankee foundation, was cursing Ortiz.
Last night, Ortiz did something very Big Papi-like: he got two hits. No, they were not big hits. Nor were they clutch hits. Still, it was a noticeable improvement, and the Papi mojo seemed, perhaps, to be returning. His batting average even managed to trickle into the three digit range.
What caused the light to go back on? Easy: the Yankees had jackhammered their way through concrete to find and remove the (apparently backfiring) hex: Deadspin's post, "Ortiz Slump Officially Over. Thanks, Yankees!" says it all:
Here's the thing, Yankees fans. You may have thought that you were heading off some sort of curse by digging up that David Ortiz jersey that was buried beneath your new stadium. But consider this: While the jersey remained buried, it's owner was hitting .070; last in the majors. In his first game back since the cloth was extricated, Ortiz went 2-for-5, raising his average 34 points, as the Red Sox beat the Indians 6-4. Hank Steinbrenner : "Re-dig the hole! Turn those machines back on!"
We're hoping the Ortiz light shines brightly this week as the Sox head to Yankee stadium for two games later this week. If not, we urge Red Sox Nation to crank up the voodoo.
6 Responses to "Big Papi Magic"
April 15, 2008 at 3:11 pm
So true. In the late 70s (I think that's when it was), I plugged in my iron and the big blackout struck NYC. As I saw all the lights go out, in my apartment and out in the city as viewed the scene from my window, I gasped and thought, "what have I done?!"
April 16, 2008 at 11:56 am
I love how Professors Hanson and McCann combine their love of situationalism and sports. No doubt some of Ortiz' struggle is mental, but we're also talking about a 32 year old baseball player who spent all last year struggling with knee and shoulder problems. And pre-steriods era, 32 is about the age that player started declining. I too hope Ortiz bounces back and hits 40+ homers, but some of this decline has to be physical, no? After hitting an average of 47 homers in the three previous seasons, Ortiz only got 35 last year. Doesn't it make sense that players peak around 29 and start declining a bit?
April 23, 2008 at 11:17 am
Great article. This is something I've always been interested in, as we athletes seek out seemingly illusory correlations to explain almost any occurrence, good or bad. I recently wrote a sarcastic piece about it for the Sporting News, explaining my first win in AA this year: http://www.sportingnews.com/yourturn/viewtopic.php?t=398308
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SAN RAFAEL, Calif. (AP) — Robin Williams committed suicide by hanging himself with a belt at his San Francisco Bay Area home, sheriff's officials said Tuesday.
Marin County Sheriff's Lt. Keith Boyd said Williams' personal assistant found the actor Monday in a bedroom at his Tiburon home. The actor also had superficial cuts on his wrist, and a pocketknife was found nearby.
Boyd said Williams, star of "Good Will Hunting," ''Mrs. Doubtfire," ''Good Morning, Vietnam" and dozens of other films, was seeking treatment for depression. He would not say whether the actor and comedian left a suicide note.
The 63-year-old comedian's wife had last seen him the night before and had left the home that morning thinking he was still asleep. His personal assistant later came to the home and became concerned when he knocked on the door and got no response.
Toxicology test results on whether Williams had any drugs or alcohol in his system are weeks away. Boyd said authorities will continue to investigate his death.
The actor had periodic bouts of substance abuse and depression for years. Just last month, Williams announced he was returning to a 12-step treatment program.
Williams made reference to his substance abuse and depression in his comedy routines, including when he sought treatment in 2006 after a relapse that followed 20 years of sobriety.
Williams joked about that fall off the wagon during a comedy tour, saying: "I went to rehab in wine country to keep my options open."
Likewise, when word spread about his struggles with drugs in the early 1980s, Williams responded with a joke that for a time became a catchphrase for his generation's recreational drug use: "Cocaine is God's way of telling you you are making too much money."
Word that he had killed himself left neighbors in Tiburon equally stunned and grief-stricken. Williams had lived in the quiet, waterfront neighborhood for eight years, according to neighbors.
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This weekend we celebrated C's first birthday. I ordered cupcakes from a wonderful, local, all- organic bakery that makes a to-die-for flavor called "Bee-titude." It's a lavender cupcake with honey-lemon butter cream frosting, and it was the inspiration for C's party theme: honey bee. The party colors were yellow and lavender, and it turns out that this was a really fun theme to put together.
I also made a few discoveries for decorating this party that eased the green-guilt that sometimes comes along with me decorating. I found spools of colored tulle at the craft store that I can easily roll up and reuse for another occasion instead of the crêpe paper streamers I usually use. And I bought two yards of inexpensive broadcloth for the table-cloth that would match the party theme.
I used various glass plates and jars to decorate and filled a vase with lavender and chamomile flowers.
I have a gorgeous bee skep-shaped drink dispenser that my mom bought me for Christmas last year and I filled it with honey-lavender lemonade. I was surprised that the lavender flowers turned the lemonade pink!
And I used my canning jars as glasses. Pints for the adults with ribbons and tags to write names on, and half-pints with lids for the kids. And here was my eureka moment. Ball jelly jars are durable and their lids don't leak. And I used a HOLE-PUNCH to make them into drink lids.
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I used double-sided tape to stick the paper to the top of the lid.
Then I used a regular old hole-punch to punch holes in the tops of the lids. This was surprisingly easy. I did it with one hand and minimal effort. The punch still worked great on about twenty paper tags after punching six lids.
I used a cheapy plastic straws with about an inch cut off the end to make the kids' tumblers complete.
Not a single jar got broken between six, three- to seven-year-olds. They even took them outside. I wrote each kiddo's name on the top of their jar, so there were no mix-ups. It was really easy and completely free, since I had all these supplies lying around the house. Henry even helped cut out the circles.
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Urbana: Review of a True Transport Bike
threadless stem allows to easily alter the positioning of the handlebars - leaning them toward or away from the rider, depending on preferences and the person's height. I had my bars set pretty much straight and found them comfortable.
Notably, the Urbana is not equipped with a lighting system, which I see as its one major flaw. A dynamo lighting option would make it a fully equipped urban utility bike.
here. I did not feel the weight shifting around or slowing me down while I was cycling. My Gazelle is pretty good at carrying loads as well, but not this good.
here. All this was in no way part of my agreement with Urbana, but entirely a product of how convenient the darn bike was to use. In the end, we end up using what's most convenient - simple as that.
this, I would have been in heaven! Aside from the fun ride, this is probably the most stable bike I have tried thus far, all things considered. The responsiveness is decent, but obviously not roadish. Maybe half way between a mountain bike and Dutch bike. Acceleration is surprisingly good, and going uphill was similar to my Gazelle (i.e. good enough for my terrain). If you have ever tried a Retrovelo, its ride quality comes the closest to the Urbana than anything else I've tried - save for the posture and hand positioning.
Somervillain on the Urbana, riding no hands.
Overall, I do prefer the ride quality of traditional, upright loop-frame bicycles to the Urbana, simply because of the more comfortable hand positioning and the upright posture. Over long distances, I begin to find the MTB posture tiring - whereas on my traditional upright bicycles I can keep going for 30 miles. However, the utility and convenience of the Urbana made me prefer it for short-distance trips - especially when carrying anything of significance on the bike. Had the bike been equipped with lighting, its utility would have been truly remarkable, but the lack of lights made it only usable during daylight hours.
The US retail price of the Urbana will be around $1,000-1,370 - depending on how it is equipped. I suspect that the market will find that price range too expensive for this particular bike, but I could be wrong. Would I buy it for myself? Possibly - especially as a winter bike and dedicated "cargo chariot" that I would share with the Co-Habitant. I would get it in black, and I would want them to knock several hundred off the price. That is my honest feedback.
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Messianic Jews hope for punishment from courts, mercy from God, for confessed killer.
ISTANBUL, November 13 (CDN) — One morning during the week of March 10, 2008 in Ariel, Israel, David Ortiz opened his Bible randomly, read the words on the pages that opened before him and was filled with dread.
"I opened the book to Jeremiah, and a verse jumped out, "Ortiz said, referring to Jeremiah 9:21: "Death has climbed in through our windows and has entered our fortresses; it has cut off the children from the streets and the young men from the public squares."
"I was afraid," he said. "It was given to me like a promise, but of a different kind."
For weeks, Ortiz had felt a premonition that something horrible was going to happen to him or his family. Six months prior, while in Norway, Ortiz watched a violent storm rip over the countryside. The wind tore out trees and threw them across a field. But still, through it all, some trees survived. Ortiz felt God was using the storm to speak to him.
"The ones that are rooted are the ones that remain," he said.
On March 20, 2008, Ortiz's fears came to pass. When his 15-year-old son lifted the lid of a Purim basket, left anonymously as a gift at their Ariel apartment, a bomb inside the basket exploded.
The bomb was devastating. It damaged the Ortiz family apartment and destroyed much of what they owned. When young Ami Ortiz was taken to the hospital, he was blind, covered with blood and burns and full of needles and screws contained in the bomb. The doctors told his mother, Leah Ortiz, that Ami was "Anush."
"Literally, in Hebrew it means the spirit is leaving the body," she said.
Now, 20 months later, Ami is 16, back in school and playing basketball. And yesterday the man that police say committed the crime was indicted for attempted murder.
Other than what has been released in court proceedings, little is known about Jack Teitel, the man accused of bombing the Ortiz family. One thing is certain – he believes he was acting in accordance with the will of God. Walking into court, the 37-year-old, U.S.-born West Bank settler shouted that God was proud of him.
"It was a pleasure and honor to serve my God," Teitel reportedly said. "God is proud of what I have done. I have no regrets."
Police said that Teitel is an ultra-Orthodox Jewish nationalist who picked out his targets based on his nationalist philosophy. Along with the Ortiz case, police said Teitel is responsible for the June 1997 shooting death of Samir Bablisi, a Palestinian taxi driver who was found in his cab with a single bullet wound to his head. Two months later, police said, Teitel shot Isa Jabarin, a Palestinian shepherd who was giving Teitel driving directions to Jerusalem.
Police also said that Teitel attempted to burn down a monastery and unsuccessfully planted several bombs. He is also accused of the September 2008 bombing of Zeev Sternhell of Hebrew University in Jerusalem. The bombing left the emeritus history professor slightly wounded.
Teitel has told police he was trying to kill David Ortiz, pastor of a church of Messianic Jews called Congregation of Ariel, not injure his son.
In all, Teitel has been indicted for two cases of pre-meditated murder, three cases of attempted murder, carrying a weapon, manufacturing a weapon, possession of illegal weapons and incitement to commit violence.
Adi Keidar, Teitel's attorney, reportedly said his client is "mentally unstable." He cited Teitel's alleged confession to acts he did not commit. After a psychiatric evaluation by the state, Teitel was deemed fit to stand trial. Keidar is representing Teitel or behalf of the Honenu organization, a nationalistic law firm endorsed by Mordechai Eliyahu, a rabbi known for his far-right Orthodox views.
Honenu is known for defending, among others, Ami Popper. Popper was convicted in 1990 for shooting seven Palestinian workers who were waiting for a ride at a day labor pick-up site. Popper's attack, like all others cited in Honenu's website, was said to come "in response" to Palestinian aggression. Despite numerous attempts to contact Keidar, he could not be reached for comment.
David Ortiz said he is not surprised by Teitel's claim that God is proud of him. Ortiz cited biblical verses where the early Christians were warned that one day people would kill them and think that they were doing the will of God. Teitel, Ortiz said, saw him as an enemy of the nation of Israel.
"He saw me and the professor as false prophets," Ortiz said.
Police have brought no evidence linking Teitel to any other co-conspirator. But Leah Ortiz said she thinks Teitel worked with others. Teitel's neighbor, Yosef Espinoza, was brought in for questioning and later released. Teitel does not speak Hebrew, but when he was arrested he was distributing handouts written in Hebrew criticizing homosexuals in Israel.
When his apartment was raided, police found a cache of illegal weapons he has been indicted for owning. Ortiz also said that a recording tape from a closed-circuit television camera taken on the day of the bombing shows Teitel was driven to the Ortiz apartment by another person.
Regardless, Leah Ortiz scoffs at the claim that Teitel was politically motivated. Instead, she said, he used politics and religion as a foil to justify murder.
"He is a serial killer," she said.
In spite of all the pain that the Ortiz family has gone through, Leah Ortiz said she has seen much good come from the tragedy, including miraculous healings. She said that the bombing has helped soften the opinion of people in Israel toward Jews who believe that Jesus is the Messiah promised by the Jewish prophets.
"It has made them face the facts of how they see Jesus," she said.
Howard Bass, a leader of a Messianic congregation in Beer Sheva, Israel, said he isn't so sure.
"It's not that simple," he said, adding that such attacks may help tolerant people to eschew violence, but that others will actually be encouraged by the bombings. "It makes people aware of how far they [people set against the Messianic Jews] will be willing to go and abhor them. It's bringing things to light and forcing people to make a decision: What is good and what is evil?"
Hostile Environment
Bass himself was a victim of at least one attack by anti-missionary, Orthodox extremists. On Dec. 24, 2005, several hundred Orthodox Jews mobbed an outdoor service held by Bass. The mob destroyed church equipment, terrorized congregants and threw Bass into a baptismal pool.
Bass has since sued Yad L'Achim, an Orthodox, anti-missionary organization he said is responsible for inciting the attack. A court decision in the case is due later this month.
On its website, Yad L'Achim asserts that missionaries are "devious" and are trying to "destroy the Jewish people." The organization makes no distinction in its website between missionaries and Messianic Jews. The site also goes as far as to accuse Messianic Jews of "playing the victim to the hilt" in reference to the Ortiz bombing.
Despite numerous attempts to reach members of Yad L'Achim, no one was made available for comment.
According to the International Religious Freedom Report 2009 issued by the U.S. Department of State, there are 10,000 Messianic Jews in Israel. The report documents several cases of violence against Messianic Jews, including one case on May 15 in which "Ultra-Orthodox residents of the Tel Aviv suburb of Rehovot attacked and beat a group of Messianic Jews who were handing out New Testament pamphlets on the street."
Additionally, Bass cites a book published this week in Israel entitled, "The King's Torah." Bass said the book encourages the killing of gentiles and anyone else deemed to be a threat to Israel.
"We're seeing a spirit rising," Bass said, "where they feel they have a legitimate right to kill anyone who threatens the Jewish state."
Mentioning the book, David Ortiz agreed with Bass, calling the bombing and recent anti-Christian aggression "a shadow of things to come."
As for what the Ortiz family wishes for Teitel, Leah Ortiz said she hopes he will receive a sentence that is "equal to his crime." Because Israel has no death penalty, this very likely would mean life in prison.
Regardless of what happens in court, members of the Ortiz family say they have forgiven Teitel. David Ortiz hopes one day to sit down face-to-face with Teitel and talk. He said he hopes Teitel will become another Apostle Paul.
"There is something inside him that makes him want to kill people. If God has had mercy on me, maybe he'll have mercy on others," Ortiz said. "The Lord forgave David and many people in the Bible – my goal and my prayer for him is that he will repent and be saved."
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Democratic candidates for governor debate immigration issues
BOSTON - Five Democratic and independent candidates running for governor all said Wednesday night they support a way to allow undocumented immigrants in the state to obtain driver's licenses.
Attorney General Martha Coakley, the Democratic frontrunner in recent polls, said she has slowly shifted away from her opposition to the proposal.
"In the past, I have been opposed to that," she said. "But people who have to get to work or have medical emergencies, we clearly have to find a way to do that."
From English-language classes to racial profiling and the implications of the Secure Communities program, a forum Wednesday night at Bunker Hill Community College got six gubernatorial candidates to stake out their turf on issues affecting immigrants across Massachusetts, who now number more than 1 million people and 15 percent of the state's population.
Republican frontrunner Charlie Baker did not participate in the forum, citing scheduling conflicts.
It was hard to discern sharp differences on immigration policies among the Democrats and independents, all of whom mostly agreed on the need for more seats in English classes and embraced plans for more economic opportunities for new immigrants.
Some grist in the discussion came from Baker's challenger, tea party Republican Mark Fisher of Shrewsbury, who was the sole voice against driver's licenses for undocumented immigrants.
"It's a touchy and emotional subject," said Fisher, who talked about a woman whose son was killed in a car accident.
"It was an illegal immigrant at the wheel," he said. "If he was prevented from coming here illegally, this poor woman's son would still be alive."
Other candidates used the exact opposite logic, saying that concern for public safety alone should convince voters to back driver's licenses for undocumented immigrants.
"Every immigrant should have a right to a driver's license," said state Treasurer Steven Grossman, a Democrat trailing Coakley by 27 percentage points in recent polls.
"This is a fundamental issue of decency, and it's a public-safety issue. We have people who have go to work, and they drive. They need to go to the supermarket and shop and take their kids to a doctor's appointment," he said.
Grossman, one of the more outspoken candidates on immigration, also said he backed in-state tuition at state colleges and universities for all immigrants.
Don Berwick, a Newton pediatrician and the former administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, pointed to the economic power of immigrants.
"Immigrants are a mainstay of our economy. Sixty percent of new businesses are started by first-generation immigrants," said Berwick, running as a Democrat in the Sept. 9 primary.
In the last month, polls testing the waters of a potential final match-up showed Coakley pulling ahead of Baker 42 percent to 31 percent. Less than four weeks ago, Baker was in a near-tie with Coakley, polling at 36 percent compared to her 39 percent.
Polls have shown that voters' support for independent candidates Evan Falchuk of Auburndale and Jeff McCormick of Boston remains in the single digits.
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The Radio Disney Music Awards were held Saturday, April 26th – but taped for broadcast Sunday, April 27th at 8 PM ET/PT on the Disney Channel! Don't read if you want to wait to see who wins… Spoiler Alert!
Selena Gomez, One Direction, Fifth Harmony, Taylor Swift and Zendaya were among the winners tonight at the Radio Disney Music Awards (RDMAs) held at the Nokia Theatre L.A. LIVE and included performances by Austin Mahone, Becky G, Zendaya, R5, Fifth Harmony and Ariana Grande, with the debut performance of new single "Problem" from her forthcoming second studio album.
Radio Disney Music Awards Video Highlights
Watch this clip to see 11-year-old singer, Aaliyah Rose was picked to sing "Let It Go" from Disney's Frozen soundtrack at the Radio Disney Music Award! Also in this clip the Disney Channel team opened the show and Ariana Grande performed "Problem", R5 performed "(I Can't) Forget About You", Fifth Harmony performed "Miss Movin' On" and received an award, Zendaya performed "Replay," Becky G performed "Shower" received an award and Austin Mahone performed "Mmm Yeah" the cast of Girl Meets World is trying to read the teleprompter and in the end of this clip, Shakira.
Watch the "Disney Channel Presents The Radio Disney Music Awards," TV special tomorrow, SUNDAY, APRIL 27 (8:00 p.m., ET/PT) on Disney Channel.
The WATCH Disney Channel app will feature an exclusive digital special, "ARDY's Pre-Show Party," highlighting Pre-Show Festival performances and special moments from the red carpet. Get it Sunday, April 27 at 9:00 a.m. ET. Verified WATCH Disney Channel viewers can also watch a live simulcast of the TV special using their desktop or mobile device, and will be able to access the show on demand immediately after it airs at 9:30 p.m., ET.
"ARDY's Pre-Show Party" and the television special will be available on Disney Channel On Demand on Friday, May 2 and on Disney.com and RadioDisney.com on Monday, May 5.
Fashion Report – What's Hot on the Red Carpet this Year?
Interviews from the Red Carpet!
See Olivia Holt, I Didn't Do It, Laura Marano, Austin & Ally, Spencer Boldman, Lab Rats, Dove Cameron, Liv & Maddie, Kelly Osbourne, The 7D, Cody Simpson, Dancing with the Stars, Lucy Hale, Pretty Little Liars, Zendaya, Zapped, Shakira, Heroes for a Change Winner in this video.
Complete Winners List for the 2014 Radio Disney Music Awards
They're The One – Best Music Group: One Direction
He's The One – Best Male Artist: Justin Timberlake
She's The One – Best Female Artist: Demi Lovato
The Bestest – Song Of The Year: Come & Get It – Selena Gomez
XOXO – Best Crush Song: Still Into You – Paramore
So FANtastic – Fiercest Fans: Swifties – Taylor Swift
The Buzz – Breakout Artist of the Year: Fifth Harmony
The Freshest – Best New Artist*: Becky G
Musical Mashup – Best Musical Collaboration*: Everything Has Changed – Taylor Swift feat. Ed Sheeran
So Happy – Best Song That Makes You Smile (Sponsored by ARM & HAMMER Tooth Tunes)*: Ooh La La – Britney Spears
#Cool – Radio Disney's Most Talked About Artist*: Selena Gomez
Stuck In Our Heads – Catchiest New Song*: The Fox (What Does The Fox Say?) – Ylvis
That's My Jam – Best Song To Rock Out To With Your BFF*: Me & My Girls – Fifth Harmony
Soundtraxx – Favorite Song From a Movie Or TV Show*: Let It Go – Idina Menzel ("Frozen")
Move! – Best Song To Dance To*: Birthday – Selena Gomez
Hit The Road – Favorite Roadtrip Song (Sponsored by GEICO)*: Made In The USA – Demi Lovato
You've Got Swag! – Artist With The Best Style (Sponsored by Justice)*: Zendaya
*Online-only category
Special Honors
Ariana Grande received the Radio Disney Chart Topper Award which reflects her staying power on the Radio Disney charts (three top five singles for a combined 73 weeks). R5 received the Radio Disney Showstopper Award in recognition of their dedication to fan engagement and their U.S. and international touring and live event appearances across the country.In addition to the music awards, the RDMAs honored Shakira with the Hero Award for her work through her Barefoot Foundation, which improves the lives of children through education.
Shakira also helped present the Heroes for Change Award, which recognized three exemplary kids for making a difference in their communities. They are: Matthew Kaplan, 16, from Phoenix, Arizona, nominated by Youth Services America (YSA) for his "The Be O.N.E. Project," an anti-bullying program targeting elementary and middle school-aged children; Arianna Lopez, 17, from Carpinteria, California, nominated by Girls Inc. for "Carpinteria Clean and Green," an anti-smoking initiative she began to make her hometown tobacco-free; and Yossy Rojas, 19, from Dana Point, California, nominated by the Boys and Girls Clubs of America for his involvement with "Relay For Life," "Street Smarts" and "Sticker Shock," and efforts to increase drug and alcohol education.
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Typhoon survivors in Philippines struggle for aid; 10,000 feared dead
TACLOBAN, Philippines — Rescuers faced blocked roads and damaged airports on Monday as they raced to deliver desperately needed tents, food and medicines to the typhoon-devastated eastern Philippines where thousands are believed dead.
Three days after the Typhoon Haiyan ravaged the region, the full scale of the disaster — the biggest faced by the Philippines — was only now becoming apparent. International aid groups and the U.S military were mobilizing a major international relief mission for a large swath of the country's already poor eastern seaboard.
The winds and the sea waves whipped up were so strong that they washed hulking ships inland, which now stood incongruously amid debris of buildings, trees, road signs and people's belongings.
Authorities estimated that up to 10,000 people may have died. But the government has been unable to give official death toll yet. Still, officials said after surveying the areas there is little doubt that the death toll will be that high, or even higher.
"In some cases the devastation has been total," said Secretary to the Cabinet Rene Almendras.
In Manila's Vilamor air force base, a contingent of U.S. Marines was preparing to fly in relief supplies in two C-130 transport planes to Tacloban, a city in Leyte province that was badly hit by the storm. From the air, the city resembled a garbage dump punctuated by a few concrete buildings that remained standing. Corpses hung from trees and were scattered on sidewalks. Many were buried in flattened buildings.
Survivors wandered through the remains of their flattened wooden homes looking to salvage belongings or to search for loved ones.
Very little assistance had reached the city, residents reported. Some took food, water and consumer goods from abandoned shops, malls and homes.
"This area has been totally ravaged," said Sebastien Sujobert, head of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Tacloban. "Many lives were lost, a huge number of people are missing, and basic services such as drinking water and electricity have been cut off," he said.
Haiyan hit the eastern seaboard of the Philippines on Friday and quickly barreled across its central islands, packing winds of 235 kph (147 mph) that gusted to 275 kph (170 mph), and a storm surge of 6 meters (20 feet).
Even though authorities had evacuated some 800,000 people ahead of the typhoon, the death toll was so high because many evacuation centers — brick-and-mortar schools, churches and government buildings — could not withstand the winds and water surges. Officials said people who had huddled in these buildings drowned or were swept away.
It inflicted serious damage to at least six islands in the middle of the eastern seaboard, with Leyte, Samar and the northern part of Cebu appearing to bear the brunt of the storm. About 4 million people were affected by the storm, the national disaster agency said.
Video from Eastern Samar province's Guiuan township — the first area where the typhoon made landfall — also showed a trail of devastation similar to Tacloban. Many houses were flattened and roads were strewn with debris and uprooted trees. The ABS-CBN video showed several bodies on the street, covered with blankets.
"I have no house, I have no clothes. I don't know how I will restart my life, I am so confused," an unidentified woman said, crying. "I don't know what happened to us. We are appealing for help. Whoever has a good heart, I appeal to you — please help Guiuan."
The United Nations said it was sending supplies but access to the worst hit areas was a challenge.
"Reaching the worst affected areas is very difficult, with limited access due to the damage caused by the typhoon to infrastructure and communications," said UNICEF Philippines Representative Tomoo Hozumi.
The storm's sustained winds weakened to 120 kph (74 mph) as the typhoon made landfall in northern Vietnam early Monday after crossing the South China Sea, according to the Hong Kong meteorological observatory. Authorities there evacuated hundreds of thousands of people, but there were no reports of significant damage or injuries.
It was downgraded to a tropical storm as it entered southern China later Monday, but weather officials forecast torrential rain over the coming 24 hours across southern China. Guangxi officials advised fishermen to stay onshore.
Reports were trickling in, indicating deaths elsewhere besides Leyte Island.
On Samar Island, Leo Dacaynos of the provincial disaster office said 300 people were confirmed dead in one town and another 2,000 were missing, with some towns yet to be reached by rescuers. He pleaded for food and water, adding that power was out and there was no cellphone signal, making communication possible only by radio.
Reports from other affected islands indicated dozens, perhaps hundreds more deaths.
With communications still knocked out in many areas, it was unclear how authorities were arriving at their estimates of the number of people killed, and it will be days before the full extent of the storm is known.
With no aid reaching, people were seeing helping themselves to food and supplies from unattended shops and stores.
President Benigno Aquino III said he was considering declaring a state of emergency or martial law in Tacloban. A state of emergency usually includes curfews, price and food supply controls, military or police checkpoints and increased security patrols.
Challenged to respond to a disaster of such magnitude, the Philippine government also accepted help from abroad.
U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel directed the Pacific Command to deploy ships and aircraft to support search-and-rescue operations and fly in emergency supplies.


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Author: Cethru Cellophane
I have reached the regrettable realization that I may have squandered my life. I did a quick count recently and figured that I have visited about 66 countries, and lived for more than 3 years in 3 of them. During this time I completed 14 corporate moves (relocations) and have changed my address more than 23 times. I should have settled on a profession that would have kept me in one place with no packing and unpacking. When I think of the time I have spent bundling my life into and out of boxes. Ah well, it's all water under the bridge. But I am grateful for the experience. At the end of the day I will be able to say with a certain authority, "been there, done that". A note about this site's Header Image The Header image for this site is of the Smith Avenue High Bridge. The bridge was built in 1889 and carries Minnesota State Highway 149 across its span of 2770 feet, 160 feet above the mighty Mississippi River. The picture was taken from the river looking to the north-east and downtown Saint Paul. The bridge is about 1040 miles from New Orleans. One of the reasons I like this view is that I come from a city which has a spectacular bridge. It's the Clifton Suspension Bridge http://www.ikbrunel.org.uk/clifton-suspension-bridge which spans the Avon Gorge and the River Avon in Bristol, U.K. It's about 1350 feet long and stands 245 feet above the river below. Sadly it has claimed the lives of more than 400 people who have committed suicide by jumping from the bridge. As a side note, not all attempts were successful. two small girls thrown off the bridge by their deranged father survived the fall when they were fished from the river by the crew of a passing pilot boat. The bridge was opened in 1864 and was designed by the 24 year old architect, Isambard Kingdom brunel. It took 35 years to complete.


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Gauthier: TV advertisers not getting the message
Sometimes, it feels like a coordinated attack, missiles lobbed one after another from the television screen to the eye, the gut, the brain. The only option is retreat, and that's what I do, retreat to the kitchen and wash a few dishes; to the bathroom to load the washing machine or empty the dryer; to the garden to pick a few tomatoes. I check e-mail. I pay bills. I do whatever needs doing.
It's amazing, really, how much a person can get done during commercial breaks.
I thought about that one night during last season's "American Idol.'' Was it my imagination, or was more time spent on commercial breaks than on the actual show? Turns out it's not quite that bad, but close.
By my very unscientific calculations, viewers get about eight minutes of show for every six minutes of commercial. It's not just during "American Idol,'' it's not just a specific station, and it's not just a specific time of day.
We're inundated with television "messages'' that tell us what we should look like, where we should shop, and what we should buy. As the average commercial is just 30 seconds long, we're conceivably exposed to, in just six minutes, as many as 12 different products.
In six minutes, we're told about medication for restless legs and its side effect, which is the urge to gamble or have sex; Betty White sells prescriptions for our animals from a mail-order company; Ford unveils the newest Ford-tough truck; Honda touts its hybrid sedan; Toyota pulls an 18-wheeler from the brink of disaster; Sara Lee tempts us with something we know will be delicious; a former athlete suggests trading junk food for a nutritional food weight-loss system that comes with a guarantee; Clorox makes stains disappear with a swipe and a rub, or is that a carpet cleaner?
Sometimes I find the transition from one commercial to another to be so quick I think they're talking about one product when they're talking about another. The constant stream of words, music and images feels like cruel and unusual punishment, perhaps seen by television stations as the price viewers must pay for the privilege of being entertained.
Take away my television and I'd be mighty upset, I admit that. But they've gone too far, I've rebelled, I'm not the only one, and advertisers are noticing. They spend billions of dollars every year to advertise products on television, and fewer people are listening. They want to know what they can do to catch our attention.
I don't blame them for being concerned. I would be too, if I were spending as much as $2.6 million for 30 seconds of someone's time. Can you believe that that? One 30-second commercial spot during last year's Super Bowl cost $2.6 million. Thirty seconds on "American Idol'' costs advertisers $745,000.
They're spending all that money, and we're not paying attention.
A survey by the Association of National Advertisers (ANA) and Forrester Research Inc. indicates that 78 percent of marketers feel traditional television advertising has become less effective.
To blame, according to the survey, are the growing number of homes with video-on-demand and DVRs with the digital capacity to pass over commercials. Television networks claim those to be minor annoyances, but advertisers say they'll be spending more of the advertising budget in the coming years in other areas, such as on the Net.
Advertisers can do what they want. It's their money and they've shown no qualms about spending it. Come on - $2.6 million for 30 seconds during Super Bowl! I drink beer, but 30 seconds of foolishness won't compel me to drink more.
I have a suggestion for advertisers that might work, though.
Pay a little more, and insist on shorter commercial breaks. Keep me glued to the screen with the fear I'll miss the next "American Idol'' faux pas, that crucial autopsy finding on "CSI'' or the one line in the movie that explains the entire plot.
Give me a choice. Do I want to do my dishes, or do I want to watch the program? Right now, you make it easy for viewers to walk away.
Get the message?
Deb Gauthier of The MetroWest (Mass.) Daily News can be reached by e-mail at email@example.com.


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When love seasons the pasta sauce
The Wedding Officer. By Anthony Capella. Bantam, 423 pp., $22.
By Janice Harayda
The Wedding Officer gives unexpected life to a theme that English novelists have developed so often it borders on a cliche — that of the repressed Brit who has a sensual awakening in Italy. This love story isn't on par with E. M. Forster's A Room With a View and Elizabeth von Arnim's The Enchanted April. But it is popular fiction of a high order, or easy but intelligent reading that is far above novels such as Newt Gingrich's Pearl Harbor.
Captain James Gould arrives in Naples in 1944 with the thankless assignment of discouraging marriages between British soldiers and their distracting Italian girlfriends. His emotions collide with his duties when Livia Pertini becomes the cook for the Allied officers and prepares sumptuous pasta dishes followed by deserts such as baked pears with honey and rosemary. As James's passions awaken, Mount Vesuvius emits ominous plumes of smoke, the bloodbath at Anzio approaches, and Naples resembles an open-air brothel overrun by prostitutes who sleep with soldiers to pay for their syphilis treatments.
As he tells this briskly paced story, Anthony Capella deftly balances history, gastronomy and the dilemma of a young intelligence officer at odds with more than the Axis powers and the local gangsters. And that mix helps to make The Wedding Officer the rare popular love story that may appeal equally to men and women. Anybody who doubts it needs only to read the first line of this novel and see if she — or he — can resist reading more: "The day Livia Pertini fell in love for the first time was the day the beauty contest was won by her favorite cow, Pupetta."
Best and worst lines: This post will be updated, possibly by the end of the day, with these lines and more information on Capella's work. I'm still in computer purgatory.
Published: May 2007 www.theweddingofficer.com and www.bantamdell.com
Furthermore: For information on the movie versions of The Enchanted April and A Room With a View, go to the Internet Movie Database www.imdb.com and search for their titles. Von Arnim was born in Australia and moved to England at a young age.
(c) 2007 Janice Harayda. All rights reserved.


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Often I disagree with the reviews in the Horn Book, the country's leading journal of children's literature, which at times seem to favor books suited for schools and libraries at the expense of those that are pure fun. You probably aren't going to find the magazine giving much play to Bob Phillips's Awesome Good Clean Jokes for Kids (Harvest House, 207 pp., $3.99, paperback), which you can buy off the rack at CVS and might delight any 5-to-8-year-old on your holiday list.
But the Horn Book brings a seriousness of purpose to reviewing that's all the more valuable now that so many book-review sections have died. And its editors have a leg up on most children's book reviewers – to say nothing of bloggers — at gift-giving time: They see pretty much everything that gets published.
So if you're looking for good books about sports for ages 5 to 13 or so, you could do worse than to look at its list of recommended fiction, nonfiction and poetry for grades kindergarten though 8 (and maybe higher)
www.hbook.com/resources/books/sports.asp. The Horn Book editors also suggest books about sports for preschoolers. I'll post my gift suggestions for sports and other books in a few weeks.
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Editorial: No more Mr. Nice Guy?
"Together, we resolved that a great nation must care for the vulnerable, and protect its people from life's worst hazards and misfortune ... But we have always understood that when times changes, so must we; that fidelity to our founding principles requires new response to new challenges; that preserving our individual freedoms ultimately requires collective action ... Progress does not compel us to settle centuries-long debates about the role of government for all time, but it does require us to act in our time."
If there were money lines in President Obama's second inaugural address, those above qualify. Monday's refreshingly short effort at the Capitol nonetheless had multiple throw-down-the-gauntlet moments. Obama has four more years; he has an agenda; he's going to give what he perceives as a living, breathing Constitution a workout; and he's not going to be patient. In some ways it was reminiscent of George W. Bush's 2004 pronouncement that "I earned capital in this campaign, political capital, and I intend to spend it," with the more strident, political tone of a State of the Union address or a stump speech — indeed, he even took a swipe at Mitt Romney — than the traditional, heal-the-wounds flavor of an inaugural.
He certainly delineated his priorities. Don't expect much in the way of immediate entitlement or spending reforms. "We, the people, still believe that every citizen deserves a basic measure of security and dignity. We must make the hard choices to reduce the cost of health care and the size of our deficit. But we reject the belief that America must choose between caring for the generation that built this country and investing in the generation that will build its future." When it comes to policy shifts, he'll aggressively go to bat for those who are struggling: "We, the people, understand that our country cannot succeed when a shrinking few do very well and a growing many barely make it. We believe that America's prosperity must rest upon the broad shoulders of a rising middle class."
He'll try to steer clear of foreign conflicts, because "enduring security and lasting peace do not require perpetual war." Second Amendment purists may not much cotton to the idea of trying "to bridge the meaning" of the Founders' words "with the realities of our time." His energy policy will reflect the need "to respond to the threat of climate change," as evidenced not only by "the overwhelming judgment of science" but the "devastating impact of raging fires and crippling drought and more powerful storms." He will advocate for women to "earn a living equal to their efforts," for gays to be "treated like anyone else under the law," for immigrants to "see America as a land of opportunity" again. One trusts no Democratic constituencies were missed.
In short, expect this second-term president to try to change or eliminate "outworn programs ... inadequate to the needs of our time," and to "remake our government, revamp our tax code, reform our schools, and empower our citizens with the skills they need to work harder, learn more, reach higher." Ambitious.
Reaction to the speech has been largely predictable, dependent largely on the lens through which one views the world in the first place. Some will view it as a reaffirmation of the social contract between Uncle Sam and his citizens, others as confirmation that this administration now intends to finish the job of turning America into a socialist, redistributionist state. Where some will find what Obama had to say threatening, others who heard the same words will walk away reassured. Conservatives were quick to seize on his "collective action" comment, tending to view it as proof of what they suspected all along, with this merely the formal, coming-out speech of an unapologetic liberal, a president who believes in the ability of government to fix problems and right wrongs as no officeholder has since FDR.
There was more than a hint of defiance here, from a president who seems to no longer believe in bipartisanship, perhaps with ample reason. "We cannot mistake absolutism for principle, or substitute spectacle for politics, or treat name-calling as reasoned debate." No more Mr. Nice Guy? Maybe.
There are risks. A president who plans on moving full steam ahead, with or without Republicans, just doesn't have that luxury. Republicans still own the House. As a practical matter, even if you're on the right side of an issue, insulting someone and then asking him to do you a favor tends not to produce the most positive result. The president acts as if he's been liberated, but in our brand of politics no one is truly free and unfettered, as Bush learned. He should be careful not to turn into that which he so derisively accuses others of being. No leader can give his constituents everything they want; sometimes he must deliver bitter medicine, too, for their own long-term good.
But jarring potholes exist ahead for Republicans, as well, especially those who insist on refusing to recognize that the nation has changed — demographically, culturally — and is continuing to without needing their permission to do so. They reelected this president, support many of his initiatives.
Tone and substance sometimes clashed in this speech, but this much seems "self-evident," to borrow a phrase: "We are made for this moment" — or we once were — "and we will seize it, so long as we seize it together." In this republic, that's just the way it is, no matter who's president.
Journal Star of Peoria, Ill.


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Bridgestone notebook: Golf takes on football
The convergence of the World Golf Championships-Bridgestone Invitational and the Pro Football Hall of Fame Enshrinement Ceremony is a perfect storm: The area's two biggest sporting events taking place 25 miles from each other on the same weekend.
The new 32-year-old tournament director seems to be weathering it just fine.
Don Padgett III says things are running smoothly, but he's not lighting up any victory cigars just yet.
"I think it will be tough to tell until we get through the whole week," the easy-going Padgett said Tuesday. "The Hall of Fame's been great to work with. We met with them early on when we knew our dates would be the same.
"We look at it as it being two great events. We both bring in lots of people from all over, and there might be a chance of sports fans going to both of our events."
For their part, the two sides offer a joint-ticket package. The only problem has been hotels.
"I know we've got a lot of our guests taken care of, but it will trickle down to people just coming in for a day or two," Padgett said. "They may have to stay a little farther away than they're use to, but I think they'll find space within a reasonable distance."
Bridgestone was moved up from late August to accommodate the PGA's FedEx Cup playoff system. Essentially, Bridgestone is now one of the last regular-season tournaments before the playoffs start with The Barclays, Aug. 20 to 26.
Padgett said the Bridgestone is slotted for this time frame though 2010.
A native of Akron, Padgett graduated from Walsh Jesuit High School. His dad was the general manager and director of golf at Firestone for 25 years.
After working at PGA Headquarters in Jacksonville, Fla., for the past seven years, Padgett jumped at the chance to return to Ohio.
"I came back to a foot of snow and zero degrees," Padgett said. "So I got my welcome back to the Great White North. But it's good to be home."
Former tournament director Tom Strong is not in Akron this weekend. He's working at PGA Headquarters in tournament business affairs.
Just in Time
Argentina's Andres Romero was the last player to qualify for Bridgestone, putting the field at 84. He finished third at the British Open, then won last week's Deutsche Bank Players' Championship in Germany, catapulting him from 114th to 29th in the Official World Golf Ranking. His prize? He's grouped with Tiger Woods for the first two rounds. "It's great," Romero said. "I didn't even have this tournament on my schedule, and to now be paired with the No. 1 player in the world, it's complicado (complicated). There's a lot going on, and I'm just really looking forward to it."
Early Riser
Woods, a five-time champion at Firestone, is expected to be on the South Course early this morning for his practice round.
So Close
Any player in the top 50 on the Official World Golf Ranking this week would have been eligible for Bridgestone. Charl Schwartzel and Miguel Angel Jimenez were Nos. 51 and 52, respectively.
No Thanks
Of the 85 players who qualified for Bridgestone, Fred Couples is the only one not competing this weekend. Couples, who is battling back injuries, hasn't played since the Masters.
For the Kids
Ben Curtis and Vaughn Taylor took some time off Tuesday from preparing for Bridgestone to help FedEx and The First Tee host more than 50 kids from Canton, Akron and Cleveland for a four-hole putting course at Firestone. FedEx donated $2,000 to each city's First Tee chapter.
Local Favorite
Curtis is hoping his strong final round at the British Open will carry over to Thursday's opening round of Bridgestone. "It would be great to play well here," the former Kent State Golden Flash said. "I love this place, and it's a great golf course. I didn't do anything last week, didn't touch a club, so I'm just ... getting ready to go. Taking a week off ain't going to hurt anything, so it's no excuse."
Reach Repository sports writer Josh Weir at (330) 580-8426 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Researchers have found a shortcoming in key security protection recently introduced in the browser plugin for Oracle's Java software framework, a flaw that makes it easier for attackers to sneak malware onto end-user computers.
By default, the widely used plugin doesn't check the status of digital certificates used to sign Java apps hosted on websites, Ars Technica has confirmed. As a result, Java presents certificates as trustworthy even when they've been reported as stolen and added to publicly available revocation databases. The failure of Java to check certificate revocation lists came to light on Tuesday when a legitimate site was found hosting a malicious app. Java presented an accompanying certificate as a trusted credential belonging to Texas-based Clearesult Consulting Inc. even though the firm had issuer GoDaddy revoke the certificate in December.
"Java thinks the stolen certificate used is 100% valid and should be trusted," Jindrich Kubec, director of threat intelligence at antivirus provider Avast, wrote in an e-mail. Referring to certificate revocation lists and an alternate method for invalidating credentials known as the online certificate status protocol, he added: "With CRL/OCSP it would make it untrusted and probably present completely different dialogues or even won't allow running the applet at all—unfortunately, the situation is a bit complicated with testing this behaviour, so I can't tell for sure which of the above would be true."
The failure to vet the status of certificates dilutes a key security protection Oracle recently added to Java. Starting in January, the default security configuration was set to "high," causing a browser to seek user permission before running unsigned apps. Since Java treats apps signed by a compromised certificate as trusted, there's the possibility that end users will receive no such prompt, a shortcoming that significantly diminishes the benefit of this important new measure. Even if users are prompted, the dialog informs them the app is trusted without taking the time to see if the underlying certificate is still valid. That omission makes it hard for users to make an informed choice. As Kubec explained, the precise behavior is hard to determine. Certificate thefts have long been a favorite tactic for sneaking malware past computer security checkpoints.
An Oracle blog post documenting the Java security settings doesn't clarify, and Oracle representatives didn't respond to an e-mail seeking comment for this post. Sadly, an e-mail sent to 13 valid addresses inside the company's PR department didn't even receive an acknowledgement that the request had been received.
Oracle should be commended for the change it introduced in January, which caused browser plugins—at least in some cases—to prompt users before running Java apps. Moves that limit functionality or require end users to click through prompts are usually extremely difficult to implement because marketers want their software to be as easy as possible to use. Requiring prompts where they previously hadn't been required was a courageous step and the right thing to do, given the steady stream of Java-based attacks found online over the past year that surreptitiously install highly malicious software on computers.
But the move is clearly not enough. The malicious Java app discovered earlier this week was hosted on a legitimate German dictionary website that was most likely compromised by the same party that planted the attack. Given this real-world threat, Ars once again advises readers who don't regularly use Java to consider uninstalling it altogether, uninstalling just the Java browser plugin, or using a dedicated browser to access the handful of sites they frequent that require Java and using a different, non-Java-enabled browser for general surfing. At the very least, those running Java should access the program's advanced settings and check the box next to "Check certificates for revocation using Certificate Revocation Lists (CRLs) and set Java's security level to "very high" under the general security tab.


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Supervisors forfeit pay increase
The Siskiyou County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday voted unanimously to forfeit their annual cost of living allowance (COLA) pay increase.
Siskiyou County Code 2-6 .10 states, "Each year, the base salary [for supervisors] shall be increased by an amount equal to the Consumer Price Index ... measured in April of each year, with the increase being effective the first full period of May. In no event shall the increase in salary be less than two percent or greater than four percent. Increases shall be based on annual approval by the board of supervisors."
However, the coffers of governments big and small have been constricted since the recent economic recession due to greatly depleted tax revenues. In fact, the county negotiated cuts to the pay and/or benefits of most county employees last year in an effort to fill budget gaps.
According to the board's agenda documents, a two percent increase in board pay would have cost the county an additional $4,000 annually.
The board has forfeited these COLA increases for the past four years, making Tuesday's vote the fifth consecutive time. The decision was made with virtually no discussion by the board after supervisor Grace Bennett made the motion.
Since 2009 county supervisors' annual salary has been static at $35,315.97 – plus mileage compensation, health and life insurance benefits.


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