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DENVER Offering tax reform ideas before his first debate with President Obama, Mitt Romney says he might be willing to reduce income tax deductions used by millions of families for home mortgage interest and health care costs.
Romney suggested the changes could be part of a plan that includes a 20 percent cut in tax rates across the board, continuation of upper income tax cuts that Mr. Obama wants to end, and a comprehensive tax overhaul plan that the Republican presidential contender has so far declined to flesh out in detail. Romney says his overall plans would invigorate the slowly recovering U.S. economy.
Both Romney and Mr. Obama spent Tuesday mostly in private, preparing for the debate, the president in Henderson, Nev., near Las Vegas, Romney was already in Denver, where the faceoff will take place Wednesday at 9 p.m. EDT. Neither held public campaign events, but Mr. Obama took a break from preparation to visit nearby Hoover Dam, and Romney picked up lunch at a Chipotle Mexican Grill near his hotel.
In an interview Monday night with Denver TV station KDVR, Romney said, "As an option, you could say everybody's going to get up to a $17,000 deduction. And you could use your charitable deduction, your home mortgage deduction, or others your health care deduction, and you can fill that bucket, if you will, that $17,000 bucket that way. And higher income people might have a lower number."
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A Romney adviser said changes in other areas a taxpayer's personal exemption and the deduction or credit for health care would also be taken into account if deductions were limited as Romney suggested. Combining changes to those two areas with the limit on deductions would maintain Romney's goal of keeping tax burdens the same for wealthy and middle income taxpayers, the adviser said. Under such a proposal, some taxpayers' deductions could remain unchanged.
On another controversial subject, in a separate local interview ahead of the debate, Romney told The Denver Post he would honor the temporary permission the Obama administration has granted to many young illegal immigrants to allow them to stay in the country.
Mr. Obama announced in June that he would prevent deportation for some children brought to the United States by illegal immigrant parents. Applicants must not have a serious criminal record and must meet other requirements, such as graduating from high school or serving in the U.S. military.
Romney had previously refused to say if he would retain the policy if he won the election.
He granted the interviews as he and Mr. Obama looked ahead to the debate, the first of three they will hold before Election Day, Nov. 6.
The debates, expected to draw a huge nationwide audience, take place with most polls showing Obama slightly ahead both nationally and in the battleground states expected to settle the election.
In Denver, in his comments on taxes, Romney also cited the tax plan included in the Simpson-Bowles deficit commission recommendations as a possible course. That plan calls for reducing the top income tax rates. To pay for that, the plan would eliminate or reduce many popular tax breaks, including deductions for charitable donations and mortgage interest.
While Romney did not commit to making any specific changes, saying he would work with Congress, his suggestions were more specific than those he had offered in the past and provided a new window into his thinking on the subject.
In the spring, Romney told donors that he would consider eliminating home mortgage deductions for second homes. That conversation, behind closed doors, was overheard by reporters standing on a private sidewalk.
The numbers are important because Romney has said that he will lower tax rates across the board without reducing government revenue. He also says he wants wealthy Americans to continue to shoulder the same share of the tax burden as they do today. One way to make the numbers add up would be to adjust tax deductions and exemptions.
Romney campaign spokeswoman Andrea Saul insisted his plan still would cut taxes for middle income earners. "There are a range of policy options, Gov. Romney referenced one illustrative example, to achieve these goals," Saul said in an emailed statement. She did not mention any other options.
Romney's interviews with Denver outlets were the last ones planned before he takes the stage Wednesday night. Moderator Jim Lehrer plans to focus on the economy, health care and the role of government.
Romney's tax plans are likely to be one focus. U.S. tax law at one time limited tax deductions and personal exemptions for high income people, but those limits were removed as part of the massive package of tax cuts passed under President George W. Bush.
The limits are scheduled to return next year, when the Bush-era tax cuts are scheduled to expire unless Congress acts in the meantime. Romney and other Republicans want to extend all the tax cuts while Congress works to overhaul the federal tax code. Mr. Obama wants to extend them for individuals making less than $200,000 and married couples making less than $250,000.
Romney says his plan would generate the same amount of tax revenue as the current system but do it more efficiently, without raising taxes on any group of people. Romney also says he would not raise taxes on investment income.
The Tax Policy Center, a nonpartisan research group, says it is impossible to reduce tax rates by 20 percent for the wealthy without shifting some of the tax burden to middle class families. The Romney campaign disputes the study, which has also been challenged by several conservative think tanks.


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We have our power back, we have our water back…we can surf the net. It's amazing what these crews have done in just a couple of days. We sit here and we feel guilty…just a block over there are people who have no homes…everything is gone. Again, we thank God for what we do not deserve.
I wish I had pictures of what this town used to look like…I could dig some up but I don't have the heart. The devastation is indescribable. I have never and I hope to never see anything like this again. I decided to share some pictures of what we've seen. Keep in mind, pictures cannot do the magnitude of the destruction justice…it simply cannot be captured.
None of these pictures show individual homes…where people used to live now torn down to the foundation. I never thought I would disclose where we live but I would ask that you pray for Ringgold. A small town in North Georgia that has recently made national and international headlines. The town my husband especially holds very near to his heart…the town he has grown up in. It's not just about stuff, homes, businesses…it's far deeper than that. It's about people. It's about a community that was completely devastated and wiped out in a matter of minutes.


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It was a very strange moment at the end of a very strange debate last week betwen the three Republican U.S. Senate contenders. In response to a question about U.S. policy in Afghanistan, Assemblyman Chuck DeVore, a conservative who is running third, took a strange -- and never explained -- turn away from that country to declare that the U.S. military needs to prepare for the "next enemy."
Which is, at least in DeVore's mind, China.
It was a strange thing to say, particularly for someone running for statewide office in California. This state's economy is globally oriented, particularly towards Asia. China is California's fourth largest trading partner (Can you guess who are the top 3? Answer at the end of this post). California and China are so intertwined -- just drive through Southern California's Inland Empire and note all the trucks and warehouses, full of goods coming from China and other Asian countries -- that a fight with China would be, in an economic sense, an attack on California.
But this was not a new thought for DeVore. The assemblyman feels so strongly that China represents a national security threat to the United States that he co-authored a novel called China Attacks. (To be fair, the country China attacks in the novel is Taiwan). You can read all about it here.
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If you think this has a happy ending, you haven't been paying attention.
Peggy Noonan's latest at The Wall Street Journal hits on America's polarization and the Scalise shooting.
And was anyone surprised? Tuesday I talked with an old friend, a figure in journalism who's a pretty cool character, about the political anger all around us. He spoke of "horrible polarization." He said there's "too much hate in D.C." He mentioned "the beheading, the play in the park" and described them as "dog whistles to any nut who wants to take action."
"Someone is going to get killed," he said.
That was 20 hours before the shootings in Alexandria, Va.
The gunman did the crime, he is responsible, it's fatuous to put the blame on anyone or anything else.
But we all operate within a climate and a culture. The media climate now, in both news and entertainment, is too often of a goading, insinuating resentment, a grinding, agitating antipathy. You don't need another recitation of the events of just the past month or so. A comic posed with a gruesome bloody facsimile of President Trump's head. New York's rightly revered Shakespeare in the Park put on a "Julius Caesar" in which the assassinated leader is made to look like the president. A CNN host—amazingly, of a show on religion—sent out a tweet calling the president a "piece of s—" who is "a stain on the presidency." An MSNBC anchor wondered, on the air, whether the president wishes to "provoke" a terrorist attack for political gain. Earlier Stephen Colbert, well known as a good man, a gentleman, said of the president, in a rant: "The only thing your mouth is good for is being Vladimir Putin's c— holster." Those are but five dots in a larger, darker pointillist painting. You can think of more.
And how Trump broke the media:
We have been seeing a generation of media figures cratering under the historical pressure of Donald Trump. He really is powerful.
They're losing their heads. Now would be a good time to regain them.
They have been making the whole political scene lower, grubbier. They are showing the young what otherwise estimable adults do under pressure, which is lose their equilibrium, their knowledge of themselves as public figures, as therefore examples—tone setters. They're paid a lot of money and have famous faces and get the best seat, and the big thing they're supposed to do in return is not be a slob. Not make it worse.
With the death of poor Otto Warmbier, might be a good time for the American government to brush up on a little history:
Every newspaperman who ever knew him testified to Roosevelt's extraordinary sense of news value, to his ability to create news, to dramatize himself to the public. He had a genius for it. "Consciously or unconsciously," said the journalist Isaac Marcosson, "he was the master press agent of all time." The risk, of course, was great, for it would be acutely embarrassing if the facts leaked out during the coming campaign. It may have been the risk itself that tempted Roosevelt, for he loved a prank and loved danger for its own sake; if he could combine danger with what William Allen White called a "frolicking intrigue," his happiness was complete.
Next day, June 22, the memorable telegram, "This Government wants Perdicaris alive or Raisuli dead," flashed across the Atlantic cable over Hay's signature and was simultaneously given to the press at home. It was not an ultimatum, because Hay deliberately deprived it of meaningfulness by adding to Gummere, "Do not land marines or seize customs without Department's specific instructions." But this sentence was not allowed to spoil the effect: it was withheld from the press.
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Please allow me to be the dumb one among my PJM colleagues who believe that interrupting Julius Caesar protesting the depiction of the assassination of President Trump was wrong.
I not only believe it was the right thing to do, I believe it should be done night after night until the production ends.
This is not a free-speech issue. The theater company staging this play chose to shout "fire" in a crowded theater and therefore has lost all claim to protection under the Constitution. They not only crossed a line -- they obliterated it. Whatever their intent -- and I make no claim to possessing the ability to read the heart and mind of anyone -- the practical effect of their depiction of a sitting president being brutally murdered has real-world consequences that extend far beyond the proscenium.
No doubt the production company knew that the headlines and buzz on social media from murdering Trump would guarantee a huge box office and bring fame to the players -- a move worthy of Shakespeare himself who wasn't above including gore and violence in his plays to sell tickets.
I would ask Charlie if the validity of a protest should be measured by how many hearts and minds are changed or is standing on principle worth the effort? To Michael, who, among other arguments, recommends staging a version of the play truer to Shakespeare's original intent, which was to portray Caesar in heroic terms and his assassins as corrupt, you might find a high school gym somewhere that would be willing to take on such a project. But as a counter protest to Shakespeare in the Park, fuggetaboutit.
To Andrew, who worries that aping the left's tactics is not the best way to fight them in this case, I would ordinarily agree with him. Being a RINO, I am constantly making the argument that claiming that "they do it too, only worse" is stupid and childish.
But this case is unprecedented. It's not every day that incitement to assassinate a president is disguised as entertainment. In these special circumstances, civil disobedience is called for. And as long as the protests are peaceful and the protesters accept their punishment, I have no problem with it.
To Paula, I would say that it is hardly "barbaric" to protest barbarism. And it's interesting you brought up Lincoln and his first inaugural.
I always get a kick out of cable pundits solemnly informing us that politics have never been this divisive or dangerous. What the hell do they think was happening in the country prior to the Civil War? The caning of Senator Sumner didn't happen because of a dispute over a railroad bill. Fist fights broke out on the floor of the House. Several members challenged each other to duels.
People were tarred and feathered for their political beliefs back then. And don't get me started on "Bloody Kansas."
Lincoln uttered those beautiful words -- and then a little more than a month later tried to resupply Fort Sumter knowing exactly how South Carolina would react. Lincoln took the country to war in order to save the Union. He chose a brutal, bloody tactic for a treasured end.
We're not exactly in the end times of the republic. But special circumstances in desperate times require we step outside the normal bounds of accepted behavior in order to make a vitally important point: that the depiction of the assassination of an opposition political figure is immoral, unacceptable, and incredibly dangerous.
On Monday YouTube announced steps the company plans to take to combat terrorism. Fine. Except it sounds like the Google-owned company's efforts may go beyond rooting out actual terrorists:
- Take a tougher stance on videos that do not clearly violate YouTube's policies. For example, videos that contain inflammatory religious or supremacist content will soon appear behind an interstitial warning and will not be monetized, recommended, or eligible for comments or user endorsements. [Emphasis added]
Are we just talking radical violent Islamic content here, or is YouTube going down the path of censoring Christian "hate speech" (i.e. unpopular biblical teachings on marriage and gender) and all forms of nationalism that the left finds objectionable? It sure sounds like the former. There are plenty of anecdotal stories of folks on the right having their perfectly legitimate content removed (or denied monetization) because someone at YouTube found it offensive. Don't be surprised if we see censorship on that platform increasing in the name of fighting terrorism (see: House of Cards: Season 5).
Via Twitter, Otto Warmbier has died:
I'm in with Andrew, Michael, and Paula: jumping on stage to interrupt Donald J Caesar is both dumb and wrong.
Dumb, because in that location with that audience, it's unlikely to have any useful effects.
Wrong, because "free speech" isn't a tactic, it's something we should value in itself.
—@megynkelly's intvw of Alex Jones brought in only 3.5M viewers. Repeat of "America's Funniest Home Videos" beat her https://t.co/7BIHNpD5OI pic.twitter.com/sIQcxxhsCa— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) June 19, 2017
Count me in on the side of free speech — with Michael Walsh and Andrew Klavan — in the Julius Caesar controversy. A wise person (God, in fact) once said, "For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul?" We don't win the war of ideas by becoming barbarians.
A lot of people apparently agree with Loomer's tactics:
More and more we see that whenever groups or individuals adopt the left's brutish tactics (in this case shouting down a performance) they also adopt their values (i.e. compromising on free speech). It doesn't bode well for the right/conservatism/the GOP (or the Republic for that matter) if our side becomes indistinguishable from the left. Bold colors should separate us from the left so that voters have a clear alternative — hopefully one that appeals to the "better angels of our nature," as a great president once said. In fact, Lincoln's first inaugural address is worth quoting at greater length. We'd do well to heed his words of warning given at a time of even greater conflict:
We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
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Carrie Fisher, how you disappoint us.
Even so, Princess Leia will live on in our hearts — and in Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Episode VIII. Here are 14 other movies Carrie Fisher appeared in.
Be still my heart. Republicans in Congress are considering the cancellation of their August recess.
As of today, the 115th Congress has been in session exactly 89 days. So far, there have been 169 days in 2017. This is actually a better percentage of days worked by Congress than in recent Congresses.
Of course, just because Congress isn't in session, that doesn't mean that members aren't "working," although these are people who count golf junkets to Scotland and free trips to Jamaica for an "anti-terrorism" conference as work.
But as far as conducting the people's business, there appears to be a deficient work ethic among members of both parties.
So refusing to take the entire month of August off is a step in the right direction.


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Erik Karlsson's Achilles tendon injury was a huge blow to the gifted player and his team. (Jeanine Leech/Icon SMI)
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A guide to this morning's must-read hockey stories:
• Erik Karlsson's gruesome injury means the season's already over for Ottawa.
• Evander Kane plays the race card. Yeah, this is going to end well.
• Families are tearing themselves apart...over Winnipeg Jets tickets.
• Here's the great Dave Stubbs on the the maturation of Carey Price and his partnership with goaltending coach Pierre Groulx. Meanwhile, Jack Todd wonders if the Habs are tough enough to assert themselves in the Eastern Conference playoff race.
• The four entities involved in getting NHL players to Sochi for the 2014 Olympics meet today in New York.
• Good guy Andrew Brunette finally made his retirement official and took a new job with the Minnesota Wild as hockey ops adviser.
• Rookie center J.T. Miller plays his fifth game for the Rangers tonight. Will it be his last of the season?
• Someone (ahem, Rhett Warrener) flipped Jarome Iginla's compete switch and Mike Cammalleri returned after missing three games with a wrist injury to score three goals, including the 200th of his career, in Calgary's 7-4 win over the Stars.
• Of course, Dallas was playing the second half of a back-to-back, and that might be the closest thing to a gimme in the NHL.
• The surprising Maple Leafs took a page out of former New Jersey coach Jacques Lemaire's defensive handbook.
• Lots to like about Boston's hot start, including a "snarling, aggressive penalty kill" that's clicking at 93.5 percent.
• Here's a nice story out of Chicago about the Blackhawks making a dying fan's wish come true.
• Is Todd Bertuzzi's career over? The 38-year-old had to be hospitalized for back pain, and surgery is being mentioned as an option. This is a chronic issue for the irascible winger. You have to wonder how much longer he wants to battle it. The Wings were also without Johan Franzen last night.
• The Ducks keep on winning, but are they developing an identity along the way? Meanwhile, Jonas Hiller is improving and could return to action by this weekend.
• Winnipeg's top prospect, Mark Scheifele, is looking pretty good since being returned to Barrie.
• Harvey is the best mascot in the NHL. Thread closed.
• Outdoor hockey alert! Minnesota and Wisconsin head to Chicago for the OfficeMax Hockey City Classic at Solider Field on Sunday. About time they get to see some decent hitting in that place.
• Looking for the perfect soundtrack for your Valentine's Day rendezvous? Dallas Stars' PA announcer Jeff K. offers up this Spotify mix of swinging sounds for young lovers.


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Memory Lane With PawSox Manager Ron Johnson
One of the joys of being a broadcaster for the PawSox is spending time every day with manager Ron Johnson.
(photo courtesy of Kelly O'Connor)
He's hysterically funny, extremely generous with his time, and about as close to universallly well-liked by his players as a Triple-A manager can be.
And don't let the PawSox lousy record in 2009 fool you – he's an outstanding manager. Since the Red Sox emphasize player development over winning in the minor leagues, RJ's hands are tied when it comes to lineups and game strategy. I hope he eventually gets the opportunity to manage in the big leagues where every decision is geared toward winning that night's game.
This is RJ's 31st year in professional baseball and 18th as a minor league manager. Along the way he's played with Hall of Famers, and managed some of the biggest stars in the game.
Recently, I reeled off a series of names from his past and asked RJ to say the first thing that came to mind.
George Brett (a teammate in Kansas City in 1982-83)
"Gamer. The biggest gamer I ever saw – every inning and every at-bat. He got after it on the field . . . he got after it off the field (laughs). He was the best pure hitter I ever saw."
Gaylord Perry (a teammate in Kansas City in 1983)
"Scary. He scared the heck out of me one night when I was playing first base. There was a throw to me for the final out of the inning. Nowadays, guys flip the ball into the stands when the inning is over, but back then, when you caught the third out you would flip the ball to the umpire. By the time I got to the dugout, Gaylord was airing me out. I think it had something to do with the substance on the ball. I could barely get it to the ump because it was so sticky."
Pete Rose (a teammate in Montreal in 1984)
"Tenacious. I never saw a guy who was so consumed by baseball. He was 44-years-old and diving for the balls on the turf in Montreal at about 2 o'clock in the afternoon during batting practice. Unbelievable."
Hanley Ramirez (played for RJ in 2004)
"Physical phenom. I had him for 30 games in Portland and he's gotta be up there for the best player I've ever coached."
Johnny Damon (first played for RJ as an 18-year-old minor league rookie)
"Nicest kid I've ever been around for a player that's great. And he's always been that way. I guess 'winner' would be an even better thing to say because Johnny's a winner. Every team he was on in the minor leagues with Kansas City we won. He went to the big leagues, came to Boston, and they won a championship. Johnny's a winner."
Dustin Pedroia (played for RJ in Pawtucket)
"He's going to really get upset with this but 'delusion gamer' because he sees himself as Brad Pitt and Arnold Schwarzenegger. God bless you kid, because you are."
Jon Lester (pitched for RJ in Pawtucket)
"My hero – no doubt. When things go bad on the baseball field, I think of Jon Lester. To overcome the things he had to deal with and do what he's doing now . . . feel-good story Jon Lester – my hero."
Curt Schilling (pitched for RJ in Pawtucket on rehab)
"Like watching a professor pitch. Even down here on rehab, this guy had every hitter on the Triple-A rosters dissected prior to his rehab starts. Phenomenal."
Bo Jackson (saw him in spring training with Kansas City)
"The greatest athlete I ever saw. The most impressive man I ever saw. The first time I ever saw him, he was walking through a hotel lobby in jeans, boots, and a cowboy hat. That's why I go with that look – I'm trying to look like Bo."
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I'm actually kind of proud of this, but I apparently don't know my boy bands. I recently blogged about Sunday night's karaoke outing to celebrate Jeff Natale's birthday, and wrote that the boy band of Natale, Travis Denker, Bubba Bell, Brian Anderson, and Sean Danielson got on stage together to sing "Bye, Bye, Bye" by the Backstreet Boys.
Whoops. That pop classic was actually performed by *NSYNC. Here's a link to Justin, JC, Lance, Joey, and Chris singing it. Unfortunately, I do not have video of the PawSox version.
Speaking of Brian Anderson, his experiment with contact lenses ended after 2 games (and 2 "o-fers"). They were too difficult to adjust to this late in the season. Brian will consider having lasik surgery in the off-season.
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The PawSox conclude their 11-game homestand on Thursday night as Adam Mills faces former Boston and Pawtucket pitcher Kyle Snyder. I hope you'll join us for the radio call beginning with the pre-game show at 6:50 on the PawSox radio network and PawSox.com.


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Montreal Impact 1, Philadelphia Union 0 | MLS Match Recap
MONTREAL – And then there were three.
Felipe's second goal of the season gave the Montreal Impact their first win of the season, as they beat the Philadelphia Union 1-0 on a rainy Saturday afternoon at Stade Saputo. The result leaves only the Chicago Fire, Portland Timbers and San Jose Earthquakes as the remaining winless teams in MLS.
The win also lifts the Impact to ninth place in the Eastern Conference, leapfrogging a Fire team that is on a bye week. Philadelphia, now winless in seven games, remain in seventh place, but they'll fall to eighth if Houston pick up a point against Portland on Sunday.
The only goal of the encounter came in the 15th minute. Impact captain Patrice Bernier intercepted Sheanon Williams' pass in midfield and considered his options before firing a powerful shot that Zac MacMath failed to control. The ball fell for the onrushing Felipe, who blasted it in from close range.
Jack McInerney and Andrew Wenger both played their first game against their old teams. Wenger provided strong build-up play for Union teammates like Fábinho, Danny Cruz and Vincent Nogueira, and McInerney started on the left of the Impact's midfield but switched positions several times with Marco Di Vaio before closing out the game as a lone striker.
Both young forwards got their chances. Wenger got one of Philadelphia's two clear opportunities of the first half as he combined with Cruz on the edge of the box before being denied by Montreal goalkeeper Troy Perkins. McInerney had to wait until he was sent through on goal in the early goings of the second half, but MacMath tipped his attempt wide for a corner kick.
McInerney's foray forward was one of few Montreal attacks in the second half. Philadelphia pushed hard for an equalizer and had a goal denied for offside in the process.
Montreal held on, however, and they did so despite having three members of their back line play with early yellow cards. Hassoun Camara, who was booked for a league-leading fifth time this season, will miss Montreal's next MLS date when they host Kansas City on May 10.
Next up for Philadelphia is a trip to Seattle on May 3. Montreal, for their part, face either Ottawa or Edmonton away in the Amway Canadian Championship on May 7 before returning to league play.
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|Aside from scoring the winner, Felipe wreaked havoc for much of the game and that kept the Union's midfield and defense extremely busy.
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The McCrary Sisters On Mountain Stage
The McCrary Sisters On Mountain Stage
Set List
- "Blowin' In The Wind"
- "Bless 'Em All Y'all"
- "Broken Pieces"
- "Dig A Little Deeper"
One of the most in-demand vocal groups on Music Row, Nashville's McCrary Sisters have recorded with Buddy Miller, Patty Griffin, Stevie Wonder, Johnny Cash and Elvis Presley, to name a few. This family came by its talent inevitably: As the daughters of the Rev. Sam McCrary, founding member of legendary gospel quartet The Fairfield Four, they've been immersed in music their entire lives. Here, they make their first appearance on Mountain Stage, recorded on the road in Bristol, Tenn./Va.
The group kicks off its set in a surprising way, with a reworked cover of Bob Dylan's classic "Blowin' in the Wind." You'll also hear a take on Julie Miller's "Broken Pieces," along with "Dig a Little Deeper," an a cappella tune the sisters perform every night as a tribute to their late father.
This Mountain Stage performance was originally published on June 8, 2012.


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kaiyzen necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 178 diseños de 43 diseñadores freelance.
Our team has written some software that we will be open sourcing and creating a project out of. We need a new logo/font for Reactor8.
Reactor8 - Bringing together developers, operations and best practices
Our project enables developers and operations folks to work together in a frictionless manner to get projects completed and deployed ASAP. We liked the concept of being a nuclear reactor for development teams. Eight has symbolism around new beginnings, we are targeting development teams that are building next generation web applications.
We are targeting web application developers and IT operation staffs.., so techy gear-head type people. We are also targeting large enterprises so we do not want anything too cheezy/cartoony
We want a modern looking font/icon without being over the top. Projects like this always morph as submissions roll in but initial ideas we are picturing are a font with capital 'R' and the trailing 8:
Possibly with the 8 slanted to give it some motion, and slightly resemble infinity as 8 also symbolises. We also use R8 as an abreviation so we will also use the R and whatever the 8 is together by themselves
For a leading icon initially we are picturing something along the lines of a little nuclear reactor silo cooling tower with some design on it possibly. Some team members also tossed out the idea of atomic symbol/icon
For colors we are not too tied to anything in particular for schemes. First ones thrown out by the team were greys/reds/blacks/oranges/yellow, but again, we are not tied to anything in particular.
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Icon of the Mother of God "Elets-Chernigov"
The Elets-Chernigov (Chernigov Spruce Tree) Icon of the Mother of God appeared on a spruce or fir tree near Chernigov in the year 1060, in the time of Prince Svyatoslav Yaroslavich, as was recorded in the Synodikon of Bishop Zosimus Prokopovich of Chernigov (1655-1657). The icon was placed in a church built in honor of the Elets-Spruce Icon of the Mother of God. Saint Anthony (July 10), while living an ascetical life on the Boldino Heights (1068-1069), had given his blessing to found a monastery at this place.
In 1238 the monastery was pillaged by the Tatars (Mongols), but the icon was hidden inside the monastery walls. In the year 1470, Prince Simeon Olelkovich of Kiev restored the monastery, and they placed the icon in the church.
The ultimate fate of the icon is unclear. According to one tradition, a descendant of the Chernigov princes, Baryatinsky, carried the icon to Moscow in the year 1579, when Chernigov fell into the hands of the Polish King Stephen Bathory. In 1687, Prince Daniel Baryatinsky was returning from a campaign in the Crimea. At Kharkov he fell seriously ill, and before his death he bequeathed the Elets Icon to the nearby Kharkov Dormition church.
According to another tradition, the icon vanished from the monastery when it was sacked in the seventeenth century by the forces of Sigismund III. In 1676, Prince Constantine Ostrozhsky presented the Elets monastery a copy of the Elets Icon of the Mother of God, brought from Vladimir by the Kozel brothers. Archimandrite Joannicius (Golyatovsky) was at this time restoring the monastery and he described numerous miracles of this icon in his book, "Skorbnitsa" (or "Sokrovischnitsa", i.e. "Consoler" or "Treasury"), published in 1676 in Novgorod.
There is still another Elets Icon of the Mother of God, also appearing in the year 1060. It received its name because it appeared in the city of Elets, in a cathedral church dedicated to the Smolensk Icon of the Mother of God. The feastday of this icon was set for January 11.


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