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Since the beginning of May, chef Carlos Delgado and CreamCycle have been peddling (and pedaling) ice cream sandwiches all over DC. The current executive chef of Boveda and his partners have crafted five custom, freezer equipped tricycles (as well as a number of static kiosks in shops like Smucker Farms) to patrol the District with Delgado's particular brand of locally sourced, gourmet ice cream sandwiches.
A sendup to Delgado's home country of Peru, where it is not uncommon to see ice cream laden bicycles, the roughly 20 available flavors draw not only from Delgado's heritage, but also from the inventive approaches to classic flavors that he uses at Boveda. Delgado has plans to introduce classic Peruvian flavors like lúcuma, which is a subtropical fruit native to Peru that Delgado says "looks like an avocado and tastes like vanilla," and other passion fruits. For now, the menu is replete with unexpected combinations of flavors. Take the Corn Maple (corn flavored ice cream with a maple cornbread cookie) or the Bacon & Olive (olive oil ice cream and bacon bits with a bacon cookie). They're simple flavors, but combined in imaginative ways to keep it interesting. Other notable flavors include the Cereal Milk ice cream sandwich (cereal milk infused ice cream with a granola cookie). Remember when you used to slurp up the thick, sugary residue left in your bowl after your morning cereal? That's basically what that is, but in ice cream sandwich form.
The Mexican Jalapeño Chocolate is Delgado's signature flavor. Jalapeño ice cream that lays down a lingering heat long after the chill is gone (but not as spicy as the habanero in the Banana Java Habanero) and a dark spiced chocolate cookie that's basically the classic chocolate-vanilla ice cream sandwich but with the characteristic twist that's prevalent in all of Delgado's menu.
Each ice cream sandwich is $5 and each bike will carry about 100 at a time. Routes will vary day to day and bikes will be resupplied as needed via Delgado's Honda Ruckus. They'll even be running late night hours. Imagine hitting the bars on U St. late on a Saturday and then seeing one of the CreamCycle bikes as you stumble out of a bar at 2 a.m. That can happen now, but you'll have to keep an eye on CreamCycle's Twitter feed to pinpoint where each bike will be.
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Wind Sucks - I was Karon in July for 3 days. The first two days the off shore winds made the shoulder-high break sloppy and difficult to paddle out. The third day, the wind stopped and the waves were clean and the paddle was easy.
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(Pocket-lint) - Bowers & Wilkins is introducing a new version of its hugely successful Zeppelin Air iPhone and AirPlay speaker dock. The new Zeppelin Air comes with a Lightning connector for iPhone 5, the current-gen iPod touch or nano devices. It will even work with iPad mini, Pocket-lint understands, but not officially as it won't charge the device, just play music.
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Japan campaign opens with focus on economy, nukes
Leaders of Japan's major political parties kicked off campaigning Tuesday for this month's parliamentary elections in nuclear crisis-hit Fukushima prefecture, where more than 100,000 people remain displaced from their homes.
Nuclear energy and reviving the stagnant economy are key issues in the Dec. 16 election, which Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda's unpopular Democratic Party of Japan is expected to lose after three years in power.
But with polls showing more than 40 percent of voters are undecided, many are not excited about any particular party. No one party has even 20 percent of the public's support, according to one recent survey.
The opposition Liberal Democratic Party, which ruled Japan for most of the post-World War II era, is leading in polls but unlikely to win a majority in the 480-member lower house of parliament.
The most likely outcome of the election is a coalition government composed of parties that could have competing interests. That would mean more gridlock despite urgent needs to tackle Japan's many complex problems, from reining in its national debt and coping with a graying population to reconstructing communities wiped out by the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami that killed more than 18,000 people and triggered meltdowns at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant.
"By starting right here, we are reaffirming our belief that the reconstruction of Japan is not possible without the reconstruction of Fukushima. We hope to start Japan's rebirth," Noda told supporters in Iwaki. The city is just southwest of the 20-kilometer (12-mile) no-go zone surrounding the nuclear plant, which spewed radiation into the surrounding farmland and ocean.
In Fukushima city, about 60 kilometers (40 miles) west of the plant, LDP's hawkish leader Shinzo Abe told crowds that his party could be trusted to revive the economy and restore national confidence.
"We need an economy that will reward our sweat and hard work and make us wealthy and increase our income," said Abe, the front-runner to become the next prime minister. "We will create a Japan in which those born in this country will feel joy, and regain a nation in which our children will be proud to be born in Japan. I ask you to lend us your hand."
For Kazuo Okawa, a plumber who had worked at the Fukushima plant as a contractor, politicians' speeches are an empty show. He said no candidates have come to the evacuation center where he lives, a former high school near Tokyo where 160 people still remain.
Government officials concede they don't know when residents who lived around the nuclear plant will be able to return to their homes.
"Those politicians are discussing policies in Tokyo, Osaka or wherever, far away from us. We've always had to reach out for help," Okawa said in a telephone interview.
Still, he said he is closely watching the elections. He is now opposed to nuclear power, a position held by most Japanese, polls show.
Noda's DPJ says it plans to phase out nuclear power by the 2030s. The newly formed Tomorrow Party of Japan is going further, calling for a nuclear-free society within 10 years, although plans for how it would support alternative forms of energy are sketchy.
The traditionally pro-nuclear LDP says it wants Japan to be less reliant on atomic energy, but wants to review energy policy over the next 10 years to determine the right mix. Abe says it irresponsible to call for eliminating nuclear power at this point.
Before the March 11, 2011, disaster, Japan depended on nuclear energy for about a third of its electricity needs. Now only two reactors of 50 are operating, and there is widespread debate over how many more should be restarted - if any - while Japan develops other sources of power.
"This is the first national election since 3/11. We are aiming for a society without nuclear power, zero nuclear power," Yukiko Kada, head of the Tomorrow Party and governor of Shiga prefecture, told listeners in the village of Iitate, just outside the exclusion zone.
Farther north, along Japan's tsunami-battered northeastern coast, people who lost homes, livelihoods and loved ones are feeling forgotten by the government, which seems preoccupied not only with economic and nuclear woes, but also with a diplomatic spat with China over a cluster of tiny, uninhabited islands claimed by both countries.
"It doesn't really matter who wins (the election). It's not going to change things for us," said Yaeko Tabata, a woman in her 50s from the obliterated town of Minami-Sanriku. She has opened a hair salon in a rented trailer on a hill above the barren town.
Much of the rubble in town has been cleaned up, but virtually no rebuilding has begun amid delays in drawing up town layouts and dealing with government red tape for funding. Townsfolk live in rows of cramped, government-built temporary houses, surrounded by empty fields and concrete foundations where houses once stood.
Fueling the tsunami victims' frustration was a government audit last month that showed about a quarter of the 11.7 trillion yen ($148 billion) budgeted for disaster reconstruction was actually winding up in unrelated projects, from a contact lens factory in central Japan to road construction in the faraway southern island of Okinawa.
"That was shocking. How did that money end up in Okinawa?" asked Osamu Takahashi, the owner a small eatery in a cluster of about 20 pre-fabricated shops in Minami-Sanriku. "You get the feeling the government doesn't care."
Since the release of the audit, the government has suspended 35 projects in the reconstruction budget that were deemed not to be directly related to disaster recovery - but this amounted to just a fraction of the overall figure of misdirected funds.
Dissatisfaction over the government has helped new parties gain momentum. Running second to the LDP in recent polls is the Japan Restoration Party, led by Tokyo's outspoken former governor Shintaro Ishihara.
Ishihara stirred up Japan's territorial dispute with China when he proposed back in April that Tokyo would buy and develop islands called Senkaku in Japanese and Diaoyu in Chinese. The central government stepped in, buying the islands to Beijing's chagrin, but saying it had no plans to develop them.
Ishihara's party got backing from 10.4 percent of would-be voters in a Kyodo News agency poll over the weekend, second behind the LDP, which received support from 18.4 percent. The DPJ was third with 9.3 percent.
The New Komeito party, backed by the large lay Buddhist organization Soka Gakkai, was fourth with 4.8 percent and the new Tomorrow Party was fifth with 3.5 percent.
Associated Press Writer Mari Yamaguchi contributed to this report.


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Yesterday, we told you that Raiders of the Lost Ark would be returning to screens in an IMAX re-release this September. The extensive conversion process from the original 35mm film to the 70mm IMAX version was done during the reformatting for Blu-ray (this is all part of a run up for the release of Indiana Jones: The Complete Adventures, which debuts on Blu-ray September 18th). Apparently, the conversion has gone so well that even Steven Spielberg was impressed with the results after initially being skeptical. Hit the jump to see what Spielberg had to say and for details on how you can get your tickets to see Raiders of the Lost Ark in IMAX this September! [Update: Now AMC Theaters are hosting an Indiana Jones marathon! Hit the jump for details.]
In a recent phone interview with Yahoo!, Spielberg talked about his reaction to seeing Raiders of the Lost Ark in its new IMAX format:
"I didn't know if the 1981 print would stand up to a full IMAX transfer, so I came expecting a sort of grainy, muddy, and overly enlarged representation of the movie I had made [31] years ago. And I was blown away by the fact that it looked better than the movie I had made [31] years ago."
Spielberg also commented on the refinement that the conversion process lent to the original film, improving on a number of areas:
"All the shadows in the earlier scenes that we shot in Hawaii [were] always kind of muddy anyway on 35mm, because we couldn't schlep all of our big arc lights down into this valley. Suddenly, there was definition in the shadows, which I had never seen before. And the shadows weren't murky and washed out; they were sharp as a tack. I sat there, I think, probably with my mouth open a little wider than it normally is."
It wasn't only the visual experience that was improved, but the audio as well. In an interview with The NY Times, Spielberg called out a particular scene involving a rolling boulder that he says:
"When the boulder is rolling, chasing Indy through the cave, you really feel the boulder in your stomach, the way you do when a marching band passes by, and you're standing right next to it."
As far as changes made during the digital post-conversion process, Spielberg said he learned his lesson from E.T. and won't be meddling with his own movies in the future:
No, there's no aesthetic changes to the films. I'm not going back and doing to any of my movies that are now coming out on Blu-ray what I did when "E.T." was reissued for the third time and I made some digital changes in the picture. I'm not doing that any more. I've resigned myself to accepting that what the film was at the time of its creation is what it always should be for future generations. I'm no longer a digital revisionist.Q. That's something you learned from your experience with "E.T."?A.I learned from the fans. And now of course, we have the other group of fans who only know the other "E.T." with the digital augmentation and that has become their standard for receiving that story. The only thing I think we can do is continue to manufacture and put out both versions. But it's too complicated to that with any of my other movies – I'm pretty much going to release those films the way they were originally made.
Be sure to head over to Yahoo! and The NY Times for the full interviews, but here's one last quote regarding a 3D post-conversion that might interest our readers:
"I wouldn't be interested in doing 'Raiders' in 3D because 'Raiders' is not really a modern movie. I don't see it popping out at me. I think the film is dynamic enough without having to lay on a 3D conversion process."
But he will consent to a 3D conversion of Jurassic Park for the film's 20th anniversary next year. Have a look at this trailer for Raiders of the Lost Ark in IMAX:
Check out more quotes from Spielberg and details on how you can get tickets in the following press release. The new IMAX poster for Raiders of the Lost Ark follows below, courtesy of Fandango. Head over there and leave a comment for a chance to win a Blu-ray version of the film:
INDIANA JONES: The Complete Adventures Debuts On Blu-ray™ September 18th
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. (August 15, 2012) – The cinematic classic that introduced the world to Indiana Jones is ready to embark on a new adventure when director Steven Spielberg and executive producer George Lucas' unforgettable Raiders of the Lost Ark is released for an exclusive one-week engagement in select IMAX® theatres beginning September 7, 2012. The film has undergone a complete restoration for the IMAX exclusive one-week release and subsequent debut on Blu-ray. Tickets and a list of participating theatres are available starting today at www.imax.com.
"When I saw the stunning quality of the picture and heard the enhanced sound in an IMAX theatre, I was quite literally blown away and hope that audiences will enjoy the experience as much as I did," said Spielberg.
"We are honored to present all the excitement of Indiana Jones in a way it's never been experienced before – IMAX," said Greg Foster, Chairman & President, IMAX Filmed Entertainment. "We look forward to celebrating this iconic film with longtime fans as well as a new generation of moviegoers."
The IMAX release of Raiders of the Lost Ark will be digitally re-mastered into the image and sound quality of The IMAX Experience® with proprietary IMAX DMR® (Digital Re-mastering) technology. The crystal-clear images coupled with IMAX's customized theatre geometry and powerful digital audio create a unique environment that will make audiences feel as if they are in the movie.
Under the supervision of Spielberg and renowned sound designer Ben Burtt, Raiders of the Lost Ark has been meticulously restored with careful attention to preserving the original look, sound and feel of the iconic film for its highly-anticipated release on Blu-ray as part of INDIANA JONES: The Complete Adventures. Every extraordinary exploit of world-renowned, globetrotting hero Indiana Jones finally comes home in sparkling high definition on September 18, 2012 from Lucasfilm Ltd. and Paramount Home Media Distribution. In addition to all of the thrilling adventures, the set features seven hours of fascinating bonus material, including a brand new two-part documentary entitled "On Set with Raiders of the Lost Ark – From Jungle to Desert and From Adventure to Legend." Featuring nearly an hour of rarely seen footage from the set of the film and archival interviews with Steven Spielberg, George Lucas and Harrison Ford, this captivating piece transports fans back to where the legend began.
Lucasfilm, Indiana Jones™ and related properties are trademarks and/or copyrights, in the United States and other countries, of Lucasfilm Ltd. and/or its affiliates. TM & © Lucasfilm Ltd. All rights reserved. All other trademarks and trade names are properties of their respective owners.
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Jurgen Klinsmann smeared the sweat pouring down his face with the front of his mesh U.S. training shirt. "You play until the head coach wins," he said, smiling, to explain the extended length of a half-field game which had kept a cluster of journalists waiting in the sun.
The coaching staff – as well as others, such as former U.S. international Kyle Martino and U.S. U-17 coach Richie Williams – had played a pickup game with small nets roughly four feet across after a morning session for the U.S. national team during the second week of the January camp.
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When Klinsmann took over the U.S. national team shortly after the 2011 Gold Cup, he announced a tryout period for his assistant. Within half a year, he had chosen. Well, he'd picked two. Martin Vasquez and Andreas Herzog work on equal authority underneath Klinsmann. Additionally, Chris Woods, Everton's full time goalkeeper coach, flies in for international dates.
Klinsmann's last assistant on the international level, Joachim Low, has overseen a vibrant, exciting Germany side for half a dozen years now. So how did Klinsmann do picking his crew this time around?
For his first game in charge, a 1-1 friendly draw with Mexico on Aug. 10, Klinsmann invited Martin Vasquez, Thomas Dooley, Tab Ramos, Mike Curry (goalkeeper coach) and Mark Vestegen (fitness) along.
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Ramos became the U.S. U-20 coach, and eventually Vasquez stuck. Between national team gigs, Klinsmann had coached his former club Bayern Munich for 10 months. Vasquez served as his assistant there. The two met in southern California, where Vasquez was the assistant for the LA Galaxy and then Chivas USA.
After Bayern Munich fired the pair in the wake of a heavy loss to Barcelona in the Champions League, despite a healthy league position, Vasquez took the head coaching job at Chivas USA, lasting a season and failing to make the playoffs. He was director of soccer operations of at the Real Salt Lake-Arizona academy by the time the first Mexico friendly rolled along.
"In the first few camps he brought in other coaches," Vasquez said. "Once things were in place, he decided to go with me. We have a history of working together. Maybe that had a little bit of a plus."
The choice involved more than familiarity, according to Klinsmann. As a player, Vasquez was one of only two to ever represent both Mexico and the United States (the other is current Club Tijuana fullback Edgar Castillo). The continued contacts on both sides of the border worked in Vasquez's favor.
"Martin has been part of this game here in MLS, in Mexico, in Central America a really long time," Klinsmann said. "He knows the market really well. He knows many, many coaches down in Mexico and is well connected."
With both Klinsmann and Vasquez based stateside, the former German international striker wanted a presence in Europe. Most of the best players of any nationality drift toward Europe, making it an ideal location to scout not just Americans but the best CONCACAF rival players as well.
In December 2011, Klinsmann placed a call through to former Bayern teammate Andreas Herzog, the coach of the U-21 Austria team.
"I had a good group but at this moment we lost one game," Herzog told Goal.com. "I was a little bit disappointed because the qualification was nearly over. I said, 'Yeah, Jurgen.'"
In November 2011, Austria had played Bulgaria twice in UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifying. A 2-0 loss on Nov. 11 and a 1-1 draw days later left Austria fourth out of five teams in Group 10, with five points from five games. Only group leaders and the four second-placed teams with the best record qualified for the 2013 tournament, so Herzog knew his team's chances were minimal. He started work for the USSF on Jan. 1, 2012.
"Andy's one of the uprising coaches coming through the European ranks," Klinsmann said. "He has already coached the under-21 team from Austria very successfully. He was in line for the head coach there."
Herzog works with Matthias Hamann, the brother of former Liverpool midfielder Dietmar, scouting the players based in Europe. They prepare by the month, submitting plans to Klinsmann regarding who to watch. Klinsmann makes minor adjustments, and they fly around the continent, filing reports.
"Obviously with Andy basically running a bit our European office … gives it a new dimension," Klinsmann said. "We have people present in the Premier League, in the Bundesliga, in Italy that do work for us that has never been done before. Therefore we can monitor our players overseas, we can monitor them closely here in MLS and also closely down in Mexico, which is very important."
When the national team isn't in session, most of the work of the assistants may sound ideal to a fan: "just watch games, watch players," Vasquez said. But then they must "make a decision with the guys that are coming in, who's performing, who's in rhythm, who's 100 percent, and who can come in and help us win games." And, of course, train them in an extremely limited timeframe.
During the three-week January camp at the Home Depot Center, Vasquez led the majority of sessions. Klinsmann prefers to hang around the edges, pouncing when he sees something that bothers him.
"He's a perfectionist when it comes down to planning training sessions and to execute them," Klinsmann said of Vasquez. "That's why I give him a lot of freedom to get that satisfaction to run certain things."
Herzog doesn't mind running the group through drills, he says, but favors smaller clusters or one-on-one instructions.
"Because of the language it's easier for [Vasquez] to talk with the players," Herzog told Goal.com. "For me it's easier to talk with a little group, from face to face, about the tactical thing."
The former Werder Bremen midfielder spent a year with the LA Galaxy (which came about due to Klinsmann's friendship with Doug Hamilton, Herzog said). His English is fine, though clearly not his native language.
"Martin does a lot of the explaining," Will Bruin said. "We haven't split up too much into defense and offense, but when we have Jurgen's been with the forwards and Martin's been with the defenders and Andy goes back and forth."
By all accounts, Klinsmann let Jogi Low run most of Germany's tactical side as well.
Low's nomadic and largely uninspiring coaching career had taken him to Austria Wien by 2004 when Jurgen Klinsmann called. Low's resume included a DFB-Pokal with Stuttgart and an Austrian championship with Tirol Innsbruck. His accolades since taking over the German national team include third place at the World Cup and second in Euro 2008.
Klinsmann foresees his current assistants moving back into head management roles soon enough.
"Both are ready to be head coaches anyway," Klinsmann said. "What I need from coaches like that is that they're not just saying yes to me, that they say often no to me. That they deliberate with me on certain issues, because every one of us reads the game differently, reads a player differently. So it's important that we exchange those opinions, and at the end of the day I have to make the calls, and I will make those calls."
That's why he makes the big bucks, a cool $2.5 million a year. But, like with Germany, his support staff will influence the style, identity and overall quality of the team. Perhaps even after Klinsmann steps down.
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VANCOUVER, BC – Before joining Vancouver Whitecaps FC in December 2011, Young-Pyo Lee admits he had plenty of other suitors.
Considering his pedigree, that's not much of a surprise.
The South Korean defender built a resume that included 12 appearances over three FIFA World Cups, successful stints with top-level European clubs PSV Eindhoven and Tottenham Hotspur, and a total of 11 different championships with four different teams.
Though Lee was nearing the end of his career, there were several different teams that came calling.
"It was a very, very difficult decision," Lee told whitecapsfc.com. "But when I look back now, choosing Vancouver was one of the best decisions of my life."
Lee, who spent the last two seasons of his illustrious 14-year professional career in Vancouver, will be honoured prior to kickoff on Saturday when Whitecaps FC host Houston Dynamo at BC Place.
After joining the club in advance of the 2012 MLS season, Lee started 63 of 65 regular season appearances with the Blue and White. In his first year, he was voted the club's BMO Player of the Year, while leading Whitecaps FC to their first appearance in the MLS Cup Playoffs.
In total, the 5-foot-9 right back picked up a goal and 10 assists during his time in Vancouver.
"I have played with so many different clubs and in so many different countries," Lee said, "but for me, the last two years with Vancouver were very, very special."
And the reason for that goes beyond just soccer.
"The most important thing is not soccer, the most important thing is the people," Lee said. "Soccer is very important, but the most important thing is soccer with who? In Vancouver, the players and club, all the people are very, very nice."
"It is one of the best memories of my life," he added.
Experience Y.P. Lee's final match in Vancouver
The best memory of them all, however, was Lee's last game: a 3-0 win over Colorado Rapids in Vancouver's 2013 season finale. It was a game that saw Lee walk onto the pitch with his two daughters, wear the captain's armband, and receive a standing ovation before the game as well as when he was subbed off in the 90th minute.
To cap off the night, the team gathered at midfield and lifted Lee in celebration.
"I never expected anything like that," said Lee, who is often asked about that final game when he's back in Korea. "After the game, I felt so thankful to the fans, to the staff, to the players, to everybody. When I look back at the last two years, I say to myself that I'm a very lucky guy."
Now that he's retired from professional soccer, he feels the same way. Five months after that final game, Lee said he's very "comfortable" with the decision he made to call it a career – though, naturally, he still misses the game at times.
"When I wake up in the morning, the last 14 years, I immediately went to the training ground to play soccer," said Lee, who still trains with the 'Caps on occasion. "But now I don't need to anymore. So it feels like something is wrong, but now is much better than before."
Life after soccer hasn't exactly been a walk in the park, however. Lee has a contract with the Korean Broadcasting System (KBS), which is South Korea's largest television network, to provide commentary during the upcoming FIFA World Cup. He was just in Korea earlier this month and will return there at the beginning of April to continue preparations.
"Before I retired from soccer, I thought I had all of the time," he said. "But now that I've finished soccer, I'm more busy. It's not easy, but it's getting better. It's fun."
Lee will remain in Korea for the duration of the World Cup, before returning to Vancouver in August. It's at that point that he plans on applying to the University of British Columbia to pursue business studies.
Eventually, Lee plans to move back to his native Korea for good, but he said Vancouver and Canada will always hold a special place in his heart. And his two young daughters feel the same way.
A few days ago, Lee said they were playing a curling video game between Korea and Canada and they didn't know what team to choose.
"I said to them, 'You are Korean, you have to choose Korea,'" Lee said in laughter. "But they said, 'Why? We're in Canada.' My two daughters are more supportive of Canada than Korea."
Whether or not Lee feels the same way, he said he will always be supportive of Whitecaps FC. At a training session earlier this week, he was asked about Saturday's ceremony. His response: "It's a very important game for our team."
"I feel the Vancouver Whitecaps FC are still my team," he told whitecapsfc.com. "My team forever."
Whitecaps FC season tickets start at the prorated price of just $331 and single-match tickets start at $22, subject to applicable fees. The 'Caps also offer a flexible range of ticket products, including half-season tickets ($244), 5-packs ($149), student season tickets ($199), and a youth soccer half-season ticket ($100). For more information on all Whitecaps FC ticket options, call 604.669.9283 ext. 2 or visit whitecapsfc.com/tickets.


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Goin' Home
Seminary Music: Doctrine and Covenants
Goin' Home
Kindly fires burning there warm my soul
Yearning for the ones I call my own.
I'm going home.
Right at home steady shoulders gather there to share the load.
I'm learning how to give what's needed most right at home.
This longing to be there is calling me there.
It's stronger than words can tell.
And once in homes sweetness I taste the love of Heav'n
Heavenly home
Holy faces wait for me and cheer me on.
I will do all that it takes to reach their arms
Where I belong
Goin' home
Text: Kenneth Cope
Music: Kenneth Cope
Arranged By: Jason Johnson
Artist: Kenneth Cope


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Amoeba.com's growing free downloads section had a ton of great stuff this year. Here are some highlights.
Sufjan Stevens – "Justice Delivers Its Death"
This delicate ballad comes from Sufjan Stevens' latest Christmas opus, Silver & Gold, Songs for Christmas, though its delicate beauty would fit on any of Stevens' early, more acoustic releases.
Pissed Jeans – "Bathroom Laughter"
Pennsylvania punks Pissed Jeans' latest album, Honeys, is due Feb. 12 on Sub Pop. The first taste from the album is a ferocious blast, with singer Matt Korvette scream-talking lyrics quickly as the band bashes out two-and-a-half minutes of hardcore bliss.


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Next month's Vanity Fair's examines the horror wreaked by the "man crush" upon our civilization in recent years: apparently Karl Rove formed a Man Crush on George W. Bush, who in turn nursed a mutual man crush on Tony Blair. Less disastrously, Nicolson Baker had a hardon for Updike. Every male member of the Washington press corps has crushed on John McCain just like every vaguely nebbishy college dude crushes on Obama and every pro-capitalist business journalist crushes on Jack Welch. (Oh yeah, and every guy also crushes on Tom Brady.) My friend Steve forms man crushes so frequently he has a standard line for when he's telling me about a new one: "And then we split a Luna bar." Which made me wonder: Women, you know, get girlcrushes all the time and it's no deal. So what is it about the man crush that is so excruciating to watch? I figured it out.
Men always form crushes on other men who are like, the exact opposite of them. (If they're sufficiently alike and the feelings are mutual, they immediately enter into that sort of buddy matrimony wherein the "old married couple" quality of the union obscures the newness of the bond, since dudes sort of instinctively hate the idea of making new friends.) (Like have you ever noticed that, even if two dude friends met last year, they will talk about high school and old hardcore shows as if they attended them together?) Anyway, whereas girls — is this egotistical of us? — tend for form crushes on girls whose, you know, outfits and pop cultural touchstones and pastimes mirror our own, dudes only seem to form man crushes on the sorts of men — torture victims, ladykillers, capitalists, foreigners — who represent a mysterious Other Path, so any girls present are subjected to first watching a dude totally question every facet of his identity, then possibly undergo a mini existential crisis under the influence of infatuation, then gradually become disenchanted as breaks free of both states until he finally grasps that this whole thing has publicly sunk him to the depths of indignity because it turns out his Crush is actually, like, George W. Bush. And that any man who crushes on George W. Bush must hate himself. Yeah, so I guess it's sort of like what happens to us. Anyway.
Does The Media Have A Man Crush On John McCain [Vanity Fair]


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For lectures to programs for children, come visit us at one of the library events and programs listed below. For more information, call 615-862-5750 or 1-800-342-3262.
Taught by audiologists, physicians, speech-language pathologists, family advocates, and a special parent panel.
• Hearing loss in children
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• Emotional needs of family and children when someone has a hearing loss
• How to teach others, like daycare providers, about your child's hearing loss
PARKING: Free parking is available at Vanderbilt's parking lot at 673 Chestnut St. and a free shuttle will be provided. FOOD TRUCK: Bring money for lunch. The food truck will serve lunch from 11:30 AM to 2:00 PM.
WellFEST is a one-of-a-kind health and wellness symposium fully accessible to more than 207,000 individuals in Middle Tennessee living with some form of hearing loss. We invite you to join us and the 300 to 500 individuals we anticipate serving at the 10th Annual WellFEST!
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Coming downtown to the First Saturday Art Crawl? Then start your evening at the Frist.
"When was the Frist Art Museum built? Who was the architect? Can you tell me about the floors in the galleries?" These are just some of the questions answered in the Frist's popular architecture tours. Stroll around the Frist Art Museum as you learn more about our landmark building from one of our always-engaging docents.


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A South Carolina dog is being hailed a hero after owners say he alerted them that a babysitter was abusing their 7-month-old son.
The babysitter, Alexis Khan, 22, pleaded guilty to assault and battery in Charleston Count Court on Monday. She faces one to three years in prison for abusing the child, named Finn.
"About five months into her being our babysitter, we started to notice that our dog was very protective of our son when she would come in the door," Benjamin Jordan said. "He was very aggressive towards her and a few times we actually had to physically restrain our dog from going towards her."
Jordan says the behavior was very unusual for Killian, a black lab and German shepherd mix. "He is a very personable dog," Jordan told Fox and Friends. "He is an 80-pound lap dog. For him to show aggression towards anyone is a sign."
The couple decided to place an iPhone under the couch and let the phone record while they were at work, expecting to hear her possibly abusing the dog, according to court documents and officials.
They were horrified at what they heard.
"It started with cussing," Hope Jordan said to WCSC in Charleston. "Then you hear slap noises and his crying changes from a distress cry to a pain cry. I just wanted to reach through the audiotape, go back in time and just grab him up."
"To know that five months I had handed my child to a monster, not knowing what was going on in my house for that day," she said.
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Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck cuts a fine figure on television as he condemns killer Charles Dorner and promises to bring him to justice. He even looks a little like that police commissioner Tom Selleck plays on television.
But Beck has disgraced himself by ordering a reexamination of the disciplinary case that led to the firing of Dorner. Beck explained that he wants to assure the city that his department "is transparent and fair in all the things we do." He added that he's "aware of the ghosts of the LAPD's past" and concerned that they might be "be resurrected by Dorner's allegations of racism."
How sensitive. How politically correct.
No institution is "fair" in all it does, and Beck is silly to suggest otherwise. Moreover, to try to demonstrate one's fairness by reexamining an old case is a fool's errand, even as a general matter. Folks either trust the LAPD or they don't. If some folks don't, even after all of its efforts to overcome its old-time racism, then the department's conclusion that it treated a particular African-American fairly will not "assure" them in the slightest.
But to reopen a case in response to claims of unfairness by a murderer is sheer lunacy. It's as if the LAPD is granting an extra level of appeal for grievants who are willing to write a screed against the police, provided they are prepared to back it up by killing policemen. Those within the LAPD who handled the case of Dorner, now conclusively shown to be evil and deranged, are no doubt thrilled and impressed to see their Chief revisiting their work because Dorner started killing people.
As Bill Otis puts it:
So we have come to the point that mass murder prompts, not any particular doubts about the person doing the killing, but wide-eyed credulity and fretting about his "message." This is where we are. God only knows where we are headed.


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Phoenix, AZ, February 18, 2012 – – ClearDATA Networks, Inc., the leading healthcare cloud computing platform and service provider, today announced that Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center, a 782-bed medical training institution, comprised of a 316-bed acute care hospital and a 466-bed adult and pediatric skilled nursing long-term care facility, has selected the ClearDATA HealthDATA™ Cloud Computing Platform as its hosting and offsite backup solution. Kingsbrook decided to begin migrating its IT infrastructure to ClearDATA's HIPAA compliant cloud in order to reduce capital expenses on hardware, lower IT costs, and minimize the risk of lost data due to hardware failures or natural disasters.
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Surely the facts are in considerable dispute
Go back 50 years in time.
OK, it's 1963 and I've been out for two years.
Homosexuality was deemed a mental disorder by the nation's psychiatric authorities, and gay sex was a crime in every state but Illinois. Federal workers could be fired merely for being gay.
Today, gays serve openly in the military, work as TV news anchors and federal judges, win elections as big-city mayors and members of Congress. Popular TV shows have gay protagonists.
And Neil Patrick Harris RULES
And now the gay-rights movement may be on the cusp of momentous legal breakthroughs. Later this month, a Supreme Court ruling could lead to legalization of same-sex marriage in California, and there's a good chance the court will require the federal government to recognize same-sex marriages in all U.S. jurisdictions where they are legal — as of now, 12 states and Washington, D.C.
The transition over five decades has been far from smooth — replete with bitter protests, anti-gay violence, backlashes that inflicted many political setbacks. Unlike the civil rights movement and the women's liberation movement, the campaign for gay rights unfolded without household-name leaders.
Oh really?
Progress came about largely due to the individual choices of countless gays and lesbians to come out of the closet and get engaged.
Progress came about through organizations like the Gay Activists Alliance and the concerted efforts of LBGT Americans everywhere to organize and fight for our rights.
These were people like a Chicago graduate student willing to confront a high-profile critic of gay relationships. A young community organizer plunging into advocacy work for AIDS victims. Three gay couples in Hawaii suing for the right to marry at a time when that seemed far-fetched even to many activists.
"It is pretty mind-blowing how quickly it's moved," said David Eisenbach, who teaches political history at Columbia University and has written about the gay-rights movement.
"There are kids coming out in high school now, being accepted by their classmates," Eisenbach said. "Parents, relatives, friends are seeing the people they love come out. It's very hard to discriminate against someone you love."
As the Supreme Court rulings approach, here is a look back at three of the gay-rights movement's pivotal phases and some of the people who chose to get involved.
Dr. David Reuben had many fans after publishing his best-selling "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex" in 1969.
Murray Edelman wasn't among them.
Edelman, then a University of Chicago graduate student, was part of a tiny band of activists who launched a gay liberation movement in the city late in 1969.
When Reuben — who depicted gay men's relationships as bleakly impersonal and short-lived — was booked to appear on a TV talk show in Chicago in January 1971, Edelman and some fellow activists decided to attend.
Irked at being denied a chance to ask questions, Edelman headed to the stage toward the end of the session, seeking to confront Reuben. He was hauled out of the studio, but the incident received TV and newspaper coverage.
"It was the first time they really acknowledged there were gay activists in the city," Edelman said.
He wasn't alone in this. Eugene
Memorably eviscerated Reuben HERE
It was an era abounding with firsts for the gay-rights movement
Historians can trace its roots back to individuals and incidents many decades earlier, and some pioneering national gay-rights organizations were formed in the 1950s.
But the pace picked up in the 1960s — which saw the first gay-rights protest in front of the White House and, in 1969, a U.S. Court of Appeals ruling that federal civil servants could no longer be fired solely because they were gay.
Gay activists formed organizations in New York, San Francisco and elsewhere. Amid the ferment of the anti-war movement and civil rights movement, there was a surge of interest in gay liberation — gays and lesbians publicly revealing their sexuality and evoking it as a source of pride, not shame.
The movement broadened — and public awareness grew — after police harassment of patrons at the Stonewall Inn, a New York City gay bar, sparked three days of riots in June 1969.
Actually t was only one night of rioting. The days that followed were devoted to celebration — and organizing.
Emboldened by Stonewall, Edelman decided to promote gay activism at the University of Chicago. Through an ad in the student newspaper, he and friend convened a meeting to launch a gay liberation group. It started with a handful of members and grew steadily,
"We came to the conclusion that, before we could do anything else, we had to come out," Edelman said. "We decided to wear buttons — 'Out of the closets, into the streets.'"
By the summer of 1970, the activists had hosted some well-attended public dances and organized Chicago's first gay pride parade.
Edelman, now 69, went on to work for CBS News and serve as editorial director for Voter News Service, the consortium that conducted exit polling during several presidential elections.
What did he and his colleagues accomplish four decades ago?
"It was a whole new consciousness for gays — we made it OK to be gay," he said. "We thought that we had strength in each other, that we could define ourselves differently from how society defined us."
Which until the mid-70s was as criminal neurotics.
The 1970s brought a rush of milestones as gays came out of the closet and started demanding equal rights — the first openly gay people elected to public office, the first local laws prohibiting anti-gay discrimination, the first national gay rights march in Washington. In 1973, the American Psychiatric Association declassified homosexuality as a mental disorder.
With those winds of change at his back, 27-year-old Tim Sweeney moved to New York in the fall of 1981 to become executive director of the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, a gay legal advocacy group.
A few months earlier, The New York Times had published an article headlined "Rare Cancer Seen in 41 Homosexuals." Sweeney worried this mysterious illness would give the public another excuse to denigrate gay people at a time when he and his colleagues were feeling hopeful.
He couldn't have conceived of the pain, losses and political challenges that lay ahead.
It would be a year before the cluster of strange ailments afflicting not only gay men, but intravenous drug users, hemophiliacs and some women would have a name — Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, or AIDS — and another year before the virus that caused it, HIV, was isolated.
Sweeney had come to Lambda Legal planning to oversee challenges to state laws that criminalized gay sexual activity, to represent people fired from jobs because they were gay. That work continued early in the epidemic while volunteers and community clinics cared for the growing numbers of terminally ill.
Soon, though, the scourge became all-encompassing.
In 1983, Lambda took on the case of a doctor being evicted from his rented Manhattan office because he treated people with AIDS. A court blocked the eviction, ruling that it violated state laws protecting the disabled; the decision provided a template for securing insurance coverage for the afflicted. As panic and prejudice spread, gay lawyers also sought to protect the confidentiality of patients being tested or treated for AIDS.
The epidemic made gay people more visible than ever and spotlighted the absence of legal protections for their relationships. Survivors who cared for longtime partners found themselves barred from hospital rooms, frozen out of funerals, stripped of shared possessions. Without marriage as an option, couples prepared wills and even tried to adopt one another so their relationships would be respected in the event of death.
And death loomed terrifyingly. By the end of 1985, 15,527 cases of AIDS had been reported in the U.S. and 12,529 deaths attributed to the disease.
But President Ronald Reagan still had not uttered the word "AIDS" publicly and the government had not devised a plan for combatting the disease.
Seeking to intensify pressure on federal officials to invest in a national response, Sweeney became public policy director and eventually executive director of the New York-based Gay Men's Health Crisis, the nation's first AIDS service organization.
It was a huge operation, with 235 staff and 4,000 volunteers feeding, counseling and advocating for people with AIDS. The group, and similar organizations in other cities, also promoted "safe sex" messages that later would be credited with slowing infection rates.
Reflecting the gay community's growing anger over the slow government response, Sweeney also participated in the launch of ACT UP, which used protests
"We were losing in those days dozens and dozens of clients at GMHC every single month. We had staff who died. We had board members who died … It was a very dark period," he said. "We somehow took that incredible loss and fury we all felt about how dispensable certain people in this society thought we all were and forced change in the system."
By mid-1993 Sweeney had left Gay Men's Health Crisis to care for his older brother, who would die of AIDS the next year. The deaths still were mounting, but federal engagement had gradually increased. President Bill Clinton established an AIDS policy office in the White House, and Congress passed legislation protecting people with AIDS from discrimination. The pace of federally funded research picked up.
In 1996, as drugs emerged that would eventually change AIDS from a death sentence to a somewhat manageable disease, Sweeney returned to full-time activism with the Empire State Pride Agenda, a group that later would help legalize same-sex marriage in New York. Since 2007, he has led the Gill Foundation, a major financial supporter of gay-rights causes.
For Sweeney, there's no doubt that AIDS hastened the gay-rights movement's growth by shining a light on inequality and mobilizing the gay community.
"When they saw how much we cared, how much we organized and reached across every barrier, whether it was race or gender or neighborhood or class … the fact that we showed that kind of heart and innovation and courage in spite of what was just relentless stigma and dehumanization, I think that really changed the country's sense of who were as human beings," he said.
The three gay couples didn't even have an attorney, let alone an inkling of the weighty consequences, when they arrived at Hawaii's Health Department on Dec. 17, 1990, to apply for marriage licenses.
Indeed, one couple, Ninia Baehr and Genora Dancel, had met only six months earlier. They'd fallen in love; Dancel had already bought Baehr a ring.
"For us, it wasn't part of long-term strategy," Baehr said in a recent interview. "It was the emotional part of wanting that respect, and wanting the protections of things like health coverage."
The couples' applications were rejected — unsurprising given that same-sex marriage was legal in no state or nation — and their plan to file a lawsuit floundered when major gay-rights groups turned down the case.
Eventually, a lawyer in private practice took the case, which dragged on for five years while a backlash materialized. Hawaii lawmakers voted in 1994 to limit marriage to unions between a man and woman, and in September 1996 Congress passed the Defense of Marriage Act, which prohibited federal recognition of same-sex marriages and said no state could be forced to recognize such marriages that might become legal in another state.
In December 1996, the three couples and their legal team — reinforced by New York-based gay-rights lawyer Evan Wolfson — won the first-ever judgment ordering a state to legalize same-sex marriage. Circuit Judge Kevin Chang said Hawaii failed to provide sound reasons for banning such marriages, and rejected the claim that same-sex couples are less fit to raise children than heterosexuals.
The victory was short-lived. Chang suspended his ruling to allow an appeal, and in 1998 it was rendered moot when Hawaii voters approved a constitutional amendment giving state legislators the power to limit marriage to heterosexual unions. Over the next two decades, 30 other states passed amendments banning gay marriage — including California with a ballot measure that's been challenged in one of the cases now before the Supreme Court.
Despite the setbacks, the campaign for marriage equality grew inexorably from a quixotic cause to a broad mass movement now supported, according to many polls, by a majority of Americans.
Under a court order, same-sex marriage began in Massachusetts in 2004. Soon legislators and voters in other states were legalizing it without court pressure. With the addition of Rhode Island, Delaware and Minnesota in May, there are now 12 gay-marriage states.
Wolfson is now president of Freedom to Marry, an advocacy group that has played a key role in the movement.
The Hawaii case, Wolfson says, "was the real turning point."
"It was the first time in the history of the world that the government was forced to come before a trial judge and show a reason for excluding gay people from marriage," Wolfson said. "We were able to show that the government doesn't have one."
Tens of thousands of American gays are now legally married, though none of the Hawaii couples who filed the suit are among them.
Baehr and Dancel broke up not long after Chang's 1996 ruling, though they stay in touch.
Like so many married couples — save for the staying in touch part.
"Being part of that case, and such a public face of it, brought us closer," Baehr said. "But it also placed a lot of stress on us."
Baehr, who works for the American Civil Liberties Union in Montana, believes same-sex marriage will eventually prevail nationwide. Short term, she hopes the Supreme Court will order federal recognition of the same-sex marriages that exist now, striking down a key part of the Defense of Marriage Act that surfaced as a backlash to the Hawaii lawsuit.
"We've had that feeling like DOMA is our responsibility — it was a bad thing that happened in part because of what we'd done," Baehr said. "To see it made right, two decades later, is going to be very sweet."
Let's hope so.
David Crary, based in New York, and Lisa Leff, based in San Francisco, have been covering gay-rights issues for the AP for more than decade.
Not nearly long enough.
The City Council voted 4-2 in favor and only after an amendment was made to the draft. The meeting lasted more than six hours, with five and a half being spent discussing the ordinance.
The ordinance, which seeks to protect the rights of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community, had failed in a previous version in April.
The version that passed Thursday has several changes
The so-called "ID to pee" section, which stated the gender on a state-issued ID card, would decide what restroom a person could use, was removed.
straights get so skeevy about peeing.
The small business exception was also removed. That would have exempted a business with five or fewer employees from the ordinance.
That removal came after a citizen pointed out almost 40 percent of Pocatello businesses have five or fewer employees.
"It's something we can be proud of in Pocatello," said City Councilwoman Eva Johnson Nye. "I think we made some good decisions tonight. It was a long time getting there, but we did the right thing. And we have citizens protected now, and that's a good thing."
The ordinance will take effect next week.
And we all know what Pocatello means, don't we.
As we all know it wasn't always easy for Judy
But the day she was buried wasn't easy for her fans, leading to–
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Jesus said the Kingdom of God belongs to little children (Luke 18:15-17) and the pathway to true greatness is found in those who embrace a childlike heart (Matthew 18:1-5). If our Heavenly Father does indeed hide the mysteries of the Kingdom from the wise and learned, yet He is delighted to reveal them to little babies (Matthew 11:25-26), then all of us adults should take notice of what Jesus is saying here.
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From the mythical realm known as the Backyard a terrible force emerges to declare war on humanity. Now powerful fighters will meet in single combat to determine the fate of the world.
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differential geometry, branch of geometry in which the concepts of the calculus are applied to curves, surfaces, and other geometric entities. The approach in classical differential geometry involves the use of coordinate geometry (see analytic geometry; Cartesian coordinates), although in the 20th cent. the methods of differential geometry have been applied in other areas of geometry, e.g., in projective geometry.
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The question of how much income tax a presidential candidate pays comes up every four years. It's been a rite of passage since the early 1970s. This year, the question has been more contentious than in some years as voters and pundits are clamoring for more information from Gov. Mitt Romney, the Republican nominee.
Critics think Romney's effective rate (taxes paid divided by gross income) of 14.1% sounds low, and call it unfair that a wealthy businessman pays a much lower tax rate than a middle class worker, but that's the way the tax code is written. And Romney can say that there is at least one president over the last 40 years who paid a much lower rate.
That information comes from taxanalysts.com, which looked at the returns of all presidents, plus Romney, going back to Richard Nixon. (They note that President Gerald Ford did not release returns but did make public detailed information about his taxes.)
It's notable that, in general, the effective tax rate paid has gone down over the years. That, as taxanalysts.com explains, is because of tax reform that has lowered tax bills for everyone.
Here is the countdown from highest to lowest Tax Rates Paid by 8 U.S. Presidents and 1 Nominee:
(President Ford dancing with Queen Elizabeth at the White House in 1976.
Photo: AP)
9. Gerald Ford: 37.8%
Gerald Ford took over the presidency after Nixon resigned. His reputation after more than two decades representing Michigan in the House of Representatives was one of honesty and integrity. Nothing about his tax bill would change that perception. A check of his taxes from before he was president shows the effective tax rate he paid as bouncing between 31% and 42% from 1966-74.
(President Reagan showing off his boot after signing his tax reform bill at
his California home in 1981. Photo: AP)
8. Ronald Reagan: 32.37%
Maybe the "Great Communicator" was inspired to champion tax reform after glimpsing his own tax bill. While his rate is second-highest on this list, there is something else to note about Reagan's taxes. According to the National Journal, he was the first presidential challenger pressured to release his tax returns.
(President Carter signing a bill in the White House in 1977. Photo: AP)
7. Jimmy Carter: 31%
Carter came in promising to attack the culture that ruled Washington. As an outsider, he won support from voters looking for a change after Vietnam and Watergate had left the country weary. Carter's presidency was a bust, although some historians tout his post-presidency success as second only to Herbert Hoover's.
(President Bush walking through the White House in 2006. Photo: AP)
6. George W. Bush: 27.17%
Bush, whose name is famously attached to a series of tax cuts set to expire at the end of this year, sits smack in the middle of our list. Judging by his quiet post-presidency, he's probably glad to be watching the battle over those tax breaks from the comfort of his Texas home.
(President Obama delivering State of the Union address in 2012. Photo: AP)
5. Barack Obama: 26.45%
The battle over taxes and who should pay what rates has been a hot-button issue during the Obama administration and the 2012 campaign. In the public relations battle, the president could claim that he pays what he likely considers his fair share.
(President Clinton with his wife, Hillary, in 1998. Photo: AP)
4. Bill Clinton: 20.15%
Clinton's effective tax rate while president might be relatively low, but the amount he has paid since leaving the White House has moved into the stratosphere. From 2000 to 2007, Clinton and his wife, Hillary, paid $33 million in taxes on $109 million in gross income, an effective rate of 30.2%. Most of that income came from books they each wrote and from fees ($51 million) for speeches given by the former president.
(President Bush and Vice President Dan Qualye waving during the GOP
convention in 1988. Photo: AP)
3. President George H.W. Bush: 19.86%
The first president named Bush followed Reagan with his famous "read my lips" line pledging "no new taxes." Like Reagan, promises of lower taxes proved to be more rhetoric than reality, and when he violated his no tax pledge during his term it helped lead to his defeat to Clinton in the 1992 election. Like Romney, Bush's substantial wealth meant much of his money was generated through investments rather than ordinary income.
2. Gov. Mitt Romney, GOP Nominee: 14.1%
Romney has released two years of tax returns that show he paid an effective rate of 14.1%. That relatively low rate is because the bulk of Romney's income for the past two years was earned from investments. Romney has said for many years his effective tax rate was 20%, but he has not released documents to back that up.
(President Nixon addressing a press conference in 1973 about Watergate
crisis. Photo: AP)
1. Richard Nixon: 0.3% (that's not a typo)
Nixon might have earned the nickname "Tricky Dick" while running for Congress way back in 1950, but future events would cement the perception that it was particularly apt. Watergate, of course, is Nixon's unfortunate legacy, but forgotten by many are Nixon's paltry tax payments for 1970 and 1971.
Getting what later was deemed a too-high value placed on his personal papers, which he donated to the National Archives, Nixon was able to use a large charitable deduction, taxanalysts.com says, to almost eliminate his tax liability. Alas, like Watergate, the scheme came to light in 1974 when the IRS investigated. The scandal was quickly eclipsed by the revelations from The Washington Post's Woodward and Bernstein, but Nixon did end up paying $465,000 in back taxes and interest.
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1. Back To Scotland
And I can't get this place out of my head.
Is it just me, or doesn't that room look like absolute heaven?
Has anyone stayed HERE?
I'm not ashamed to admit, I cannot wait to hear.
3. Gorgeous Scarves
Love Scarves.
There are so many fabulous scarves to be found at Liberty of London.
It boggles the mind.
These celebrate the wildlife of Scotland (pictured above) Ireland and Wales.
It tickles me beyond belief to know these books are destined
for a cozy place in a stocking somewhere!
Get your copy HERE.
And a very special thank you to the beautiful Brooke Giannetti of Velvet and Linen
for her incredible post about our book.
Read it HERE
Or read Miss Baldrige's book about her time in the Kennedy White House.
The magnolia blooms have disappeared. The hydrangea bushes stand leafless and stark.
See more HERE.
7. Value
One night when I was much younger, I happened upon a PBS production of a play entitled, Best of Friends. It was an exploration of the friendship between three remarkable people: Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw, director of Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge, Sydney Cockerell, and Dame Laurentia McLachlan, a Benedictine nun at the Stanbrook Abbey in Worchester. Taken mostly from their own writings, the dialogue was witty and smart - the ideas considered, expansive and illuminating. I was utterly enthralled and thought about this play for weeks afterwards. Without the benefit of public broadcasting, I would never have known of this production as it contained neither the bombast nor the torpidity required to entice television advertisers. So much of the most memorable, moving and thought-provoking offerings on American television are to be found on Public Broadcasting. Freely given, it is where we turn for symphonies and ballets, enlightening documentaries and theatre. I continue to be grateful for its existence in my everyday life.
It was disheartening to hear the losing candidate vow to end public financing for these institutions during the recent presidential campaign. Public access to art is vital to our national health, and PBS is about so much more than Big Bird. While federal funding only counts for a fraction of these budgets, to me, the issue is not about money.
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I have so many things planned for the holidays!
Book lists, gift lists, recipes!
Like I said, isn't this a wonderful time of the year?!