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Gov. Romney is for traditional marriage and he has proven it:
- He pushed for an amendment to Massachusetts' constitution to overturn the same-sex "marriages" that courts have imposed
- He testified before Congress and wrote to senators in favor of the Federal Marriage Amendment
- He ordered enforcement of a little-known 1913 law to prevent out-of-state gay couples from getting "married" in Massachusetts and provoking a national constitutional crisis
- He opposed civil unions and sued his legislature to force a vote on a proposed Massachusetts marriage amendment
Gov. Romney is for the sanctity of human life and he has proven it:
- He is a "convert" to the pro-life position, much like Ronald Reagan
- He believes life begins at conception
- He vetoed a bill to give kids access to emergency contraception without parents' knowledge
- He promised a "moratorium" on changes to abortion laws in his 2002 gubernatorial run
- He opposes Roe v. Wade and thinks states should set abortion policy
- He opposes cloning of human embryos for stem cell research—even though his wife has multiple sclerosis
- He vetoed a bill to expand such research despite the overwhelmingly hostile liberal majority in his state legislature
- Quote: "In considering the issue of embryo cloning and embryo farming, I saw where the harsh logic of abortion can lead—to the view of innocent new life as nothing more than research material or a commodity to be exploited."
Gov. Romney understands the threat jihadists pose to the United States and he isn't afraid to say so:
- He criticized the administration's decision to rely solely on WMD rationale for Iraq rather than making a positive case
- He denied state police protection to a former Iranian dictator
- He endorsed surveillance of radical mosques
- Quote: "[President Bush] is right to point to an international jihadist movement aimed at the collapse of the United States. He has gone after that threat in the right way and with great energy and vigor, and I applaud the fact that he has taken it on very seriously and has not considered it just a criminal action but instead a war action, which requires a military…response."
Gov. Romney is pro-growth on economic issues and he has proven it:
- He balanced Massachusetts' budget without raising taxes, turning a projected $3 billion deficit into a $700 million surplus
- He secured a debt upgrade for Massachusetts; Barack Obama's policies led to a debt downgrade for America
- He turned job losses in Massachusetts into job gains and left office with a 4.7% unemployment rate
- While managing the Salt Lake City Olympics he turned a nearly $400 million deficit into a $100 million surplus
- He created more than 120,000 jobs in the private sector and played key roles in starting or revitalizing companies like Staples, Domino's, Sports Authority, and others
Gov. Romney is for the rule of law and he has proven it:
- He opposed a bill that would have allowed illegal aliens to get driver's licenses
- He vetoed a bill to give illegal aliens the right to in-state tuition at public universities
- He advocated giving state troopers the power to arrest illegal immigrants
- Quote: "I'm against an amnesty and against anything that provides an incentive for people to come here illegally."
Gov. Romney has earned the praise of conservative leaders:
- "Charming. Smart. Conservative."—National Review
- "We couldn't be happier with him."—Barbara Anderson, Citizens for Limited Taxation (the leading taxpayer group in Massachusetts)
- "On either [gay marriage or stem cells], a good case can be made that Romney has fought harder for social conservatives than any other governor in America, and it is difficult to imagine his doing so in a more daunting political environment."—John J. Miller, National Review
- "In the worst possible circumstances, he confronted one of the toughest issues of our politics with considerable moral seriousness and political skill. That's the mark of a conservative statesman."—Matthew Spalding, The Heritage Foundation
- "I could in very good conscience support Romney as a fellow social conservative on most of the issues we care about."—Chuck Colson
- "As more Americans meet Mitt Romney, I think they'll see beyond the handsome exterior and see not just a good salesman, but a thoughtful (and, yes, conservative) leader."—Kathryn Jean Lopez, syndicated columnist and editor of National Review Online
- "Mr. Romney could be an attractive presidential candidate. His sunny disposition puts one in mind of Ronald Reagan—he laughs easily and smiles almost continuously….[His] views put him well within the mainstream of GOP conservatism."—James Taranto, Wall Street Journal
- "On marriage and cloning, he has provided aggressive leadership as a positive, pro-family governor"—Kris Mineau, Massachusetts Family Institute
- "Mitt Romney is a brave man. While the GOP glitterocracy attended the first gay wedding of one of their own, Gov. Romney was in Washington, D.C., making the single most eloquent and articulate defense of our traditional understanding of marriage I have heard from an American politician."—Maggie Gallager, President, Institute for Marriage and Public Policy
- "As a politician, Mitt Romney is considered by friend and foe to be the total package."—Dean Barnett, The Weekly Standard


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Center for Religious Freedom
Founded in 1986, and headquartered at Hudson Institute since January 2007, the Center for Religious Freedom promotes religious freedom as a component of U.S. foreign policy by working with a worldwide network of religious freedom experts to provide defenses against religious persecution and oppression.
Since its inception in 1986, the Center has sponsored investigative field missions, reported on the religious persecution of individuals and groups abroad, and undertaken advocacy on their behalf in the media, Congress, State Department and White House.
Religious freedom faces difficult new challenges. Recent decades have seen the rise of extreme interpretations of Islamist rule that are virulently intolerant of dissenting voices and other traditions within Islam, as well as other faiths. Many in the policy world still find religious freedom too "sensitive" to raise. But since 9/11, the link between America's national interests and its ideals has never been clearer.
When U.S. policy falls short, the Center for Religious Freedom works to speak up for the promotion of religious freedom and the defense of persecuted believers. During the Cold War, the Center focused on helping religious believers persecuted under Communism. Today, while it continues to press for religious freedom in the remnant communist states of China, North Korea and Vietnam, it is increasingly engaged in ensuring that American policymakers defend the principle of religious freedom and believers who are persecuted purely for their religious beliefs in the Muslim world. These persecuted believers include Christians, Jews, Mandeans, Yazidis, Baha'i, Ahmadiyya, and others, as well as Muslim minorities and dissident reformers who find themselves condemned for the religious crimes of blasphemy and apostasy.
Board of Advisors
R. James Woolsey is co-chair of the Committee on The Present Danger. He was chairman of the board of Freedom House when it released Saudi Publications on Hate Ideology Invade American Mosques and he authored its foreword. He has practiced law for 22 years and has held a variety of senior government positions, including service as Director of Central Intelligence from 1993 to 1995. He is now a consultant.
Zainab Al-Suwaij is the co-founder and executive director of the American Islamic Congress (AIC). She works with the Anti-Defamation League and Facing History and Ourselves, and serves on Connecticut's Hate Crimes Advisory Board. Al-Suwaij has testified before the Senate, works regularly with various congressional leaders, and has briefed the President and Secretary of State. Her writing has appeared in numerous publications, including The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. Since 2003, Al-Suwaij has worked in Iraq to strengthen women's rights and help rebuild the Iraqi education system. She currently leads the State Department-funded Iraqi Women's Educational Institute, which trains female civil society activists in principles of democracy and civic leadership. Al-Suwaij co-founded the Iraqi Women Higher Counsel which successfully lobbied the Iraqi Interim Governing Council to mandate 25 percent of parliamentary seats for women. She also works with Women Waging Peace.
Joseph Ghougassian is the first naturalized U.S. citizen from the Middle East to become a U.S. Ambassador. He served in Qatar, was White House Aide to President Reagan in the Office of Policy Development, and was Peace Corps Director in Yemen. In 2003 he was the Special Envoy to Kirkuk on property disputes, and CPA Deputy Senior Advisor in the Iraqi Ministry of Higher Education. Currently, he is Chief of Party in a USAID-funded project in National Capacity Development for Iraqi civil servants in public management. Born of Armenian parents, he received his education in Egypt, Lebanon, Rome, and Belgium, and earned a law degree in the United States. Author of several books, he has lectured extensively around the world on international affairs, diplomacy, law, politics, philosophy, and psychotherapy. While U.S. Ambassador in Qatar he helped persuade its government to lift a 14-century prohibition on the practice of Christianity and non-Muslim religions. In recognition of this achievement, Pope John Paul II bestowed upon him a Vatican knighthood with the rank of Commander in the Order of St. Gregory the Great.
Mary Habeck, Associate Professor of International Relations at Johns Hopkins University, teaches courses on military history and strategic thought at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies. Before joining SAIS, she was a professor in Yale University's history department for eleven years. She is the author of Knowing the Enemy: Jihadist Ideology and the War on Terror and Storm of Steel: The Development of Armor Doctrine in Germany and the Soviet Union, 1919-1939. She has co-edited two volumes on the First World War and the Spanish Civil War. She is currently working on a second book on the war on terror entitled The Jihadist Way of War.
John "Jack" Joyce is president of the International Construction Institute, a Rome-based NGO working in developing countries and Central and Eastern Europe. Previously he was president of the International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers BAC from 1979 until 1999. He is currently a member of the Advisory Committee on Labor Diplomacy to the President and the Secretaries of State and Labor. Joyce was a member of the AFL-CIO Executive Council from 1984 to 1999, and served as chairman of its Committee on National Defense, and on the boards of the AFL-CIO institutes on Latin America, Africa, and Asia. He was also Labor Chair of the International Labor Organization (ILO) Committee on the Application of Standards, Chair of the Democratic National Committee's Labor Committee, Labor vice-chair of the Center for National Policy, and Co-chair of the Central American Democracy Watch. He was on the boards of the National Endowment for Democracy, the National Democratic Institute, and the Commission on Central American Reconstruction and Redevelopment. Additionally, he has served on the board of the Harmon Fellowship Program at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, and the National Academy of Sciences Building Research Board. President Reagan appointed him to the Presidential Commission on Collective Bargaining and President Clinton to Presidential Missions to Poland and El Salvador as well as the Labor Diplomacy Committee.
Rebiya Kadeer, one of China's most successful businesswoman in the mid-1990s, is an advocate for the rights of the Uyghur people in East Turkestan (or Xinjiang Province) in northwest China. She established a multimillion-dollar trading company and a department store in Urumchi, and worked to provide assistance and opportunities to disadvantaged Uyghurs, especially through her movement to empower women to start their own businesses. Originally held up as a model of Uyghur success and philanthropy, she fell from favor with the PRC government after she began calling for an end to its hard-line policies against the Uyghurs and a lifting of discriminatory restrictions on their cultural and religious expression. In 1997, Kadeer was stripped of her membership in both the National People's Congress and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and forbidden to travel abroad. She was arrested in 1999 while on her way to meet with a visiting U.S. Congressional delegation and, following a secret trial, was sentenced to eight years' imprisonment in March 2000. She spent two years in solitary confinement. In response to international pressure, she was then released from prison and sent to the United States, where she was granted refugee status. Many of Kadeer's eleven children and other family members have been persecuted by PRC authorities in retaliation for her human rights advocacy. In 2006, she was elected to the presidency of the Uyghur American Association, which works to support the right of the Uyghur people to use peaceful, democratic means to determine their own political future, as well as to the presidency of the World Uyghur Congress, which represents the interests of the Uyghur diaspora.
Firuz Kazemzadeh is the former secretary for external affairs of the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of the United States. He is professor emeritus at Yale University, having taught Russian history there from 1956 until his retirement in 1992. During his tenure at Yale, he also served variously as director of graduate Russian and Eastern European Studies; chair of the Committee on Middle Eastern Studies; and director of graduate studies in History. He is the author of several books relating to Russia and Central Asia.
Theodore Roosevelt "Ted" Malloch is chairman and founder of the Spiritual Enterprise Institute and also chairman and CEO of The Roosevelt Group, a strategic management and thought-leadership company. Malloch has been a senior fellow of The Aspen Institute, where he previously directed its national seminars. He served on the executive board of the World Economic Forum, which hosts its renowned yearly "summit" in Davos, Switzerland. He has held an ambassadorial-level position in the United Nations (1988-92); headed consulting at Wharton-Chase Econometrics; worked in international capital markets at Salomon Brothers, Inc.; and served in senior policy positions at the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations and in the U.S. State Department. He has authored numerous articles and books, including The Renewal of American Culture and the Pursuit of Happiness (with Scott Massey) in 2006.
Richard Land has served as president of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission since 1988. In 2005, Land was featured in Time magazine as one of the "Twenty-five Most Influential Evangelicals in America." In 2004, he was recognized by National Journal as one of the ten top church-state experts "politicians will call on when they get serious about addressing an important public policy issue." He is the host of two nationally syndicated radio programs, For Faith & Family and For Faith & Family's Insight.
Vo Van Ai is a distinguished Vietnamese political activist, journalist, historian and poet, living in exile in Paris. He is founder and President of Quê Me: Action for Democracy in Vietnam, an organization to promote Vietnamese culture, and editor of Quê Me (Homeland), a Vietnamese-language magazine on democracy, human rights and culture published in Paris since 1976. He is the founder and president of the Vietnam Committee on Human Rights, a Paris-based monitoring organization. He directs the International Buddhist Information Bureau, and is the international spokesman for the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam, Vietnam's traditional Buddhist Church, which is banned in Vietnam today. He is also president and co-founder of Forum Asia Democracy, a private movement to promote democracy and the rule of law in Asia. Vo Van Ai is a member of the International Steering Committee of the Non-Governmental Process of the Community of Democracies. Arrested and tortured at the age of 11 for participating in the resistance movement against French colonial rule, he began to study Buddhist Sutras in prison and decided to devote his life to the pursuit of social justice and freedom through the Buddhist path of compassion and non-violence. In 1964, he began campaigning for a peaceful solution to the Vietnam War, and has monitored human rights since the communist unification of his homeland in 1975. He drew up the first map of Vietnamese reeducation camps, and launched a campaign that led to the release of hundreds of thousands of religious and political prisoners. In 1978 he helped initiate a campaign that led to the launch of the "Ile de Lumiere," the first rescue ship dedicated to helping escaping Vietnamese "boat people." He now runs a weekly radio broadcast on democracy to Vietnam, and regularly testifies before the United Nations, the European Parliament, and the U.S. Congress about human rights and religious freedom in Vietnam.
George Weigel, a senior fellow of the Washington-based Ethics & Public Policy Center, is a Roman Catholic theologian and one of America's leading commentators on issues of religion and public life. He has authored or edited 17 books, including The Final Revolution: The Resistance Church and the Collapse of Communism; Witness to Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II; and The Cube and the Cathedral: Europe, America and Politics without God. He is a consultant on Vatican affairs for NBC News, and his weekly column is syndicated to 60 newspapers around the United States.
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Religious Freedom and Persecution in Iran Congressional International Religious Freedom (IRF) Caucus
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From Arab Spring to Coptic Winter: Sectarian Violence and the Struggle for Democratic Transition in Egypt Testimony before the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe
Christian Minorities Under Attack: Iraq and Egypt Testimony before the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission
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Iraq's Vulnerable Religious Minorities Congressional International Religious Freedom Caucus and Religious Minorities in the Middle East Caucus
Religious Freedom in China: Analyzing the Impact of the Olympics Congressional Human Rights Caucus, Task Force for International Religious Freedom
State Enforced Worship in North Korea Congressional Human Rights Caucus Task Force on International Religious Freedom
Advancing Religious Freedom and Related Human Rights in Iran: Strategies for an Effective U.S. Policy United States Commission on International Religious Freedom
Nina Shea on human rights abuses and religious persecution in Burma Congressional Religious Freedom Taskforce
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by Lou Mancinelli
When Los Angeles seems more like a city for the connected or the lost than home to a city of angels, what does one do with his/her aspirations for the theater and beyond?
For second grade Springside Chestnut Hill Academy (SCH) teacher and Mt. Airy resident Mary Ann Domanska, it meant moving back to her hometown in North Carolina for a year before moving in with her sister in Philadelphia and dabbling in various fields until she discovered the one that best suited her vision for her future.
Before that, in L.A. in 1993, Domanska worked numerous positions and auditioned for roles as she attempted to jostle herself into a viable career in the film industry. She worked as a script reader for MGM Studios, an assistant at the International Documentary Association, an intern for Gilla Roos Casting Agency and a production assistant.
"I thought it would be more about my talent and less about my connections," said Domanska, 39, about her time in L.A. "I didn't want to spend too much of my life hoping for a break that would probably never come."
She left L.A. in her early 20s and eventually returned to school in 2000 at Chestnut Hill College, earning her teacher's certification and a master's degree in elementary education in 2003.
In 1994 Mary Ann graduated with a BFA degree in performing arts from Emerson College in Boston, minoring in creative writing and photography. After graduating from Emerson, Domanska bounced between jobs and worked in mortgage lending (in North Carolina), photo framing, as an office manager for a play therapist, for an architectural firm and interim director for the Girl Scouting Without Bars program at the former Freedom Valley Girl Scout Council in Valley Forge for a year (great experience).
"Eventually, I realized that I wanted to do something with and for children," she said. In 2000 Domanska gave birth to a daughter, Clara. At the same time her vision for the future evolved. How could she parlay her passion for creativity and her background in performing arts? Since she started at Springside in 2003, Domanska has worked to spread her affinity for the arts throughout the campus.
Though she traded her dreams of the soundstage for the classroom, her degree in fine arts has not gone unused. For the past few years Domanska has served as the co-director of SpringsideCHA's Summerside on the Hill Performing Arts Camp hosted in July. She recently performed in "The Deadly Game" production presented by Chestnut Hill's Stagecrafters Theater and has appeared in various local productions at the Allens Lane Art Center. And on Saturday, July 28, 6:30 p.m., she will be performing in "Dead Right," a whodunit murder mystery at Scoogi's restaurant, 738 Bethlehem Pike in Flourtown.
She's also serving her sixth year as the troop leader of local Girl Scout Troop 98 that meets at Allens Lane Art Center. As a young girl, her mother served as her troop leader, and before that her grandmother provided the same role to her daughter. For the women in her family the Girl Scouts are a tradition. Domanska herself earned her Gold Award, the Girl Scouts equivalent to an Eagle Scout, and is now charged with directing the efforts of at least three girls in her troop as they work towards their Silver Award, the last badge earned before one takes on Gold Award responsibilities.
And in keeping with her creative background, Domanska is now at work on a middle grade novel, "Emic Rizzle, Tinkerer," inspired by her experiences in the classroom. She aims to publish the book sometime next year. (To find out more visit her Kickstarter project online.)
Publishing is one thing Domanska is using to light the flame of creativity in her students. Last month on Twitter, the American College of Education mentioned Domanska in a tweet that read "Mary Ann Domanska inspires her 2nd graders by publishing it online so they feel like authors…"
Mary Ann explained, "That was a reference to the use of technology in my classroom as a tool to motivate students by giving them the option to do dramatic readings of their stories…In short, the end product (a podcast as one example) inspires students to work at a higher level. They become more invested in the work because they get to celebrate it beyond the written page. Performance makes their stories come alive, and that makes the whole process more meaningful and fun!"
ISTE stands for the International Society for Technology in Education. Domanska attended this year's conference in San Diego the last week in June. She conducted an interview with the Local as she rode back to her hotel from a kayaking venture the final afternoon of the event.
"The conference was inspiring and frightening," said Domanska.
Still, it helped her learn about her craft. "Over and over again I heard at the conference how important it is for children to be supported and encouraged to develop their creativity and entrepreneurial skills. This is exciting for me as a professional because it is how we are already doing things at SpringsideCHA."
For more information about Summerside on the Hill Performing Arts Camps, visit www.sch.org or http://maryanndomanska.wordpress.com


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Last month I taught a journal-writing class to a group of women at my church. Though I practically cut my teeth writing in my journal, I no longer write regularly. I justify myself by claiming that I spend my days writing other things, which absolves me from any sort of journal-writing guilt. Honestly though, at the end of the day I feel like I simply have nothing left to say.
The details of my life are mundane:
I eat, I sleep, I work. Repeat.
Of course, there are variations, but not many.
I eat, but I eat the same things on a weekly basis. (We follow a set menu at the Gingerbread House because of picky eaters.)
I sleep, but not much because my body keeps a monk's schedule, awakening usually at 3 or 4 am.
I work: I write, I shovel, I cook, I clean, I drive, I organize.
These days, there's little that's noteworthy but for the snow, and even that's lost its newsworthiness, as it simply keeps coming.
But then two weeks ago, I found myself in a situation that I had to write about:
I am sitting in an examination room at the Seacoast Cancer Center. I am not here because I have cancer. No one in the waiting room knows that though, and I feel like a fraud. There are people with real problems out there — one woman wears an eye patch, one came in a wheelchair. One man carries a cane, while another carries what I think must be a chemotherapy bag.
And here I am, because of anomalies in my blood work at my yearly physical.
The room I'm in is depressing, even though they try to make it otherwise. The walls are painted sage green. Three walls in a lighter green and one in a darker green. Everything else is khaki neutral: floor tiles, chairs, examination bed, sink, countertop. I, on the other hand, wear an incredibly bright pink sweater. I stand out.
There's nothing here that's particularly interesting. No major plot points, no great descriptions. So why did I feel compelled to grab a notebook out of my bag and write?
I suspect it was because this was something out of the ordinary. That is, it was out of the ordinary to me. It was a different beat in the regular rhythm of my days. So I wrote it down.
However, what I see as ordinary might not be what everyone else sees as ordinary. Is that not one of the reasons why we read? Is that not one of the reasons why we seek out diverse books? Sometimes we want to read about someone whose life mirrors ours. We need understanding. We crave validation. Other times, we want to slip into the shoes of someone entirely different and experience what constitutes their "ordinary." We need a universality of emotion, even if the details are different. That is our humanity.
I value those stories, whatever they are and wherever they may take place. They are a connecting link in time and place and situation from one person's heart and soul to another person's heart and soul.
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Armed with an arsenal of Intelligentsia beans and a pure and simple love for coffee, Urban Grounds has spent a decade focusing on serving high-quality joe in a comfy, living room-like space.These days, Atlanta seems to have more craft coffee joints dapper baristas and latte art than one could shake a tamping spoon at. But back in the coffee dark ages, before terms like "single-origin" had even entered the parlance of us coffee commoners, one cozy little indie shop in Avondale Estates was quietly doing their craft coffee thing—and now, ten years later, all those extra years of practice have definitely made perfect.
Armed with an arsenal of Intelligentsia beans and a pure and simple love for coffee, Urban Grounds has spent a decade focusing on serving high-quality joe (among the best in the U.S., some might say) in a comfy, living room-like space right on North Avondale Road. While the coffee is, of course, the crown jewel of this hidden gem, the foodstuffs are equally top-notch—in other words, no pitiful shrink-wrapped sandwiches hiding in a mini-fridge. Instead, the shop stocks a mix of regular staples, like the chicken salad sandwich and Bagel Palace breakfast sandwiches, alongside rotating specials like – be still our hearts – a delicious banh mi. We've come a long way from Starbucks, haven't we?
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Wednesday, November 14, 2007
1955: A Goodyear for Trucks
But in 1955 Goodyear launched a truck tire campaign in The Saturday Evening Post that really packed a punch.
While the unsigned ad above focuses more on encouraging the public to lobby the government to build more roads (more roads + more cars and trucks = more tires sold), the ads I really enjoy are these below, also unsigned but almost certainly done by one of my favourite illustrators; Rudy Pott.
Pott was the perfect choice for this series, which has a sort of "day in the life of a truck driver" theme.
Not only do these ads show off Pott's unquestionable technical abilities, they impress because the artist shows us such a wide range of everyman characters without that over-idealization so typical in 1950's illustration (especially when its advertising art).
Pott's work is not quite reportage... not a gritty realism (we are, afterall, trying to sell tires here) but his people have a comfortable credibility that makes it easy to relate to and like them. They seem like good, honest, hard working reg'lar folks.
I've added these images to my Rudy Pott Flickr set. Take a little while to look at the largest size versions of these pieces so you can take in more than the snippets I cropped out for you here.
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I agree with you about the honesty of the people he draws. The one illo in the diner is just terrific. All of these echo back to a time when there was real optimism in this country.ReplyDelete
Wonderful stuff. And I have to add, that top soil mover in the first picture seems to have been inspiration for the new Batmobile. Ha.
Thanks Ron; I'm glad you see the same quality in Pott's work that I do. The copy in the top ad is a great example of that optimism you speak of... no hint of the inevitable sprawl and pollution that will result from the course of action Goodyear is pushing.ReplyDelete
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Volume Control
Make volume control intuitive and easy to use.
Current status
- Targeted release: Fedora 11
- Last updated: 2008-11-10
- Percentage of completion: 50%
A lot of the necessary infrastructure work in PulseAudio has been done. E.g. it is possible to associate metadata with audio streams, and classify them according to roles (event, music, phone, ...).
At the Sound BoF at GUADEC this year, the plans for this feature were discussed in some detail: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-multimedia/2008-July/msg00001.html
Rawhide now contains changes made upstream to use libcanberra in the control-center for sound events configuration, and thus support the Freedesktop sound theme specification. This means that there should not be any hard requirements on esound anywhere in the stack, except in deprecated functions in some libraries.
A rewrite/merger of the sound capplet and volume control has begun upstream. The mixer applet has been turned into a status icon.
Detailed Description
With the use of PulseAudio by default, it makes sense to no longer expose the unintuitive plethora of volume controls and channels that alsa exports, and which is currently reflected 1-1 in the gnome volume control tools (gnome-volume-control and mixer applet). PulseAudio already ships with a volume control app, pavucontrol, that is packaged for Fedora (but not installed by default).
- Graphical mixers (such as the volume applet, the mixer, and the multimedia keys handler) should be restricted to modifying PulseAudio's default output's mixer (which could be aggregated outputs).
- The control-center's sound setup tools should react to hardware hotplug (Bluetooth headsets/headphones, USB sound cards and webcams with microphones).
- The control-center should also allow basic microphone checking
- The control-center should allow tweaking of multi-inputs/outputs policies (play music to all devices, play only to headphones, etc.)
- The mixer applet should be turned into a status icon, to avoid a number of problems with the applet (may not have one, may have more than one, may have one even if there is no hardware,...)
Benefit to Fedora
The multimedia experience of Fedora users is improved by an easily understandable and much more flexible volume control model.
Affected modules are:
- kernel (ALSA) which should trim the number of user visible hardware channels
- PulseAudio to allow supporting features in the front-ends
- gst-plugins-pulse should support setting application specific volumes (see Bug #448924)
- gnome-volume-control will need application audio tracks support
- gnome-settings-daemon might need changes
- gnome-applets will loose the mixer applet. It will be replaced by a NullApplet, to make existing panel configurations work without warnings
- gnome-control-center changes to tie in with the necessary configuration options
Test Plan and User Experience
- Michael is playing music using his computer's sound card/builtin speakers. But he wants more oompf, and plugs in USB speakers. The same sound starts blurting out of both sets of speakers
- Michael realises that his builtin speakers are too teeny anyway, so wants to only play sound effects at a low volume on them, and keep on playing music through the bigger USB speakers. If the USB speakers were to come unplugged, the sound would go back to the internal speakers. Replugging them would get them their music back.
- Tobias launches an audio chat (via Ekiga or Skype) with his agent, using the builtin microphone and speakers on his laptop, but wants more privacy. He switches on his Bluetooth headset, and automatically gets sound input and output to that device for his chat. (Note, he could be plugging in a USB headset).
- Maeby is playing loud music on her headphones at night. When she tries to grab a banana, the headphone jack gets unplugged. The music automatically pauses so as to avoid making a lot of noise through the normal speakers. (Note that a similar problem could happen with USB headphones, or a Bluetooth headset running out of battery).
- George-Michael's music is covered by sound effects. He likes the sound effects, but they're just too loud compared to his music. He reduces the sound effects' volume, without it affecting his music.
(Bad) Mockups:
Notes on the mockups:
- the sound level bar should be a better widget than a progress bar
- sound effects selection should probably be in a treeview
- the sound playback output device would be disabled if the selected output for audio chat also has an output (such as a USB or Bluetooth headset, which would combine microphone and headphones). Not certain whether the selection would even be necessary.
- all the device selection drop-downs would be disabled if only one output or input exists
- related screenshots for [Windows Vista] (thanks Bryan!), and [MacOS X]
- Additional mockups by Bryan Clark for the volume control with [one device] and [multiple devices]
- See also current sound events configuration [in this blog entry].
- PulseAudio changes to provide necessary metadata on streams. This is all present in F10
Contingency Plan
Front-end changes would be backed out.
The Volume Control and Sound Preferences manuals have to be rewritten. This will have to wait until the new UI is in place.
Release Notes
The volume control and sound user interfaces have been rewritten to make them more intuitive and easy to use. As a consequence, there is no volume control applet anymore. If your panel is configured to contain a volume control applet, it will be silently ignored. Instead, a volume control status icon will automatically appear in the notification area when appropriate.


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JACKSONVILLE, Ala. – The Lipscomb Bisons golf team finished fifth in the Grub Mart Intercollegiate.
Ryan Terry shot the low round of the day for the Bisons Tuesday with a 72 over 18 holes in the final round of the 54-hole tournament at the Silver Lakes Golf Course.
Jacksonville State, the tournament host, finished in first place in the 10-team field.
Dustin Wilder and Blanton Farmer each shot rounds of 75 on the final 18.
Paul Kleine-Kracht finished with an 81 and Alex Cox shot an 84.
"It was a very challenging golf course," said Will Brewer, LU's director of golf. "Dustin played well in the final round. Blanton came back and played well. Ryan played very well on the final round."
The Bisons, as a team, finished the third round with a score of 303, their lowest round of the tournament.
Wilder was the top finisher for the Bisons. He tied for 17th with a score of 227 (78, 74, 75).
Farmer (78, 78, 75) and Terry (79, 80, 72) both tied for 28th at 231.
Kleine-Kracht (77, 77, 81) and Cox (72, 79, 84) tied for 41st place with each firing a 235.
"I was very pleased with our stat grading," Brewer said. "The majority of the team hit the ball well. We hit most of the green in regulation at a higher average than we had been doing."
The Bisons will continue to work on their short game for the next two weeks.
"The greens were difficult," Brewer said. "We didn't handle them as well as I thought we would. We will be spending a lot of time on the short game."


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More than one in four Americans are so afraid of missing work that they head into the office even when sniffling and sneezing, a study says.
Many are worried about falling behind on their jobs, missing pay or facing the wrath of bosses who expect them to show up no matter what, according to a survey by NSF International, which tests and certifies public health products.
Nearly 20% of Americans report always showing up for work while sick. And 17% of workers say they stay home only if a doctor orders them to, the report says.
"A majority of Americans indicate the major reason is because of workload," NSF said in a statement. "Many have deadlines or are afraid they will have too much work to make up if they take a sick day."
The report also found that about one-quarter of Americans say they work because their bosses expect them to even while battling a bug. Men are also much more likely to fight through their illness — 33% of males surveyed said they do so, compared with 17% of women.
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I have 47K on my G35 Infinity Coupe with the 'Factory Performance Suspension Package'. I did not thing I would notice much of a difference/improvement with the Eibach Sway Bar Kit (Front and Rear), since the Eibach bars are only 1 or 2 mm larger in diameter; but set to the softest front setting (of 2 settings) and the Middle Rear (of 3 settings), the vehicle is much more 'neutral'(less understeer). There some increased 'harshness', but not too much. DIY, but have lots of hand tools/breaker bar!


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The Visitor and Convention Bureau is dropping 100 glass floats this weekend along seven miles of public beaches.
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Andy Reid just hired his son Britt as one of his assistant coaches in Kansas City. When Tony Sparano worked as the Miami Dolphins' head coach, he brought his son and namesake aboard. Josh McDaniels' Denver staff in 2009 and 2010 included his younger brother, Ben.
We can debate whether these hiring practices constitute nepotism. Without question, they indirectly endorse the Rooney Rule, now 10 years old and a precocious little devil. The rule requires NFL teams to interview at least one minority candidate for every head-coaching vacancy, and it has helped construct a network to rival family ties and the comfort zone of looking like most team owners and executives. Since it went into effect, the number of franchises that have employed an African-American or Latino in the job full-time has grown from six to 15.
Some of that expansion would undoubtedly have occurred naturally, but not all of it. The Rooney rule was born in 2003, a relatively advanced time for the NFL and all Americans off the Apple early-adopter grid. Yet there was still room for a rapid 150 percent rise in the number of clubs that had ever hired minority head coaches. At least one team, the Bears, latched onto its best coach in years, the now-dismissed Lovie Smith, because of the rule. To comply, the Bears had to dig deeper into the pool of candidates, and they found the man who took them to their first Super Bowl in 21 years.
But the best argument for the rule transcends anecdotal or quasi-analytical evidence. It can be reduced to five words: "Because Dan Rooney says so.''
The Steelers chairman emeritus is 80 years old, a patriarch of not only his franchise but the entire league. When vitriol about the affirmative action engulfs any discussion about the rule named for Rooney, smart souls heed this game plan: Follow the trophies.
He and his family have brought six of the Lombardi variety, more than other NFL team has claimed, to Pittsburgh. Attaching his name to the rule gave it instant authority, beyond the fine for violations or the disapproval of the commissioner's office.
"When we found out that Dan Rooney was going to chair the committee [on diversity], I told everyone: 'We won,'" said John Wooten, the chairman of the Fritz Pollard Alliance, which is named for the first African-American coach in professional football and which lobbied for the rule. "When I played in Cleveland, we'd see him all those times when we played Pittsburgh, and we knew how the Rooney family treated people. That's why I said: 'We won, we won.'''
From Steelers headquarters this week, Rooney said the rule remained relevant now, as eight teams -- 25 percent of the league -- went into the offseason looking for new head coaches.
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"There might be a time down in the future that we might not need it,'' Rooney said. "But we're not there yet.''
Rooney spent the last four years in Ireland as the U.S. ambassador. While he was there, European soccer and rugby leagues would consult with him about increasing diversity in their coaching ranks. In one conversation, he said, someone said the idea wouldn't work unless the teams could comply voluntarily.
"I said if it's voluntary, it won't work for sure,'' Rooney said. "You have to make them do it.''
Over the years, he said, he has called a few fellow owners to prod them. Likewise, Wooten said, he has had to encourage some candidates to keep trying and not worry about whether the team already had someone else in mind.
"I talked to someone the other day, and he wasn't sure he wanted to go through it,'' Wooten said. "He was frustrated because he had done it before and it didn't work out. But I told him, 'You have to look at every time as a new opportunity to impress someone.' You never know when it's going to pay off.'"
The biggest complaint about the rule is that it turns minority candidates into tokens, demoralizing them with sham interviews.
"I think that that happens, but at least we are getting them to talk to a minority candidate to see what he's made of,'' Rooney said.
If a candidate makes an impression but doesn't score a job, word still gets around. Leslie Frazier interviewed under the provisions of the Rooney Rule in Miami when the Dolphins ended up hiring Sparano, but Bill Parcells, then an executive with the Fins, gave Frazier rave reviews. The Vikings ended up making him an interim coach two years ago and then hiring him full-time.
It's widely assumed that the Steelers hired Mike Tomlin in 2007 as a result of the rule. But both Wooten and Rooney say that the team had already satisfied the requirement by interviewing Ron Rivera, now the Panthers' head coach, before Tomlin entered the picture. Wooten assumed the job belonged to either Ken Whisenhunt or Russ Grimm, then assistants on the team, but the Rooneys decided to take a deeper look at Minnesota's young defensive coordinator. On further review, Tomlin became the first African-American head coach for an organization that had also hired the first black assistant coach in the NFL (Lowell Perry in 1957) and the first black coordinator (Tony Dungy).
Over the last six seasons, Wooten pointed out, each Super Bowl has included at least one team with either an African-American coach (Dungy, Smith, Tomlin, Jim Caldwell) or general manager (Jerry Reese of the Giants). If Baltimore beats New England on Sunday, the presence of Ravens general manager Ozzie Newsome would keep the streak alive.
When the need to keep track of such streaks no longer exists, Wooten will be thrilled. He enjoys the fact that the media rarely even allude to the race of quarterbacks anymore. He is 76, a former blocker for Jim Brown, and he can remember when "black quarterback'' was treated as almost a separate position.
For now, he sees tracking success and creating networks for assistant coaches as necessary. He has no numerical goals in mind as an end point. Neither does Rooney.
He can more easily look back and see how far the NFL has become. Over the years, he has found valuable allies. The late Bill Walsh, architect of the 49ers' dynasty, strongly advocated for diversifying the coaching ranks. He started an internship program for minority coaches and would personally mentor overlooked prospects even as he cultivated three championship teams.
Follow the trophies. They lead to innovators, not to the people who worry about the small costs of expanding opportunity.
In Pittsburgh, they also lead back to a family tradition, quite apart from fathers hiring sons. Dan Rooney remembers the days when the league bore little resemblance to today's corporate Colossus. The league was only marginally integrated, Rooney said, and coaches would latch onto exasperating objections about black players, including a deficient wardrobe.
"I remember we had a player, not a great player, and the coaches were saying 'Well, he doesn't have a jacket,'" Rooney said.
"My uncle was there, he took off his coat and said: 'He has a jacket. This is it.' I always remembered that."


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Last month we brought news of Ford Racing's new Z460 crate engine (PN M-6009-460). If you want to outfit it with your own top-end components, here's the short-block version. The Z460 short-block is based on a 351 small-block Ford with a 4.150-inch bore and 4.250-inch stroke. Starting with a 9.5-inch-deck Boss block, Ford Racing adds a Scat forged crank and H-beam rods, Mahle forged pistons, and Clevite bearings. The rotating assembly is neutral balanced, and ready for a hydraulic-roller camshaft and the top-end components of your choice.
New Twist
If you need new cylinder heads for your pushrod combination, Trick Flow's new Twisted Wedge 11R is a viable option. The 11R is a direct replacement for the original Twisted Wedge head, but with a revised intake valve angle to 11 degrees, with a 13-degree exhaust valve angle. This head works with all Twisted Wedge-specific pistons, and still boasts the Twisted Wedge-spec, exclusive valve layout and combustion chamber arrangemen; high-strength castings; exceptional cooling characteristics; and excellent airflow. The Twisted Wedge 11R is available with a 190cc, or 205cc intake runner, and with either a CNC Street or CNC Competition port design.
Polished Rear
If you want your Mustang's rearend to look as good as it works, check out Strange Engineering's polished, 9-inch, aluminum case and chrome-moly pinion yoke. Each case and pinion support is hand-polished, then ceramic-coated to protect the surface against dulling and oxidation. The Strange 9-inch, forged, chrome-moly pinion yokes are available with a chromed finish to complete the show-quality look. Whether your Mustang is built for show, go, or both, Strange Engineering's polished-aluminum case and chrome-moly pinion yoke is ready for action.
Table Summit
Sometimes you just need a sturdy table out in the shop or at the race. Summit Racing has this Nomad Economy Welding Table ideal for on-site and home-garage use. This table has two lower casters to make it portable, and retractable guiderails on two sides can be used as fences, guides, stops, or clamping edges. The table features three slots in the tabletop for use with clamps, and it can be adjusted from 26 to 32 inches, and in a horizontal, 30-degree, and folded position.
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When we think of Weld Racing, we think of drag wheels, and we're sure you have the same thought. Weld is changing that with its new GTS line of premium sports car wheels. Weld's Speed-10 and Riverside wheels are designed for ultra-high-performance cars, following a design concept to reduce the number of bolts for a clean look and lighter weight. These new wheel designs are made from the highest quality forgings we've come to expect from Weld Racing, and feature cold forging rim shells with titanium hardware. Weld says the Riverside and Speed-10 are ideal for the latest Shelby GT500, and are available with black or brushed aluminum rim shells and grey centers.
Updated Louvers
It seems that updating your current Mustang to the look of a newer design is still a popular theme. AmericanMuscle is a champion of updating with these new MMD hood-vent louvers. These are designed to give your '05-'09 Mustang the look of a '13-'14 model. The vents are fully functional and extract heat from the engine area. They are made of ABS plastic, and even though you have to cut the stock hood, a template is included to make sure you get it right.
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If your Mustang suffers from a lack of fiber, Seibon Carbon can fix that with this GT-style carbon fiber hood for '10-'11 Mustangs and Shelby GT500s. Seibon's GT hood is made from high-quality carbon fiber, and the company says its "advanced production process allows exceptional carbon/resin ratio, creating high product stiffness that also leads to extra strength." The GT hood features a heat release vent as well, to give it functionality, so it's not just a pretty face.
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For the Mustang enthusiasts saddled with a front license plate mandate, Big Mike's Performance Parts new Sto 'N Sho for '05-'14 Mustangs is exactly what you've been seeking. The Sto 'N Sho is a two-piece detachable front license plate mounting system that enables you to hide that ugly tag at shows or events. The Sto 'N Sho is made from aluminum so you don't need to worry about extra weight. It also installs in minutes, and allows you to easily remove the front tag to show off your Mustang's front end.
Shine Time
Mothers recently introduced a bevy of new products, including a Back-to-Black heavy duty trim cleaner kit, and a trim and plastic restorer, which definitely applies to the Mustang market. Mothers NuLens headlight renewal kit is designed to restore all types of smooth, shiny plastic and acrylic headlights, creating crystal clarity. Then Mothers returned to its roots with a new California Gold synthetic paste wax to provide depth, shine, and protection to your Mustang's paint. Finally, Mothers new Glass+ Surface cleaner is designed to quickly remove dirt, grime, oily film, and fingerprints from virtually any surface.
Platinum Replica
The toughest aspect of modifying your Mustang is which wheel to add. Wheel Replicas would like you to check out its new ZR Downforce Concave wheel for '05-'14 Mustangs. Available in 20x81⁄2-inch and 20x10-inch sizes, Wheel Replicas says this new wheel is lightweight and it will clear Brembo brakes, as well. The ZR Downforce comes in matte black, matte graphite, and platinum (shown). Wheel packages start at $749, but Wheel Replicas can also set you up with a wheel and tire combination to make it really easy.
Complete Stalker
Don't worry, this is the good kind of complete Stalker, it's Cervini's Auto Designs new '13-'14 Mustang Stalker body kit. The Cervini's Stalker kit comes with a Ram Air/Extractor vented hood, billet upper grille and lower grille, window scoops, side skirts, rear valance, and rear wing. The grilles are available black or brushed aluminum, while the Ram Air/Extractor hood is designed to both bring in cool air to the engine, and extract heat from the engine compartment. Cervini's says the Stalker kit will "calm and guide the harsh airstream around you." The Stalker hood and rear wing can be substituted in favor of other Cervini's designs to create your own personal Stalker kit.


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Launched in 2000 with a 20 house "blitz build", Hollywood for Habitat for Humanity (HFHFH) is an entertainment industry partnership with Habitat for Humanity. Actors, screenwriters, musicians, athletes, agents, directors, producers, studio executives and label executives are among the thousands of volunteers who have helped build homes for people in need, in the United States and around the world.
HFHFH was founded by Screenwriter/Director Randall Wallace (Braveheart, We Were Soldiers, Secretariat) to support Habitat for Humanity's goal of eliminating substandard housing worldwide. Participants support the work through donations, volunteer hours and advocacy. HFHFH works in partnership with Habitat for Humanity of Greater Los Angeles to help HFHFH volunteers connect to build opportunities locally and around the globe.
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Thomas Guy Ware, beloved son, brother, uncle and friend, age 46, died Oct. 12, 2010, in Chicago, Ill. He was born Nov. 27, 1963 in Price, Utah to Keith Nelson and Diane Thomas Ware.
Thomas grew up in Orangeville, spending many happy years in Emery County and enjoying the spectacular mountains and deserts. He was especially fond of Cottonwood Canyon and East Mountain. He loved the fall season—the colorful leaves, crisp mornings, and deep blue skies. Thomas graduated from Emery High School in 1982. He then attended Utah State University in Logan, where he received a degree in psychology, and later earned a master's degree at Westminster College in Salt Lake City. Thomas worked in the mental health field for many years in Salt Lake City, and then later in Chicago.
Thomas had many interests including family, gardening, amateur astronomy, books, nature, current events, and good conversation. He had a remarkably quick intellect, and an incredible sense of humor. He was passionate about human rights, and was an avid supporter of Amnesty International.
Thomas is survived by his parents, Keith and Diane Ware of Orangeville; his sister, Jennifer (Jeffrey) Johnson of Orem; and his brothers, Stuart (Brenda) Ware of Salt Lake City, and Dennis (Tami) Ware of Orangeville. He is also survived by four nieces and eight nephews; three grand-nieces and three grand-nephews; and best friends Robert Stewart, Ron Brown and Tracy Wilcox. Thomas took particular enjoyment in his nieces and nephews and treated them as if they were his own children.
Thomas was preceded in death by his brother, Douglas; and by his sister, Leslie.
Funeral services were held Saturday, Oct. 16, 2010 in Castle Dale. It was a beautiful fall day, the type of day that Thomas would have truly loved. He was later buried in the Orangeville cemetery.
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HOUSTON – A month of injuries and suspensions has made it impossible for the Houston Dynamo's first-choice back line to be on the field at the same time.
But with the group finally healthy, the club's first-choice group of Corey Ashe, Bobby Boswell, Jermaine Taylor and Kofi Sarkodie is expected to start when the Dynamo travel to Montreal to take on the surging Impact on Wednesday (8 pm ET; MLS Live).
The Dynamo are 5-4-1 when their first-choice backline starts, but one defender left the game early due to injury or ejection in all four losses.
Boswell (above), who will make his first appearance after serving a two-game suspension, said the group needs to be unified to somehow stop the Impact, who's 14 goals at home are second in the league this season behind Vancouver (15).
"If we're doing our job defensively and organizing and staying in shape and making sure guys are in the right spots," Boswell said of the keys to stopping Montreal. "Part of that is making sure guys are in the right spot when the ball turns over."
FULL MATCH PREVIEW: Dynamo hit the road to clash with Impact
Back together, they'll have to stay organized and together if they plan to stop Impact striker Marco Di Vaio, second in the league this season with nine goals.
"The guy's scoring goals for fun," Ashe said. "Di Vaio's the kind of player that'll lull you to sleep and before you know it they hit a long pass to him and he's through. He didn't score last week vs. Columbus so you have to figure he's going to be a little hungry."
The Dynamo plan to deal with the Impact's quick-strike attack by going back to something they preach day-in-and-day-out: response time after a turnover. It's a trait the team looks to take into every game, but it's at a higher premium against a counterattacking team like Montreal.
"They have a lot of talented players and a lot of threats offensively," Ashe said. "We have to come out with the right attitude. If we come out slow they'll punish us. It's just staying focused and going out there and dictating the game and trying to walk away with three points."
It's unclear if US international Brad Davis will appear at all for the Dynamo after he logged 16 minutes off the bench during the Americans' 1-0 win over Honduras on Tuesday night in Sandy, Utah. Midfielder Boniek García is also questionable after his brief appearance off the bench for Los Catrachos.
Darrell Lovell covers the Houston Dynamo for MLSsoccer.com.


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This salsa recipe has become a favorite at our house. It is a combination of many other recipes and some fine tuning and adjustments have taken place.
- 8 cups tomatoes (crushed or chopped)
2 cups onions (chopped)
2 cups green peppers (chopped)
2/3 cup oil
2 cups celery (chopped
½ cup cider vinegar
½ cup fresh green or red chillies (2 Tablespoon dried red chillies)
4 teaspoon mustard seeds
1 Tablespoon salt (I put less)
3 156 ml cans Tomato Paste
In this recipe Roma tomatoes are used. If you use a different type of tomato, you might have to increase the Tomato Paste. I use fresh tomatoes, when in season, and frozen tomatoes in winter. This recipe yields about 12 cups. I double this recipe and bottle 12 Mason jars.
In my garden, I grow my own tomatoes, celery, green peppers, chillies and onions.
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so, just wondering how often people brush their dog's teeth?? and do you use dog toothpaste, or just a brush/cloth, or something else??? any suggestions on the best way to do it or the best time....before eating, end of day, etc???
so, just wondering how often people brush their dog's teeth?? and do you use dog toothpaste, or just a brush/cloth, or something else??? any suggestions on the best way to do it or the best time....before eating, end of day, etc???
"Not all who wander are lost." J.R.R. Tolkien
My big plan was to brush the dogs teeth every day, but in reality it gets done about 3 times per week. I don't really have a routine as to when I do it, just part of the daily grooming session. I do use a dog toothpaste, but I have heard it said that the paste is not the important bit and can be left out if the dog objects to it. I use a double ended brush, with one head being quite tiny & the other larger.
When you find out the best way to do it, let me know as I find it not that easy on the Cavaliers. The Boxers are really easy as they have huge mouths & a flip top head, and if it goes in the mouth they adore it... no matter what it is.
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~ Sam, Sonny & Beau ~
I brush the boys teeth everyday, I use chicken or vanilla doggie toothpaste and a childs toothbrush. I sit them on top of the washer so they can not move around too much and I can see into thier mouth better with out breaking my back. My boys enjoy having their teeth brushed, I think they really like the toothpaste. I do it at all times of the day. Usually around lunchtime, but I really don't think it matters.
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Harry (tri) and Digby (blen).
I tend to brush Marlons teeth twice a week.
He loves the toothpaste and goes mad when he sees the toothbrush coming out.
I let him lick the toothpaste and then start brushing.
As he loves to chew on the brush the back teeth get brushed by him !
I 'wiggle' it about a bit turn it upside down and it works a treat !
The front ones are a different matter......
World War 3 breaks out when I try and get the front ones, but in the end it all turns out well !
Guinness - our old man at 11 has been on a BARF diet for a year and a half. Quite soon after starting we noticed that most of the tartar had been removed.
They(Guinness, Willow and Bailey) have to do a lot of crunching on their raw chicken wings and raw chicken necks - which helps to clean their teeth without our intervention.


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All research projects supported by the Office of Basic Energy Sciences (BES) undergo regular peer review* and merit evaluation based on procedures set down in 10 CFR Part 605 for the extramural grant program and in an analogous process for the laboratory programs and scientific user facilities. The BES peer review process evaluates the following four criteria, which are listed in order of decreasing importance:
The criteria for a review may also include other appropriate factors established and announced by the Office of Basic Energy Sciences.
The BES peer review and merit evaluation procedures are described within the following documents:
Office of Science (SC) Grants Policy and Guidance
BES Merit Review Procedures for Projects at DOE Laboratories (37KB)
For more information about SC's merit review system, please browse the Grants and Contracts Division homepage.
* Peer Reviews are independent assessments of the scientific merit of research by experts having knowledge of the research area equal to that of the performers of the work.
The purpose of peer reviewing Basic Energy Sciences (BES) projects is to provide BES program managers with independent technical evaluations.
The above definition* of peer review is consistent with that of the Office of Science and Technology Policy as given in the Government Accountability Office (GAO) report, "Federal Research -- Peer Review Practices at Federal Science Agencies Vary" (GAO/RCED-99-99), 17 pages plus 13 appendices 54 pages; March 17, 1999; page 2 (pdf (216KB)).
After receiving the above GAO report, the House Committee on Science requested that the GAO conduct a follow-up study, which included an audit of the peer review procedures of the Office of Basic Energy Sciences. The resulting GAO report, "Federal Research: DOE Is Providing Independent Review of the Scientific Merit of Its Research" (GAO/RCED-00-109), 36 pages, April 2000 (pdf (411KB)) found that, "On the basis of our review of available documentation from program and project files for fiscal years 1998 and 1999, the Office of Basic Energy Sciences ... [followed] the merit review procedures they have established...[and] are performing merit reviews on projects or programs, are selecting reviewers with the requisite knowledge of the research, are requiring those reviewers to apply appropriate criteria in making their evaluations, and are using the merit review evaluations in making award decisions" (page 15).
The Office of Science (SC) is the single largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences in the United States.


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For more information regarding financial aid at the Brody School of Medicine, please contact:
Deana Summerlin, Assistant Director, Office of Student Financial Aid
Email her at email@example.com
Students should identify in subject line they are medical students and include their ECU Banner ID (i.e. medical student-First & Last Name-refund question)
Phone: 252-328-6610
This phone number is answered by representatives in the Financial Aid Call Center. Students should identify that they are a Brody Medical Student and request to speak with Deana Summerlin.
Fax: 252-328-4347
Address fax to Deana Summerlin
Please note to send future scholarship checks and or correspondence to Ms. Deana Summerlin.
If you are planning to use Financial Aid as a means of paying your tuition, you need to complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) or renewal FAFSA via the web (www.fafsa.ed.gov)
Please indicate that you want your information released to East Carolina University, school code 002923.
If this is your first time applying, you will need to apply for an FSA ID at https://fsaid.ed.gov. As a medical student, you are automatically considered independent for financial aid purposes. Only your income is used to calculate eligibility for the Federal Stafford Loan programs. BSOM does not require you to report parental income information on the FAFSA.
Students may submit their FAFSA beginning October 1. However, if you plan to file a tax return, you are encouraged to submit your FAFSA during that time.
BSOM does not enforce a FAFSA deadline. However, students are encouraged to submit as early as possible to secure funding prior to the start of class.
BSOM will begin reviewing FAFSAs in March. Financial Aid award offers will be mailed afterwards.
If you need help completing the FAFSA, contact the U.S. Department of Education at: 1-800-433-3243
This scholarship/loan program is offered through the College Foundation of North Carolina. A scholarship/loan means that although it is technically a loan, if you follow the rules and obligations of the program, the amount is forgiven through service and thus becomes a scholarship.
FELS provides financial assistance to qualified students who are committed to working in North Carolina in fields designated as critical employment shortage areas. These programs are related to teaching, allied health, nursing, and medicine programs. BSOM students are eligible to receive $14,000 per year for four years.
Application deadlines vary.
For more information and to apply go to http://www.cfnc.org/FELS.
The Cost of Attendance (COA) provides students with an idea of what costs might be incurred as a medical student attending BSOM. There are two types of costs listed: direct costs and indirect costs.
Direct Costs include tuition and fees that are paid directly to the university. The student health insurance plan is also a direct cost for students who choose to purchase the plan.
Indirect Costs are expenses you will likely pay during the academic year. Indirect costs are not billed by the university. Example of indirect costs include; books and supplies, rent, transportation, and personal expenses. Indirect costs are simply estimates. You can control how much you spend. Use our estimates as a starting point and then budget appropriately. Keep in mind that the Financial Aid Office can only award students with an amount of aid equal to or less than their cost of attendance.
Married students and/or students with dependents should note that your budget only includes living expenses solely for you. The expectation is that the living expenses of your spouse and dependents will be met through spouse's earnings.
However, students may apply to receive additional loans for child day care costs and for other unusual expenses that affect the student's ability to pay. Students will be required to provide documentation such as receipts at time of request. These requests are reviewed on a case-by-case basis.
Cost of Attendance does not include consumer debts, such as car payments, bank loans, or credit card obligations which students may have established prior to medical school. Students should try to eliminate previous debts before beginning their medical school career.
COST OF ATTENDANCE for academic year 2017-2018
This policy has been developed to ensure that the Student Financial Aid Program meets or exceeds requirements set forth by federal regulations governing academic standards of progress for financial aid eligibility. This policy applies to those students receiving Title IV financial aid. Federal guidelines require that a policy be determined that is both quantitative (time frame) and qualitative (grades) for financial assistance. A student in "good academic standing" is one who has officially matriculated and is presently pursuing a program of study defined by the University as leading to the satisfactory completion of that program. In addition, the student must be proceeding at a pace which, if continued, will lead to the awarding of a medical degree.
In order to receive federal and other types of financial aid, students must comply with the Brody School of Medicine's Satisfactory Academic Progress guidelines and financial aid guidelines.
Standards of Satisfactory Academic Progress:
You must maintain satisfactory academic progress in your program of study in order to receive financial aid. There will be four Student Review and Promotion Committees representing each of four curriculum years (M-1, M-2, M-3 and M-4). Each committee will review student performance during the given academic year, and make recommendations concerning students' academic development to the Dean. Each committee is responsible for recommending student promotion to a subsequent year. Details are available at: https://www.ecu.edu/cs-dhs/bsomstudentaffairs/MD_StudentGrading.cfm
Students must be admitted and enrolled as MD degree seeking students on at least a half-time basis as defined by the Dean for Student Affairs and meet the University's standards for continued enrollment in the MD degree program.
The normal time-frame for completion of required coursework for the MD degree is four academic years. Due to academic or personal difficulties, a student may require additional time. General requirements are that full time medical students may not exceed the 150% time limitation (6 years) to complete the program for which he or she is enrolled. If a student is registered full time, he/she should complete the first two years of the curriculum by the end of the third academic year after matriculation.
A student registering for less than full-time enrollment is calculated based upon a proportion of the actual registered hours since the time of first enrollment. If a student is re-mediating and repeating coursework, he/she must pass and complete all the re-mediated courses that semester(s).
The period of time for which a student is registered to pursue a full-time non-credit research fellowship shall be excluded from the maximum time frame in which an individual student will be expected to complete the program.
Leave of Absence:
A student may be granted a leave of absence for a variety of reasons. The period of leave for which the student has been approved may be excluded from the maximum time frame in which an individual student will be expected to complete the program. Financial aid however may be affected by a leave of absence. Consult your financial aid director if you are thinking about a leave of absence. For more details regarding Leave of Absence and Withdrawals, please refer to the following link http://www.ecu.edu/cs-dhs/bsomstudentaffairs/MD_StudentGrading.cfm
For transfer students, the total years for completion of a degree include time spent at the previous institution. Hours are applied toward the degree objective at this institution.
Course of Action:
If a student is not making academic progress, the Director of Financial Aid and or Promotions and Review committee will review the student's record and recommend a course of action which may consists of one of the following;
Financial Aid Probation: In the event that a student fails to meet any of the above criteria in a particular semester, the student will be placed on Financial Aid Probation. A student in this category may receive financial aid for the upcoming semester although at the end of that semester the student must have completed the designated number of requirements. A student who has not completed the designated number of requirements by the end of the probationary semester will be suspended from the receipt of further financial aid.
Financial Aid Suspension: Normally consists of one semester of an academic year in which you will not receive Title IV federal financial aid because of failure to meet the minimum Good Standing requirement during the Financial Aid Probation period. You may appeal with evidence of extenuating circumstances.
Appeal of Financial Aid Probation/Suspension:
Students have the right to appeal their Financial Aid Probation/Suspension status. Federal regulations provide limited flexibility based upon appropriate documentation of circumstances. In the case where a student can demonstrate mitigating circumstances which contributed toward his/her inability to achieve satisfactory academic performance (e.g. illness, or death in the family), the Director of Financial Aid may reinstate the student's financial aid eligibility. Eligibility for subsequent terms would be determined following an evaluation of performance for the reinstated enrollment term. If necessary, a copy of the letter of appeal may be forwarded to the ad hoc appeals committee for review. All appeal decisions are final. The student will be notified in writing of the results. If financial aid is suspended, no further aid is disbursed until the student meets requirements.
Conditions of Reinstatement:
A student shall be reinstated for financial aid eligibility at such time as he or she successfully completes sufficient hours and has a sufficient GPA to meet the minimum eligibility requirements as set forth in this policy. It is the student's responsibility to present evidence to the Financial Aid Office at the time he/she has met minimum requirements for reinstatement. The student will observe all normal application procedures and deadlines for financial aid consideration.
Financial Aid Appeal Procedure:
A detailed appeal letter must be delivered to the Financial Aid Office for review by the Director of Financial Aid. In making determination to reinstate or not reinstate the student's eligibility for further financial aid, the Director will assess the factors that contributed to the student not complying with the minimum academic requirements. The Financial Aid Director will inform the student of this decision, in writing. If the appeal is granted an agreement for continued financial aid will be included, outlining the conditions of the continuation.


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maypop needed a new banner ad design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 19 designs submitted by 6 freelance designers.
The Art Card
Retail stores The Villager & AuburnArt.com
Both stores have websites shopvillager.com and auburnart.com
In both stores we sell art and gifts but the customers are Very different.
One store is collegiate and is a sports fan that has graduated from auburn university in auburn, alabama.
The other store is a gallery of American craft. The customer is typically a female age 30-55.
The only common variable is that both stores sell art and are have ties to the auburn, alabama area.
2 different audiences
male - 25-45 sports fans and auburn graduates and very traditional
female 30-55 interested in art, gifts, travel
Gift card design front and back for The Art Card
need a design on the front that appeals to both audiences
back side of card can show logos and websites
final files need to be CMYK 1200 dpi. eps and tiff files accepted unflattened. Type needs to be vector art.
gift card overall size is 3 3/8 x 2 1/8
front of card specs:
live area 2 7/8" x 1 5/8" bleeding artwork should extend 1/4 beyond edge
back of card
live area 2 7/8' x 1 1/8" top part of card - leaves bottom for magnetic strip and card number
I will provide logos to the winning design. Please refer to the websites for logos in the design process.