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Ugly choices await Treasury if debt deal isn't reached
WASHINGTON — Although experts still expect an 11th-hour compromise in Congress to raise the debt ceiling, the Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve are busily prioritizing who'll get paid and when, should the government run out of authority Tuesday to borrow more money.
At the top of the list are likely to be bondholders. Officials want to keep them whole to ensure that the U.S. government doesn't default on its debt obligations for the first time in history. That could rattle world markets and kick the weak U.S. economy back into recession.
But Treasury's incoming revenue covers only about 60 cents on every dollar the U.S. owes in bills, so someone's not going to get paid if Congress doesn't raise the debt ceiling permitting more borrowing. Who?
Treasury officials would have to decide whether to pay retirees on Social Security before or after active-duty soldiers, whether to forgo pay to federal workers or to withhold payment for services rendered by federal contractors. The list is long: In any given month, the Treasury Department issues about 80 million checks, according to the White House.
President Barack Obama, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and a handful of other administration officials privately have been crafting a worst-case scenario plan to prioritize who gets paid and who gets stiffed. They've sought to reassure markets that there will be a plan, but they're not discussing details yet. Rumors are circulating that it will be released after markets close on Friday.
"It is a matter of due diligence and responsible governance that Treasury will — if we approach that date, as we get closer to that date — explain how it would manage a situation that would be created by the failure of Congress to act," White House spokesman Jay Carney said Thursday. Significantly, Carney declined to say whether the administration would prioritize who gets paid.
A Treasury official, speaking on condition of anonymity given the sensitivity of the issue, added that the agency "will provide more information as we get closer to Aug. 2 regarding how the government would operate without new borrowing authority if the debt limit is not increased."
The Federal Reserve is working closely with the Treasury Department to dampen the panic and confusion that'll surely follow if lawmakers fail to compromise.
"In these matters, the Federal Reserve serves as the fiscal agent of the United States government. As such, we have been engaged in operational planning with the Treasury," said Barbara Hagenbaugh, a Fed spokeswoman. "We expect to be able to give additional guidance to financial institutions when there is greater clarity from the Congress and as Treasury details its specific plans."
The Small Business Administration plans for only "business as usual on Aug. 3," said spokesman Michael Stamler. Other agencies won't even talk about their plans. The Department of Veterans Affairs declined to comment and the Social Security Administration did not return calls for comment.
The United States has been in this position before, according to Alex Pollock, a senior researcher at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative research center. In a Wednesday blog, he noted that Congress failed to extend the debt ceiling in 1953. President Dwight D. Eisenhower responded by increasing gold certificate deposits with the Fed, which then credited Treasury's account at the central bank and thus increased the cash balance to pay bills. Treasury spent the profits it had made from the sale without having to issue new debt until the ceiling was raised in 1954.
"Should we follow Eisenhower's example?" Pollock asked jokingly, noting that Treasury still owns more than 8,000 tons of gold, now at record prices.
That's not likely. Treasury hasn't faced this sort of dilemma since the late 1970s, before modern computing and vast electronic payment systems. So many payments are automated and electronic that it's hard to imagine that something won't fall through the cracks should Treasury be forced to pick winners and losers.
The Bipartisan Policy Center calculates that from Aug. 3 through Aug. 31, Treasury would get revenue inflows of $172 billion, but bills due of $306 billion. That's a shortfall of $134 billion. Treasury would exhaust all the incoming revenue if it chose to avoid cuts to only six programs: Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, unemployment insurance and defense contractors.
On the first day, according to the center's calculation, the government will take in about $12 billion and owe $32 billion in payments — $23 billion of that Social Security payments. By Aug.15 it gets more complicated, with a $19 billion daily deficit, $29 billion due in interest payments and a scheduled auction to pay off $27 billion in bonds that are maturing, said the center. But if Congress doesn't let Treasury borrow any more, that auction won't happen — and lots of folks won't get paid.
Financial Services Forum letter to the president and Congress
Bipartisan Policy Center scenario
McClatchy's probe into roots of financial crisis, a Pulitzer finalist
To ask a question about this story or any economic question, go to McClatchy's economy Q&A
For more McClatchy politics coverage visit Planet Washington
Here's why Congress has such a hard time on the debt limit
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Despite slowing momentum in consumption, local conglomerate Mercuries & Associates Ltd (三商行) expects sales for next year to be boosted by its reinvestment in cosmeceutical retail stores.
Sanyou Drugstores Ltd (三友藥妝), a NT$120 million (US$4.12 million) joint venture by Mercuries and Japan-based Sumitomo Corp, launched its first cosmeceutical retail store — Tomod's Health Solutions — yesterday in Taipei.
It was the first Tomod's outlet to be established outside of Japan, following the cosmeceutical retail channel's rise to popularity in Japan a few years ago, Sanyou said in a statement.
"We are the first 'native' Japanese-style drugstore in Taiwan," Sanyou Drugstores president Primo Wang (王建中) told reporters.
The company will first focus on building up the quality of its service, instead of on expansion, Wang said, adding that Sanyou plans to launch two more Tomod's outlets in the Greater Taipei area in the first half of next year.
Wang did not specify the sales target he had set for the first Tomod's store.
However, Mercuries Group adviser George Wong (翁肇喜) said he expects Tomod's to become one of Taiwan's major cosmeceutical retail chains, competing with the established heavyweights Watsons (屈臣氏) and Cosmed (康是美) in the long-term.
Mercuries posted NT$1.72 billion, or NT$2.89 in earnings pershare, in consolidated net profit in the first three quarters of the year, up from NT$1.44 billion, or NT$2.43 per share, a year earlier.
Following the increasing number of players in the market, Watsons — Taiwan's largest cosmetics and drugstore operator — said it has been shifting its focus to selling snacks and beverages to attract more customers.
The company, which has more than 440 outlets, said revenue has been showing double-digit growth for the past few months.
Smaller player Cosmed, owned by President Drugstore Business Corp (統一生活事業), said the total number of its stores may total close to 400 by the end of the year.
However, sluggish economic sentiment has dragged down Cosmed's profitability in the first three quarters, with net profit during the period sliding 38.22 percent from a year earlier to NT$153 million, company statistics showed.


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Breastfeeding is the most natural way to feed your baby, but it doesn't always come naturally. Learn the top five breastfeeding tips for new moms and get your breastfeeding relationship off to the right start!
Take a breastfeeding class before baby arrives
In our society, where women are still being reprimanded for breastfeeding in public, learning how to nurse is unfortunately not part of our cultural knowledge. Breastfeeding may be the most natural way to feed your baby, but it is still a learned skill. Most hospitals and birth centers offer breastfeeding classes free of charge to pregnant moms. Make sure to take advantage of this opportunity where you can learn about correct latch, positioning and other breastfeeding tips.
Preparing for birth? Find out more about childbirth education classes >>
Schedule an appointment with a lactation consultant
After your baby arrives, make sure you have a certified lactation consultant available to help you get breastfeeding off to the right start. Many hospitals and birth centers have lactation consultants available on staff, but bringing in your own consultant is okay too. Your lactation consultant will help you to guide your baby properly onto the nipple, adjust your latch, achieve proper positioning and problem-solve any challenges that may arise. All of these are very important to the development of a successful breastfeeding relationship.
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Stay hydrated
Remember that while you are nursing, your body will require a lot more water than usual. Make sure to stay well hydrated and follow your thirst. A good rule of thumb is to keep a tall glass of water next to your nursing station so you can grab a drink at a moment's notice.
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Skip the schedules and nurse on demand. In order to establish your milk supply and a successful breastfeeding relationship, it is best to follow your baby's hunger patterns. Newborn babies will root, fuss and try to suckle almost anything when they are hungry. They often feed up to 12 times in a 24 hour period. By simply watching for hunger signs and nursing when your baby is ready, your body will adjust to accommodate the needs of your baby as your milk comes in.
The breastfeeding diet: Learn what to eat and drink while breastfeeding your baby >>
Be aware of breastfeeding challenges
Breastfeeding can be uncomfortable during the first few weeks as your nipples adjust to constant suckling. Lanolin cream can do wonders to soothe sore or cracked nipples. Gently dab a little on after each nursing session. It is completely safe for baby and will greatly speed up the healing process.
However, if you experience anything beyond mild discomfort, it is best to call in professional help. Even if you got off on the right foot with your breastfeeding relationship, it is not uncommon to develop a minor breastfeeding challenge, which can be easily corrected with the help of a certified lactation consultant. Check with the International Board of Certified Lactation Consultants and find a consultant near you.
Suffering from breastfeeding challenges? Learn how to heal from mastitis naturally >>
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text: Mystery of the Performance Counters with Negative Denominators! 6. October 2012 Ryan IT Professional , Windows , Windows Server Comments (4) So I finally solved a bit of a mystery, after wondering about it off an on for about 6 months. A lot of us out there use some sort of monitoring program like SCOM that gathers some performance counter data from all of the servers in your environment, and uses that data to produce messages such as: WARNING: Hey man, the CPU usage on SERVER01 is really high and has been for a while, so, you might wanna' go check that out. But every once in a while, if for some reason the performance counters needed are unavailable, your monitoring application might say something like this: ERROR: Unable to get performance counter data for SERVER01. Well that happens to me somewhat frequently. Sometimes it's an error in the monitoring application, or sometimes the agent machine needs a lodctr /R or winmgmt /resync or something like that. But every once in a while it's more difficult to solve than that. I logged on to SERVER01 to see if I could simply add the performance counters needed to Perfmon. The objects and instances were there, but one of them looked odd. Then I decided to use typeperf.exe to get some data from the counters: A counter with a negative denominator value was detected? Now contrary to that screenshot above, the -1's were intermittent, and would actually change to normal values for a few seconds, and then go back to negative ones. It was as if the scale of that counter was offset, and whenever real CPU load would occur, the counter would increase to positive values, but then as the CPU usage dropped back down closer to zero, the counter would fall below zero again. Hmm... if you do a search for something like "missing performance counters," or "a counter with a negative denominator value," you'll get plenty of good links, as missing or corrupt performance counters are a somewhat common issue. Such as this, or this. Notice in that last link, that there is a vague reference to it being caused by "intermittent timing issues in the performance data handlers for many counters." The article fails however to offer any advice or anything more concrete than that. lodctr /R and winmgmt /resyncperf and all that usual stuff did nothing to help. So I sat back and thought some more about the scope of the problem. I have only seen this issue two or three times in my career. The two cases I could remember both seemed to be on VMware virtual machines. One of them was a Windows 2003 operating system, and then a couple months later I saw it again on a Windows 2008 R2 VM. That phrase from that one KB stuck with me... "intermittent timing issues," and that made me think of hardware timing issues. But since these were VMs, they didn't exactly have hardware per se... but maybe it had something to do with the way in which the virtual machines communicate with their physical host. I was so close to figuring out the answer, but at the time I shrugged it off and shelved the issue in my mind for a while. Then about a week ago the issue popped up again. Long story short, it turns out it was this all along: Unchecking that "Time synchronization between the virtual machine and the ESX server" in the VMware tools app on the VM made the problem go away. Ugh. The answer had been so simple all along, yet it alluded me for months. I feel better now that I at least have a solution for that particular scenario. Now... back to Hyper-V. Tags:


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It sounds like a lovely weekend and just the cure for a sore head. A busy one here: school planning and prep (as usual!) for next week, cleaning, ironing and cooking for a Burn's Night dinner on Saturday. I'll need a lie down come Sunday! xReplyDelete
I hope you feel better soon, headaches are so awful. I've been battling with a few lately myself, it's not fun at all! This weekend I'll be partying for my friend's 21st birthday, and then on Sunday it's Australia Day, though the holiday makes me uncomfortable (celebrating the day white people came to Australia and slaughtered and ruined the lives of the natives... hooray?!) it will hopefully be a nice day with family. xReplyDelete
I'm feeling relaxed just looking at these photos! I hope you feel better soon hunReplyDelete
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Those socks are adorable! And I totally agree, this week is poop because I've been locked in my apartment studying 16 hours a day for an exam. Can't wait until next friday!!ReplyDelete
i love the first photo and i need all of these too. this is the week that seems like it will never endReplyDelete
Your weekend sounds lovely. Mine will include one working day and one lazy day off. But Monday will see a "treasure" hunt happen. Enjoy your butter croissants and peppermint bath. XReplyDelete
Friday and payday is a winning combo! Have a lovely weekend xReplyDelete
Sounds like a perfect weekend to me! I've been celebrating the end of exams with a movie marathon ("Tangled" included) and started the morning with a good cup of coffee with friends in a lovely little café. Time to relax! xReplyDelete
A hot lavender bath, a big cup of tea, and fuzzy wool socks sound perfect right now :)ReplyDelete


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Off the beaten track, this country pub is a traditional gem with top quality food and a friendly bustling atmosphere.
For a Tuesday evening I was surprised to see so many tables filled and there was a lovely warm feel - helped by an open log fire.
There's a traditional feel with trinkets and pictures filling the walls and even a wild pig head wearing a fez.
Our waitress was chatty and cheery which helped make you feel at home as soon as you stepped through the door.
The menu changes regularly and is written on a blackboard which is filled with pub grub classics.
From lamb jalfrezi to steak and ale with suet dumplings there's something for everyone.
I shared a starter with one of my dining partners - which turned out to be a wide decisions as the portions were very impressive.
Having ordered the duck spring rolls with hoisin and chilli dip, we'd asked for a spare plate to split the meal. Instead, the waitress brought out our dish already halved. Making it a lot easier and was just a nice, thoughtful touch.
We got a roll each accompanied with salad which was more than enough. The roll was crispy and the filling was fabulously flavoursome.
After much deliberation, I decided on the beer battered haddock with chips and mushy peas. It's not something I'd normally order but I certainly didn't regret my choice.
The batter had the perfect crunch and the home made chips were delicious - although I was full I couldn't help nibbling on them until my plate was cleared.
My aunt indulged in the haddock chowder which she said was filled with flavour and the haddock itself was "perfectly flaky". It was presented with a large, warm bread roll and butter.
The portions are very generous but they don't miss out on the quality and all three of us kept eating well past being full which is a testament to the dish.
My cousin was equally as impressed with her choice - the steak and ale with suet dumpling. It was served with a selection of vegetables and the choice of creamy mash or chips.
When our plates were cleared we all felt like undoing the top buttons on our jeans and the discussion began as to whether we could eat a pudding.
The selection looked mouthwateringly good and the waitress soon tempted us with a 'small helping' rather than the full dish - another charming touch and a great sales pitch.
I indulged in my personal favourite, sticky toffee pudding. The sponge was almost flooded in sauce - just how I like it. My aunt and cousin treated themselves to the marmalade bread and butter pudding which they said was delicious but needed a bit more orange flavouring.
The Grapes Inn is a traditional country pub with superb food and a proper community feel.


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The Shawnee Mission East Choir in Concert in Assisi
On Wednesday, March 14th at 9.00 pm the Shawnee Mission East Choir Concert will be held in the Upper Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi.
I Choraliers di Shawnee Mission East are a mixed chorus of about 150 student singers from the Shawnee Mission East High School in Prairie Village, Kansas (USA). The choir has performed in churches, cathedrals, schools, recitals and concert halls, not only in America, but in Europe as well, singing from Galway to Rome and from Leipzig to London.
The choir performs a varied repertoire of ancient, classical and contemporary music. It consists of no fewer than 5 choral groups, including the Chamber Singers, the most select ensemble comprising some 24 singers; the Varsity Choir, a chorus of male voices; the Chansonettes, a female choir, and the Concert Choir, a choir of "beginners".
Begun in 1958 under the direction of Mr. Jess Rose, the Choraliers have been directed by master Ken Foley since autumn 2008.


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FOUNDED IN 2007, KARAM FOUNDATION has been striving to help people help themselves. Karam Foundation seeks to enhance the dignity and quality of life of the impoverished and underprivileged by eliminating barriers to success. After focusing our efforts on the Syrian humanitarian crisis since 2011, especially regarding the plight of thousands of displaced Syrian children, we are now developing a long-term program of entrepreneurial and technological workshops for displaced Syrian youth. In November 2014, we will launch the pilot project for this program which will serve a group of Syrian refugee high school students at a school in Reyhanli, Turkey. The Karam Leadership Program's mission is to empower the next generation of Syrians with the tools to lead in the creation of peaceful, vibrant, and productive communities.
The urgency for this type of initiative was apparent during Karam Foundation's most recent Zeitouna mission. Zeitouna is a creative therapy and physical wellness program designed to inspire and heal the youngest victims of the Syrian humanitarian crisis - the children. During three successful missions, our team collaborated with over 70 international mentors to lead workshops for displaced Syrian children with the following objectives: to counter the traumatic experience of conflict by rebuilding bonds between mentor and child; to rekindle inspiration and creativity; to restore confidence and self-esteem; and to reclaim the innocence of childhood.
During the Summer 2014 mission in Reyhanli, we met teenage girls who expressed their hopes to pursue higher education and professions outside the current stereotypical expectations of becoming seamstresses, hairdressers, or starting families. As refugees, these young women face countless barriers to higher education despite their desire to become professionals in their field of choice. The teenage boys face a similar plight of a stunted future of underpaid manual labor jobs and little hope for pursuing higher education or entrepreneurial opportunities. We created the "Karam Leadership Program" to empower these Syrian high schoolers with the tools to achieve their dreams.
The Karam Leadership Program will recruit an international team of successful entrepreneurs, business leaders, and technological experts to design and lead workshops; serving as mentors for over 300 students over the course of four days. We have extensive experience in efficiently coordinating mentors and will collaborate with our invited leaders to guarantee dynamic and impactful workshops.
The leaders of this project — Karam Foundation President, Lina Sergie Attar, and Karam Foundation Creative Director and Zeitouna Executive Director, Kinda Hibrawi — co-founded and run Zeitouna. They have a long background in humanitarian and developmental aid and have implemented their ideas on the ground with refugees in Syria and neighboring countries. Profiles on project leaders have been attached highlighting their qualifications and experience.
At present, the Karam Leadership Program has not received sufficient funding. We are requesting the Blossom Hill Foundation to provide us with a $10,000 grant towards sponsoring this program. We look forward to hearing from you regarding this project and are immensely grateful for your time and consideration. If you would like any additional information on the project, please feel free to contact us.
Lina Sergie Attar - Karam Foundation President
Kinda Hibrawi - Karam Foundation Creative Director - Executive Director of Zeitouna
The Karam Foundation Leadership Program is a pilot project designed for Syrian refugee teenagers. The program's goal is provide these displaced youth with innovative entrepreneurial and technological workshops that will inspire and equip them to build a future for themselves. The program seeks to create a thriving social environment despite the challenges of growing up in a conflict zone.
The Karam Foundation Leadership Program will build an international team of successful entrepreneurs, business leaders and technological experts to run workshops and serve as mentors for a group of young Syrian youth who are in high school. The program will include workshops including: team-building; verbalizing and developing a tailored "life plan" for the future that details goals; technology; basic business/entrepreneurial skills; creative therapy; physical health.
The leaders of this program — Karam Foundation President, Lina Sergie Attar, and Karam Foundation Creative Director and Zeitouna Executive Director, Kinda Hibrawi — founded Karam's Zeitouna creative therapy program for displaced Syrian children. Both directors run the Zeitouna program on the Turkish/Syrian border biannually. They have a successful track record working with refugees in Syria and neighboring countries. They met a group of teenage women in Reyhanli, Turkey last June and were struck by the gap between the students' stark reality and their dreams for a successful future. Attar and Hibrawi left the school determined to return with an empowerment program designed for the high school students (girls and boys) and hopefully for hundreds of other Syrian youth in the future.
The Karam team has extensive experience in efficiently coordinating mentors as proven by the successful Zeitouna program. The Leadership Program is an extension of the Zeitouna program and thus will follow the same strict criteria to recruit excellent mentors and develop dynamic, inspiring, and impactful workshops. The Leadership Program's mission is to empower the next generation of Syrians with the tools to lead in the creation of peaceful, vibrant and communities.
The Leadership Program will take place in Reyhanli, Turkey a town along the Syrian-Turkish border in November 2014. Southern Turkey is considered a conflict zone due to the ongoing, violent Syrian political conflict and massive refugee influx that has spilled across the neighboring borders such as Turkey, Jordan, and Lebanon. Reyhanli's population has more than doubled in the past two years to over 140,000 people, creating a tense social and economical environment for locals and refugees. Syrian children and youth crowd into the few schools that are open to them. Many hundreds of Syrian youth have no access to education.
Syrian refugee girls, in addition to living through the trauma of displacement, have been marginalized due to gender and the conservative cultural norms. Rather than being encouraged to continue their education, most of the girls are faced with the choice to either get married after high school or stay home and take care of their siblings while their parents work. Therefore they are not given the opportunity to grow, evolve and shine as independent individuals. The raw ambition and strong drive we witnessed first-hand with these girls who demanded a chance to "be somebody," inspired this program.
As these hardships are not only faced by refugee girls, we will be extending the Leadership Program to serve the school's high school boys. They will also learn the tools to create a life plan for the future and will gain knowledge about global entrepreneurial and technological opportunities available to them.
Phase I of the Leadership Program will expand the students' horizons and outlooks for the future through practical workshops and exercises provided by the mentors. We are determined — despite the economic, social and political hardships that these teenage refugees face— to give them an opportunity to succeed and fulfill their destinies as strong leaders in the future.
Founded in 2007, Karam Foundation has been striving to help people help themselves. Karam Foundation seeks to enhance the dignity and quality of life of the impoverished and underprivileged by eliminating barriers to success. After focusing our efforts on the Syrian humanitarian crisis since 2011, especially regarding the plight of thousands of displaced Syrian children, we are now focused on three initiatives. Education, Sustainable Businesses and Humanitarian Relief for displaced Syrian refugees in and around Syria.
Karam Foundation (a 501(c)3 organization) is served by a board of nine directors from across the United States and the UAE. The organization is based in Chicago with directors running various Karam projects/initiatives from Los Angeles, Boston, Washington D.C., San Francisco, and Dubai. The diverse professional backgrounds of the board members reflect the organization's strengths (design, art, health, policy, communication, and management) to quickly assess and prioritize projects and campaigns. The board members are primarily of Syrian origin which has been an instrumental factor in creating a tight and trusted network inside Syria to deliver humanitarian aid quickly, directly and efficiently to Syrian families in need.
Karam Foundation has grown over the past three years to become one of the leading non-profit organizations that deliver aid and developmental programs inside Syria and for Syrian refugees. Karam Foundation is also an active member of ARCS (the American Relief Coalition for Syria) — a group of 19 non-profit organizations dedicated to relieving the humanitarian crisis in Syria. Karam has also collaborated with a number of organizations such as PCRF (Palestinian Children's Relief Fund) and NAAMA (National Arab American Medical Association), in addition to many Syrian organizations including SAMS (Syrian American Medical Society) and SRD (Syrian Relief and Development).
Karam Foundation's impact has grown over the last three years exponentially as we have worked hard to meet the needs of the immense humanitarian crisis in Syria — the greatest humanitarian crisis of our lifetimes. Our dedication to this cause is fueled by our determination to serve Syrian families caught in the conflict as well as our personal attachment to the country. The outcome of our dedication to creating creative and innovative programs and campaigns can be measured by increased donations every year (from over $50,000 in 2011 to over $600,000 in 2013) as well as increased number of individual donors from across the world. Our work has been extensively covered in television, radio, online, and print media including (BBC, NPR, NYT, Huffington Post Live, The National, Syria Deeply, and others).
Another measure of Karam's success is the increase and retention of volunteers and mentors. Our Zeitouna mentors request to return to missions repeatedly as well as bringing family members to join. We have witnessed Zeitouna Creative Therapy Program's positive impact on the children who participate and the school environment. The children express joy and cooperation while we are there as well as display a stronger sense of confidence and self-esteem after we leave — according to reports from the school administration and teachers. The children also receive full dental care and learn basic hygiene skills to promote long-term well-being. They learn how to work, play, and bond as teams in sports and art. They also learn to express their emotions through storytelling and journaling. These are lifetime skills.
The children's families and the Syrian refugee community at large often express their gratitude for our work that gives hope to their children. Creating this long-term meaningful bond with the children and the community is our greatest accomplishment and it is what drives us to continue to develop innovative programs to serve the Syrian refugee community to the best of our ability.
Karam Foundation serves Syrian communities inside Syria (Aleppo, Rural Aleppo, Idleb, Rural Idleb, Homs, Damascus, Damascus suburbs) and refugee communities primarily in southern Turkey and Lebanon. In 2013, Karam Foundation directly impacted the lives of over 30,000 Syrian families, 15,000 Syrian children, and 8,600 Syrian women. Karam delivered over $400,000 in aid to Syrians in 2013 in the form of food distribution, seasonal aid for refugees, education programs, and sustainable business initiatives.
The Karam Leadership Pilot Program will serve 300 underprivileged Syrian teens and provide them with the tools to create a vibrant and sustainable future for themselves. The program will introduce the students to technology and business practices that will help them visualize and verbalize a tailored life plan. The program will also pair teams of students to mentors — highly skilled entrepreneurs and leaders — who will continue to advise and guide the students after the mission ends. In addition to encouraging the students to explore the possibilities of various future tracks (small businesses, product design, technology training), the program will develop higher education plans for the students who intend to pursue university degrees. Finally, focused therapeutic and health-focused workshops as well as a series of mind/body physical exercises will complete the holistic approach we seek for the students in our program.
Karam Foundation does not believe in simply giving handouts or quick, short-term fixes. Our goal is to provide the tools and inspiration needed to create the future the students envision and deserve. We do plan on providing them with a technology lab and internet access to use for the duration of the program. After completing the four-day intensive workshop and committing to developing their life plan, they will utilize this lab to continue working on the projects as teams or individually and to connect with their mentors periodically.
The Leadership Program's vision is to create a microcosm of positive, creative energy that will spread beyond the walls of the school and expand into healing and revitalizing forces across the traumatized Syrian refugee community in Reyhanli.
We plan to continue our work along the Syrian-Turkish border and are committed to following up on all of our programming by visiting the sites twice a year and maintaining continuous contact with our partners on the ground.
For the Leadership Program in particular, in addition to following up personally on the ground during our visits, we plan on hiring a trusted on-site coordinator to provide weekly meetings for the students to make sure they are on track with their life plan. The coordinator will also act as a bridge between the students and the professional mentors who will follow the projects and students periodically. We have already interviewed the candidate for this position (she is a Syrian refugee herself and works as an administrator at the school). She is ready and capable to take on this project after we complete Phase I.
Phase II of the program will be a follow-up visit in spring 2015. We will reevaluate the students' life plans, assist in funding promising projects after graduation, and plan the transition and funding for the students who will prepare to attend university either online or in Turkey.
Karam Foundation plans to financially sustain the Leadership Program after the pilot phase by developing a fundraising campaign that links donors to specific projects led by the students. Karam has a track record of running creative, innovative, and successful fundraising campaigns. We are confident that the students' inspiring stories, innovative ideas, and dreams for the future will capture the interest of many individual donors and organizations.
The Karam Leadership Program cannot exist without strong collaborators: donors, on-site partners, mentors, and like-minded organizations. We will design and facilitate the program, however, the its strength and success is directly related to collaborating closely with the school's administrators as well as our team of mentors. Collaboration, communication, and cooperation are essential elements to creating this type of multi-disciplinary and cross-geographical work. We have learned from experience that extensive planning and organizing are fundamental factors to create innovative and impactful opportunities for the students and mentors.
Karam Foundation has collaborated in the past with: The Sager Family Foundation, contact Bobby Sager, founder and president; PCRF (Palestinian Children Relief Fund), contact: Dr. Khaled Abughazala, president of Chicago chapter; SAMS (Syrian American Medical Society), contact Dr. Zaher Sahloul, president; SRD (Syrian Relief and Development), contact Joumana Qaddour, director; Syrian Orphans, contact: Dr. Bana Atassi, director; Bihar Relief and Development, contact: Dr. Sharvan Ibesh, president; Every Syrian, contact: Ghazi Jeiroudi, founder and director (also Karam Foundation Director of Sustainable Businesses).
Evaluating the program is key to the pilot phase. We will provide detailed reports on the program's growth and development to the foundation. We will hire an on-site program coordinator and communicating with her regularly to gauge the students' needs and developments. Her reports on various successes, frustrations, setbacks, will allow us to reflect, seek advise from the program mentors, and course-correct quickly and efficiently. We will also implement a survey system that will evaluate the students' goals and skills before and after the attending the program. These surveys will track the skills they have learned over the course of the program and how they plan to use these skills to fulfill their life plan. Finally, documentation of the program is a key component to our process. We will conduct video interviews with students and mentors for feedback on the program as well as to create a benchmark to measure the successes and setbacks in the future. We will also conduct a survey with our mentors to professionally evaluate the program.
The Leadership Program will also provide opportunities for the students to document their experience as part of the creative workshops which will include photography, creative writing/journaling, drawing, and film. We will provide the tools and supplies for these exercises throughout the program. These creative outlets will serve as visualization and verbalization tools for the students' to develop their life plans as well as provide donors with a firsthand glimpse into the program's impact through the eyes of the students they are supporting.
We have a strong network of news resources (print, online, radio and television), online social media platforms (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, blogs) and email campaigns that we will tap into for this initiative. We intend to share the stages of the program with our media resources before, during and after the trip. We plan to have a two person film crew on hand to document this life-changing experience for the girls and mentors. We will also have our professional Karam photographer with us to document the program. We have found as a result of our frequent trips that professional videos and photographs are the best forms of sharing our work to our expanding audience and supporters. Extensive documentation is also one of the most important tools to set benchmarks and create a plan to scale the Leadership Program in the future.


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Berean Beacon is primarily an evangelistic ministry promoting the Gospel of Jesus Christ wherever possible. The ministry places particular emphasis on the evangelization and conversion of Catholics. The other main thrust of the ministry is to inform evangelical Christians about Catholicism through speaking engagements, distribution of literature, tapes, CDs, and DVDs. We trust in the Lord by faith, and we look to Him to supply our needs for the ministry through our faithful supporters. Each donation is gratefully appreciated.
For seven years, as an outreach of the Beacon, Richard Bennett had regularly trained and led a Friday evening door-to-door evangelism outreach ministry. Rather than inviting people to church, the outreach ministry single-mindedly concentrated on presenting the Gospel to the people where they lived. The Gospel teams were composed of both Spanish and English speaking men. The men, who went out in teams of two, found that among the people whom they met there was much interest in the Bible and in the Gospel. Richard is currently involved in ministry work in Yakima, WA.
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Meetings of IAAMS - Canada Chapter
IAAMS Canada Annual Meeting 2009
The IAAMS Canada Annual Meeting was held on the second day of Jalsa Salana Canada on Saturday Jun 27, 2009. A total of 10 members and one representative of AAMS USA attended the meeting.
The meeting started with silent prayers and was chaired by Dr. Ijaz Rauf.
Following are the main points as discussed in the meeting:
1. A membership drive should be conducted to increase the number of members, a target of 100 members has been set for the year 2009 - 2010 . IAAMS should make full use of the Khuddam and Atfal Ijtama and other programs to create awareness of the organization and also work closely with Tajnid and Talim departments to ensure all Ahmadi Students are aware of the organization.
2. A Science Exhibition (Proposed title 'Abdus Salam Science Fare') should be held during the current summer vacations to encourage students to engage in scientific research and small projects / models. The program to be formally announced after approval of markaz.
3. A Science Fare should be held during the Jalsa Salana 2010
4. IAAMS Constitution to be updated
5. IAAMS national meeting should be held every year at the Jalsa Salana and chapter meetings (for example GTA chapter) should be held every quarter
6. Hadhrat Khalifatul Masih V (aa) advice to scientists should be circulated amongst the IAAMS members
7. Develop short term and long term goals for IAAMS Canada
Assalamo Alaikum
The meeting of Association of Ahmadi Muslim Scientists - Canada was held on the second day of Jalsa Salana Canada (Jun 28, 2008) at 3:00 pm. The meeting was attended by the following members:
1. Bashiruddin Ahmed email@example.com 519 650-4021
2. Hameed Mirza firstname.lastname@example.com 905 303-6367
3. Mohyuddin Mirza email@example.com 780 463-0652
4. Ijaz Rauf email@example.com 416 400-9127
5. Mohammad Shahab Khokhar firstname.lastname@example.com 416 528-7253
The meeting started with silent prayers.
The members introduced themselves and Ijaz Rauf briefed the members on the history and purpose of the association. The following action items were decided:
a. Publish the announcement of the association in Ahmadiyya Gazette
b. Send email from ahmadiyya.ca to all jama'at members regarding the association
c. Develop own email listing
d. Develop association's website
e. Deliver two lectures on "Science and Religion" before the end of the year
Two new potential members were discussed:
1. Shahid Rabbani firstname.lastname@example.com 905 417-6410
2. Tahir Ahmed www.tahirahmad.com 416 704-0386
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Congratulations 2018 Graduates
Cattle Empire would like to congratulate all 2018 graduates on their achievements this year! We would like to specifically recognize children of Cattle Empire employees who are graduating from high school, college, or university.
Congratulations to the following students on your outstanding achievements!
Graduating from Garden City High School: Yasmin Hernandez, daughter of Alberto Hernandez.
Graduating from Hugoton High School: Salma Avalos, daughter of Pedro Avalos-Garcia.
Graduating from Liberal High School: Celia D. Gutierrez-Avila, daughter of Alejandro Gutierrez-Roa.
Graduating from Satanta High School: RaeAnne Blevins, daughter of Melissa Blevins; Morgan Hoskinson, daughter of Whitney Hoskinson; and Javier Ledezma, son of Amador Aguirre-Marquez.
Graduating from Sublette High School: Pricella Godinez, daughter of Gabriel Godinez-Rojas; Sara Martinez, daughter of Juan Garza; and Bryan Medina, son of Abigael Medina-Dominguez.
Graduating from Ulysses High School: Juan Daniel Gallegos, son of Salomon Gallegos.
Graduating from Garden City Community College: Edgar Avalos, son of Pedro Avalos-Garcia and Mycalah Trevino, daughter of Junior Trevino.
Graduating from Seward County Community College: Valerie and Vanessa Caro, daughters of Timo Caro; Andrea Gutierrez-Avila, daughter of Alejandro Gutierrez-Roa; and Jesus R. Pena-Romero Jr., son of Jesus Pena-Romero.
Graduating from Kansas State University: Alan Caro, son of Timo Caro.
Graduating from Metro State University: Ryan Holt, son of Susan Holt.
And finally, we would like to recognize a full-time Cattle Empire employee who completed her Bachelor's degree in Business Administration from Oklahoma Panhandle State University, Administrative Assistant Shea Stanley.
Congratulations to all of these graduates, and best wishes in all your future endeavors!


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I like my wordpress blog to have neat plugins, modern sharing tools and whimsical widgets, but I also run a tight ship around here when it comes to W3C standards compliance. Here's a few of the battles that I've fought in the name of having my cake and eating it, too. I'm shooting for xhtml 1.0 transitional, so if your website does too, and you use any of these tools, I've already done the work for you for free. Don't be scared to shower me with compliments and affection if following any of this advice turns out well for you.
However, this battle is not over. My site is almost always in flux and I will continue to update this list as new problems arise or in fact, if anyone out there is reading and has some of their own; include your fixes in the comments! Now, on to the meat; Have a happy, standards-compliant crusade. :)
Twitter widget Pro ( Version 2.3.8 )
problem: The link tags are given a bad attribute
solution: In the file: falldeaf-content/plugins/twitter-widget-pro/wp-twitter-widget.php commenting out lines 611 and 650 ( $linkAttrs['data-lang'] = $lang; ) will prevent the attribute 'data-lang' from being inserted in the tags.
Adding html into your documents
Problem: WordPress' visual editor infamously adds P tags all over the place, this plugin will ensure the output is exactly as you specify
Solution: Use the plugin – ml raw html (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ml-raw-html/)
Youtube video embeds
Problem: Using WordPress' auto-embed of youtube videos (which is technically youtube's fault) creates a plethora of compliance problems
Solution: Here's an article with a code snippet that will allow you to embed youtube videos in a standards compliant way – http://www.bgevolution.com/blog/w3c-xhtml-youtube-video-embed/ if you'd like to do it manually.
For a nice, standards compliant, automatic way of doing it I used the plugin Advanced Youtube: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/advanced-youtube/ though I edited the reg-ex a bit so that It would find and use youtube links automatically instead of needing tags. To do the same for the version last updated on 5-18-2010, change this line:
$pattern = '/\[youtube\]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch\?v\=([a-zA-Z0-9-_]+)\[\/youtube\]/i';
to this:
$pattern = '/http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch\?v\=([a-zA-Z0-9-_]+)/i';


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Georgetown Palace Theater
810 South Austin Avenue,
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The Palace Theater was built in 1925 by A.C. Moore of Bartlett, Texas. The grand opening was held in February 1926. It opened with silent films and three years later it went on to talkies.
The original buff brick building was remodeled in 1936 to its present day Art Deco style. It is reported to be the only Art Deco styled building in Georgetown.
The seating capacity in 1941 was listed as 500. It operated as a movie theatre until 1989 at which time it was the oldest continously operating movie theatre in Texas.
In 1989 the owner Jack Hall was faced with declining revenues, competing with 20 new movie screens in the area and outdated equipment. Mr. Hall put the property up for sale.
Concerned citizens formed the Georgetown Palace Theater, Inc. The group raised enough money to make a down payment and closed on the theatre sale in 1991.
The group cleaned and refurbished the theatre in a little over 90 days and it was ready to reopen.
Today the restored theatre operates as a non-profit Community Performing Arts facility. They have a mix of Broadway shows, live music performance and occaisional movies. Total seating for the refurbished theatre is 295. Movies were dropped from the programming in 2012.
Recent comments (view all 18 comments)
After viewing the before and after photos it's nice to see this art deco theatre restored to its former glory! I hope those who live or decide to move to Georgetown to retire use and support this cinema treasure off the courthouse square.
It's a shame that the Palace in Fredericksburg was lost to a western wear store titled Parts Unknown though they kept the Palace marquee and tile facade in place for all to enjoy though no movies are shown here anymore.
I would love to see some interior photos of this theatre…been in contact with a Georgetown resident who may be of help to me.
Chuck1231: Great flickr site with lots of history given. Thanks. I have friends who are moving to Georgetown TX in January so I'll make sure they go see a movie at Palace often.
As of October 2010
Here are two photos of the Palace that I shot in December of 2009:
Does this theatre still show movies or just stage productions. The latest stage production was Dearly Beloved as a friend of mine is there now and went last night.
That is what my friend told me…thanks for replying and of course…Aloha and Happy New Year, my CT friend.
My friend enjoyed Dearly Beloved and said the acting was "first class and very delightful".
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Defending Philip Larkin from his critics, Christopher Hitchens said that readers loved him because he understood everyday suffering. He mapped 'decaying communities, old people's homes, housing estates and clinics' better than most social democrats. While dying is often referred to as'going down hill', Hitchens saw that Larkin realised that debilitation is not an easy glide to oblivion but an exhausting climb of 'extinction's alp'.
Hitchens's account of his climb to extinction is Larkinesque, and not only because his sentences stay in the mind as firmly as good poetry. Hitchens maps the world of intensive care. Not without regret, he dismisses those who pretend they can soften its horrors, including perhaps his younger self. A heart-breaking final chapter contains quotations from great writers that he scrawled as material for an essay he would never live to write. As the pneumonia brought on by oesophageal cancer overwhelmed him, Hitchens recalled Larkin's reprimand, in 'Aubade', of atheists who believe that stoicism will see them through:
And specious stuff that says No rational being
Can fear a thing it will not feel, not seeing
That this is what we fear – no sight, no sound,
No touch or taste or smell, nothing to think with,
Nothing to love or link with,
The anaesthetic from which none come round.
'Fair enough in one way,' Hitchens writes. 'Atheists ought not to be offering consolation.' Notice that he did not write 'false consolation', as most of us would. Mortality is an argument against comforting cliché, among which the notion that cancer sufferers are 'fighting' their tumours outdoes even 'going down hill'. Hitchens does not feel like a warrior. If only he were like a soldier in battle or a revolutionary on the barricades, he thinks. If only he were suffering for a purpose. But you cannot fight when you are 'swamped with passivity and impotence: dissolving in powerlessness like a sugar lump in water'. Nor is one surprised to learn that Nietzsche had not experienced chronic illness when he offered his 'what does not kill me makes me stronger' for healthy men and women to quote until they learned better. As for purpose: in the best and bleakest line in the book, Hitchens reflects, 'To the dumb question "Why me?" the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply: "Why not"?'
His brio is hard to credit when you imagine Hitch struggling from his bed, his body battered by radiation treatments and chemotherapy, his voice vanishing, his hair going, and his weight collapsing, so that he can write one last time. But write he must, not least because he is now in a position to put Elisabeth Kübler-Ross's theory about five stages of grief to the test. You must know the drill. From 'denial' we go to 'anger' at our illness, to 'bargaining' for a few more years, to a 'depression' that continues until – at last – we reach the rapture of 'acceptance' and repeat Kübler-Ross's formulation: 'It's going to be okay. I can't fight it, I may as well prepare for it.' Even when he was in his prime, Hitchens would have bristled at the quasi-religious notion of "acceptance". When he is dying, he notices that Kübler-Ross's tripping across the stages omits the 'gnawing sense of waste', the powerlessness, the boredom and the pain.
Hitchens cannot avoid the most popular producer of deathly clichés – nor, given the disputes of his life, does he wish to. Hardline believers in Larkin's 'vast moth-eaten musical brocade/Created to pretend we never die' took to the Internet to celebrate Hitchens's cancer as divine punishment for his impiety. More compassionate theologians offered Hitchens sincere sympathy and prayers for his redemption. They cannot have been surprised that they merely provided him with a reason to expand upon the old freethinkers' point that a believer is an atheist about every god but his own. If Hitchens had accepted the entreaties of Catholic correspondents and announced his allegiance to Rome, his Protestant well-wishers would not have thanked him. On the other hand, if he had joined a Protestant evangelical group, 'the followers of Rome would not think my soul was much safer than it is now, while a late-in-life decision to adhere to Judaism or Islam would inevitably lose me many prayers from both factions'.
A book on death that rejects not only false consolation but all consolation – 'must take absolute care not to be self-pitying or self-centred,' he reminds himself – appears to have nothing to offer beyond the sombre pleasure of reading the last words of a great essayist who argued our age. But Hitchens wanted to live. Carol Blue, his wife, says in an affecting afterword that 'without ever deceiving himself about his medical condition, and without ever allowing me to entertain illusions about his prospects for survival, he responded to every bit of clinical and statistical good news with a radical, childlike hope'.
The best doctors in America offered their services. Hitchens volunteered to test experimental treatments. He died far too young and with too much left to write. But if he will forgive the martial image, he also died on the front line of science. As medicine continues to find new ways to prolong life without prolonging health, many of us will endure an old age of 'care' that may not kill us but most assuredly will not make us stronger. Hitchens's final worries about the overlap between medical treatment and torture, about whether it is worth keeping patients lying for years on what a grim Sidney Hook called 'mattress graves', are likely to be our final worries too. When his readers face them, we will be grateful that Hitchens asked questions with elegant precision that we, in all likelihood, will lackthe ability to phrase half as cogently. Even though he gives us no answers, at least he ensures that we will begin our last journey prepared. The consolations of preparedness, of knowing what we are likely to meet, will not be great in the circumstances, but as Christopher Hitchens spent his life maintaining, the consequences of ignorance are worse.


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A Perth Fashion Festival first came in the way of When I Grow Up was 100% kids. With tiny models strutting their Father's Day best from the Spring/Summer 09/10 collections from Forrest Chase retailers such as Pumpkin Patch, Myer and Levi's. //
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Research Data Management Training
TAMU Libraries offers introduction to research data management workshops for graduate students, and on-demand workshops for research labs and groups.
Introduction to Research Data Management workshop series (Fall 2017 slides)
- Build an overview
- Collect and document data
- Store digital data
- Work with data
- Share and preserve data
- Plan ahead
Research Data Management (RDM) refers to the practices of organizing, documenting, storing, sharing, and preserving data gathered during a research project. The aim of research data management is to ensure that data are usable over time.
Effective management of digital data involves
- Formatting data for easy analysis.
- Quality control for integrity.
- File organization and naming conventions for identification.
- Documentation and version control for tracking changes and roll-back.
- Managing storage and access locations for security and collaboration.
- Back-up procedures for redundancy.
- Policies for sharing and reuse.
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Beaumont st carnivale
Beaumont st Carnivale was held on Sunday 12th March 2017. Beaumont st Carnivale runs along Beaumont st between Tudor st and Donald st. This year it attracted close to 20,000 patrons and the event included 4 massive stages of live music, cultural displays, camel rides, market stalls, roving entertainment and all of the great dining options the precinct is famous for.
The Beaumont Street Carnivale showcases a community that is rich in multicultural heritage while boasting modern retail, hospitality and lifestyle options. Beaumont st Carnivale is a celebration of all that and more, held over one massive day from 10am - 5pm. Bec Dujin from marketing, strategy and event campaign company Talk To Bec (talktobec.com.au) engaged us to create a video that showed off the vibrancy, multiculturalism and grandeur of the event.
To help show viewers how much of an amazing spectacle this event was we went out with a focus on capturing footage with wide angle lenses (to capture more in each shot), from height (to give viewers an idea of the scale of the event) and through speed (using timelapse to show the sheer amount of people).
In the end we were able to create a video that took advantage of the techniques explained above and helped deliver a video that not only shows viewers that the awesome experience was enjoyed but also a video that can be used to help promote the event in the future to help attract more sponsors and patrons to this incredible event.
Client: Talk To Bec
Media Agency: Beautiful Motion Pictures
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Trained Experts Help Customers Get Badly Needed Sleep
Prevention and Treatment When a woman walked into one of his linen and housewares stores in Montréal complaining of chronic insomnia, Stan Leibner knew he could help.
After asking her some questions, mostly about her health and sleep habits, he helped her choose bedding and other items. She called the next day. "She said, 'I haven't slept like that in ten years. You saved my life!'" Leibner was thrilled, but not surprised. Having been in the business for decades, he knows nothing beats a good night's sleep.
Scientists have determined sleep plays a vital role in every person's mental and physical health. Unfortunately, most people don't give it as much consideration as they should; those who do, feel when it comes to buying pillows, mattresses, and bedding, it's better to shop at a specialty retailer — where trained experts help customers choose items that best meet their needs.
When the National Sleep Foundation asked people what was important to getting good night sleep, 86 percent of respondents listed their bed sheets. In fact, research indicates fresh sheets make people more enthusiastic about going to bed and help them get a better night's sleep. Without a doubt, it's important to find the right bed sheets. There are many factors to consider.
Thread count, which indicates the number of threads woven into a square inch of fabric, is a big consideration. Sheets that fall between 280 and 400 are smooth and soft as well as absorbent and breathable. They are more durable and shrink less than sheets with lower thread counts.
"Thread count alone is not enough to determine the best sheet for a particular customer," says Leibner who, along with his brother Sheldon, owns
Linen Chest, a chain of more than 25 stores. He advises customers to ask a lot of questions about material and weave to ensure they find the perfect sheet.
"You spend a third of your life sleeping, so sleep hygiene is not something you can afford to ignore."
The weave of a fabric determines the way it looks and feels as well as its durability. Percale, one of the most common weaves, is luxurious and has a thread count no lower than 200. For the more adventurous, there is sateen, which has a lustrous sheen, as well as jersey and flannel.
When it comes to choosing bed sheets, customers are presented with a dizzying array of choices and often don't know where to begin. "That is where the trained specialist makes a difference," says Sheldon Leibner. "He or she will help you pick the right product — and that isn't necessarily the most expensive one."
That being said, it's not hard to justify spending a few dollars more on quality bedding. "Put it this way," says Stan Leibner. "You spend a third of your life sleeping, so sleep hygiene is not something you can afford to ignore."


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Scrap Yard: The Akaka Bill
This legislative session, Sen. Daniel Akaka has once again introduced the Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization Act, first proposed in 2000, which would grant Hawaiians the same federal recognition enjoyed by Native American tribes. In our first monthly Scrap Yard, we sought out two opposing viewpoints on the Akaka Bill.
|Jere Krischel
a senior fellow with the Grassroots Institute of Hawai'i
There's no historical basis for the Akaka Bill. It's a fairly transparent attempt to preserve race-based programs in Hawai'i by trying to fit Native Hawaiians into the Native American box, inappropriately.
Take a look at the Navajo nation. The Navajo nation was essentially a monoracial, tribal government that existed before the United States ever came along. After we did terrible things to the Native Americans and moved them around, the existing government over their people was recognized and has been perpetuated to this day as the Navajo nation.
The Hawaiian analogy is a little bit different. The very first unification of the Islands happened in 1810, with Kamehameha the Great finally getting Kaua'i to surrender. The kingdom that he built spent nearly 100 years being multiracial, being pluralistic, inviting immigrants to participate in society and at all levels of government. If we wanted to go back to a point in time when indigenous islanders were self-governing, it would be essentially ignoring almost 100 years of progress that they made.
A compromise that would make the bill more acceptable would be if it was called the Hawaiian Government Reorganization Act, and there was no racial limitation on membership into this entity. It's like segregation in the South. Would it be OK, as long as all the schools had the same toilets, the same books, the same chairs? Not really. There's still the basic problem of splitting people up by race.
We can all agree that there are people who need help in Hawai'i. These people are of all races, not just one. The Akaka Bill, at its heart, fosters a culture of Native Hawaiian victimhood, and I think that's bad for our society and for life in the Islands.
|William Meheula
a lawyer representing the Office of Hawaiian Affairs in federal recognition issues
We believe that Native Hawaiians are like American Indians and Alaskan natives in that they are the indigenous people of this land, and therefore entitled to exception from equal protection challenges under the Indian Commerce Clause in Article I of the U.S. Constitution.
The Akaka Bill provides some language encouraging the Native Hawaiian people to form a government that could be recognized by the United States. It would close the loop, making sure that, in the future, equal-protection challenges could never be successful.
In talking about the analogy between Native Americans and Hawaiians, it seems ironic that the criticism of the Native Hawaiian situation is that it was inclusive and not exclusive. That's just the Hawaiian way, to include others. It doesn't make sense to say that Hawaiians programs are in violation of the equal protection clause because the Hawaiian government before the overthrow was an inclusive one. It's a form-over-substance argument, particularly since many Native American tribes had non-aboriginal members.
Most of the people who object to the Akaka Bill are people who generally object to any type of indigenous group receiving federal funding. They also object to any type of affirmative action, and they're just trying to find an angle to try and cut off people's rights in that respect. Their philosophy is that everyone should sink or swim, and that's how we're all going to be a stronger America—that, by handing out these government benefits, we're actually suppressing the growth of these weaker people. Fortunately, most people in the United States disagree. This country is strong enough to admit its historical errors and try to take steps in a fair way to address them.
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"If the mind is like a garden, the 'soil' of your brain is just as fertile for weeds as flowers;
plant seeds of inner strength by repeatedly taking in the good. "
Rick Hansen, PhD
I recently bought my first digital camera. A very generous friend, who also happens to be a professional photographer, is giving me pointers about how to use it. I'm a typical iPhone point-and-click guy, so we started with the basics. Eventually, we moved beyond the automatic setting and experimented with changes in aperture and shutter speed. I love to learn, and this made me happy .... though most of my photos ended up in the trash bin. But digital photography = unlimited do-overs.
My friend is also coaching me about how to "see". In every frame there's a unique mix of lines, shapes, textures, colors, and cool stuff hiding in the background. The same scene could tell many stories. First big take away: change the focus, change the meaning.
Taking candids is fun but also frustrating. As soon as the elements of a good shot would come, they would go. Finally, a butterfly floated in and gave a big shout out to my wife Amy's horticultural skills. She settled on a glorious pot of flowers, rolled out her "proboscis" and siphoned out the nectar from a penta flower. I zoomed in so closely I could see that it was like a long straw she used to suck the flower dry. Second big take away: You can't stage a great candid photo; just pay attention and be patient.
Over-thinking. We humans keep busy brains. Our thoughts tweet and post to our inner newsfeeds about 70,000 times a day. Sometimes this is helpful; we can reflect on the past and learn from it or anticipate and plan for the future. But, as humans, we also have a built-in negativity bias and a little something called imagination. Our thoughts can easily become distorted and lead us to draw faulty conclusions. Anxiety, fear, guilt, rumination are by-products of spending too much time in our heads. That's how we miss the moment happening now, in real-time. Unlike digital photography, there are no do-overs for the missed moments.
Constant distraction. When researchers studied the adverse affects of multi-tasking and task-switching on the brain, here's what they found: when we force our brains to focus on more than one task at a time or quickly switch between different tasks, we effectively max out our "working memory." It makes us feel really busy and stressed, but we're not very productive. Possibly confused, definitely disconnected. The condition of "inattentive blindness" was also studied. It proved that people talking on their phones were technically looking at their surroundings, yet none of it was actually registering in their brains. They had no memory of the experience.
Here's the good news: Our brain is constantly being shaped and reshaped by our thoughts and experiences through the adaptive process called neuroplacticity. In other words, what wires together, fires together. Our brains are made for change. Neuropsychologist Dr. Rick Hansen claims, positive change happens when we intentionally make time for and allow our mind, body and senses to fully resonate with positive experiences. But, we've got to get the good stuff in us.
Hansen says, "On a day to day basis, most of us don't stay with our positive experiences long enough for them to be encoded into our brain's neural wiring. We tend to skip over the positive in favor of anxiety-producing negative thoughts and emotions. Consequently, positive memories lack the neural firing power for synapse wiring to occur. One way to change that is to pay strong attention to the positive experiences. When they happen, savor them for at least 30 seconds. Note how they resonate in your body and through the senses. The more this is done, the more positive experiences are woven into the fabric of the brain."
Building an inner reservoir of peace for positive mental health can be as simple as changing your focus. Hanson describes it this way: "I think of attention as the combination of a spotlight and a vacuum cleaner. It illuminates what it rests upon, and then shuuup! It sucks it into our brain." Whatever we think more about, we will think more about.
A mentally healthy practice we advocate is mindfulness, which is nothing more than shining a spotlight on the details of your present moment. By quieting the mind and body, you are better able to regulate your emotions, reduce reactivity, stress, and anxiety. This is healthy soil for the mind and body.
Hansen also says, "No matter how small or seemingly insignificant they are, positive experiences can be instrumental for changing our perspective. We must take the time to appreciate these moments of joy and increase their intensity and duration by lingering on them for longer, effectively "wiring" them into our brains."
Photography forces me to do this. I slow down my mind and body and focus my senses on what's happening right in front of me. Taking pictures of nature is especially inspiring because it has a rhythm, an authenticity, and an unpredictability that draws me in. It sets a more relaxed pace that I can dial into. Nature is also a metaphor for mentally healthy living. Nature doesn't multi-task, have buffer overflows, or worry about its past and future. It lives out its experience ... one moment at a time.
Try These Easy Practices to Take in the Moments:
- Instead of scrolling through emails first thing in the morning, try waking up with thoughts of peace, gratitude, empathy, and self-compassion. Don't judge your thoughts or feelings or make task lists just yet. Spend 3-5 minutes savoring, breathing, and recognizing the gift of this new day, whatever it brings. You can do this over a hot cup of coffee, praying, stretching, walking or just breathing. For easy guided meditations, check out my three favorite phone/tablet apps: calm.com, headspace.com, 10percenthappier.com.
- Go outside and engage your senses. What do you hear? When birds sing, our body instantly has a relaxation response. Breathe in the sweet clean air. What smells do you notice? Pay attention to the gifts nature offers. See the way a butterfly drinks from a flower; the intensity of colors in a fall leaf; or the morning sun that's rising past last night's moon.
- Take a 3-minute meditation break in your workday. I do this by closing my door, sitting up in a comfortable position, and letting my body relax into the rhythm of my breath as it goes in and out. Research on meditative breathing shows that by increasing the oxygenation of the blood, it improves cognition, and helps people better regulate their emotions. Read Dan Harris's ABC news blog, "3-Step Brain Hack for Happiness."
Our brain has a few quirks, but the good news is that has the capacity for change. In fact, it's wired for change. The more you can get your neurons firing by letting positive experiences soak into you, the more you'll be rewiring your brain for peace, happiness, and good mental health.
Sources and Resources:
"Confronting the Negativity Bias"; Rick Hansen.net
"The Art of Now: 6 Steps to Living in the Moment: Psychology Today
The True Cost of Multitasking: Psychology Today
10% Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help That Actually Works--A True Story, by Dan Harris.
Hardwiring Happiness: The New Brain Science of Contentment, Calm, and Confidence, by Rick Hanson.


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Saturday, October 29, 2011
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Saturday, October 22, 2011
TTM Mailbag: Brandon Morrow
I received a TTM autograph return this week from Brandon Morrow. I sent two cards to Blue Jays Spring Training and received both back in 237 days. Both the Topps Heritage and Upper Deck First Edition cards were signed in blue Sharpie. Unfortunately, each card has a tiny smudge on the front. It is still a very nice return and my longest to date which gives some hope for some cards that I sent out during spring training. I try to send to Blue Jays players during spring training so that I can avoid sending packages into Canada. I can't wait for spring training to start in 2012. At best, there are only 5 games remaining this season.
Monday, October 17, 2011
Flea Market Finds
I picked up three baseball cards at a local flea market recently. The first is a 1998 Topps Opening Day card of David Justice. Justice is shown in a Cleveland uniform where he spent parts of four seasons. The next card is a 1998 Pinnacle of Jason Giambi. Giambi had some decent years as a Yankee. Somehow, he is still playing. Most recently, he played with the Rockies. The final card is most intriguing. At first glance, it looks like a standard 1988 Topps card of Nolan Ryan. However, the border is actually blue instead of white. Also, the card number is "N" which is kind of odd. The card actually looks like it was cut from a sheet or possibly a box of Twinkies. It's an interesting little mystery card. It's a pretty good haul and a good time was had by all.
Sunday, October 2, 2011
1984 Topps Lot
I recently purchased a lot of 100 1984 Topps cards at a flea market. The cards are in pretty good shape. I really just wanted the Robin Yount card which was the only visible card. The other cards are basically commons. However, buried deep within the stack of cards was a 1994 Signature Rookies Autograph of Kurt Miller. Not exactly Sandy Koufax, but not a bad find. Hey, an autograph is an autograph. Miller spent parts of five years in the big leagues with the Marlins and Cubs. Miller finished his career with a 7.48 ERA and a 2-7 record. Again, he's not Sandy Koufax. So I got my Yount card and a nice surprise. I don't really have much use for the other 99 cards so if anyone is interested in trading, let me know.


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RR 20 Inversed Polarity Audio
The new synthesizer in Reason 4, Thor, is truly impressive. Of course it can produce the most diverse sounds imaginable. But I personally truly adore it for its abilities to route and control audio and cv signals.
One of the practical implications is Thor's ability to simply inverse the polarity of an audio signal. A normal upward saw wave goes first upward, drops sharply and rises again. When the polarity of this upward saw wave is inversed it first goes downward, rises sharply and falls again.
Normally we humans do not hear a difference when the polarity of one single isolated sound is inversed. But if a sound, a hihat f.e., is coming out of the left speaker and the inversed hihat is coming out of the right speaker, we do hear the difference between the two speakers clearly. It seems our hihat has an extremely wide stereo width.
You'll find the ability to inverse polarity on most (hardware and software) mixers as a button called flip phase. Scientifically speaking, phase and polarity are not the same, and since we are simply inversing the polarity we'll keep on using this more scientifically correct term.
So we have a hihat coming out of the left speaker and the inversed hihat coming out of the right speaker.
Now if we mix these two hihats to mono the result is: we hear nothing. Both audio signals simply cancel each other out. It's like two people of equal strength pulling a rope in opposite direction; the rope stays stationary. Or mathematically speaking: 1+ (-1)=0 and 37465+ (-37465)=0 and etc.


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The stress of daily life can sometimes become overwhelming. If you're faced with difficult emotions, life transitions, or the residual affects of past trauma or other negative experiences, therapy can provide a safe space to work through it.
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