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Have you ever tried to put yourself in someone else's head, imagining what he's thinking, what he's feeling?
That's what I found myself doing late Tuesday night as Iraqi refugee Abbas Hameed Khalaf paced the sidewalk outside Lehigh Valley International Airport, peering into the darkness at every vehicle whose lights rounded the corner and headed into the Arriving Flights area.
I knew his astounding story. But nothing in my life of comparative ease could have prepared me to grasp what it was like to be Abbas at this incredible moment in an incredible life.
So I just watched.
I told part of Abbas' story about 16 months ago, focusing on the events that drove this remarkable man from Iraq, the friends and success he found in the Lehigh Valley and the gratitude he felt toward the many people who helped him.
Because of our concerns about his family's safety back in Baghdad, I had to leave out his real name — I called him Mohammed — and the details about how he got here. What's more, because his wife and three young children still were in Iraq, waiting to be reunited with him, the story lacked its proper ending.
Now I can tell you all of it.
Abbas, a Sunni Muslim, was living in Baghdad with his wife, Lagga, and their children on the day in September 2006 when he was picked up by a Shiite Muslim private militia, beaten for several hours and marked for death. It was only someone's intervention on behalf of another seized Sunni that spared his life that day — "God helped us," he told me — and he resolved to leave before his country's sectarian violence claimed him. Fifteen days after his abduction, he was on his way to Egypt, hoping to prepare a new life for his family.
Abbas was self-employed delivering eggs to a local market, but was robbed and lost all but a few hundred dollars. Worse, he concluded in his 10 months there that it would be impossible to bring his family to join him. When he learned that a group of Sudanese had a plan to cross the border into Israel, he decided to scrounge up the $500 required to let him go along, borrowing some of it from his brother back home.
The 14 travelers — 13 Sudanese, plus him — were loaded into a pickup truck and dropped in early-morning pitch blackness on the Egyptian side of the border, where they hid under olive trees. Egyptian soldiers heard them and began firing at them as they ran toward a hole in the fence ahead. One of the Sudanese was hit and four others were captured, but Abbas crawled through and kept running through the desert, barefoot. Soon his feet were full of cactus spines, but he saw a light in the distance, and he kept limping forward, saying to himself, "This is for my family."
The light was a vehicle with two soldiers, and he raised his hands as they approached. They asked where he was from, and he told them he had documents identifying him as Iraqi. He handed everything over, including photos of his children and his wedding. "They saw them and said, 'OK, God bless them. Don't worry, you are safe. You are in Israel.' "
They gave him water and medical care, and he ended up in a refugee camp, where his background was explored — they don't get a lot of Iraqis in Israel — while he waited for six months. When that was completed, he was moved to the Elifaz kibbutz in southern Israel. There he got a cleaning job, worked his way up to a supervisory role and made many dear Jewish friends, which is pretty remarkable when you consider the attitude many Muslims in that part of the world have toward Israel.
"I loved them, and they loved me," he told me. "Look on Facebook. All my friends are Jewish."
Still, much as he loved Israel, his goal was to find a place that would welcome both him and his family. Thirteen months after arriving at the kibbutz, he got the news that the United States had accepted him and his family as refugees. He arrived at New York's Kennedy Airport in February 2010 with few possessions, minimal English — his Hebrew was better — and a card around his neck with his name on it.
He was driven to LVIA, where he met his caseworker from Catholic Charities and was taken to his new home in Allentown. Catholic Charities offered financial assistance while he worked hard learning English. He began working at Lehigh Valley Hospital along with some gardening jobs, and as his English improved, he found an opportunity for a higher-paying job with uniform supply company Cintas, where he's still working today. He has obtained his green card, bought a house in Northampton and is a legal permanent resident.
As I wrote last year, he tried to show his gratitude in many ways. At one point, he accompanied one of the many friends he has made here, retired Methodist minister Gene Hamilton, for a week of vacation repairing churches and homes damaged by Hurricane Katrina, his way of giving something back to his adopted country.
Even more remarkably, when he was offered a gardening job and was warned the homeowner was Jewish — "Maybe you won't want to work for them," said the person who suggested the job — he responded, "Tell them because they are Jewish, I will work for them free."
As wonderful as his experiences were, he and the local people working on his behalf were getting nowhere in their efforts to get through the red tape so his family could rejoin him. He talked to his wife on the phone, and at one point managed to video-conference with her briefly, albeit only after she overcame Baghdad's unreliable electric service by driving more than an hour to a friend who had a generator. But his frustration mounted as their long separation continued.
Finally two months ago, Hamilton told Abbas that instead of writing letters to senators, congressmen and other officials, they should insist on meeting with Lehigh Valley U.S. Rep. Charlie Dent to lay out the entire situation. When Dent heard the whole story and realized the danger posed to Abbas' family by his connection with Israel, Dent "took the bull by the horns," in the words of Hamilton. Within a day, Lagga was being called to the U.S. Embassy, where Hamilton says, "They rolled out the red carpet."
Dent told me he called the chief of the U.S. consular section in Baghdad, explained the unusual circumstances and asked him to accelerate the case. "I think our call helped get it to the top of the pile," Dent said.


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The Rival front derailleur is built with the same outer plate design as Red and Force, allowing you to use all 10 cogs on your cassette while you're in the big chainring with minimal chain rub. You can cross-chain all day long in your big ring without having trim the front derailleur. And when you're in the small ring you need only one trim position in order to make silent use of all 10 cogs. It's identical in virtually every way to Red and Force, except that you get a high-polished aluminum finish with black highlights, and it lacks titanium hardware.
Like Red and Force, the Rival front derailleur can handle any chainring differential up to 16 teeth. This means you'll use the same derailleur for a 53/39 crankset as you will a 50/36 or 50/34. The braze-on version weighs in at 88g, while the clamp-on versions run closer to 103g. Available in braze-on, 31.8mm clamp, and 34.9mm clamp.
The actual weight of the SRAM Rival Front Derailleur: Braze-on is 89g. 31.8 is 101g. 34.9 is 101g.
- SRAM actuation ratio for proper balance between upshift and downshift
- Intuitive adjustments make it easy to get your shifting dialed
- WiFli ZeroLoss trim for instant, precise shifting
- Compatible with standard and compact rings
- For use with SRAM 10-speed drivetrains
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Let me start by saying I like my SRAM Rival shifters; and RD but this FD is hard to get dialed in. I have a 11-32 rear cassette and 50-34 front crank with still some cross chaining rub going on no matter how I adjust it. I did not have these issues with my 105 system on my other Orbea bike. It shifts okay but the trim effect is also lacking in comparison to my 105 system. I can live with it but I may upgrade that FD to a Force to see if this can be corrected. Overall it works and does fine but I really think it should be able to be dialed in so no rub effect. So because of that I give this a 3 star rating. Don't get me wrong the quality is great just the dialing in to be quite a pain which I have read feedback these can be!
Does a decent job
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This FD does a decent job of downshifting however I noticed some weakness on the upshift. I sometimes had trouble with it not moving the chain correctly in that it would skip along the big ring a few times before catching. I swapped my Shimano 105 FD back onto my bike, kept the SRAM shifters and all is well again. The upshifts are back to being lightning fast and very smooth.
The SRAM Rival FD works fine however the Shimano 105 was noticeably better

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(PETERBOROUGH) A commanding officer of the Peterborough arm of the Royal Canadian Army Cadets Corps is facing assault charges.
The charges were laid after a teen girl reported to Peterborough-Lakefield police that she was grabbed and pushed at a Dec. 18 cadets meeting at the Peterborough Armoury.
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Don't forget the workshop opportunity coming up in April!
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And that afternoon, they are doing 'ukulele and slack key guitar workshops in Phoenix.
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They each bought four raffle tickets for only $5 per ticket, one bought on Saturday and the other on Sunday.
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CPSM Exam 1 thougths
My thoughts. The Exam itself was very hard in my opinion. I passed with an okay score, but as I took it, I thought that I had no chance. (apparently I am smarter or a better guesser than I thought.) 90% of the questions are long and take reading them twice, at minimum, to put yourself into the scenario.
I used the study guide and the diagnostic kit. I passed the diagnostic exam fairly easily, and will tell you in my opinion less than 10% of the material is the same as the actual Exam. That said, I would still recommend the diagonistic exam, because it will train you in the way the questions are written. The diagonostic exam will give you information to all 4 answers which is much better to study than just the study guide. The guide is a 20k foot view of each topic, then the Exam puts a philosophical SPIN to it. Additionally, you think you have enough time, but you don't. If you know the true definition of the terms you will do okay. The test doesn't ask you to define the term but says okay in this situation what would the term be, and even then which is Most or Least likely.
In most questions you can eliminate 2 of the 4 answers, giving you a 50/50 shot. So if your wondering what to buy to prep, I say both the Study Guide and Kit, but trust me the Exam information is totally different and only scrapes the surface of the Guide.
Hope this helps someone. Also, you get your score, right after the test is over on the screen so you know to be mad, sad, or glad right then. Keep your printed out score because you need it to send in for your application.
Masters programs aren't this difficult!!
So glad for the info
Thanks for commenting on the exam. I am studying and tried the practice exam only to fail it the first time out. I am very nervous about the real thing. Thanks for your comments -- would you recommend any extra reading to get through some of the tougher parts of the exam? I would love to have some recommendations.....thanks, SQ in PA
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You can purchase a diagnostic kit full of questions and answers. It is only a diagnostic and helps you gauge what area you are weak in, and strong in.
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Professional Series
You have recommended diagnostic kit and the study guide, what about CPSM professional series? are they enough/useful for preparing for the exam?
Test #1 - Get the Professional Series
Reading through the Professional Series Books was so helpful.
As mentioned - the questions are not based on learning the definitions of the word - but ask - what is the MOST or LEAST likely answer based on these criteria.
Take time to prepare and read, read, read....
I read the Professional Series and Study Guides - then took the diagnostic tests.
Some of the real test material was similar to the diagnostic practice test- only more in depth.
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The South Dakota State Historical Society has announced that the applications for the next round of the Deadwood Fund grant program are due on Oct. 1, for work beginning Jan. 1, 2013.
The program is designed to encourage large-scale restoration or rehabilitation of historic properties by individuals, organizations or public agencies, according to Jay D. Vogt, director of the State Historical Society, whose historic preservation office administers the program.
Grants will be awarded in amounts ranging from $1,000 to $25,000. The grant amount must be matched on a dollar-for-dollar basis from nonfederal and nonstate sources. Nonprofit organizations will be allowed to use in-kind services for one-half of their match.
In 2011, more than $121,000 was distributed among 10 projects.
Funding for the program is from Deadwood gaming revenue earmarked by state law for historic preservation projects throughout the state and distributed by the State Historical Society.
The first round of 2013 applications will be due on Feb. 1, 2013.
For more information on the South Dakota State Historical Society's Deadwood Fund grant program, contact the State Historic Preservation Office at the Cultural Heritage Center, 900 Governors Drive, Pierre, SD 57501-2217; telephone (605) 773-3458.
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Rain Pushes Back Start of Softball Road Doubleheader to 4 PM
FLORENCE, S.C. – The sixth-ranked University of North Georgia softball team's Peach Belt Conference doubleheader at Francis Marion University has been pushed back to 4:00 p.m. due to rain in the area.
The Patriots (20-14, 5-5 PBC) and No. 6 Saints (26-7, 6-2 PBC) are now set for a first pitch at 4:00 p.m. for game-one with the second game set to start at around 6:00 p.m.
North Georgia leads the all-time series 17-5, including having won the last 11 meetings between the two programs dating back to the 2009 season. Last year, the Saints claimed the two games 4-1 and 9-4 in Dahlonega.


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Walk with Sheridan Park Friends Sunday, Sept. 20
The Sheridan Park Friends will be walking in the Park on Sunday, Sept. 20th. What a great opportunity to get out of the house, meet some neighbors and enjoy our beautiful autumn weather! The walk will start at the pavilion (area 1) just after the Packer Game (about 3:30 pm). The walk will make use of a new walking trail that was developed as part of an Eagle Scout service project. Everyone is invited so get your walking shoes and join in the fun!
Hello readers! I hope you have been enjoying our fantastic autumn weather. Finally some warm temperatures! What happened to our summer? Oh well, at least we are having an awesome fall.
On Saturday, Sept. 26th, the Garlic Mustard Pickers will be performing at First Congregational Church in South Milwaukee. (The Church is at the intersection of Pine and Chicago). The Church will be having a Harvest Dinner and the GMP will be playing at around 6 pm.


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Mom You Hold... Card by DCWV®
Use a craft knife to trim the black cardstock around the U. This helps eliminate difficult cutting angles around the letter using scissors.
Designed by Celeste Crockett, courtesy of DCWV®
Material List
- DCWV® Paper pad - 12"x12" - the Bella Rouge Stack™
- Cardstock, 6"x6" - Black
- Alphabet Stickers, 1" - White
- Chipboard Letter, Large - "U"
- Rub-on Alphabet Letters - Black
- Key Memorabilia
- Trim - Blue
- Rhinestones - Blue
- Scoring Tool
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- Paper Crafting Adhesive
- Paper Crafting Pen
Project Instructions
Step 1 Select six prints from the Bella Rouge Stack™.
Step 2 Cut the first print to 5"x10". Lay this print in front of you horizontally and score down the center, folding it in half to create a 5"x5" card.
Step 3 Cut a strip from your next print measuring 1½"x5". Score this print in half and adhere it in place over the fold, half of the print showing on the front and the other half on the back.
Step 4 Cut a square from each of your next two prints measuring 4"x4" (total of two squares). Distress the edges of each square and adhere them to the front of the card as shown in the image.
Step 5 Wrap the blue trim around a small section of the "U," tying it in a knot in the front and trimming any excess as desired. Adhere the "U" to the 6"x6" square of black cardstock. Cut around the edges to create a thin border. Adhere this grouping, using adhesive foam squares, to your next piece of printed cardstock, trimming around the edges to create a slightly larger border. Set this aside momentarily.
Step 6 Create a tag to go on the side of the "U" with your final print. Using the image as a reference, adhere this to the right of the "U" on the front of the card.
Step 7 Using the same print as the tag, cut a 5"x5" square and adhere this to the inside of the card, right side of the fold.
Step 8 Embellish the card as desired by adding alphabet sticker letters, rub-on letters, rhinestones, and your key.


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Service was great. Food was excellent. Dining atmosphere is a cut above casual. Prefered Easy Seafood.
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Our goal is supporting your instructional and learning goals where they intersect with technology in a collaborative, campus-focused and sensitive approach. Call or email to set up an appointment to discuss how we can support you. If you don't see what you want or need, ask (phone numbers below).
- Camtasia Relay for quick capture (and lecture captures in the Tech classrooms)
- Research and development collaboration for almost any educational technology not present or supported on campus
Personal "service-level agreement":
- 4 hours of direct support (with you as the project lead if you wish)
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The BaByliss Boutique Salon Control 235 straightener has a top temperature of 235°C and ultimate Advanced Ceramics™ that deliver salon professional heat-up in 15 seconds and heat recovery during use for fast, easy styling.
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Curriculum coordinator Rachel Smith and Piedmont Middle School Principal Jerry Snow met representatives from 29 other school systems across the nation, all of which are receiving $100,000 grants announced last week to develop new learning models. In Piedmont, school officials plan to use the money to personalize learning for sixth-grade students, but administrators are still trying to decide exactly how they'll spend it.
"We just know that we received the grant," Smith said "We're just in the very beginning stages."
Smith said the system may use the money to pay consultants, to buy software, to pay for training for teachers or to do myriad other things. Piedmont administrators plan to expand the program later to more grades.
The grants are funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation through Next Generation Learning Challenges, an organization that encourages the use of technology to personalize education and prepare students for colleges and careers.
In Piedmont, administrators will use the grant money to develop a system to teach through technology so students can learn at their own pace, Piedmont schools Superintendent Matt Akin said.
"The grant is a unique opportunity because it's a planning grant," Akin said. "It gives us the upcoming school year to plan how to implement personalized learning."
While the system doesn't yet know how it will spend the money, sixth-graders will notice some changes upon returning to class next month.
At the beginning of the fall semester teachers will combine math and science instruction in the same class, and also fuse lessons on history and language arts. The fused subjects will be taught in one big space, such as a library, with more than one teacher on hand, Smith said.
The teachers will use students' school-issued laptop computers to determine which standards each student has mastered. Students will also use their computers to learn at their own pace, administrators said.
Individualized learning is also part of the system's goal to eliminate digital and geographical divides for students, Smith said. The district began taking steps toward that goal in 2010, when it issued the laptops to each student in grades 4 through 12.
"There are tons of opportunities out there for students through the window of the computer," Smith said. "The next step is creating a personalized learning environment for each student."
Students will still be expected to meet academic requirements set by the Alabama College and Career Ready Standards, but they'll have more flexibility in how they do that under the new model. Students will pick which subjects and concepts to focus on, Smith said. Once they've mastered a concept students can move on even if their classmates are still working on it. Administrators said it will also give students more time to grasp concepts they struggle with, even if most of their classmates have moved on.
"This is not going to be traditional seven-period classes," Smith said.
In December, the school system will apply for another grant of up to $400,000 from Next Generation to expand the program to more grades.
Staff writer Laura Gaddy: 256-235-3544. On Twitter @LJohnson_Star.


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