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Secret Harbor seeks grants from a variety of organizations including private and family foundations, corporations, civic organizations and some church groups. Secret Harbor also receives multi-year grant funding from United Way of Snohomish County for two programs and is the recipient of two grants from United Way of Skagit County. Grant funding plays a key role in our ability to provide comprehensive services to children with extraordinary needs.
Private and Family Foundations and Donor Advised Funds. Many corporations, individuals or families have set up private and family foundations. Others may have donor advised funds with their financial advisors or local Community Foundations that provide grants on an annual or occasional basis. Secret Harbor welcomes inquiries from foundation trustees or administrators with an interest in having positive, lasting impact on the lives of children who have experienced serious trauma and family disruption. We hope you will learn more about Secret Harbor, share your guidelines and invite us to apply for funding.
Community and Church Organizations. Many people join organizations that raise funds for charitable causes and then distribute them as a group.
- Secret Harbor welcomes invitations to speak before groups of all kinds and sizes – or to make an application for funding. Word-of-mouth is the most effective way to recruit foster parents and spread the word in the community about the great work of Secret Harbor.
- If your group might consider hosting a collection or a small benefit for Secret Harbor, we would love to work with you.
Contact Kaelen Morris or call (360) 755-5700 x448.
Celebrating Recent Grants
We are grateful to once again be awarded a grant through the NW Children's Fund, one of our long-time supporters. Being able to continue to support our programs has been made possible through their continued years of support.
The Youth Philanthropy Committee has selected Secret Harbor as one of their grantees for 2018. A grant for $2,500 will be made towards our Summer WET program. Thank you for your support as we continue to offer this program for the 26th year!
The JERRY H. WALTON FOUNDATION has approved a year-end matching grant for the fourth year in a row. Donations up to of $10,000 made between November 15th, 2017 and January 31st, 2018 will be matched dollar-for dollar up to $15,000. We raised a total of $16,262,50!
Our warmest thanks to the Anonymous Fund that substantially underwrites our Summer Environmental Work Experience Training Program. Because of their ongoing support, we've been able to offer the youth at Secret Harbor an amazing opportunity to learn social and work skills in the great out-of-doors while providing a wonderful service to Washington State Parks Department.
Secret Harbor happily announces a grant from the MUCKLESHOOT INDIAN TRIBE for skilled mental health services. The Muckleshoot Tribe has generously supported Secret Harbor since 2009, and we are pleased to be a recipient again in 2017.
Secret Harbor is absolutely delighted to have the support of UNITED WAY OF SKAGIT COUNTY. The Board of Directors is funding both Secret Harbor's Residential Treatment Program and Foster Care Resources in 2017 with Community Impact Grants.
KIWANIS NOON CLUB OF ANACORTES made a wonderful grant for our KIDS FUND, which provides for the special needs of individual children throughout the year. Thank you so much!
PUYALLUP TRIBE'S CHARITY TRUST BOARD made another generous and marvelous grant to Secret Harbor in 2017. The grant will provide much needed specialized counseling, summer camps, tutoring, recreational activities, and psych evaluations. Our warmest thanks to the Puyallup Tribe which has supported Secret Harbor kids and families very generously for many years!
TULALIP CARES has once again generously gifted Secret Harbor with a grant for 2016! Many thanks to the Tulalip Tribe for their kind and thoughtful gifts to Secret Harbor kids and families.
Secret Harbor would like to celebrate a recent and generous grant for Mental Health Services from the COASTAL COMMUNITY BANK'S EMPLOYEE GIVING FUND through the COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SNOHOMISH COUNTY. Big thanks to the Coastal Bank Employee Giving Fund and the Community Foundation of Snohomish County.
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SOROPTIMISTS INTERNATIONAL OF SEDRO WOOLLEY made a generous gift to Secret Harbor's Welcome Pantry. Two years ago, the Club helped Secret Harbor create the pantry, and we appreciate their ongoing support for what the pantry provides for young people who are just coming to Secret Harbor.
Secret Harbor has been selected by the SKAGIT VALLEY FOOD COOP's 4% Friday program for the month of August in 2017. 4% of all purchases on August 25th will be donated to Secret Harbor's Kids Fund to support the Welcome Pantry. We're thrilled by this opportunity, and will post additional information on our Event's page closer to August.
Secret Harbor is most pleased to announce a major grant from the THOMAS V. GIDDENS, JR CHARITABLE FOUNDATION to support the agency's general operations. The Giddens Foundation is a significant advocate for children who have experienced abuse and neglect and we are grateful for their investment in their health and their futures.
We'd like to thank BURLINGTON-EDISON KIWANIS CLUB for their recent (and regular) support of our KIDS FUND. The gift came just in time to help our kids go to summer camp.
We would like to thank the LUMMI NATION and their Business Council for supporting Secret Harbor's KIDS FUND. The Council hosted a celebration for their grant recipients, and Secret Harbor was honored to be included in the celebration
It was enjoyable visiting the Bellingham Central Lions Club to receive a nice check for our KIDS FUND. The Club hopes the funds will be used for day and summer camps for our kids.
Secret Harbor was recently recipient of a major capital grant from EMPLOYEES COMMUNITY FUND OF BOEING PUGET SOUND for renovations at Fleming Home. We are grateful to the Fund and all Boeing employees who support small capital projects that have difficulty getting funded.
Our sincere thanks goes to the ROTARY CLUB OF BURLINGTON for their recent grant and continued support of our programs.
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There are few things more delicious than a freshly sliced avocado, and when it comes to healthy nutrition, this fruit is in a class by itself. Avocados are loaded with fiber, and are an excellent source of folate and vitamins K, B5 (pantothenic acid), B6 and C. They also contain more potassium than bananas, plus magnesium, vitamin E, niacin and riboflavin.
In addition, avocado is considered a "good" fat, helping to keep cholesterol levels in the healthy range, and lowering the risk for heart disease. To learn more about the health benefits of this nutritional powerhouse, take a look at Dr. Mercola's article "Anti-Cancer Benefits of Avocado."
If you love avocados (or guacamole), you've probably noticed this delicious food is more expensive than other produce. There are a number of factors that influence the availability and price of avocados, and one of them is a disease carried by a beetle.1
The redbay ambrosia beetle was first reported in the U.S. in 2002 in Savannah, Georgia, probably after being "imported" from Asia in wooden shipping materials. The beetle carries a fungus that causes laurel wilt disease — a disease that has killed off over 300 million laurel trees in the U.S. so far.
Avocado trees belong to the laurel tree family, and not long after the beetles were found in Georgia, they were also reported in Florida, which is loaded with avocado orchards. In fact, avocados are the second largest tree crop in Florida after citrus. Laurel wilt disease has devastated Florida's avocado industry in recent years, and even larger growers in California and Mexico are also worried the disease could destroy their crops.
A huge problem in fighting laurel wilt disease is that by the time it's obvious, it's usually too late to save the tree and trees nearby. One of the keys to containing the infection and saving its victims is early detection, and guess who happens to be really, really good at early detection of the fungus? That's right, humankind's best friend and his very talented sniffer!
According to a report in the journal HortTechnology,2 published by the American Society for Horticultural Science, a research team trained a Belgian Malinois and two Dutch Shepherd scent dogs to detect the early presence of the fungus that causes laurel wilt disease. The three "agri-dogs," like all good sniffer dogs, were trained to sit by an infected tree to alert their handlers to their find.
The researchers conducted 229 trials, and amazingly, the dogs only had 12 false alerts. The research team believes that with proper training, scent dogs could be the answer to protecting the vulnerable avocado industry.
"It is the best 'technology' so far that can detect a diseased tree before external symptoms are visible," study co-author DeEtta Mills, Ph.D., of Florida International University told Treehugger. "The old saying that 'dogs are man's best friend' reaches far beyond a personal bond with their handler and trainer. It is depicted in their excitement every day as they deploy to the groves. Man's best friend may even help save an industry."3
"It is the best 'technology' so far that can detect a diseased tree before external symptoms are visible," study co-author DeEtta Mills, Ph.D., of Florida International University told Treehugger. "The old saying that 'dogs are man's best friend' reaches far beyond a personal bond with their handler and trainer. It is depicted in their excitement every day as they deploy to the groves. Man's best friend may even help save an industry."3
Since dogs are playing a vital role in saving our avocado supply, they should be able to eat the delicious, nutritious fruits right along with us, shouldn't they? If you're thinking, "But they can't! Avocados are toxic to dogs," I have some really good news to share with you!
Rodney Habib and I were in Mexico City recently for a TedX talk. As you might know, avocados are a staple in the Mexican diet. We decided to do a Facebook Live on the subject of avocados and dogs after our waiter mentioned that he feeds his dog an avocado every day.
Unlike in Mexico, in the U.S. and Canada there's a myth that avocados are toxic to dogs. This misguided urban legend was actually created based on one lonely study from 1994. The study, titled "Putative Avocado Toxicity in Two Dogs," came from South Africa and involved two starving dogs that sadly died from heart and organ failure.4
For the record, "putative" means "assumed to be" or "thought to be" versus "definitely is." The two dogs found an avocado orchard, and because the poor things were starving, they consumed all parts of the avocado, including the stems, leaves, skin — even the tree bark.
The dogs' stomach contents weren't analyzed for the study, but the symptoms they displayed prior to death were similar to those seen in a study of 15 goats that ate avocado leaves and died. Now, it's important to note that just like tomato leaves, avocado leaves are toxic to both humans and animals. The flesh of the fruit isn't toxic, but the leaves are.
The poisonous substance found in the skin, stems and leaves of avocados is called persin, which is a fungicidal toxin. There's also a small amount of persin in the flesh and pit of the avocado, which is actually good news, because research has shown that small doses of persin kill cancer cells!
In 2012, Procter & Gamble funded a study to find out once and for all if avocados are toxic to dogs. Researchers took avocado pits, skin and flesh, ground them up, and fed an extract to a group of Beagles for six months. They discovered the avocado-based extract was completely safe.5
So it's fine to feed your dog avocados, as long as you don't feed the stems, leaves, pits, skin or even less likely, the tree bark! It's important to use common sense and your own eating habits as a guide. When you buy an avocado at the grocery store or farmer's market and bring it home, you slice it in half, remove the pit and scoop out the flesh to eat. You don't eat the skin or the pit. Follow that same common sense practice with your dog.
Unfortunately, huge organizations like the AKC and the ASPCA continue to perpetuate the myth of avocado toxicity. Even the ASPCA pet insurance provider warns that avocados are toxic. This results in a lot of misguided and unnecessary "fear of real food" among pet parents.
In addition, veterinarians warn clients that higher fat foods can trigger pancreatitis, which is true, but here's what most of them are missing. Thanks to the work of the wonderful pet cancer warriors at the KetoPet Sanctuary, we now know it's cooked fat that causes pancreatitis.
We know that raw fat — and avocados have a lot of it — is a "good" fat. And avocados also contain lipase, which is the enzyme necessary to break down fat. So not only do avocados contain healthy fat, they contain the enzyme necessary to break down the fat so the body can easily digest and assimilate it.
As I mentioned earlier, avocados are a powerhouse of important vitamins and minerals. And because they're high in fat, they help your dog's body better absorb fat-soluble vitamins (vitamins A, D, E and K).
Many people believe feeding foods high in fat will make their dog fat, but nothing could be further from the truth. Carbohydrates are what make mammals (including humans) fat. In addition, some dog breeds are predisposed to high triglyceride levels, for example, the Schnauzer. Higher fat foods like avocados actually decrease triglyceride levels, and in humans, they help lower LDL cholesterol. And still more benefits:
Take home message: Don't fear the delicious, super nutritious avocado! Don't fear them for yourself, and don't be afraid to feed them to your dog!
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Let's start with the 800lb gorilla, shall we? Amazon's Kindle is perhaps the widest known name when it comes to eBooks, although arguably its pre-eminence has been chipped away over time and now it it not quite the overbearing force it once was. The Kindle has been selling digital manga for a long time at this point, from initial stuttering experiments (which were highly variable in quality) to a more established, mature ecosystem.
The most obvious benefit of the Kindle is that with few exceptions and no matter your device, there is a an app that Amazon have created to serve the Kindle reader and (arguably more importantly for Amazon) store to you. It also helps that the service syncs your progress in a book across all apps, which is nice and the sort of feature you only notice when it stops working. However, these applications can be obscured by the nightmare of navigation that lurks within the depths of the Amazon site.
The Amazon store on PC is a massive sprawling hulk, combining lots of ways of filtering and sorting (of varying use) with a massive catalogue of titles (of varying relevance). The key thing to do is to limit your search or browsing to the Kindle store else things gets messy fast and you end up looking at saucepans as opposed to Naruto volume 94. It also helps that the sub-categories for digital manga are much better constructed than the oddball categories in the physical manga store. One nice thing is that entries for physical books also link to their Kindle versions (if available) which saves hunting around the store for confirmation of digital availability.
Kindle has a dedicated site for its web based reader, which is bizarrely well hidden and I had no idea it existed for several years until a stray Google search highlighted it. When you first access the site it offers you the ability to set up offline reading and links you to the relevant browser add-on or extension to enable this functionality.
The cloud reader has a nice clean interface, with a few well laid out options and the ability to easily navigate and search within your library. One slight kink is that when downloading books for offline reading it locks the tab so you can't do anything else but watch it download - I assume this was made with text-based e-books in mind, where the progress bar would barely have time to appear as you have to let it complete before the book is available. One additional note is how the site indicates that "We also automatically download recently opened books until space is needed" but there is curiously no way to investigate or adjust these settings.
The reader itself provides clean two-page spreads automatically sized to the window, and a suite of unobtrusive controls. It feels responsive and easy to navigate - you get the odd imperceptible load as pages are streamed into the reader, which it does to prevent showing you a blank image. Reading a book online has a mild initial load, the length of which depends on your connection. While reading the site caches in background and if you "outrun it" you get loads, again, dependent on your connection. Overall, the reader is a good experience.
Bizarrely, the Kindle store is much better in the Android application - it loads faster, is less cluttered, has more ways of splitting and recommending you content, and has the full digital catalog visible within it. The search engine is also very swift and generally on point. One annoyance of the in-app store is that category navigation is at the foot of each page; I feel this is perhaps intentional to make you look at the carousels of recommendations as you go.
The app surfaces your library in a rolling carousel view by default, which I found very fiddly to interact with. Changing the view allows you to view titles in a better laid-out flat view. The app is also keen to provide recommendations whenever it can find space and a data connection, which are usually spookily spot on and that you can thankfully turn off in the settings.
To read books in the app you must download them first, which makes the sluggishness I experienced in the reader rather puzzling. After a page turn the next page needs to load in so you get a blank image for a brief moment until it "pops in", the length of time depending on the individual book. The app also doesn't cache many pages at a time so if you move with any speed you hit a lot of blank pages which can get rather disruptive, especially when you are in landscape mode and it has to load 2-page spreads. The reader is overall a good experience even with this caveat.
As well as the web-based reader, Amazon also has a desktop application for both PC and Mac. Curiously it is a lesser experience with both fewer options combined with a less intuitive layout and a noticeable lack of responsiveness, especially when downloading books. You will need to do this as well, as the app requires you download purchases before reading.
I attempted to read my manga purchases on a physical Kindle for the purposes of this article but sadly my basic 4th gen Kindle is locked out - all manga I tried to download onto it comes up with a "not compatable with this device" error so I cannot comment further. Let us know if you have a Kindle that does work with manga and your experience with it!
One additional vector for reading Kindle purchases is on Comixology, who Amazon purchased in 2014. This is covered later on in the "Comixology" section of this article.
The Kindle store has come on a long way in the case of manga - its various readers used to have massive issues with manga, in particular how it handled borders and artificially shrunk the page on your screen. The reading experience is now a lot better across the board and can be recommended without qualification - the only thing Amazon could stand to do is to improve the accessibility and transparency of their sprawling catalogue of titles.
Nook was a service that I was once personally quite fond of, although it has not always repaid that love and has now spurned me in the most complete way by announcing its closure. The store closure will take effect on the 15th of March 2016, and the service will entirely shut at the end of May 2016. You can see full details in our news story here.
As part of the shutdown process user accounts will be transferred to Sainsbury's Entertainment on Demand, an eBook storefront who do not offer manga or any graphic novels at all, and so missed out on full inclusion in this article. if this changes, I will of course evaluate and add them!
Despite the impending shutdown, I am maintaining Nook's place in this article as 1) they have not strictly shut down yet, although their attractiveness is greatly diminished as a result and 2) as a record of their existence as a digital manga storefront to the UK, for the sake of completeness.
Nook sits high in this article as it was a once a storefront that offered its own physical eReaders as well as an eBook storefront, and is owned by the US bookstore chain Barnes and Noble. In an earlier version of this article (written 2014) it stood out as an exceptional digital manga storefront, however time has dulled its shine as other stores have stepped up their game.
The Nook store has a robust, if at times flawed catalogue. There is a good range of publishers and titles represented, and you can easily navigate these and arrange the available titles/search results in multiple ways. You can easily navigate by author and publisher, and one nice thing is that you get a decent number of results on the page as it infinite scrolls rather than making you click through to new pages all the time. An issue with this is if you move too quickly and reach the footer of the page the page will cease loading and cut you off! It also sensibly links series together so you can jump from volume to volume easily.
The previously mentioned flaws are the bizarre gaps in series that exist in the storefront, and the arbitrary delays that sometimes exist in series appearing on the service. An example of the former is the lack of the first volume of One Billion Needles when volumes two to four are present. In the case of the latter, volumes of Genshiken have always showed up later on Nook than other services - at the time of writing Second Season Volume 7 is still not available on the store despite already being available on multiple other services. In both cases I have contacted both Nook and the publisher and they have passed the buck back and forth between them. These issues are especially annoying when the titles in question are on the US Barnes and Noble e-book store but you cannot buy them! I also have to note that the Nook website can at times be somewhat buggy - in the course of writing this article the search engine has crashed multiple times and as I write this it hangs when I attempt to log in!
The Nook mobile application received a massive overhaul in the not too distant past which greatly improved the interface overall. It has a number of nice touches - clean menus and text, volumes from the same series are organised together in your library, and as an extra bonus it no longer crashes my devices as soon as I tried to read anything!
Sadly, the reader is not well adjusted for reading right-to-left - while swipes work well for changing pages, tapping the sides of the screen changes the page in the opposite direction. Between this and other issues you feel like you must fight with the application to make it work properly. That being said it loads quickly, and both swift page turns and/or jumping around a book does not faze it in the slightest. The books themselves are also of a nice hefty file size and as a result have a solid level of image quality.
I cannot comment on the Nook tablets themselves as I do not own one, and the Desktop Apps are in a grey area of possible support. The PC application I do have access to will not allow manga to be loaded from the library so is useless for the purposes of this article. One thing the service could sorely do with is a web-based reader of some kind. Even previews have to be requested, added to your library, and synced to an app or reader to view.
As mentioned, I personally like the Nook storefront although looking back at what I have written I am not entirely sure why. Part of this may be the magic of the sunk cost fallacy - for a while the Nook store was cheaper than its competitors so I bought new volumes of series I was reading there, but now the prices are basically in line with other stores I struggle to praise it without caveat.
Kobo is a bizarre third place entrant in the "Sells e-books and has their own eReaders too!" stakes. If you have had the misfortune to visit high-street fossil W H Smith you will have seen they have a partnership with Kobo to stock their hardware. In recent years the brand was acquired by Rakuten, the same people who picked up media-peddlers Play.com, who appear to have given the service a shot in the arm. Snark aside, it has a not-insignificant manga presence on its store and so deserves a closer look.
The Kobo web store makes a very good first impression - it is very well laid out with clear spacing, nice fonts, and a responsive design. Available books are clearly presented with a lot metadata upfront, including the publisher's synopsis, and there are a fair smattering of subcategories to drill down. Sadly, most of the nearly 8,000 titles in the manga category have a dubious claim to that classification; heck, the number 2 bestseller at the time of writing is House of Leaves? The store has some very handy sorting and filtering options, but with the majority of books available being of dubious interest this can still feel like a chore. An odd kink in the store also pegs the maximum number of pages for results at 99 when there are many more books available.
Thankfully, the Kobo store has a responsive search engine to compensate and recommendations on individual titles. One nice, if unreliable, feature is how series can be joined together so you can easily jump from to volume to volume- but only if the publisher has surfaced that in the metadata (like for Bamboo Blade as an example).
All books in the store also have a free preview available; however Kobo does not have a web-based reader and so the "Save Preview" button adds the preview to your account for later syncing, which feels a little cack-handed.
The service does have a PC/MAC application, Kobo Desktop, which is a rather odd beast. The store within the app is the same as the web version, but with a worse font and sluggish loading. You would be better off just using the site itself rather than a clunky facsimile! Also in the Desktop application is the reader application, which is why you downloaded it in the first place. Syncing your purchases is automatic, and if any errors occur they are thankfully presented with clear instructions on how to resolve them, which is personally appreciated. The download process can be a little on the slow side, and there are less options for controlling the content in your library than in the mobile apps, which is a little confusing.
The reading experience is stripped down but works well - you get a two-page spread of the title you are reading (there is no single-page view), sized to fill out the available window. Also present are a persistent zoom, full-screen mode, and (if supported by the title) a table of contents for quick navigation. When zoomed in you get a nice picture-in-picture of what part of the spread you are currently looking at, which is a nice usability addition. The app itself is bereft of other options, the only one present being a language select for the interface. A final note is on the "Delete from Library" option present within the app, which sounds supremely dangerous and throws a scary error at you if you click it. This removes the book from the app and puts the selected book into a "Trash" section of your Library which is viewable on the website. This whole process is rather scary, and makes for a confusing experience as there is no clear-cut way to "Archive" a book in the app and remove it from your hard drive.
The Kobo mobile app is its best venue - it's a very clean, elegant application with clear spacing and thin fonts, dressed up in white and light blue. It has a very "human" feeling interface, asking questions in full sentences and with a very intuitive layout across the application. It even asks you if you are still reading books that you have not read for a while, and removes them from the device if not, and has stats if you love numbers! The in-app store is the same as the website but re-arranged to fit the screen size on your device, and works just as well.
The app gives you a lot of options to arrange your content, giving you a "reading list" of books you have downloaded, and the Library also brings in the "series" information from the store to keep these together. You can also make personal collections of books like a music playlist, which is a neat idea but I never found a use for. The in-app reader is really pleasant to use - it feels responsive on page turns, allows you to change between single page/ double page spread/ automatic as you wish, and has the options unobtrusively tucked away. You have to download books fully before reading them in app. The app also has an ePub import feature, if you have DRM-free books you wish to add.
Kobo also offers a reader app for Blackberry 10 devices,which I cannot comment on as I do not know anyone who owns one. The same goes for Kobo's own brand of e-readers, which on paper look like a decent competitor to the monolithic Kindle.
Kobo feels like a service that is close to greatness, but that is thwarted by a few key issues. The website is good, and houses a lot of content, but it really needs just a few more filtering options to help wade through all of it. The apps are nice - in particular the reading experience - but the lack of a web-reader for both previews and purchases feels like a large omission. Still, what is here is worth a look for sure.


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Last year, I moved into my first apartment with my S.O. We showed up to our new home with a dresser, a mattress, my trusty Keurig from college...and that's about it. At the time, we were so excited to decorate ~together~ because we hardly had much of anything, and we were starting from scratch. So fun! Right? LOL, no. Just *try* to go to Ikea with your partner and make it out alive, I dare you! We couldn't agree on a bed spread, much less a rug. Our inevitable disagreements on pretty much everything led me to a deep internet hunt in hopes of finding an affordable rug we both liked. Welp, all the rugs we were into were, of course, out of our price range, while the ones we could afford were...just meh. It turns out rug shopping is exhausting.
In a twist of fate, the design gods parted the clouds and led me straight to this vintage-y, medallion-inspired rug on Amazon:
I put mine in the living room — aka a high-traffic area — and it's still in great shape. No fraying, fading, or shedding, even after countless spills and vacuum sessions.
Plus, it just looks nice. It instantly cozied up my space and tied the room together, as a good rug does, and I didn't have to pay a fortune for it.
Since roaming every corner of the internet in search of an affordable quality rug, I've actually found a fair share of them. Here are some favorites similar to my own rug:
Oh, and I FakeSpot-checked all of these rugs to ensure that the reviews were legit.
1. This purty traditional rug with soft pops of color:
2. This silver and ivory vintage design that has enough detailing to add some flair to any room:
3. This beautiful, super-colorful rug for anyone who could use a little more color in their life:
4. This bohemian one with a fun geometrical print that makes a subtle statement:
5. This distressed blue and cream rug that's the perfect amount of bold:
May this help you in all of your rug endeavors.
Reviews in this post have been edited for length and/or clarity.


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Chocolate Cherry Antioxidant Smoothie Bowl
- 1 cup frozen, unsweetened cherries
- 1/2 cup frozen, wild blueberries
- 2 dates, pitted
- 2 scoops of ALOHA Chocolate Superfood Greens
- 1 tbsp unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1 tbsp ground flaxseed
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1/2 cup lite coconut milk
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- Place your pitted dates to a small bowl of hot water (to soften the dates).
- Add your frozen fruit, ALOHA Chocolate Superfood Greens, unsweetened cocoa powder, ground flaxseed, ground cinnamon, and coconut milk to a blender. Blend.
- Toss your dates to the blender. Blend until smooth.
- Pour into a bowl and top with your favorite toppings!


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Takeover, turnaround, transfer…what happens when Texas takes over a school district?
"This is not a decision a commissioner takes lightly, because you are setting aside an elected body… so there is a lot of thought," said DeEtta Culbertson, information specialist with the Texas Education Agency (TEA) referring to the commissioner of education's decision to take over a school district. Some of the most recent schools receiving assistance are Southside ISD, Edgewood ISD and Hearne ISD.
By law, TEA has the ability to take over a school district or charter school due to problems with finances, governance, academics or health and security. Charter school board members are not elected to their seat, but are either appointed by school staff or they volunteer. An independent school district holds elections for school board members, which normally has five to seven members of the community who serve, and are re-elected or replaced after serving up to four years- depending on district policy.
There are currently 1,024 independent school districts in Texas, and over the years, some districts have been temporarily taken over, while others have closed and merged with another district due to an infraction that couldn't be resolved. When TEA discovers that a school district is in need of assistance, they will normally have an individual monitor the situation. The monitor could then be elevated to a conservator if conditions do not improve. The conservator provides a quarterly report to TEA and if improvements are not met, it is then the option of Commissioner of Education Mike Morath to replace the school board and superintendent.
According to Culbertson, when Morath decides to implement a board of managers into the district, TEA has a new process in place to find volunteers. "We actually do an application process to individuals in the community," said Culbertson. "We also do training for anyone interested in being on the board of managers to learn what duties they provide. There are reviews, interviews and phone calls before Morath determines what will be in the best interest of the students." The provided training is called Lone Star Governance, which is offered by the director of governance and school improvement. "The director has been going around and doing training at the service centers for the school superintendents and board members on how to work better, more effectively together, and individually in order to improve student outcomes," said Culbertson. "Hopefully this will help boards get more cohesive in their programs and planning."
Prior to the 2015 Legislative Session, TEA could only take over a school district for two years. Following the passage of House Bill 3106, the commissioner was granted more authority in the timeline for continuing a board of managers beyond two years.
The temporary replacement of a superintendent tends to be someone who chooses to come out of retirement or a superintendent that is between jobs. If the superintendent is not certified, the commissioner can allow them a waiver and they have three years to complete the superintendent process.
Shutting down a school district and merging it with another is the last resort for TEA. "A few years ago we closed and merged a school district because there was horrifying conditions," said Culbertson. "They also had financial and academic issues but the conditions of the school buildings were just unbelievable. There was also serious issues there with health and safety. It was just a combination of things." Before merging school districts, TEA looks at which district can absorb the incoming district and where it has the least impact on the receiving district students and finances. There is incentive aid that is also provided to the receiving district.
School district takeovers happen not only in Texas, but throughout the United States. In the past decade, the debate over school control has shifted to include "takeover districts" in which schools that are deemed "chronically failing" are removed from the local school district and placed in a statewide district with a separate governance structure. In 2003, Louisiana established the "Recovery School District," the first statewide district of this kind. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the state rapidly expanded its takeover district. Tennessee followed suit, creating its "Achievement School District" in 2010 and expanding it in 2012. Michigan established its "Education Achievement Authority" in 2013, explicitly modeled on the Louisiana precedent. Nevada launched their "Nevada Achievement School District" this year.
School District Takeovers and Closures Timeline
1990s– Kendleton ISD went on and off through TEA interventions until 2010 when it closed and merged with Lamar Consolidated ISD.
1998– Asherton Independent School District closed and merged with Carrizo Springs ISD.
July 2005– Mirando City ISD was closed and combined with Webb Consolidated ISD.
July 2006– Wilmer-Hutchins ISD was closed and absorbed by Dallas ISD.
2012– El Paso ISD was taken over in 2013, but had an elected board return in 2015.
July 2013– North Forest ISD closed and merged with Houston ISD.
July 2014– Commissioner of Education Michael Williams announced the appointment of a five-member board of managers for Beaumont ISD. In April 2017, Commissioner of Education Mike Morath extended the Beaumont ISD transition.
December 2015– Commissioner Williams announced he would annex the La Marque ISD into the Texas City ISD beginning in the 2016-2017 school year.
May 2016 – Commissioner Morath announced the appointment of a five-member board of managers and a superintendent for Edgewood ISD in San Antonio.
December 2016– The court ruled in favor of Progreso ISD in a lawsuit filed against TEA. The agency must now reissue their findings from the 2011-2013 investigation. It is unclear at this time whether Progresso violated any laws, rules or policies. A decision on the litigation between the school district and TEA is still pending.
February 2017– The Texas Education Agency (TEA) announced that an online application was available on the agency and school's website for any community member seeking to serve on the Southside ISD board of managers.
February 2017– Commissioner Morath announced the appointment of a five-member board of managers for the Marlin Independent School District.
April 2017– Hearne ISD received a letter from TEA about a decision to take over the district. The district chose to appeal the takeover and has been granted a deadline of May 1 to request a formal/informal review.
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This coffee is amazing! Great for traveling or just a single cup!
I love this stuff! I does taste just like it was brewed! The only problem is, it's a little pricey. If you're already paying Starbuck's prices, it's no worse than anything else. The iced Vias are great too.
Perfect for my busy mornings when I NEED coffee, but don't have the time (or patience) for traditionally brewed coffee.
Perfect for people on the go. Not as great as actual pot made coffee but doesn't lack that much on taste. Decently priced and with the different varieties it comes in, is great for any coffee drinker.
I really love Starbuck's coffee and recently have tried these products. I think they are great for individual preferences and variety. With these products, you can choose to make whatever kind you want and others can do the same. The price is right; cheaper then buying a whole bag of one flavor of the Starbucks coffee. I think this is a great addition to the Starbucks family.
These are lifesavers. When I find myself in a situation where I have no access to coffee (GASP!) I can pop one of these in hot water and wah lah! Coffee. Surprisingly good coffee too! especially for instant.
I've had a few of these, they are decent for instant coffee! I still prefer the actual pot of coffee, but this will definitely pass the test when pressed!
Much prefer to brew a fresh pot of coffee or brew an individual cup
very good for an instant brew. Easy to take with me to work to make a cup of coffee.
I like the iced coffee...great for quick mornings out the door!


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M. Fabrikant & Sons Inc. and its domestic subsidiary, Fabrikant-Leer International, filed voluntary petitions for relief under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code. The company's foreign and domestic affiliates aren't included.
In a statement, the family-owned and -operated company said Chapter 11 proceedings "currently provide the best opportunity to maximize the value of its assets and its business for all stakeholders." It also said the company will "actively pursue a full range of strategic alternatives, including the sale or refinancing of the firm."
Fabrikant will continue operating its business while in Chapter 11, and its facilities are expected to remain open on normal schedules. It said it plans to "continue to pay employee wages and benefits, honor customer fulfillment obligations and programs, and make uninterrupted payments to suppliers for goods and services." The company has negotiated financing arrangements with its senior secured lenders, subject to court approval.
"We are in business every day," said spokeswoman Susan Fabrikant Fortgang. "We are commited to service and delivery of our products."
The company has $366.3 million in total liabilities, with total current assets listed as $225.8 million, court papers say.
The company cited numerous factors for its widely expected action, particularly the bankruptcies of two of its largest retail customers, Friedman's and Crescent Jewelers, which it says led to "substantial write-offs, reduced sales and cash flow"; the financial restructuring of a third customer, Whitehall Jewelers; and a significant reduction in purchases by Wal-Mart as it sold excess inventory. It also cited "gold prices and diminished free cash flow."
In the lead-up to the filing, many of Fabrikant's divisions were sold. An Indian company, Tara Jewels, recently purchased some of the assets of Fabrikant-Leer and formed a new venture called Fabrikant Tara International, of which Tara owns 73 percent. Its Israeli sightholder division—formerly Fabrikant-Salant—is now owned entirely by Israeli company Salant, and Robert Lee Morris has been sold to Lester Friedlander, a former company officer.
The fate of its other divisions—including Simmons Jewelry Co. and Brilliant Trading (a venture with Israeli mogul Lev Leviev)—was uncertain at press time, and Fortgang had no comment.
Most of the company's debt—$161.9 million—is owed to banks. Debts to third-party creditors total $36 million, and debts to non-debtor Fabrikant subsidiaries total $124 million.
Banks make up the top slots on the company's list of unsecured creditors. ABN AMRO is the leading unsecured creditor, owed $13.5 million, followed by Antwerp Diamond Bank ($8.8 million) and Union Bank ($7.8 million). The top trade unsecured creditor is H. Dika and Co. ($5.6 million), followed by Blue Star ($5.5 million), which has commenced litigation against Fabrikant.
The company's secured creditors include ABN AMRO ($44 million) and JPMorgan Chase ($35.8 million).
Fabrikant Leer lists its largest unsecured creditor as Vaishali Diamond Corp., which is owed $2 million.


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Needless to mention that your workforce is the core factor for the success of your business and it requires a robust system to keep a close eye on the functioning of your workforce. It has undeniably a two way process. Thus, in order to bring in the transparency and a clear see through- a reliable HR intranet portal is required. Let's find out how and why's for the same.
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The main purpose of having a portal like this is that it aims solemnly on results as it can be easily customized as per the specific needs of the employees. Now you can also team this tool with the knowledge management tools, which will improvise on the training sessions for the new employees and thus managing the whole thing effortlessly.
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