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Honey Maid brand, which produces graham crackers and variations there-of, recently released a new series of advertisements. The ads, called "This is Wholesome" celebrated all families, the company said.

The commercials featured interracial and same-sex couples.

Honey Maid said they received a lot of negative comments about the ads, so they hired two artists to create art from the printed comments.

What's even more amazing is the number of positive comments the company received, and what they did with that paper.

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First pitch was a little more than an hour away Saturday night, yet Astros manager Bo Porter and his players quietly and surprisingly filed into the back rows of a conference room at Minute Maid Park to wait patiently for Roy Oswalt and Lance Berkman.

Berkman noticed the 2014 Astros and told them they were free to beat it at any time to prepare for their game against the Angels. Porter, the players and the coaches remained in the room, catching a bit of a history lesson from the men who catapulted the franchise to its greatest glory.

Oswalt and Berkman signed one-day personal services contracts to retire as Astros, giving the franchise a chance to honor them with a pregame ceremony.

Over the last decade Roy and Lance have been the Houston Astros, said team president Reid Ryan.

Berkman and Oswalt were presented with personalized rocking chairs that had plaques of their career accomplishments, white felt Stetson hats and framed replicas of their 2005 World Series jerseys. They each will receive one of the Texas flags that flew at the state capitol in Austin.

This is our home, said Oswalt, who was traded in July 2010 to the Phillies. This is our home team.

Berkman was taken in the first round out of Rice in June 1997, and he made his debut in 1999 before establishing himself in the majors for good in 2000. Oswalt was picked in the 23rd round of the 1996 draft. He signed before the next years draft and made his debut with the club in 2001. He eventually finished second all-time in the franchises career victories list with 143.

Although he was overshadowed somewhat by Jeff Bagwell and Craig Biggio, Berkman finished his Astros tenure with the franchises highest career slugging percentage (.549), on-base percentage (.410) and OPS (.959).

Berkman also led the Astros offense during the 2005 playoffs as they reached the World Series for the first time in franchise history when Oswalt won Game 6 of the National League Championship Series against the Cardinals at Busch Stadium.

Oswalt and Berkman also played leading roles in 2004 when the franchise won a postseason series for the first time and got within a victory of reaching the 2004 World Series before losing the 2004 NLCS in seven games against the Cardinals.

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Given better options, the rural poor are not keen on domestic work. Its for the middle class to be pragmatic and generous

Finding domestic help is very hard. Even harder is retaining such help assuming you do find them, and next to impossible if they are good. One response to this problem has been the mushrooming of agencies offering placement services of maids, cooks or drivers in exchange for a commission, often equivalent to two or more months salary. These contracts, renewable every 11-12 months, are unstable if not uneconomical arrangements.

A number of forces have contributed to the market for domestic workers taking this shape over the last decade or so. The first is liberalisation and economic growth, which have brought about an expansion in job opportunities for both skilled and unskilled workers. In addition, several welfare programmes initiated in the last few years provide wage support either directly through MGNREGA or indirectly in the form of highly subsidised foodgrains, mid-day meals to schoolchildren and other in-kind entitlement benefits.

All these have increased the value of what we call the outside option, that is, the benefits to be derived from choosing the next best alternative job. Unless the benefits from an alternate job are large enough, a worker will not want to switch from the job he/she is already doing.

While working at construction sites in cities may provide an attractive enough outside option, one cannot really say this about the job of domestic workers. The latter have to work long and odd hours, while engaging in every conceivable task from cooking and baby-watching to cleaning, washing and gardening. Why do this when the individual might as well stay in the village and do MGNREGA work and some seasonal farm labour?

Consequently, while rising middle-class incomes in recent times have driven up the demand for domestic workers, their supply corresponding to the outside option has gone down. It has led to an increase in wage rates in this market, but probably not enough.

The shortage of domestic workers we are seeing is, perhaps, only a consequence of their not being offered equilibrium market wages. This has a lot to do with middle-class attitudes that havent kept up with the new growth realities and even their own rising incomes. Wages in the domestic worker sector have simply not grown.Hence our first suggestion if you want to hire domestic help is: Offer equilibrium wages. When negotiating, think of the alternatives before the same workers and also the rate at which your own income has grown.

Efficiency wages

Our second suggestion is that having hired the domestic help that you now wish to retain, go beyond even paying equilibrium market wages. Pay higher than market wages what economists call efficiency wages. Henry Ford tried this first in 1914 and found the companys productivity and profits going up significantly.

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The University spent about $4,200 per student in 2012 on services that included the nearly 200,000 square foot Lerner Health and Wellness.

Walk through Colonial Crossroads on the Marvin Center's fifth floor and youll pass dozens of cubicles belonging to the staff of GWs residential life office, career center and community service programs.

Across the street in Rice Hall, youll see a half-dozen offices for the dean of students staff, and a few blocks over, you'll find a two-story multicultural center, a freshly updated international student office and a pristine gym. Soon, brand-new health and counseling centers will move to H Street after a multimillion dollar renovation.

Its easy to notice GWs big spending on student programming and services, though administrators have remained tight-lipped about most costs. But recent data from the Department of Education reveals a glimpse of GWs overall spending on student life, which increased about 40 percent between 2006 and 2012.

The University spent about $4,200 per student on services that included 4-Ride, Lerner Health and Wellness and Student Health Service in 2012, the latest data available.

Thats about $900 more than the average per-student spending at GWs 14 peer universities. Its the only category for which GW outspent those institutions, which include Northwestern, New York and Vanderbilt universities.

GW's spending on other areas like instruction, research and academic support have also seen double-digit increases over the last six years, but competitor schools still put much more money into those areas. For example, while GW spends $18,577 per student on instruction, its peers averaged $28,488 per student.

Dean of Student Affairs Peter Konwerski said the University has invested heavily to enrich students campus experiences, which is now an expectation for nearly all prospective students. He said the biggest cost is staff pay, which has become crucial to give students more personal attention and employ people experienced in higher education.

Students and parents are consumers and they're looking at the best value of their education, Konwerski said. We want to have a really compelling opportunity for students to come find their place, get support, be successful."

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(MENAFN -Arab News) standard contracts for housemaids must address the issue of runaway workers said hattab al-enezi spokesman for the labor ministry.

'the runaway phenomenon (known in arabic as 'huroob') will be solved via this standard contract which will be signed by the two countries" said al-enezi. 'in addition any assault on employers is a criminal act that is punishable by the kingdom's laws."

al-enezi pointed out that the labor ministry website had introduced a domestic labor program called 'musaned" (arabic for support) which aims to familiarize both workers and employers with their rights and obligations.

the website highlights the privileges that domestic workers are entitled to including health care contract renewal paid sick leave and days off.

the program will also provide information on service providers such as recruitment offices.

the agreements signed by labor-exporting countries with the kingdom take into account the best interests of both employer and employee said al-enezi.

'workers should not refuse tasks without legitimate reason in accordance with article 6 of the domestic workers' labor law" he said. 'workers must also maintain respect of their employer and his family members in addition to respecting islam and the laws and regulations of the country."

the terms of the agreement span five years and can be extended automatically for the same period he said.

recruitment offices in the kingdom however are incurring huge losses due to the imbalance in the content of the agreement and the 'musaned" program.

yahya al-maqboul chairman of the recruitment offices committee at the jeddah chamber of commerce and industry said that workers and investors in the recruitment sector are facing challenges in light of these new rules which has affected their income.

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