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Recognized as a top International Microfinance nonprofit in the following years:
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"Up" is the number of experts who agree that the nonprofit has had the most impact in the field. "Down" is the number of experts who disagree that the nonprofit has had the most impact in field.
Headquarters Location: Dhaka, Bangladesh
Founded: 1972
Mission: BRAC's mission is to empower people and communities in situations of poverty, illiteracy, disease and social injustice. Our interventions aim to achieve large scale, positive changes through economic and social programmes that enable men and women to realise their potential.
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Mahabub Hossain. Mahabub Hossain is an internationally renowned development economist. Prior to joining BRAC, Dr. Hossain was the Head of the Social Sciences Division and Programme Leader, Rainfed Ecosystems Programme of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), Philippines. He was also the Director General of Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS) from 1989 to 1992. Dr. Hossain, is known for his substantial… See full bio.
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Annet and her parents struggled to survive on their meager income in the Kasakoso village in Uganda. She tried to help out by getting a waitressing job at a local restaurant, which paid about 50 cents a day.
Frustrated with he situation, Annet became interested in energy saving charcoal stoves. "This clay stove consumes very little charcoal compared to the ordinary charcoal stove," she explains. "With this stove, UGX 500 (25 cents) of charcoal can last for three days of cooking, which goes a long way to save both the trees and money for users."
Annet joined one of BRAC's clubs for adolescent girls, where one of our trained mentors provided her with life skills and financial literacy training that helped her build her business. We also gave her an $80 loan to expand her business.
Today, Annet employs four people who help her make more than 200 stoves a week.
"The BRAC adolescent program and loan have developed me financially," says Annet. "I have become more responsible after gaining business and finance management skills."
With a safe space, training, and a small loan, BRAC gave Annet the tools she needed to start a successful business that creates jobs and protects the environment.
Expert Reviews of BRAC
Evidence of Impact Summary:BRAC has an impressive history of growth, as well as a deep impact on the many clients they serve. They excel at replicating their operations, and now exist in 10 Asian and African countries with many branches. They offer integrated financial and non-financial services that benefit clients holistically. The support that they offer outside of their lending programs runs a ride gambit. They have started thousands of schools, built an impressive network of community health workers, and more. BRAC has a long standing commitment to serving the poorest of the poor. They have developed the Targeting the Ultra Poor program, now being replicated in several countries, to target outreach to very poor women and clients in rural areas.
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Organization Strengths Summary:BRAC is fortunate to be led by a dynamic CEO who has done a good deal to push the organization and the sector forward. Likewise, the organization as a whole is considered a thought leader in the microfinance community. The organization has an excellent research and evaluation department. They take care to assess many different aspects of their work, including a rubric to determine the level of poverty they are reaching. BRAC is constantly innovating to make their programs better as they expand.
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Areas for Improvement Summary:The recent passing of BRAC's former head has been hard on the organization's operations. They are having new-found communication trouble. BRAC may want to consider expansion and replicating their model into other regions, specifically Latin America. Experts would also like to see BRAC engage in more collaboration with other organizations. Lastly, the interest rate charged on their loans may be too costly for their clients.
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Expert Comments: Evidence of Impact
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Wide Range of Strategies
|Building on the enormous success of their micro-lending program in Bangladesh, they have made a significant commitment to improving the lives of the poor in Africa, not only by importing their micro-loan operations to five African countries (in Uganda they now operate over 125 branches), but also by bringing in other programs to address poverty. In Uganda, they have started thousands of schools, built an impressive network of community health workers, and provided services to improve agriculture output and livestock rearing.
|They do more than loans, which lacks strong evidence for donors to support the fight against poverty.
Targeted Outreach
|BRAC has always been highly focused on targeting the poorest of the poor. They also have an extensive impact research program.
|BRAC has been an industry pioneer for decades. Beyond the sheer volume of their outreach, they have developed the Targeting the Ultra Poor program, which is now being replicated in several countries. They also established market linkages to enable the poor to sell dairy products, chickens, handicrafts, etc.
|BRAC's outreach program targets the poor, those in rural areas, and women. They also provide services in addition to credit.
Range of Interventions
|I base my recommendation on the scale, depth, and diversity of client impact.
|BRAC has made a significant impact in rural areas. Their work has reached many through credit, health, education, and training.
Impressive Growth
|Their impact is evident in their scale. BRAC is operating in 10 countries. The level of operations in Bangladesh, where they started, and the replications in other countries, are clear evidence that their integrated services are critical to addressing their clients' needs in a way that gives them the opportunity to take action in their own development and well-being in their fight against poverty. BRAC's impact has been recognized by all kind of institutions, local and international. They have seen the changes in the lives of BRAC's clients; for instance, in the change in the levels of education of the clients and their children.
|They are one of the leading programs in Asia, and are now expanding to African countries.
|Located in Bangladesh and around the world, BRAC is a leading development agency. The evidence of their impact is very strong as they have been evaluated over and over. The leadership is excellent though many of the original leadership are elderly now. I am especially impressed with their program for the Ultra-Poor. My institution has replicated it in Haiti. What makes them so unique is that they are able to reach everyone from the poorest through small and medium enterprises and actually link them together by building their own sustainable enterprises that provide jobs, etc. There is no other institution like them in the world.
Expert Comments: Organization Strengths
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Strong Evaluation, Strong Performance
|They have a strong commitment to evaluating all aspects of their program and working to improve, as well as measuring client outcomes. They have developed a Poverty Scorecard in Uganda to help monitor client outreach and measure the levels of poverty they are reaching. They have a strong commitment to addressing poverty across the various aspects that affect it, such as education, health, livelihood, and development. BRAC is an innovator. They are clearly an industry leader.
|They have an exceptional research and evaluation department.
|In Africa, they have shown it is possible to push the boundaries of efficiency and scale in markets where no other outsider NGO has succeeded.
Excellent Leadership
|BRAC is a respected leader of the microfinance movement.
|They have great leadership in an expanding number of sectors and geographies.
|They have a strong overall management. Also, their leadership and social objectives are excellent.
|Their leadership is the best in the world. They do a great job of combining microfinance with the creation of new industries that provide jobs, as well.
Innovative Approach
|Their strengths are their constant innovation and international expansion.
|With no money, one of BRAC's greatest strengths is the leadership of the founder and CEO. His vision and commitment to BRAC's mission has made it possible to have the success they have achieved, as well as to have the human capital needed to take BRAC to this level. The fact that they have successfully replicated in 10 countries is clear evidence that their model is working well for clients. Their combination of financial and non-financial services are essential to responding to their clients' needs. Also, the model is flexible and can be adjusted to the different geographical and cultural regions where they operate. Their model of cross-subsidizing the non-financial service with the proceeds from the financial service is very innovative, and assures that the clients have access to services that otherwise they would not have. They are very deliberate and clear in managing their social performance in the best way possible.
Exemplary Model
|BRAC is strong mainly in offering an inspiring example of microfinance in action, and they have replicated this example in other countries outside South Asia, notably in Africa.
Expert Comments: Areas for Improvement
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Collaborate More
|They have started collaborating with other organizations, such as Living Goods in Uganda, and probably could benefit the sector by doing more of this kind of collaboration. They are not as well known as other organizations, but my understanding is that their Bangladesh operations is profitable enough to fund their expansion into multiple countries in Africa, and to reach out beyond lending.
|They could interact more with the international community.
High Costs for Clients
|The interest rate they charge is a burden for clients.
Replicate in Latin America
|They should improve the quality and sustainability of their non-financial services. They may also want to analyze the possibility of replicating the model in Latin America.
|It would be great if they could expand their model to other regions, including Latin America.
Tough Transition
|Within the last year or so, the former head of BRAC died. Since that time they have been having some problems in managing their far-flung operations. BRAC is now all over the world, though I believe in some countries they have had some problems.
Engage More in Policy
|BRAC has not been a prominent voice in global policy debates.
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Santa Cruz de Tenerife held an outdoor sculpture exhibition that heralded
a symbolic shift in the last years of SpainŌĆÖs insular Franco regime. The
International Exhibition of Sculpture was put together by the Architecture
College of the Canary Islands. The first of itŌĆÖs kind in Spain, the message
being conveyed was that the doors were open to a culturally adventurous
country. Forty artists of the calibre of Henry Moore and Joan Miro exhibited in
one of a most successfully designed city landscapes: Underneath the tree
canopies of the Ramblas, which
spanned the breadth of the city, aptly called Rambla General Franco, and the mesmerising, jungle like, Parque de Garcia Sanabria.
ItŌĆÖs a wonderful snapshot of modernist art of the 20th
Century. Abstract art displayed on plinths clearly reign supreme, and very few
directly respond to their surroundings.
Soon after the exhibitionŌĆÖs installation the Generalisimo
died, and the outside world trickling through TenerifeŌĆÖs arrival lounge doors
became a flood. But they were attracted by cheap resorts in the south. Tourists
were content to ignore the cheek-by-jowl concrete towers, directing their gazes
instead at guaranteed year long sun. And so began an economic boom. A poor
population became affluent, and intensive and unchecked development followed. But
a beautiful island and it's unique flora became scarred, and eventually so did
itŌĆÖs reputation.
Today, consumers now have
considerably more exotic choice for budget luxury resorts around the world. But in addition, the consumer now demands
cultural stimulation, and
are proving it by spending their money elsewhere. The Tenerife government is only too painfully aware
of this, as the economic crisis has hit particularly hard here, and now it is also the
population bares the scars.
50 years on political shifts have seen the renaming of the Rambla GeneralĀ Franco to the blandly inoffensive Rambla Santa Cruz. But power makers are once again looking towards
the urban landscape to convey the same message as in 1973.
50 years on the majority of the sculptures, are still
standing, and looking remarkably good. But the language of contemporary culture
has changed. Like many cities, theyŌĆÖve concluded that landscape and urban design is
the new sculpture ŌĆōand itŌĆÖs the architects, no longer mere curators, who are
the artists.
Admirably ambitious redevelopments in the city centre, including
main squares, harbour fronts, dry river beds, opera houses and modern art museums
by the likes of Herzog and De Meuron and Santiago Calatrava are contextual responses to the
forms and geology of the island and sea. TheyŌĆÖre site specific works of art
that thoughtfully envelop the population and the visitors, and appropriately reminiscent of the ethos of the Canary Island's own master landscaper, Cesar Manrique. But these huge
investments arenŌĆÖt extravagant displays of cultural wealth, theyŌĆÖre calculated economic risks that must pay for themselves indirectly.
For the time being, the cityŌĆÖs population is far more enamored with the works of 50 years ago. But thatŌĆÖs not their concern- more
important to them is their message being heard. Will the outside world choose
to engage in this new landscape? Rich rewards await those who do.

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Critical Review by Carl L. Bankston III
SOURCE: A review of First Indian on the Moon, in The Bloomsbury Review, Vol. 14, No. 3, May-June, 1994, p. 15.
In the following review of First Indian on the Moon, Bankston notes that while Alexie's recent verse resembles his previous efforts, his work has not become "hackneyed."
We know what to expect from poet and short-story writer Sherman Alexie. In his first three volumes of poetry and in his recent collection of stories, he focused intently on modern Native American life in the Northwest, employing the same characters to explore the themes of the bleakness of reservation life, of alcohol as the only readily available release from this bleakness, of powerlessness as the pervasive reality of contemporary tribal existence. In verse and prose, he has expressed this uncompromising vision with a spare, minimalist style, paring his words down to the bone. Comic moments appear suddenly and unexpectedly on this harsh landscape, so that irony twists despair into a peculiar kind of faith.
Alexie's new book [First Indian on the Moon] will be familiar in its characters, style, themes, and atmosphere to all of his readers. He is not exploring new territory. But he is reworking the old ground productively, like a gardener who sticks to his own backyard.
As in the author's previous works, a distinctive personality underlies the poems. While the writing may not be strictly autobiographical, it has the intimacy and the particularity of confessional literature. True, it often employs generic images of the modern Native American reservation as ghetto (HUD housing, fry bread, alcoholism), but the voice that lingers over small moments and the poems' powerful sense of self salvage these images from sociological abstraction.
Alexie appears to be keenly aware of his tendency to dwell, almost obsessively, on certain themes and images, and he frequently uses this tendency as a means of organizing his poems into chapters. In the section entitled "A Reservation Table of the Elements," for example, fire—both the air-fire of flame and fire-water—intertwines with memories of reservation existence. The first lines of the poem "Genetics" proclaim:
follows my family
each spark
each flame
a soldier
in the U.S. Cavalry.
The fire is a symbol, but it's also a series of actual tragic and tragicomic events in the speaker's past. A childhood attic fire has burned up all the family possessions except
… a family portrait
curled at the edges
all of our dark skin
by ash and smoke damage.
A trailer fire kills the speaker's older sister and her husband. A series of electrical fires destroys three cars in separate incidents: "When the Tribal Cop heard on his radio that a car was burning down at Little Falls Dam, his first thought was Those damn Alexies and their goddamn cars."
The poem "Fire Storm" is one of the most intense and moving pieces of the book, shifting between verse and prose poem in a series of reflections on the fire that killed the older sister. Alexie follows mundane detail with simple but impassioned language, ending in an offertory funeral speech reminiscent of passages from Ginsberg's Kaddish. Death and life are close in this and other poems, and Alexie shows a gift for standing by the line that separates them and looking in both directions.
The poems in the section "Tiny Treaties" revolve around another of Alexie's recurrent themes: the contradictions and difficulties of having dark skin and inhabiting a white-skinned world. This emotional tangle, which one writer has referred to as the "cultural schizophrenia" of minority members, has occupied a dominant place in all of Alexie's writings. The "treaties" of love and friendship made with whites are continually plagued by tentativeness and doubt:
Sometimes when an Indian boy loves
a white girl and vice versa
it's like waking up
with half of the world
on fire. You don't know
if you should throw water
onto those predictable flames
or let the whole goddamn thing burn.
In writing about the twisted relationship between Indian and Anglo, Alexie slips from the intimately personal to the categorical. The fourth song of "Seven Love Songs Which Include the Collective History of the United States of America" evokes two lovers, one apparently native and the other apparently white:
Suddenly, we are all arms and legs
and it's summer and too hot to make love
but we do anyway on the kitchen floor
near the refrigerator with its door open.
In the next song, these two individuals have become racial categories: "I was a fisherman for 15,000 years / before you stumbled onto my shore / your legs sea-heavy and awkward." This continual tension between Alexie's autobiographical voice and his concern with the social and historical forces that shape biographies gives the poems a unique quality of being socially aware without being propagandistic, and of presenting a world from the perspective of the first person without being egocentric.
As he balances between the personal and the historical, Alexie also balances between song and ideas. "All I Wanted to Do Was Dance" proclaims the title of one of the book's sections, and readers can almost dance to the rhythm of the lyrics, but they won't lose themselves in the music. Alexie is always thinking while he's singing or dancing, always trying to come to terms with himself and provoke others to come to terms with themselves. Many of the poems close on notes of celebration:
Believe me, the warriors are coming back
to take their place beside you
beyond the "just surviving"
those new songs
that sound
like the old ones
But the dominant mood is dark and contemplative:
Sometimes, I think I love you
because it's always easiest
to love the unloved
to dream about the dreamless
to watch an Indian woman
just this side
of beautiful
slow dance
to a sad song
and never have to worry
about making her any promises
The poems create an impression of somber, introspective requiems that constantly verge on breaking into triumphal marches, the cartoon movements of Merrie Melodies, or reservation fancydancing.
Sherman Alexie's new songs sound a lot like his old ones. But the songs haven't become hackneyed, and the poet still has his gift for lifting his readers above "just surviving."
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JONESBORO — Lovejoy defensive end/linebacker Veion Robinson committed to Middle Tennessee State today and became the fifth Wildcat to accept a college football scholarship offer for the 2013 season.
Robinson, who also considered Tulane, Kansas State and Furman —and garnered late interest from Miami and defending SEC champion Louisiana State — said that his decision to join the Blue Raiders was based on what they saw in him as a player now, as opposed to the future.
"Other coaches were saying to gain 30 more pounds or were wanting to see more film of me moving in space," Robinson said. "But Middle Tennessee was talking about taking me as I was and progressing with me and seeing me succeed. They really acted like they wanted me. And (head) coach (Rick) Stockstill told me that he would be a friend first and a coach second and that I could come to him about anything. I'll always keep that in my mind."
As a senior, Robinson has helped the Lovejoy defense become one of the stingiest units in the state. The 2011 state runner up Wildcats posted eight shutouts last year and held opponents to less than five points per game.
This year's unit has also started strong, holding Mundy's Mill to just six points in the opener and stifling Colquitt County's offense in Moultrie last Friday, holding the Packers to just 212 total yards, albeit in a 14-7 loss.
Unofficially, Robinson had two tackles for loss, a sack and two forced fumbles against Colquitt. He said he may play some at mike linebacker against Alpharetta this Friday after fellow teammate Demarcus Gates went down with an injury.
Regardless of where he lines up, Robinson said he feels lighter after making his decision. He says he is now free to focus solely on helping Lovejoy make an encore performance in the playoffs this season.
"It's just a huge weight lifted off my shoulders," Robinson said. The versatile defender can line up anywhere on the Wildcats' defensive line. And if Robinson does see playing time at linebacker this week, it won't be something that he hasn't had to do before.
In fact, Robinson believes that it is his versatility as an athlete that made him such a target in the Blue Raiders recruiting strategy.
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"I'm very proud of Veion," Hughes said. "He's been with us since he was in the ninth grade and he's grown into a heck of a football player. We have great expectations for him in his senior year."
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the company's website revealed, "This product is HIGHLY toxic to dogs and cats."
Cocoa Mulch is manufactured by Hershey's, and they claim, ''It is true that
studies have shown that 50% of the dogs that eat Cocoa Mulch can suffer physical
harm to a variety of degrees (depending on each individual dog). However, 98% of
all dogs won't eat it.''
This Snopes site gives the following information:
snopes.com: Cocoa Mulch and Dogs
Cocoa Mulch , which is sold by Home Depot, Foreman's Garden Supply and other
Garden supply stores, contains a lethal ingredient called 'Theobromine'. It is
lethal to dogs and cats. It smells like chocolate and it really attracts dogs.
They will ingest this stuff and die. Several deaths already occurred in the last
2-3 weeks. Theobromine is in all chocolate, especially dark or baker's chocolate,
and it is toxic to dogs. Cocoa bean shells contain potentially toxic quantities
of the eobromine, a xanthine compound similar in effects to caffeine and
theophylline. A dog that ingested a lethal quantity of garden mulch made from
cacao bean shells developed severe convulsions and died 17 hours later. Analysis
of the stomach contents and the ingested cacao bean shells revealed the presence
of lethal amounts of theobromine.
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We have our own horror story about dogs and chocolate- our black lab ate SEVEN of those dark chocolate oranges one Christmas. Didn't even leave the foil. Luckily she must have begun throwing up nearly immediately. (well, it wasn't lucky as far as cleanup goes, but...) I rushed her to the vet as soon as I realized what she'd done and they gave her massive sub q injections to help her get rid of it. She was fine, eventually, but no joke, she nearly died and was a total basket case for better than a week. I had bought them for stocking stuffers and they were in their boxes, in a bag, on the bed. Somehow she got into the bedroom and went nuts...
We've been "those people with the dog who ate all that chocolate" at the vet's for years now...
I've heard about the cocoa mulch problem before. It's not readily available where we are, but I bet my dog wouldn't be one of the 98%. She'd eat every last bit. It's not worth the trouble, if you own a dog. Watching your beloved pet shake and quiver for a week is no picnic. We were just lucky she made it at all.
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I remember a vague reference to it - but thanks for bringing attention to it! That's one brand of mulch off my list.
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'The Office': Angela loses them both
We open with Michael running against the police-posted radar gun on the street outside the office. He is, apparently, running 12 miles per hour. Oh, The Office. How I've missed you.
Today Michael has been brought in for a meeting with David Wallace to talk about "big picture" stuff. At the meeting, David wants to know what Michael is doing right because the Scranton branch is doing better than all the other branches. Michael, once he gets it, is just bursting with pride in his branch. This is one of the best aspects of this show. No matter how ridiculous Michael Scott gets, you can tell that he loves his job and his employees and will do anything for the company. It's very sweet.
David talking-heads that in this economic climate, it's amazing that the Scranton branch is doing well and that he needs to find out why. Heh heh heh. Michael spends hours regaling David with stories like when he told Kevin (who was wearing a tweed jacket) that he felt the need... the NEED for TWEED. I love me some Top Gun, folks.
In the marriage plot, Andy comes to work and wonders why no one has RSVP'd to his wedding with Angela. Everyone in the office knows Dwight has been sleeping with Angela... except Andy. Poor schmuck. The entire office thinks Angela should tell Andy, as Dwight confirms to everyone that he is still sleeping with Angela. The entire office is also making delightfully snide remarks at Angela. Dwight tells Angela to tell Andy what they're doing but she won't. Instead... Michael tells him. In the parking lot. As he speeds off for his meeting with David Wallace. Nice.
Andy confronts Angela and she comes clean. He realizes that everyone knows and wonders what they should do. Angela insists that she loves him and that they prove everyone wrong. Dwight confronts Andy and I don't know how anybody kept a straight face throughout this scene because Rainn Wilson and Ed Helms are both effing hysterical. Dwight and Andy agree to duel and Angela says "I will respect the results of the duel." Offfff course she will. That's the Angela we all know and love.
Prior to the duel, Jim has to clean out the office of all weapons. Like a scythe and some Star Wars weapon. Out in the parking lot, Dwight screams a lot and brandishes his belt. Andy leaves a memo taped to a bush to distract Dwight and then sneaks up on him with his Prius and pins him to the bushes. SO AWESOME. Ed Helms and Dwight Schrute should get Emmys for this episode alone.
Dwight is finally backed down when he learns that Angela is also sleeping with Andy (albeit only twice). He just looks so hurt! Thus endeth the duel. Inside, Andy cancels the wedding cake and Dwight throws away his bobblehead. Angela loses them both, which serves her right.
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Following are the Union-Bulletin's recommendations on the Nov. 8 General Election:
Port of Walla Walla commissioner
District 2
Fredrickson, the incumbent, has an impressive grasp of how the Port operates and a clear vision of its mission. Still, we see this as a close race. Barlow Corkrum has taken a thoughtful approach to this race and is a serious challenger.
Walla Walla City Council
Postion 4
Cummins has a clear understanding of this community and its people. He listens, develops clear plans based on thoughtful analysis and takes action. Challenger Dick Swenson offers enthusiasm and a promise to work hard, but Cummins has a record of getting results.
Position 5
Clark is an advocate for open government who insists on holding thoughtful discussions on the issues. Challenger Bradley Sandau is a strong candidate but Clark is an extraordinary Council member.
Position 6
What separates challenger Plucker from incumbent Fred Mitchell in this close race is Plucker's enthusiasm, his preparation and potential. We believe Plucker will be an outstanding Council member in a short time. Plucker is the choice among two solid candidates.
Position 7
Elia is a fiscally conservative, pragmatic leader who understands Walla Walla and its residents well. Elia takes the time to fully understand issues and get community input before taking action. Elia, the incumbent, faces a solid challenger in Mary Lou Jenkins. We see Jenkins as a good choice and Elia as a better choice.
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Position 4
Carrera is pragmatic and forceful in his approach, yet also amenable. The combination makes him a very strong School Board member. Challenger Veronica Sandau is a solid candidate but simply does not have the breadth and depth of knowledge Carrera does. Carrera has earned a second term.
Ballot measures
Initiative 1125 (Setting restrictions on road and bridge tolls) - No
Initiative 1163 (Mandating unfunded training for long-term care workers) - No
Initiative 1183 (Close state liquor stores and allow private retailers to sell alcohol) - Yes
SJR 8205 (Amend the state constitution to establish a 30-day residency requirement to vote in all ellections) - Approve
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Barista Pro Shop, one from the chain of Streamer Cofee Company is a very unusual cafe. Situated in the district of Harajuku, Tokyo, Japan this building stands out due to it's resemblance of a shipping container tilted vertically. I was not sure if it was a real shipping container used for the construction, but after a closer examination, I discovered that it is only a design solution.
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Located on a small triangular plot, that used to be a parking lot, the ground floor of the building is merely 10 m². The idea behind the design of the shop is to show the manly and robust nature of string coffee by the use of steel walls, wood and concrete. The 2nd and 3rd level temporarily hosts Armani concept store at this is a very upmarket fashion oriented neighbourhood.
There are benches provided outside as the building itself has a small footprint and not all the customers fit inside. The space provided is actively used: as visible in one of the pictures. During the day the plot was occupied by a professional photo-shooting.
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- people in the U.S. have this name View Iris Mcclanahan on Whitepages
Meaning & Origins
From Greek iris 'rainbow' it was borne in Greek mythology by a minor goddess, one of the messengers of the gods, who was so named because the rainbow was thought to be a sign from the gods to men. In English her name was used in the 16th century to denote both the flower and the coloured part of the eye, on account of their varied colours. In modern English use the name is often taken as being from the word for the flower, but it is also in use in Germany, where there is no such pattern of flower names.
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Scottish and Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Gille Onchon 'son of the servant of (Saint) Onchú', an Old Irish personal name perhaps meaning 'mighty hound'. St. Onchú was a 6th-century Irish pilgrim and collector of holy relics. See also McClenahan.
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Irish, Irisa, Irisha, Irise, Iriss, Irissa, Irisca, Irishia, Irishea, Irissia
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Fashion @ Big Bazaar,Gold Souk Grande,Cochin,Kochi
Fasion at big Bazaar have huge stuff to offer.But most of the 'Fashion' sold at fashion at Big bazaar had the in house brands of future group like AFL,Dj & C,Spoink etc.
While Big Bazaar at other parts of the country have more brands (like Levis,Flying machine to name a few),The only branded stuff this Gallan could see was (other than Big bazaar's)Lee Cooper @ 800 bucks.
The Tees they sell starts @ 200 bucks.Now who sells cheaper than that?
Big Bazaar,like their tagline says "no one sells cheaper".The only thing this Gallan wish for is more Brands.
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Enjoying a hot, buttered Rickroll on Thanksgiving
This Thanksgiving, millions of Americans enjoyed their turkey, stuffing, green bean casserole and an additional, surprise side dish: a Rickroll.
At the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, '80s musician Rick Astley performed his very own Rickroll, the internet meme in which a video link is provided, but the expected content is redirected to the video for Astley's first pop hit, "Never Gonna Give You Up."
On Thursday morning, as the float for the Cartoon Network show Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends pulled up to the cameras, an announcer said that the show's characters -- Bloo, Eduardo, Wilt, Fluffer Nutter, Jackie Khones and Cheese, among others -- would sing "Best Friend" (popularized by the TV show The Courtship of Eddie's Father) and be joined by a "special musical surprise."
Sure enough, the colorful characters were interrupted in their singing by the familiar opening notes to "Never Gonna Give You Up" as Astley himself -- in a long black coat and gloves -- walked out lip synching, smiling and dancing. By the end of the bit, the character Cheese (known for blurting out inane comments or non sequiturs) declared, "I like Rickrolling!"
Check out the Thanksgiving Rickroll below:
Since I was on the West Coast, I learned of the live Rickroll via East Coasters on Twitter. This was actually fortunate since I had no previous plans to watch the parade. So instead, I recorded it on my DVR and later fastforwarded it to the 1:50 mark to catch the goodness. Awesome.
Not everyone loves Rickrolling, and even I admit that it has been overdone. I have a particular fondness for Astley though, beginning way back when "Never Gonna Give You Up" wasn't so ironic. I absolutely loved that video growing up. Here was this goofy, redheaded Brit who couldn't dance, singing this infectious pop song with an incredibly rich voice.
My best friend and I became immediate fans, bought several of his albums and I even quoted the lyrics to one of his songs in my maid of honor speech at her wedding. Uh, yeah ... we're dorks. But hey, it's all in good fun, and so far, Astley has let this strange little phenomenon run its course. The Thanksgiving appearance was the first time he really actively participated in Rickrolling.
I'm still trying to figure out who thought of the idea -- was it the Turner Networks, of which Cartoon Network is a part? And why pair it with Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends? Astley's daughter is 16, so he probably didn't do it for her.
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1. Background
1.1 Serialization of HTTP requests
One reason why web pages download slowly is that most browsers implement HTTP requests serially on each persistent connection:
- Open a connection to a server.
- Send an HTTP request.
- Wait for the response.
- If there are more resources to be fetched from that server, repeat steps 2 and 3.
- Eventually close the connection to the server.
The minimum amount of time needed to fetch a resource via HTTP is the network round trip time (RTT) between the client and the server. The good news is that, if the client reuses a persistent connection to the server, the actual elapsed time is very close to this lower bound of 1 RTT in some common scenarios: retrieving small, static image files, for example. The bad news is that the RTT is often a large number: even at the speed of light, it takes several tens of milliseconds to send a packet across a continent and back.
Given a set of
n small, static objects, the time needed to fetch them all synchronously over a preestablished TCP connection is approximately:
n * RTT
(Note: For simplicity, this model assumes that the server's initial TCP congestion window is large enough to avoid further round-trip delays to await ACKs during slow start. It also assumes that the time-to-first-byte as measured at the server is zero.)
For a web page containing 50 small images and a 100ms RTT, requesting all of the images serially would take five seconds. That's too long.
1.2 Current best practices for mitigation
In common practice, the elapsed time is less than
n * RTT, because the developers of web browsers and web sites have taken some steps to reduce it:
- Multiple connections
Most modern web browsers will open up to six concurrent, persistent connections per server hostname. This reduces the elapsed time in the simplified model from
- Domain sharding
Knowing that browsers maintain persistent connections on a per-server-hostname basis, some web applications partition their static content into a few different hostnames: http://images1.example.com/, http://images2.example.com/, etc.
With the content spread across C distinct scheme:host:port combinations, the elapsed time drops further, to
- CDNs
A Content Distribution Network stores cached copies of web content at many geographically distributed nodes and uses anycast DNS to send each client to a nearby node. This reduces the value of
n*RTTby replacing a large RTT with a smaller one.
1.3 Example of unmitigated serialization latency
Despite these practices, however, serialized HTTP requests are still a significant factor in the slow page downloads of some websites. The following subset of a waterfall diagram, taken from the HTTP Archive, shows part of the work a browser must do to download the home page of a particular e-commerce website. (Because I am using this website as an example of slow page downloads, I have blurred the site name and URLs in the waterfall diagram to preserve the developers' anonymity.)
Several things stand out in this waterfall:
- The client, MSIE 8, used 6 concurrent, persistent connections per server hostname.
- All of the requests in this sequence were for graphics. None of these requests depended on the response to any of the others (all the GIF URLs were specified in a CSS file loaded earlier in the waterfall). Thus, significantly, it would be valid for a client to download all of these images in parallel.
- Many of these requests had elapsed times of approximately 125 milliseconds. That appears to be the RTT between the client and the server in this test. Thus this waterfall shows the
- The amount of response data was quite small: a total of 25KB in about 1 second during this part of the waterfall, for an effective throughput of under 0.25 Mb/s. The client in this test run had several Mb/s of downstream network bandwidth, so the serialization of requests resulted in an inefficient utilization of the available bandwidth.
Given these observations, how might we speed up the downloading of these files? There are a few ways to reduce the download time by modifying the content:
- Domain sharding could reduce the elapsed time by a small constant factor. The total time for this section of the waterfall, though, was approximately 7*RTT. While partitioning the requests across 7 distinct hostnames could potentially reduce the total time to 1*RTT, the resulting 42 TCP connections per client might substantially increase the memory footprint of the server and any intermediate proxies or load balancers. (Because of the need to dedicate buffer space per TCP connection to accommodate the advertised receive window and the send window, adding TCP connections is a somewhat resource-intensive way to gain parallelism.)
- Spriting or inlining the images could reduce this section of the waterfall to a single HTTP request. These techniques have been used to good effect by some websites, but they are nontrivial to implement and maintain.
1.4 Protocol-level strategies
An alternate approach is to seek more parallelism at a lower level: not by changing the content, but by changing the protocol:
- The HTTP/1.1 specification allows a client to pipeline its requests. The responses arrive in order: first the entire response to the first request in the pipeline, then the entire response to the second request in the pipeline, and so on.
- The SPDY protocol, currently experimental but in production use on various Google websites, allows a client to issue arbitrarily many requests on the same connection. The responses arrive out of order and may be interleaved with each other; SPDY defines a framing protocol to allow chunks of multiple messages to be multiplexed onto the same connection.
There are barriers to the adoption of both HTTP pipelining and SPDY, however. Most current web browsers do not pipeline their HTTP requests, due in part to past experience with web servers or proxies that handled pipelining incorrectly. Those browsers that do implement pipelining, such as Opera, currently rely on heuristics to decide when pipelining is likely to be safe. And only one major web browser, Chrome, currently supports SPDY.
2. Empirical study of the opportunity for request parallelization
2.1 Definitions
Given a set of timed HTTP transactions comprising the download of a single web page by a browser, a serialized request sequence is a subset of HTTP transactions with the following properties:
- All the HTTP requests in the set are for the same scheme:host:port.
- Each transaction except the first must begin immediately upon the completion of some other transaction in the sequence.
- Each transaction except the last must have an HTTP response status of 2xx.
- Each transaction except the last must have a response content-type of image/png, image/gif, or image/jpeg.
These criteria are based on a simple heuristic: If a set of back-to-back HTTP transactions are requests for images served from the same site, the requests are assumed to have been serialized due to a scarcity of available persistent connections at the client.
The length of a serialized request sequence is the number of HTTP transactions in the sequence.
2.2 Questions to be answered
- The pattern of a serialized request sequences, as defined in Section 2.1,
- the negative impact of this pattern on page load speed,
- the possibility that additional parallelism, in the form of HTTP request pipelining or SPDY, could mitigate the performance impact,
- and the practical barriers to adoption of either pipelining or a new protocol,
it is useful to address two questions:
- How prevalent is the pattern?
If only 1% of real-world web pages had a longest serialized request sequence with length greater than 1, there would be no need for widespread deployment of protocol-level changes to increase request parallelism. At the other extreme, if 99% of pages contained long serialized request sequences, it would be worthwhile for HTTP client, server, and intermediary (proxy) developers to pursue protocol-level solutions.
- And when the pattern occurs, how bad is it?
If the longest serialized request sequence in a typical page had length 2, it might reasonably be fixed (i.e., reduced to an average value closer to 1) by increasing the size of browsers' per-hostname connection pools. Conversely, if the longest serialized request sequence had length 10, it would provide an argument for a more radical solution such as pipelining.
2.3 Experiment design
Starting from the database of surveyed websites' home pages from the HTTP Archive's July 1, 2011 sample, I downloaded the HAR file for each page from webpagetest.org. Each of these HAR files contains a detailed log of all the HTTP transactions required to download the corresponding web page using MSIE 8 (a browser that uses up to 6 concurrent, persistent connections per server hostname and does not pipeline its HTTP requests). The HAR file format contains timing data for each HTTP request and response, with 1-millisecond resolution.
For each HAR file, I ran a simple Java program to find the longest serialized request sequence, using the heuristics described in Section 2.1.
2.4 Results
The following histogram shows the distribution of longest serialized request sequences among the 15,568 web pages pages in the sample set:
For 12% of the sites, the longest serialized sequence in the home page had a length of 1. These sites are already well optimized, at least with regard to parallelization.
For another 22% of the sites, the longest serialization sequence had length 2. By applying additional parallelization efforts, one could potentially reduce the elapsed time for the affected requests by 1*RTT. The simplest and most compatible way to achieve the small amount of extra parallelism needed for these sites probably would be to implement domain sharding at the origin web applications.
For the remaining 66% of the sites, the longest serialization sequence had length 3 or greater. Increasing the number of concurrent client-to-server connections by a factor or more to parallelize these requests (via either domain sharding on the server side or bigger per-hostname connection pools on the client side) probably would be a bad solution, due to the per-TCP-connection memory footprint issues noted in Section 1.3. For these sites, it appears that parallelization of requests within the same TCP connection, via HTTP pipelining or SPDY, would be an effective solution.
3. Conclusions
Based on the results in Section 2.4, two thirds of the websites in the HTTP Archive contain request patterns that may be good candidates for acceleration through protocol-level parallelization.


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The match at the Etihad Stadium was originally due to take place on Saturday March 8, kick-off 3pm.
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City face Wigan in the quarter-final that weekend now, in a repeat of the previous FA Cup final.
We will circulate a new date in the next few days.
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Pyrenees and northern Spain tour
After my successful trip to Alps, Italy and Croatia in 2003 (the report can be read here
), I decided to make another one man trip with my bike Yamaha TDM 900 in the summer of 2004. This time the destination is Pyrenees and finally the beautiful Baleric island Mallorca. The route was the following: Stockholm-Gothenburg-Kiel (with ferry)-Hamburg-Narbonne (with train
) -Andorra-Pamplona-San Sebastian-Bilbao-Zaragoza-Barcelona-Mallorca-Barcelona-Narbonne-Hamburg (with train)-Copenhagen-Malmö-Stockholm. The trip took about 6500kms (~4000 miles), this time I saved some miles thanks to trains.
Instead of staying in camping places as I did in the Alps the year before, this time I decided to stay at small hotels since prices in Spain are more reasonable. I raised the standards of my trip
Compared to last year, I have the same bike TDM 900, I installed new exhausts in 2004 (an italian brand called GPR) to wake my neighbors up
An early and rainy (typical Swedish summer morning in other words
) July morning, I am ready to start my journey.
My next stop is the city of Gothenburg. Gothenburg is the second largest city of Sweden, it has a big harbour and is heavily industrial. Volvo,SKF and many other big swedish industrial companies are located around Gothenburg. The ride is around 450kms and it rained the whole trip
My plan is to take the ferry from Gothenburg to Kiel, northern Germany. So, I skip driving through Danmark and get some good sleep.
I like taking ferry rides in my motorcycle trips. I get some time to read, prepare for my trip by reading about interesting places and get the chance to meet interesting people.
The view of Gothenburg harbour
I stay in a two person cabin and meet a very interesting retired swedish man. His passion is photography and makes trips to take pictures of people and landscapes. Photography is also a hobby of mine, so we have a lot to talk about. He had four cameras with him
He shows me a lot of his pictures, some of them were really impressive. After showing to me at least four digit amount of his pictures, he decides to go to sleep and I visit the bar for a short time. As usual, the bar is crowded and people seem to be happy. As some of you might know, alcohol prices are quite high in Scandinavia because of high taxes. But when ferries like this sail to open waters, they serve alcohol without that tax and passangers try to take full advantage of that. I wonder if these Scandinavians around the bar are the ones considered to be shy and silent? Not after couple of drinks for sure
Next day early in the morning, we arrive to Kiel. I have a short ride ahead of me actually. I will drive to nearby city of Hamburg in northern Germany and load my bike to a special train. This train will take me and my bike all the way down to Narbonne, a city located in southern France close to Spanish border.
This train also called autozug in german (more info at
) is a very comfortable way to cover long distances and save time. If tickets can be booked in advance and high seasons are avoided, it can be a good economic alternative in comparison to gas, tire and bike depreciation, one night hotel expense and last but not least the extra risk taken on highways. I took this train fron Munich to Hamburg in 2003 and was very satisfied with it.
My travel companion is waiting to be loaded to the wagon
I met this group of swedish bikers with their Suzuki Intruders. We had the opportunity to test german beers in train's bar
Now bikes are in the train. You simply drive bikes into the wagon but should have your helmet on since we've been told that some people hit the low ceiling and injured theirselves
Autozug people do a very good job of securing the bikes.
Soft bags and large cruiser type windshields are not allowed and have to be taken away. The reason is the wind turbulence that bikes are facing. At first, we bikers especially our Intruder owner friends could not understand the logic of taking away the windshields from their bikes but the argument from autozug people sounded quite solid. The turbulence can hit the windshield from back side with a speed of 100-120km /h when two trains pass each other and windshields are not designed for that. So they took away the shields away and step on the train like proud roman gladiators
I was lucky and shared the cabin with two other bikers from Danmark. We discussed our future trips and excanged some information.
They were also driving to Pyrenees but first planning to make a stop in Andorra to do some shopping. Andorra has tax free prices and some motorcycle shops with good offers. Since prices in Danmark are very high, they were looking forward to find cheaper prices in Andorra.
The train leaves now. It is a relaxing experience to travel with train. I read a little, chat with danish biker fellows, eat dinner in the restaurant wagon and drink some beer with swedish group. A perfect start for a trip. Tomorrow, we will arrive in Narbonne and I will be couple of hours away from PYRENEES! Exciting...
To be continued...
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In the foothills of the Himalayas, top experts on black carbon, community organisations, government agencies, research organisations, academia, and international agencies met to identify and assess mitigation actions that can be implemented in a cost-effective manner to reduce emissions of black carbon in South Asia. The discussions were held during a consultation organised by the United Nations Environment Programme (
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Scientific studies conducted by the project Atmospheric Brown Cloud (ABC), UNEP/WMO Integrated Assessment of Black Carbon and Tropospheric Ozone, and other initiatives, have called increased attention to the role of short-lived atmospheric pollutants, such as black carbon, on climate change, human health, food security, and water security. Studies have also identified South Asia as one of the ABC hotspots due to the high concentration of haze and vulnerability to its effects.
"Scientific studies suggest that well designed mitigation actions maximise not only the climate benefits, but also the air quality, public health, agriculture, and sustainable development co-benefits. There is a need to assist the existing domestic, regional, and international efforts to reduce emissions of short-lived atmospheric pollutants," Surendra Shrestha, Director for Resource Mobilization and Special Initiatives, UNEP, said in his opening address.
UNEP, recognising the need for additional science to understand the source and role of short-lived atmospheric pollutants, established the ABC science team in 2001. The science team has made significant progress in establishing a deeper understanding of the science of short-lived atmospheric pollutants and building the required capacity to study the issue.
"Scientific understanding of short-lived pollutants is now sufficiently advanced, and the need for climate mitigation is so urgent, to support the development of strategies to reduce the emissions of short-lived pollutants," said Dr. V. Ramanathan, Professor, University of California at San Diego and Chair, ABC-International Science Team during his keynote address. Capacity building, as well as better understanding of science, is needed to implement the most successful mitigation measures.
"According to the latest research, black carbon, a short-lived climate forcer, is now a major concern for the rapid melting of snow and ice and human health. It is important to build the capacity in the region for monitoring and addressing this issue as well as to increase the capacity to cope with the situation," ICIMOD Director General Andreas Schild said in his welcome remarks.
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After three days of deliberations, the consultation identified measures that could be promoted to reduce emissions of short-lived atmospheric pollutants from the residential, industrial and transportation sectors in South Asia. The consultation ended with a positive note that "Reduction in short-lived atmospheric pollutants such as black carbon can be accomplished with already available, cost-effective technologies".
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Why do guys lead me on then just stop? Am I doing something wrong?
I am so frustrated! I have never had a boyfriend, but attractive guys flirt with me once or twice, then just stop. These guys aren't flirts either. A... Show More
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you are probobly sending off an I'm annoyed vinbe without even realizing it. shyness is almost always mistaken for you being annoyed by the guy. as soon as the guy thinks your annoyed he will stop trying. now I know you arnt thinking this but that doesn't mean you don't come off that way to guys. look at how many girls on this site want boyfriends but until I came on here it seemed women were not interested in men. they never talk about this stuff withen hearing distance of a man. so we have no idea your into us. let the guy know you like him. say I would like to do something with you john. big turn on. girls have to let guys know. if I hadnt read these posts I would have beleived women were no longer into guys.
I can understand that but I was flirting back. Does that change ur prespective at all?
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Sometimes girls flirting doesn't seem like flirting to us. If you are playing with your hair or just laughing at his jokes that ususaly is taken as grooming and politeness by guys. Say the words I would like to do something with you,then his first name. Put your hand on his shoulder this is a jesture of caring and kindness. Smile and say I would like to do something with you. Girls don't realize how big of a turnon this is. Letting a guy know you want him is prbobly the biggest turnon. Girls don't do it,girls don't know it. Hand on shoulder, smile, I would like to do something with you jack. I just taught you how to get a boyfriend. Try doing that and watch how many guys you will get. You want to know how to turn aguy on. Letting him know you like him is the biggest turn on. Not subtle little signals but letting him know. You do that 4 point turn on and you will have men. Heck I would date a girl I wasn't into if she did those 4 things.
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i too have never had a boyfriend , and it bothers me as well, but you are stressing about it way too much hun, if you act all desperate for a boyfriend they will not be interested but if you get on with your life do things that you enjoy, try to learn more about yourself etc, guys will automatically be drawn to you because it will appear that you don't need them - they like a chase don't do all their work for them!
and most importanty don't listen to the guy who said to say " I want something from you" lol not exactly ladylike. hope I helped xx
Im not desperate and I do have fun. I just can't figure out why guys do that.
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Ur so nieve/ trusting everyone different there is one rule and one fact, if its not genuine from da start then he has lead you on your da victim and he has lead you on for nothing. id be more concnerd about the positon of the victim rather then the situiaton it self, devoces happen all the time, life is what you make it and it takes two to make it happen, intenret defnity isn't the way 2 go for this that's obivous. there is no law to cover this protection of the victim and it can b danagerious
FOr me avodiing this behavior its doubble starndard breach, you need to be more releaxed and own your life your future, that's why I always am virgin and be marired and be a mother so that way I'm alway protected for life, if he says no then ul know where you stand in your future with him and ul be protected forever, if he does it and still leads you on then blames you then your in danager and life is hard enough without this garbage. seriously don't need it.
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After finishing a fantastic Thanksgiving dinner, do you have the urge to skip the family game of Scrabble and instead, crawl under the table for some post-turkey slumber? You're not alone.
Some may blame a certain amino acid known as tryptophan – but the truth is, you'd have to eat a massive quantity of turkey to feel the effect of the this substance. Your fatigue is more likely caused by consuming larger-than-usual (to put it lightly) portions of food.
But there's something you may not know about tryptophan – it offers benefits to your body, year-round!
L-tryptophan is an essential amino acid, which means your body does not produce it on its own. Tryptophan is actually a precursor to several important neurotransmitters and other substances within the body, including 5-HTP (5-hydroxytryptophan), serotonin, vitamin B3 (niacin) and melatonin.
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Although turkey itself probably won't make you tired, tryptophan does play an important role in supporting natural, restful sleep. This amino acid also offers benefits for healthy mood, normal attitude during PMS (sign me up!) and get this – may actually support a healthy appetite!
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Because your body doesn't produce its own stores of tryptophan, it must be obtained by consuming certain foods or supplements. In addition to turkey, you'll find tryptophan in spirulina, spinach, sesame seeds, soy products, egg whites, bananas and chocolate (just to name a few).
As I mentioned above, it'd be difficult to consume enough through diet alone, which is why tryptophan supplements are a convenient choice.
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Social Skills for Kids – 3 Parenting Tips for Teaching Respect to Bossy KidsJuly 24th, 2014
Parenting Advice – A Social Skills Quote:
"Conversation isn't just crossfire where you shoot and get shot at! Where you've got to duck for your life and aim to kill! Words aren't only bombs and bullets — no, they're little gifts, containing meanings!" – Philip Roth
If you have a demanding child, his words may feel like bullets. Let's find out how to change them into little gifts with meanings.
This Social Skill Problem Comes from Bruce:
"My 11 year-old-son need's to ask for what he wants with respect. It is automatic for him to say, "Dad, get me some milk." After such a command, conversations like the following takes place:
Dad – Sorry can't do it.
Son – Why?
Dad – Because you have not asked for it properly.
Son – (begrudgingly) May I please have some milk.
It happens over and over again."
Parenting Advice – An Important Principle:
Use the least amount of discipline to handle the problem. I like Bruce's approach. I can even hear his respectful tone as he corrects his son. Unfortunately, it's not quite enough to handle the problem.
First Social Skill Tip for Handling Bossy Kids:
Pretend you are Bruce. Consider using the "parenting stare" while saying and doing nothing. Make sure it's serious but not mean. Stare at your son for several seconds then turn away without getting what he wants.
Second Social Skill Tip for Handling Bossy Kids:
If you hold family meetings, discuss your son's behavior as a family problem to solve. Role-play with him on how to ask for things. Get him to make a commitment to ask with respect. Have him write his commitment and sign it. Then post it on the refrigerator as a reminder.
Third Social Skill Tip for Handling Bossy Kids:
Think about using the Feedback Formula when your son orders you to do his bidding. It's simple and goes like this:
When you -
I feel -
I would like you to -
Let's fill it in:
When you order me to do something,
I feel disrespected and won't get what you want.
I would like you to say, "Please" with respect or get it yourself.
This formula could help your son realize the tone of his words affect both you and others. If his bossiness doesn't work at home, it won't work at school or with friends either.
Thank you, Bruce, for sharing this social skills problem. May it help other parents who face bossy kids.
Social Skills Summary:
Consider using one or a combination of these social skill tips. The ease of the "parenting stare," the family meeting, and the feedback formula make them valuable parenting tips. The trick is to use them consistently and never accept disrespect.
Why not teach your little general to change his demanding bullets into little gifts of respect. Respect is a basic social skill to learn at home, in school, and with friends. Respect builds character too.


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