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Brain boosting steps

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 06:05:59 GMT

clipped by: ImpulseS

If you normally brush your teeth with your right hand, change to your left for a few days. This may sound strange but it will make you smarter. This is because changing sensory input patterns helps activate new neural pathways in the brain

During sleep our brains release growth hormones essential to growth, development and alertness. We should aim for an optimum of between 8.2 and 8.5 hours of sleep each night according to Charles Czeisler, Professor of Sleep Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

"Enough!" - excerpt from the Obama speech

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 02:19:19 GMT

clipped by: masbury
clipper's remarks: This country is more decent, more generous, more compassionate ...
Bravo! How true.

Clip Source: sage

This country is more decent than one where a woman in Ohio, on the brink of retirement, finds herself one illness away from disaster after a lifetime of hard work.

This country is more generous than one where a man in Indiana has to pack up the equipment he's worked on for twenty years and watch it shipped off to China, and then chokes up as he explains how he felt like a failure when he went home to tell his family the news.

We are more compassionate than a government that lets veterans sleep on our streets and families slide into poverty; that sits on its hands while a major American city drowns before our eyes.

Tonight, I say to the American people, to Democrats and Republicans and Independents across this great land -- enough!

Because next week, in Minnesota, the same party that brought you two terms of George Bush and Dick Cheney will ask this country for a third. And we are here because we love this country too much to let the next four years look like the last eight

Tags: obama

Weird hotel rooms

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 23:11:32 GMT

clipped by: balthazarus
clipper's remarks: when sleep is not a priority...

Clip Source: www.pictureorama.com

Top 15 weirdest hotel rooms

Wrapped room

Mirror room

Nude room

Temple room

Space cube

Nightlight room

This ones name is hollywood

Gallery room

Sanatorium room

Flying bed room

Four beams

Clouds room

Blue room

Castle room. This one is probably ment for children.

Simbol room

Tags: hotel rooms, design

Town buys strip club to shut it down

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 20:33:21 GMT

clipped by: traviscrocker

Clip Source: www.cbs46.com

LAVONIA, Ga. -- The town of Lavonia shelled out nearly $1 million to buy and shut down Cafe Risque, a strip club along Interstate 85.

"We bought it to get rid of it, bottom line," city manager Gary Fesperman told CBS 46 Thursday afternoon.

After the purchase, which Fesperman said was finalized Tuesday morning, the city burned the interstate signs advertising the club, which was popular with truckers.

"What was such a blight was those billboards," said Fesperman. "Those billboards did more damage to the community than the club did."

The city went to court several times to close the club but was never successful. Festerman said the club survived because it was grandfathered in under the laws on the books at the time.

"If the ownership changed, the grandfather clause would go away, and that's what happened," Fesperman said.

Sullivan died in his sleep in 2006 at age 47, but the city was not able to buy the club until this year.

The city now has a ban on adult-oriented businesses.

Tags: assertive

Loch Ness mystery noise unsolved

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:04:17 GMT

clipped by: valann 47

Clip Source: www.unexplained-mysteries.com

Residents on the shores of Loch Ness are having their sleep disturbed by a mystery humming noise similar to that which sparked a spate of calls to a council in Suffolk. Mikko Takala, who lives in a cottage overlooking the loch near Drumnadrochit where he runs a webcam site tracking the elusive Loch Ness Monster, has been having sleepless nights for weeks.His mother, who lives with him, and a near neighbour have also been woken in the wee sma' hours by the same strange humming noise, which one blue blooded Suffolk resident, Lord Philips of Sudbury, said could be mistaken for a spacecraft landing.

"It's a complete mystery because you only seem to hear it from indoors and its exactly the same as what is being experienced in Suffolk.

If someone had said to me a spacecraft had landed on the meadows I would have said, 'well I heard it'.

Tags: mystery, noise, loch ness, suffolk

DBQ 7

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:13:26 GMT

clipped by: Chem2009

Clip Source: history.boisestate.edu

No poultry should be eaten, no waterfowl, no pig, no old beef, altogether no fat meat. . . . It is injurious to sleep during the daytime. . . . Fish should not be eaten, too much exercise may be injurious . . . and nothing should be cooked in rainwater. Olive oil with food is deadly. . . . Bathing is dangerous. . . .

Tags: black death

50 Things Girls should Know about Guys:

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:22:16 GMT

clipped by: skwirlinator

Clip Source: www.createblog.com

50 Things Girls should Know about Guys:

1. Guys hate sluts.

2. "Hey, are you busy?" or "Are you doing something?" - two phrases guys open with to stop from stammering on the phone.

3. Guys may be flirting around all day but before they go to sleep, they always think about the girl they truly care about.

4. Before they call, guys try to plan out a little about what they're gonna say so there aren't awkward pauses, but once he's on the phone he forgets it all and makes it up as he goes.

5. Guys go crazy over a girl's smile.

6. Guys will do anything just to get you to notice him.

7. Guys hate it when you talk about your ex-boyfriend or ex love-interest. Unless they're goin for the let-her-complain-to-you-and-then-have-her-realize-how-wonderful-and-nice-you-are method.

8. A guy who likes you wants to be the only guy you talk to.

9. Boyfriends need to be reassured often that they're still loved.

10. Don't talk about your guy friends to your boyfriend.

Tags: 50 things girls should know about guys:, life, menstown

No More Sleep can lead to No More New Brain Cells

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:02:20 GMT

clipped by: AScomputer
clipper's remarks: Missing out on sleep may cause the brain to stop producing new cells show a new study

Clip Source: www.sleep-aid-center.com

No More Sleep can lead to No More New Brain Cells

Missing out on rest can harm brain cell making.

Missing out on sleep may cause the brain to stop producing new cells show a new study.

A team from Princeton University found a lack of sleep affected the hippocampus, a brain region involved in forming memories. The research in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science showed a stress hormone causes the effect. UK expert said it would be interesting to see if too little rather than no sleep had the same consequence.

The researchers compared animals that were deprived of sleep for 72 hours with others who were not.

They found those who missed out on rest had higher levels of the stress hormone corticosterone.

They also produced significantly fewer new brain cells in a particular region of the hippocampus.

When the animals’ corticosterone levels were kept at a constant level, the reduction in cell proliferation was abolished.

Tags: sleep, health

testing clipmarks

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 04:22:46 GMT

clipped by: jessse
clipper's remarks: testinnng w/ briana's comment!

Clip Source: comment.myspace.com

Briana.

Aug 27, 2008 11:08 PM

haha ohh jesse i will:DD

it helps me sleep at night:]

The Uncertain Science of Sleep

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 01:40:06 GMT

clipped by: titicy

Clip Source: blog.wired.com

The Uncertain Science of Sleep

Dolphins sleep with one eye open. Cockroaches are immune to sleep deprivation. Bullfrogs can sleep through an electric shock without opening an eye.

Apart from the fact that all animals sleep, scientists really don't know much about it. Does it work the same in every species? Update memories? Refresh unused synapses? All of the above?

As paper author Giulio Tononi writes, "Everybody knows that sleep is important, yet the function of sleep seems like the mythological phoenix ... that there is one they all say, where it may be no one knows."

DBQ 5

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:46:56 GMT

clipped by: Chem2009

Clip Source: www.pbs.org

JUVENAL

Juvenal on Rome

Now consider the dangers of night: Tiles fall from the rooftop and crack you on the head; and the drunken hooligan, spoiling for a fight, cannot rest without a brawl. What can you do when a raving madman confronts you? Or tenants throw their broken pots out the window. You're courting disaster if you go to dinner before writing your will."

(Juvenal, Satire III)

"Our apartment block is a tottering ruin. The building manager props it up with slender poles and plasters over the gaping cracks. Then, he bids us sleep safe and sound in this wretched death trap."

(Juvenal, Satire III)

"I would love to live where there are no fears in the dark of night. Even now I smell fire and hear a neighbour cry out for water as he struggles to save his measly belongings. Smoke pours out from the third story as flames move upwards. But the poor wretch who lives at the top with a leaking roof and roosting birds is oblivious to the danger and sure to burn."

(Juvenal, Satire III)

Tags: rome, juvenal, fear, safety

Wash. rodeo coordinator loses 2nd finger on job

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 16:36:02 GMT

clipped by: dewitte

Clip Source: www.wtopnews.com

WATERVILLE, Wash. (AP) - Some people may lose sleep on the job or even lose the stapler off their desk. Dane Keane loses fingers.

The 52-year-old Washington rodeo coordinator was helping to secure a bull in a bucking chute Saturday evening when his finger got caught between a rope and a metal fence pole. His left index finger ended up being amputated at the second joint.

But it wasn't his first time losing a finger on the job. In 2000, Keane lost the end of his right ring finger to a bull.

Keane, also a Douglas County commissioner, says he loves the rodeo but says it's "a little on the bad luck side" for him.

Tags: finger, rodeo, amputate

painted dresser

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:57:43 GMT

clipped by: celyb

Clip Source: www.bhg.com

Many people want a bedroom that's pretty and light. Ideally, it will invigorate you when you wake yet soothe you before you sleep. Here, warm yellow walls glow with the morning sun. But as night falls, the yellow veers toward gold, and the cool purples and greens calm the senses.

Gays Wink at Obama Marriage Position

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 23:41:27 GMT

clipped by: hlimjr
clipper's remarks: They know Hussein Obama is lying when he tells voters that he opposes gay marriage. An Obama cabinet would sound like the San Francisco City Council.

Clip Source: www.nypost.com

GAY media czar Paul Colichman's vow in yesterday's Page Six not to support Barack Obama over the candidate's opposition to same-sex marriage has other gay media bigs aflame. "By tearing up his check for Obama, he basically wrote one to McCain," Genre editor Neal Boulton told us. "I openly - no, flamingly - endorse Obama, whether he says he's for gay marriage or not. . . . I know under Obama, it will only be a matter of time until the country sees the legalization of gay marriage." James Hipps, project manager for gay-marketing firm Vibe Media, wants gays to cancel their subscriptions to The Advocate. "I am appalled," he said. "For our gay-lesbian- bisxexual-transgender rights to continue to grow and not further diminish, then we need to stand behind [Obama]. Good luck with your life, Mr. Colichman. I hope you get to sleep well at night after McCain becomes elected. Shame on you."

Tags: obama

Sleep on It: How Snoozing Makes You Smarter

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 22:32:31 GMT

clipped by: akipta

Clip Source: www.sciam.com

We may be able to get by on as little as six hours of sleep a night, but closer to eight hours is better--and may optimize learning and memory performance.
JUPITERIMAGES

As we snooze, our brain is busily processing the information we have learned during the day.

Sleep makes memories stronger, and it even appears to weed out irrelevant details and background information so that only the important pieces remain.

Our brain also works during slumber to find hidden relations among memories and to solve problems we were working on while awake.

Tags: brain learning problem-solving memory