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Afternoon Naps Are Good for Learning: An Article for Mental Health by Psychology Expert Carol Roach


New research is breaking the old paradigm that people who do sleep in school don’t learn in schools. It turns out that these people who are accused of dozing in class actually learn better by having that little snooze. According to a recent study a little nap is good for consolidating memory.

Pay attention; those words rang oh true for so many students who were caught dozing off in the classroom. Young students were punished for sleeping in the classroom. Parents were called to the school or notes sent home saying the child was inattentive and many parents were told they were not parenting properly. These kids needed to get more sleep at home, to go to bed at a decent hour, and it was the parent’s responsibility to make sure this was done.

The current feeling is that lack of sleep prevents students from learning. Now there is new research which may change the thinking of a lot of professionals, psychologists and educators alike. Some researchers at the University of Notre Dame maintain that a short nap after learning may actually enhance new learning.

The psychologist and her team studied university students who maintained at least six hours of sleep each night. They were tested on their ability to recall facts and events (declarative memory) and their ability to remember world facts (semantic memory). The results showed that they scored better after a fresh night’s sleep then they did when tested after being awake all day. They also found that students remembered the material easier directly after having a short nap...

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9 Rules of Human Nature that Apply to Work by Alexandra Levit

It’s no secret that career success often depends on the quality of the relationships you develop with your managers and co-workers. Although office personalities vary considerably, there are certain rules that always apply because we are all human. Here are 9 to keep in mind as you strive to lead, influence, and collaborate with people at work.





1. We always want more

As human beings, we are usually not comfortable with our current level of achievement. Once we attain success in some fashion, we scarcely take the time to celebrate before moving on to the next big thing. And when it comes to job satisfaction, we want what we don’t have. For example, employees in big business want to become free-spirited entrepreneurs, while many entrepreneurs wish for the security of a full-time job. Give us the freedom to try other things so we see why our situation is so great.

2. Everyone wants to feel valued

We want to feel like we are making a contribution to the organization, that our work is making the world a better place. Even if the job is to put the wrappers on chewing gum, we need to understand the big picture and why our role is critical to the company’s success. Tell us.

3. People want to talk about themselves

Human beings are self-absorbed by nature, so when you encourage us to tell you about our family, our hobbies, and our pet projects, we feel closer to you. If you want to build strong relationships, remember birthdays and children’s names.

4. People want to be part of a group

We are a social species, and we want to fit it at all costs. We may even sacrifice our own ideals for this privilege, hence what is known as mob mentality. Gain broad support for your projects by rallying colleagues to your side.

5. We might want to help you, but we still want something in return

Most humans do genuinely want to assist others, but the part of us that looks after #1 first is alive and well. If we’re being honest, most of us will admit that when we do someone a favor, we expect to reap the benefits at some point in the future. Try to do your share even if no one is asking.

6. We want to take action

Although human beings are not huge fans of change, we’re also not content with the status quo. If things are too peaceful, we get bored and want to shake things up a little, and in times of uncertainty, we want to do something – anything – to bring about a resolution. Be wary of knee-jerk reactions.

7. Once a decision is made, it’s made

We humans tend to hold hard and fast to our decisions, even if they’re turning out to be the wrong ones. This is primarily due to cognitive dissonance, or the feeling of discomfort that results from holding two conflicting beliefs. If you want someone to change their mind, start persuading before they have too much invested.

8. We believe the worst won’t happen

This belief is the reason we still haven’t protected ourselves against the future flood that will wipe out downtown Manhattan. Despite what the scientists say, we refuse to come to terms with the inevitable. But while we’re thinking that other people get fatal diseases and go bankrupt, someone in the organization should be planning for the worst-case scenario.

9. We make the same mistakes over and over

Human beings don’t learn from the lessons of the past, and we like to blame others for our misfortunes instead of taking a hard look inward and sharing responsibility for negative outcomes. Don’t fall into this trap. Life circumstances change all the time, but you take yourself with you.

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With thanks from the source: http://www.lifehack.org/articles/management/9-rule...

Human lives are infinitely precious. We have only a few moments to enjoy the wonders of creation and to experience the joys and tragedies of life. English philosopher David Hume shocked society when he first presented the idea that a human life could be priced at its economic value. Today, it has become commonplace, and arguing against it is considered idealistic and romantic. This cheapening of human lives has resulted in wars, destruction of habitats and dissolution of communities, all for a few dollars. Today, we need ideals and romanticism to save the world.

The idea that wealth will solve all human problems has been responsible for an immense amount of human misery in the 20th century. A tremendously influential economist, Keynes expressed this idea very clearly. He wrote that we must pretend that “fair is foul and foul is fair” and pursue the (false) gods of avarice and usury, for at least a hundred years. According to him, we will be able to afford to behave morally only after we have accumulated sufficient wealth. Only then will we be able to give up the distasteful, foul and disgusting ‘love of money’.

A generation of economists faithfully followed this Keynesian advice. The idea that wealth was meant for the enjoyment and welfare of human beings was replaced by the idea that human beings were a means towards the creation of wealth. Economists argued that the poor should be fed because that would increase their productivity as labourers, instead of arguing on grounds of compassion and humanity. Human beings became a ‘resource’ to be used as an input to production of wealth. Education became a means of providing people with skills valued on the job market, instead of the pursuit of knowledge for spiritual transformation and for understanding and changing the world for the better. Development was measured in dollars, instead of enhancement of human capacities for wisdom, love and respect for each other.

In implementing development policies for Pakistan designed by experts from Harvard, Mahbubul Haq recognised the need to sacrifice human lives to the gods of economic growth. He wrote that “economic growth is a brutal, sordid process… making the labourer produce more than he is allowed to consume for his immediate needs, and to reinvest the surplus thus obtained.” To his great credit, he learned from his experience. He was horrified by the outcome of these economic policies, which led to the concentration of wealth in the hands of the so-called ‘22 families’ and increase in the misery of millions. He eventually came to the conclusion that “after many decades of development, we are rediscovering the obvious — that people are both the means and the end of economic development.” This crucial insight of Mahbubul Haq, born of bitter experience, is still not understood by economists and policy makers.

Making human lives a central concern would radically affect development policies. Economists routinely advise governments to let inefficient sectors collapse — this will lead to greater productivity when resources are shifted to other, more efficient sectors. The impact on the unemployed in the process does not figure in these calculations. In these cases, the cost-benefit analyses of economists pay no attention to the human factor, but only compute effects on wealth and productivity.

The economists’ paradigm is that by building industries, institutions and free markets, and encouraging capital accumulation through privitisation, we will create economic growth. Diametrically opposite to this idea is to concentrate on providing people with lives of meaning and dignity, supporting them on crucial dimensions of health, housing and education. People will then prove to be the engines of growth along all dimensions — social, political and economic.

With thanks from the source: http://tribune.com.pk/story/108505/the-value-of-hu...

Austrian investigative journalist, Jane Burgermeister, filed a lawsuit in Vienna (in July 2009) against the companies (Baxter and Avir), which are preparing the vaccine against the resulting pandemic on the grounds that they are preparing a global genocide designed to substantially reduce the world’s population. <2>


This sinister agenda goes back to the Rockefeller family, which had supported the Nazi’s racial agenda and which today controls virtually 100% of the US bioengineering industry, as well as the UN.

As part of the Population Control Pogrom, various wars, in the name of Health, are waged against you. Like the carpet-bombing of Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan, vaccines, drugs, carcinogens, steroids, statins, anti-retrovirals, antibiotics, aspartame, fluoride and other chemicals are pumped into you. More people are killed in normal times, in hospitals – by devils called doctors -- than all the war casualties put together.

Under the Model State Emergency Health Powers Act, upon the declaration of a “public health emergency,” public health officials can: * Force individuals with “infectious disease” to undergo medical examinations. * Force persons to be vaccinated, treated, or quarantined for infectious diseases. * Control public and private property during a public health emergency, including nursing homes, other health care facilities, and communications devices. * Mobilize all or any part of the “organized militia into service to help enforce the state’s orders.” * Impose fines and penalties to enforce their orders.

The arrogant medical scientists instead of educating the parents what causes genetic disorders are trying to create artificial sperm and artificially inseminate a woman. But they won’t inform that junk food, drugs, tobacco, alcohol cause a loss in sperm quality in the first place. They will also keep mum that after a hundred years of medical domination, they have yet to create a single cure for anything: Cancer, diabetes, heart disease, depression, Alzheimer's, kidney stones or a thousand other health conditions.

These ‘sickos’ who cannot think beyond insane profits, have also turned pregnancy (a natural phenomenon) into a disease -- evidenced by the way pregnant women are rushed into hospitals for all sorts of poking, prodding and blood testing. There is no willingness in modern medicine to simply let pregnancy, childbirth or fertility happen naturally. It’s all about intervention and profits.

It is high time, says Robert Butts that we can solve any high profit problem by deprofitising the problem. But the septuagenarian committed to Water Cure and Salt Treatment <3>, like several others, does not understand the cloak and dagger Laws of the Pharmaceutical Industry.

The governing principles of the medicine mafia

1. By last count, the medicine mafia has produced some 30,000 diseases.

2. ‘Pharma Industry’ was strategically developed over an entire century by the same investment groups that control the global petrochemical and chemical industries.



3. The huge profits of this industry are based on the patenting of new drugs. These patents essentially allow drug manufacturers to arbitrarily define the profits for their products.



4. A key strategy to accomplish this goal is the development of drugs that merely mask symptoms while avoiding the curing or elimination of diseases.

5. They expand their market by continuously hoodwinking the patients. For example, Bayer’s pain pill Aspirin is now taken by over 50 million healthy US citizens under the illusion it will prevent heart attacks.



6. Another key strategy is to cause new diseases with drugs. For example, all cholesterol-lowering drugs on the market are known to increase the risk of developing cancer.

7. The known deadly side effects of prescription drugs are the fourth leading cause of death in the industrialized world. <4>

8. Prevention and root cause cure of diseases decrease long-term profitability; therefore, they are avoided or even obstructed by this industry.

9. To protect its investment business against the threat from effective, natural and non-patentable therapies, the pharmaceutical industry has – over an entire century - used the most unscrupulous methods, such as:

(a) Withholding life-saving health information from millions of people; for example, Vitamin C is available in fruits, vegetables and herbs (God’s pharmacy) in plenty and it can prevent and cure cancers without any costly intervention.

(b) Discrediting natural health therapies – this is done through global campaigns that spread lies about the alleged side effects of natural substances used for millennia. Or lies of homeopathy being placebo, etc.

(c) Banning by law the dissemination of information about natural health therapies. To that end, the ‘Big Pharma’ has placed its lobbyists in key political positions in key markets and leading drug export nations.

10. Pharma business is the biggest con in human history. The product “health” promised by drug companies is not delivered. Instead, the “products” most often delivered are the opposite: new diseases and frequently, death of millions.

11. The survival of ‘pharma’ is dependent on the elimination of effective natural health therapies. Yes, these traditional and natural therapies have become the treatment of choice for millions of people despite the combined economic, political and media opposition of the world’s largest investment industry.


You see we are doing everything to help you is the usual refrain. Fluoridation, for example, gives you Germ Free Aqua Pura. Let us look at this claim.

Please read more about the above points at: http://www.groundreportindia.com/2010/02/war-on-yo...

Few More Words from the Author Dr. Leo Rebello: "
I am emerging from a long silence on the subject of vaccination, because I feel that, this time, the stakes involved are huge. The consequences may spread much further than anticipated. Here are the most important ones:

* Compulsory inoculation of vaccines containing a deadly virus.

* Massive and targeted reduction of the world population.

* Through vaccines, possible introduction of tiny microchips for mind control.

* Establishment of martial law and police state.

* Activation of the concentration camps built to accommodate the rebellious.

* Transfer of power from all nations to a single .New World Order.
 
“Ghislaine Lanctôt has decided to take sanyas. She has given up her identity cards, bank accounts, insurance, driver’s license and has decided to let her Canadian passport lapse and was just released from jail. I wonder how this 66-year old lady will survive. This is how Medicine Mafia operates” wrote Thomas Victor, an Indian-American Health Activist, in Sept. 2009."

With thanks from the source: http://www.groundreportindia.com/2010/02/war-on-yo...