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normally I wouldn't spam a forum like this, my apologies, but I am looking for people to enhance our team of programmers and since this is a place where the right people meet, I thought to just post the openings here.
I'm Technical Director at Khaeon Games in The Hague, The Netherlands. We are a medium sized development studio (now at 17 people in total, don't want to get bigger than 30) with a coding team of 6 ppl we want to augment to around 10
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Experience in the games-industry is ofcourse a plus, but not necessarily a problem if you haven't got it (yet). Experience in participating in professional software development projects, however, is something that is required.
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LOS ANGELES, March 22, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The 2013 Report on the Status of Women and Girls in California™ reveals new trends and insights on why stubborn gender gaps persist in the nation's most populous state. Released on Thursday by Mount St. Mary's College, the Report is the only one of its kind, compiling data on a dozen key issues vital to the well-being of California's 18.9 million women and girls.
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"We publish this Report because if we truly want to inspire our own students to affect change, we must lead by example," says Ann McElaney-Johnson, president of Mount St. Mary's College. "As a women's college, we have a passion for fostering women's leadership. We want to empower our students and alumnae to live lives of purpose."
At Thursday's public release of the Report, Geena Davis - Academy Award®-winner and founder of the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media - spoke to an overflow crowd of more than 850 people. Davis is chair of the California Commission on the Status of Women and Girls.
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A person that spends a keen amount of attention and energy on knowing the ingredients of food, the proper preparation of food, and finds great enjoyment in top-notch ingredients and exemplary preparation.
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A dumbed-down term used by corporate marketing forces to infantilize and increase consumerism in an increasingly simple-minded American magazine reading audience. The addition of the long "e" sound on the end of a common word is used to create the sensation of being part of a group in isolationist urban society, while also feminizing the term to subconsciously foster submission to ever-present market sources.
Though the terms "gastronome" and "epicure" define the same thing, i.e. a person who enjoys food for pleasure, these words are perceived by the modern American consumer as elitist due to their latin root forms and polysyllabic pronunciations. Also spelled "foody" This newest repackaging of Third World derived ingredients in the latest Trader Joe's product is ever so delicious and different, it's really made for all you foodies out there to BUY NOW!
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A fat kid pretentious enough to think up a special word to describe their desperate longing for anything to shove down their face. They'll often claim to be "food enthusiasts" or to have "refined tastes," but they're usually lying. "I got tired of telling people I had a 'glandular problem,' so I decided to start calling myself a foodie instead. It frees me of those negative connotations and leaves me to be become as lardy as I see fit."
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Either a 27 year old woman with a boob job, or a gay man with a great job. Both claim to have many friends that are also foodies. They see Rachael Ray have foodgasms and expect the same from Burger King. They spend too much money trying to emulate food celebrities they see on Bravo, and do ridiculous activities like going out in a party of 10 to a Kobe beef tasting. Essentially, if you call yourself a "foodie", you aren't one; or you aren't what you think it means. A firefighter would not walk up to a burning building, criticize the flames, and proclaim that he and his coworkers are firefighters. "This restaurant sucked, me and all my friends are foodies, and my steak wasn't hot enough, and there were some sea salt crystals on my bread."


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Druids needed 20 years of formal education (as the stories go) before they were "well-versed" enough to go out into the Celtic world and be the center of advice for whatever their specialty was. They were Magicians, Sorcerors, Educators, Lawyers, Judges, Astronomers, Psychics, Priests, Healers, Doctors, and so much more...
In modern times with our less-than-perfect education system and the plethora of information online we are still far and away more educated than perhaps many of the people 2000 years ago. This of course centers around the ABILITY to obtain these degrees and to research and retain that knowledge.
I believe that people CAN call themselves a Druid and that they don't need 20 years.
I believe that people CAN do good things and learn from others around them.
I believe that it is time to step out and become the Druids we all feel that we can be.
What I am tired of is the constant ambiguity inherent in the system we now labor with.
Everyone has an idea of what a Druid is (or was, or should be) and sometimes it interferes with the rest of us as we simply try to live our lives the best way we know how to.
Can we start a thread where we start talking about how good it feels to watch the sun rise, or a stream run past us, or maybe the sight of a student learning how to apply some book knowledge to a circle of stones out in the wilderness....?
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STATESBORO, Ga., BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., and CUPERTINO, Calif. – Georgia Southern Athletics launched both Android and iOS editions of its mobile app, offering fans another way to connect with their favorite Eagle programs. The free mobile app, named "Eagles GATA," is available in the Google Play store and on iTunes.
Providing immediate access to core content from the Georgia Southern Athletics website, the mobile app integrates Georgia Southern Athletics' social media and multimedia offerings. Fans can listen to replays from the Georgia Southern Radio Network, clips from the Southern Pride Marching Band as well as the official game song "Blue White." Through the live link, fans can watch games, enjoy encore broadcasts and the latest interviews with Eagle coaches and student-athletes.
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As I said in the other thread, we went to the South of France to the Rohne Valley for Thanksgiving. We spent a full day wine tasting and another full day wine drinking. The Rohne Valley is really quite beautiful, the weather is great, and the wine is spectacular. I recommend it for sure. And now, photos.
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Wow. Nice. Is the major haul for immediate consumption or for shipping back to the States?
24 is getting pretty old for a wine. If you do open it, don't let it breath too much you'll ruin it. The older wines oxidize VERY fast when opened. Looks like its a great trip. KBK |
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Some of it is for drinking In the near future and some is going to be aged for a couple years. I took notes from the winemakers on their recommendations for aging. I live in Germany so most of this wont see the states, save for a couple bottles to take back as gifts next time I travel. As for the 1988, I haven't decided if I will ever drink it or just keep it around.
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Ah. I wondered about that, but your location still said the 'States, so I assumed :p
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This is a thread for anyone's personal day-by-day logs of their experiences with polyphasic sleep. I am intending to start polyphasic sleep tonight, and I believe micth has also expressed an intention to go polyphasic in the near future, so there should be at least two sets of logs here soon. There's an active discussion of polyphasic sleep (tips, debate, whatnot) in this thread*, so if you've got comments or ideas, please post them there! I'm looking forward to seeing how many people take the plunge and try out this schedule. For anyone looking for background information, I'd check out Steve Pavlina's posts about his experience (the first is here). * Since this thread was started the original thread discussing polyphasic sleep has gone dormant. It's still a useful resource, though, for the advice posted there. Last edited by David Hausladen; 11-12-2006 at 10:47 PM. |
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Polyphasic Sleep, Day 0 I will be starting polyphasic sleep in about two-and-a-half hours, so I'm posting a brief description now of the method and strategies I'll be using. The schedule will be Buckminster Fuller's "Dymaxion" sleep, which is four 30-minute naps per day. My naps will take place at 12am, 7am, 12pm, and 5pm--those times are slightly irregular, but they work best with my schedule. For each nap, I'll start three* alarms set for 30 minutes and each placed at a different place in my bedroom, and then go to bed. Following every nap, I'll immediately go outside for a quick 15-minute walk to keep me from falling asleep again and help me to wake up completely*. My goal is to follow the schedule for at 30 days, from 2006-11-06 to 2006-12-05, and then evaluate whether it's been successful enough that I want to continue it long-term. I should be posting the log for my first day in a little over 24 hours, once I've had the first four naps. * Actually starting the schedule very quickly convinced me to make two minor alterations to the plan. First, two alarms is enough, especially if I place them on opposite ends of the room. Three alarms is overkill and it's too likely to wake my dear mother when I scramble to turn them all off at the end of the midnight nap. Second, following my naps can be any kind of activity, not just walking, as long as it gets me out of the bedroom immediately and wakes me up; it's somewhat impractical to walk at 12:30am, so I'll go down to the kitchen for a midnight snack instead. Similarly, after my 7am nap I can take a shower to ensure that I wake up. The critical point is that I get out of bed and don't fall back into it. Last edited by David Hausladen; 11-08-2006 at 05:13 AM. |
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i've done polyphasic sleep before and end up in frustration because of my inflexible schedule. I think most people need 6 set of REM so the four 30 min nap would be interesting to watch. After reading all these posts about sleeping less i got inspired and decided that i'm going to do this no matter what! I'm not sure how is this going to turn out but here's my plan I will squeeze 5 sets of 20 to 30 min nap (20 min works best for me last time i check) at night in 8 hours time. scheduled 11, 1, 3, 5, 7 then a nap at 5:30 evening that way i can keep my schedule and polyphasic at the same time. I plan to dedicate the nights to learning and working on my internet business. When the time is right for me to quit my job i plan to migrate to normal polyphasic or the 4 nap plan. (or maybe if this work out because it might go better with the monophasic sleep the world is in) Good luck to myself. |
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set, that's an interesting schedule. I'm not sure whether one can put all the naps in the evening, but if you could it opens up a lot of new possibilities! It's really hard to work out a polyphasic schedule that works with a "9-to-5" job or school commitment. The ones that I've seen that are most promising for that are triphasic (three evenly spaced 45- or 90-minute naps) and the "core" sleep schedules (3 or 4.5 hours at night and then two or three 20- or 30-minute naps during the day). Your idea is very interesting, since it would work with a "9-to-5" job and still keep sleep down to 2 to 3 hours total. Good luck with it--looking forward to seeing how it goes! Last edited by David Hausladen; 11-07-2006 at 02:31 AM. |
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| I think it'd be interesting to try going polyphasic before I get out of high school. I would schedule it naps at: 2:00am, 7:00am, 12:00am (nap during lunchtime), 5:00pm (convienently after sport practices), and 10:00pm. It seems like it could somehow work out, leaving me with a lot of extra time for a job or homework.
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Polyphasic Sleep, Day 1 Just a short while ago I awoke from my fourth and last nap for yesterday, successfully completing my first twenty-four hours on polyphasic sleep. On a scale of difficulty from 1 to 5, with 1 being trivial and 5 being near or at the limits of human capability, I'd put the difficulty of my first day at a 3. It required a fair amount of discipline and a bit of willpower, but I didn't feel at all stretched to my limits by today. The first half of my day, I had sporadic bouts of drowsiness mixed with periods of alertness (but even during those I wasn't especially energetic). I had one 15-minute period of intense drowsiness from about 11am to 11:15am where my head was nodding even while I was sitting and reading at my computer. My solution to most of these periods of drowsiness was to get up and do something else; I think I got about five or six short 10-minute "refresher" walks today! The second half of my day, I was much more energetic, with only a couple periods of minor lethargy in the afternoon, and none at all in the evening. I think keeping a log of my level of alertness, recorded in 15-minute chunks, may well be helping to keep me a little more alert than otherwise, since it means whenever I feel sleepy I immediately gauge the intensity of the feeling and record it before quickly determining how to deal with it. Another helpful tactic that I neglected to mention in my "Day 0" post that I don't eat less than two hours before a nap--there's too much potential for body temperature/a blood sugar drop/digestion to cause me to oversleep. In general, I eat less than an hour after waking up so that the food provides me with energy during the cycle, but doesn't interfere with the subsequent nap. (I don't expect I'll always have to monitor things this closely; mostly I want to be as careful as possible during the adaptation period.) Last edited by David Hausladen; 11-07-2006 at 05:19 AM. |
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Polyphasic Sleep, Day 2 Day 2 would score a 4 out of 5 on the scale of difficulty mentioned earlier. It started off well enough, with just a little sluggishness in the early morning. However, from 4:30am to 11am, I experienced nearly irresistable drowsiness--even when I used walks and activities to try to resist them--to the point where the last couple hours of that time period included two unplanned short naps. The good news is that after the second unplanned nap I was pretty much okay for the rest of the day; as with Day 1, the afternoon and evening were pretty much free of tiredness. I'm not too concerned about the extreme lethargy and unplanned naps I experienced--it's only the second day of the schedule, and I'm pleased with the fact that the majority of the sleep deprivation has thus far restricted itself to half my day or less. I expect that if I haven't yet experienced the worst of it, I will have by the end of Day 3 or 4, and from that point it's all downhill (i.e. my body's continually improving adaptation will make my naps more and more restorative so that sleep deprivation becomes less and less prevalent). I do think my situation this morning wasn't helped by the fact that my early and late morning meals (~2am and ~8am, respectively) were both lacking in protein. Incorporating more protein into my early and late morning meals should provide me with additional energy for the first half of my day, making this morning's scenario less likely. |
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well for me, failed on the first day. overslept after l listened to holosync CD Last night was my second day and i went thru it with not much problem. on a scale of 1 to 5 with 5 being the hardest its merely a 2 or 1 1/2. I only experience 1 REM out of 5 attempt sadly. ( for people who don't know, if you dream you're in REM) Luckily I got the REM on my final sleep so i was able to wake up refreshed and now working at my 90% . Because of my lack of REM I'm going to expose myself to as much sunlight and heat possible to avoid sleepyness. (good thing i live in asia) One thing I did that i think is going to help me tonight is I condition myself to wake up as soon as the alarm clock rings with deep emphasis to myself on no negotiation allowed. meaning i don't allow myself to talk myself into continue sleeping. So the 4 naps that didn't go into REM wasn't a waste. What I did the whole night? I was basically listening to John Reese's Traffic secrets. It was interesting so i kept me alert until 5 am where i start to get a bit drowsy. I keep getting hungry the whole night so i kept eating grapes (read somewhere it helps) It's been a successful night and from how it goes, will be a successful day 1 Hang on david and have a nice nap |
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Polyphasic Sleep, Day 3 Difficulty 4 out of 5; while Day 3 was more difficult than Day 2, I was better prepared for it, having a better idea of what difficulties to expect and what tactics would help. Practically all of that difficulty of Day 3 came from the time from 4am to 12pm, which is now clearly defined as the main battleground for my polyphasic sleep adaptation. That makes sense to me, since those were almost exactly the hours during which I was sleeping monophasically before. I expect that over time my body will gradually realize that that's no longer time to sleep. I managed to avoid unplanned naps through constant vigilance, though during the hardest part of the day I did zone out quite a bit (technically, I think my "zoning out" was involuntarily dropping into Stage 1 sleep for a few seconds at a time). I even discovered that when I feeling most exhausted, I could zone out while walking down the street! (This prompted me to decide it wasn't safe to go out walking during such times.) The crazy thing about this symptom is that it's one that I didn't experience even at the height of my bout with mononucleosis during high school--during which I fell asleep in practically every class, every day, no matter how hard I tried to resist. It's perversely fascinating to explore sleep deprivation at this depth, but I'll be very glad tomorrow or the next day when it begins to back off. My report for Day 3 may sound predominantly negative, but I'm actually very optimistic about the present situation. I managed to not take any unplanned naps or oversleep despite the difficulties mentioned--this bodes very well for my long-term success, especially since I think I've gotten past the most difficult part. I'll know for sure in the next twenty-four hours. |
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set: Great to see your first sleep log! The sunlight and heat idea is an excellent one, and hopefully will be quite a bit of help to you. My intention in taking short walks all the time is basically working toward the same effect, using outdoor light and sensations to keep my body awake. In terms of waking up, the "no negotiation" tactic is definitely a must! The other thing that helps is having your alarm(s) far out of reach of your bed. Looking forward to seeing your next log. Keep it going! |
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Polyphasic Sleep, Day 4 There's a lot of theories and conjecture in this report, since I'm thinking about causes and effects involved in the various aspects of polyphasic sleep adaptation. Feel free to respond with comments or criticism--I'm no scientist, and my ideas are mostly just guesses based on limited evidence. That said, on to the report... Today was a difficulty 4--a little less intense than Day 3 but with several new variations and complications. As usual, practically all of the lethargy and drowsiness fell between 4am and 12pm. My 7am nap turned out badly--I woke up feeling worse than when I had fallen asleep--and around 8:45am I decided to take an extra half-hour nap. Strangely, the extra nap didn't seem to improve my energy level at all. This makes me think that maybe my morning tiredness is generally not because my naps don't provide me enough energy, but rather primarily because my body is used to sleeping during those hours. (This brings up a lot of interesting questions that I should probably explore in a separate post or maybe even a separate thread.) On another note, an effect of sleep deprivation is a weakened immune system, and I think that's an indirect cause of several symptoms have cropped up just since I started this adaptation: a minor but significant outbreak of acne and mouth sores, both of which had been almost completely absent under my previous free-running sleep schedule; and today, an isolated episode of nausea lasting for most of the afternoon. I'm not saying that sleep deprivation caused these, but rather that by weakening my immune system it may have allowed them to take hold where they otherwise would have been resisted. If that's correct, then they should go away once the adaptation is complete (since that would remove the sleep deprivation, which would bring the immune system back up to full strength, which would fight off whatever's causing the symptoms). I think from here on out every day will get a little easier than the last as my body gradually adjusts its circadian rhythm to match the demands of the new sleep schedule. Once I'm completely adapted, it might be interesting to figure out how my body temperature rhythm (the primary factor in daily sleep patterns) acts once I'm completely adapted. Last edited by David Hausladen; 11-10-2006 at 05:23 AM. |
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Polyphasic Sleep, Day 5 Now at the end of Day 5, I feel like Thomas Edison on his thousandth light bulb attempt when he turns on the power and, unlike all that went before, this one suddenly works. That is to say, until today the adaptation has been continually losing ground or holding even, but today things started to turn around. Difficulty 3.5 out of 5--still some intense drowsiness, but I'm finally seeing the first signs that my body is adapting. Those who have followed by previous logs know that "zombie time" for me has been 4am to 12pm. Today, I was stunned to find myself completely awake and alert well into that time period. I didn't start to experience significant drowsiness until 6:15am. Once it got going, the tiredness was still pretty intense and tempted me (as always) to take extra, unplanned naps. However, I got to the 12pm nap without giving in, and after that I was alert for pretty much the rest of the day. The overall amount of tiredness today was significantly less than the ones preceding it, and unless today was a complete fluke I expect every day from here on out will be slightly easier than the last. Not much more to this adaptation, I think--lots of days, maybe, but the hardest part is done! |
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| Polyphasic Experiment in December
I plan to begin my own polyphasic sleep experiment on December 11: I was lucky enough to plan out a class schedule next semester that allows equally-spaced naps. So I'll have the whole month to decide if it's viable for an actual school situation. I'm really surprised at how few people are trying this out. In particular, are there any other females trying polyphasic sleep? I don't forsee any problems during the adjustment period, as I'll be on winter break. I'm not sure how I'll plan the adjustment, though. I've heard of splitting up your normal amount of sleep into the number of naps and then gradually shortening the time. That sounds logical. The other, is of course, diving straight in and weathering the sleep deprivation until the body adjusts. Hmm--I think I'll go with the first, unless there's another method I've missed? ~Jm4362 |
11-12-2006, 04:57 AM | #17 (permalink) |
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Polyphasic Sleep, Day 6 According to a certain cliche, death and taxes are supposed to be inevitable. Well, I'm here to say that under polyphasic sleep, oversleeping is almost as unavoidable. I should have known something was up when I started getting intensely drowsy around 2am (normally this hadn't started until 4am, and the day before it waited until 6am). It was the opposite of what I expected to happen in my predictions from yesterday, and is the earliest in the morning I've ever had significant tiredness. I continued to experience this, on and off, from 2am until my 7am nap. At that point, I went to sleep as normal for my regular nap, but I woke up five hours later, at 12pm. What happened? Checking the alarms after waking up, as well as my memories, confirm that both alarms were set correctly. I tested both alarms afterward and discovered that they both go off indefinitely. Therefore I must have gotten up, shut them off, and gone back to bed. In doing so, I was either totally unconscious the whole time or I was somewhat conscious, but not enough to remember the incident. For better or for worse, it doesn't make a difference. There's almost nothing I can do to improve my oversleeping prevention, which is already good enough that I've gone almost a whole week before encountering a problem. And one bout of oversleeping in a week is not nearly enough to nullify my efforts at adaptation for that week. I expect that even if I encounter oversleeping again (which is likely), it will be less and less of a problem as time goes on and by body gets better at sleeping polyphasically. Also, I've thought about incorporating a planned core sleep every week or two, which would probably help to prevent oversleeping. For the record, my day after oversleeping was predictably easy, with practically no lethargy. The only nap I skipped was the 12pm one, since that's the time that I woke up from the oversleep. The 5pm and 12am naps went smoothly and normally. Despite the unexpected difficulties of today, I think I'm still moving smoothly toward a successful adaptation, and expect to be there soon. |
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Jm4362: I'm glad to see you're going to try polyphasic, and I hope it works well for you! If you're looking for helpful ideas you might check out micth's original thread on polyphasic sleep (it's dormant now, but still useful). As to which adaptation method to use (gradual or "cold turkey"), my experience with gradual adjustment last summer was that it was slower but somewhat less painful. This was the method used by Claudio Stampi (technically, used by Stampi's test subject) when he was studying polyphasic sleep for his book Why We Nap. There's a summary of the relavant chapter from that book a little ways down on this page which might help you if you decide to use that method. Good luck with it! I look forward to reading your sleep logs in December. Last edited by David Hausladen; 11-12-2006 at 05:31 AM. |
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I've held a log while I started to do polyphasic sleeping at Learning new ways but ended it after only 5 days. Basically I already started to get in sync with the sleep pattern but my girlfriend didn't like me trying this all that much. It's quite a detailed log, including dreams and observations on things that seem to change when applying a sleeping schedule so drastically different (recalling when things happened is more difficult because there is no great barrier called a full night sleep). |
11-12-2006, 10:33 AM | #21 (permalink) |
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Mello: Just read your sleep log. It sounds like you didn't exactly have the ideal situation for this kind of thing, but made a great effort at it anyway for as long as you were able to. I was never able to adapt to polyphasic sleep when I tried to make the switch at college (i.e. while living with a roommate). That's not to say it isn't possible, just that roommates/housemates pose an added challenge.
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I've heard about polyphasic sleep for a long time and circumstances have made it easy for me to try. I work from home, I live alone so all the time will be mine to manage. I tried starting yesterday, with scheduled 20 minutes naps at 1, 5, 9 am and PM. By my calculation, that would be 2 hours of sleep per 24 hour cycle. It started well but I overslept badly from 5 am to 1 pm, basically a night's sleep. This time I had only one alarm clock which I think I managed to close while sleeping. I'm curious to hear suggestions about this sleep schedule and about how to prevent oversleeping. Multiple alarms are a must as I see, but is there anything else in our arsenal? |
11-12-2006, 09:08 PM | #23 (permalink) |
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Considerate: Here's what I can come up with off the top of my head for oversleeping: As you said, one alarm is too easy to turn off. Three is overkill. Two is just right. I strongly suggest putting both alarms out of reach of your bed and in different parts of the bedroom. Watch what you eat when you're getting close to a nap; preferably, eat nothing at all in the hour beforehand (for me it's the two hours beforehand, but my schedule has six-hour cycles instead of four). You don't want digestion and/or blood sugar level to mess up your energy level and cause your body to sleep too soundly. In darkness, your body produces melatonin, which makes you sleepy. For that reason, if your room is considerably darker at night than during the day, you will be more prone to oversleeping at night. For this reason I keep a lamp on at all times and my blinds closed, so that the light level in the room doesn't change too much from day to night. I'm able to sleep fine with dim or moderate light (which this setup provides), though I suspect bright light would be a little more problematic. (Once I'm better adapted I think this setup won't be as necessary.) |
11-12-2006, 09:43 PM | #24 (permalink) |
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Can I just say a huge thanks for posting this sleep log, I hope to do this at somepoint in the future and am finding your posts very useful in my aim to sleep like this. Thanks again |
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This is sort of unreal, the concept of polyphasic... But I have read Steve P's posts about it and in some way it makes sense. For those of us who are unable to do it by the book - 6*20 min. naps a day - there is "the core" sleep set up. Maybe 3 hours at night and then 2*20 naps? Opinions and experiences on that? |
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Wanderer: You're very welcome! When you do your own polyphasic sleep adaptation, I would encourage you to also post a day-by-day log here. My hope is that by accumulating sleep logs from several different people, we gradually get a much clearer picture of how polyphasic works and how best to do the adaptation. Right now the waters are still very untested. Mr. Punch: Don't forget the other variants: 4*30 is the one I'm using, and I suspect that 3*45 would also be feasible. |
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Polyphasic Sleep, Day 7 Difficulty 3 out of 5: Today was significantly easier than any previous days since the first. That could be a sign that the polyphasic sleep adaptation is progressing smoothly, or it could simply be a lingering effect of oversleeping on Day 6. The intense drowsiness I used to experience from 4am to 12pm seems to have distributed itself through the day somewhat since the oversleeping incident. I still experienced the most difficulty from 8am to 12pm, but I also experienced a few other short periods of tiredness in the early morning, early afternoon, and evening. I wish I had more to say about Day 7, but less news is good news here. If things begin to settle into regular patterns, I'll probably decrease the update frequency (i.e. post one entry covering several days), much as Steve did in his (much more detailed) record, so that there's not too much repetition among my log entries. I feel now much as I did at the end of Day 5: lots of days left, but the hardest part is done! |
11-13-2006, 06:31 AM | #28 (permalink) |
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as for me..I overslept too much A number of reason here 1) psychology - my parents would always wake up in the middle of the night and would be critisizing me. needless to say i have a strong motivation to just sleep and forget bout polyphasic. 2)the sleep schedule - might not be a good idea after all- I would have a hard time to sleep at night because i just slept like 2 hours ago! I guess i'll have to wait until i quit my job. |
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Very interesting board here and thanks to all you contributing Couple things.. I am trying to add serious musical study to a full time and very meaningful job as an internal medicine doc in a small mountain town here in Montana. I'm not kidding about the musical study, I am intent on becoming fully able to play jazz guitar and sing vocals, with the intent of playing with some of the musicians or the kind of musicians that I most love to listen to. No kidding! (I'm 53 years old and when you get in your 50's the world is indeed your oyster as long as you can figure it out !) (Yah, I'm one of the mods of the intention-manifestation board, you bet I practice a lot of that and I do) So, the idea of adding some hours to my day is very enticing, as long as it is good for my health and energy overall. I tried something like polyphasic sleep or core sleep, probably about 6 months ago and got really seriously overtired. I knew at the time it wasn't good for me then. Nothing else unusual. I've settled on sleeping about 5:45 hours (10 to 3:45) and getting in a 30 minute nap in the afternoon (I can pretty often, not always get home by 3 or so). I think I would do great if I had an extra 3 or 4 hours in the day, 2 would be a start. I don't know if I/we? are just being "greedy" trying to get more hours out of the day or not. I'm open minded on this in both directions, we are and we aren't, I just don't know. So, how would you go about this, any ideas? Seems the gradual rather than cold turkey way would suit my physiology better. Any prescriptions to try? Thanks, and I'll be following this post anyway just to see how things go. Best wishes to all of you! Ati PS Three things I've learned, even just getting myself launched at 3:45 which has been real successful- 1. Has been mentioned here---make the decision on when you're waking up upon going to sleep--don't even think about it when it's time to get up, just do it without thinking and know that once up you'll feel more up in most cases. 2. I don't think this has been mentioned here--Light works wonders--I go right into the bathroom, turn the dimmer on full high, then right into our front room and turn ALL the lights on. That feels good and by then, my physiology is awake. Coffee is good too at that point, I know there are different opinions on coffee but 2 shots espresso in the am and that's it for the day. 3. Regular times, for what I'm doing at least, work well also. I find myself waking up a few minutes before 3:45am and I'll just get up then, turn off the alarm before it sounds. (I have a cat who's probably involved in this in some way. He's very ritualized and may be keeping time, waking me up in subtle ways-- often when I open my eyes, before I even move, he's looking wide eyed into mine, although he doesn't start purring til he sees my eyes open, I've checked that.) |
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set: Don't worry about it. If you're still looking for a way to reduce your sleep hours without disrupting normal life, you might consider biphasic with a 3- or 4.5-hour* core sleep at night and then a 1.5-hour* nap during the afternoon or evening. This is probably the most "natural" sleep method you can achieve while using an alarm clock (the body's circadian rhythms are tailored toward this sleep schedule, with a major, prolonged drop in body temperature at night and a lesser, short drop in body temperature in the early afternoon). There will still be an adaptation period that you need to force your way through, but it shouldn't be nearly as tough as polyphasic, since it's not too far removed from monophasic sleep. * I use multiples of 90 minutes for the nap and sleep times here because that's the average length of the sleep cycle (during long sleep periods; not applicable to polyphasic). This way you wake up at the beginning/end of a cycle, when it's easy to do so. If you wake up in the middle of the cycle, it will be harder to wake up and you'll have much less energy for your day. This is why people can get seven hours of sleep and still be tired! Ati: From personal experience, the gradual method is easier because at first it's easier on your body. It does eventually get comparably difficult to the cold turkey method, but at least you have some time to work your way up to it. I suspect gradual adaptation takes longer, though (I can't say for sure because when I tried it last summer, I gave up before the adaptation was done). If you decide to use that method, I would point you to this page, which includes a description of the transition used for Claudio Stampi's 48-day study of polyphasic sleep. As regards methods for getting up at 3:45--these are good techniques for waking up from polyphasic naps also. The only exception regards coffee, or rather caffeine in general: in a monophasic schedule you're awake long enough that caffeine in the morning or day is out of your system by the time you go to bed in the evening, so it's not a major problem. However, on a polyphasic schedule, it's best to avoid it, as it's almost impossible for caffeine to get out of your system in time to not interfere with your next nap. If you decide to try polyphasic sleep, please write in to say how it goes! |
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Central Oregon's only Jewish-style New York deli has what might seem an unlikely location: in a corner of the Re/Max Key Properties real-estate building, opposite Chase Bank on Franklin Avenue in downtown Bend.
The Pastrami Old World Deli opened June 1, just in time for the summer season. It filled a void left after Letzer's Deli closed both its main restaurant on South Division Street and its satellite branch on Franklin in March.
According to a former partner, building owner Mikel Lomsky, had enticed Letzer's to occupy the deli space after he remodeled the red-brick Re/Max structure in 2011. When Sheridan Letzer retired but chose not to sell the name of the family business, Lomsky proceeded to rekindle the Jewish deli concept, especially for downtown office patrons.
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The pleasant counter attendants — on each of my visits, the young women who took my order were cheerful and informed — also assist the sandwich maker when things get hectic. Every order, after all, is made from scratch. And it does get busy here; when the seats inside the deli are filled, there are tables on a small patio and large lawn that can seat another two dozen diners.
The menu is simple, with an emphasis on — you guessed it — pastrami. The deli's selection of six meats includes East Coast pastrami (with a red paprika rub) and West Coast pastrami (with a black peppercorn rub), as well as corned beef, roast beef, salami and turkey. Patrons may choose between a "short boy," with a quarter pound of meat; a "tall boy," with a half pound of meat; or a "skyscraper," featuring a full pound of meat.
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An eponymous pastrami sandwich had to be my first choice at the deli. I opted for the Rachel "short boy" made with the red East Coast pastrami.
Coleslaw was sandwiched between a dozen layers of thinly sliced pastrami, topped with a slice of Swiss cheese. An ample amount of house-made Russian dressing was spread beneath the meat on lightly grilled rye bread. I loved the sandwich, but would have preferred bread that was more thickly sliced and not as toasty.
The deli differentiates between a Rachel (red pastrami and slaw) and a Reuben (corned beef and sauerkraut). A Date Night Special places Rachel and Reuben between the same rye, with sides of both slaw and kraut.
There's also a Black Dragon choice that features black pastrami with pepper-jack cheese, horseradish and onion — for the diner who needs a little extra spice.
I didn't push the envelope that far. On another visit, my dining companion and I did enjoy a Reuben, although she felt the grilled rye was too greasy.
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Mites could give competitors on Survivor a run for their game-show money.
Two of the tiny creatures, trapped in fossilized tree resin, smash the record for ancient amber-preserved arthropods, a group of critters that includes beetles, butterflies, spiders and shrimp. At 230 million years old, the mite fossils are about 100 million years older than previous finds, and suggest that mites' basic body blueprint may be built to outwit, outplay and outlast.
"Dinosaurs have come and gone, but mites have hardly changed," says David Grimaldi of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. "Their body form is quite similar to what we see in gall mites today."
That similarity is somewhat surprising considering that the Earth was profoundly different 230 million years ago, when most plants were ferns, the Atlantic Ocean didn't exist and pterosaurs cruised the skies. The Triassic-period mites, however, look just like their present-day relatives: They have segmented bodies, piercing mouthparts and legs bristling with "featherclaws," Grimaldi and his colleagues report online August 27 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Mites seem to have made major adaptations, however, to their food supply. Unlike modern gall mites, which feast mostly on flowering plants (sometimes forming bumpy growths on the leaves), the Triassic ones chowed on a more primitive type of greenery: conifers. Grimaldi's team discovered the two new species of mites, one Triasacarus fedelei and the other Ampezzoa triassica, smothered in droplets of amber from a now-extinct species of cone-bearing tree. The amber also held the remnants of a fly.
The golden globules are about the size of a grain of rice. The creatures are visible only through a microscope as tiny flecks that mar the fossilized resin's clarity. "You can see these little critters in all their lifelike glory — it's really quite amazing," says paleoentomologist Michael Engel of the University of Kansas in Lawrence.
Limestone and shale can also hold arthropod fossils, but amber allows researchers to take a more intimate look. "The detail preservation in these mites is leaps better than other Triassic arthropods," Engel says. "Actually, leaps is an understatement. The difference in preservation is a massive chasm."
The team picked through ancient sediments in the Dolomite Alps of northeastern Italy in search of resin dollops, then took two years to examine 70,000 amber droplets, shards and fragments. Only three housed arthropods. "With this discovery, we're obviously all hot and ready to go back and screen through lots more," Grimaldi says.
Arthropods are the most diverse group of creatures on Earth, making up more than 50 percent of all known species. They're one of the key lineages of life, says Engel. "Anything we can do to better understand what led to their successes and failures can tell us how they shaped the planet in the past and how they're shaping the planet today," he says.Citations
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