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People born in the 80s have a special memory of their childhood and school years because they have experienced the most rapid change and development of China. As a child, nearly every one born in the 80s has been scolded for eating in the classroom. But here is a special 'classroom' in Beijing where you can eat whatever you like.
|The blackboard on the back wall has been covered with pictures and the phrase
"School Begins."
'Eight Hot Pot' has been decorated to look like a typical classroom of the 1980s. In front of the check-out table, which has been changed into a teacher's platform, is a blackboard written with "school rules," "examination questions," and "school time-table" (the restaurant hours). The blackboard on the back wall has been covered with pictures and the phrase "School Begins." All the tables are desks with a hole in the middle to place the hot pot and the tableware is the wildly-used enamel jars and plates of the 1980s. Each desk has a tablet regarding a different subject—history, chemistry, mathematics, or Chinese. The ashtrays are shaped like the transformers. What's more? Don't call those service people "waiter" or "waitress;" call them "teacher" instead.
The food is not expensive. The average cost of one meal is about 30 yuan and you will be plenty satisfied. The restaurant's most famous dish is the No.8 Cold Noodles (6 yuan) and 'fire extinguisher' (8 yuan)—powdered ice with cream with lemon, red bean or strawberry on top.
|"fire extinguisher" (8 yuan)—powdered ice with cream
with lemon, red bean or strawberry on top.
The restaurant only allows customers born from the year 1980 to 1989. The owner will check your ID card before you enter because he says that people of the 70s will think the decorations are childish and people of the 90s do not have these memories.

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Rubin Naiman: Falling in Love With Sleep
Tami Simon speaks with Dr. Rubin Naiman, an internationally recognized leader in integrative sleep and dream medicine. Dr. Naiman serves as the sleep specialist at the University of Arizona's Center for Integrative Medicine, directed by Dr. Andrew Weil. With Sounds True, he has produced the audio programs Healthy Sleep (coauthored with Dr. Weil) and The Yoga of Sleep, as well as the online course Ask the Sleep Doctor: Relieve Insomnia, Sleep and Dream Deeply, Wake Up Refreshed. In this episode, Tami speaks with Dr. Naiman about how hyperarousal interferes with healthy sleep, the power of weaning ourselves off the alarm clock, and how we can embrace the deeper dimensions of sleep and dreams. (57 minutes)
Rubin Naiman: Falling in Love With Sleep
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Tami Simon: You're listening to Insights at the Edge. Today I speak with Dr. Rubin Naiman. Rubin Naiman is an internationally recognized leader in integrative sleep and dream medicine. He's director of Circadian Health Associates, an organization that provides information, goods, and services in support of sleep health. Dr. Naiman serves as the sleep specialist and clinical assistant professor of medicine at the University of Arizona's Center for Integrative Medicine, directed by Dr. Andrew Weil, with whom Dr. Naiman coauthored the Sounds True audio program Healthy Sleep. Also with Sounds True, Dr. Naiman has released the audio program, The Yoga of Sleep: Sacred and Scientific Practices to Heal Sleeplessness. And he will be the host of a new three-part online video series beginning on November 2 called Ask the Sleep Doctor: Relieve Insomnia, Sleep and Dream Deeply, Wake Up Refreshed.
In this episode of Insights at the Edge, Rubin and I spoke about the contemporary problem of hyperarousal, how it interferes with healthy sleep, and the psychological roots of hyperarousal in our society. Rubin also shared with us dos and don'ts for getting a good night's sleep, including useful bedtime rituals and the power of weaning ourselves off of an alarm clock. Finally, Rubin and I spoke about some of the deeper dimensions of sleep, including the function of dreams and what it might mean to approach our life from what he calls a "united states of consciousness," where we appreciate the commonality that exists between sleeping and waking. Here's my very intriguing, helpful, and mind-opening conversation about falling in love with sleep with the man we've dubbed "The Sleep Doctor," Dr. Rubin Naiman.
I joke sometimes that Sounds True should talk about itself as a company that's helping people go to sleep as much as we're helping people wake up. The reason is that there is such a need in our culture for people to receive help with the issues of insomnia that they face, that we've produced several programs on helping people go to sleep. And so Rubin, to begin with, I'd love your help in understanding how insomnia, and problems with sleeplessness, have become such an epidemic in our culture.
Rubin Naiman: Yes, I think that's a really important question to start with. And they are an epidemic, I think, by any definition of that term. You know, the numbers are astounding, and they seem to be growing year by year. Conservatively, we have 60 million American adults, and probably many times more around the rest of the world, who struggle with insomnia. At least 20 million struggle with sleep apnea. And other numbers for lesser sleep disorders. But if you step back from formal sleep disorders, the National Sleep Foundation, in their annual polls, generally finds somewhere around 60-70 percent of Americans reporting at least one clinical symptom of sleep disorder at least a few nights every week.
It's so common, it seems to wash away. It's just not something that stands out when people chat about their night at the water cooler at work the next day. It is an epidemic, and I think that, even more importantly, the ramifications are quite profound. It's one of those situations that is so big, it's hard to grasp, it's hard to see. But we do need to step back far enough so that we can take a look at it, an honest look at it, and react to it.
We know that chronic sleep loss is a critical factor—it increases the risks for all major disease categories. We're talking about heart disease, cancers across the board, neurological disorders, autoimmune disorders like arthritis, metabolic disorders like diabetes, and even serious emotional or mental problems. We know, for example, that a year of off-and-on insomnia is the single strongest predictive factor for future clinical depression. So it goes and on and on and on, and what we believe today is what meditates this, the reason the loss of sleep has such a profoundly negative effect on our health, is that it increases chronic inflammation. And I think most of us now are now aware that chronic inflammation is a substrate of all these intense physical and mental problems.
TS: So Rubin, why are we having such a difficult time getting a good night's sleep, today, in this time in history, in the Western world?
RN: I think the short answer to that is that we're too clingy around wakefulness. If you ask the average person who can't fall asleep or stay asleep at night what was going on at that point, they'll typically say to you: "You know, I'm tired, I'm fatigued, I'm worn out, but I'm just not sleepy enough." And that truth is—when we take a closer look at it, and we encourage a more mindful view of what's going on, it turns out that the vast majority of people with insomnia, with sleeplessness, are not insufficiently sleepy. They're plenty sleepy. But they're too wakeful.
This is an issue that, I think, has some important spiritual ramifications as well. When we look sleep, most of us know that we define it in terms of levels, or stages. We have stage one: light sleep; stage two: it's still light but a little deeper; three and four is deep sleep. People get that there are different stages of sleep. But I think one thing that's so obvious that we tend not to focus on is that there are different levels of waking. We see waking as sort of all or none. I'm awake or I'm asleep. But that's not true. And if we take even just a quick glance inside at our own experience, most of us won't acknowledge, "Well, I can be awake to different degrees."
It turns out that most people with insomnia have something that is now called "hyperarousal." That's a technical term for what I would call "too awake," too excessively awake. Now, we want to be able to sort of peak out with passion during the day. We want to reach certain heights of awareness and experience creativity, or productivity. But we can't stay at the peak the entire time. And I think a lot people sort of paste their psyches onto that high point and cling there, and then after a while they don't even recognize that they're sort of stuck on the ceiling of wakefulness. Even if they come down a little bit, they're still way up in the air. So the problem is learning how to come down from excessive wakefulness.
TS: Now, I want to dig into this a little bit, because when you were talking about the levels of sleep, I totally tracked with you, and I could imagine kind of light, falling asleep, and then being in a deep, dreamless state of sleep. I get that. How would you describe the different levels of wakefulness?
RN: There's a common belief that doesn't hold water—both, I think, culture-wide and also in professional circles around sleep. The belief is that sleeping and waking are essentially opposite and mutually exclusive conditions, and it's a serious misunderstanding. It just doesn't hold water. So, somebody wakes you up in the morning and you might say, "Leave me alone, I'm sleeping." Well, when you're talking, you are to some degree awake, and the truth is, you may still be to some degree asleep. So we can have degrees of sleep and wakefulness coexist. I think it's important for people to get for lots of reasons.
I actually—going back a step, then I'll come back to your question—I believe pretty strongly based on the data we have today, and also based on spiritual perspective of sleep from around the world, that sleep is the default. Meaning, that other things being equal, we are all, always already asleep. And that sleep is a substrate in consciousness. It's in there. I think a lot of what we refer to [as] elements of serenity and inner peace really are exactly the same as these deeply profound states of sleep. They're inside of us.
From a scientific perspective it's interesting, the brain is set up to—it has an "on" button around the production of melatonin that's always on. It's set up to produce melatonin all the time. That's the default. It stops producing melatonin when we're exposed to light. So that melatonin is suppressed, but it's always geared to be going. In that sense, metaphorically, we're always geared to be asleep. So when we try to understand waking consciousness, I think we need to look at it in terms of a hierarchy that goes from a fundamental deep base of serenity and deep sleep that comes up to lighter and lighter stages of waking.
You know, data that we have on studies of long-term, accomplished meditators has indicated for a long time that human beings have the potential of cultivating awareness—what we might call "wakefulness," but I think "awareness" is a better word—in these deep states of serenity. Now, most of us can't. Most of us kind of lose consciousness, lose awareness, when we go even into light sleep. Although some people can retain awareness into deep sleep.
So awareness is sort of separate. When we come up that ladder, if you will, from lower states characterized by delta EEG—these are very sort of high-amplitude low-frequency waves, [and] the brain is deeply synchronized—we come up to lighter states of sleep, and what I would call lower stages of waking, where maybe we're in a sort of restful—alpha states are good examples of that. Alpha states are referred to both as resting wakefulness and wakeful sleep. So an alpha state is a point where the continuity between sleeping and waking becomes evident. We can go up from there, of course, [into] the beta states, which is a whole range of beta states that go up between, say, 12 cycles per second on up towards maybe 30 or 40. Then we can go up into gamma states.
So people can sort of locate their awareness at various points on this ladder, if you will, going up and down. They can also have a broader awareness. There are kinds of coherent or integrated consciousness—I like to think of them [as places] where you can have elements of very deep, serene states of sleep present with highly focused high beta, high gamma states. We can train our consciousness up and down this ladder, if you will. We can train it to be focused on much higher states, or much lower states. And I think an expanded consciousness is one that includes all the states at the same time.
TS: I'm really trying to understand the problem of hyperarousal. So, when we're hyperaroused, what state are we in?
RN: OK. Let me come at it from another angle. We know what goes on in the body during hyperarousal. There [are] elevated EEG [readings], so we're in high beta and sometimes low gamma states. So, the brain waves are high frequency, low amplitude. They're buzzing. The hypothalamic pituitary adrenal axis—[there is] this sort of neuro-hormonal flow, if energy in the body is highly activated. Hyperarousal is associated with increased metabolic rate around the 24-hour circadian cycle. Hyper arousal is associated with increased core body temperature. So we're basically running high and running hot. It's kind of an aerobic consciousness, if you will. And a lot of people habituate that. Probably more women than men in our world, for some obvious reasons. But people spend so much time in it that it becomes their inner standard for waking consciousness.
TS: Now, you said probably more women habituate to it than men, and for obvious reasons, but it wasn't obvious to me what those reasons are. I'd be curious to know.
RN: We're in a transition of culture today where many women are saddled with two complete sets of roles. Many of them are playing previous-times roles as mothers and homemakers and so on, and simultaneously taking on roles in the workforce as professionals. So there is data showing that women spend more time working than men. I think they're pushing a little but harder. And we see significantly more women suffering from insomnia. Some of that may be role-related, some of that may be hormone-related. But we know more women are more hyper-aroused than men.
TS: OK. So I think I get a sense of this hyperarousal epidemic. What are your suggestions for people to escape from hyperarousal as they get into bed at night?
RN: Right. Well, they need to start working on it before they get into bed. I like to say, you want to hit the brakes in your car before it's actually in the garage. You want to slow down as you're getting in. You know, I had an opportunity to do some work around Tour de France, and other situations where people intentionally go very fast. One example is if you ask a race car driver what's the most important part of their car, from my naïve perspective, I thought they would say the motor, the engine. But they'll actually say the brakes, because the more confident in their ability to slow down and stop, the more confident they feel about going fast.
A lot of folks are hyper-aroused, [and] I think the metaphor for the sports car is fitting for them. And it's fine to be agile and go fast. But the stronger the engine, the faster you can go, the better brakes you need. Some people identity with airplanes, you know, high-flying jets and leer jets and so on, and I think that that's fine, too. I think it's OK to get hyperaroused, but if you're a jet, you need a longer runway. And so this is about slowing down, really getting that you need more braking time, more time to descend.
I think the short answer to this is about developing a personalized bedtime ritual. You know, being able to shift gears. First of all, recognizing the altitude or the speed that one is moving at, really getting that, and then getting the sense for when they need to hit the brakes, when they need to descend. Now this is different for different people, though I think there's some common elements. I think it's just very helpful to start literally moving more slowly at night.
Related to that, I routinely recommend that people dim their lights. I've written and spoken extensively about my belief that in our world we have a darkness deficiency—we need more time in dim light and dark space. And there's really good evidence for this. Darkness also slows us down. If you simply dim the lights in your home at night, you'll find you'll walk a little more slowly. You know, when we slow down our large motor movements, we literally will slow down our thinking. We'll start to slow down. So dimming the lights at night is really helpful. I think also doing some ritual in which you shift into another element, and this is about maybe taking a warm bath, a Jacuzzi, a shower. Doing some kind of ritual where there's cleansing, but there's also this movement, this slowing into another element, very helpful.
A third piece would be some kind of process around letting go of the day. Probably the most common way of doing this is journaling. And I think journaling is great. I think people can also journal verbally, or orally, if somebody's with a partner. It's a wonderful joint practice to slow down together and just process the day. As a part of that, I also think it's helpful to not only look at your day in terms of the sequence of events, what went on, and one's emotional or cognitive reactions, but I think it's helpful at this point in the day to review your day as if it was a dream.
This is about bedtime stories. I think we are better when we can wrap the day up with a bedtime story. Most of what goes down as bedtime stories are metaphors that we can identify with. You know, they're different journeys that people have. But I think we can also create our own personal bedtime story by looking back at this day as one page in our lives. Even if the day was filled with sort of ordinary, mundane tasks, to try to re-position and re-consider, re-contextualize them in the larger picture of the journey of our own lives. It think it really helps us let go of the day if we can assign meaning to it. So that's the intention of processing and journaling at the end of the day.
One last piece is related to how we get into bed. And I think this is a very important piece. I really enjoy talking to people about this. I've asked lots or people over the years specifically about their bedtime ritual. And the most common one—there's actually data on this—is that at bedtime, people are typically sitting up in bed. Many people are reading. Some people are watching TV. And some people are doing both. There's kind of a clinging to the waking world, particularly with television. A lot of people then resist going down. They resist sort of letting go, even though they're sleepy and their head is bobbing. Often what they're trying to do there is crank up their sleepiness.
There's a common misbelief, what I would actually consider a dysfunctional belief in our world, that a good sleeper is somebody who goes out the moment their head hits the pillow. They go out like a light. And this is actually a pretty common complaint—or, I should, say it's an envy that's voiced by lots of partners. They'll say, "My bed partner is a great sleeper, goes out like a light when their head hits the pillow." If you routinely fall asleep quickly like that, it's not a sign of being a good sleeper. In fact, it could be a sign of a sleep disorder, because you're excessively sleepy at bedtime. I think it's really important to wind down more slowly.
So here's the recommended alternative. First of all, I left out a piece of this, and that's before people get into bed, I think the most common practice is setting the alarm clock for the next day. And it's a really interesting practice for a number of reasons. So, people set their alarm clock and get into bed and then try to nod out. When we routinely wake up with an alarm, we're doing a couple of things: We're snipping off the tip, the tail end of our dreaming process, because we do most of our dreaming as we're awakening. And number two, if we routinely wake up with an alarm, we're snipping off the end of our sleep and we're never getting enough sleep. So there's a simple practice where people can go to bed a little earlier each night and work it out so that they can wake up without an alarm.
But the other piece of this, the critical piece in setting an alarm, has to do with a question that I love to ask people. And that question is, "Where do you go when you go to sleep? Where do you go?" Some of that is evident when the light goes out. You know, people pull the blanket up, [put their] heads on the pillow, and it's evident in what people think. Most people I ask, when I ask people to tell me what their thoughts are, most people tell me they think about the next day. They think about simple things like, "What will I wear in the morning?" "What will I feed the kids?" "I've got to get the car to the shop," "I've got a dental appointment." This and that and the other thing.
I find it really interesting, because if you look at sleep as—I would think of think of it as sort of an overnight spiritual getaway. If you look into this as sort of a little vacation you're taking, or a respite, a spiritual respite from the day, it's interesting that people spend—people go into this vacation focusing on what they're going to do when they get home. So they descend into the waters of sleep without a conscious intention. They descend into the waters of sleep without a conscious intention of experiencing sleep. Instead they're focused on sort of a shoreline of [the] next morning's awakening.
I think this is a really critical factor affecting both the depth of our sleep and the larger relationship we have with sleep. So what I encourage people to do as part of this ritual of getting to sleep is just simply consider the possibility that there's something in sleep itself that is of great mystery, of great potential value. There's something obviously in the world of dreams, but also in the deep serenity that comes with sleep. And when one goes to sleep, to allow oneself to aim for that, to allow oneself to descend and enjoy. I talk about a mindful approach to sleep, and it's a little tricky, but the metaphor here is keeping your mind's eye, keeping our third eye open, as you're descending into sleep.
TS: Well, it's interesting listening to you Rubin. You're really reframing the sleep process in a pretty radical way. Not as something that's a means to an end—which is that I wake up the next day feeling refreshed and ready to hit it again in waking consciousness—but that it's really an end in and of itself.
RN: I really appreciate your saying that. Thank you. Yes. Sleeping is, in one sense, a means to an end, but it's that's the way most of us, including mostly professionals, see it. We see sleep as being functional. And we do this with food, as well, today. The truth is, foods are functional—you talk about functional medicine. I think when I hear somebody say, "I'm going to have some salmon for dinner tonight because I haven't had my omega-3 fatty acids this week," it's a little heartbreaking, you know? Have salmon if you really enjoy salmon. You can know that it's going to boost your omega-3s.
Sleep does some wonderful things for us, you know. It improves our immunity. It improves our stamina. It improves our memory. It improves the away we look in the world. It helps us stay healthy. It is really functional. But if those are the only reasons we go to sleep, we're losing, I think, what is sleep's greatest gift. I think it's a gracious gift. I think in sleep we're taken freely, with no effort, into a place of incredible serenity, incredible beauty, incredible healing. A place that, I think for many of us, we have such limited waking world references for that we frequently, we immediately, forget the experience. But yet it's not just functional, it's something joyous.
I'm writing a piece now about falling love with sleep. I just did a conference and there are people who take me aside and they will whisper things like, "I love sleep." They don't want the people around them to hear that, because it's almost like it's a deeply intimate spiritual belief that they know other people won't understand and they're protecting it. And some of these folks really mean it. You can come to a place in your life where you appreciate sleep as much as waking. And [for] some people, maybe even more than waking.
TS: Now, I want to cycle back to one thing that you said, which is this idea that I could wake up without the alarm clock, and make it in on time to work for my various appointments, etc. How long a commitment would it take, how many days would I have to go to bed early such that I could start waking up, say, at 6 or 7 [a.m.] reliably without an alarm clock?
RN: I think it really depends on the amount of sleep debt an individual is carrying. A lot of people have been cutting their sleep short for weeks, months, and even years. It doesn't appear from research findings that we have to pay back our entire sleep debt, but I think it could be a matter of weeks for the average person. But it's really about experimentation, and just allowing oneself to spend a little more time in bed. And maybe just backing up that bedtime for a while. Maybe going to bed an hour earlier, noting when one is sleeping, going to bed a little earlier, and then you can continue to use the alarm clock for a while. It may be that after a week or two you'll wake up 5 or 10 or 15 minutes before then. And then you've got it beat.
I think getting rid of the alarm clock is an incredibly good idea. First of all, it doesn't set us up to—it sets us up to go to sleep and not to the next morning's waking. But also most alarm clocks today have digital displays, and even that little bit of light can be unhealthy. Particularly for women. It suppresses melatonin. Most plug-in alarm clocks also give off a little electromagnetic field. A lot of people sleep pretty close to their bedstand, and this thing, although it attenuates quickly, it can affect melatonin levels in your brain. So there are lots of reasons to lose the alarm clock.
TS: And so you suggest that it's best to sleep in total darkness.
RN: Yes. This is something we've known for a number of years. You know, the word "light" is a term we associate with "good" things—spirituality, and the divine, and being informed, and so on. But the metaphor loses its value at night. We associate light with "good" things and dark with "bad" things, right? Dark is associated with dark nights of the soul, the Prince of Darkness. My hope for the redemption of the word "dark" comes with its newfound association with chocolate. I think over time we're going to love the word dark a whole lot more than we do.
There's evidence that sleeping even with a small amount of lights on, like night-lights, can actually increase the risk for cancer. Being in relatively bright lights, like being up at night working, shows a dramatic increase in risk for cancer. In fact, the World Health Organization not long ago listed shift work—which of course keeps people up and exposed to light at night—as a probable carcinogen. So it's good to sleep in the dark, yes.
TS: Now, in listening to you, the other observation that I'm making is you talked about our sleep debt. And I thought to myself, "Oh, we have another debt crisis here on our hands."
RN: [Laughs]
TS: And I'm curious what you think is the psychological roots of our attachment to waking consciousness? What's really going on that as a culture we're so attached to this state of hyperarousal?
RN: Yes. I can share my personal opinion. I don't know that it's a greater truth, but I can just share how it looks to me. I think that some of it has to do with sort of the notion of original sin, in the sense that I think many of us have grown up believing that we have to earn redemption, that we have to work really hard to prove that we are good people, loveable people, to achieve the success that would be a reflection that the divine is blessing us.
Many of us, I think, have learned to work too hard. Now, I'm not opposed to hard work when it's work that's driven by joy and creativity. But I think so many people—I think as Winston Churchill said, most of the world's work is done by people that don't feel very well. That's a different kind of work, and I think that's part of the drive behind this excessive, we might even call it an addiction, to waking consciousness. That we have to prove something.
TS: I think that's helpful. I think that's important. Now, Rubin you did a fabulous job of talking about how we might hit the brakes gradually before we pull into the garage, under the covers, in our bed, but I'm curious: what about that person who wakes up in the middle of the night reliably, [at] 2 a.m., 3 a.m., 4 a.m., and goes, "Oh, S-H-I-T, I can't believe I'm awake again. I'm not going to get a good night's sleep." What should I do? Should I stay in bed? Do I get up and, you know, do some yoga practice? Or, what do I do?
RN: Yes. That's a great question. And that's exactly what they say. It's very common that people wake up and respond to that awakening with an expletive. And one thing we know for sure is waking up and reflexively cursing your awakening will probably not help you get back to sleep.
So a couple of things: One is, more often than not, what wakes us up is not what keeps us awake. What wakes us up is not what keeps us awake. So we might have to wake up to use the restroom, and that's perfectly normal. We would wake up, we would be partially awake, and then we'd go back to bed and go back to sleep. We might wake up because we have some indigestion. We might wake up in response to a hot flash. We might wake up as, actually, a natural phenomenon. There is some evidence from some historical data that people prior to the industrial revolution would routinely awaken every night for an hour or two with something called "night watch." And it was actually a sacred time. So there are lots of reasons people wake up.
Going back the point of awakening, I think it's really critical to begin with forgiving nighttime wakefulness. And this is actually true if we're having trouble falling asleep or waking up. Too often we go to war with that. We go to battle with it. And of course that's kind of a typical posture in our world toward any kind of problem: we fight it. We fight illness, we battle symptoms, and so on. But what's needed at night is just an open-hearted receptiveness. If we awaken, it's really OK. Waking up in the middle of the night is, most of the time, a normal reaction. It's our response, our appraisal, our reaction to the reaction that tends to keep us awake. And that example of hurling an expletive at it is very common. So I think if people can—if they awaken, just be with that, be mindful of it, notice the stillness, maybe notice what's going on in their bodies and in their thoughts. And if they can do that from a place of acceptance and peace, more often than not, I think they'll drift back to sleep.
When people awaken and they find that they're experiencing what I call "cognitive popcorn," where the mind is just popping all of these thoughts left and right, in moments like that when there's some agitation in the background, and that does happen, it's really helpful to get out of bed. You don't want your bed filling up with popcorn. You don't want the bed associated with or classically conditioned for wakefulness. And so we recommend, and this is a standard conventional sleep medicine recommendation, very gently, without beating oneself up, getting out of bed, sitting down somewhere away from the bed. My suggestion is that people sit quietly in meditation or prayer with the lights off or dim. Keeping night there, and wait for what I call the "single bob rule," and you wait for your head to bob. And when your head bobs, it means you're starting to fall back asleep. You go back to bed.
In cases where there's a lot of agitation, sometimes people are in and out of their bed quite a bit, but reducing the number of minutes one spends awake in bed, night after night, will actually increase the propensity to sleep when one wakes up in the middle of the night. So you want to take your wakefulness gently out of bed, and then go back bed when you're starting to feel sleepy.
TS: And what about this idea of how many hours I need to sleep in order to be healthy? Meaning, I've heard some people say, "I can only sleep a couple of hours a night and I'm fine, because I meditate and do spiritual practice and I don't really need very much sleep." Other people [might] say, "If I don't get eight or nine hours, I'm a zombie the next day." I think part of the reason people have that expletive when they wake up in the middle of the night is this idea that if I don't get x number of hours of sleep, I'm going to be a mess the next day. Is that a myth? Or is it different for different people? What's going on?
RN: Well, it is different for different people. There are probably a very small, tiny percentage of people who are true short sleepers and can get by with very little sleep. But they're far and few between. There are also lots of people who need at least 9 or 10 hours, or some even 11 hours a night and it's considered normal. Einstein, I understand, routinely slept 10 hours a night.
The most common question I'm asked when I speak in different places is "How many hours of sleep should I get?" And it's a little bit like asking, "How many calories should I eat?" Of course, you would say, "It depends. How old are you? How much exercise do you get? What's your weight? Are you pregnant?" It really depends on circumstances.
The best measure of whether or not one is getting sufficient sleep is looking at how one's energy flows the next day, keeping in mind that there's a normal ebb and flow of energy. We're not machines, we don't hum steadily through the day. It's absolutely normal for energy to dip in the middle of the afternoon, actually it has little dips through the day with ultradian rhythms, but we get a bigger dip in the middle of our waking day because we're all programmed to take naps whether we override that or not. So energy ebbs and flows, but if you can get through without relying heavily on stimulants or high glycemic foods, you know supercharged, what I call counterfeit energies, then you're probably getting enough sleep.
The concern about a difficult next day is a common one, and it's one that contributes to a difficult next day. If people wake up and they're anxious about what the wakefulness is going to do to them the next day, then they're going to have more trouble falling to sleep, and of course it's going to spin round and round. The deeper truth, and I think one worth repeating, is that we are just remarkably resilient beings, you know? We're just resilient. And we've got good bumpers. We can take a bad night or two. I think we need to be careful about what we do that day. If somebody's up the entire night, for example, energy will ebb and flow, you won't just be keeling over into sleep the next day. We're made to take that. I think when people remember that they can deal with a bad night, it also helps minimize the anxiety about having a bad night.
TS: It's very interesting to me that you said that some of us actually do need 9, 10, or even 11 hours of sleep, and the fact that you put Einstein in that list of people who benefitted from 10-ish hours of sleep. Because I think there's this idea sometimes that if you need 9, 10, 11 hours of sleep, that something's wrong with you. Are you lazy? Are you sick? What's wrong with you that you need that much sleep?
RN: Right. I think that's really common. In fact, when I hear about what we call long sleepers, people sleeping 9, 10, 11 hours, I secretly think they're blessed. You know, they're really blessed.
TS: Now Rubin, I want to ask you a personal question, which is, in listening to you and hearing you describe an article you're writing, "Falling in Love with Sleep," I would describe you, as, you know, the man who loves sleep—loves the phenomenon of sleep, loves the benefits of sleep. How did this happen in your life that you fell in love with sleep?
RN: I'm not sure how to answer that. And I don't think, honestly, that it's that unusual. I think there are lots of people around. Maybe I'm just one of the few who's willing to admit it, because, you know, the 60 million insomniacs get a little frustrated with you when they hear that. I do love sleep. And I can say I take naps when I can. And there's just—when I crawl into bed at night, or when I get on the couch to take a nap, I sometimes will just giggle to myself.
There's just something beautiful about keeping sleep close at hand. This is something I first saw with my dog, who's been gone for awhile, but years ago I used to watch him. And we would romp and play and I'd throw things, and we'd be doing things and we'd be active. [But] if I stopped to talk to somebody, or get on the phone or something, he would, within 10 seconds, just be right asleep. It's like he had something right as his side. I think animals do that, they keep sleep close at hand. It's just there. It's like, if you're not doing anything, it's like, "That's fine, don't worry about me. I'll take a nap." So I've learned a bit from dogs, and a little bit from cats about that. To keep sleep close at hand.
We were talking earlier about consciousness, and I think, when we have—it's sort of like carrying a secret with you. I think about people who smoke tobacco, for example. When I used to work with smokers, would say, "Cigarettes are my friend." They love the fact that they could keep a pack in their pocket, and they'd have it accessible, right there. I sort of feel that way with sleep, you know? It's a friend that you can carry with you. It's a source of joy and peace that you can carry at your side. And I think it's there for everybody. It doesn't really require any practice. In order to get good sleep, there's just more stuff that you have to let go of, but nothing you have to acquire. It doesn't require fancy equipment. You can do it in many places. You can learn to sleep in even some very odd positions.
I think that the more I learn about sleep, honestly, the most important things about sleep [are] not from books—well, some from ancient spiritual writings—but I think mostly from listening to other people talk about their sleep. It's something we tend not to do. Because we presume that sleep is unconsciousness, and inaccessible from consciousness. The notion of falling in love with sleep seems foreign to people. But I don't know, I think it's such an obvious thing. It's such an incredible gift to all of us. The world of sleep is available; it's ready and available to everybody.
TS: Now Rubin, there are many, many things that I'm considering talking to you about in the little bit of time we have left, but I want to make sure that we talk about what you find the deepest level of interest for you in sleep, and the world of sleep. So I want to go right to that. And I don't want to guess, but I want you to tell me: what aspect of sleep do you currently find the most intriguing and interesting, and important to you?
RN: Yes. I'd say two things equally. One is dreaming. I've been interested in dreaming for 30 years, and it's what led me into a deeper interest in sleep. But there are two separate, really distinct and disparate views of dreaming: One is the study of dreams, the psychological or psycho-spiritual study of the dream. You know, its meaning, its interpretation, and so on. And the other is the more neurocognitive, physiological study of REM sleep, and I've been interested in both. Over the years it's been a great challenge and kind of fun work trying to triangulate the two. What is this thing? What does the dream look like from a bifocal view, looking at it both through the eyes of both neurophysiology and psychology? So dreaming [is important,] and then of the subjective experiences, of course. I think dreaming is just fascinating.
In short, what I believe today is that dreaming and waking are actually the same. That waking is dream consciousness that has been contained and framed and channeled and sort of grounded by the body, by somatic experience. It's shaped by sensory experience and motor output, so that the dream gets channeled through the body and it becomes a waking. When the dream's no longer confined or constrained or framed within sensory experience, within the body, it's what we experience at night. It becomes expansive and ephemeral and mystical. So I think we can learn so much about consciousness by a descent into the dream.
Dreaming is part of sleeping. You know, dreaming—I believe we dream all the time. But dreaming becomes most evident, most visible through the windows of REM sleep. I think of REM sleep as being these windows that cycle through the night, they get larger and larger. They're picture windows through which we can most clearly see the dream. So that's a big part of it. The dream, I think, is a constant reminder to me that the world is so much bigger than what appears, you know, there's resonance behind all things. And bringing a dream consciousness, what I think of as sort of a macro-spective posture toward the waking life, I find is both enjoyable and it's a great relief. There's a lot of detail behind that, I'm sure I can't go into now.
TS: But you're saying something very wild here, and I want to see that I'm following you. When you're saying waking and dreaming are the same, you mean that there's sort of a range of experiences that are available to us that express themselves differently when we're asleep than we're awake? But that there's a—I mean, help me, I'm not sure I fully understand you, Rubin.
RN: I'm working on some writing now that's called The United States of Consciousness. I think that in our world, for some cultural and psychological reasons, we segregate consciousness. So one example we talked about earlier was we look at sleep and waking as being opposite, mutually exclusive conditions. And they're not. We look at dreaming and waking as being opposite, mutually exclusive conditions. I think we even install these artificial boundaries between waking and sleeping, and sleeping and dreaming, and waking and dreaming. And if we begin looking at those boundaries, we can actually restore them to their original permeability. We see a continuity of consciousness, a way of being aware in which there are elements of wakefulness and sleep and dreaming simultaneously. Sort of a whole being consciousness, if you will.
The Jungians have talked for years about the waking dream. And when you look at the night dream, the night dream has certain qualities, a certain way of seeing. For example, when we dream, pretty much everything that shows up in the dream is deemed meaningful. If you dream about something ordinary that you wouldn't think twice about in waking life, when you wake up from it you go, "Oh my God, I dreamt about a cat, what does that mean?" Or, "I dreamt about a cloud or a feather, or a tree, or a person." Things that we deem relatively meaningless, or not important in waking life.
There's something about dream consciousness that just presumes meaning in all things. So that's one example. We can carry that way of seeing into waking life. And then we have an element of the dream, of dream consciousness present in waking. Frankly, I think creative people do this intuitively. They've learned to see through dreamy or dreaming eyes into the waking world. And they see beyond what most of us would see with ordinary eyes. Does that make sense?
TS: It does. And I think that the "united states of consciousness" is a very helpful phrase that clues me into what you're saying here. Now, was there a second thing that you wanted to say about the sort of deeper waters...
RN: About sleep?
TS: Yes.
RN: I hinted at it before. I think it's serenity. I found years ago, I was at one point going through sort of a crisis point in my life. I was going through the end of a relationship and my days were filled with angst and neurosis, you know, fear, grief, and all that. And at that time, it was so notable that I would wake up feeling really good. Until the second I remembered my name. And then it's ka-chunk, it's as if my personality was downloaded in a flash and then I'd start feeling crappy again. But what I learned then, I began exploring this, that sleep took me, sleep dipped me into this beautiful—the waters of healing, this space of serenity. And typically when we wake up, we kind of reconstruct the waking self, even before we become conscious.
Some of it's conscious. When we awaken, many people, before they open their eyes, will think about what day it is. And they'll go, "Oh, it's Wednesday, or it's Saturday," and, you know, when I am and where I'm positioned in time has an impact. Most people, for example, have a different sense of self on a Saturday than they do on a Monday. And then also in that awakening process there's an orientation to place. There's something that people will experience if they're traveling, you know? You wake up and you get, even before you open your eyes, that you're not even in your own bed. You get oriented to where you are.
And then the [thought] that comes even before, that I think we can cultivate awareness of, is that we can actually come to, we can awaken, before we remember our names, before we download our waking world personality. And that's the part of us that's just emerging from the waters of sleep. We're still wet with this beautiful warm serenity. I think [doing] that can allow us to carry some of this incredible peace and healing from the world of sleep and the world of dreaming back into the world of waking.
It always reminds me of that wonderful Rumi poem: "Don't go back to sleep. The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don't go back to sleep." He talks about the door being round and open. Don't go back to sleep. So this, you know, we can create a permeability, an openness—we can keep the door open between that night consciousness world and the day world. And I think when we do, we carry into waking both serenity from sleep and we carry mystery and expansiveness from the dream.
TS: One final question, Rubin. I'm often asked this a lot by people who are deeply into spiritual practice. And they want to know if certain spiritual teachers are able to maintain a sense of awareness 24/7. So even in the deepest states of sleep, there's still some quality that they could call "awareness" that is there in this united states of consciousness. And I'm curious what your view and experience is of that.
RN: Well, my personal experience is, I think, somewhat limited. It is something I've worked on cultivating, carrying, and sort of keeping [the] third eye open into sleep, and I have to caution people. When I first started doing this it actually disrupted my sleep, and I think it was because I was keeping more of the scientific observer in the awake and carrying it into sleep. And that's not the part of us that can really help us there.
There are writings by a number of spiritual teachers. The two that I'm most familiar with are Sri Aurobindo and Mother, the woman with him, and Rudolf Steiner. In their works, there's reference to awareness in sleep. Sri Aurobindo, and Mother in particular, wrote about retaining constant awareness through waking and through sleep. And I think she was someone who officially, technically, slept very little—maybe two, three hours a night—but she did write and she would talk about how she wouldn't lose consciousness, and there wasn't a need to lose consciousness. I think when consciousness is that soft, is that loving and compassionate, it doesn't interfere with the serenity, with the deep rest that comes in sleep. So she could be present with it, without reacting to it. Which I think many of us would. But yes, there is evidence. And I'm sure there's a lot more evidence.
The Dali Lama once said that sleep is the best meditation. And the Tibetan Buddhists have this elaborate set of sleep and dream yogas—I understand very challenging yogas, in which students are encouraged to cultivate mindfulness both of dreaming and sleeping. And I should add that I think in contrast how we look at it in the Western world, these students are encouraged not to meddle with their dreams. When we think of lucid dreaming, we think of taking waking world control and power and importing it into the night, you know? But they're encouraged not to do that. They're encouraged just to be there and witness, and not to alter it. But I do think it's a distinct possibility.
TS: Rubin, thank you so much for speaking with us. I've been having a wonderful conversation here with Dr. Rubin Naiman, who will be the host of a three-part live online video series with Sounds True called Ask the Sleep Doctor. Beginning on November 2, you'll have your chance to ask questions to Dr. Rubin Naiman, who we've dubbed "The Sleep Doctor," and learn essential practices for healthy sleep and dreaming. Dr. Rubin Naiman has also published with Sounds True a program along with Dr. Andrew Weil called Healthy Sleep: Wake Up Refreshed and Energized with Proven Practices for Optimum Sleep, and also a two-session program called The Yoga of Sleep: Sacred and Scientific Practices to Heal Sleeplessness.
You're certainly in a profession where we need you, Dr. Naiman, so thank you.
RN: It's been a great pleasure, Tami. Thank you so much.
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- CAN you guess who's out of the lineup again? That's right: Jimmy Rollins fouled a pitch off his foot yesterday and will miss a few days, leaving the Phillies with an exciting left side of the infield of Wilson Valdez and Greg Dobbs.
- IS everyone's least favorite cartoon character Scrappy Doo? Good, just checking.
- DID you hear the Hall of Fame altered its categories?!?! Apparently this means George Steinbrenner is going in next year.
- WHAT are you doing tonight? Here's what you're doing: Kris' band, French Cops, is playing a show on the radio, and you can listen to it at WMBR.org at 8. They're very good, actually, so you should check them out.
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Book a CD. Approaching the Qur'Ain is a major event in religious publishing. Professor Michael Sells has captured the complexity, power, and poetry of the early suras of the Qur'Ain, the sacred scripture of Islam. Approaching the Qur'Ain presents brilliant translations of the short, hymnic chapters, or suras, associated with the first revelations to the Prophet Muhammad. Most of these early revelations appear at the end of the written text and are commonly reached only by the most resolute reader of existing English translations. These suras contain some of the most powerful prophetic and revelatory passages in religious history. They offer the vision of a meaningful and just life that anchors the religion of one-fifth of the world's inhabitants. Approaching the Qur'Ain is enriched by the inclusion of a compact disc recording of Quranic reciters chanting several of the early suras, allowing readers an opportunity to hear the Qur'Ain in its original form. The book includes Sells' 'Introduction to the Qur'Ain', commentaries of the suras, a glossary of technical terms, and chapters discussing the sound nature and gender aspects of the Arabic textaquot;Includes audio CD of Quran recitersaquot;--Cover.
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Nursing director among new defendants in expanded case against IL hospice, authorities announce
A fraud case against a hospice company that provided services to nursing home residents has grown to include three additional defendants and the hospice organization itself, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Illinois announced Tuesday. The facility's owner was charged in the case in January.
The facility and its employees, including a co-administrator, CNA director and nursing director, along with Seth Gillman, co-administrator and co-owner of Passages Hospice LLC, were charged in an 18-count indictment returned by a federal grand jury, according to published reports. Gillman was originally charged and arrested in January for overbilling Medicare and obstructing justice after allegedly ordering employees to alter documents investigators sought.
According to the U.S. Attorney's Office, the defendants allegedly elevated the level of hospice care for patients far beyond what was medically necessary or actually provided. Some of the patients were also found to not have terminal illnesses. Many hospice care claims were several years in duration.
The indictments alleged that between August 2008 and January 2012, Gillman and the other defendants also caused Passages to submit false claims for patients who did not qualify for general inpatient care. Passages did not have its own inpatient facility, but instead dispatched nurses to visit hospice patients in nursing homes and private residences.
All four individual defendants and Passages are scheduled to be arraigned next Monday in U.S. District Court in Chicago.


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Rethinking social justice
Rethinking social justice in a globalizing world
Nancy Fraser
The programme aims to redress this lacuna. On the empirical plane, it will seek to clarify if and how experiences of globalization are altering the character of struggles for social justice. On the normative plane, it will seek to clarify whether and how such experiences should alter the ideals of justice that inspire such struggles.
The programme aims to connect conceptual reflection on the "what" and the "who" of social justice to concrete studies of specific aspects of globalization:
- transnationalized public communication and social justice. Do social movements currently address their claims for justice to transnational or global public opinion? Do solidarities transgress national borders?
- economic and financial globalization and the understandings of justice. Have movements such as ATTAC and the World Social Forum succeeded in expanding awareness of injustices grounded in the neoliberal governance structures of the global economy? If so, is such expanded awareness likely to survive the current economic crisis?
- the effects of the transnationalization of "care" on received understandings of social justice, especially gender justice.
Organization "Rethinking Justice in a Globalizing World" is a five-year programme:
- Year 1 Who Counts? Challenges of Globalization
- Year 2 Transnationalized Communication and Struggles for Social Justice
- Year 3 Economic/Financial Globalization and Struggles for Social Justice
- Year 4 Transnationalized "Care" and Struggles for Social Justice
- Year 5 Concluding Reflections Rethinking Social Justice: Challenges of Globalization
During this period a sequence of seminars will be organized and are expected to attract a wide range of (European and non-European) participants, including philosophers, sociologists, political scientists, and specialists in gender studies, media studies, and political economy. Two postdoctoral fellows for each of the five years will be selected, through an international competition. The programme will be concluded with a major international conference in the final year and one or more edited volumes will be published with the best papers presented in the seminars and conference.


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The uber-glam Golden Globes is traditionally an affair to remember. Yet last year's strike-marred awards "ceremony" — which offered all of the glitz of a televised town council meeting — became a night the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. would like to soon forget.
Gone were the A-list stars mugging for rabid paparazzi, the tipsy thank-you speeches and the wild after-parties featuring vamped-up revelers. Instead, viewers witnessed a surreal one-hour "news conference" where an assortment of entertainment journalists soberly ticked off the list of winners.
But the evening's losses extended well beyond the missing star power. When the quintessential Hollywood party celebrating the year's best in film and TV was called off days before the event, scores of caterers, florists, limo drivers, set workers and party planners were stranded like jilted brides at the altar. The collateral damage extended well beyond the service industries, leaving tailors, dry cleaners, stylists, makeup artists and the like in the lurch.
The final financial toll on the local economy: $80 million, according to the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corp.
"It was a very stressful and upsetting time for us, obviously," recalls HFPA VP Mike Goodridge. "We were caught up in a bigger argument between a network and a guild. We were the sacrificial lamb."
The 91-member HFPA wasn't able to come to an agreement with the striking Writers Guild of America and ultimately became one of the hardest-hit players involved in the dispute. The nonprofit group had to forfeit the NBC license fee it typically splits with the show's producer, Dick Clark Prods.
That pricetag alone is pegged at nearly $13 million, though the HFPA, Dick Clark and NBC all decline to discuss exact monetary figures. The HFPA and Dick Clark also ponied up an estimated $1 million-$2 million for production costs, which included venue, crews, sets, lights and security. The two organizations were unable to recoup most of the expenses, though some insurance claims were paid out.
"Although we don't discuss financials of the Globes or any of our shows, we were sorry for everyone whose income was affected by the ceremony not taking place," says Barry Adelman, exec VP of television at Dick Clark Prods. "It was a loss not only for Dick Clark Prods. but for the entire production community."
Even local charities such as Inner-City Arts and Cal State Northridge's Dept. of Cinema and Television Arts felt the reverberations of the neutered ceremony more than six months later. In July, the HFPA handed out about $750,000 in grants to film schools and nonprofits at its annual installation luncheon — down from $1.2 million in 2007.
"There were no layoffs because we're already a very lean organization, but we had to make cutbacks on the charitable front," Goodridge says. "This year, we gave out less than usual."
NBC might have been the night's single biggest loser. The Peacock normally takes in an estimated $15 million-$20 million in ad revenues from the three-hour broadcast. Despite the fact that the network didn't have to pay the license fee, top execs were steamed because NBC also shelled out significant marketing dollars to promote the event.
But if last year's disastrous situation had any impact on this year's festivities, the HFPA and NBC say it has been a uniformly positive one.
"The star power this year will be bigger and better than any year in the past," says Craig Plestis, topper of alternative programming at NBC. "Last year was such a nonyear, so now everyone is really excited about dressing up and coming out this year."
In fact, Plestis notes that ticket requests for this year's event, which will feature a tribute to Steven Spielberg, are at an all-time high. And the HFPA says more celebrities than ever have reached out about presenting awards at the upcoming fete.
"The idea is to make sure we do this year as well as we can," Goodridge says. "It's always been dubbed a good party. We want to restore it to its full luster."
As for lessons learned by last year's debacle, the HFPA points to the old adage: The show must go on. And despite the low-wattage vibe last time, the Globes still anointed a number of winners, albeit absent ones, including Marion Cotillard, Daniel Day-Lewis, Cate Blanchett, Javier Bardem, Jon Hamm, Glenn Close, Tina Fey and David Duchovny.
"It was unprecedented for the HFPA," says Goodridge of the fracas. "Our older members, who have seen a lot of things, were just stunned by it. We choose to chalk it up to experience. This is a very volatile industry, and you just have to go along with it if you are going to be a part of it."


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TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) Kendrys Morales and the Angels have been waiting for this day for a long time.
Morales, the Angels first-baseman-designated hitter, made his first appearance on Thursday since he got hurt during an ill-fated celebration at home plate in May 2010.
He had two hits in three trips to the plate in the Angels' 7-4 win over the Royals.
''Everything felt good,'' Morales said through an interpreter.
''Hopefully, we can keep it going.''
Lorenzo Cain hit his fourth spring homer for the Royals, a two-run shot to left off Jered Weaver that cleared the ballpark in the second inning.
Morales received a warm ovation from Angels fans in his first at-bat.
He bounced a seeing-eye single to right field off Royals starter Danny Duffy. He then ran and sliding safely into third on Bobby Abreu's double to left field.
''I felt good and you could see it when I ran to third,'' Morales said.
Morales popped out in his next at-bat, but singled batting left-handed later in the game.
''It's what we expected,'' Angels manager Mike Scioscia said. ''He's running well. He slid a couple of times.''
Morales hit 34 homers with 108 RBIs in a breakthrough 2009 season.
He was off to another strong start in 2010 with 11 homers and 39 RBIs in 51 games when he broke his left ankle while celebrating a walk-off homer by jumping onto home plate.
With his return to the lineup along with the free-agency acquisition of Albert Pujols, the Angels possess one of the majors' best lineups to go along with one of the best starting rotations.
That rotation is led by Weaver, the likely opening day starter, who was hit hard for the second time in his past three starts.
The Royals got to Weaver for nine hits and four runs in 4 2/3 innings.
''He gave a lot of counts back today,'' Scioscia said. ''When he's on, that doesn't happen.''
Weaver was second in the 2011 American League Cy Young voting after he went 18-8 with a 2.41 ERA.
On Thursday, he said he continued to fight with his command of the fastball, but was not worried.
''It's spring training,'' Weaver said. ''These numbers don't show up on the back of your baseball card.''
Weaver was coming off a strong outing in which he allowed one run in four innings against Milwaukee on March 17. Prior to that start, Weaver gave up three earned runs in 1 2/3 innings against the Dodgers on March 12.
''I felt really good,'' Weaver said. ''The results weren't there but it's a step in the right direction. I just wanted to work on my fastball command. Mentally everything is fine.''
Erick Aybar went 3 for 3. Howie Kendrick and Vernon Wells also had two hits as the Angels finished with 15.
Duffy, 4-8 with a 5.64 ERA in 20 starts in 2011, is fighting for a spot in the Royals' rotation. He allowed 10 hits and six runs in 3 1/3 innings in his third spring start.


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Funny, How Thin The Line Is: Documents from The Atlas Group Archive
- 11 November 2005 - 8 January 2006
Artist Walid Raad established the imaginary foundation The Atlas Group in Beirut in 1977, to research and document the contemporary history of Lebanon. The Atlas Group Archive is based in Beirut and New York and includes dozens of films, videos, photos, notebooks and other objects - some found, some created and some donated. The archive is organised in three file type categories: Type A (for documents attributed to an identified individual); Type FD (for found documents) and Type AGP (for documents attributed to The Atlas Group).
Informed by real situations, objects, events, personal and collective stories, The Atlas Group question the distinction between fact and fiction, with a humanity and humour that reignites our curiosity in the truth.
This exhibition at FACT explores the meanings, experiences and feelings produced by the impact of war.
In mimicking familiar media formats, such as the video documentary or the witness testimonial, The Atlas Group do not set out to record what actually happened, but provide us with the opportunity to think about what can be imagined or taken for granted about Lebanon's wars, enabling us to also reflect on events in other parts of the world, such as London, Baghdad, New York, and Madrid.
In 1992, The Atlas Group initiated a project titled Funny, How Thin The Line Is to study and document the 3641 car bombs detonated in Lebanon between 1975 and 1991. The Atlas Group collaborated with architects, photographers, artists, writers, dancers, musicians, physicists, psychologists, fortune-tellers, schizophrenics and hypnotists, amongst others. From these collaborations, they gathered and produced documents that explored the consequences of the detonations on contemporary and future urban life in Beirut and elsewhere.
The Atlas Group and Walid Raad have exhibited internationally and FACT is proud to present this range of new and existing work in Gallery 1 and 2, which not only highlights how artists are using technology today, but also how technology is being used to shape our present and future.
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I have many years of practical knowledge as a pharmaceutical sales representative and during all these years there was a ceaseless question brought to me: In what way can I become a pharma sales representative ?
how to get into pharmaceutical sales
An additional question that I frequently come across is if there is a specialized qualification that is considered to be mandatory to become a pharmaceutical sales representative.
The answer to the second question is absolutely no.
There is absolutely no specialized certification required to be a pharma sales rep , however to possess a bachelor's degree is mandatory!.
It does not really make any difference the topic or niche.
I have witnessed co-workers of mine holding college degrees of almost any topic.
However without a degree companies will not interview you.
There are several companies that demand at least a 3. 0 GPA from the candidates to end up considered for the position, Pfizer being, one of these.
Typically the GPA has to be above 3.
0 but I can practically assure that in case you possess solid qualifications for the other prerequisites, the vast majority ofof the pharmaceutical companies can ignore a lesser GPA.
What is very critical if you would like to get into pharmaceutical sales is to NEVER lie with regards to your college degree or GPA.
The job offer coming from virtually any drug firm will be typically conditional to the approval of the background examination, which incorporates to contact your university and verify your diploma and the GPA.
The terms of the job offer consistently states that if they are incapable to validate your educational background, the job offer loses effect.
Indeed I saw how one representative was sent back home while having the initial training for this.
Nonetheless, if you happen to be quite motivated about becoming a pharma sales representative and you don't possess a college degree until now, there are some shortcuts you could put into practice to finish the college degree that will be completely legit that I could share with you.
There are several other elements that will disqualify you from being a rep.
Some of them are modifiable and some are not.
Among the invariable factors can be: To possess a criminal track record.
Drug Companies will examine that.
Possessing a horrible credit history.
The major reason for that is mainly because you are going to receive a corporate creditcard.
On top of that, some managers say that having a negative credit record shows reckless tendencies from the applicant, consequently companies assess that issue.
Finally to have a negative driving track record for instance a DUI in the history or a lot of items in your driver's license may likewise disqualify you from gaining the job.
Within the modifiable factors, you are going to have to be able to pass a drug screen.
Most pharma companies will perform an urine drug test before becoming employed, however you will find a number of companies that will go a little bit further.
As an example, the instant I was hired by B&L I was required to go through a hair drug test.
In the examination hair is obtained from the body consequently they can easily track drug abuse as much as 7 months before the test.
Therefore ensure you preserve your body clean if you want to enter into the sector.
Occasional narcotic testing are also prevalent once you happen to be earning a living in pharmaceuticals.
Once I was elected randomly several times in a month to undertake a narcotic evaluation when I had been employed by Pfizer.
Once you have cleared those elements it comes the real deal.
It is time to secure the job interviews and the job.
If you exclusively have the degree and a neat record in many situations you could be competing several hundreds candidates for every single position in pharmaceutical sales.
However stay calm, there are ways to set yourself ahead of the others.
However, those strategies are generally not public information due to the fact pharmaceutical sales is kind of a sealed group.
If perhaps you are inside the radius, you may relocate without difficulty, however to enter pharma sales you ought to learn the tactics and techniques that are likely to get your cell phone ringing and placing you facing the hiring manager to get the offer.
I know there's a significant extent of discouragement out of the people who would like to transition into pharmaceuticals.
The action here is quite distinct than qualifying to a typical position in other sectors.
That is why I chose to develop something where I can clarify the course of action, the strategies and insider secrets that render a distinction to secure the position as a pharmaceutical sales rep.
Subsequent to being employed by six different pharmaceutical companies I possess the experience and a deep awareness to train you through the process.
I specifically began in a totally unrelated industry.
I had been earning a living in the aviation business, primarily the security unit of a major arline and got into pharma.
If I did it, you can make it too! .
But you must fully understand what you are engaging in, otherwise it might be similar to attempting to do an open heart procedure not having the essential knowledge .
Frustration is the sole possible end result.
Throughout my profession I ended up being stricken by widespread layoffs and 2 the pharmaceutical companies I was working went bankrupt.
These incidents took place in the midst of the recession of 2009 when the pharmaceutical sales industry took a hit bigger than real-estate.
I witnessed how a number of my mates were unemployed for Two years, yet I was able to get a position rapidly because the situations that I confronted previously forced me to learn and produce the necessary capabilities to be ahead of the masses going after a pharmaceutical sales position.
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Penn Text Article Finder
What is the Penn Text Article Finder?
The Penn Text Article Finder is a tool to help you quickly find an article when you already have a citation. The Article Finder presents you with three options for obtaining the article: a link to electronic full-text available at Penn; a link to Franklin, Penn's online catalog; and a link to an Interlibrary Loan request form. It does not automatically take you to the full text of the article online.
How to use the Penn Text Article Finder
To use this tool you need the following information about the article from the citation:
- Full Journal Title (no abbreviations)
- Year
- Volume No.
- Issue No.
- First Page No.
It is important that you spell the journal title correctly. If the title is not spelled right you might be incorrectly told that Penn does not have access to the journal
If the article is available electronically in full text you will be provided with a link to access the article (at times this link will take you directly to the article. Other times you will be taken directly to the electronic edition of the journal and you will have to search for the article within the journal.) If there is no link to the electronic full text, this means that Penn probably does not have electronic access. However, it is always advisable to double-check with a FindIt search for the e-journal, since not all publishers work well with the PennText service.
Penn Text sometimes has difficulty with very common single word titled journals. For example if you search for the journal Science instead of finding the journal you are looking for you might come up with many results with the word "science" in the title. In this case it is better to search for Science Magazine.
Pay attention to the years the journal is available electronically. Older issues of the journal may only be available in print
If the article is not available electronically, you should then check Franklin to see if it is available in print.
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Man pleads guilty in death of bicyclist in Davidson County
Man pleads guilty in death of bicyclist in Davidson County
A Thomasville man has pleaded guilty to charges in the death of a bicycle rider from Idaho in Davidson County more than two years ago.
The Dispatch of Lexington reported that 31-year-old Samual Thomas Gray accepted a plea deal that will result in six months in prison.
Thirty-year-old Joshua Daniel Perry of Meridian, Idaho, was struck while he was riding on the Interstate 85 Business Loop near Davidson County Community College. He died about 10 days after the accident at the Wake Forest Baptist medical Center in Winston-Salem.
Gray also must serve three years of probation and pay about $20,000 in restitution.
He apologized to Perry's family Thursday.


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Industrial Engineering
Industrial Engineering
Industrial engineering is a branch of engineering dealing with the optimization of complex processes or systems. It is concerned with the development, improvement, implementation and evaluation of integrated systems of people, money, knowledge, information, equipment, energy, materials, analysis and synthesis, as well as the mathematical, physical and social sciences together with the principles and methods of engineering design to specify, predict, and evaluate the results to be obtained from such systems or processes. Its underlying concepts overlap considerably with certain business-oriented disciplines such as operations management, but the engineering side tends to emphasize extensive mathematical proficiency and usage of quantitative methods.
Depending on the sub-speciality(ies) involved, industrial engineering may also be known as operations management, management science, operations research, systems engineering, or manufacturing engineering, usually depending on the viewpoint or motives of the user. Recruiters or educational establishments use the names to differentiate themselves from others. In health care, industrial engineers are more commonly known as health management engineers or health systems engineers.
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Industrial Engineering Scholarships
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Industrial Engineering Related Majors
- Mechanical Engineering
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- Operations Research
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My questions are for those folks that are running OnCommand in a large enterprise setting.
How did you like the setup?
Doesnt look like this will do auto discovery and you must know every IP address of your filers
Do you find this software helpful or just another fancy dashboard?
I am looking to turn around a storage team and get the North American filers under some form of centralized monitoring.
Looking at several products for this
Logicmonitor really looked cool with lots of monitoring capabilities
OnCommand does auto-discovery which by default is turned on. Do check whats your values for this options.
Also when adding a controller, the corresponding subnet is also added, unless you use the -N option in the add command.
[root@10 ~]# dfm options list | grep -i discover
discoverAgents Enabled
discoverClusters Enabled
discoverEnabled Enabled
discoverHostInitEnabled Enabled
discoverHosts Enabled
discoverInterval 15 minutes
discoverNetworks Disabled
discoverSAN Enabled
discoverTimeout 5 seconds
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Want to find out more about decoupage before committing to a longer workshop? Learn to embellish a photo frame (supplied) in just a couple of hours. Once you've acquired the basic steps of the technique, you may want to book one of my more detailed classes where you can decoupage a serving tray, a glass dish, a pair of shoes or a piece of furniture.
During this two-hour workshop, you will select papers from my extensive collection to transform a plain photo frame into your unique creation through decoupage. I will guide you through the design process and show you all the tricks involved in applying very thin paper to a flat surface.
All you need to bring with you is an apron - all materials plus tea and coffee are included in the cost of the workshop.
Please note that tickets are non-refundable.
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What Are Your All-Time Favorite xoVain Articles?
It's gonna get sappy up in here.
Thanks to my Irish/Swedish background, I've always had pale skin. In grade school, I saw the cool girls come back from Caribbean vacations over spring break looking tanned and beautiful, and I wanted to be like them. My pale skin wasn't "in." My friends and I used to line up our arms to see who was the "darkest" (a weird and racially insensitive game only third graders could come up with), and I always lost. I tried a lot of self-tanners that made me look orange and stupid. I cried when boys at the back of the school bus called me "albino."
In high school and college, I stopped caring about how pale I was, but I did slack on sun protection. I'm not really sure why -- none of my friends were obsessed with sunscreen, so I just didn't make a point to use it unless I was spending a day at the beach. I even went to a tanning bed a couple times before a sorority trip down the coast (lame on a lot of levels).
Then last fall I found out that one of the moles on my back was crowded with precancers -- the kind of cells that quickly turn into melanoma. When I went in for my yearly dermatologist visit, my derm went from looking at the mole to numbing my skin and SHAVING IT OFF in 30 seconds. The removal left a goopy, bloody patch in its place that my roommate kindly dressed with bandages daily for two weeks. Then the biopsy came back. I had to go back to my derm to get the skin and tissue surrounding the mole cut out to prevent the dysplastic cells from spreading. I now have a nice, big scar that I'm hoping one day will look sexy but right now looks like a caterpillar.
The whole ordeal naturally scared the shit out of me. I mean, I never thought that at 21 years old the word "cancer" would be associated with something going on in my body. Thankfully, I caught it early, I have good health care, and my procedures worked. At my annual checkup last week, my derm found no sign of abnormalities anywhere. I did like, 3 signs of the cross in a row and I'm not even religious! I know I'm lucky. And I am full on kicking my 16-year-old self in the teeth for not taking care of my skin sooner.
Now that summer is ending, it is so tempting to stop wearing sunscreen. But, OH GOD, we all need at least SPF 30, every single day. I know it's boring and unsexy but will you help me change that? I've now tried almost every sun protector on the market and found four really, really good ones. That are actually fun to wear. LET'S START THE SEXY SUNSCREEN REVOLUTION!!
Best All-Around:Neutrogena Ultra Sheer Dry-Touch Sunblock SPF 30
This is your high-quality basic, perfect for everyday wear. It's super light and you can't even feel it when it dries. No excuse not to slap some on before starting your day!
Best for a Beach Day or Exercise:Aveeno Hydrosport Sunblock Spray SPF 50
If you're going to be near water, sweating, or both, you need a sunscreen that's designed for wet skin. This one smells delicious (kind of coconut-y) and really stays on. I've been using it on my runs (okay, slow jogs).
Best for Face:La Roche-Posay Anthelios 50 Tinted Mineral
This is the lightest, silkiest formula I've found. The tint is great -- it blends seamlessly under makeup or can be worn alone. Anyone worried about aging should be using this daily. (Have I impressed upon you yet that all this is daily?? It's daily.)
Best for Glamour:Oscar de la Renta Moisturizing Sunscreen SPF 30
The holy grail. I've been eyeing this bad boy for months and finally snagged a bottle. At $42 a pop it's not cheap, but can you put a price on the best-smelling, most luxurious sunscreen ever made? Not to mention the incredibly sexy packaging. I never forget sunscreen when I go out now because I want this in my bag, making everything look prettier.
Have any of you experienced a skin cancer scare? Or known stupid kids in grade school? Tell me, tell me. And leave your sunscreen recs, too.
Allie is avenging grade school bullying on Twitter @allierileyjones


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» The Cahill Group, based in Chicago, has acquired a portfolio of Rosewood Care Centers skilled nursing facilities for $250 million. The SNFs are in Illinois and Missouri. The new company overseeing operations will be called Cahill Rosewood.
» Catholic Healthcare will sell four of its seven nursing homes in New York state to Comprehensive Healthcare Management Services LLC, citing losses over the last two years. The price has not been finalized and the deal awaits state regulatory approval.
» The Moorings of Arlington Heights, a Presbyterian Homes community near Chicago, has partnered with Rainbow Hospice and Palliative Care on a yearlong memory care education program. Dementia care specialists from Rainbow will lead classes for Moorings' staff and families on best practices for care.
» Landmark Investment Group has begun construction of an estimated $70 million continuing care retirement community in Kansas City, MO. Landmark bought 13 acres on the campus of Research Medical Center in 2011 and recently tore down seven buildings to begin construction on Rockhill Greens Senior Living, according to local reports.


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NetSupport School is built with features for best practice in the classroom in mind. It is unique in offering both a digital journal (containing a copy of all lesson content for post-lesson review) and a Question and Answer Module for delivering quick and engaging questioning and assessment in the classroom. Supporting these features are our Survey module and a full Testing suite.
The Q&A Module is an exclusive collaborative tool that enables teachers to reinforce key learning points and instantly gauge student understanding during a lesson.
Built around current teaching practices for the continual assessment of learning, it allows a teacher to verbally ask questions to the class, gauge student answers and understanding, introduce new questioning styles to the lesson (such as basketball questioning), and develop peer assessment opportunities - as well as track rewards against both the individual and, where appropriate, teams.
The module provides the following options:
First to Answer
When the question has been asked, the teacher can set a 'thinking time' after which students indicate if they know the answer, with the teacher's desktop showing the order in which they answered. The teacher can choose the 'top x' fastest responders and the quickest student is asked for their answer. The teacher confirms if it is right or wrong and then has the option to bounce the question to subsequent students. Points can be awarded or deducted.
Enter an Answer
The teacher enters the answer to a question in advance and students are prompted for their responses. Results are instantly displayed to the class and points awarded or deducted.
Pot Luck
An alternative to First to Answer, the teacher can involve a number of randomly selected students.
Team Mode
Students can be placed in teams allowing them to compete for rewards as a group. Teams can be created randomly or students can pick a team to join. Each team member enters their answer and the group's combined total is displayed.
Peer Assessment
This encourages students to give feedback in response to an answer given by one of their classmates. They indicate if the answer given was correct or incorrect and the teacher's screen displays the results.
During a typical class, all appropriate items relating to the subject can be captured and added into a PDF file for post-lesson review by each student, or to share with any who are absent.
In addition, using the native Windows 10 Tutor app, teachers can include key lesson content in a OneNote Class Notebook, if desired:
- Lesson details and objectives.
- Teacher and individual student notes.
- Screenshots and notes from within a presentation.
- Class or group survey results.
- Virtual Whiteboard screens.
- Individual student test results.
- URLs of websites used during the lesson.
- Copies of any class Chat transcripts.
- Resources (these can be added to the same journal in subsequent lessons).
- Create new pages directly within OneNote Class Notebooks.
The Student Journal makes it easy for teachers by including:
- Tutor Toolbar icon to indicate whether the teacher's journal is started (and the journal status is shown on their status bar).
- Addition of named chapters to the Student Journal.
- Inclusion of the Student Register in the teacher's journal.
- Automatic creation of bookmarks based on chapters.
- Journal synchronisation - if the student has missed items, these can be inserted in the correct position in line with the teacher's journal.
- Customisation of the journal with your school's logo.
View an example Student Journal as a (PDF) here.
Find out if your students have understood the content covered during the lesson by conducting an instant survey.
- Create a survey using pre-supplied or custom responses.
- See instantly all responses and a summary for the class.
- Create groups dynamically based on student responses.
- Publish survey results to all students.
Design tests and examinations with the minimum of effort, including text, picture, audio and video questions.
- Create a library of resources and questions that can be shared.
- Create any number of tests using questions from your library.
- Now utilise any of 8 different question styles.
- Create questions with between 2 and 4 possible answers.
- Set examination grading levels (i.e. over 75% = A grade).
- Track student progress and see question success or failure in real time.
- Auto-mark the test so results are available as soon as it is completed.
- Display individual results back to each student.
- Deliver results (including highlighting the correct answers) to the class.
- Install the Test Designer on a standalone system.
Online testing resources and content sharing.
Visit the online content and Resource Centre, where teachers can browse for questions by topic or category, upload questions and exams they have already produced and are willing to share, or download resources others have already provided. The Resource Centre provides a simple yet flexible location where educators around the globe can share curriculum content, all without any cost.
Visit: content.netsupportschool.com
"Look no further if you want the perfect network training and teaching tool, as NetSupport School is in a league of its own.
The jewel in its crown is undoubtedly the Testing module which provides the tools to create tests and exams and deploy them over the network simultaneously to multiple systems."


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Welcome to Fashion Scavenger Hunt, a Jezebel column in which we all work together to find the elusive product of your dreams. Need help with a style or specific item, or just looking for advice on dupes? Email me at email@example.com and I, too, will put my nimble googling fingers to work.
My friend and colleague Ellie presents us with her dilemma:
It's beach season, and I'm sure some of you have similar needs, so let's get right into it.
Ellie's looking for something "subdued and cool," so my presentation of this teal and orange bandeau two-piece was not it for her. But there are tons of options at the same site, AMI CLUBWEAR (my rave name), including plus sizes and weed print bikinis in the colors of the Jamaican flag, so obviously I found something she liked in the mix here: a classic blue-and-white piece with beaucoup butt coverage modeled by someone who looks like Angelina Jolie's cousin from Jersey. ($22.50 on sale, Ami Clubwear)
Then I presented what I thought was more subdued and cool, this tie-dye with a minimal scooped bikini top and cut-out sides, knowing that I have somewhat more outrageous taste than my beloved coworker. "Are there any that are just plain," she responded. "Like minimalist type thing." (Out From Under tie-dye bikini top, $38, and bottom, $44, Urban Outfitters)
One of my favorite brands for both swim and eyewear is Prism London, a small business run by a lovely woman named Anna Laub. It's a little costlier, but the quality is fantastic, and I love this blush color. Plus, the top is stretchy and shaping but doesn't have an underwire, per Ellie's request. (Prism London Hollywood bikini top, $108, and bottom, $73, both on sale at The Dreslyn.)
So does she like it?
SUCCESS. Hey, y'all, can you help out this tough customer Ellie on her hunt for a cute, minimal bikini with no underwire and ample butt coverage?