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• A pregnant woman will generally sleep up to two hours a night longer than she did before she got pregnant. • Newborns sleep a total of 14 to 17 hours a day on an irregular schedule with periods of one to three hours spent awake. • Although it’s possible to force yourself to stay awake, it is impossible to force yourself to stay asleep. The longest recorded sleep period was 17 hours by a person who had been deprived of sleep in the prior few days. He was able to sleep only 5 hours the next night. • A survey showed that people who characteristically get ten hours of sleep suffered twice as many heart attacks and three and a half times as many strokes as people who slept seven hours or less.
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• Two experimenters spent two months living in the darkness of Mammoth Cave in Kentucky in 1938. For the first month they lived 21-hour days using electric lights; and for the second month they lived 28-hour days. Although the men felt that they had adjusted to the new schedule, their bodies showed through blood and urine tests and temperature readings that they were still operating on a 24-hour cycle. • People who are transferred to the perpetual night of the Arctic tend to sleep about an hour longer than they did prior to going there. • One experiment placed volunteers alone in a completely dark sound-proof room, with gloves to reduce sensations. The object was to see how much time a human would spend sleeping when there was absolutely nothing to do. On the first day, the subjects slept 12 to 14 hours. But as time passed, the amount of sleep decreased until after one week they were sleeping six hours or less each day. This suggested to researchers that wakefulness is the basic state of the brain. (continued next page)
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• Humans sleep on average around three hours less than other primates like chimps, rhesus monkeys, squirrel monkeys and baboons, all of which sleep for 10 hours. • Bats sleep for 20 out of every 24 hours. Lions sleep 17 hours out every 24. Squirrels and cats sleep about 14 hours a day but donkeys only about 4. • The sleep of moles is very like our sleep: it lasts 8 hours, and about 2 hours is spent dreaming. • All birds sleep, and they all experience dreams as well, although they spend very little time dreaming. • Zebra herds sleep in shifts, with half the herd sleeping while the other half stands guard. • Horses can sleep lightly while standing; moderately if they have support for their head; but they must lie down to sleep heavily. They sleep on their sides 85% of the time, and on their stomachs 15% of the time. • Ground squirrels hibernate every year for a certain period of time. Even if they are kept in warm, light rooms where there is plenty of food available, they will still hibernate for the usual period of time.
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• Only one half of a dolphin’s brain goes to sleep at a time. Dolphins are capable of what is known as unihemispheric sleep, in which one hemisphere of the brain goes into a deep sleep while the other hemisphere remains awake. This allows dolphins to sleep under water without drowning. Dolphins spend approximately one-third of their lives asleep. (continued next page)
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• Most plants show some primitive form of sleep. For instance, the sugar in an ear of ripened corn will flow downward through the stalk and into the roots at night. In the morning, the sugar rises again. That’s why an ear of corn tastes starchy if picked in the evening, but sweet when picked in the morning. • The heliotrope is a plant that reacts to sunlight by opening its leaves and shutting them again when the light is gone. When placed in complete darkness, they will continue to open and close right on schedule.
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Rest does not come easily at home this week, setting everyone on edge. Be patient, Pisces. Things will work out, and harmony will resume.
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Join families as we Remember the loss of our children by lighting individual candles in honor of their memory. A memory table will be available to display a picture of your child. If you would like to have your child’s picture shown on an overhead screen, please submit it by 11/27/15 to kamktersinar@gmail.com Location – First United Methodist Church, 8th Ave & 12th Street, Marion Date & Time – Sunday Dec 11that 7:00pm For further information: contact Amy Tersinar, 319-432-1911 or Heidi Benson 319-393-8000
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TOOLS 4 LIFE BY DR. JIM COYLE With the Holiday Season upon us, family dysfunctions can light up a Christmas tree. The Thanksgiving dinners and family gatherings are often full of friction and sparks from unresolved issues. The kitchen, dining room table, and living room can be a very awkward place of conversation. The reality of life is that there may never be unity. Everybody is unique and different in their opinions and perceptions. Something we can do is strive for harmony when there is no unity. Harmony is blending a combination of different musical notes played or sung at the same time to produce a pleasing sound. If we can learn to listen and accept the different notes in our family song, we can be part of unwrapping a gift in blending our family differences. A jigsaw puzzle has many unique pieces when separated. They are different shapes with diverse edges that can cut when exposed and not together. Many of our families are a broken puzzle with fragmented pieces and edges. Harmonizing our differences will bring us together verses trying to bring unity. Inclusion of the puzzle pieces can bring harmony within the family structure. Value, respect, and support can be restored. Let us harmonize with one another this Holiday Season.
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One big fear of many seniors is that they will run out of retirement money. Chuck Price, president of Price Financial Group Wealth Management Inc., has some ideas about how to stretch out the money we do have.
● Keep working. Even if it’s a parttime job, perhaps in your own career or in a new one, every dollar you earn is one dollar you don’t have to take out of your retirement savings. Consider signing up for temporary employment, perhaps with an agency, to make more money. ● Create alternate income streams. If you’ve always wanted a small side-business that produces income, this might be the time to create one. ● Cut your costs. This is always easier said than done, but cutting costs will keep more dollars in your savings. Consider selling a vehicle you don’t absolutely need, pocketing the money and saving on the cost of insurance and maintenance. Another idea, keeping a tally for one month of every dime you spend. At the end of the month, review how many times you went out for dinner, how much you spent on incidentals or entertainment. Decide where you can cut back. If your grocery bills are high, look at ways to cut those costs. ● Think about the financial help you give others. If you regularly give money to children and grandchildren or to charity, this might be the time to stop and reconsider whether you can continue to do that. If your own financial survival is at stake, saving your money is more important. Chuck Price is the author of “Investing Simplified: What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You.” Look for more advice on his website www.pfgwm.com. (c) 2016 King Features Synd., Inc.
November 22nd, 2016
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Bicycles Banned at Arlington Bicycles will no longer be allowed in Arlington National Cemetery, unless being ridden by people with family passes who are there to visit a loved one’s grave. Commuters, weekend exercisers and cycling clubs are no longer welcome. To which I give a big thumbs-up. Arlington National Cemetery holds upward of 30 funerals a day. Some of these involve long streams of cars of attendees and escorts; some involve the military band or horses pulling a caisson. The last thing funeral-goers need is to have to navigate around cyclists, or have them whiz by during a funeral service. Of course, cyclists were upset when the news came out, and they started a petition, claiming they don’t disrupt anything. The cemetery’s response to that
was, “Previous trial periods with bicyclists in the cemetery showed bicyclists did not typically stop for these processions.” Enough said. Some state veterans’ cemeteries seem to ban bicycles as well, such as the Connecticut State Veterans’ Cemetery. Others aren’t as vigilant, with one state suffering from horseback riding, picnics, fireworks and hunting at their veterans’ cemetery. Another had to ban bicycles after multiple bike crashes disrupted funerals. Some places aren’t so fussy. There apparently is an annual ride at the Chattanooga National Cemetery in Tennessee. The Willamette National Cemetery in Oregon allows bicycles and is on a list of places to ride, complete with helpful GPS printable maps. Having buried a grandfather, father, mother, two uncles, a spouse and multiple friends in national cemeteries, I can say this: If you’re a cyclist who lives where
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