Helpful Tips To Have the Best Day Ever...At Work

Helpful Tips To Have the Best Day Ever...At Work

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Confirmed: Sleep deprivation sets people up for risky decision-making

“Sleep deprivation just isn’t a good idea for most people. Besides the increase in accidents and poor work and

school performance due to the fatigue, a new study shows sleep loss can also

lead to skewed thinking and bad decisions.

This must be why students who pull

an all-nighter studying for an exam often believe they did great on the test —

that is, until the grade comes in. Researchers found that a night of sleep

deprivation boosts production of brain regions that assess positive outcomes

and minimizes the parts of the brain that analyzes negative outcomes. What this

is means is that tired people may make riskier choices in decisions that

involve avoiding loss and pursuing gain.

The study involved 29 healthy, young

adults who underwent MRI brain scans after a night of restful sleep and after a

night of sleep deprivation. On the following days, they were asked to perform a

task that involved risky decision-making. The scans showed sleep deprivation

caused an increase in activity in ventromedial prefrontal region of the brain

and decreases in the region called the anterior insula. The participants’

behavior showed a tendency to be more insensitive to losses.

“”Sleep-deprived persons narrow

down their choices towards those that seem to promise bigger gains, and likely

ignore better choices that improve one’s overall probability of winning at

least something,”” said Michael Chee, the lead author of the study from the

Duke-NUS Neurobehavioral Disorders Program in Singapore.

The authors suggest that changes in

the brain chemical dopamine after sleep deprivation lead to altered

decision-making behavior. The findings also raise questions about the

effectiveness, overall, of stimulant medications to treat sleep deprivation.

Those medications may improve vigilance, the authors note, but it’s not clear

what effect they have on other aspects of cognition, such as decision-making.

The study also points to dangers in

all-night gambling. The more tired you are — even if propped up by

medications, alcohol, coffee or bright lights and noise — the less likely you

are to carefully evaluate your risk of losing.

”

Confirmed: Sleep deprivation sets people up for risky decision-making

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Safeguarding Any Surface

“You love your freshly painted porch floor and your wicker rocker. Or you did, until your rocker began scuffing up your glossy floor. Why can’t they just get along? They can. Just think of them as siblings in need of a well-placed buffer. In fact, the best surface protectors, from felt pads to rubber cups, also dampen noise and make furniture easy to move or stay put. Most simply slip under, or stick solidly to, clean, dry surfaces. Best of all, they’ll help your home and its beloved contents wear well-together.

Counter, Table, and Cabinet Protection

Appliances

Pads made from either felt or olefin (a synthetic material) will stick, slide, and buffer sound. Choose from precut squares or circles, or buy sheets. (You can cut them to fit the shape of whatever you

are protecting.) The pads’ supersticky backs will adhere to virtually any clean object.

Pottery

Velour disks are available in adhesive-backed squares or disks. Theyll prevent your wares from scratching and denting finished wood, metal, glass, or tile. (They are not recommended for unfinished wood.) Slimmer than felt pads, they’re a discreet choice for smaller items.

Shelves

Shelf and drawer liners will protect your cabinets’ paint or lacquer. Liners, sold in rolls, are available in an array of colors and patterns (use the nonskid, nonadhesive kind). Just cut to size, and set in place. Use them in pantry cupboards to cushion your dishes and glassware.

Cabinet Doors

Soft dots-adhesive-backed disks made from foam, felt, or cork-are a good choice for the interior corners of kitchen cabinet doors, where they’ll dampen sound and prevent glass inserts from rattling. These disks are more durable than felt pads and best used as bumpers.

Candlesticks

Felt, cut to size, is a custom fix for odd-shaped and heavy metal objects destined to slide across fine linens. Trace your object onto a sheet of felt, and then cut just inside the sketched line. Use an acid-free glue, such as Yes Paste, to attach the felt to valuable items.

Desktop Accessories

Cork pads are harvested from the bark of oak trees and backed with adhesive. Stick them onto lamp bases, vases, or plant pots and they’ll protect tabletops from scratches. They also provide often-used items, such as desk accessories, with gentle traction on smooth surfaces.

Tabletops

Table pads are a worthwhile investment for valuable dining room tables. Have one made to measure, using solid core board and insulating fiberboard for strength and heat protection. Placed under a tablecloth, they’re undetectable. After a party, fold them away neatly.

Pastry Boards

Rubber bumpers are like a second set of hands in the kitchen. Place them under a heavy board and they’ll keep it from moving while you roll out your flakiest dough. They also keep a chilled board cool by offering a buffer between it and your room-temperature countertop.

Floor Protection

Vinyl and Wood Floors

Plastic sliders are designed to help chairs, ottomans, and other mobile furniture glide over bathroom and kitchen floors. (Unlike felt, they’ll still work on wet surfaces.) Attach them to furniture legs using peel-off adhesive or screws. They skim over linoleum, tile, and vinyl flooring with ease.

Pet-Food Dishes

Nonskid dots keep movable objects, such as your thirsty dog’s water bowl, in place. Stick these slightly textured, dense foam or vinyl dots to the clean, dry bottom of the bowl and your floor will remain scrape free. Best of all, gentle friction means it won’t move until you lift it.

Painting Protection

A little masking tape will protect your floor from spatters, saving you hours of cleanup time. Measure and cut kraft paper to cover a hardwood floor (use a canvas drop cloth for carpeting), and then tape it down below your baseboards with low-tack painters’ tape.

Hardwood Floors

Heavy-duty felt pads let you smoothly glide your chairs, tables, and floor lamps over hardwood floors and tile. Strips cover the elongated footprints of tubular furniture and rocking chairs. Stick a couple of disks together to level the height of wobbly tables and chairs.

Casters

Rubber, glass, or wooden cups are like shoes for wayward furniture legs. Whether square or round, they provide solid footing to protect soft floors from the dents of metal casters or heavy loads. They prevent skidding on floors that slope, and don’t leave carpet indentations.

Carpets and Rugs

The rubbery weaves of carpet and rug pads prevent rugs from sliding out from under you as you walk on them. Pads also protect delicate floors from rough rug backings that can scratch. Vacuum under both regularly; machine-wash and air-dry pads to refresh their grip.

Furniture on Carpets

Plastic cups are great for heavy furnishings that live on carpets and rugs. Often made of clear or dark plastic with spiked undersides, they won’t detract from shapely wooden legs. They prevent marks by dispersing the weight of your sofa-and the weight of the people on it.

Ceramic and Tile Floors

Rubber tips fit snugly over furniture legs to prevent skidding and scratching. They’re especially helpful for metal-legged pieces and eliminate the nerve-fraying sound of chairs scraping across tile. Check them periodically to be sure that the metal isn’t wearing through.

Wall Protection

Picture Hanging

Adhesive picture-hanging strips and hooks secure lightweight objects to walls without nail holes-and leave no trace of tackiness should you decide to remove them. Placing vinyl cubes on the backs of frames eliminates tilting and safeguards against scratches on your walls.

Household Tools

Rubber tips save your walls from the scuffs left by handy but unwieldy tools. (Slide them onto your mop, broom, and long-handled duster.) They provide enough traction to keep tools leaning exactly where you left them, so you won’t return to find your broom on the floor.

Doorstops

As advertised, they keep doors from slamming into walls behind them or baseboards below them. Countless configurations fit any decor; choose from wooden finials and solid posts, spring and hinge-mounted varieties. All have rubber bumpers to absorb shock.

High-Traffic Corners

Corner and surface guards protect the protruding corners of your most heavily traveled intersections from bumps and dents. Nail or screw on wooden trim pieces. It’s much simpler to touch them up with paint than to repair and repaint chipped plaster.

Safe and Sound

Protecting your home’s surfaces requires scant money and even less time. It starts with the materials listed here.

Vinyl domes, dots, squared cubes, or flat disks work under terra-cotta plant saucers or unglazed pottery, behind picture frames, and more. They won’t absorb water, so they’d work well on your alfresco dining table. Available in white, brown, or clear.

Rubber caps, squares, and rounds are soft and nonskid. The greater the surface area, the more reliable their grip. Larger cups (sometimes wooden with rubber undersides) hold bigger furniture in place. You’ll find them in brown, white, and clear.

Plastic makes light work of moving heavy furniture. Hefty sliding cups are built with foam inside (where your sofa legs rest) and felt underneath (against the floor). Clean your floor before sliding anything; even tiny grains of dirt can leave large scratches.

Felt runs the gamut from lightweight to heavy-duty, nearly always with self-adhesive backing. Its weight range, wide variety of colors (green, gray, tan, dark brown, and white are easily available), and smooth sliding make it the most versatile material around.

Cork comes in different shapes and sheets, with self-adhesive backs. Its nonskid (under a tape dispenser) and sound-dampening (inside a hutch door) properties work in dry conditions. Its typical tan color makes it discreet under a wooden compote.”

Safeguarding Any Surface

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Sleep tips: 7 steps to better sleep

“You’re not doomed to toss and turn every night. Consider simple tips for better sleep, from setting a sleep schedule to including physical activity in your daily routine.

Feeling crabby lately? Or simply worn out? Perhaps the solution is better sleep.

Think about all the factors that can interfere with a good night’s sleep — from pressure at work and family responsibilities to unexpected challenges, such as layoffs, relationship issues or illnesses. It’s no wonder that quality sleep is sometimes elusive.

Although you might not be able to control all of the factors that interfere with your sleep, you can adopt habits that encourage better sleep. Start with these simple sleep tips.

1. Stick to a sleep schedule

Go to bed and get up at the same time every day, even on weekends, holidays and days off. Being consistent reinforces your body’s sleep-wake cycle and helps promote better sleep at night. There’s a caveat, though. If you don’t fall asleep within about 15 minutes, get up and do something relaxing. Go back to bed when you’re tired. If you agonize over falling asleep, you might find it even tougher to nod off.

1. Pay attention to what you eat and drink

Don’t go to bed either hungry or stuffed. Your discomfort might keep you up. Also limit how much you drink before bed, to prevent disruptive middle-of-the-night trips to the toilet.

Nicotine, caffeine and alcohol deserve caution, too. The stimulating effects of nicotine and caffeine take hours to wear off and can wreak havoc on quality sleep. And even though alcohol might make you feel sleepy at first, it can disrupt sleep later in the night.

1. Create a bedtime ritual

Do the same things each night to tell your body it’s time to wind down. This might include taking a warm bath or shower, reading a book, or listening to soothing music — preferably with the lights dimmed. Relaxing activities can promote better sleep by easing the transition between wakefulness and drowsiness.

Be wary of using the TV or other electronic devices as part of your bedtime ritual. Some research suggests that screen time or other media use before bedtime interferes with sleep.

1. Get comfortable

Create a room that’s ideal for sleeping. Often, this means cool, dark and quiet. Consider using room-darkening shades, earplugs, a fan or other devices to create an environment that suits your needs.

Your mattress and pillow can contribute to better sleep, too. Since the features of good bedding are subjective, choose what feels most comfortable to you. If you share your bed, make sure there’s enough room for two. If you have children or pets, try to set limits on how often they sleep with you — or insist on separate sleeping quarters.

5. Limit daytime naps

Long daytime naps can interfere with nighttime sleep — especially if you’re struggling with insomnia or poor sleep quality at night. If you choose to nap during the day, limit yourself to about 10 to 30 minutes and make it during the midafternoon.

If you work nights, you’ll need to make an exception to the rules about daytime sleeping. In this case, keep your window coverings closed so that sunlight — which adjusts your internal clock — doesn’t interrupt your daytime sleep.

6. Include physical activity in your daily routine

Regular physical activity can promote better sleep, helping you to fall asleep faster and to enjoy deeper sleep. Timing is important, though. If you exercise too close to bedtime, you might be too energized to fall asleep. If this seems to be an issue for you, exercise earlier in the day.

7. Manage stress

When you have too much to do — and too much to think about — your sleep is likely to suffer. To help restore peace, consider healthy ways to manage stress. Start with the basics, such as getting organized, setting priorities and delegating tasks. Give yourself permission to take a break when you need one. Share a good laugh with an old friend. Before bed, jot down what’s on your mind and then set it aside for tomorrow.

Know when to contact your doctor

Nearly everyone has an occasional sleepless night — but if you often have trouble sleeping, contact your doctor. Identifying and treating any underlying causes can help you get the better sleep you deserve.

 

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Sleep tips: 7 steps to better sleep

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How to Care for Leather Furniture

Leather furniture can look beautiful and age gracefully, but many people still harbor doubts about making leather a part of their home. Leather furniture is often perceived as difficult or tedious to care for, and it is deemed especially susceptible to mistreatment from small children or pets. Fortunately, these views are baseless. Learning how to care for leather furniture is in reality no harder than caring for other types of upholstered furniture. The tips below will help you keep your leather looking and feeling its best.

Wipe the leather furniture down regularly with a clean, dry cloth. The basic care routine for leather upholstery is simply wiping the furniture down with a dry cotton cloth. This will remove dust from the leather and keep it looking its best.

 

Vacuum dust and debris from the furniture’s crevices. Just as with any other piece of upholstered furniture, the best way to remove the dust and debris that gradually builds up in crevices and under cushions is by using your vacuum’s hose attachment. No special precautions are necessary when vacuuming leather furniture.

 

Apply a leather conditioner regularly. The most notable difference between caring for leather versus fabric upholstery is the need to condition the leather. Leather conditioners are products that have a creamy consistency and are designed to be buffed into the leather. Conditioning the leather regularly keeps it from drying out and developing cracks.

 

Leather conditioner can be purchased from many furniture stores. It is also available at auto parts stores, where it is sold for conditioning leather car interiors.

Application guidelines will vary from product to product. In general, you should expect to condition your leather furniture once every 6 to 12 months.

Clean spills immediately with a dry cloth. When anything is spilled onto the leather upholstery, wipe it away as soon as possible. Use a dry cloth or sponge to absorb as much of the spilled liquid as possible, only resorting to a moistened cloth if necessary. Use as little water as possible to clean the spill, and wipe the area dry afterwards.

 

Avoid soaking the leather in water or soap. Unlike fabric upholstery, leather should never be cleaned by prolonged soaking in soap or water. Doing this can damage the leather even more than the initial stain you are trying to remove.

Avoid using any cleaning products not designed for leather. Detergents, solvents, all-purpose cleaning sprays, ammonia, bleach, and furniture polish can all be harmful to leather furniture. Do not apply these products in an attempt to clean the furniture or remove stains. Rely on dry towels or sponges as much as possible.

Buff small scratches in the leather with a microfiber cloth. Because leather is made from animal hide, it can occasionally dry out and develop small cracks and scratches. These scratches can be coaxed into healing themselves, however. All you need to do is buff them gently with a microfiber cloth until their appearance fades.

Keep leather furniture out of direct sunlight. Note that intense, direct sunlight can cause the leather to dry out and fade in color. Try to keep your leather furniture positioned away from windows where it will be exposed to the sun, instead using fabric-upholstered furniture in those locations.

How to Care for Leather Furniture