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Sleep is important, so dreams must be, too, right?

    Over the last few days, I’ve shared stories of how aggravating dreams about work can be. But sometimes good things happen. “As a computer engineer for over 40 years, sometimes my work does find its way into my dreams,” wrote Fred Myers of South Bend, Ind. “Occasionally, I’ll work out an approach to solving a problem in a dream, wake up, write it down, and then it actually pans out when I get to work.”
    Sleep: There’s a reason we spend a third of our lives doing it, even if we aren’t sure what that reason is. “It must be important,” said Rachel Salas, a Johns Hopkins Medicine neurologist who studies sleep and treats sleep disorders. “And if sleeping is important, that would suggest that dreaming is important.”
    However, scientists aren’t sure exactly why. “There are a lot of theories out there,” Salas said. “The bottom line is we just don’t know. There is some research suggesting that dreams are the brain processing or getting rid of unwanted memories, kind of consolidating memories as we’re sleeping.” Also, some scientists think they can play a role in creativity. “There’s some research showing that musicians have been inspired during their dreams and have actually composed music during sleep,” Salas said. So maybe those job dreams aren’t so bad!

(John Kelly. www.washingtonpost.com, 12.07.2017. Adaptado.)

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Facebook: where do you belong?

    A team of communication professors from the Brigham Young University, USA, revealed that people using the social media platform Facebook can be classified into categories, depending on their posts and use of additional Facebook features. Their findings basically answer why an average of 1.28 billion users check on their Facebook accounts every day, with majority of them spending about 35 minutes daily on the platform. “What is it about this social-media platform that has taken over the world?” asked lead author Tom Robinson. “Why are people so willing to put their lives on display? Nobody has ever really asked the question, ‘Why do you like this?’”

    To identify different kinds of Facebook user, the researchers compiled a list of 48 statements that identify potential reasons why people use Facebook. They then recruited study subjects and asked them to reflect their personal connection to the statements, rating each on a scale from “most like me” to “least like me”. The researchers also interviewed each subject. Based on the responses, the researchers identified four categories of Facebook users: relationship builders, town criers, selfies and window shoppers.

    Relationship builders and selfies tend to post pictures, videos and text updates on their Facebook. While relationship builders post and use additional Facebook features primarily to further strengthen the relationships they have beyond the virtual world, selfies are more focused on getting more attention, likes and comments.

    On the other hand, town criers and window shoppers both feel a sense of social obligation to be on Facebook and are mostly indifferent about posting stories or other information about themselves. Town criers tend to share news stories and post events; window shoppers were more likely to be onlookers that prefer watching what other people do.

    The researchers noted that Facebook users may see themselves in more than one of the categories. For example, most people have the tendency to be selfies. However, users can identify more with one category than the others.

(John Raphael. www.natureworldnews.com, 31.07.2017. Adaptado.)

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Facebook: where do you belong?

    A team of communication professors from the Brigham Young University, USA, revealed that people using the social media platform Facebook can be classified into categories, depending on their posts and use of additional Facebook features. Their findings basically answer why an average of 1.28 billion users check on their Facebook accounts every day, with majority of them spending about 35 minutes daily on the platform. “What is it about this social-media platform that has taken over the world?” asked lead author Tom Robinson. “Why are people so willing to put their lives on display? Nobody has ever really asked the question, ‘Why do you like this?’”

    To identify different kinds of Facebook user, the researchers compiled a list of 48 statements that identify potential reasons why people use Facebook. They then recruited study subjects and asked them to reflect their personal connection to the statements, rating each on a scale from “most like me” to “least like me”. The researchers also interviewed each subject. Based on the responses, the researchers identified four categories of Facebook users: relationship builders, town criers, selfies and window shoppers.

    Relationship builders and selfies tend to post pictures, videos and text updates on their Facebook. While relationship builders post and use additional Facebook features primarily to further strengthen the relationships they have beyond the virtual world, selfies are more focused on getting more attention, likes and comments.

    On the other hand, town criers and window shoppers both feel a sense of social obligation to be on Facebook and are mostly indifferent about posting stories or other information about themselves. Town criers tend to share news stories and post events; window shoppers were more likely to be onlookers that prefer watching what other people do.

    The researchers noted that Facebook users may see themselves in more than one of the categories. For example, most people have the tendency to be selfies. However, users can identify more with one category than the others.

(John Raphael. www.natureworldnews.com, 31.07.2017. Adaptado.)

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Facebook: where do you belong?

    A team of communication professors from the Brigham Young University, USA, revealed that people using the social media platform Facebook can be classified into categories, depending on their posts and use of additional Facebook features. Their findings basically answer why an average of 1.28 billion users check on their Facebook accounts every day, with majority of them spending about 35 minutes daily on the platform. “What is it about this social-media platform that has taken over the world?” asked lead author Tom Robinson. “Why are people so willing to put their lives on display? Nobody has ever really asked the question, ‘Why do you like this?’”

    To identify different kinds of Facebook user, the researchers compiled a list of 48 statements that identify potential reasons why people use Facebook. They then recruited study subjects and asked them to reflect their personal connection to the statements, rating each on a scale from “most like me” to “least like me”. The researchers also interviewed each subject. Based on the responses, the researchers identified four categories of Facebook users: relationship builders, town criers, selfies and window shoppers.

    Relationship builders and selfies tend to post pictures, videos and text updates on their Facebook. While relationship builders post and use additional Facebook features primarily to further strengthen the relationships they have beyond the virtual world, selfies are more focused on getting more attention, likes and comments.

    On the other hand, town criers and window shoppers both feel a sense of social obligation to be on Facebook and are mostly indifferent about posting stories or other information about themselves. Town criers tend to share news stories and post events; window shoppers were more likely to be onlookers that prefer watching what other people do.

    The researchers noted that Facebook users may see themselves in more than one of the categories. For example, most people have the tendency to be selfies. However, users can identify more with one category than the others.

(John Raphael. www.natureworldnews.com, 31.07.2017. Adaptado.)

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LAS VEGAS SHOOTING LAWSUITS: HUNDREDS OF VICTIMS SAY HOTEL, CONCERT PROMOTER DIDN’T TRAIN WORKERS FOR EMERGENCY
BY CHRISTAL HAYES ON 11/21/17 AT 1:28 PM

The hotel where the Las Vegas gunman carried out his attack and the concert he targeted were not prepared for an attack and had not trained their employees properly, alleges a massive lawsuit filed Monday by 450 victims of the shooting.

The suit is the largest filed in the nearly two months since the attack. It was filed along with four others, two wrongful death cases and two for victims who were severely injured in the attack. The shooting left 58 dead and more than 500 others injured—the deadliest in recent U.S. history. The lawsuits target the hotel where gunman Stephen Paddock carried out his attack, the promoter of the Route 91 Harvest festival he shot at, Paddock’s estimated $5 million estate and a firm that provided security for the concert.

(Excerpt from the site: http://www.newsweek.com/450-las-vegas-victims-sue-hotel-concert-promoter-not-training-employees-718352 researched on november 2017.)

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LAS VEGAS SHOOTING LAWSUITS: HUNDREDS OF VICTIMS SAY HOTEL, CONCERT PROMOTER DIDN’T TRAIN WORKERS FOR EMERGENCY
BY CHRISTAL HAYES ON 11/21/17 AT 1:28 PM

The hotel where the Las Vegas gunman carried out his attack and the concert he targeted were not prepared for an attack and had not trained their employees properly, alleges a massive lawsuit filed Monday by 450 victims of the shooting.

The suit is the largest filed in the nearly two months since the attack. It was filed along with four others, two wrongful death cases and two for victims who were severely injured in the attack. The shooting left 58 dead and more than 500 others injured—the deadliest in recent U.S. history. The lawsuits target the hotel where gunman Stephen Paddock carried out his attack, the promoter of the Route 91 Harvest festival he shot at, Paddock’s estimated $5 million estate and a firm that provided security for the concert.

(Excerpt from the site: http://www.newsweek.com/450-las-vegas-victims-sue-hotel-concert-promoter-not-training-employees-718352 researched on november 2017.)