This video by Dave Hax shows how you can make your own cough sweets from natural ingredients, but Hax’s method fails for several reasons. First is the use of sugar, an immune suppressant. Second, the sustained high heat needed to caramelize the mixture into a candy destroys the beneficial activities available in the honey and lemon. Third, the mixture will not solidify without heating to 300 degrees for a time period longer than specified in the video....

Here are my tips for helping you to do the same! Get a decent amount of sleep the night before You should try your hardest to get the right amount of sleep that you body needs. For adults, the recommended amount of sleep is 7-9 hours, but try your best to get 9. Sleep is crucial for concentration, focus and helping you to perform your best – both physically and mentally....

Napping is one of the best, most underused tools for busy people. It is frowned upon by many people and is viewing as something for the elderly and children. Mention napping and you could be seen as lazy, depressed and unwilling to work. The majority of people experience drowsiness in the afternoon and notice their productivity and mood starting to slip and napping will help combat this. It is completely natural and helps to fight the affects of fatigue such as burnout, stress and a lack of mental clarity....

Real Time Monitoring Applications New Relic has recently developed applications to enhance the capability of existing mobile and web apps such as Facebook, Twitter and online games. This new service can monitor how these applications perform and can check on customer reviews efficiently. Customer ratings are significant because they indicate that the performance of a certain app is practical, useful, and efficient. The service allows the developer to log in to this app, observe options that supply the ability to check any feedback in connection with it, and view whatever existing feature is on the server....

Leaving Adobe Acrobat behind doesn’t mean leaving behind features. Nitro Pro 7 brings a lot to the table including: Compatibility Being able to read files somebody else sends you is always a worry if you diverge from the application standards your coworkers, partners, and clients use. But since PDF is not some closed proprietary standard, you can open, read, and edit PDFs generated from Adobe Acrobat or Microsoft Office 2010 with Nitro Pro 7....

This is a short and sweet post folks, but it’s important. You should consider your credibility and your reputation with keeping your word to be one of the defining hallmarks of your character. However life happens. There will be times when you’ve fallen short of delivering on a commitment you made. What is the best way to make up for it when this happens? Own up to it, and let the person who had the expectation of you know that it didn’t happen (or won’t be happening when expected) if they haven’t discovered it on their own yet....

Then there’s the time that I sent out pre-printed holiday cards and a casual friend asked if I knew that there was a typo on the card. I didn’t understand his need to point this out – if I knew about the error, then surely I was already feeling badly about it. If I didn’t know, then his alerting me to the typo wasn’t going to change the fact that the cards already went out and there was nothing I could do about it....

One Hundred Rules for NASA Project Managers – [Jerry Madden]

This partly explains why the goal setting exercise that we’ll talk more about in this post is so effective. But before we get to it, let me explain what I mean by “minor changes” leading to huge results. Small steps matter Nutritionists say that it’s enough to eat 250 calories less per day to lose 26 pounds a year. 250 calories are 2/3 of a Chocolate Chunk Cookie at Starbucks....

This eliminates the long tedious orthodox process of note making by hand and instead helps you make use of your computer,smartphone,laptop or even tablet to study. You will need to register and create an account at Examtime and once you have filled in the necessary details, you can make use of all their free tools and get started on preparing your digital notes. Online Resource For Effective Studying – www....

Here’s an interesting idea – have a paintball match! A lot of you have probably been in a situation where your friends or co-workers invited you for a game of paintball, but you always found an excuse not to join them. You’ve never done it before, but you know that there are running and jumping involved, it’s dirty, and people shoot at you. Naturally, you’re afraid not to get humiliated or hurt because of your inexperience or condition....

The main argument is that Digg is more narrow-minded than Netscape, in that Netscape has more categories and, apparently, a more diverse demographic, while Digg users are your 20-40 yr old techies. So why is Digg such a draw for growing websites? Is the amount of traffic enough when compared to the diversity of audience in Netscape? Is Digg powered by a select few rather than the majority of readers?...

In the simple words, this is a context based system. When you find a related topics within the book that you will reference later, you line up the flags and stick them on the side of the book. Later when you found one of those pages that related to the specific topic, you can immediately use the lined up flags to find the same or similar topics. GTD: How to use Post-It Flags – [Just A Guy]

On top of these benefits, beards can really make guys stand out from the crowd. The hair growing rate depends on the season, as it’s linked to the hormone levels, which vary over the year. Another strange fact is there are men who have genuine red beards, without having red hair. This is due to a special gene behavior: if you inherit both genes, you will have red hair, if you only inherit one gene, you will have ginger hair on random places on the body, but not on your head....

Solution? Now, I learned to write the location down in my PDA – I treat it just like any other todo. For example: “Find car at Red-5” This could save you time, if you ever need to search through the parking lots to find your car.

Before we learn more details about the research, first we need to briefly go through some important terms. Senescence Senescence is a process to grow old, in other words, it means biological ageing. This happens when each time a cell splits into halves and slowly worsening the tissue process. But the researchers believe that the effect of childbirth may limit the tissue damage and have positive effect on the process....

1. No Approval Needed When you enjoy your alone time, you tend to be your own best friend. This tendency can serve you well for a variety of reasons. One of the keys to success is making choices you can be confident in. When you are not focused on remaining a member of a group, you can focus in on whatever options you think are in your best interest. Another way this can help is by simply reducing the amount of stress surrounding your work....

This study from July 2012 sheds some light for us. The Experiment People listened to music that was computer generated and music that was made by a real drum beat. The music completed by the real drummer contained small inconsistencies that were more favorable to the listeners than the computer. Scientists wanted to see if a computer would be able to recreate the small differences made by humans using a mathematical equation....

This article aims to give you advice on organizing thoughts and ideas, providing you seven tools to help you decrease the chances of losing your ideas and make the most of them. It’s helpful to think of each point as successive steps along the way. Here’re 7 simple steps you should start trying on how to organize your thoughts: 1. Keep a notebook in your car Ideas seem to be able to come at any time....