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☆ See photos of the last prison ship still operating in the US. The 5-story vessel is slated to close this week.
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-31 | by ( Associated Press | Haley Tenore | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

America's last functional prison ship, New York's Vernon C. Bain Correctional Center, is closing. The Vernon C. Bain Correctional Center was originally meant to solve overcrowding at Rikers Island. Vernon C. Bain currently houses 500 incarcerated people, though it has 800 beds. Inmates can be seen playing basketball on the Vernon C. Bain court. It's unclear what the future for the Vernon C. Bain Correctional Center is after inmates are all transferred out.

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☆ Productivity, Power, Style and Balance: 16 Ways to Upgrade Your Work Life in 2023
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-16 | by ( Wsj Off Duty Editors | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

THERE’S WORK. There’s life. And then there’s that all-too-familiar Venn diagram overlap: your work life. So we got busy and rounded up a bunch of clever work-life upgrades with you in mind. Chic ways to humanize a drab “hot desk.” Plus: pain-free work shoes, strategies to balance labor and leisure and “focus foods” that let you snack your way to the top.

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☆ Insomnia raises stroke risk in people under 50, study says
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-07 | by ( Sandee Lamotte | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

Stroke risk is typically higher in older adults with more health problems, the study noted. After controlling for other factors that contribute to stroke risk, researchers found people with five to eight symptoms of insomnia had a 51% increased risk of stroke compared with people who did not have insomnia, according to a statement on the study published Wednesday in the journal Neurology. In comparison, people who had one to four symptoms had a 16% increased risk of stroke compared with people with no symptoms of insomnia, the study found. Getting more than nine hours of sleep on average was linked with a twofold increase in stroke risk. However, taking a planned nap of less than an hour was not associated with an increased stroke risk, the study said.

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That doesn’t mean you’re doomed to wake up in a daze because you’re prone to mouth breathing when you sleep. “Even if you don’t have sleep apnea, or you have mild sleep apnea, opening your mouth makes it much, much worse.”How do you know if you’re mouth breathing at night? How to stop mouth breathingWhen Nestor blocked his nose for science, he experienced an extreme version of mouth breathing. If you’re tackling your nighttime mouth breathing, Park suggested you start by taking care of your nose to minimize congestion. But even if you get your nose to clear, nighttime mouth breathing can be a hard habit to break.

☆ I Spent The Night In A Homeless Shelter—Here's What It Was Like
▼ + stars: | 2012-01-17 | by ( Robert Johnson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +13 min

Last week, I registered at a shelter in Atlantic City and spent the night in a jam-packed room with more than 100 other men. His name was Pastor Gregory. If I stayed out of trouble, Pastor Gregory said, I could stay, more or less, indefinitely. Advertisement“Are you hungry?” Pastor Gregory asked me when we were done. AdvertisementAfter Pastor Gregory saw me drying off, he disappeared and I was on my own.

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