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The right food in the winter

Especially during the cold season, the birds in the garden house guaranteed the supply of food for woodpeckers, chickadees and Co. A very nutritious food, which is consistent with the habits of the animal world, is an important prerequisite.

Those who opt for setting up a bird house, makes an important service for Mother Nature: If the plant and animal life is passed in hibernation, the food supply for the birds no longer an easy task.

Google and Asus should work together on Tablet

Google and Asus will introduce in May, allegedly a jointly developed tablet. According to a report of Digitimes should translate to about a 7-inch screen available - such as the Amazon Kindle Fire.

Such an unusual partnership was announced already analyst Richard Shim of NPD DisplaySearch in February. According to him, the model has a resolution of 1280 x 800 pixels will have. The production is based on his information in April: 1.5 to 2 million units and Asus want to bring Google to the market.

Before the announcement of shims, there had been a report that at least announcing an Asus device at a price of 199 dollars. It will run on Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, and in spite of the price of an Nvidia Tegra processor with four cores contains 3. At CES in January, Asus - without Google as a special partner, but that along with Nvidia - has introduced the Eee Pad MeMO 370T for $ 250. It is also based on a 7-inch screen and the third Tegra.

In the highly competitive tablet market, most manufacturers are currently doing hard time finding her place alongside the iPad. Amazon subsidizes its 7-inch tablet reportedly sold it to go under the cost - even if only two or three dollars apiece. It comes with a dual-core chip from TI OMAP 4430, 1024 by 768 pixel resolutions and Android 2.3.

The sight of delicious food is a diet killer

What many have long suspected, now confirmed by a study: who is on a diet should be spared the sight of goodies.

Mountains of cakes, smoked sausage specialties, Pickles: Who holds diet should be any better pictures with delicious look at food. Here is what the recommendation of dieticians   , if they are the results of a study by the Max-Planck-Institute for   Psychiatry in Munich into account. The scientists have   found that the proportion of in the blood rises when people   look at pictures of appetizing foods.

For the study, she and her colleagues, eight young, healthy and   normal-weight men examined two long mornings, explains Petra   Schüssler from the Max-Planck-Institute. The men had on both days   breakfast and a half hour later - "in a phase where   it is neither hungry nor full "- images viewed. On the first day   had it been neutral pictures, pictures on the second day of delicious food.   "On the second day, we have detected an increase in ghrelin in the blood."

The researchers conclude that the production of visual stimuli   Stimulating hormone. "Obviously there is a message signal from the brain   the gastro-intestinal tract, "says Schüssler. Statistically, the study was   with only eight subjects, of course, vulnerable. To prove that   appetizing pictures will actually lead to people eating more,   it would require a second study. After the test images "would be the   Subjects set before eating and see if they actually eat more.”

The top ten for successful learning

One of the biggest challenges in the school day is to manage the vast amount of teaching material to be learned. But learning how to learn?

Here are the most important tips for students and professionals together for parents:

First Fitness
Enough sleep, exercise in the fresh air and a nutritious diet to give power to learn.

Second Rest
of the workplace for the homework should be undisturbed, clean and bright. From time to change something does not hurt, if your child wants to do their homework at the kitchen table in your area may be motivating the new environment.

Third Motivation
who speaks good English, can watch your favorite film in the original, who is good in biology, the vet has a chance to be ... Find destinations that your child is so great that it can motivate themselves to learn.
After 45 minutes of learning a break of 10 minutes is optimal.

4th Reward
after 45 minutes of learning is a break of 10 minutes, optimal. If the daily goal of the learning plan is made, your child should have time to do something that brings a lot of fun, like a board game with your family or in the cozy reading exciting book.

5th Adventure
A little trip to the Maritime Museum, Viking village or to the zoo dry subject material to life. If possible, plan for such trips with the whole family and take them with appropriate school records: So is dry knowledge to the adventure, you can touch.

6th Help
your child is just starting his career knowledge. Help him with little tricks and learning techniques: A self-made cheat sheet summarizes the knowledge so compressed together, hang it to stay - it is cheating in the class work will not be necessary. Other tricks: mind maps, flashcards, small post-it notes stuck on the items in the household and thus learn vocabulary.

7th Strategy
Team in sportsmen school-home child-you are the coach, who controlled the game. Join the homework as a coach training, set limits and goals, if your child is missing the drive and manage the team as a contact for the teacher and your child's questions.

8th Family life
long road trips or a leisurely breakfast are fine appropriate to show what you have already learned. How about a little private performance for current paper issue?

9th Balancing
the pressure to perform in school today is immense. Make sure that your child can relax and unwind while playing sports or meeting with friends and.

10th Understanding
even if it has not even worked on a high note, you show your child that the failure can be overcome and they still love them.

Useful Link: Prince2 Training

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Horizontal and vertical moisture barrier

A horizontal barrier prevents soil moisture because the masonry capillary rises. In new buildings will be installed by default, a horizontal barrier.

As a horizontal barrier are mostly tars or bitumen or heavy plastic films. These must be laid on a flat surface (such as mortar layer), is taking care that the orbits sufficient overlap at the joints. In buildings with basements often two or three horizontal barriers are installed, the first on the foundation, above the top of the soil (below the basement ceiling), so that just below the lock spray impinging on the wall.

In older buildings the horizontal barrier is often leaky or non-existent.
This is easily explained, as only about 1920 horizontal and vertical moisture barriers were state of the art. The waterproofing of the 20s was not permanently stable in any case, so that in many cases pending repairs.

Depending on the moisture penetration and building materials, there are several to seal.

Many buildings around the turn of the century have been created without the horizontal seals. Similarly, buildings with no more effective seals have generally increased moisture content in the masonry. In most cases, capillary water moves up the cause.

The colour shampoo lie

On the market there are numerous shampoos for tinted hair. Warentest Foundation has now announced: These products are good at all. What really helps!

Save yourself the money for expensive colour protection shampoos: All 16 of Warentest foundation have tested a special shampoo picked up poor.

Whether cheap or expensive: you keep freshly tinted hair in front of either fading, yet they give special brilliance. And they also can not care for particularly.


The test

The manufacturers advertise that special shampoos with UV filters and conditioning agents to protect hair from fading and make it really shine. Nope - not true. No one has convinced!

For each test three natural shampoo hair strands were washed 12 times, dried and measured by a colorimeter.

What helps? Three Tips

Wear a hat if you are exposed to sun for longer. The UV light makes the colors fade quickly.

After swimming in chlorine or salt water should you rinse your hair with tap water necessarily short.

Wash your hair is not every day. This is already unhealthy for the scalp - and does the colour dramatically.