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crying over trying to figure out tax form categories again...
#every website tells you what a category is but NOT HOW TO CALCULATE IT#and I am TIRED#update: my dad helped me. crisis averted. tears were still shed
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indigostudies’ crash course to not worrying about your degree
this is an absolutely unnecessary post, but i like hearing myself talk, so :shrug: my credentials are that i’m working on my second post secondary degree, a triple major, and i love organising things sooooo i guess here’s a peek into my mind and how i make sure i’m always on track with fulfilling major requirements?
basically, my current degree has a LOT of different requirements because my three majors overlap a bit but not a massive amount. because of this, and the fact that i didn’t want to have to rely on memory alone and maybe get screwed over, i decided to plan out the entire rest of my courses up until my capstone study abroad year
first things first: open up all relevant major pages. your uni should probably have one for each major, and the page will list the major requirements. write these down, one column per “category” of requirement (electives, core courses, etc). note down any requirements that specify what classes do NOT fulfil the requirement (for example, my ling major does NOT accept ling 400 as a 400 level core class, because it’s an intro course)
second: open up the course catalogue for your uni. this should be somewhere related to majors, but if you can’t find it a search in your browser reading something like “[uni name] course catalogue” should bring it up
step three: optional, but highly recommended: open up a degree audit for each major you’re doing/planning to do. the major requirements listed on the major page are almost always exactly the same as in the degree audit, but the degree audit will often give you more information about what classes fulfil each requirement, as well as telling you what requirements you’ve fulfilled already and which ones you have left to fulfil. cross off any categories in your notebook/paper that you’ve already fulfilled
step four: this is the fun part. now you have all the information, and you can find courses that fulfil each requirement. my advice is you find at least two per requirement especially for non core classes, since those might not always be offered. write each relevant course down under the corresponding requirement
step five: this is where it gets tricky. you’re going to have to find your uni’s time tables (you should be able to find them on your uni’s website or by searching “[uni name] time tables”) to try and calculate when classes are going to be offered. for core classes, this is pretty easy—they’re usually offered every term (intro courses) or repeating the same term yearly (ex first year chinese one is always offered autumn quarter). it gets more complicated with elective or non core classes—which is where the time tables come in. this is a bit of a time intensive task, but you’re going to want to comb through past time tables (i would suggest the last year’s, a/w/s for quarter systems and a/s for semester systems) and cross reference them with the classes you wrote down. this will give you an idea of when they might be offered again. now you can proceed to the next step
step six: organising, baby! take all that information, the educated guesses you made, and create as many columns as you have quarters/semesters left of your degree. fill in each column with possible classes. if there is more than one class that could fulfil the requirement, and you’re not sure which one will be offered that term, write each one down with an OR in between to denote than any of the ones listed will work
step seven: profit from no longer having to worry about whether or not you’re remembering to complete some random requirement
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HELLO YOUR MEASUREMENT BLINDNESS POST CROSSED MY DASH AND I HAVE NEVER SEEN SOMEONE ARTICULATE MY EXACT EXPERIENCES SO FUCKING WELL
i have time blindness (it came free with my adhd) and blindness of EVERY OTHER MEASUREMENT TOO!! I can't judge distance to save my fucking life which is a REAL PROBLEM when trying to estimate if furniture on the ikea website (or any site tbh) will fit in the one specific nook in my room, and also when parking my car! it's gotten better with parking over time cos I've had 5 years practice now but still i cannot estimate how soon i need to turn into a parking space because i don't know how long the nose of my car is and how much space it requires cos i can't judge distance like that! and if i drive a car that isn't mine then i go right back to it cos i don't know this car's dimensions AT ALL
similarly, i work in a deli and part of that is taking measurements of product and weighing them to get the price. the scales do the price calculation for us, that's fine, but its the getting the right measurement that's hard - i have no idea whats 100 grams vs 500 grams and i often take a handful and have to take some out or add some into what i grabbed for the measurement to be Accurate and even then I'm still usually 10-40 grams off the mark and its only cos most customers don't mind paying for a little extra ham or bacon that its not a big problem, but I'm DEFINITELY the only person in the deli who has this problem CONSISTENTLY. its not annoying and no one seems to mind, least of all my managers, but like everyone notices, including me!!
and i do have dyscalculia but the measurement blindness is something different!! i can't accurately judge how much my cats weigh by holding them, i can't guess who much is 200 grams of shaved ham by looking at it, i can't guess how far away 300 metres is when the GPS tells me, these are just things i have no concept of!
but im good at spacial awareness and knowing where i am in relation to something, and how much a space is filled by something's presence, so its not spacial blindness, it's something else!!!
the only thing that seems to counter these is consistent exposure to The Thing and even then its still way off and not doing it for an extended period of time (like one week) takes me right back to the beginning! it's weird! i can't learn this no matter what i do!!
this doesn't have much of a point other than THANK YOU FOR ARTICULATING MY EXPERIENCE IM SO GLAD YOU GET IT and also perchance wondering if you have issues with face blindness and direction blindness cos i have those too and I'm wondering if they're linked possibly
I'm glad you found comfort in the post!
As for your questions, no I'm not face blind, pretty much the opposite actually (though I don't learn names as easily as when I was a kid) and I'm pretty good with directions (and shapes/3d-imaging etc) so while those might be like,, in the same category of Brain Shit, they seem to be distinct enough to not be directly connected to measurement/unit blindness.
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What is your healthy body weight?
Everywhere we look in the western world we are inundated with pictures, images, icons and inferences of the ‘perfect’ female shape! The truth is that many of these images are altered or enhanced in some way and do not depict the typical female form. The pressure to lose weight is immense when we are bombarded every day with media selling products based on slimness, sex appeal and fashion. The constant message is that slimness will make you desireable.
With the current demographic trends in western countries, and faced with a sea of high fat, high sugar combined with physical inactivity; it is time to pay attention to our weight but not for any reasons of desirability. The most important reason for wanting to be a healthy body weight is for health rather than for how your body looks.
Overweight and obesity are major public health problems in western countries. Since the 1980s both adult men and women have become heavier, with obesity rates more than doubling in the last 20 years! Children are also becoming heavier. There is a growing concern that we are inadvertently training our overweight children to become obese adults. It has been said, we are digging our graves with out teeth! So how can we determine what is a healthy body weight for each individual?
How you tell if you are overweight
As we are all different shapes and sizes, there is not one recommended weight for your height. Instead there is a range of weights that are healthy for your height. One way to check your weight is to calculate your Body Mass Index or BMI.
Your BMI is a ratio or comparison of your height and weight expressed in a number. To find out your BMI you need to divide your weight (measured in kg) by your height (measured in m) squared. If you do not know your measurements in the metric system you can find any number of BMI calculators online that will do the conversion for you into empirical measures. One such calculator is at the website listed below.
The accepted definitions of weight categories by BMI are:
Underweight – BMI less than 18.5
Healthy weight – BMI between 18.5 and 24.9
Overweight – BMI equal to or greater than 25 and up to 29.9
Obese – BMI equal to or greater than 30
These BMI values only apply to adults aged 18 years and over and are based on studies of Caucasian populations. Therefore, they are not applicable to children and adolescents and they may not be appropriate for people of other cultural backgrounds.
Another way to check your weight is to measure your waist circumference, using a tape measure. This gives you an idea of whether you have a lot of fat stored around your middle. Waist circumferences associated with increased health risk are:
For men Waist circumference greater than 94cm
For women Waist circumference greater than 80cm
Being a healthy weight can help:
– improve blood cholesterol levels, blood pressure and blood glucose levels
– reduce your risk of other health related problems
– improve self confidence and self esteem
– make it easier to be physically active.
If you are obese or overweighttry not to gain additional weight. This will help you in years to come as people tend to increase weight with age. Better still look after your body and follow a healthy lifestyle incorporating a nutritious, delicious, health enhancing weight loss program. Just by losing 10 pounds you can significantly improve your overall health.
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Online Poker Tools are to Online Poker Cheats, as Vitamins are to Steroids
When it comes to the world of online poker, many players turn to cheat tools in order to gain an advantage over their opponents. While these cheating tools can be helpful in some cases, they also have a number of negative side effects which must be taken into account. For example, vitamin cheats can harm your body in ways you never anticipated, while Online Poker Reviews cheats can land you in trouble with authorities.
Poker is a game of skill
Poker is a game of skill. This is why so many amateur and professional poker players alike rely on tools to improve their skills. Poker tools can be divided into two categories - those that improve your hand reading skills and those that improve your overall strategy.
Hand reading tools help you understand the board better and make better decisions about when to raise or call. They also teach you how to read other players’ hands and how to adjust your playing style accordingly.
Strategy tools, on the other hand, help you make better long-term decisions. They teach you how to calculate pot odds, how to play loose or tight hands, and how to bluff effectively.
No matter what type of tool you use, remember that poker is a game of skill. Practice and dedication are key if you want to improve your skills.
Tools that help poker players improve their game
As poker players continue to strive for a greater edge in their play, various tools and techniques have emerged that can help them improve their game. Whether it be an online poker tool that can help you track your hands and analyse your opponents, or software that teaches you how to play better poker, there is a tool out there to suit nearly every player's needs.
One of the most popular online poker tools is Holdem Manager. This software allows users to keep track of all of their hands, including the amount of money they have put into each pot preflop, as well as the hands they have folded. This information can then be used to improve your preflop decision-making and learn more about how your opponents play.
Another popular poker tool is PokerStrategy.com. This website provides players with a wide variety of information on all aspects of poker, from beginner tutorials to in-depth analysis of particular hand types. This site can help you improve your bluffing skills, learn how to read other players' body language, and more.
Whatever tool or technique you choose to use in order to improve your poker game, make sure to consult an online poker coach who can help guide you through the process step
Poker tools fall into three categories: mental, technical, and analytical
Mental tools include things like self-talk, visualisation and keeping a positive attitude. Technical tools include things like tracking hands and odds, as well as learning poker strategy. Analytical tools help you understand your game and make better decisions.
We’ll start with mental tools. Some of the most important things you can do to improve your game are to keep a positive attitude and to self-talk to yourself. Self-talk is simply telling yourself positive things about your game. For example, if you’re having a bad session, tell yourself that you’re still playing well overall, that the mistakes you’re making are part of the learning process, and that you can correct them next time. Visualisation is another mental tool that can help you focus on the present and improve your concentration. You might imagine yourself winning the hand or making the correct decision.
Technical tools can also help you improve your game. One common tool is tracking hands. When you track your hands, you can see which hands you’re losing more often and which hands have higher pot odds. This information can help you learn how to play better hands. Other tech tools include understanding poker strategy and learning how to calculate odds and
Mental tools help players stay focused
Online poker players need to stay focused in order to win tournaments and cash games. A mental tool that can help players stay focused is a poker strategy journal. This journal should be kept for a set amount of time, such as one week, and should be filled with information about each hand played. This information can include the hands results, what cards were played, and what decisions were made. By keeping track of this information, online poker players can improve their overall poker game.
Another mental tool that can help players focus is a poker diary. A poker diary should be kept for a shorter amount of time, such as one day. This diary should be filled with personal notes about the game, such as how well the player did, what they saw on other players' hands, and any thoughts that came to mind while playing. This type of diary can help players take note of their own playing style and make small adjustments during future games.
Technical tools help players learn how to play the game better
There is no doubt that technical tools can help players improve their poker game. Whether it’s learning how to play optimal hands or tracking player stats, these tools can give you the edge you need to become a better player.
One of the most popular technical tools for online poker players is Poker Tracker. This program helps you keep track of your hands, recent plays, and other relevant information. By knowing what cards have been played recently and how you’ve been playing overall, you can make smarter decisions on the fly.
Another great tool is Hold’em Manager. This software allows you to analyse your opponents in great detail, making it easier to determine what hand to play. Not only does this information help you win more hands, but it can also help you learn how to play against specific opponents.
Finally, there’s Betfair Poker Tips. This website provides expert advice on how to beat specific opponents at poker. Whether you’re looking for tips on pre-flop play or post-flop strategy, Betfair Poker Tips has got you covered.
Analytical tools help players make better decisions
Tools for online Poker Reviews players can help them make better decisions when playing the game. Analytical tools help players understand their hands and the potential of their opponents' hands.
One such tool is Holdem Manager, which helps players analyse their hands and find different ways to win. Another tool, Poker Tracker, tells players how their opponents are playing, helping them make better decisions about what to do.
Other analytical tools include Full Tilt Poker's Hand Historian and PartyPoker's Hand Ranking Analyzer. These tools allow players to track hands, analyse their play, and learn from their mistakes. Playing with these tools can improve a player's overall strategy for online poker.
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HOSTIS, Chapter IV: Vetiti Fructus In, The Forbidden Fruit
Previous Chapter (III: Aemulatio)
Member: Lee Hyunjae (tbz)
Genre (by chapter): angst, drama, comedy
Category: Short Novel/Long Series
“why am i always one step behind you?”
the black rim of the file glistens under the light hanging above the table on your left. translucent curtains were drawn behind and next the the oversized L-shaped couch you were laying on, legs stretched out and laptop sitting on a cushion on your lap.
the white table was strewn about with freshly printed sheets of data and research you managed to collect in the last week.
it was day seven of your ten days being mentored by doctor choi. the welcome-party was to be held at the end of the month, not the coming weekend.
something about the team that was responsible for handling newcomers not being able to host it because everybody was busy... something along those lines.
you didn’t bother noting the reason for a delayed party when the more pressing issue was getting that research file out to doctor kim before lee hyunjae did, and with better content.
throwing your head back against the pillows, your eyes naturally travel along the ceiling to the glass doors beyond the sofa, lining parallel to your position. the faint dots in the sky above takes you back to the first time you went stargazing with your father.
you remember your mother didn’t go because she was too busy.
the brain-juicing brightness off the laptop screen starts to yank on your attention, and you sigh at the sight of the word ‘oncology’. you already did the research online and whatever doctor kim had provided you, and it wasn’t too difficult a task to imagine that lucifer probably had the same type of content written down for that last section as well.
the frustration empties itself from your chest in the form of a loud groan while your fingers travel to your forehead.
the only thing left to do was this stupid oncology section, but how were you going to outdo lee hyunjae? sure, the rest of the research report would already be different; every pocket of free time you found in between your rounds with doctor choi, you were working on it. lee hyunjae was nowhere to be found either during those free periods, so what else would he be doing besides filling up the research report?
there was no more room for your own research and understanding of oncology to beat him. you were a neurologist after all, not an oncologist.
why did doctor kim even include the oncology section when he knew it was going to be difficult for me to get the information?
“arghhhhhhh--” your vision flashes white for a split second at the sudden sitting up, and you place your laptop down off the cushion. the rug covering the living room floor brings comfort to your toes as you stood up and ran your fingers through your hair.
the painful, but satisfying memory of what happened pre-med school starts to roll in your head like an old VHS tape. the look in lucifer’s eyes when you had him against the locker, the only thing stopping you from driving a test tube down his throat were the long arms of law.
otherwise, it was sweet, almost diabetic, to watch him crumble and lose to you despite him being the fire starter.
but then again, you lost the first boy you ever loved because of lee hyunjae.
you couldn’t even convince yourself that you won.
the VHS tape in your head starts to burn and disintegrate into ashes while the nostalgic fire lights up in your chest, and the thought of losing to him four years ago made you want to get that oncology section done.
your inner ares picks up the file and flips to the last page where the word ‘oncology’ was printed in big, block letters at the top, followed by a bunch of details and information with hypothetical questions listed down.
the left brow on your face twitches and the muscle movement felt so eerily detached from you, a surge of unstoppable desire erupting inside you like mount vesuvius in 79 AD.
if you could possess a single power right now, it’ll be pyrokinesis.
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the light shining into your office was so bright and warm, it would’ve been a crime not to talk a walk outside.
you would’ve, but not today.
lucifer’s office door opens and closes and you notice him heading off in the direction of the washroom, and your peripheral vision captures the oncology page of the hospital website on the computer screen.
after waiting it out for a safe period of time, you adjust the white coat to hide the color of your breast pocket (where the color differentiated which department you were in) and shoved the staff ID card down the back pocket of your jeans. you grab your file, phone in hand and the gears in your head start to churn out some smart excuse in case anybody were to question why you, a newcomer, looked like you were about to go for a meeting.
you head for the lift, fingers dancing around while you searched for the floor that connected the east wing over to the north.
you were already beginning to recite that excuse you built in your head in case doctor kim runs into you while you were walking through the north wing.
but zeus must’ve decided that one half of his sons deserved some love today, for you run into zero staff who didn’t pay attention to the absence of your staff ID around your neck.
your eyes follow the signs to the west wing, and that was where you started to notice people you really haven’t seen before.
the atmosphere changed once you got to the office level where all the oncology doctors would be, and most of the staff looked like they had been working without a wink of sleep.
your vision and attention start to dart around the hallways and doors, trying to look for a name tag on a door that said ‘shin ga hyun’ or something along the lines of oncology research archi--
there we go.
the words ‘research facility’ printed in block letters on the door of the room looked like the word ‘victory’ in another language, and you could only thank zeus for being so kind to you today.
the lab coat on you and the file case you were holding was enough to prove that you were a staff here, so even if shin ga hyun were to find out you were in her wing, there was nothing she could do about it besides get mad at you for “losing your way while searching for research content”.
the staff ID card slides out from your jeans so you could give yourself access to the dark room, and you notice the only view in was through the little window on the door itself.
once the door was open, your first step was to get it closed, regardless of whether your eyes could adjust to the orientation of the room.
relief floods through you, and you quickly wonder why you were so scared of something that wasn’t even illegal.
a small snort runs through your nose at the thought that you were scared, because frankly, there wasn’t much that could scare you anymore. maybe sometimes, just sometimes, the only thing that could scare you was yourself.
the scent of old paper and files fill your nostrils with every drawer and cabinet you opened, and you start searching for documents with information to grant you access to the oncology database, but not one single sheet of paper satiates your thirst to win.
your heart was already zipping back and forth in your chest, and the emptiness of the room only reminds you that anybody could come in anytime. your eyes look around the dimly lit room and you note the gap between the lockers behind the desk and the wall where you could run and hide in case someone came in--
“...yes, ga hyun, everything regarding the department’s database have been shifted to your office.”
the pupils on your eyeballs shrink in a second and something similar to a heart attack tears through your chest at the name. the footsteps halt right outside the door and you close the drawer with such calculated strength to prevent yourself from slamming it shut. your heels turn towards the corner and it takes you three incredibly large steps to get you there.
but everything happened so fast that you didn’t even register the fact that you got pulled into that little corner.
you would’ve rammed your knee so high up this man’s groin if he wasn’t going to scream like a fucking baby if you did.
“what the fuck are you doing here?!” he mouths angrily at you, ears red and cheeks flushed with fear when the door of the room clicks open.
“are you sure everything related to the database has been cleared out this room?” shin ga hyun sounded like she’d slit your throat and show no signs of remorse.
“what do you think?!” this silent conversation was going to warrant you a reason to punch him in the face later.
“yes, doctor shin,” the second voice sounded so dead and unbothered, you imagine it had to be someone of a more senior position than shin ga hyun for her to talk to the department head like that. “there may be a few stray sheets here and there but if they weren’t filed properly in the first place, then it’s highly likely they weren’t too important.”
“don’t fucking touch me!” his arm brushes against your shoulder and if you could scream, it would’ve deafened him.
“if you hadn’t come in, we wouldn’t be stuck in this shitty little gap!”
your eyes widen at his sudden stoppage of mouthing, and you could hear the little breaths coming out after every consonant.
“will you shut the fuck up?!”
“so you mean to tell me that there is a slight possibility that an important sheet of paper regarding our database is sitting around somewhere inside this room?”
“how can i shut up when i’m stuck in this godforsaken space with you?! i don’t even want to fucking breathe the same air as you!”
oh my fucking god, will he fucking shut his trap-- we are going to get caught--
“oh, my god,” an exasperated sigh fills the room. “ga hyun, you really need to take a chill pill.”
“don’t tell me to ‘take a chill pill’--”
“if you didn’t walk in here like you owned the fucking place, i wouldn’t have touched you!”
your index finger flies up to your lips and you beg him to shut up with your eyes.
but this piece of dumbshit-doctor doesn’t fucking get it--
you had a victory to claim, and you were not going to let him take that away from you.
the ares inside you wraps your fingers around his face and shoves your lips between his, but your eyes were still wide open, looking out at the glass on the cabinet on the other side of the room to see a taller female trying to drag a shorter female out of the office.
“you need to take a chill pill. the entire hospital is scared of you, honey. don’t you want to amend that?”
the scanner beeps, and the door clicks open.
“if nobody’s done anything wrong then there’s no reason for them to be scared of me.”
“fair, but you need to start wearing a smile on your face more often!” the door hisses shut, and the footsteps start to move away. “i’ll get someone to check the database stuff for you then...”
ares leaves your body and your soul gets sucked back into its rightful place, and you don’t think you’ve shoved anyone, or anything for that matter, faster than you shoved lucifer off your face.
wincing in disgust, the back of your hand wipes the corner of your lips as a frown hardens on your forehead, and lucifer was busy sticking out his tongue like he had just eaten something spicy.
“son of a bitch,” the hiss seethes through your teeth as you walk out from the gap, deliberately running your shoulder against his left arm. “don’t you ever assume that i would let the thinnest strand of hair on my body touch you.”
the wrath and rage drips off your tongue like saliva while you walked, turning your head and looking over your shoulder to glare at lee hyunjae.
“and don’t you ever fucking kiss me again!”
your staff card was barely inches away from the scanner when the words start to eat at your ego.
“for your fucking information, i did not want my lips to be on yours,” you take two big steps to him who was walking towards you in a fit. “someone just didn’t know how to keep his mouth shut.”
his breath was hitting your cheek rapidly, and you jab your tongue against the inside of your cheek, trying to claw your way through his self-proclaimed glare that he probably thinks scares you off.
your suck your lips between your teeth and scrunch up your nose with effort, your right hand instinctively deciding that it was a good idea to shove him backwards before you left the room.
throwing yourself into your own leather seat in your office and the beads of sweat on your forehead coming off onto a tissue, your eyes plaster themselves to the ceiling.
mission failed.
not only that,
i had to kiss this motherfucking son of a bitch to shut his fucking ass up.
the tissue gets crumpled in your grasp at the thought of underestimating him, and you hurl the lightweight ball barely a metre away from you.
doctor choi brings you on his final round for the day, and happiness was as simple as finding out that lucifer had been called to handle some boring admin work by the hospital administration because he screwed up somewhere in the system.
the round was longer than expected, with one of doctor choi’s alzheimer’s patients talking to you about his childhood. doctor choi tries to steer you clear of the patient, worried that you were uncomfortable. but the stories he was telling you brought you back to a time when your parents were still pretty prominent in your life. doctor choi just leaves you with him until the nurses bring around his medicine as a distraction, providing you with a chance to leave before the patient keeps you for the night.
the evening sun paints the floor a tangerine shade, through the glass doors of the offices. and in your hand was the black file with such reluctance and bitterness that you wish you didn’t agree to this whole research department thing in the first place.
most of the research department officers and doctors had evening duties to tend to before they left, so it was pretty quiet and desolate once you reached doctor kim’s desk with the idea of submitting the research report.
yet the sight of the blue file strikes up a flame of confusion and suspicion. laying down your black file, your fingerpads brush over the cover of the blue one, and ares returns to whisper seductive motivations in your ear.
you run through the pages, not surprised that most of the data was different from yours, but nothing could’ve prepared you for the five-thousand-word-long report behind the oncology cover sheet.
motherfucker.
he must’ve found one of those ‘stray sheets’ for the database while he was snooping in the room.
red bursts of revenge and hatred start to rush through your veins, and you pull apart the rings of the file to remove the ridiculously long report.
the papers were messily stuffed into your work case and you return the file back to its original position, in time for doctor kim to return to his cubicle.
“ah, i was waiting to see if you were going to submit it today!” he gleams at you, and his warm, elderly aura comforts you, peeling you away from the horrible deed you just carried out.
“well, yeah... but i have to confess, i didn’t do much for the oncology report at the back.”
“i was already expecting that after i warned you about doctor shin! but nevermind that, i look forward to reading your report.”
“oh but, uh...” you rub the back of your neck. “have you looked through doctor lee’s? it looks pretty thick.”
doctor kim’s palm finds the two files and he shakes his head. “oh, nope. he just gave me this wide smile and told me to read his file like i was reading a book. his confidence is really something else.”
oh, thank god.
“i see,” the sugary taste of satisfaction rubs itself into your taste buds. “i hope we didn’t let you down, doctor kim. we really worked hard on it.”
the smile doesn’t leave his face, and he only gives you a small pat on the shoulder. “i will look forward to reading both reports.” he nods, and you take your cue to bow and bid goodbye.
~
your living room was barely lit up with the only source of light being the one from the kitchen, and the gentle chirps of crickets outside were muffled through the sliding doors of your living room.
the wine in your glass was practically frolicking about with your little dance of triumph of the day. though part of the reason why you were drinking wine was to force yourself to forget that you kissed lucifer -- ew --, you were also drinking to celebrate.
“well,” you pout at the little cactus that sat in the middle of the table in your living room. “he should thank me for removing it. doctor kim could figure out that he only got the information from snooping into the oncology department and he could get trouble for it.”
talking to yourself wasn’t a daily routine, but you just couldn’t resist the temptation of convincing yourself that you did nothing wrong.
which in fact, you did not.
but the competitiveness seeps through your bones and makes your stomach churn with regret and displeasure again, when the realisation sinks into your head.
why am i always one step behind you?
with a contorted look of discontentment staring back at you in the reflection of the wine glass, you lift the rim to your lips and down the rest of it like they were shots.
“i should’ve known he was going to do it,” the wine bottle calls out to you like a siren, and your fingers wrap around the cool, glass surface. “if i did it sooner, i might’ve gotten the fucking database information--”
knock knock
you berate zeus for sending a visitor at such a shitty time, throwing your head backwards and squeezing your eyes shut.
knock knock knock knock knock knock
“ugh, mom! i told you not to visit me on a weekday!” the release of the wine bottle only fills your stomach with disappointment as you trudged towards the door.
with enough frustration to fuel your grip around the handle, you yank the heavy door open.
“mom, what are you-- oh.”
shit.
flares of aching poison start to pierce their way into your eyes upon the eye contact, and your knuckles whiten with the tightening grip on the handle of your door.
“you’re gonna wish it was your mom, alright.”
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Chapter V: Monitum
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A Five Step Procrastination Guide
We’re nearing the end of NaNoWriMo, which is the time of the month when all those moments of procrastination have added up, and now you’re looking at your word count and can’t see hope of recovery.
Well. If you think you can’t do it just because you fell behind, you’re wrong! You’ve never been more wrong in your life! No shame in being wrong. But you are. You are wrong.
In this post, NaNoWriMo participant Sarah Lefebvre gives some sage advice to all our procrastinators out there:
NaNoWriMo encourages writers to pick up a pen or cozy up to a keyboard every day for the length of November, all in reach of the 50,000-word holy grail. Success requires dedication, time management, and consistency.
Or, if you’re a master procrastinator, it requires a dash of lunacy and a significant supply of sheer willpower.
I fall squarely into the procrastinator category. In fact, the higher the pressure radiating from a responsibility or commitment, the more my procrastinator brain relishes putting it off. Each year I’ve participated in NaNoWriMo, I started the contest late. Sometimes I didn’t expect to participate at all until after it began. But each time, I made it to that 50,000-word goal. So, from one procrastinator to another, here’s my guide for succeeding in NaNoWriMo despite a late start.
Step One: Start on the first day?
Yawn. Where’s the fun in reducing stress by allowing ourselves maximum time to achieve our goals? Leave that to the people who don’t want to lie awake at night calculating how to manage a daily word count that escalated from 1,667 per day to 3,813 (and counting). Instead, start when life—or your procrastinator brain—makes it possible. Maybe that’s one day late, or three days, or two weeks. As long as you start.
Step Two: Embrace the Pit of Despair.
Admit it: if you’re truly a master procrastinator, you probably like it. You know that feeling when you’re halfway through NaNoWriMo, your word count tracker has flatlined, and your characters refuse to write themselves? Rather than allow it to bog you down, embrace it. Turn it into your fuel. 10 days and 25,000 words to go? That’s not terrifying. That’s exhilarating.
Step Three: Establish accountability.
The hardest part of winning NaNoWriMo as a procrastinator is knowing when to stop procrastinating. Put someone—your critique partner, writing friend, mom, significant other, cat—in charge of checking in on you. Did you write the two chapters you promised to write, or did you binge watch five episodes of The Good Place? If you have someone keeping an eye on you, you might be more inclined to do the former.
Step Four: Reward yourself, don’t punish yourself.
Procrastination and instant gratification go hand-in-hand, but you can turn that to your advantage. If you find yourself procrastinating from your NaNo goal, don’t punish yourself with discouraging thoughts or relinquished activities. Reward yourself before and after the work. Watch the TV episode you’re dying to watch, do your writing, and then play a game—or whatever it is that serves as reward in your life.
Step Five: Take a deep breath and have fun with it.
NaNoWriMo challenges us and teaches us lessons about time management, daily writing, and establishing goals. But most importantly, NaNoWriMo should be fun. Whether you start on Day 1 or Day 21, have fun with it. Revel in the challenge and know that choosing to write, whether you ‘win’ or not, puts you ahead of where you would be if you did not write at all. Maybe you arrived late to the game, but at least you showed up, so make the most of it.
Tackling NaNoWriMo as a procrastinator means turning an already difficult challenge into a true feat of strength. But if you choose to start your NaNoWriMo journey later than the first day, know that you too have the power to cross that virtual finish line. And you might feel all the more impressive for doing so (at least, that’s what I tell myself every year).
Sarah LeFebvre is a self-proclaimed master procrastinator, Walt Disney World cast member, and writer of LGBT Young Adult fiction. Alongside three writing friends, she co-runs @WriterCoven, a Twitter account dedicated to putting writers in touch with the magic of writing. When she’s not working or writing, she’s probably attending to the whims of three cats or giving into her Sims 4 addiction. Be sure to visit her website to see more of her work, and follow her on Twitter!
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How to improve your Cardiovascular
If you are presently studying this post, you are searching for solutions on how to enhance CVD.
Cardiovascular endurance is simple terms is the ability of the respiratory system and the heart and blood vessels (lungs, heart, blood vessels, and blood) to withstand the stress of an intense exercise session.
In this article, we will present various tips on how to improve cardiovascular endurance and cardiovascular fitness benefits. In easy terms, we will explain what the definition of cardiovascular endurance is.
Aerobic exercise to improve cardiovascular endurance If you are trying to improve cardiovascular endurance, you will be surprised how quickly aerobic exercise can improve your fitness level.
Aerobic exercise is moving the body and raising the heart rate. Examples of aerobic exercises are:
How to improve cardiovascular endurance How to improve cardiovascular endurance for an experienced doctor! The fast walking Running Dancing Hiking swimming Cross country skiing Make sure to include several different exercises in your cardiac routine to ensure that you do not overdo any part of your body, which reduces the risk of injury and makes you move forward and improves cardiovascular health. Determine your fitness level
Before beginning any exercises, you will want to decide your contemporary stage of health to understand the number of things to do and the problem of the training.
If you are lower on a fitness scale, it is helpful for you to reduce your new cardio routine; also, you will see benefits faster than a person on the upper end of the fitness scale.
If you are at the higher end of the fitness scale, you will have to work very hard to improve the results of your current cardio exercises.
Three levels are explained: Low fitness level - fall into this category if you haven't exercised at all or haven't been exercising for too long. Even if you are skinny, many skinny people with cardiovascular health are worse than an older person.
Average fitness level - You are involved in any cardiovascular exercises at least three times a week, such as swimming, walking, cycling, etc.
High fitness level - Do any cardio exercise for at least five miles throughout the week. Also, you train strength regularly over seven days.
Click on the article below about my fitness trip that loses a total of 35 pounds in 3 months. I started at the bottom end of the scale, but I managed to achieve rapid weight loss and stamina gains as there was plenty of room for improvement with my high weight and low endurance.
Watching the pounds recede and gaining more stamina is a fantastic feeling; however, as you continue to improve strength and lose weight, the noticeable significant gains slow down, and your improvements come in smaller bites.
But in the end, this is where we want to be on a fitness trip.
Determine the maximum heart rate
This calculates the maximum number of your heartbeat during peak exercise. The result is an expected maximum heart rate per minute, depending on the age of the heart routine.
The easiest way to measure the maximum heart rate is to subtract your age from 220, and the result is the maximum heartbeat at age per minute.
This number does not take into account your fitness level and can fluctuate between 10-20 beats per minute.
Another way is to do a stress test for endurance exercise, and this test is done by the doctor where you will run on a treadmill in different batches of speed and different inclination to increase the heart rate to the maximum.
Determine the amount of cardio to begin with Determine your workout length based on your current fitness level. If you have poor physical fitness or have been inactive for a long time, you will need to start walking about 10-20 minutes 3 times a week.
If you are in the middle of a fitness level, you should start 30-minute heart exercises 3-5 times a week.
A person in excellent fit should start 30-60 minutes 5-7 times a week.
Be careful when performing high-impact cardio exercises such as running, exercising and dancing because frequent crash training can cause a high risk of injury.
Depending on the intensity of your workout on the maximum heart rate, when you do a continuous exercise, try to keep your heart rate at the ideal state for your fitness level.
Your doctor or personal trainer can help you determine your optimal heart rate during exercise.
There are recommendations, but since I am not a doctor or personal trainer, I am unable to advise you on your ideal heart rate.
Get your body moving through aerobic activity Start an activity you enjoy to keep up with; it can be hiking in the park, biking, swimming, etc.
Also, go with a family member or friend to reduce boredom! Or you can put your headphones and walk to your favourite tunes.
Over time, you can add more heart diseases to your routine as you feel it is needed.
You'll know when it's time for your current routine to become so easy, at this point, you have to be true to yourself and get to the level of your game.
Stretch and cool Make sure that you relax before your cardio workout by stretching, walking on the treadmill, light rowing, etc.
When you are close to the end of your workout, you will need to calm down by slowly slowing down your pace 1 minute before, followed by a slight stretch to reduce possible aches and cramps.
Also, gradually increase the duration of the heart every week, one by one to allow your muscles to recognize the routine slowly.
Get the most out of your heart routine Doing exercises at different levels of intensity to increase your progress; current research shows that High-Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) is the best way to improve cardiovascular fitness by combining large amounts of moderate exercise (walking) with small amounts of intense training (rowing and running) Etc.).
Use moderate long-distance training to help lift your stamina to the highest level.
But over time I continued to run at a slow, steady pace, a smile, and walked a mile, etc., etc.! Until the end after three months, I finished 6 miles in one hour non-stop, and if you do that you can too.
Use high-intensity continuous training to reach the peak of your fitness. High-intensity exercise does not allow your body to absorb enough oxygen to produce energy.
The result of the production of low-energy energy produces the accumulation of lactic acid in your muscles and limits your ability to perform at a high level. Only do high-intensity continuous training unless you are very fit.
Use fitness technology to track your goals With the amount of technology in the world today, there is no reason why we shouldn't use the many fitness techniques available to track workouts, heart rate, distance statistics, calorie intake, burn, etc., etc.
We have technologies like Fitbit and endless smartphone apps to keep track of every situation imaginable.
My favourite Myfitnesspal app tells you what daily calorie intake, salt, and fat are ideal for your age, height and weight to achieve your fitness goals.
Throughout the day, all you have to do is enter your food intake and your exercises performed, once you save the information, it will let you know where to track your desired goals. I recommend this app to anyone, as it was beneficial.
Another app I'm using is Runkeeper. This is a GPS app that can be installed on your phone and tracks the distances worked, path, time, calories burned and progress over time.
Another feature that I liked was Track Tracking. The app will track your track on the screen and save it so that you can show previous favourite tracks.
This app is the one I recommend for anyone who just started running.
I've got FITBIT for quite some time, and that was awesome. I am not just an observer, and I will forget to restart it, the battery will run out, etc.
But for tracking purposes, she was very good at translating exercise into burned calories, heart rate, distance and progress. So I recommend FITBIT as well.
Benefits of cardiovascular endurance There are endless benefits to cardiovascular tolerance that have been shown to reduce the risk of heart disease, lung cancer, type 2 diabetes, stroke and many other conditions.
Heart fitness improves lung and heart disease, and at the end of the day, there is no better feeling than being able to reach fitness and weight loss goals.
Abstract I hope you have located this article useful and you can see how recommended CVD tolerance is for our fitness and well-being. I'd like to see you again on the website where I hope to provide more support and answer more of your health and fitness questions.
If you have time, check out the Health and Fitness Forum on the site where we have a small community that discusses everything related to yoga, weight loss, healthy eating and many other topics. Thanks for reading!
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Amazon is temporarily allowing sellers who use its FBA fulfillment service to remove slow-selling inventory at no charge thanks to fee changes it had announced in March. If you are familiar with and love the Amazon Prime membership that Amazon offers, you might love having an as well, since you will be automatically enrolled into the product, allowing all of your customers to benefit from free shipping.Find out more here
If you guys are serious about your Amazon business I mean these, you know tools are are essential, I mean this is just two out of the 22 tools that, you would get you know with that platinum plan you, we've had everything from profits, you know that that's what tells you how much profit you're making it each day your, ROI.
Also, since I wrote this article, FBA has announced that they won't be accepting products from new clients until after Dec 19. You can read about that here You should also note that FBA's warehouses are currently quite full, and FBA has been taking action to reduce their inventory (in part by charging higher storage fees).
If you are just looking to get a general idea of costs then you can enter approximate amounts but if you are building a business plan or planning meticulously then contact potential suppliers and shipping services such as UPS prior to filling this out.
Every time the payment complete condition for an order is detected, WooCommerce Amazon Fulfillment will send the order, customer, and product information to FBA as an outbound fulfillment order for the products in the cart which are set to fulfill through Amazon.
Once you've narrowed down your choice to a few products, or perhaps even a product category, you can use Amazon's resources to help you figure out the FBA fees associated with a product; these fees vary depending on your product's size, shape, and weight, among other factors.
Whether it's tracking our keyword rankings to see how our products are doing, firing up Cerebro to gain crucial competitive intelligence on our competition, or using Index Checker to make sure our listings are as optimized as possible, it's my go to tool-set for giving my businesses the competitive edge we need.
For example, if you are selling baby products on Amazon, then the company will levy a referral fee on your product, which will be 15% of the selling price ( Try This FBA Calculator For Calculate Accurate Storage Fees ). An entire list of referral fee for each product category can be found on the official website.
It really helps to dig into Amazon products to especially determine how many they're possibly selling per month to make sure that you're purchasing the proper amount if you're doing wholesale, or to scope out your competition if you're doing private label.
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SEO TIPS FOR YOUTUBE MARKETING 2019
YouTube is huge. Understanding YouTube’s algorithm is crucial for success.
70% of the time people spend watching videos is the result of clever AI-driven recommendations.
Google’s YouTube algorithm differs quite a bit from their search engine algorithm, which is something that marketers need to acknowledge if they want to create YouTube video content that will do well.
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It is often said that YouTube is the world’s second largest search engine.
People don’t just watch YouTube videos for entertainment.
There are countless product reviews and educational videos on YouTube, and with good knowledge of the platform, you too could benefit from some extra exposure.
We’ve done the research so that you don’t have to.
Keep reading to learn more about the best SEO tips for YouTube marketing.
Find out everything you need to know about Google’s complex video platform today!
Don’t Ignore Metadata
Correct Metadata and user input is crucial for SEO on Youtube.
Although Google’s clever bots may be able to extract information even from videos that have no or very poor metadata; a video is much more likely to do well if accurate info about it is provided.
Every metadata field should be filled with the correct information.
A YouTube marketing campaign will have more chances to succeed if videos included have accurate and effective:
Titles
You should always try to include your target keyword in the video title, but make sure that you effectively grab your viewer’s attention too.
Clickbait is great on YouTube since the algorithm itself places more emphasis on recommendations than search results.
You want to intrigue people with your titles, but don’t try too hard—You don’t want them to click away as soon as the video loads!
Descriptions
Your description should use your keyword at least twice and be at least 250 words long.
It may sound like a lot (it probably is), but if you include a lot of information, YouTube will be able to recommend your video to audiences that are more likely to engage with it.
Introduce your topic and list the covered topics by adding timestamps next to them (users love those).
Try to use descriptions that relate to other relevant videos.
Doing so will make it easier for your video to turn up in the recommendations for those videos.
Tags
The meta keyword function for search engines may be defunct, but it still plays a big role in YouTube’s algorithm.
You should always include your primary keyword and other related topics in the tags section.
If you mention other videos or content creators, make sure you tag them too.
Thumbnails
Thumbnails are an art form.
Yeah, you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover but YouTube users do (and you do too, stop lying).
When you play the game of clicks, you either win or die trying.
Choose a picture that stands out and don’t forget to add a little bit (seriously, just a little bit!) of text to go along with it.
Many experts recommend that you include a human face to establish an emotional connection with your audience (plus everybody likes a pretty face).
Closed Captions
Yeah, yeah, transcription’s boring, especially if your video is long.
YouTube’s automated caption feature is getting better but is still not quite there.
To avoid any misinterpretations of your words, it’s always a good idea to provide YouTube with a full transcript (which you may already have anyway).
Include your primary keyword in your filename too and don’t forget to recommend your own playlists at the end of your video.
Consider Video Data
You may be wondering: What does the actual video have to do with SEO? Well, YouTube marketing and YouTube video SEO isn’t just about words.
Google actually analyses the video’s audio to generate automated transcripts, which means that just including your keywords in the metadata is not enough; you have to mention them in the video as well!
You don’t need to spell out the keywords or sound like a robot.
Don’t force anything but make sure you clearly state what the video is about; mention any relevant YouTube channel or video (for example, if you’re reacting or responding to something) to help appear in their video recommendations.
Google’s Cloud Video Intelligence API can identify objects in a video. YouTube can easily tell what the video is about using advanced machine learning technology.
Use this to your advantage: include images, videos and visuals that directly (or indirectly) reference your keywords.
For example, if you’re talking about YouTube marketing, it might be a good idea to actually include some relevant footage of YouTube promotional videos.
We’re still not sure about the actual function of the API (and whether it’s as accurate as Google claims it is), but it’s always good to be prepared for the future.
Encourage Engagement
We may not be able to control what users do, but we can begin to understand how the recommendation engine works and how user data affects it.
User data is divided into two distinct categories:
Explicit user data refers to data that’s based on users’ immediate actions (e.g. liking a video or subscribing to a channel, sharing a video on social media).
Implicit user data refers to data that’s the result of users watching or interacting with videos (e.g. watch time, whether the video was skipped or how many times it was paused).
As a content creator, you can encourage explicit interactions but make sure you don’t go overboard. You can remind people to like your video and subscribe to your channel at the end of the video, but that’s probably enough.
Receiving likes and subscribers is great but audience retention is probably more important. YouTube loves videos that people want to keep watching.
Your video may have thousands of views, but if it has a retention rate of 10%, YouTube will not want to recommend it to other users.
The first few seconds are the most important, so make sure you hook your viewer with interesting visuals.
You could perhaps offer a short preview of something interesting that is said or done midway through.
Make sure you make use of Google’s own audience retention report.
It will tell you exactly when people got bored and started clicking away and you can use that information to see exactly what you’re doing wrong (and what you’re doing right).
Understand Co-Visitation
YouTube’s recommendation engine attempts to map videos to sets of other ‘similar’ videos.
Google explains that similar doesn’t always equal relevant.
The recommendation engine promotes videos that it thinks the user is more likely to watch and enjoy, rather than just promoting videos with similar content.
Google calls this technique ‘co-visitation.’ Co-visitation is a method used to identify and calculate the relatedness of pairs of videos watched in a given session (usually 24 hours).
If a user watches a video whose co-visitation count with another video is high, YouTube will likely recommend that they watch the second video as well.
What does all that mean for you? Well, if you want your video to appear on people’s recommendations, then you need to create links with other relevant videos that you think your viewers may have recently watched.
How do you do that?
Target specific keywords that are related to a certain video or group of videos.
Create videos that target a specific channel or YouTuber.
Include links of your other videos and encourage your viewers to watch them.
Create and publish response videos as fast as possible.
Collaborate with other content creators to exchange traffic and establish strong links between your channels.
Rank High
Co-visitation and a high relatedness score are important but ultimately, your video’s ranking is determined by other factors.
To set up a successful YouTube marketing campaign, you’ll need to focus on video quality, user specificity and diversification: YouTube’s holy trinity.
Video Quality
In turn, a video’s quality is determined based on:
Like/ dislike ratio
Views
Number of comments which indicates engagement
Sharing
Favouriting
User Specificity
YouTube rewards and boosts videos that are a good match based on the user’s viewing history.
It’s basically a relatedness score that takes into account the user’s viewing history, rather than just calculating co-visitation counts with other videos on the platform as a whole.
Diversity
If you want to rank high, you’ll have to provide users with fresh and meaningful content.
YouTube marketing is like any other form of marketing in that originality and creativity are always valued highly.
Don’t be afraid to think out of the box or to try out new things.
Bonus Tips & YouTube Infographic
Always include a clear CTA in both the actual video and the description. May sound obvious, but you need to make sure people know where to go if they’re interested in what you’ve got. Don’t just assume they’ll click on your links or use Google search to find your website.
Don’t try too hard. This is true for all video content, but such a crucial piece of advice with regards to YouTube Marketing. Promote your product in a clever and sophisticated way. You don’t want your promotion to sound like an ad. People don’t go on YouTube to watch ads.
Your videos shouldn’t be too long (but not too short either). For maximum engagement, you should aim for the ten-minute mark. Shorter videos can bring traffic too but videos that are too short may be filtered out by YouTube’s algorithm as low-value content (YouTube wants you to pay to create short video ads and advertise your products on the platform that way instead).
That’s all we got for today!
If you’re looking for more SEO tips to help you rank higher, make sure you check out our Simple Google Ranking Guide for 2019!
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Archaeology Merit Badge: Who Had More Fun, Me or the Boy Scouts?
by Amy L. Covell-Murthy
The Archaeology merit badge for the Boy Scouts of America was established in 1997. It has a list of eleven different requirements that must be fulfilled before receiving the recognition and patch. The first seven requirements ask the Scout to research archaeology and then answer a long list of questions. These questions include everything from what archaeology is to the difference between absolute and relative dating of sites. They are required to research five separate sites, learn about laws that protect archaeological sites, and make a list of household trash that could be interpreted by archaeologists in the future. Needless to say, this badge is no joke! I have supervised nearly forty college students in my time here at the museum and I think that every one of them would be challenged by the requirements of this badge.
Requirement numbers eight and nine are where we came in to the process:
“8. With your counselor’s approval, take part in a simulated archaeological project designed by a qualified archaeologist. The project must include the use of a simulated archaeological site including artifacts and features for the site. Using the steps of archaeological inquiry, analyze the “artifacts and features” and document the spatial relationships of the “artifacts and features” at the simulated site. Explain how the environment and time can affect the interpretation of an artifact and the overall archaeological site. Tell how you would share the results of your analysis with other researchers and the public
Note: To find out how to make a simulated archaeological site, talk with a professional archaeologist, trained avocational archaeologist, museum school instructor, junior high or high school science teacher, advisor from a local archaeology society, or other qualified instructor.
9. Help prepare an archaeological exhibit for display in a museum, visitor center, school, or other public area.”
Phillip Mendenhall is a member of our Natural History Interpreter staff, a volunteer in the Section of Anthropology, a graduate student at the University of Pittsburgh, and a professional archaeologist who has excavated all over the world. To achieve requirement eight, he created a simulated archaeological project in one of the basement classrooms, using dig boxes and artifacts. The Scouts could dig and screen the dirt and map out the features that they discovered. He made a fun learning environment and really taught the Scouts the intricacies of the archaeological process.
I had the pleasure of helping them achieve requirement nine. With the help of Tamara Alchoufete, my work study student from Pitt, and Shari Bechtel, a delightful CMNH Interpreter, we made two large piles of man-made objects. The objects were donated to the museum many years ago, but lack any proper provenance. These unaccessioned teaching tools were sorted by the Scouts into mini exhibits on a large cart and wheeled from the Resource Room outside of Polar World into the public space. The Scouts were organized into four groups of ten. We repeated the same exercise twice before lunchtime and twice after. Each group was accompanied by several Scout leaders and parents. They seemed just as interested as the participants.
They organized the objects by typology, which in archaeology simply means they are classified by their physical characteristics. They made label copies on index cards, describing the objects and their classifications. Once the mini exhibits were wheeled into the museum’s public space, the Scouts entertained questions from patrons. They had grouped the artifacts into categories by color, size, shape, and material. Each Scout was proud of their own mini exhibit and was very excited to tell people about why they had chosen those objects. Some Scouts talked about different stem shapes, while some had discovered all the obsidian tools. Some Scouts went so far as to measure each object and work together as a four-person group to make a cohesive exhibit that flowed nicely from one Scout to the next.
It was a whirlwind of a day and we received excellent feedback from the participants. Seeing the transition from fun to science, as soon as I asked them to put on their rubber gloves, was incredible. Each and every Scout asked relevant questions and made calculated decisions about how to curate their exhibit. It was so fascinating to see their choices and reasoning. I appreciated every unique decision and every kid who asked additional questions about manufacturing techniques and possible cultural groups or time frame. I would like to think that they had the most fun, but I honestly can’t wait to do it again next year!
Carnegie Museum of Natural History regularly hosts events to help Scouts achieve their goals, learn more on our website page for Scouts.
Amy L. Covell-Murthy is the Archaeology Collection Manager at Carnegie Museum of Natural History. Museum employees are encouraged to blog about their unique experiences and knowledge gained from working at the museum.
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Sock Journal: A Tour Through Our New Site
Every time we launch a new version of our site, it’s like getting a makeover. This time, we kept a similar visual style (because we still really liked what we had going), but made a lot of changes to the structure and flow of the site. We’ve been staring at it a lot so it’s pretty obvious to us, but I wanted to take you through the site, and show off all the new shininess!
Home Page
We expanded our home page a little, with some new image links to different sections of the website. You can still see our bestsellers, our recent blog posts, and our Instagram feed, but everything’s shifted around a bit.
One thing I’m strangely captivated by is the little scrolling list at the bottom that shows all the brands we carry, using their lovely logos!
Our header is pretty much the same, but did you notice? We now have a link directly to our House Brands, so you can find all the items we have made especially for us; Dreamer Socks, Dream Stockings, and all the rest!
Multiple Currencies
You can now switch between currencies on the site, so you don’t have spend time calculating conversions in your head. The top of our site features a drop-down menu between US Dollars, Canadian Dollars, Great British Pounds, Euros, Australian Dollars, and New Zealand Dollars.
Item Search
You can search directly for what you’re looking for by typing it into the search at the top right of our page, or you can click on “Shop” to see our full catalog.
Either way, once you’re on our catalog, it’s easy to filter for what you’re looking for using the different categories on the left. You can narrow things down by color, by fabric content, by season, and so many more options! Just use the little arrows to toggle filters up and down.
Item Pages
We’re pretty in love with our new item pages. We’ve made the images a little smaller, so it’s easier to scan between them, and have bumped out basic Sizing Tips to be right below the item’s name, so you don’t have to go hunting for them.
We still have tabs for product details and additional Sizing Tips, and we’ve added a More Information tab where you can see the country of origin, whether or not the item is on clearance, etc.
And if you’re curious what other items are made by the same brand, you can click on their lovely logo to the right.
New Payment Methods & Instant Purchase
We’ve always accepted credit cards and PayPal, but now we’ll also accept Amazon Pay and Apple Pay (in Safari or on a Mac computer).
In addition to that, we’ve added a new feature where customers with a Sock Dreams account can have their credit card information saved for later orders. The first time you checkout, you’ll need to tell it to save your information.
And from then on, no having to search for your credit card when you’re trying to place that last-minute sock order! Just be aware that this only works for single-item purchases. If you want more than one item at a time, you'll need to do it the old fashioned way (although your credit card information will still be stored, so it will still save you a couple steps).
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We’re still working some kinks out with the site, but we’re really happy with how it’s running so far, and excited about the future features this opens up to us. Thank you to everyone who’s stuck with us through this journey; we hope you like the new site as much as we do!
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How and When To Start Amazon FBA Retail Arbitrage/Online Arbitrage
So Amazon retail arbitrage and online arbitrage through Amazon’s FBA program has been booming lately. Why? Because it’s so stinkin’ easy to do! What if I told you that you could buy products at a thrift store or goodwill - or even Walmart - send it in to Amazon and have them sell it for you and do all of the shipping/customer service? Oh, and you get to use Amazon’s shipping rate to send them the products. Sound amazing? I thought so. Now let’s get into the meat and potatoes.
Many people spend hours and hours searching online for side hustles and ways to make money from home, including myself. And trust me I have tried everything from dropshipping to filling out surveys for pennies. None of them were as real and as instant to me as Amazon FBA. That’s why I’ve chosen to hone in on it as my laser focused side hustle that I hope to develop into a main hustle some day.
No, I’m not a guru who has made millions already trying to sell you a course or give you the formula for success. I actually just started doing FBA about a month and a half ago and have just been so enamored with it that I want to share my experiences so far.
So when do I get started?
NOW. It’s that simple. You can literally start by selling things around your house without spending any money. Look for books that you have lying around. I’m sure some of them will make you profit on Amazon.
How do I get started?
You’re going to need an Amazon Seller Professional account, a smartphone, and the Amazon Seller app. Those are the bare minimum, but I will get into the details of what you need to really get started later.
The Amazon Seller app is very easy to use. Most of the time, you will just need to click the camera icon, scan your item’s bar code or label, and see the estimated fees and sales rank of the item on Amazon. Pictures below.
So from the screen above, you would just tap the camera icon to scan a barcode, or tap ‘Add a product’ to search for a product manually.
After searching or scanning, the item hopefully appears on the list. In this case we will just assume the first item shown is the one that we scanned in a store. Click on it for more info.
Here, we see an estimation of fees, our selling eligibility, the sales rank, etc. Basically everything we need to know about making a decision whether or not to buy the product.
To get here, you would just tap the top arrow of the product page which shows the price and fees. Let’s assume we can buy the product in store for $3.00 and estimate $0.50 per pound shipping to Amazon, which is actually a pretty conservative estimate (Amazon gives you crazy good shipping rates). So we’d be spending $3 and making $3.50. Pretty good Return on Investment, right? I’d say so. At this point I’d probably buy the item, but I’d also do one last check before being sure. I’ll bring that up soon below in the optional apps and extensions section.
What Apps/Extensions Are Not Necessary But Recommended?
The below Google Chrome Extensions/websites will save you hours of research and headache. I highly recommend each and every one of them as they are completely free.
The AMZ Scout FBA Calculator
This super powerful tool will allow you to automatically calculate the margin on a product by just clicking the extension icon on an amazon product page and entering the cost you will be buying it for. It will also tell you how many prospective sales the item will get, based on its sales rank. Example pictured below:
https://amzscout.net/
Amazon’s Own Assistant Extension
This Chrome extension is really useful for online arbitrage. If you are on another website and go to a product page, the extension will determine if that product is sold on Amazon, and will tell you how much it is going for. This is very useful when browsing prospective products online. As you can see in the picture below, the banner up top is the notification that alerts you of a product being on Amazon.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/amazon-assistant-for-chro/pbjikboenpfhbbejgkoklgkhjpfogcam
Keepa
Keepa is a generated graph that will show up on every Amazon product page that you go to that will show a myriad of stats over time such as sales rank, number of sellers, price variation, and whether or not Amazon itself is on the listing.
SIDE NOTE/PRO TIP: DO NOT BUY AN ITEM FOR RESELL IF AMAZON.COM IS ON THE LISTING. It will be very hard to win the buy box (the price of the seller that show when you go to the product page) over them, even if your price is lower. You are subject to their rules and algorithm. If you think you can sell it for a lot less than Amazon, be my guest. But in most cases, stay away from items that Amazon sells. Going back to the Amazon Seller app, you can actually see if Amazon sells an item within the app, so it is a good test to use if you are in store and can’t see a keepa graph, Shown below, after clicking on the second bar/arrow that says ‘offers’ on the product page in the Amazon Seller app, you can see each offer, the name of the seller, and their price.
So in this case, the very top offer is from Amazon.com. We DO NOT want to buy this product. It is Amazon’s website so they will obviously give themselves sales over you. Another thing to note is to not pay too much attention to prices that do not have the prime icon beside them. Since you are doing FBA, you’ll be sending your items to a fulfillment center, which allows your items to be shipped with prime, and prime items, in most cases, win the buy box over non-prime items since they can be shipped super fast and free.
Shown below are two keepa graphs. The first is a listing that Amazon is on. The yellow block shows that Amazon has been selling the item for all of the last three months. You can also see many other data points, which can be tweaked and played with.
The next keepa graph is what you want to see when you view a listing. Amazon has not been on the listing at all for the last three months, the sales rank is fluctuating but still very low which is good. And the price has stayed steady. I f I could get this product cheaper than the price on Amazon, it would definitely be a good arbitrage opportunity.
https://keepa.com/#!
Jungle Scout FBA Estimator
This helpful tool is one more way to confirm or contradict your findings against the AMZ Scout FBA calculator. Plug in the sales rank, country, and category, and the estimator will tell you how many sales that item should get per month. I like to use both tools to make sure the data from one source is not skewed. Below is an example:
In this case, our item has a sales rank of 100,000 in Kitchen and Dining. Jungle Scout predicts we will sell 30 units a month. That is definitely a buy situation. I generally tend to stay away from items with a sales rank over 250,000, but all categories are different. For example, in Books I will buy all the way up to a 3,000,000 sales rank because they sell at a much higher rate on Amazon than Kitchen items. But it is always great to just plug in the numbers here and see what you get, especially if you are in store and the only data you have are the category and sales rank that you were provided in the Amazon Seller app after scanning the item’s bar code.
https://www.junglescout.com/estimator/
Wrapping Up
I hope, if anything, I have motivated you to start FBA retail and online arbitrage. If anything else, I hope you got some good insight on how to begin creating your own product analysis method. I have also started a youtube channel with FBA related videos. I only have one video so far, but I’ll link it below. Go check it out if you are still interested. I show one of my online arbitrage sourcing techniques in it so hopefully it will provide you some value. Cheers!
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Telemedicine App Development Step by Step:
The COVID-19 pandemic has magnified the need for technological advancements in the healthcare sector. It has given rise to Telemedicine App Development, which was not practically adopted before 2019. Telehealth apps, Telemedicine platforms are boons that served millennial people in the pandemic crisis.
A popular survey from US News depicts that Telemedicine utilization has grown from 1000% to 4000% in a single month in 2020. Not only this, the Telemedicine market is expected to grow by $431.82 billion US dollars by 2030. After witnessing such trends, one can easily estimate the success of the Telemedicine App Development solution worldwide.
What is Telemedicine?
Telemedicine is the major subsidiary term of Telehealth services. It is better understood in layman terminology as the initiative to provide healthcare facilities via video-calling, with patients being at their place only.
In scientific terms, It is better understood as the use of medical information exchanged from one location to other, utilizing electronic communications to make the better health status of a patient. Telemedicine provides a growing variety of software and services that use two-way video, e-mail, mobile phones, wireless devices, and other types of telecommunications technology.
What Are the Types of Telemedicine?
Telemedicine App Development Companies has described these platforms as three main categories:
Store-and-forward telemedicine
Remote Patient Monitoring
Real-Time Telemedicine
Entire healthcare facilities under Telemedicine revolve around these three prominent categories. Among these, remote patient monitoring (RPM) is the most popular one.
Telemedicine App Development Guide:
How to build Telemedicine App Development? This is the prominent question, healthcare providers ask a Telemedicine app development company. Therefore, we have shared some crucial steps for building telemedicine apps.
Step#1: Evaluate Your Idea
Before developing a telemedicine app you should be clear in your mind about why you want to develop this app. This is necessary to build a valuable application that will meet demand. Below are some steps to successfully evaluate your idea.
a.Conduct business analysis:
This stage will help you to define your target audience. Business analysis will help you to identify your audience has problems and how your app can solve those problems. You may develop your application for clinics, dermatologists, physicians, psychologists, etc.
b.Research the market and your competitors:
In this stage identify the telemedicine market leaders and potential competitors. Conduct an in-depth study of their strengths and weaknesses, ratings, and user reviews. Adopt their strengths and learn from their weaknesses. Pay close attention to their prices, and platforms.
c.Define a unique value proposition:
Every business has its USP and those who don’t have don’t survive for a longer time. This is why your telemedicine app must offer unique features to have an edge over your competitors.
Step#2: Consult a Telemedicine Service Provider
The next step you need to do is to find a Healthcare IT solution that can build your telemedicine application. There are millions of telemedicine app development companies in the world. The question is which one you would choose.
For this you should conduct research on various mobile app developers and compare them on the basis of price and expertise. You have to search for different websites to discover the development companies. After this step, you need to fill out the contact form or mobile project cost calculator and tell us as many details about your telemedicine software as possible to the mobile app development company.
Blog Source: https://www.dreamsoft4u.com/blog/step-by-step-process-of-telemedicine-app-development
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