Sunday, February 21, 2016

How to Make Money Right Now

If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.

If you need to make money quickly, there are several ways that you can do so without becoming overwhelmed or stressed. First, you need to ask yourself just how quickly you need it. Do you need it today to pay a bill or do you have a few weeks? Do you have to have the cash in your hand or can you wait a month to send an invoice? Asking yourself these important questions can help you to decide exactly what you need to do to make this side cash happen. If you need ideas, please check out the examples below, which are broken down by category.

Extremely Fast

If you need money today, there are a few ways that you can get it. First, head to Facebook and ask if any of your friends need a babysitter for that night. Make sure that you describe why you would be a good babysitter, including any previous experience you may have had working with children and ideas you have for making the night fun for them.

While you are waiting for someone to respond, head to your closet and see what clothes you no longer wear. Take these clothes to a store like Plato’s Closet, where they will sort through items and give you cash on the spot. Remember, many secondhand stores also take shoes, purses, and jewelry. When you bring your items, make sure they are clean and organized. If you go to Plato’s closet and dump out wrinkly clothes on the counter, they will not be impressed. If you go in there with ironed clothes that are all sitting neatly on hangers, you will have a much better chance of selling them.

If that doesn’t work, remember that you can head to a Pawn Shop. Pawn Shops can give you loans on items you love or cash for items you no longer want. Remember to read the contract of any Pawn Shop you do business with. For example, most of them will claim ownership of your item if you don’t pay the loan back in a few days. If you have a unique item and they aren’t sure what it is, be sure to describe it to them in detail so that you can get the best offer possible.

Lastly, if you have a few pieces of furniture you no longer want, you can list them on Craigslist. If it’s a desirable item, it’s very likely that someone will come pick it up the same day you list it and give you cash for it. Make sure to take pictures of your item for your ad in a bright, sunny room. Stand back far from the item and zoom in. This is better than trying to get a detail shot. You don’t need a fancy camera to sell items quickly. You just need a simple camera and a lot of sunlight to get the job done.

A Few Days

If you have a few days before a large bill is due, you’re in good shape. One of the best things you can do to make money is hold a garage sale. I try to hold a garage sale once a year, and I consistently make $200-$500 every time I host one.

If you’re going to have a garage sale, the only way for it to be successful is to be organized. Make sure you sort through your items carefully andlabel them with prices. Many people are too bashful to ask what the price of an item is, so if they are unsure, they might walk away. Also, check to see that everything you sell is clean, washed, and tidy. Clothes that are pressed and hung up on a line will sell much faster than a pile of clothes in a box. You should also advertise your sale with big, bright signs that have large letters and are easy to read. Also, place an ad on Craigslist.com with great pictures of your products. This will act as a “sneak peek” to those who love frequenting garage sales.

Another way to make money if you only have a few days is to sell items on eBay. You can typically set items to sell in just a few days, and you can have the money in your PayPal account instantly. If you are going to sell on eBay, you have to have excellent pictures. To achieve this, make sure to take photos of your items in a place where they have enough light. Make sure pictures aren’t blurry, and write as much detail as possible in the itemdescription in clear, easy to understand English.

A Few Weeks

If you have a few weeks to spare, and you want to try to make some side income, you definitely have the time to develop a side business. All you need to do is identify a talent that you have. This could mean refinishing furniture, freelance writing, mowing the lawn, building websites, helping a business with their social media, editing videos, or anything else you can think of. These jobs might take a few weeks to create and promote, but once you do, you could easily make thousands of dollars a year.

Some great websites to look into for promoting your side business areFiverr.com, Elance.com, and Odesk.com. Remember that when you set up profiles for these websites, you are representing your company and your brand. Describe your services in great detail. Make sure that you have no grammatical errors in the description. It’s also wise to include a portfolio, links to your work, or recommendations from others. Additionally, remember that if you choose to build up a side gig business, reputation is everything. Whether you are working for a close friend or a stranger online, make sure that you always produce top quality work so that it can lead to referrals down the line.

All you need for this money making tactic to work is a little bit of time, patience, and a very strong work ethic.

Ultimately, you can see that making money quickly is not as hard as you think. Once you know your time frame and exactly how much extra money you need to make, you can set goals and work your hardest to achieve them.

Do you know of any other ways to make money quickly? Have you ever tried one of the tactics above?

Full > http://www.lifehack.org/articles/money/how-to-make-money-right-now.html

11 Herb And Spices As Salt Alternatives

Here goes a saying, nothing beats the taste of salt. True as it sounds, salt is widely used by all of us to cook. Most of the packaged food that we die to eat is preserved using salt as this acts as a main preservative.

However, salt to a larger extent is a component that is the basic cause for people to get various kind of diseases. These disease varies from hyperthyroidism to high blood pressure. Sodium is the main element found in salt. And at the same time, sodium can also be found in most of the natural herbs that we use in our daily cooking.

Most of the foods contains a decent amount of sodium in their natural state. Many herbs and spices that we find in our kitchen are not just known for their distinct taste but also for their medicinal values.

In order to enhance the taste of your food, without adding salt, substitute it with natural herbs and spices. These can act as salt alternatives or salt substitutes. Herbs and spices like pepper, garlic, ginger, basil and cardamom have the ability to transform a simple dish into a sensuous eating experience of lively and refreshing flavors. These spices surely promises to excite your taste buds.

Here are few salt alternatives or salt substitutes that can be used to prepare meals. These spices and herbs are low in sodium, and are equally healthy & tasty.

8 Great Reasons To Start Seeing A Shrink Now

Talk therapy gets a bad rap sometimes. For many, it is something only weak people do, a thing they would never need and something to be deeply ashamed of doing. To them "analysis" is a self indulgent, obnoxious thing to talk about and something only crazy people utilize.

This is not the background I come from. It might be because my mother WAS a shrink, but in my family and among many of my friends, having a therapist was par for the course.

It's actually a great thing to do. Even if you don't have a "reason" to go to therapy (like a trauma or some deep secret), the reality is that therapy can be beneficial for everyone. It's a chance to talk and talk to someone who has nothing to gain or lose from you. A neutral party whose sole purpose is to help you What could be wrong with that? Here are 8 great reasons to consider therapy now:

You are not sure what to do with your life: A therapist can help you determine a good path that utilizes your best qualities and helps you downplay your worst.
You keep having the same fight with friends: If you are like many people, you keep making the same friendship mistakes again. And again. And again. A therapist can help you figure out why.
You want to make your marriage stronger: You know what helps a marriage? Time apart. Time to reflect. Better ways of communication. These are all things a good shrink can help you with.
You have a boss you hate: Don't vent to your boss. Don't storm out in a huff. Talk to your therapist. He or she can help you find ways of making work more tolerable.
Motherhood is overwhelming you: You know those moments you just want to SCREAM? Talk to someone about it. Spend an hour working on coping mechanisms. It's better than Yoga.
Your schedule is overwhelming: It may seem counter-intuitive to add YET another appointment to your insane week, but therapists can actually help you figure out what you can let go of, what you can outsource, and what you need to keep come hell or high water.
You stress eat: If you are using other unhealthy means of coping -- eating, smoking, drinking -- therapy can give your head the space to figure out why. And help you to stop it.
You are having nightmares: No matter what the reason, a good therapist can help you sort out what is happening in your waking life that is making it all worse.

Do all these things sound normal? It's because they are. People can go to therapy to help make their every day lives a little easier. The end. No shame in that, right?

Would you ever see a shrink?

*I speak by phone with my shrink often and see him twice a year.

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Are Children Medicated for Convenience, or Necessity?

By Dr. Mercola

Millions of children are taking powerful mind-altering drugs, often before they're even old enough to attend school. The long-term effects of psychotropic drugs on children are largely unknown, while serious short-term side effects are unfortunately common, including seizures, suicidal ideation, violent behavior and more.

According to WebMD,1 nearly five million American children have been labeled with some type of serious mental disorder. In any given year, 20 percent of children will be diagnosed with a mental illness.

The most common diagnosis for kids age 3 to 17 is ADHD, followed by behavioral problems, anxiety and depression,2 and many of these children are being prescribed powerful and potentially dangerous psychiatric drugs.

The BBC documentary "America's Medicated Kids" takes a look at several families with children on psychiatric medications. Journalist Louis Theroux gets a close look at some of these kids and their families by actually living with them for a time, hoping to understand what drives parents to put their kids on drugs.

Bad Behavior or Pathology?

Theroux identifies a fine line between ordinary bad behavior and pathology and poses the question of whether the latest drugs are taking the place of "good old-fashioned parenting."3

What happens to children when they are medicated at a very young age, during some key formative years? Do they grow up never knowing who they really are? What passions might they have developed were it not for the drug's influence?

Psychotropic agents can influence a child's brain development, and chronic drug exposure during sensitive periods can produce alterations of his or her nervous system that have unpredictable and potentially harmful effects.

Behavioral problems in children—including what might appear to be serious mental disorders—are frequently related to improper diet, emotional upset and exposure to toxins. These underlying issues should be resolved before suppressing symptoms with potentially dangerous medications.

The Diagnosis of Mental Illness in Children Is Subjective

The diagnosis of mental illness in children is far from an exact science. Modern psychiatry has expanded its reach to the point that even the most normal of emotions and mental states are now labeled as one "disorder" or another.

In many cases a child is labeled with a "disorder" such as ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) based on subjective observations of behaviors that nearly all children exhibit at some time or another, such as excessive fidgeting or becoming angry after losing a game.

Ironically many of these behaviors are a result of forcing children into unhealthy patterns like sitting in a chair at their desk for 6-8 hours, which will not only contribute to the restlessness diagnosed as ADHD, but also increase their risk for a variety of diseases.

The Rampant Misuse of Psychiatric Drugs

Data from the National Health Interview Survey (2011-2012)4 revealed that 7.5 percent of American children ages 6 through 17 take a medication prescribed for emotional or behavioral difficulties.

In recent years, there has been a stunning increase in off-label use of atypical antipsychotics. While most are approved only for the treatment of serious mental illnesses such as schizophrenia, this class of drugs is now increasingly prescribed for children anxiety, insomnia, and/or behavior problems.

Children as young as 18 months are now receiving them, despite the fact that the diseases they're designed to treat rarely develop before adolescence.

Sales of antipsychotic drugs for children have increased eight-fold since 1993. Sales to teens have quintupled, while adult sales doubled in the same time frame. In 2008, an estimated $6 billion was spent on off-label antipsychotics in the US, of which $5.4 billion was for uses based on uncertain science.

Aggressive, and oftentimes illegal, marketing by drug companies is believed to be a major contributing factor to skyrocketing misuse of antipsychotic drugs in children. In recent years, a number of major manufacturers of atypical antipsychotics has been caught illegally marketing their drugs for unapproved uses in children and adolescents.

Foster children are prescribed psychotropics at a rate 12 times higher than other children on Medicaid. The high rates of psychotropic drug use among foster children and poor children are likely a direct result of drug company tactics that target doctors in the Medicaid program, influencing them to prescribe more drugs to this population.

ADHD Is Overdiagnosed and Overmedicated

ADHD seems to have become the catchall designation for children who do not "behave well," which is the subject of another excellent documentary, The Drugging of Our Children. One study5 estimated that 20 percent of children have likely been misdiagnosed, which amounts to nearly one million children in the US alone.

In 2010, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) claimed that one in 10 American children had ADHD, representing a 22 percent increase since 2003.6

Many of these kids are diagnosed based on highly subjective observations of parents, teachers and guardians, and about two-thirds of those children were put on some form of prescription medication. In 2011, 48.4 million prescriptions for ADHD stimulants were written, up 39 percent from 2007.

ADHD drugs are indeed powerful mind-altering hard-core drugs, regulated by the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) as controlled substances because they can lead to dependence.

ADHD drugs include amphetamines (Adderall) and stimulants (Ritalin and Concerta)7 with well-established risks, including heart attacks, strokes, and seizures. ADHD drugs can also stunt your child's growth or delay puberty.

It isn't just stimulants that have exploded in number—benzodiazepines (for anxiety) and narcotics (for pain) are on the rise as well, and all pose serious risks for children. Taking a narcotic painkiller for 180 days or longer can increase your risk of depression by 53 percent.

ADHD drugs, by definition, stimulate a child's central nervous system and may interfere with the intricate workings of his or her brain and personality. In 2011, ADHD drugs were responsible for nearly 23,000 emergency room visits, representing a 400 percent increase in just six years. For example, according to the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA),8 Ritalin's potential side effects include the following:

Full > http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2014/12/20/medicated-kids.aspx

Saturday, February 20, 2016

Study Materials For Law School

The goal of this site is to solve something I found annoying when I was in law school- finding the right additional materials.
For whatever reason, law professors seem to downplay the need for additional materials like practice tests and study aids, and finding them on your own can be a bit tricky since practice tests disappear from the web as fast as they're posted, new editions of supplements come out all the time, and it is hard to even know which supplements are useful.
That bugged me when I was in law school, so I put this list together in case you find it useful. I got a lot of help from a lot of other former and present law students as well, including those on Reddit and the Top Law Schools forum, and this list represents the input of a lot of people. Many thanks to everybody who has given suggestions!
Some of the recommendations have been hotly debated, so not every study aid I recommend is universally seen as the best, but they do generally represent the consensus of everyone who has weighed in.
Please, email me if you see anything that needs to be updated or anything you think would be useful to add!

Courses

1.	Administrative Law
2.	Antitrust
3.	Bankruptcy
4.	Civil Procedure
5.	Constitutional Law
6.	Contracts
7.	Corporations
8.	Criminal Law
9.	Criminal Procedure
10.	Employment Law
11.	Evidence
12.	Family Law
13.	Federal Courts
14.	Intellectual Property
15.	International Law
16.	Professional Responsibility
17.	Property
18.	Tax
19.	Torts
	Wills and Trusts

General Background Materials About the Law,

Lawyers and Law School

1.	Getting to Maybe
2.	One L.
3.	Bleak House
4.	The Legal Analyst
5.	The Paper Chase

Updated December 2015

List of Free Online Cooking Classes, Courses and Learning Materials

Free Online Class Info

Free online cooking classes, courses and learning materials aren't commonly offered through public or not-for-profit private schools. If a student completes a free online cooking class, it's for personal fulfillment as he or she won't be able to earn college credit.

Free Online Cooking Classes

Cooking Techniques at BBC

The BBC offers free training through easy, intermediate and advanced videos that are followed by explanatory articles. These lessons are separated into 6 categories that cover topics in fruit and vegetables, meat, fish, desserts, pastries, sauces and pasta preparation. Depending on the category, students may learn how to roast a duck, dice an onion, skin a tomato, fillet cooked fish, knead bread dough, ice a cupcake or skin flatfish.

Cooking with the Times at the New York Times

The New York Times offers 39 cooking lessons that cover topics including lasagna, pizza, calamari, side dishes, fish, deep-frying and omelets. Each lesson provides recipes and cooking tips. Some lessons also provide video guides.

Dinner Tonight at Texas A&M

This program offers free cooking videos that demonstrate healthy dinner recipes. Videos are typically less than 10 minutes each and include step-by-step instructions using basic cooking techniques. These lessons cover various recipes, including guilt-free chicken enchiladas, apple tuna salad and zesty lemon chicken. Students can also find a number of printable recipes.

Gluten-Free Online Cooking Class: Eat Freely with Cybele at Glutenfreeda

Glutenfreeda caters to students who wish to cook without ingredients that contain common allergens. Students can find free lessons that show them how to cook allergen-friendly fudge, macaroni and cheese, pancakes, corndogs and crab cakes. In addition to training videos, students can find ingredient lists and recipe directions.

How to Cook at Delia Online

This program features categories that specialize in cooking poultry, meat, eggs, fish, pasta, fruit and vegetables. Each category offers training for various techniques by offering step-by-step instructions that are accompanied by visual references. This website also offers recipes for students to cook after they feel confident in their training.

How to Videos at Allrecipes.com

Students can use this free resource to access over 90 cooking tutorials. Each lesson consists of a video tutorial and description article. Students can find videos that show them how to make deviled eggs, grill steak, stir-fry, scramble eggs, cut mangos, roast garlic and freeze cookies.

Kitchen Chemistry at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

With resources including homework assignments and related readings, this course uses cooking to provide hands-on chemistry training. The required book for this course isn't included for free. Topics found during this course cover pancakes, bread, cheese, molecular gastronomy, spaghetti, coffee and meringues.

Online Cooking Class at Chef2chef.net

Chef2chef's course covers basic and advanced cooking techniques, including cooking meat, using herbs, working with seafood, creating sauces, assembling appetizers, cooking vegetables and using pastry dough. Lessons include written instructions with the ingredients and preparation steps instead of visual guides.

The Professional Chef Discovers Beef at the Culinary Institute of America

In this course, students can learn how to prepare Spanish, Mexican, Mediterranean and Asian beef-based appetizers. This free online course encourages students to experiment with flavors and learn about different traditions. Students may learn how to cook beef by reading 9 pages of information and following the attached recipes.

U.S.A. Peanuts and World Flavors at the Culinary Institute of America

This online course is presented by the National Peanut Board and the Culinary Institute of America. This course teaches the history of the peanut and how it can be incorporated into a cooking routine. Students can learn about the many uses and distinct tastes of peanuts through various articles. There are links to 25 recipes featuring peanuts. The resources list features books that can be purchased and sources for recipe ingredients.

Full > http://tinyurl.com/zadbvfj

*All prepared dishes, custom creations by, "Niko J"

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