MindMaple is a mind mapping software that can be used in a variety of creative ways. Mind mapping allows users to organize thoughts and ideas in a visual map. This helps you to make new insightful connections between ideas and creates a great opportunity for collaboration and team brainstorming. Mind mapping is also a great tool for note-taking, organizing schedules and projects, and more.
This image, made using MindMaple, illustrates how mind mapping can be used for organizing notes and outlines:
MindMaple just launched a free version of their software, called MindMaple Lite. MindMaple Lite features the same intuitive interface and essential features as the full version of Mindmaple. Best of all, it’s free! You can download MindMaple Lite from the MindMaple company website, www.mindmaple.com.
To celebrate the launch of MindMaple Lite, MindMaple is sponsoring a mind mapping contest and offering a $250 Amazon.com gift card to the winner. To enter, send an original, creative mind map made using Mindmaple to office@mindmaple.com and like the MindMaple facebook page (www.facebook.com/mindmaple). A winner will be announced on June 15.
The full version of MindMaple offers additional options for design and export, and is available for a $9.99 annual subscription or a $49.99 lifetime license.
Even though you’re a young, healthy adult you still need health insurance in case you get sick or injured. Some college students don’t get sick often, but having insurance means paying less for everyday prescriptions like birth control, and gives you a financial cushion in case you break a bone or get into a car accident.
Luckily as a college student, you can stay on your parents’ health insurance until you’re 26, thanks to President Obama. But if you can’t or don’t want to go through your parents, you can still find affordable health insurance on your own.
Many universities offer their students health insurance plans, but sometimes they aren’t the best policies you can get for your money. Finding affordable health insurance is easier than you think since you can get quotes online. It’s also easier once you have your own health insurance policy to continue it when you get older if your employer doesn’t offer their own.
Finding student health plans is a simple matter of comparison shopping online. There are plenty of websites available to help you find the best health insurance policy, that will fit your lifestyle and your budget. Find quotes for affordable health insurance here.
Over the years, scientists have been discovering new and improved ways to reduce the amount of bacteria and disease in hospitals. From cleansing the hands every few minutes, to changing the entire medical uniform, drastic changes are constantly being made with the nursing and hospital staff to ensure the safety, health and well-being of all the patients that enter the hospitals and surgeries on a daily basis.
Nurses have been known to wear uniforms for years; however, surgeons would perform operations in the everyday clothes. The beginning of the 1900s saw the introduction of nursing scrubs, which came about as an attempt to “scrub up” the medical environment and make it a cleaner and more hygienic place for everybody.
Whereas uniform was once not a very big issue in hospitals, it’s now one of the most important things. Doctors began wearing masks in the early 20th century; however, it was more for their own safety than for the safety and well-being of their patients. Now, doctors, dentists and nurses are required to wear masks, gloves and other necessary equipment that will keep both them and the patient as hygienic and as safe as possible.
If you visit a hospital, you’ll find that you need to wash your hands when you come into the hospital, before you leave and possibly at various intervals during your visit. While this seems tiring and tedious most of the time, it’s a very important factor in helping you, the medical staff and the patients remain clean.
Although we take nurse scrubs for granted, the history behind them is really quite fascinating. The materials used and the nature of medical scrubs are the ideal things to use for staying hygienic and as clean as possible whilst in the hospital.
You already spend money at major retailers like Kohl’s, Home Depot and Petsmart…what if you could earn cash back for making purchases you already make? Well, you can. Mission Tuition is an organization that will give you cash rebates to use toward college expenses for shopping at major retailers.
How it Works
The process is quick and easy, and best of all, FREE. You signup on their website and shop like you normally would. Then you earn cash back to use toward college expenses. You can request a check or have the money deposited into your 529 tax deferred savings account.
Participating Stores
You can shop online or in-store at an incredible amount of retailers, like Petco, Nordstrom, AutoZone, Old Navy, Groupon and more. Here is the full list of participating merchants.
Why Mission Tuition
There are a few other websites out there that offer a similar service, but Mission Tuition offers the best deals. They have an incredible amount of retailers you can shop with to earn money for college. Since most of you are students and also adults, you can signup and your parents can sign up. The more you buy through this program, the more money you earn. You don’t have to buy anything you normally don’t so it’s a win-win.
Thanks to Darwin Barton
Living with my parents and trying to date has been so bad. They watch me like a hawk and want to know every detail about my life. I would love to be living on my own, but right now it’s not an option for me. I graduated from college last year, and I haven’t been able to find a full time job. I’ve been able to cobble together a few odd jobs for an income, but it’s not stable, and I don’t want to move out until I have a steady full time job. My parents are very generous, and I feel lucky that I have a nice place to live, but they drive me crazy sometimes. They have this fancy adt security system set up, so the door beeps when I come in at night. I cannot believe they do this, but they both get up when they hear me come in so they can hear all the details about my dates. Some nights I just don’t feel like talking about it, especially not to my parents. As a coping mechanism I’ve started to make up outlandish stories so that they’ll get the point. I don’t think it’s working. They just get more interested and want to know more. I have no idea what I can do to get them off my back!
Thanks for the guest post by Donn Schroeder
At the end of the month, we will be moving into a new house. My three daughters are not happy about the move, but it is coming whether they like it or not. My wife has wanted to move into a bigger house for the past two years, so when we saved enough money for a down payment, we found the house we liked and decided to go for it. I am not thrilled about having to set up all of our utilities and all of the other headaches that come with moving, but at least our energy bill will already be taken care of. I went online to texaselectricityproviders.com/ and found out that we will be eligible for fixed-rate energy, so that will be one less thing to worry about once we are in our new house. My daughters keep complaining about how they are going to have to make all new friends at their new schools, but I keep telling them that they will have no problems making friends. They will still be able to keep in touch with their current friends because we will only be one district away from their current school district. I think the move will be good for everyone.
Guest post written by Rachel Stinton
It wasn’t until recently that I started thinking about how a lot of the things in our home aren’t exactly safe for a baby. But then again, I guess that you don’t really think about that stuff until you’re actually going to have a baby. But now that’s basically all that I can think about. So far we’ve been concentrating on just baby proofing all of the house, but now we’re starting on decorating the actual nursery.
I’ve been looking online for some info on nursery decorations to get some inspiration for our own. While I was online looking up some of that stuff, I ran across some info on tile floors. We could use some replacement flooring in our bathrooms, so I think that we’re going to use them for that.
But I also found lots of ideas for the baby’s nursery, like some directions on how to make a DIY mobile. It’s little touches like that, that I want to include in the nursery to help make it extra special for the new baby.
