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6 Online Tools That Will Help The Writing Process. Writing can be a difficult task for many students.

6 Online Tools That Will Help The Writing Process

Some have trouble getting started, others have trouble staying on task, and many struggle with both. Staying focused when you’re sitting at your computer and somewhat uninspired can be a disaster waiting to happen – there’s a lot of stuff to waste time with on The Interwebs! The Internet can be a huge distraction, but it can also be the tool that helps to make you a more efficient and better writer. In fact, there are many online tools you can start using today and start getting the work done more quickly, efficiently, and effectively. English Grammar Infographics. Download all the tenses infographics in one PDF file here:

English Grammar Infographics

CALLIHOO Writing Helps. Character Feelings You can describe your character's feelings in more exact terms than just "happy" or "sad.

CALLIHOO Writing Helps

" This Website Lets You Chat With Your Future Self. Forget your plans for 2015.

This Website Lets You Chat With Your Future Self

A wise person would plan farther out than a year. But what is it going to be like in 20 years? If only there was some way to ask. A new site called Future Self lets you. And the person you're asking is a creepy, older version of yourself. The site was created as an ad campaign for Orange, a European telecom company (this explains why it seems like you'll have a British accent in the future) to celebrate its 20th anniversary.

"We wanted to do something fun, and digital, and not focused on the past," says Anne Imbert, from Orange's global brand team. The project pushes the boundaries of what's possible for real-time simulation. 56 Bizarre Things That Happened In 2014 - BuzzFeed News. 17 People Who Made Hilariously Terrible Analogies. 47 Incredibly Unique Books To Buy Everyone On Your List. 13 Excruciating Problems Only Smart People Understand. The 50 Cutest Things That Happened This Year. 37 Things That Will Make You Grin Like A Goddamned Fool. 37 Things That Will Make You Grin Like A Goddamned Fool. 22 Awkward Moments: How You Should React Vs. How You Want To React.

37 Things That Will Make You Grin Like A Goddamned Fool. The 24 Most Unforgettable Movie Quotes Of 2014. 27 Things That Changed The Way We Think About Health In 2014. 27 Things That Changed The Way We Think About Health In 2014. 21 Language Sins That Will Send You Straight To Spooky Grammar Hell. Ambiguous Words. Useful-Internet. Fonts. This is What it Sounds Like When You Put Tree Rings on a Record Player. This is an excerpt from the record Years, created by Bartholomäus Traubeck, which features seven recordings from different Austrian trees including Oak, Maple, Walnut, and Beech.

This is What it Sounds Like When You Put Tree Rings on a Record Player

What you are hearing is an Ash tree’s year ring data. Every tree sounds vastly unique due to varying characteristics of the rings, such as strength, thickness and rate of growth. Keep in mind that the tree rings are being translated into the language of music, rather than sounding musical in and of themselves. Welcome to Donger List - A Donger is a set of unicode characters assembled to form a text emoticon. Sometimes also refered to as emojicons, emoticons, kaomoji, kawaii faces, Japanese emoticons, or text faces.

Zenhabits. Ninite - Install or Update Multiple Apps at Once. 16 GIFs To Make You A Mechanism Expert. CALLIHOO Writing Helps. 40 Genius Travel Tips That Will Change Your Life Forever. My secret to getting rid of burnout permanently. Posted: August 2nd, 2014 | Author: Kent Nguyen | Filed under: Personal, Perspective | 42 Comments » Having picked my own path for the last couple of years, there were times when I got completely burnt out as often as once every few days.

My secret to getting rid of burnout permanently

Like everyone else, I was struggling and I needed to get back on my feet as quickly as possible. I have no choice but to figure out how to deal with burnout more effective, my business needs me. There are no shortage of articles about burnout and how to prevent it. Yet I find most of those rather generic and not exactly helpful in remediating the situation. I found the solution to be a very simple and repeatable process, so I decided to put them down into words with the hope it could reach out to more people.

16 Images That Prove Just How Much Movie Makeup Can Change An Actor's Face. Heart disease: not just a man's problem - Health & Wellbeing. By Bianca Nogrady When you think of a candidate for a heart attack, you probably don't think of a woman.

Heart disease: not just a man's problem - Health & Wellbeing

But heart disease is the biggest killer of women in Australia, yet many aren't aware of their risks. [Image source: iStockPhoto | atomich] Picture someone having a heart attack, and most likely, the image you see is of an older man, clutching his chest and wincing. What you're less likely to picture is a younger woman, maybe in her forties, with some shortness of breath, struggling with fatigue, complaining about an ache in her jaw or her arm but deciding not to go to the doctor because she doesn't have chest pain. But we need to shift our thinking as heart disease is the number one killer of women in Australia. Weather Pictures From Your Shot. Before Stonehenge. They had Stone Age technology, but their vision was millennia ahead of their time.

Before Stonehenge

Five thousand years ago the ancient inhabitants of Orkney—a fertile, green archipelago off the northern tip of modern-day Scotland—erected a complex of monumental buildings unlike anything they had ever attempted before. They quarried thousands of tons of fine-grained sandstone, trimmed it, dressed it, then transported it several miles to a grassy promontory with commanding views of the surrounding countryside. Their workmanship was impeccable. The imposing walls they built would have done credit to the Roman centurions who, some 30 centuries later, would erect Hadrian’s Wall in another part of Britain.

Cloistered within those walls were dozens of buildings, among them one of the largest roofed structures built in prehistoric northern Europe.

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