Problem: Write an article based on this summary: Weigh the cremated remains using a pound scale. Determine the kind of urns that you want. Select urns with a combined size that accommodates the remains. Divide the weight of the remains by the number of people. Find urns through an online retailer and have them delivered. Ask a funeral home or crematorium to divide your remains.

Answer: After receiving your cremated remains, they will be stored in either a polyethylene bag protected by a plastic box, cardboard box, or temporary plastic urn. Carefully remove the bag from its container and place it onto a pound scale. As a rule of thumb, 1 cubic inch (0.016 L) of urn space is necessary for every 1 pound (0.45 kg) of body weight. For example, if the deceased weighed 150 pounds (68 kg), they will need an urn that is at least 150 cubic inches (2.5 L). There are plenty of urn types to choose from. Make sure all family and friends keeping portions of the remains find the kind of urn that they would like. Display urns are ideal if you're going to be putting your remains in your home or other location. If you want to store your urns in a columbarium (public storage sites for funeral urns), you need to choose urn materials that are designed to last and the proper size for the storage niche.  Keepsake urns are typically in the form of jewelry or mini-urns. Display urns are typically made from ceramic, metal, marble, stone, wood, or glass. Columbarium urns are usually made from marble, glass, or brass. If you're scattering ashes, lightweight urns with removable lids are ideal. Land burials usually require biodegradable urns. There are 5 common urn types: extra small, small, medium, large, and extra large. Each category corresponds with a specific weight range. Use the weight of the bag to select urns within the appropriate size ranges.  Extra small urns are around 25 cubic inches (0.41 L), and small urns are between 26 and 50 cubic inches (0.43 and 0.82 L). Medium urns are between 51 and 125 cubic inches (0.84 and 2.05 L), and large urns are between 126 and 200 cubic inches (2.06 and 3.28 L). Anything over 200 cubic inches (3.3 L) is considered extra large. You can determine the number of remain containers you need by dividing the weight by the number of people who want keepsakes.  For example, if the deceased was 150 pounds (68 kg), you need 150 cubic inches (2.5 L) of space. To find out how many urns are needed for 8 people, divide 150 by 8, which leaves you with 18.75. This means 8 urns that accommodate 18.75 cubic inches (0.3 L) in total is sufficient. Keepsake urns are typically extra small [around 25 cubic inches (0.41 L)] and small between 26 to 50 cubic inches (0.43 to 0.82 L). Some are as much as 100 cubic inches (1.6 L). You can purchase urns from online retailers, which gives you access to a much wider selection. And thanks to the Federal Trade Commission's Funeral Rule, funeral providers cannot legally refuse to use urns or caskets you purchase somewhere else or charge you an additional fee for accommodating these urns. Urn vendors will usually offer the option of shipping directly to the funeral home or crematorium of your choice, and you don't have to be there when your urns are delivered. Do this after purchasing urns from these businesses or purchasing them online and having them delivered. You can ask the staff to transfer the ashes into the requested number of urns that you need for an extra fee.  Cremations typically cost around $2,000, although prices are as low as $1,000 without any extra services, such as division or memorial. Most cemeteries have columbaria on-site, which is usually an extra $1,000 for storage. Check the following resource to find services near you: https://www.bbb.org/.


Problem: Write an article based on this summary: Build your email list. Promise privacy. Create different email lists.

Answer: The three most important groups to market to via email are your current customers, past customers, and prospective customers. Use a spreadsheet to create a database of their names and email addresses. If you don’t already have the email addresses, you’ll need to start collecting them. To build your list, use your website, storefront, front desk, and every phone call to request your visitor's email address.  Keep a clipboard at the front desk or storefront of your business for people to sign up for your email list. Entice them into signing up by offering discount coupons and other advantages that will only be sent via email. Make it relevant to what they are currently doing. Are they reading a long how-to guide? Then offer a summarized actionable checklist in exchange for their email. All you need is their name and email address to get started. Don’t ask for too much information at this point. Many people will be reluctant to sign up for an email list unless you assure them you will keep their email addresses and personal information private. This should be promised upfront. Along with the initial promise, you should develop a privacy statement that will be included at the bottom of every email you send out. This statement should be brief and to the point.  Privacy statements should state that your company will never give out email addresses to third parties and will only be used for the purposes of marketing your company’s products and services. It should also be mentioned that the email content is confidential and intended only for the individual named. Also state that if the email has been received in error, the recipient should notify the company so that their email can be deleted from the email list.  Example: Your privacy is important to us. We will not disclose your personal information to any third party unless you have given us consent or we are required to do so by law. If you do not wish to receive communication from this company, you can opt out by replying to this email and notifying us. Keep email addresses organized in spreadsheets and make sure you separate them. At minimum, you should have the emails broken into lists of current customers, past customers and prospective customers. Creating separate email lists allows you to send different emails to the groups, each with their own targeted content. As you go along, you can get more specific with your lists for even better targeting.  Keeping separate lists also helps you to prevent spamming them with irrelevant content, which reflects poorly on your company.  It’s important to build relationships with your recipients through email marketing. Targeted lists with relevant content will help you do that.


Problem: Write an article based on this summary: Determine the objective of the assignment. List all the components of the project to be graded. Keep it simple. Focus the rubric on things you're talking about in class.

Answer:
Rubrics are generally used for longer assignments or projects that involve multiple sections or parts that will require a certain amount of subjectivity in the grading. In other words, you wouldn't use a rubric for a multiple-choice test but you might use one to grade an essay or a presentation. Articulating the particular goals of the project to be graded helps you come up with the more specific things you'll look for in evaluating it. Consider the following questions:  What is the main purpose of the assignment you're grading? What are the students supposed to have learned by completing the assignment? How will you recognize a successful assignment? What makes a project stand out? What's "good enough"? To start breaking the grade down, distinguish between the parts of the grade that cover the content and the parts of the grade that are morel like completion points. There are typically two main categories of components that you'll need to determine to complete a comprehensive rubric, depending on the assignment you're grading: content and process.   Content components refer to the actual meat of the assignment and the quality of what the student produces. This includes things like:  Style Engagement with course themes or objectives Argument or thesis Organization Creativity and voice    Process components are the individual steps that a student must complete to perform the assignment. This refers to things like:  Title page, name, and date Time or length requirements Formatting Is it going to be worthwhile to assign a point-value to the student's use of transitional sentences? Their breath-control while giving a speech? The quality of the binder they use? Try to pick a manageable number of criteria to look for and to grade. The less complicated your rubric the better. It should be comprehensive, but not overwhelming, which makes it more frustrating for you to grade and more difficult for the student to understand. Be judicious in choosing the criteria and cut it down to the fewest possible categories. A basic essay rubric, for example, might include five sections, weighted appropriate to their respective values: thesis or argument, organization or paragraphing, intro/conclusion, grammar/usage/spelling, sources/references/citations. It wouldn't make much sense to throw a rubric that assigned fifty points for thesis statements if you haven't talked about writing thesis statements in class. You would use the content of your lessons to evaluate the assignment, so use the same content to develop your rubric. Within the larger or more basic categories on your rubric, you could get more specific if you wanted to. Within "Thesis or argument" you might assign particular point values to topic sentences, the thesis statement, claims and use of evidence, depending on your students' grade level and the particular things you're focusing on in your lesson plans.