INPUT ARTICLE: Article: You can find a list on the American Massage Therapy Association website.  Some massage schools offer free or reduced rate massages to the public. This allows students to gain experience. Check to see if a nearby community college or hospital has a massage training program.  Massage schools may only offer appointments periodically and sometimes get booked quickly. Students in massage training centers are still learning. Provide honest feedback that will help improve their new craft. When you are looking for free services, it's important to be accommodating. Be willing to adjust your schedule based on their needs. Whether or not a massage is free, be sure to tip the massage therapist. This does not apply if the masseuse is a spouse, partner, or friend. The average tip is between 10 to 20 percent. You can tip more or less depending on how pleased you were with the service. There are times when it is a bad idea to get a massage. People who are not licensed in the field may not be aware of the dangers.   In some circumstances, a massage would be considered a health risk instead of a health benefit. In most cases, individuals using blood thinners, experiencing a heart condition, diagnosed with cancer, currently pregnant, or with internal injuries from an accident should not get an amateur massage. There are some instances when getting a massage could be of danger to the massage therapist. Some of those instances include having a fever, rash, or infectious disease.  Be sure to inform the massage therapist about your medical condition. Satisfaction requires good communication. There are many types of massages, such as the deep tissue massage and Swedish massage. Be sure to communicate how your body feels and what you need.

SUMMARY: Identify massage therapy schools in your area. Be flexible. Don't forget to tip. Understand the dangers of an amateur massage. Communicate the type of massage you want or need.


INPUT ARTICLE: Article: Put a manageable amount of information in each spot. Don’t put too much information in any one place or it will be overwhelming for your brain to try to remember it all. If certain things must be kept separate from others, put them in distinctly different places.  If necessary, place things along your route in the order in which you need to remember them. If your palace is your house, and you are trying to remember a speech, you might place the first few sentences on your doormat and the next few in the keyhole of your door. Put your best friend's address in the mailbox outside or on an envelope on the kitchen table. Put their phone number on the couch where you always take their phone calls. If you're trying to remember U.S. presidents in order, make the washing machine George Washington. Walk further into the laundry room and find a pair of long johns, which represent John Adams. You don’t need to put a whole string of words or numbers in a given location to be able to remember it. All you need to store in each spot is something that will jog your memory and lead you to the actual idea you’re trying to remember. For example, if you’re trying to remember a ship, picture an anchor on your couch. If the ship is the U.S.S. Wisconsin, picture the anchor made out of cheese.  Symbols are shorthand and more effective than picturing the actual thing you are trying to remember. The images you put in your palace should be as memorable as possible. Generally, images will be more memorable if they are out of the ordinary or attached to some strong emotion or personal experience. You might picture your mom placing her Social Security number on the kitchen table or an adorable puppy eating from a bowl that has your vocabulary test words on it.  Another example uses the number 124, which isn’t memorable. But an image of a spear shaped like the number 1 going through a swan (which looks like the number 2) and splitting the swan into 4 pieces is. It’s disturbing, but that’s what makes it stick in your mind. You don't have to use only positive images. Negative emotions or images, like including a politician you hate, are just as strong. Create a simple mnemonic by forming an acronym using the first letters of the words in a phrase or make a little rhyme containing the information you’re trying to remember. Then insert these new shortened pieces of data into your memory palace instead of the longer piece.  For instance, say you need to recall the order of notes on the lines of the treble clef (EGBDF). Imagine a little boy eating a piece of chocolate fudge, which would evoke the first-letter mnemonic “Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge." A rhyming mnemonic is, “In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue.” Envision Columbus holding a blue sailboat toy in your living room.

SUMMARY: Place important information in small chunks around the palace. Use simple images to symbolize complicated phrases or numbers. Add people, emotional triggers, or bizarre images to remember data. Incorporate other mnemonics to recall longer strings of information.


INPUT ARTICLE: Article: Tap the Google Play Store app icon, which resembles a multicolored triangle. It's at the top of the screen. This will prompt a drop-down menu with search results. It should be at the top of the drop-down menu. Doing so opens the app's page. This button is on the right side of the screen. It's in the middle of the pop-up. The QR Code Reader app will begin downloading. This button will appear in place of the INSTALL button as soon as the app finishes installing. Tapping it will open QR Code Reader. It will focus on the code after a moment. Your QR code should fit between the four brackets in the middle of your Android's screen. Once the code scans, you'll see an image of the QR code on the screen, along with whatever the QR code's content is (e.g., a link) listed below the image.

SUMMARY: Open your Android's  Google Play Store. Tap the search bar. Type in qr code reader no ads. Tap QR Code Reader - No Ads. Tap INSTALL. Tap ACCEPT. Tap OPEN. Point your Android's camera at the QR code. Make sure that the QR code is centered in the screen. Wait for the code to scan.


INPUT ARTICLE: Article: Choose fruits and vegetables that offer an array of colors for the best nutrients, such as cantaloupes, carrots or tomatoes. Avoid vegetables that contain starch, such as corn. Instead, eat green vegetables like spinach, broccoli or green beans. Choose whole grain foods, rather than processed flour or foods with high sugar content. Healthy grains include barley, oats and brown rice. These foods are rated low on the glycemic index (GI), which measures the effect of carbohydrates on blood glucose levels in the body. High levels of glucose can lead to insulin resistance. Avoid salty and processed snacks like chips or pretzels.

SUMMARY:
Eat a diet high in vegetables and fruits. Eliminate bad carbohydrates. Choose snacks with low GI levels, such as nuts, beans and dried fruit.