Where in the world is he?!

With an average of seventeen million meetings a day in America alone, there will always be some held up by the latecomer. When you’re late to a meeting, it’s better to rise to the occasion with grace rather than sinking into the floor, and provided you’re not an habitual late-nik, a courteous and considerate approach to being late in a meeting can smooth your way in and have you quickly reinstated in everyone’s good books. In this article, you’ll learn how to deal appropriately with being late to a meeting.

Steps

Grasping why latecomers irk meeting attendees

1. 

   What darned meeting? I’m caught up right now!

   Understand why other meeting attendees tend to perceive the latecomer unfavorably. For many people, having a latecomer enter a meeting is an annoyance because at its most basic, it is either disruptive, or it holds up everyone else if you are a vital part of the meeting. Being on time matters because here is how lateness can be viewed by your fellow meeting attendees:

   • Lateness is viewed as discourteous, inconsiderate, and even insulting by those arranging and attending the meeting.^[1][2]
   • If you’re the CEO or a top manager, you’re setting a standard by your behavior, one that can easily demoralize the staff who do show up on time.^[3]
   • If you’re in charge of the meeting and you’re late, which in turn causes the meeting to run overtime, you won’t win any popularity contests!^[4]
   • If it’s a job interview, your lateness really tells the interviewers that you’re not that interested in the job. Even with traffic excuses, interviewers will expect you to be better organized to avoid that early morning traffic…
   • Turning up late makes attendees feel that you value yourself over them.^[5] Cherish other people’s time as much as your own, otherwise you’re wasting their time and it wears thin if repeated.

Being late to a meeting at work

1. Prepare. If you know you’re going to be late to a meeting, at least prepare the things you need to have with you for the meeting. Arrange your documents, files, agenda, laptop, etc., to grab as you rush to the meeting.
2. Alert relevant people in advance. If it is possible or appropriate to do so, try to alert your tardiness in advance because this lets the meeting organizer, any presenters, and attendees know that you will be showing up, albeit late.
   • A note or call to your boss or via a colleague will be a good way to alert the meeting chair that you’re still intending to come despite running late.
3. Follow your workplace culture as the cue for entering a meeting late. The formality or informality of your workplace will be a deciding factor in how you sidle into the meeting late. The most important thing is to not interrupt, but to wait for a natural pause to offer any excuses for your tardiness.
   • Be sure to turn off or silence your cell phone before entering the meeting!
   • For a formal workplace culture, it is best to try and keep your head low and be as unobtrusive as possible. Give your apology to the person chairing or leading the meeting quietly, provided it is not rude to interrupt, or where there is an appropriate pause in proceedings. A simple explanation suffices, such as “Sorry I’m late, our London client called”, in order not to hold up progress of the meeting.
   • If there is a presentation underway, forget offering any apology at this stage unless your boss sidles up to you asking for a whispered excuse. Instead, slip in, sit down and be quiet until an appropriate opportunity presents itself to explain your lateness.
   • For an informal workplace culture, you might be able to inject a little humor into your late arrival, perhaps a smile and a shrug, and a quick, amusing anecdote of what delayed you. Don’t overdo it though, and be prepared to settle straight into business.
4. 

   Uh… my car fell in the lake?

   Where it is possible or appropriate to explain your lateness, don’t make up stories. Sooner or later, any cover stories will be uncovered, especially if you’re not in someone’s favor. And clearly, obvious lying will be picked up by all! In particular, note what does not work:

   • Saying something along the lines of: “I was doing something urgent/things would have fallen apart if I didn’t stay behind”. This is also known as the “putting out the fires” excuse. It annoys people because first, it smacks of the late person perceiving themselves as indispensable – and if it were really that company-preserving, why didn’t all the team get asked to pitch in?! Second, if it’s a constant excuse, it makes everyone hearing it suspicious that the late person is just a really bad judge of time.^[6]
   • Constant lateness. It annoys your coworkers because they had to sit through the tedious start, so why can’t you. If you make a habit of it, they’ll make a habit of not looping you in to what you’ve missed. An exception might be made if you’re the company’s irreplaceable glue – your workplace will be sure to let you know if you’re that rare, crucial person – otherwise, you’re in the same boat as everyone else.
5. Do your best to contribute productively to the meeting once you are there. While it’s important to slip into the meeting unobtrusively, you can redeem yourself by not being a shrinking violet during the meeting, and by participating actively. Some things to keep in mind, however:
   • Don’t launch into a lengthy attack or defense on something that may very well have been explained in detail and resolved prior to your arrival. If you’re not sure, preface by saying something like “I’d like to talk about X, but I’m not sure if you already broached this subject earlier.” Look around to see how people react to draw your cue from.
   • Do your very best not to look bored or fidget during the rest of the meeting. That will only confirm to people that you delayed coming because you weren’t interested.
   • Appear completely at ease. Do not, under any circumstances, seem frazzled or not on top of your game. Remain casual but engaged in the immediate proceedings.
6. Consider apologizing to colleagues after the meeting. Approach members of your team after the meeting and explain your situation so that they don’t bad mouth you behind your back. This is important. Many a top executive candidate has been sunk by lack of conciliation. Apologize and explain that you were on an important call, etc.

Being late to a meeting in another place

1. 

   Er, sorry, I didn’t realize the bus was so slow!

   Acknowledge that you are going to be late the moment you’re aware of it. If you find yourself suddenly stuck in traffic, the best business etiquette is to call the person or their administrative assistant, apologize and ask:

   • If it is okay for you to still come in and keep the appointment, even though you’re going to be 15 or more minutes late. It is vital to estimate a reasonable time for your late arrival, as this allows the receptionist to check the diary to see whether or not your being late will cause other things to be out of schedule.
   • If you’re going to be late by half an hour or more, ask for a rescheduling of the appointment or if it’s still okay to come.
   • Take your cue from their answers. Either turn up as fast as you can, or turn up on time for the rescheduled appointment.
2. Apologize to the person in charge of the meeting as soon as you arrive. Give a short, factual reason for your late arrival and let them know that you are now keen to get down to business.

Video

Tips

• If your lateness to the meeting is so bad, resort to the “not turning up at all” ploy. This should only be used in a dire emergency, as repeated uses of it will be viewed poorly. Remember too, that use of this ploy when you don’t really have a real crisis on hand (for example, sudden illness, family emergency, traffic accident, etc.), risks reducing the number of times people will cut you slack for when you really do experience an emergency situation.
• Do not make this S.O.P. (standard operating procedure) If you are a tardy person, try showing up on time. Take measures to prevent future lateness. Punctuality is important and if you are regularly late to meetings, it’s time to assess why you are sabotaging yourself.
• As part of improving your meeting attendance, try:
  • Setting your alarm and your computer clocks.
  • Sending yourself reminders.
  • Setting your watch ahead by 15 minutes. If the 15 minutes deal does not work, consider a job without a time parameter.
  • Allowing for adequate transition time between your activities, so that you don’t end up being late by default. Plan in time buffers around meetings.
• Your team will normally cover for you once on principle, as they have done something similar at one point or another but do not count on your team to cover for you all the time, especially not if you’re the boss, or you’ve pulled the lateness stunt one times too many.

Warnings

• If you’re late, and you’re making a direct report, that means the direct report is late too. Not a good look.
• There are some meetings where being late will probably lose you the opportunity. Generally, interviews and auditions wait for nobody, and give a very poor impression of your ability to be punctual. People don’t like seeing lack of punctuality at the outset, before they really know you.
• It’s also not a good idea to keep important people waiting, such as the President, Prime Minister, or royalty. Unless you’re a King or President yourself…
• If you’re a repeat offender at turning up to meetings late, your team will end up bitter and angry. Inevitably, they will turn against you and make it their personal goal to see you slip up on your excuses.

Things You’ll Need

• Everything that you should have at the meeting – reports, agenda, pens, paper, etc. – don’t add poor preparation to the tardiness!
• Prior research on timetables, distances, etc. to get to a meeting when you’ve never been to the location before
• Phone or email messaging ability

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• How to Have Good Workplace Etiquette
• How to Accept Criticism While at Work
• How to Attend a Meeting
• How to Stay Awake in Dull Meetings
• How to Prepare for a Meeting

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Setting a passcode on your iPad is key to protecting your personal information, as anything from email accounts to contact addresses can be accessed without one. This article will show you how to set a password on your iPad.



Steps

1. 

   Tap “General Settings” in the Settings menu. Continue by opening “Passcode Lock” in the center box of options.

2. 

   Select “Turn Passcode On” to display the settings for creating your passcode. You will notice several options beneath the first are grayed-out, indicating you can only adjust them after creating the passcode.

3. 

   Enter your desired four-digit passcode. Be sure that it is a combination you won’t easily forget, as well as one that is also hard for others to figure out.

4. 

   Re-enter the passcode. Pay close attention as you type to avoid misspelling the passcode.

5. 

   Once entered, your passcode is now in effect. The following options can now be selected:

   • Turn Passcode Off: Asks for the passcode to be entered, then removes it.
   • Change Passcode: Enter the passcode to make desired changes to the combination.
   • Require Passcode>>: Adjust how long your iPad will stay unlocked during use before requiring the passcode entry.
   • Picture Frame: Select “On” to activate the iPad’s virtual picture frame.
   • Erase Data: Select “On” to erase all data stored on your iPad after ten unsuccessful passcode entries.




Video




Tips

• Using a passcode isn’t required or necessary for everyone, especially for those using their iPad only at home.
• If you are concerned about forgetting your passcode, write it down and store the note in a secure place.




Warnings

• Don’t forget the passcode!
• Avoid selecting “Erase All Data” after ten failed passcode entries unless absolutely necessary. If you forget the passcode, the only way you can retrieve the lost data is by restoring your iPad to its factory settings via iTunes.




Things You’ll Need

• iPad




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Fresh mushrooms purchased from a store or harvested from the wild can be used many months later if stored correctly. There are many different kinds of mushrooms and many different ways to preserve them, so perfecting the method will require some trial and error, but the basic methods outlined here should work for the more common types of mushrooms available from fruit and vegetable suppliers.



Steps




Freezing cooked mushrooms^[1]

1. 

   Wash the mushrooms thoroughly in cold water.

2. 

   Trim off the ends of the stems if necessary. If the mushrooms are larger than 1 inch / 2.5 cm across, either slice them, or cut them into quarters.

3. Decide whether you will steam or fry the mushrooms. Mushrooms can be steamed or heated in fat in a fry pan. The deciding factor might be taste preference, or your desire to keep the mushrooms longer, as steamed mushrooms will keep about three months longer than those cooked in fat.




Steaming mushrooms

1. 

   Treat the mushrooms to prevent discoloration. Mushrooms that are going to be steamed will retain a better color if they are given an anti-darkening treatment first. To do this, dip the prepared mushrooms for 5 minutes in a solution containing 1 teaspoon lemon juice or 1 1/2 teaspoons of citric acid mixed into a pint of water.

2. 

   Steam the mushrooms. The steaming time is as follows:

   • Whole mushrooms – 5 minutes
   • Buttons or quarters – 3 1/2 minutes
   • Slices – 3 minutes.
3. 

   Cool promptly on removal by removing from the steam. Drain and package. Leave 1/2 an inch (1.27 cm) of headspace.

4. 

   Seal and freeze. Steamed mushrooms will freeze for up to one year.^[2]




Frying mushrooms

1. 

   Use a frying pan to heat. Heat small quantities of mushrooms in margarine or butter in an open frying pan until almost done. Cool by air or set the pan in which the mushrooms were cooked in cold water. Pack into containers, leaving 1/2-inch / 1.27 cm headspace. Seal and freeze. Fat-fried mushrooms will last for up to nine months in the freezer.^[3]




Blanching and Freezing^[4]

1. 

   Wash the mushrooms.

2. 

   Cut the mushrooms into slices or quarters if required.

3. 

   Drain the mushrooms. Then plunge them directly into a pot of boiling water for 1 to 2 minutes after the water boils.

4. 

   Remove the blanched mushrooms by tipping into a sieve or a colander.

5. 

   Plunge the mushrooms into cold water to stop the cooking process. Drain.

6. 

   Place them in plastic freezer containers. Leave a little headspace.

7. 

   Seal and freeze.




Freezing uncooked morel or morel-type mushrooms



A new season morel, freshly picked

Some mushrooms will thaw into a soggy mush if preserved in the manner outlined next. However, this may work with some kinds of mushrooms that have a certain thick and coarser texture, like morels.^[5]

1. 

   Wash a quantity of fresh morel mushrooms under running tap water. The mushrooms can be sliced according to preference, or preserved whole.

2. Add a teaspoon of vegetable oil to the mushrooms and mix well.
3. Place the washed whole or sliced mushrooms into a plastic freezer bag. Place in the freezer and freeze for as long as required, for up to three months.
4. 

   Thaw. When required, remove from the freezer and cook. No thawing will be necessary. Just add the contents into a cooking pan until all moisture and excess water evaporates, creating your mushroom dish from scratch.




Duxelles



A chef uses Duxelles to fill mushroom crostini

Duxelles is a finely chopped or minced mixture of mushrooms with additions such as onions, herbs, and butter.^[6] This method provides a neat “small storage” solution for keeping mushrooms but it is very short term – approximately one week in the refrigerator and up to one month in the freezer.^[7]

1. Wash and dry the mushrooms.
2. Chop or mince the mushrooms finely.
3. Cook the chopped mushrooms and onions with butter in a skillet until softened. Add fresh herbs of your choice (make sure that these are finely minced or chopped too). Parsley is a traditional addition.
4. Add a splash of wine or sherry for extra flavor.
5. Freeze in a container. Add the date so that you know when to use it by.
6. Use to add zip to cooked chicken breasts, or in cream of mushroom soup.




Video




Warnings

• Always be sure that you are using edible mushrooms before cooking, preserving, and eating them. If there is any doubt, do not consume them.




Things You’ll Need

• Steamer or fry pan
• Cutting board and knife
• Bowl
• Colander or sieve
• Containers suitable for freezing
• Plastic freezer bags, or similar sealing agent




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• Make Mushroom Frittata
• Use Mushrooms in Food
• Make Delicious Stuffed Mushrooms
• Make Spicy Stir Fried Mushrooms
• Use Mushrooms As a Meat Substitute
• Make Mushroom Risotto




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Due to the many parameters involved in compiling a Google map, URLs for Google Maps tend to be very long; too long in fact to add to a tweet on Twitter, or to insert anywhere that space is an issue. This article explains how to fix this easily, using an easily enabled Google Maps Labs feature known as “short URLs”.



Steps

1. Go to Google Maps Labs. The URL is: http://maps.google.com/maps?showlabs=1. A box will pop up. In the box, you will see “Short URL”.
   

2. Click on “Enable”. Click on “Save Changes”.
   

3. Check a Google map. You should be able to see a small tab “Link” in the top right hand corner.
   

4. Right click on the “Link” tab. Your URL for that map will be immediately turned into a shortened URL, the box widening out for you. Copy and use as needed.
   




Tips

• This is a useful method that clarifies for the reader where they are being sent because the description link will clearly show you “goo.gl” and “maps”.




Warnings

• Currently Google removes the embedding feature if you enable “short URLs”.




Things You’ll Need

• Internet
• Google Maps




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Sources and Citations

• Google Operating System, http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2010/07/shorter-google-maps-urls.html – research source
• Goo.gl, http://goo.gl/ (not yet available for wide use)



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Although it might seem silly for someone to pretend that they’re a little less into you than they really are, this type of restraint is one of the ways by which some people gauge the extent of each other’s interest when dating. In addition, if you don’t play hard to get, you might come off as needy, calculating, or worst of all, desperate. Then again, if you play too hard to get, you’ll seem standoffish and cold, even a snob.

Follow these steps to find a good balance when playing hard to get, and remember, dating is not an exact science; it’s more of a game, with lots of guesswork, self-confidence, and risk-taking involved.




Steps

1. Enjoy being single. If you’re busy enjoying your life as it is, playing hard to get will come naturally because you’ll have too much going on in your everyday life to be easily available. And if you think about it, deep down, this is what makes being hard to get so appealing. A busy person is, more often than not, more interesting and fun than a person who is bored. Indeed, often the less interesting person is seeking the vicarious thrill of your experiences, hoping these will to rub off on them.
2. 

   Avoid thinking about unreal future possibilities when you’ve only just met

   Avoid being or appearing to be needy. Being desperate or clingy is the polar opposite of playing hard to get. Develop the patience to let things develop at a pace based on someone else’s interest rather than on yours. Don’t let the fact that all your friends seem to be already dating or married upset you or make you impatient; instead, pace yourself and say “so what” to yourself – it just isn’t your time yet and there is no deadline on pairing up with another person.

3. Be as vague as you can get away with. The key is to keep the other person asking questions so that they can find out more about you. For example:
   • If asked what you did last weekend, say “I hung out with some people I know.”
   • If asked what you’re doing this Friday, say “I’m not sure yet.”
   • Use a lighthearted, flirtatious tone, and smile. You don’t want to sound completely uninterested or flippant, so even if you keep your answers short, keep them sweet as well.
   • The habit of never quite answering with the entire facts can be a useful habit to start even at the beginning of a confirmed relationship, as it lets the other person know what will happen if they pry too much! This lets you maintain your boundaries.
4. 

   Got to make the most of the snow season!

   Don’t make yourself too easily accessible. If he or she calls you, don’t answer all the time, and wait a day or two before calling back. A good rule of thumb is to wait about twice as long as they do before calling back.

   • If the call is urgent, for example, if they want to make plans for that night, consider ignoring the call; it’ll show the person that your time is valuable, and if they want to get together, they need to plan accordingly. (Of course, accept that sometimes a spontaneous date can be romantic and fun, but that’s not the main subject of this article.)
   • In terms of texting, it’s generally a good idea to avoid responding immediately. Wait anywhere between fifteen minutes to several hours. Keep that special someone on their toes!
5. If he or she asks you out, don’t make plans right away. Say “maybe” or that you’re “not sure” and that you have to check your schedule. Ask them to get back to you later in the day, or the following day. And occasionally, say you can’t make it because you have other plans. Of course, if you’re interested in this person, offer to make plans on a day that you’re supposedly free, whether it’s the day after or the next weekend.
6. 

   Be a free spirit. Whenever someone gets clingy, pull away. Shy away from firm answers or commitments. Try to leave as many options open for yourself as possible, for as long as possible. Expect anyone you date to follow the steps in How to Tame a Free Spirit. It’s also helpful if you know how to spot the signs of a clingy person, including:

   • They constantly email, text, or phone you even though you haven’t responded to anything. They’ll even call to say “I missed a call. Was that you?!”
   • They always call first. Often it’s before you’re even up.
   • You have observed that they don’t seem to do much else in their life, apart from hanging around you. When you ask them what they do, they can’t really tell you anything else other than going to work or studies.
   • Insecurity stalks them like a hunter follows prey. It’s also clear from talking to them that they have a happiness deficit with respect to their own life and sense of life’s purpose. Related to their insecurity is the need to agree with everything you say.
   • You can spend hours telling them the dullest details of your hobby or work and they sit there, riveted. It’s not likely you’ll have the patience to test this sign though – you’re too busy!




Video




Tips

• Don’t approach this from the mindset of playing hard to get. Instead know you’re awesome. Be hard to get.
• Suggested lines for excusing yourself from a date or meet-up (be polite is always the first rule!):
  • “Love to but I’m already booked solid.”
  • “Great idea, maybe this time next week. I’m off camping 200 miles west this weekend. Been looking forward to this off road unicycle expedition for six months!”
  • “I’ve got exams next Tuesday, and a whole lot of cramming this weekend!”
  • “I’m flattered but I’m really busy right now making the most of the powder! Maybe later when the snow’s melted?”
  • “That’s really kind of you. It’s just that – I don’t want to go, it’s not my scene.” This kind of honesty can be extremely sincere provided you mean it, and it can alert the other person to your boundaries again, without making them feel that it’s personally directed at them.




Things You’ll Need

• Hobbies and interests beyond the usual




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Priority Inbox is a new feature in Gmail that finds the messages of importance and sorts them for you, to prevent email overload. It does this by basing the importance on the emails you read and reply to. Here is how to start using it in your Gmail account.



Steps

1. 

   It will appear like this

   Click on the colored line “New! Priority Inbox!” in the right hand corner of your Gmail screen.

   • A pop-up box will open. This contains a video for you to watch and learn how the system works, and provides an opportunity for you to ‘Try it now’ or to go back to business as usual.
2. Click on “Try it now”.
   • A box will appear showing you a set of emails, some it considers to be “important”, others not as important. If you agree, click “That looks right. Go to Priority Inbox!”.
     

   • 

     These are the plus and minus tabs

     If it has made any wrong choices, correct them by clicking on the plus or minus tabs to increase or decrease the mail’s importance. Then click to move on.

3. Wait while Gmail activates Priority Inbox. This shouldn’t take long. Once done, you will see a highlighted line in the top center of your email box that says “You’re all set to use Priority Inbox!”
   

   • You will now see that your in-box looks a little different:
     • Important and unread are now listed first.
     • Starred items are now brought into line as the next priority.
     • All other emails are listed after the starred emails.
   • If you don’t want to see the actual emails, you can collapse each set of headers using the plus or minus sign located in each header. The end result will appear very neat.
     

4. Read the email sent from Gmail. It will suggest:
   • Reading priority emails first. These are the “Important and Unread” emails.
   • Mark any emails requiring a follow-up with a star.
   • Go through the “Everything Else” box when convenient.
5. 

   Return to the Priority Inbox. If you leave Priority Inbox, click the link next to Inbox on Gmail’s side navigation.

6. 

   These are the plus and minus tabs

   Train your Priority Inbox. You can rectify mistakes Gmail makes in highlighting or demoting the importance of your emails by pressing the plus and minus tabs inside small arrow boxes that represent increasing or lowering the email’s importance. In this way the Priority Inbox quickly learns your preferences.

7. Customize the Priority Inbox. You can customize the Priority Inbox as follows:
   • Click on the headers, or go to “Settings”. A drop-down menu will appear allowing you to add or change a number of things, including labels, importance status, number of emails shown, hiding when empty, removal of the section and other options.
     

8. Change back to the ways things used to be. If you discover that you don’t like using Priority Inbox, simply change it back. Do this by clicking “Inbox” on the left navigation or by hiding Priority Inbox completely from the Gmail Settings.




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Tips

• Use Gmail filters to mark the importance of certain emails. Choose “Always mark it as important” once you’ve set up the filter.
• Once an email from the Priority Inbox has been read, it will drop down to “Everything Else”. Star it if you still need it to remain in view.




Issues

• This works best if you only use the web interface for gmail. If you switch back and forth between web and IMAP/POP there can be problems. Gmail creates a new “important” folder and on IMAP emails show up in both important and in the inbox. Marking them read and/or deleting them from the inbox still leaves them in the important folder. This is obviously a conflict between the tags Google uses and folders that an Imap client uses to emulate a tag.




Things You’ll Need

• Gmail account




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Ping is a music social network that was introduced with release of iTunes 10 on September 1, 2010. As with Twitter, you can follow others and be followed, keep tabs on your favorite artists, and post comments and suggestions for others to read – and even post pictures and videos. Here’s how to use it.



Steps

1. 

   Download or upgrade to iTunes 10. Go to the iTunes store and follow the “Download” prompt, or go straight to this page: http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/.

   • Before pressing “Download”, note the checked box “Email me New on iTunes and special iTunes offers.” Uncheck if you don’t want this to happen, otherwise leave it.
   • Click on “Download Now”. Wait for it to download, then follow your computer’s prompts to update your iTunes – you will need to install, add any passwords, and agree to Apple’s terms and conditions. (Note: Quit iTunes before installing the new version.)
2. 

   Return to your iTunes program and open it. It will look quite different from your previous iTunes. It will probably spend some time “creating artwork thumbnails”. Let it run!

3. 

   Select Ping

   Select Ping from the iTunes sidebar.

   • If this is your first time using Ping, you will need to activate it and you may be prompted to update your browser – if so, follow the prompts on your computer screen. You will also need to identify yourself and key in your password.
   • 

     Click “Turn on Ping”.

4. Create a profile. Fill out the information about yourself when it asks you to “Create Your Profile”. You can upload or take a picture, tell where you live, write a little about yourself.
   • Select the genres of music you like. You can choose to have these displayed automatically, manually, or not at all. Check the one that you prefer.
     

   • You can also choose how people can follow you and what should be displayed on your page. Note! If you choose to allow people to follow you, they can see your profile information including your purchasing activity.
     

5. Follow your favorite artists. Ping makes it easy to follow artists.
   • 

     The search field

     Find a favorite artist by searching from the Ping homepage or selecting one that Ping has chosen for you. Key the artist’s name into the search field, or select one recommended by Ping.

     

   • 

     Click on the “Follow” tab located next to the artist’s name.

   • You will also be able to see what your favorite artists likes.
   • Keep an eye on status updates from your favorite artists. You can follow their feed, including seeing any photos or videos that they upload.
   • Feel free to add comments and join into conversations with your favorite artists. You can read your artist’s reviews and also leave reviews of their work; your reviews are linked back to your Ping identity and others can read them too.
6. 

   The search field

   Follow your friends. You will be able to know what your friends are listening to, and be inspired by their music choices if you follow them.

   • 

     Invite friends by email

     Find your friends. Use the “Search People or Artists” search field to find your friends (or potential friends), or you can search by Facebook or by email. Alternately, follow people Ping recommends. Open a name you know and then click on the “Follow” tab and they become a part of your network. Hopefully they’ll follow you back!

   • As with your favorite artist, you’ll be able to see what your friend is listening to and recommending.
   • Check your friend’s follows and followers. Perhaps you’d like to follow some of them too.
7. Keep up to date with local concerts. iTunes Ping includes a service for keep you updated on when concerts are occurring. You will also be able to tell if your friends are going.
   • This service allows you to connect to purchasing tickets for a concert from Live Nation.
8. Check Ping charts. These charts let you know what others in your network are listening to. You can check by song or album.




Tips

• Ping is built into the iTunes app on iPhone and iPod touch.




Things You’ll Need

• iTunes 10
• Internet access on computer or iPhone, iPod Touch




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Perfectionism and parenting can be a recipe for exhaustion and a life filled with stress. Being a “slacker mom” is not a negative; it’s a way of thinking smart and of being clued into what really matters over what can wait till another day. Slacker mom was a term coined by Muffi Mead-Ferro,^[1] and it’s also known as being a Beta mom, or slow parenting.^[2][3] Slacker moms are moms who reject any over-parenting models that involve children being sent to every possible after-school improvement option, with mom staying up till dawn baking homemade cookies before rushing off to work or starting the day’s tasks.

If you’re ready to be a slacker mom, then it’s no more sitting for hours on end in traffic and in your car at the soccer practice field; and it’s no more helicopter parenting where overbearing goodwill takes away your child’s self-sufficiency and capacity to learn by trial and error. Take the over-the-top expectations out of being a mom, and start really enjoying your slow parenting experience.




Steps

1. 

   Form your own ideas about where the tendency to overdo parenting comes from. While your personal reasoning for overdoing your mom role will be very unique to you, it can be helpful to understand some of the theorizing behind why it is thought that hyper-parenting has arisen in recent years:

   • Some commentators say that many moms transfer the zeal they applied to a career to their parenting, treating motherhood as another form of profession and social competition.^[4]
   • Sometimes it’s a case of needing to define one’s own worth by feeling better than the mom next door whose choices are different from yours, rather than accepting that each mom is an individual who is making good choices.^[5]
   • For other moms, it’s just about trying to keep up with the Alpha mom model developed by the marketing industry, where educated woman meets super mom in applying corporate-style organizational skills and technological agility to parenting.^[6][7]
   • And for some moms, it boils down to being afraid of what might happen to their children and to their mothering role, in a society where fear is a constant via media messages.
   • Whatever the reasons behind super intense parenting, if it’s not working for you and you spend a lot of your time feeling stressed, guilty, and unhappy about maintaining this level of socialized competition, then it might be time to call time out for mom and start looking at alternative, less stressful ways to parent.
2. Change your perspective. There are a number of ways that you can perceive motherhood and all the tasks accompanying it and that’s really the key message – you make the choices on how to parent. If you’re a mom who wants to step out of the fast lane and start parenting with the same amount of love but a lot less competitiveness, you can get off to a great start by:
   • No longer viewing motherhood and parenting as a form of competition. Your mothering is not subject to a performance review, and your children are not the end product of a project.
   • Allowing yourself to make mistakes.
   • Lowering your expectations. Today’s generation of moms have been raised to believe that they can do and have it all. Unfortunately, such a broadsweeping expectation places a lot of pressure on moms who translate this into meaning that they must literally “do and be everything”.^[8]
   • Cutting down on digesting other people’s mothering advice, especially the advice from people who have very little to do with your own lifestyle. From talk show gurus to self-appointed parenting experts in mommy blogs, you don’t need it if it doesn’t resonate with you. Getting a guilt trip just because someone else has a foolproof mommy plan is a waste of your life and an unfair burden to place on yourself. Remember the adage that parenting doesn’t come with a manual – there’s a good reason for that saying as it’s based on the reality that we’re all unique and we all have to discover our own parenting journey.
   • Allowing yourself to be more laid back and less “in control”.
   • Avoiding judging other moms. If you’re tempted to judge another mom according to your own standards, switch it to supporting her choices instead.
3. Stay away from Alpha moms. If your normal personality style is to take it easy, or you’ve simply worked out that all this crazed effort isn’t producing the results it is supposed to, hanging around Alpha moms who spend a lot of time convincing one another of the need to hyper-parent and serving as a source of stoking the competitive fire is going to make you feel worse. The answer is very simple – keep away from them if they can’t keep their competitiveness toned down around you. There is absolutely no reason on Earth why you should accede to their standards and even less for you to judge yourself according to them. Realize that much of what Alpha moms support is gleaned from popular media and is probably accepted by them without question.
   • If you do have to spend time around Alpha moms, try to view their expectations with compassion and be grateful that you’re not stuck in the same mindset. This is a far healthier reaction than taking on board all the unrealistic expectations and beating yourself up for your own imperfections as a mom.
   • Find like-minded slacker moms and form your own haphazard meet-ups and chill-out sessions, with lots of unstructured play going on as you chat and relax together.
4. Stop being a helicopter mom. A term coined to described moms into hyper-mothering, helicopter moms hover around their kids all day long and well into the evening too. It’s a phenomenon that is particularly noticeable among the professionally educated middle class.^[9] Helicopter moms are so afraid that their child might harm themselves or come to harm from some other person, TV program, website, or activity, that they can’t abide for the child to be out of their sight and spend a lot of time present with their child, directing and commenting on every moment of the day. For some moms, this goes so far as to necessitate homeschooling for their kids (as opposed to homeschooling parents who value this for ideological reasons). Helicopter moms are in denial of their child’s right to grow through testing. It’s your role to create sensible boundaries but not to be that boundary 24 hours a day.
   • Several studies have shown that children of helicopter moms at college age are more dependent, more neurotic, and less open than other college students.^[10] Surely that’s not something you’re keen to impose on your children!
   • Helicopter mothering is time-consuming and emotionally draining on you as a mother. Interestingly, mothers have been investing more and more time in at home child-care activities since 1965 despite their increased labor force participation; this trend is especially prevalent among educated women, a sign of trying to “do it all”.^[11]
   • If you’re juggling work, helicopter parenting, and a marriage, the marriage tends to suffer first. Having an intense relationship with children can serve as a form of blocking out other people in your life, including other relatives and your local community.^[12] That isn’t giving your children a healthy role model, including the essential one of involving them in volunteering.
   • Realize that sometimes being your child’s best friend isn’t a good idea – it’s harder to set boundaries, it smothers the child, and you neglect your own friends and remaining family.
5. 

   Let your kid get muddy, dirty, wet, and yes, pooey even. Kids need to touch, test, push and pull stuff around. If you’re always there stopping them from touching what nature provides us, they’ll grow to fear nature, dirt, and getting all gooey. They can also learn how to deal with hazards like dog poo and the immediate, common sense need to wash it off rather than feeling grossed out all the time. Don’t scare them away from their backyard. Instead, do some reading about the good that being in nature can do for children, or better still, get out there and see the results on your children’s faces.

   • Read Richard Louv’s book Last Child in the Wood to learn about the benefits of nature and dirt for kids. There are more and more sites devoted to getting children “back into nature” if you don’t have any ideas of how to go about this,^[13] and you can also check out wikiHow’s article on How to help children appreciate nature.
6. Ditch Baby Mozart. No child ever suffered from a lack of Mozart being played to them in the belly. Nobody is yet sure if the same can be said about playing it though! The belly comes perfectly equipped with its own lovely woosh woosh sounds, along with the added bonus of mom’s voice. What more does a baby need? Not Mozart. Hang on to your money and put it in a college fund instead.
7. Cull the toy collection. Kids don’t need the latest gizmos of this, that, and the other. To overload their lives with toys is to teach them early on that materialism matters. The only materialism they need to know that matters is a good roof over their head, healthy food in their stomachs regularly, and an ability to appreciate the hot and cold running water and internal temperature controls. Toys can be made from anything and indeed, most kids start off preferring the packaging anyway.
8. Restrain yourself from overloading the kids’ after-school curriculum. Kids don’t need all those extra activities to grow into fulfilled human beings. They need to know they can play freely and use their imagination. Kids need the freedom of doing nothing so that they teach themselves how to do something with nothing.
   • If their entire lives are filled with activities and the need to achieve, you might just be perpetuating office clones that a work-driven society too easily succumbs to facilitating.
   • Be kind to your kids and don’t overdo the extra activities. Listen to their messages about what they’re enjoying and not enjoying and keep the after-school activities balanced with time for play, rest, and genuine homework.
   • Stop doing your child’s homework. They’ll never learn self-responsibility while they have you to do it, and it’s taking more time out of your day than you have to spare. They’ll thank you later for the lesson in self-discipline.
9. Expect self-responsibility from your children and trust that they’ll be OK. Doing everything for your children is not a healthy way to bring up children as you’re setting them up to be adults with an expectation that there will be someone else to do it. Even when they realize that isn’t the case, they can suffer a lifetime of resentment at being “made” to do anything, from housework to finding work.
   • Have children learn to be responsible for making their own lunch from an early age.
   • Allow unstructured play. Let the children get bored and learn how to get themselves out of that state, or at least cope with feeling that way.
   • Do a search online for “free-range” kids or parenting.^[14] You will find a lot of resources and forums for moms who want to raise their kids on a looser leash, and who are letting go of the fear messages and trusting their instincts instead. Free-range parents trust their children to develop a sense of responsibility early in life, making everyone’s life a little less fettered and raising more self-reliant kids. Read the stories of other mothers tired of the fear and worry messages about parenting and find some relief!
10. 

    Expect your husband or partner to pick up some of the slack. If you’re trying to do it all yourself, hand some of the responsibilities over. Dad has a role in raising your kids too and in keeping the house in some form of tidiness. Dads can feel sidelined if you insist on doing it all – don’t allow yourself to get into that bind in the first place. It’s also good for your kids to see both parents handling household responsibilities equally.

11. Chill and stop feeling guilty. Your kids don’t need the latest designer gear, they don’t need the best 101 kid’s TV channels, they don’t need all those amazing electronic gadgets. They need your love, they need your company in small doses and they need the company of a lot of other people too, like their dad, their brothers and sisters, their cousins, their neighbors’ kids, their granny and pops. You don’t need to feel that you’re not giving enough if you at least accept that what you’re doing is raising a child, not a robot, and that you give love, praise, and set boundaries all with a good heart.




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Tips

• As with all advice, take this with a pinch of salt too. Always cherry-pick to fit your own personal situation. Do what feels right, and what is right by your children.




Things You’ll Need

• Relaxing activities
• A place of your own to go to for unwinding




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College (or university) is a time in your life when you are learning many things. Outside your academic studies, college may be when you learn to live on your own, to keep up your own home, and so on. A big part of that is learning to cook for yourself, and it is easiest to cook regularly if you keep some ingredients on hand. That’s where your pantry comes in.



Steps

1. Set aside some space in or near your kitchen to store food. If you kitchen does not have any obvious pantry space built in or is short on overall storage, see if a bookcase nearby (perhaps in a coat closet) or other movable storage could work.
   • Try to find a space that is clean, dry, cool, and dark for your pantry. The cabinet just over your stove may not be the best choice.
2. Buy items as you need and use them. This means that you will acquire the items in your pantry gradually (thus avoiding any major, up-front expenses) and it also means that you will buy only those things you are prepared to use.
   • Consider bringing some things from home to get you off to a “free” and easier start. Get your parents’ permission first, though.
3. 

   Start simple.

   Start with the basics. Spaghetti sauce in jars and boxed pasta are easy staples to start with. Even when you move on to slightly more sophisticated meals, they’ll be handy things to keep around for that day when things get especially busy.

4. Include other sources of starch. Rice, flour, oatmeal, and potatoes are all starches that will keep for a good long while in the pantry. While you most likely will not eat these foods alone, they are all good for extending other meals.
   • Store flour, rice, oatmeal, and the like in airtight (and bug-tight) canisters or jars. If you don’t have dedicated canisters yet, you can save large jars from items you buy.
5. Have dry storage for things like onions and potatoes. There’s generally no need to refrigerate either, so long as the space is relatively cool and dry and has good air circulation. A basket or bin with holes in it will help.
   • Potatoes should be stored away from a light source, to discourage sprouting.
6. 

   Canned tomatoes

   Include some canned goods. It’s generally healthier and far cheaper to use fresh vegetables and make your own soups, but having a few cans on hand for the busy moments doesn’t hurt. You can also stock cans of things like tomato sauce, beans, and mushrooms, if you like to use those in cooking.

7. 

   Include some breads. You can buy regular bread, or you can buy food like pitas or tortillas. Some tortilla chips can also go well with food like tacos and chili.

8. 

   Baking supplies.

   Decide whether you’ll do any baking. If you intend to bake, you will need baking staples like flour, baking powder, sugar, and salt.

9. 

   Freezer

   Use your freezer as part of your pantry. Frozen meats are very convenient, especially if you have a microwave in which to defrost them. (Otherwise, defrost in the fridge a day in advance.) Frozen vegetables may not be quite as good as fresh ones, but you may find that they are easier to keep on hand than fresh.

   • If you love smoothies, you might consider getting frozen fruit, too, or freezing your own fruit. You can also learn how to freeze cooked foods and ready-to-cook foods for yourself, for quick meals later.
10. 

    Your spice rack is a key part of your pantry.

    Start to build a selection of seasonings, according to what you use. These are herbs and spices, as well as the ubiquitous salt and pepper, and include condiments like soy sauce, ketchup, and vinegar.

    • Seasonings add flavors to your cooking. Some can be fairly expensive, so start with one jar of spices at a time.
    • You don’t need every spice; just the ones you use. Find out what your recipes call for and just buy that.
    • Look for a few seasoning mixes, or mix your own. Italian seasoning is generally just a mix of oregano, basil, rosemary and parsley. A jar of chili powder or taco seasoning can dress up some basic meat and veggies so they’ll taste good in a tortilla. Do watch for added salt in seasoning mixes, though.
    • Some grocery and health food stores may provide samples of spice mixes for free. This is a good opportunity to get a sample package or two spice mixes.
    • 

      Bulk foods and spices

      Look around for a source of spices in bulk or in packets, rather than in little, glass jars. You may want to buy spices the first time in those glass jars, but refill them with spices in less expensive packaging.

11. Supplement your pantry with regular trips to the store to get perishable foods, such as eggs, dairy, and fresh fruits and veggies. If you plan a bit, you may be able to keep these trips to about once per week.
12. Learn which ingredients last longer than others. All foods will eventually spoil, but some things will last longer than others. Buy your quantities according to how quickly you use each item.
13. 

    Shopping day.

    Use up and replace the items in your pantry. As you use something up, or get close, put it on your shopping list, as long as it is something you use regularly. Keep a shopping list pad near the pantry with a pencil, so that’s it’s really easy to update missing ingredients.

14. Keep the ingredients around for one or two pantry meals that you can do if you haven’t had the time to go shopping. Spaghetti and tacos are two fairly easy choices.




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Tips

• Make your own list. The suggestions here are examples, but you will discover your own cooking style, and it may differ from the list here.
• Having a pantry and cooking for yourself can both save tremendous amounts of money compared to buying prepared foods or going out to eat in a restaurant. You’ll also know more about your food if you cook it yourself. However busy you are, it’s likely in college that you’ll still have more time than money, so invest some time in yourself and learn to cook.
• You may notice that this article does not suggest stocking up on TV dinners and prepared foods. You may want to keep a couple of cans of soup around for term paper nights or finals week, but you shouldn’t rely on them all the time. They’re costly and often high in salt and additives. They also have much more packaging than other foods. It is also a good idea to get into the habit of making your own meals, so that you’re aware of how easy it is to cook. The best way to learn to cook is to practice often.
• Part of keeping a pantry is trial and error. You will have to find your own balance and your own cooking style to know what to keep in your pantry.
• Every now and then, look in the back of your pantry. See if there are things there that are spoiled. Just as importantly, see if there are things that are still good that you could use up before they spoil.
• Buy a little at a time, especially at first. Once you’ve learned how you cook and what you cook, you can keep appropriate quantities of the right ingredients on hand or simply buy a little extra each time you go grocery shopping.
• Prepared cereal is an easy thing to put in a pantry, but it’s also one of the most costly and heavily packaged things you can eat regularly, especially considering what it is. Challenge yourself to come up with alternate breakfasts, at least a few times a week. Also, try your own additions to plain oatmeal (almost any fresh or dried fruit is good), or learn to make muesli or granola yourself.
• Don’t rule out dried beans. They may take longer to cook, but most of it is not your time, and they are healthy and inexpensive.




Warnings

• Throw away spoiled foods. You may make a point to catch things while they’re still good next time, but a little bit of money spent is far less costly in the long run than food poisoning.
• Learn about and practice safe food handling, especially as regards meats and eggs.
• Don’t get too much. You’ll likely have to move out at the end of the year, so the giant jar of peanuts you see mid-April may have to be tossed out in May/June.




Things You’ll Need

• Pantry space set aside
• Ingredients as outlined above
• Shopping list and pencil
• Carrying bags




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• How to Stock a Vegetarian Pantry
• How to Organize a Pantry
• How to Organize a Kitchen
• How to Learn Cooking by Yourself



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