INPUT ARTICLE: Article: Skin is less able to produce and retain lather from soap than other materials. If you use a washcloth instead while you are bathing, the whole process will use less soap overall because the washcloth will create more lather and it the suds it creates will go farther in cleaning your body than simply using your hands alone. Additionally, you can use a loofah to help the soap last longer. Hot water will make your bar soap dissolve more quickly and will require more effort to make lather. A cooler shower will help your bar soap last longer by allowing it to maintain its shape and consistency for a longer period of time. Softer water will also help prolong the life of your soap over hard shower water. Put small leftover pieces inside a washcloth or a bag sewn from a washcloth, and use the whole thing like a bar of soap. If you like using soap this way, you can put the entire bar inside the bag from the beginning.

SUMMARY: Use a washcloth instead of your hands. Take cooler showers. Use small, leftover scraps of soap all the way to the end.

INPUT ARTICLE: Article: The plank exercise is one of the most reliable, deceptively simple ways to give great definition to your abs. All you need is a flat surface, a little bit of time, and some serious gumption as you feel the burn. Get down in the prone position. The tips of your toes and your forearms from the bottom of your elbow to your balled-up fist should be the only parts of your body touching the floor. Make sure your weight is supported by your toes and your forearms. Keep your body as straight as possible at all times. Hold this position as long as you can. To increase difficulty, an arm or leg can be raised. Place one foot on top of the other to also increase difficulty. Another great ab-builder is leg raises. You'll be able to feel how effective this exercise is as soon as you get into starting position. To get into starting position, lie down flat on a matted floor, your head, back and legs completely even with the floor. Shift your hands underneath your glutes. Gently lift your feet an inch or so above the ground, so that they are just barely hovering above, and are parallel to the ground. Keep this position until you start to feel a burn in your abs. Slowly lift your outstretched legs, with your knees bent a touch until they make a 90-degree angle to the floor. Your body should form an "L" shape. When your legs have reached the 90-degree angle, lift your hips up off the floor with the bottoms of your feet facing the ceiling and contract your abs for a second. Gradually lower your legs back down to the starting position, exhale, and repeat. Crunches are another great way to get abs quickly and effectively, and there are tons of variations on crunches. Basic crunches require you to lie down on a matted floor, with your back flat to the ground and your knees bent at a 60-degree angle. With your hands near your temples, or crossed on your chest, lift your shoulder blades off the ground a small bit and feel the "crunch" in your abs. Exhale and go back down to the ground. Repeat. Try the hands overhead crunch. Instead of keeping your hands at your temple, do a basic crunch while stretching your arms overhead with your palms crossed. Keep your arms outstretched above your head at all times while you complete the crunch. Try the cross-body crunch. With your hands to the side of your head and your fingertips at your ears, gently behind your head, bring your left elbow and right knee together when you crunch. Go back down and bring the right elbow and left knee together as you crunch. Try to bring your shoulder up towards your knee rather than just your elbow. Remember that the key is to contract the abs as you perform the movement. Try the legs on exercise ball crunch. Instead of having your legs bent on the ground, place your legs at a 90-degree angle onto a large medicine ball. Slowly roll your shoulders off the floor and contract your abs, as in a regular crunch. Move down and repeat. Try the decline crunch. Lie on a decline bench and secure your legs at the highest point so you won't fall off. Lower yourself down so your body is completely in-line with the bench. With your hands crossed over your chest, gently lift your shoulders up, contract your ab muscles, and hold it for a second. Lower your torso back down and repeat. Try a rotation of crunches. Example: 20 regular, 10 cross-body, 15 hands overhead. Take two chairs of equal height, and rest your forearms on them, then pick your legs up off the floor in an up and down position. But be careful that you don't slip or fall. Set aside at least one day a week to run a mile. Playing games like tag and hide and go seek outside can even burn calories. Taking your dog for a run is also a convenient way to run, and make sure you drink plenty of water! Work up to exercises all 5 days of the week. Eventually, when it gets easier, do ab workouts twice each day, 5 days a week.

SUMMARY: Do the plank exercise. Do leg raises. Do crunches. Lift your weight. Do cardio as much as possible. Work out your abs for about 20-30 minutes, 3 days a week, at first.

INPUT ARTICLE: Article: Point to an empty space on your taskbar, then right-click on it to bring up the taskbar menu. The taskbar is the bar in which the Start menu (or Windows logo) resides. Click on "Lock the taskbar." You will then see a blue checkmark appear to the left of this option after the taskbar has been successfully locked. You will not be able to resize or move your taskbar until you repeat this process to remove the checkmark. There are several ways you can adjust the taskbar. Try to adjust it to your liking before locking the taskbar in place. You can reposition the taskbar to the different edges of the monitor by clicking and holding on a blank space on the taskbar and moving the mouse to the edges of your monitor. You can also place the taskbar on a different monitor if you have more than one monitor connected to your computer. Click and hold on the edge of the taskbar to resize it. Your mouse cursor will appear as an ↔️ icon. Click and hold the mouse button and slide the edge up or down when on the top or bottom of the viewspace or slide the edge left or right when on the sides of the viewspace.

SUMMARY: Access the taskbar menu. Lock the taskbar to its current position. Position the taskbar to edges of the screen. Adjust the taskbar size.

INPUT ARTICLE: Article: The goal of the second and remaining tutorial sessions is to make sure the student is progressing in a positive direction by doing homework, making better grades on tests, and feeling more in control of the subject. Every student will be different as to how much autonomy they have over their life and schoolwork. You have to work with them according to their developmental pacenot yours. Otherwise they will improve to please you not to help themselves. This is very sensitive work and you must keep giving the ownership of the work to them. You are only there to support and help them do the work. Modeling is always appropriate when they forget or a new concept is taught, just make sure they need it. Always be honest and expect them to be honest with you about everything. You will find the relationship very rewarding. Extend the student and create an expectation for the student to start doing this for him- or herself. The sooner this is internalized, the better able the student will become at self-disciplining the learning process and doing well. Prepare revision points to help go back over materials already covered. Do an end of term exam to see whether there has been any improvement.

SUMMARY:
Continue goals assessment. Push the student towards his or her goal. Test the learning and goal achievement.