You save a lot of time if you resize your photos all at once instead of one at a time. And if you do it in free Irfanview, you can add a watermark to each of them at the same time!…
Resize Transparent PNG Images in Irfanview
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Before you can add a watermark to your photos all at once in a batch, you need to have the right size image as a transparent png image. To do it in Irfanview you need know this trick!…
The best image size for social media and blog posts
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Photo sizes for blogs and social media change all the time as screen resolution gets better. This can make it hard to know what size to upload photos to a blog. At this point, I’ve chosen to go with a social media size that seems to be the largest and hope it will last me for awhile without taking up too much space. Then to save even more time, I’m going to process the photos in batches all at once. AND at the same time I’m going to watermark them all.
Here’s how I decided on a size and dimensions….
Facebook Image Testing 2
This post may contain text and image affiliate links. You pay the same price, but I may receive a small commissions for purchases through those links.Testing Pinterest Images to see how they work on Pinterest. I this Image 2 will be better than than Image 1.
I was right. Image 2 is the best for the type position.
Facebook Image Testing 1
This post may contain text and image affiliate links. You pay the same price, but I may receive a small commissions for purchases through those links.Testing Pinterest Images to see how they work on Pinterest. I think Image 2 will be better than this Image 1.
I was right. Image 2 is the best for the type position.
National Merit Semifinalist PSAT score predictions
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National Merit Semifinalist PSAT score predictions
National Merit Semi-Finalist qualifying scores won’t be announced by the National Merit Corporation until the September the year after the October PSAT. The best predictor is often the scores from the previous year, but scores do go up – and sometimes down. A year is a long time to wait! So if your score is close, you can’t help but try to figure out what the National Merit qualifying score for your state might be. This will help you know if you need to prepare for the next step in the competition, like achieving a National Merit confirming SAT score.
Have National Merit PSAT scores gone up or down from 2015-2016?
Since National Merit Semi-finalist cutoffs are higher than the top 99th percentile (more like the 99.5th percentile), you can’t tell if you’re going to qualify on percentile alone. To complicate matters, the College Board publishes a National Representative Sample percentile AND a PSAT/NMSQT and PSAT/10 User National Sample (this means the population of students that age in the entire United States vs. students who actually took the test.)
To complicate it further, they publish this chart for the 1520 scale score, not the National Merit Selection Index score, the 228 score scale….
Is a liberal arts education better? – Part 9/9
This post may contain text and image affiliate links. You pay the same price, but I may receive a small commissions for purchases through those links.In this series of posts, I’ve been looking for proof that a liberal arts and sciences degree will improve your chances of getting a job. To start at the beginning, go back to my first post in this series, What is a liberal arts degree?
I started out by reading the information on the website PBK Toolkit, which had sources for their assertions. (I almost said “facts,” but I now heavily doubt whether the assertions are indeed facts.) When I came to an interesting assertion, I would look up the source. But I got tired of being intrigued by the assertion only to look up the source and finding it to not be meaningful. So then I jumped straight to their reference section and started going through their sources one by one. Unfortunately, I still didn’t find any sources I considered convincing.
Then I realized that there are two references at the beginning of the PBK Toolkit which I overlooked when I was just analyzing the sources of intriguing statistics I saw quoted. I’ll go back to those now.
Will a liberal arts degree lead to employment?
China is copying the United States Liberal Arts System
Here are the first two sources of the PBK Toolkit.
Eric Abrahamsen, “A Liberal Arts Education, Made in China,” The New York Times: July 3, 2012; Pericles Lewis, PBK Toolkit
“Asia Invests in Liberal Arts: US Higher Education Expands Abroad” Harvard International Review, Cambridge, MA: Spring 2013, PBK Toolkit
Maybe it’s ironic, but more than when educators in the United States say that a liberal arts and sciences education is important, when the Chinese are looking at a liberal arts education, it makes me take notice.
That’s because…
Will a liberal arts degree leave you time to take ART?- Part 8/9
This post may contain text and image affiliate links. You pay the same price, but I may receive a small commissions for purchases through those links.A liberal arts degree will teach you skills that employers are looking for when they hire. When you’re researching college majors, colleges vs. universities, and types of degrees, you will see this statement often. But is it true? I was trying to find some data some data to back up that claim when I came across the PBK website Toolkit. In this series of posts, I’m looking up the references used to prove that a liberal arts and sciences degree will improve your chances of getting a job.
Let’s get back to analyzing the sources given in the PBK toolkit used to justify a liberal arts and sciences degree. Here is another one of their sources:
Robert Root-Bernstein et al., “Arts Fosters Scientific Success,” Journal of Psychology of Science and Technology, Vol. 1, No. 2, New York, NY: 2008, PBK toolkit
This is an interesting study that shows that scientists who are also artistic, who actually practice some type of art or music, seem to be more creative and more likely to win a Nobel Prize. And I would agree that the “arts” are an often neglected part of our educations.
However,…
Do liberal arts college or university graduates earn more? – Part 7/9
This post may contain text and image affiliate links. You pay the same price, but I may receive a small commissions for purchases through those links.A liberal arts degree will teach you skills that employers are looking for when they hire. When you’re researching college majors, colleges vs. universities, and types of degrees, you will see this statement often. But is it true? In this series of posts, I’m looked up some references used to prove that a liberal arts and sciences degree will improve your chances of getting a job. I’m not convinced yet.
But before we leave this subject of liberal arts and science majors’ earning potential, consider this article:
WSJ: Grads Of Selective Research Universities Far Out Earn Grads Of Selective Liberal Arts Colleges…
How much do people with different college majors earn? – Part 6/9
This post may contain text and image affiliate links. You pay the same price, but I may receive a small commissions for purchases through those links.In my last post, I decided that I wasn’t convinced that graduates with liberal arts degrees end up earning more than preprofessional, or professional degrees. There may be something in the full report that would answer my questions, but I don’t have access to that so I went looking on my own across the internet for more sources and some more specific data.
All I found were articles quoting these same sources that I found in the PBK webpage that I talked about in the previous blog post referenced above.
So these sources have been widely quoted to justify a liberal arts degree. From my work as a textbook editor, I know that this is a common problem. It’s not unusual to have one source widely quoted. And if that source isn’t good, then “common knowledge” isn’t based on something that’s true. While I appreciate the effort in many of the articles I cam across, I’m still not convinced.
I found an article on the US News and World Report site interesting. The title sounded useful. …
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