The most effective time to consume oral rehydration solution would be after drinking. Alcohol is a diuretic causing you to lose more water than normal through urine, and eventually also electrolytes (although at first, your body will make an effort to retain them). So if you drink the ORS whilst still in diuresis, it won't have any negative effects, but you're more likely to urinate away the contents. After drinking, but before sleeping is anecdotally the optimal way to use ORS products for the hangover use case.
Coconut water is marketed for hydration because it does have a relatively high electrolyte content, but it's mostly potassium with minimal sodium, so not as effective as an oral rehydration powder which has those specific ratios of electrolytes / sugar that maximize the speed of uptake/hydration.
This is really cool, the data collection part reminds me of those water fountains at airports that tell you how many plastic water bottles they've kept out of landfill - that kind of feedback is very motivating.
Would love to know if something like this exists in New York.
Agreed - I liken it to my college experience: if you want to eat or drink anything other than water, or talk to other people, you go to the coffee shop.
If you want to focus on your work and take breaks to do the rest you go to the library.
I always chose the coffee shop, so open offices don't bother me hugely. The caveat is that a good pair of headphones is a must.
I have had a similar experience, but am still trying to find the right balance.
I'm a little heavier than the average runner and was getting shin splints in regular running shoes on the "back side" of my leg. Switched to barefoot shoes (and probably didn't build up slowly enough) and had Achilles tendon issues. It fixed the shin splint problem for a while, but then they reappeared, this time on the front side of the leg.
I'm now on insole supports and regular shoes, but still not able to run as much as I'd like without the tell tale signs of shin splints showing up.
I suspect my running gait is partly to blame, but it's surprisingly difficult to change this after years of one method.
As I've mentioned elsewhere, did you change your running style at all? Shin splints suggest heel striking. Barefoot running feels a bit like running backwards compared to regular running - it's not the same motion at all.
Just to add another perspective also working in America for a good employer:
1. Schedule with GP, get appointment very quickly.
2. GP has no idea who is "in network" for you and doesn't seem to care very much. They also don't understand the different insurance plans so have no idea if you're covered for certain types of referral.
3. Schedule appointment with a specialist. Ask for up front cost estimate for consultation/procedure given your insurance plan. Unable to answer.
4. Go to appointment anyway as you don't have many other choices.
5. Receive astronomical bill for some obscure billing code that is not covered by your health plan.
6. Spend time calling doctors office and insurer to figure out the situation and try to avoid or reduce bill.
I've experienced the NHS too - for all its flaws, the peace of mind living in the UK from a health standpoint is worth every penny of the associated taxes IMO.
My problem with Math education was always that speed was an enormous factor in testing. You can methodically go through each question aiming for 100% accuracy and not finish the test paper, while other students can comfortably breeze through all the questions and get 80% accuracy but ultimately score higher on the test. This kind of penalizing for a lack of speed can lead to younger kids who are maximizing for grades to move away from Math for the wrong reasons.
Source: I'm slow but good at Math and ended up dropping it as soon as I could because it would not get me the grades I needed to enter a top tier university.
In my view, speed plays a role, though I can't say that it should play such a central role.
I think that in a lot of disciplines, you have to become fluent at manipulations, and at seeing and thinking in higher level patterns. Being able to think your way through a more complex problem would seem to benefit from, if not require, seeing multiple steps ahead in a progression. At least this is my perception.
My experience in school math was that it wasn't enough to satisfy myself that I knew how to solve a problem. I then had to work my way through a whole bunch of similar problems until I could perform the manipulations quickly. This is also how I managed to commit the definitions, axioms, and theorems to memory. If I didn't do that stuff, then I got my arse handed to me on the exam. I gave my kids pretty much the same advice.
I've never been evaluated but I don't think test anxiety fits in my case - the speed issue was only ever in math / physics.
My accuracy on the questions I got to was very high, I just couldn't go fast enough to complete enough questions. Same deal on SAT type math papers too.
Different tests challenge people differently. It may be that you only needed an accommodation in computationally heavy exams.*
Truthfully, my mention of accommodations isn't for you--I'm assuming you're out of high school already and you've found a professional niche that works for you. I mention test anxiety and the professional workarounds for high schoolers or their parents.
*) This is actually moving well beyond my expertise. I know about the existence of test anxiety, and I've accommodated students with it.
A brief consult with Dr. Google surfaced some clinically recommended accommodations that probably would have helped you. Sorry I don't have a time machine!
Will Hivy have vendors built into the system? Allowing employee's to search for products they want and then have the office manager buy the items through Hivy seems like a great potential revenue stream.
Great question! We've already built an Amazon integration that lets office managers convert employees requests into direct purchases on Amazon. And we plan to build many more in the future.
Yes, we do have features that let you manage and approve vendors and multiple approval workflows. Invoice management is on the way. What procurement systems were you thinking of?
If you're planning to go in the big-enterprise space... the big one is Oracle Financials. Many companies use it to manage vendors, purchase sites, GL codes, buyers, approval levels, an item master, net payment terms, etc.
You guys are on the right track, but eventually you're going to hit a wall where you'll need some serious maturity with procure-to-pay.
I'm not sure how the tone of this comes across, or if it's in any way negative because you guys are onto something... but have a lot of competition that is often deeply integrated (see Service-Now catalogs for example).
Why the tubes? What are the downsides of using a standard stick pack format instead? I would think that's cheaper from both a materials and a shipping standpoint.
