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DELIGHTS Here are a few recommendations for things we love to make sheltering in place more enjoyable...

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CLEANKEY™ ANTIMICROBIAL BRASS HAND TOOL

Joining the fight against COVID-19, KeySmart created products that offer protection and convenience in these uncertain times, including CleanKey. Specially designed to limit germ exposure and transmission, CleanKey works as a handy keychain you can bring anywhere, anytime to press buttons, open doors, and pull levers. No more direct contact with contaminated surfaces! With 62% Copper content, CleanKey™ is inherently antimicrobial, killing or slowing down the spread of microorganisms including bacteria, viruses, protozoans, and fungi. It comes with a retractable carabiner so you can attach it to your daily stuff.

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THE WALT DISNEY MUSEUM

Do you have a Disney fan in your home? Now students can visit The Walt Disney Family Museum without ever leaving home. Benefitting from embedded digital media content, this walk-through museum brings Walt’s inspirational message to life. Classes learn about his early failures, the art of animation, storytelling principles, and the technological innovations that made classics like Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) possible.

Free for K–12 school groups.

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TAKE A MENTAL BREAK AND DIVE INTO A BOOK

When was the last time you read a book or a substantial magazine article? Do your daily reading habits center around tweets, Facebook updates, or the directions on your instant oatmeal packet?

If you’re one of countless people who don’t make a habit of reading regularly, you might be missing out.

Reading has a significant number of benefits, and here are eight benefits of reading to get you to start reading. •Strengthens the brain •Increases empathy •Builds vocabulary •Prevents cognitive decline •Reduces stress •Aids sleep •Alleviates depression •Lengthens lifespan

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PURPLE CARROT

Having a hard time deciding what to cook, let alone making sure it's healthy? Why not let PurpleCarrot. com help you out?

With Purple Carrot, you can discover the power of a plant-based diet. Receive new plant-based recipes and pre-portioned ingredients delivered to your door each week.

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GUIDED MEDITATION

Guided meditation can be as short as a few minutes or as long as several hours. Either way, the purpose is to achieve mental, emotional, and physical healing and stress relief.

BENEFITS OF MEDITATION •Gaining a new perspective on stressful situations •Building skills to manage your stress •Increasing self-awareness •Focusing on the present •Reducing negative emotions •Increasing imagination and creativity •Increasing patience and tolerance

If you're interested in a 15-minute vacation from any stress of sheltering in place, take a look at this guided meditation for beginners video from YouTube.

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AMERICAN RED CROSS: DONATE PLASMA & SAVE A LIFE

In coordination with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Red Cross is seeking people who are fully recovered from the new coronavirus to sign up to donate plasma to help current COVID-19 patients.

People who have fully recovered from COVID-19 have antibodies in their plasma that can attack the virus. This convalescent plasma is being evaluated as treatment for patients with serious or immediately life-threatening COVID-19 infections, or those judged by a healthcare provider to be at high risk of progression to severe or lifethreatening disease.

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