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BRAND NEW IN BOX - 60" VIZIO D-SERIES D60 SMART LED TV - 1080p FULL HD - $650 (Lock Haven)
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Wisecomm DVR/VCR Lock Box - $40
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According to Amtrak's website, "each passenger paying a fare is entitled to a seat, to the extent coach seats are available." Often, getting a seat is as simple as paying a fare. But during holiday seasons and other high-volume travel times, and on certain trains, even that's not necessarily a guarantee -- a warning also echoed by Amtrak on its website: "on unreserved trains, there are no guaranteed seats."
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Hamburger/Mashed Potato Casserole
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Recipe by Steve P.
A tasty Quick and easy beef and cheese casserole. Easily converted to different styles with your own creative touches.
Top Review by Cherryberrybug
Exactly what you said, "Tasty, Quick and Easy! I seasoned the hamburger with all-seasoning salt, pepper and a couple of dollops of soy sauce and also added the onion as previously suggested. Next time, I will make sure the potatoes are on the 'stiff' side, otherwise, it was great!
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Ingredients Nutrition
- 2 lbs ground beef
- 2 (10 ounce) cans tomato soup
- 2 (16 ounce) cans green beans, drained
- 8 cups instant mashed potatoes
- 2 cups shredded cheddar cheese
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- Brown ground beef and drain fat.
- Add the soup and green beans.
- Spoon into a casserole dish.
- Prepare the mashed potatoes according to package directions.
- Spread over the top of casserole ingredients.
- Sprinkle with the cheese.
- Bake at 350°F for 30 minutes, or until cheese is bubbly.
- Note: You can be creative.
- Add chili powder or cumin and chopped jalapeño pepper for a Mexican flair.
- Or tomato sauce instead of soup and a bit of oregano substituting mozzarella cheese for Italian style.
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This weeks Room of the Week is a bathroom with a statement bath. From the House to Home galleries this room provides the ultimate bathing experience with a large bath and a walk in shower.
If you have the room to create a large bathroom (and your floors can hold it) adding a standalone bath is a great feature. The bath above is from the Limestone Gallery, and is a modern example of the traditional rolltop bath.
The bath shown below is from StoneKast, and would be a good option to provide a very contemporary standalone bath. These baths are created using a mixture of limestone and a resin compound. This process allows the creation of a bath with a smaller profile and also one that weighs less than other standalone baths.
Choosing to create a wet room shower area is a great choice to enhance the feeling of openness in a bathroom but many people have concerns that the bathroom will leak. Wedi manufactures a building board that helps to ensure a water tight bathroom. It's properties include moisture-protection to heat insulation, and it also sells purpose made boards for the shower area as shown below.
Although a wet room shower area can be open to the rest of the bathroom, practically it is often better to include a shower screen or enclosure. Bette have a very good selection that can cater for most bathroom shapes, try to choose an enclosure with minimal framing.
Choose your bathroom fittings carefully, this is the room we often rush through in the morning but remember it should also be enjoyed and can be a perfect place to relax after a busy day.
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Author's Note: Written for comment_fic on LiveJournal, prompt: Castle, Castle/Beckett, every time she kiss him, his heart skips a beat. First time writing Castle fic. Vague, vague allusions to the season 4 finale, but nothing more than that as far as spoilers go, I think. Enjoy!
It's such a cliche, Castle thought, that my heart skips a beat whenever Kate kisses me.
He hated himself for spinning cliches through his mind instead of coming up with something new and original, something vivid and stark in contrast to more succinctly describe the feelings he held for her. He hated it so much. If there was one thing that he should be able to do in his life, it was to be able to use words as his most potent weapon. His ability to spin words into threads and cloth was his livelihood, the reason why he was able to wake up every morning with the life he was able to lead.
And yet, the statement held true for him: things become cliches for a reason, after all.
Every time. Without fail. Ever since the first time they kissed. He'd suspected this would be the case even before their first kiss, but it had been proof positive ever since.
It usually followed the same rough pattern every time, with enough of an unpredictability that he was never bored. Not that he could be. Kissing her could never be classified as anything remotely close to boring or banal.
She would tilt her head ever just so slightly, so that the curtain of her hair would cascade over her face, or her shoulder, and her lips would curve upward into the faintest wisp of a smile. Didn't matter when, or where they were - whether it was out in public, on a case, or in private, just the two of them enjoying a rare, treasured moment of peace and solitude. His heart rate would accelerate - the difference between a heart beating and a heart racing - and she would lean into his personal space, brushing the tips of their noses together as she linked their hands together and looped her other arm around the back of his neck. The wisp of a smile would become realized fully, gaining form and definition where none existed before except in memory.
And then she'd look at him for countless tantalizing seconds, with something akin to desire, love, lust - devotion - sparkling in her eyes, and she wouldn't have to say anything at all. If she said anything, in that breathless, husky whisper that seemed to be reserved for him and him alone, it wouldn't matter in those moments. These seconds were like fragile moments in a glass mobile, suspended in time forever.
She was always stunningly beautiful; that was never, ever in question - and if anyone ever found any reason to doubt him on that, he would have to find ways to rectify the situation posthaste. But somehow she always became even more beautiful in close-up, when her face was so close to his that if he would just propel forward a fraction of an inch, they would be kissing. It made him want to be an artist instead of a writer, for him to be able to have the skill with a brush and paints or a sculptor's chisel to accurately depict what he saw.
And then she would lean in, not him. She would take the lead, and he would follow; after all, he had always been the one to follow his heart instead of his head. Her lips would descend onto his. They would form a small oval shape, and she would allow her tongue to dart out and skim his lower lip. That. That would be the moment when he felt as though his heart had decided to act like they were living out a series of cliches.
Beat. Beat. Skip. Beat.
He would lean into her to catch his balance; his action would have the side effect of bringing them all that much closer together. He would be able to hear her breath catch in her throat; every action has an equal and opposite reaction. He seemed to remember Alexis mentioning something like that when working on her homework - why Alexis was even a thought in the back recesses of his mind right now, though, was something he could never figure out, when all of his other thoughts were variations on a constant theme: oh God, this feels so good - why didn't we do this sooner - why don't we do this more often - Beckett, Beckett, Kate - never, ever stop - love you.
It would go on like this for some time, with their contented sighs and moans serving as the vocalized exclamation points to their muted dialogue of nips and sucks. If she had recently consumed something, like coffee, he could taste the lingering aftertaste and gain a vicarious thrill from it; if not, then he got to relish in her natural taste for that much longer. Yet, before either of them would realize it, they would part, only for her smile to reform at that moment. And he would find that her smiles were contagious in the best way; he would grin, and she would grin, and they would laugh, and he would take the back of his palm and brush her hair off from her face.
He could go on like this forever with her, the two of them. Only her. Always only her.
If his heart could take it.


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I'm not ugly but I'm not sexy either... I'm average.
I've always had a flair for the over-the-top & extravagant, I don't like to do something unless I give it my all and can make something unique out of it... so of course that transferred over to how I maintain my appearance.
BUT lately I just don't see the point anymore, with the way things have went in the past 5 months from a friend passing away to having a chance of starting a relationship with 2 different girls (one of which I had been interested in for years and then having her talk-down to me & remove me from her life) and not having anything going on... I just don't see the point anymore.
So on New Years Eve I walked into the bathroom cut my intricate facial hair to stubble, left the house to see people I knew and no one gave a shit & no one has really cared since - I know this sounds shallow but they always commented on my curly mustache/beard... I also miss my signature look.
And now I feel like I should finish the transformation by getting a second pair of clipper and cutting my long hair off to something boring and uniform.
And I'll I can do is ask myself - why shouldn't I?
***I also find it funny that most guys "I don't care anymore" look usually involves them growing their hair long and not cutting it while mine is the exact opposite (cutting it all off).***
- Maybe your intricate style is too much and by giving up/letting go you are actually doing yourself a favor...Vote A
- Finish the transformation...Vote B
- Give it some time maybe you won't feel this way in a week, no need destroy your appearance when you are upset...Vote C
- Don't buy clippers, go to a quality salon/barbershop and get a makeover, it would be better than giving up...Vote D
- Other/I don't know... I'll leave a comment.Vote E
Most Helpful Girl
Well you said you're average you must be somewhat attractive or at least stand out more with your beard/moustache or you wouldn't be missing it so.
Maybe you do need a new look maybe cutting your hair short will actually suit you although many guys wear their hair like that and you should allow your facial hair to grow back so you can have apart of yourself back the part that you like.
It may just be a good combination.21|10|0
It will take half a year or more to get it back to what it was... but I kind of feel like destroying myself so I no longer care about anything. If I remove & rid myself of everything I care about maybe I'll be free from wants and desires... or maybe not, but I almost feel like it's necessary.
If I'm average wouldn't it make me less desirable to do something that isn't necessarily preferred (intricate facial hair & long hair... other things I do)?
I don't know, that one girl really upset me. She could have been what I needed/what I was lacking in my life but now I feel like she pushed me to the breaking point and I've already snapped a little bit... and everything else is going to make me break completely.
Thanks for MHO.
Most Helpful Guy
Hmmm who knows you might actually look better by cutting your hair and trimming, I mean I don't know what you look like sooo, and you should always care about your appearance even if you have nothing going on if not for others then for yourself.21|10|0
What looks best really depends on the person & their preference and a whole bunch of other reasons... www.girlsaskguys.com/.../q1829759-hair-evolution-which-length-looks-better
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Thanks, but that still doesn't change how feel.
Well you have to get your confidence up a little and have a better outlook.


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In principles, anyone can arrange a server that connects your laptop or computer to the World-wide-web and installing most of the necessary software. But with an accessible page, you must and make sure nothing fails. Hire a hosting provides all the great satisfaction you need and not having to worry that you switch off the home laptop computer.
Different types with hosting
That claimed, if you check out any hosting provider so as to there are a wide array of different product or service, and prices vary greatly collected from one of to another with regard to no apparent purpose. If you increase this that just about every provider has several prices and cool features, the result is to find the most appropriate internet site service becomes really complicated.
The first account is that there are plenty of categories of internet site, each designed for a variety of web page get hold of. While each company can name their own hosting packages in some way, actually hosting are generally classified into several types:
Shared Internet site:
The shared hosting or shared enviroment is the most economical and simplest manner of hosting, and the commonest.
Imagine for a short while that the server where a web site is hosted can be a hotel with several rooms. When you hire an email finder service shared hosting, your page may be hosted in among the list of rooms of the following hotel, like numerous others belonging to other clients in the hosting company.
Just by their nature, shared enviroment is the most economical and affordable to help host a internet site option; however, it is additionally a form with hosting very weak than the rest, since all the pages which were hosted on the server utilize the same memory, hard disk drive, and processor.
Greatest things about shared hosting:
It can be a very cheap version of accommodation
To find a business is more than enough, and later may be shifted to a much more powerful service
Keeping a large server, don't usually have declines
Disadvantages of shared enviroment:
Hosting quality may vary pc provider
By spreading server resources, peak traffic another page make a difference to you
Usually, it can be a simple way to help hosting and underpowered
VPS server:
Phase 2 in the group accommodation is appointing a VPS server, often called a virtual server. While shared enviroment is to rent a little room, a VPS server is very similar to rent space inside building. So, you have even more capacity and offered space to host a number web pages while doing so.
VPS servers are generally to reserve a substantial the main resources of a server to work with anytime. Unlike shared enviroment, where a next-doors can consume even more resources page in the account (as the tenant in the hotel that catches the buffet food), here you've got an allocated number of memory and digesting.
VPS servers to learn expensive, but the user gets the assurance that you're going to always have the maximum amount of space as you would like. Moreover, they could easily expand as they're just virtual that is usually, the amount with memory reserved for it is possible to be controlled.
Additionally, a VPS server was organized to accommodate multiple pages rather then one, so you may group all work in one position.
Advantages of VPS server
Even more stable than shared enviroment
We guarantee that services contracted without worrying about the other can use
It allows want you to host a few page within that server itself
You may zoom easily
Cons of VPS server
It can be more expensive
This can be a more complex version of hosting, as it can be intended for a much more professional level
Cheapest VPS servers can have even fewer positive aspects than shared lodging, but are secured
Dedicated server:
The greatest of hosting, along with the most expensive class is hiring a devoted server. While a shared accommodation we now have a room which includes a VPS server contains a local, with a devoted server rented the main building to comprehensive.
A dedicated server suggests you have your able to use a whole machine for a exclusive use, and do with it everything else you want. This version of hosting is unequivocally the more powerful since the device avoids have to share with you resources with other clients to your hosting provider.
Nevertheless, this is costly option, and not necessarily as flexible for a VPS server. The reason is you are appointing a physical laptop computer, and if you might want to enlarge or get rid of your benefits will possess a technician open the idea and change fecal material hardware.
Advantages on the dedicated server:
You've got full control across your hosting breathing space, pudenda modify any configuration you would like
It is an exceptionally powerful form with hosting that guarantees that you a very high effectiveness
Disadvantages of a devoted server:
It is probably the most expensive form of web hosting service
It is unwieldy being a physical machine
Having full control means it's more complex to regulate and maintain
Fog up Hosting:
There is in addition an alternative manner of accommodation is being gradually, called fog up hosting. Unlike previous options hosting, in which space just a server (or in the matter of dedicated servers, the main machine) is rented, cloud hosting may be to distribute your website via the network of machines.
Your page are going to be hosted on one or several machines and use a resources of a total network of servers to do. As a end result, you will be charged consistent with actual use you label of that network, rather then paying a permanent monthly fee.
This version of hosting is nevertheless quite young, but thanks to some great benefits of the cloud are just about the most stable forms with accommodation.
Advantages with cloud hosting:
Extremely stable disbursing resource usage along the cloud
You are charged for the utilization of resources
It is really flexible and will allow you to expand the capacity to your accommodation easily.
Cons of cloud internet site:
It is still a little daughter technology, and, accordingly, it may be described as a bit expensive regardless of the odd payment
It may very well be more complex than other styles of traditional internet site
What kind of hosting what's use?
As we now have seen, there are several types of web hosting manufactured for different user grades.
If you're just commencing, it always pays to use a shared internet site. This form of hosting is a cheapest, and expand the proportions of your plan is straightforward and does not require any sort of migration.
Moreover, the VPS servers become excellent when you have distinctive pages. The main difference between an accommodation and some sort of server is enable you to have multiple pages at one time without higher bills. If you see that the money necessary having multiple provided accommodations is above a VPS server, it might be smart to change.
As one more note, unless you now have a business with really specific needs and excessive usage of resources, not in any respect recommend hiring a devoted server. This type with accommodation precedes VPS machines because then they had no virtualization tools which make it possible.
Having a concentrated server guarantees you a whole lot of power, but is some sort of hosting very unbending. In fact, the trend shows that the hostings that will meet the needs on the struts website are definitely the future.
Choosing a Web Host – Web hosting service Guide
Choosing the proper Web Host is important
Whether you're installing a personal website or maybe a commercial one, it's best to choose your web hosting service provider wisely. " that you will is guaranteed to want your website to remain seen by the largest amount of people. To do it's essential to take the time to go across certain basic but vital factors that might ensure more visibility for a site.
Points to take into consideration when choosing web hosting service
There are many web hosting service providers and packages available today. Each at least one have their own personal unique advantages together with weaknesses. So how would probably one decide the one that to choose?
With you zone in for a particular provider, you still need to find the hosting package that can suit you. Every web internet site site offer many types of packages available. The most popular type is a 'Unlimited Bandwidth' bundle.
The following items should make ones task of choosing web hosting service simpler for people.
1. Server Uptime & Support:
The most basic thing to get a website found on the internet will depend on whether the server the location where the files are stashed away is online as i. e. up and running each time. This is termed Server Uptime. You can see that most in the web hosting service providers will claim some sort of 99. 99% server uptime. A few even claimed 100%.
For those who have time, search for feedback by users in the provider on world-wide-web forums or in another place online. Or use the larger competent hosting companies with built a respected reputation. Most good serves have multiple server info and power backups. Several also promised 100% and do that just by guaranteeing refund of fees inside eventuality that any sort of downtime might come to pass.
Another very important feature on the good web hosting is Support. They should furnish customers with 24/7 telephone and internet help. They should possess a good collection with tutorials and FAQs readily on the site just in case you might need allow. Make no misstep, you will get hold of your hosting support on a regular basis than you imagine, especially if you will be serious about a web site.
2. Pricing & incorporated features
The selection of pricing and features shipped with web hosting applications are pretty large. You will want a good balance of options and quality that will fit the bill. As with some other product, cheap constantly gets less top quality. On the many other hand some pricing may be exorbitant without any sort of special value.
The costs of hosting packages are frequently dependent on the number of features included. A lot of these includes data storage space and bandwidth restrictions, number of made way for addon domains together with subdomains, number with email and file transfer protocol accounts hosted, provided or virtual and dedicated server options, programming languages together with databases, site equipment, shopping cart or anything else, and the list passes by. One can end up easily confused with the numerous choices more considering are not sure of them. Don't feel concerned, we will cover the main ones yearly paras.
Pricing to get a fair value shared enviroment packages usually will start around 6-8 US$ each and every month. Virtual Private/Dedicated Server available US$ 30-50 pm hours and Dedicated Machines at US$ 60-80 pm hours.
Pricing tip: For those who have not acquired a website address or want to provide another, then a few packages include 100 % free domain with internet site. They can be described as a good bargain.
3. Info Storage and Bandwidth restrictions
If you are novices at putting up sites, you might have almost no idea about the amount of data storage breathing space and bandwidth your websites will need. At first, don't worry an excessive amount about this. Even probably the most professional people will explain that themselves. Because your must have will grow as may be visitors to a web site increases, you will know facts about it as you complement.
Data Storage Breathing space: Unless you will host lots with video/movie clips or maybe a gigantic amount with big resolution graphics, most hosting packages is going to do. Normal websites infrequently occupy beyond 40-50 MB (megabytes with storage space). The standard shared hosting package for any top registrar charging $4. 99 pm comes with 10 GB(1000 MB) of hard drive space usage.
Bandwidth Limits: Bandwidth limit is the quality of data transfers ones hosting permits each and every month. This depends on what much visitors your websites has and the species of files you help i. e. basic internet pages, pictures or video tutorials etc. Here way too, not that much to care about for normal sites. Most hosting providers may offer "Unlimited Bandwidth" even on the value shared internet site packages.
One word with caution though for any intending to coordinate video/movie clips or hd pictures. Do not end up fooled by Unlimited Bandwidth Shared enviroment packages. If you feel the "Terms of Use" together with "Common Usage Policy" for some shared hosting applications, they will undoubtedly possess a section where it says you will be not permitted or are going to be charged extra with regard to "abnormally high info bandwidth usage". Advice is in all probability you'll be better off of choosing VPS and dedicated server and Cloud hosting and high bandwidth applications.
4. Shared Internet site vs Virtual Confidential Server vs Concentrated Server vs Fog up Hosting
How to choose between these kinds of hosting? Putting the idea simply, you should decide on by how occupied or popular you feel your site are going to be viz Shared : VPS – Concentrated – Cloud, in the order.
Shared Internet site: Majority of websites using the web are on Shared enviroment. It is great for personal and small to medium sized websites. They are definitely the most economical with hosting packages. In shared enviroment, a number with hosting accounts constantly 10-100 are hosted using one physical server. They share the identical server storage together with broadband connection.
Shared enviroment is particularly recommended for beginners and small to help medium personal together with commercial websites that not host picture/movie/video packages. They can charge between $5-$15 each and every month.
Virtual Private Machines: This type of hosting will likely be used by choice websites with choice storage and bandwidth prerequisites. Virtual Private Machines are hosted with unique ip covers (eg. 192. 170. 1. 8) and tend to be virtually like a devoted physical stand-alone server, but with less cost compared to a physical dedicated server. The way the idea works is that will multiple accounts claim 3-10 are hosted using one physical server, just about every accounts having it can be own unique coordinate id or ip home address, data storage together with bandwidth separated from the other by software.
VPS hosting may well cost between $30 to help $150 per month pc features for a 12 months contract. Note: All hosting applications price decrease whenever you increase may be years of agreement.
Dedicated Server: They're usually used by that medium to substantial websites who require storage and bandwidth scalable on their requirements. They are generally hosted on standalone physical servers. Quite simply they have some sort of server rented out for many years. They have full control above the server with its very own unique address, hard disk drive, ram and bandwidth.
The asking price of renting a dedicated server will depend on the physical different parts of the server, the hard disk drive capacity, the model version, the number of ram and that broadband connection. Prices will vary between $65 to help $200 and beyond each and every month.
Cloud Hosting: A relatively new thing on the globe of web internet site, Cloud hosting is a next generation version of hosting. Instead of getting one physical server, cloud hosting functions several servers situated different locations connected to one another.
The main greatest things about cloud hosting is a scalability factor together with cost efficiency. For big websites there does exist big benefits. For a website grows bigger than its current ability, all they should do is add another server to become listed on the networked number of servers.
Cloud hosting packages may be priced anywhere with $100 to $550 and beyond pc storage and bandwidth prerequisites.
5. Addon Names & Sub Names
Addon Domains are definitely the domain names as i. e. websites for example. "http: //www. yoursite1. com", "http: //www. yoursite2. com" which you want to host with all your hosting provider. If you mean to host more as compared to one website, you might want to choose the package so that it. Most in the cheapest web hosting packages enables only one internet site.
Sub Domains: They are several directories that you might want to create eg. "http: //directory1. yoursite. com" and "http: //directory2. yoursite. com". May be Sub Domains allowed may very well be different on several packages. Do not necessarily confuse this using folders eg. "http: //www. yoursite. com/folder1" and "http: //www. yoursite. com/folder2". There is absolutely no limit on versions.
6. Email together with FTP accounts
Inbox Accounts: These are unique email makes up about your website/s for example. "name@yoursite. com". You may set these up allow it to everyone, your friends, site visitors, customers. No worries here cause the vast majority of hosting packages offers you plenty.
FTP Balances: FTP stands with regard to "File Transfer Protocol". FTP accounts are utilized to access ones hosting files with web softwares. They are of tremendous be an aid to web masters in the they help you update, delete or generate new files and folders inside your host directly from website development software and file transfer protocol softwares. No worries here too since several packages offers you more than 10 balances. You can allocate this for a designers and co workers whenever you like.
7. Coding Languages & Sources
Frontpage Server Proxy, PHP5, Custom PHP. ini, Perl w/FASTCGI, Python CGI, Espresso, Ruby CGI, Dark red on Rails w/FASTCGI, ColdFusion, MySQL(Unix), MsAccess, MySQL(Win) or anything else.
These are coding softwares and databases made use of by your hosting server. They're just used for better advanced web options like automated subject material management, user direction, running scripts together with programs etc. If you can not understand them, you don't have to. Because most in the package include the most popular languages and databases may possibly need when you ought to use them.
8. Subject material Management, Blogs, Boards: Drupal, Joomla, Mambo, Nucleas, Moodle, WordPress, Geeklog, Lifetype, Serendipity, phpBB, SMF, Vanilla Community forum etc.
These decide made tools for installing blogs, forums and content management to boost websites. Most packages have sufficient choices here way too.
9. Website Equipment, Marketing Tools, Shopping cart solution Website Tools: Internet site Builder, Web Analytics Equipment, FrontPage Extensions, Yahoo Custom Search, Yahoo Webmaster Tools or anything else.
These are fundamental tools that assists in building sites, gauging website acceptance and statistics together with site enhancements shipped with most hosting applications.
Marketing Tools: Yahoo AdWords Credit : $50, Yahoo! Search engine marketing Credit – $25, Youtube Ads Credit : $50 etc.
These are typically ad credits to promote your website. They are great bargains should it be included.
Shopping Cart – For any wishing to distribute products online this tool is kind of important. Most applications include them.
10. Web hosting service tips for superior SEO
One of things that improves Search Algorithm Optimization (SEO) and is highly recommended when choosing a sponsor is the location in the server. Experience demonstrates search engines love locally hosted sites when search is manufactured. Big search sites like Google are recognized by give preference to help locally hosted web pages. This means that will to rank better in, for for example., UK, it helps to experience a web hosting server that's located within united kingdom. Another thing that also may help SEO in local search engine rankings is regional TLDs or website names. So for UNITED KINGDOM, the domains. company. uk or. org. uk get preference.
Another denote note is that shared enviroment can hurt ones website's SEO ranks. Experts believe that for those who have a site which shares the identical server and ip address for a Google penalized online site, your site also suffers consequently. The obvious method for preventing this is to host your websites or sites for a separate ip address that can mean a dedicated server on the Virtual Private Server.


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If you are looking for some solid information regarding the history of skiing then you need to move for the northern Europe where this sport was invented. Skiing has evolved from today's freestyle and Alpine ski training to skiing on animal bones.
In the Northern part of Europe and Asia, skiing was dated to people as long as a thousand years ago. It is believed that people initially used to have skis made from the large bones of animals. Now that's recycling. The bone skis were then attached with the toes of their boots with the help of leather strips.
However, in the countries like Norway, Finland and Sweden, skis made of wood were available 5000 years ago. All of these skis could only be used for flat land because the ski strips were made of leather and would not be able to hold the skis properly to the boots. Surely, there were some that tried to ski downhill but more than likely did not get too far.
As per the history of skiing, skis were highly used during wars. During the battle of Oslo in 1200 AD, the Norwegian army used skiing this for their spy act on Swedish enemies. In the 1747, a Norwegian military special ski unit was founded and ski training for the military was utilized. With the success of the military ski unit, ski technology improved to suit both the conditions for downhill runs and flat grounds. The main difference was that the skis were made to secure both heels and toes of the boots.
However, the concept for modern skis was initially developed back in the year 1850. Sondre Norheim, a Norwegian first developed the modern ski that was includes stiff bindings for better grip and control with ski boots. He made the skis tight with the boots with the help of wet birch roots. Birch roots will dry up and become stiff. This ski binding invention significantly provides more control with comparison to the leather strips that can be loosened. With such invention Sondre Norheim came up with some new turning motions that modern ski training techniques have evolved.
With this stiff binding invention, skiing enthusiasts have started to create new ski training techniques for more extreme snow and mountain conditions. In 1896, Mathias Zdarsky who lived in Austria has introduced a new ski training skill. Simply, he used a technique of pushing one ski edge at a specific angle to the fall line in order to take control over the speed. This allowed skiers to ski down steeper hills... in control.
In 1900, another name has been added to the skiing history. It was the Hannes Schneider who got inspired from Zdarsky's technique. Schneider managed to develop new technique for turning and stopping. These inventors from Austria provided the foundation for Alpine skiing to linking turns and hockey stops. Later ski training techniques have improved like the Arlberg Technique, but with over 50 million skiers visiting US resorts per year, skiing is here to stay.
Article Title: History of Skiing – Animal Bones to Military Ski Training


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"Where we come from, our histories, and who we are in this hierarchical, racialized, gendered, and class-based world - matter in what we say and do. -Eric Gutstein"
"The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn but unlearn. -Gloria Steinum"
While this essay applies to math, computer science, and other science, for the sake of brevity, we will just use the term Math instead of Math and the other sciences or similar terms.
Section 1: What is Social Justice?
As is typical in mathematics, we define certain terms in order to establish a common vocabulary. Any discussion of social justice first defines the problems and norms that exist in a given field. In "(Re)Defining Equity: The Importance of a Critical Perspective", associate professor of mathematics education Rochelle Gutierrez gives a widely quoted definition of dominant math as "mathematics that reflects the status quo in society, that gets valued in high-stakes testing and credentialing, that privileges a static formalism in mathematics, and that is involved in making sense of a world that favors the views and perspectives of a relatively elite group", and critical math as math that "squarely acknowledges the positioning of students as members of a society rife with issues of power and domination". The rest of this guide is based on the acceptance of these assumptions about dominant and critical math ad addresses strategies to move mathematics education from one to the other.
Section 2: Privilege and Oppression
Privilege and Oppression While most people have some understanding of discrimination, there is often little said about the flip side of discrimination, which is privilege. What is privilege? It is the unearned benefits afforded the dominant culture. These benefits come in many forms. Examples of Privilege:
- Automatic respect
- Automatic benefit of the doubt
- Job opportunities
- Mentoring
- Identification with people who are powerful and/or intellegent and/or strong
- Identification with leaders
What is often cited as the greatest privilege afforded the dominant culture (white, male) is the benefit of not having to realize one's own privilege. Because the dominant culture benefits from the system of privilege, they are not forced by circumstance to study it, and they can choose to believe that all their successes are purely a result of their own merit. They have the privilege of believing that their achievements are based on their own merit. In contrast, those on the other side of privilege often need to invest much of their time and energy understanding oppression. Examples of Oppression:
- Perception of incompetence at every level (as students, faculty, staff)
- Perception that they are successful because of Affirmative Action
- Harassment by peers, teachers, supervisors, co-workers.
- Less mentoring, less access to education.
- More responsibilities at home (child care, elder care)
Research shows the surprising result that both the privileged and oppressed are incentivized to ignore, or maintain the system of privilege, but for different reasons. The privileged want to believe that their benefits are well-deserved and the oppressed want to believe that they can overcome their diminished status. This "Just World" view is part of a general preference for people who want to believe that the world is a good, safe, just place instead of an unjust place that needs to be changed.
Section 3: Implicit Bias
Implicit bias refers to the attitudes and beliefs that unconsciously affect our thoughts and actions. These biases occur without awareness or control. Both direct (such as life experience) and indirect (such as TV) influences form certain associations to people based on gender, race, age, and other characteristics.
Scientists studying unconscious cognition have shown that people do not always have conscious control over perception, impression formation, and judgment. The traditional paradigm about discriminatory behavior is that people discriminate due to conscious positive and negative thoughts about certain groups of people. According to this belief, discriminatory behavior is the problem of only a few racists, sexists, homophobes, etc. Although conscious discrimination exists, cognition scientists at Harvard, Yale, the University of Virginia, Tufts, the University of Washington, MIT, and others, have shown that implicit bias can be a much bigger factor in our thoughts and actions than conscious beliefs. Implicit biases can produce behavior that completely diverges from a person's avowed or endorsed beliefs so that even those who are actively fighting discrimination are prone to bias. Moreover, even those who suffer from discrimination can be biased against their own oppressed group.
The Kirwan Institute for the study of race and ethnicity, at Ohio State University lists some characteristics of Implict Bias:
- Implicit biases are pervasive. Everyone possesses them, even people with avowed commitments to impartiality such as judges.
- Implicit and explicit biases are related but distinct mental constructs. They are not mutually exclusive and may even reinforce each other.
- The implicit associations we hold do not necessarily align with our declared beliefs or even reflect stances we would explicitly endorse.
- We generally tend to hold implicit biases that favor our own ingroup, though research has shown that we can still hold implicit biases against our ingroup.
- Implicit biases are malleable. Our brains are incredibly complex, and the implicit associations that we have formed can be gradually unlearned through a variety of debiasing techniques.
The list of American universities actively studying and addressing Implicit Bias is growing and includes Harvard University, the University of Virginia, the University of Washington,University of Illinois, Stanford Universit, UCLA, University of Florida, and Ohio State University. The list of international universities actively studying implicit bias is too numerous to mention. A growing both of implicit bias research indicates that implicit bias may be a major factor in preventing women and girls from pursuing or continuing careers in math and science, play a role in evaluation of work done by women in STEM, and influence overall treatment of women and girls' in STEM.
Science, and in particular, mathematics, is considered highly objective. A common thought in and out of academia holds that if molecules and equations aren't prejudiced, nor are scientists. Research sheds some light on this myth:
- White Americans, on average, show strong implicit preference for their own race and bias against women, the elderly, African Americans, Asians, Latinos, and other ethnic minority groups (see [7], [2],[22],[34],[6],[9]).
- Women, minorities, and other oppressed groups are as likely to have biases against their own, or other, oppressed groups. (see [7],[15] ).
- Gender and racial bias are rife in academia, even among those who believe themselves to be progressive and actively involved in nondiscrimination efforts (see [17],[11], [9],[12]).
- Scientists are among the most prone to bias (see [36], [17] ,[13], [28], [24],[4]).
- Gender bias negatively affects female students and female faculty, especially those in leadership positions (see [12], [17], [18],[14]).
- Diversity training has been found to be either ineffective or even worsen gender bias (see [21]).
The above research findings explain some of the following statistics:
- The percentage of female full professors is less than 10% in math and less than 13% in computer science (see [1]).
- The percentage of female math faculty at all levels is less than 20%; at elite research universities, this number drops to 10%. (see [1])
Mahzarin Banaji, Professor of Social Ethics at Harvard University, and her colleagues from the University of Virginia and the University of Washington developed an implicit bias test as part of their larger research agenda Project Implicit. More research studies on implicit bias.
Since the gender-science bias test was developed in 1998, more than half a million people in the world have taken it, with more than 70% of test-takers more readily associatiting science with male and arts with female. Moreover, women tended to have similar gender biases as men, dismantling the myth that women aren'talso gender biased against their own gender.
Once awareness of implicit bias is established, educators can be more attune to the effect their biases having on their teaching, evaluations, advising of their students and treatment of their peers.
Section 4: Awareness into Practice: Math as a Social Justice Lens
There are many ways that one can bring awareness of social justice issues into the teaching and learning of mathematics.
- Test your own bias by taking an Implicit Association Test.
- Use mathematics to explore problems of social justice. For example, modeling the salary disparities between men and women and the effect of this difference in future wealth. Another example is the analysis of the density of toxic waste facilities, factories, and dumpsters in certain neighborhoods.
- Re-center mathematics education to include the experience of marginalized groups.
- Explore and address power and discriminatory practices both external and internal to the mathematics community. An example of power issues internal to mathematics is observing who has the power to hire, fire, grant tenure, grant awards, schedule courses, etc. Observe who is getting hired, fired, tenure, good schedules, and receiving coveted awards. An example of power issues external to math is observing who is getting social pressure to take care of families (both children and the elderly).
- Research and teach the mathematics of marginalized groups. Investigate why we are studying the mathematics done by a small subset of the world.
- Explore discrimination within the university and classroom. As a teacher, do you treat students differently or have different expectations of students based on categories like gender and race? As a student, do you have different expectations, demands, treatment of your professor based on categories like race and/or gender?
The items above can be divided into two categories - those that involve doing mathematics directly and those that seek to understand the oppression and privilege that have led to the current state of mathematics today. These two broad categories have many intersections, but the distinction is important because of the resistance to teaching something not directly involving the practice of mathematics in a mathematics classroom. You don't have to give up precious classroom time to insert social justice principles into mathematics.
Mathematics is fortunate in its flexibility - it can insert itself into almost any subject, from biology to politics. For example - rates of growth can be taught at many different levels and is extremely important in economics. One can use rates of growth (and therefore exponential and logarithmic functions) to analyze wage disparities between men and women to predict future wealth at any other point of time.
Examples of the social justice topics that can be analyzed using mathematics:
- Prisons, racial profiling, the death penalty
- Poverty, minimum vs. living wage, sweatshops
- Housing, gentrification, homeownership
- War, defense budgets, military recruiting
- Public health, AIDS, asthma, health insurance
- Educational funding and equity, high stakes testing, class size
- Environmental racism, pollution, resource availability
- Credit cards, managing debt, paying for college
- Saving/budgeting money, opening bank accounts
- High-cost loans (rent-to-own stores, check cashers, refund-anticipatory loans, payday, etc.)
- Filing taxes
- Remittance rates
Below are resources for lesson plans:
- The Gini Coefficient and the Mathematics of Poverty .
- Mathematical Modeling of Incarceration: Who is entering the prison system? How many prisons should be built in the future? Why are prisons overcrowded?
- Who is benefitting from Lotteries?
- Not all voting systems are equal (or perhaps even " fair ") with the Mathematics of Voting .
- No Taxation Without Computation: the Mathematics of Taxes.
- Mathematical Modeling of Fast Food and Obsesity.
- Radical Math has a plethora of resources on social justice math.
- Conference on the mathematics of social justice.
Short Reading List
- Brown-Glaude, W. (2009). Doing Diversity in Higher Education: Faculty Leaders Share Challenges and Strategies. (Rutgers University Press).
- Bystydzienski, J. & Bird, S. (Eds.), (2006). Removing Barriers: Women in Academic Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press).
- Etzkowitz, H., Kemelgor, C., & Uzzi, B. (Eds.), (2000). Athena Unbound: The Advancement of Women in Science and Technology. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).
- Gutstein, G. and Peterson, B. (2006) Rethinking Mathematics: Teaching Social Justice by the Numbers. (New York: Routledge).
- Margolis, J. and A. Fisher. (Eds), (2002). Unlocking the Clubhouse: Women in Computing. (Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press).
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A book is a set of sheets of paper, parchment or similar materials that are fastened together to hinge on one side. A single sheet in a book is a sheet, and on either side of a sheet is a page. Writing or pictures can be printed or drawn on the pages of a book. An electronic image is formatted to resemble a book on a computer screen, a smartphone or an electronic reading device is known as an eBook or eBook.
The term "books" can also refer to a corpus of works of literature, or a main division of literature (eg, children's literature). Library and Information Sciences, a book is called a monograph, to distinguish it from serial periodicals such as magazines, magazines or newspapers. In novels and sometimes other types of books (eg biographies), a book can be divided into several large sections, also called books (Book 1, Book 2, Book 3, etc.). A passionate reader and book collector or book lover is a bibliophile or familiarly, "Bookworm".
A store where books are bought and sold is a bookstore or library. Books are also sold in department stores, pharmacies and newsagents. Books can also be borrowed from libraries. Google estimated that from 2010, about 130,000,000 different titles were published. In some wealthy countries, sales of printed books declined due to the use of e-books, although e-book sales declined in the first half of 2015.
When writing systems were created in ancient civilizations, a variety of objects, such as stone, clay, tree bark, sheet metal, could be used for writing. The study of these inscriptions constitutes an important part of the history. The study of inscriptions is known as epigraphy. The alphabetical writing emerged in Egypt. The ancient Egyptians would often write on papyrus, a cultivated plant along the Nile. At the beginning, the words were not separated from one another (scriptura continuums) and there was no score. The texts are written from right to left, from left to right, or even alternate lines are read in opposite directions. The technical term for this latter type of writing is "boustrophedon" which literally means "turning beef" to the way a farmer pushes an ox to plow their fields.
A tablet can be defined as a physically robust writing means suitable for occasional writing and transportation. See also the stylus, the instrument used to write on a tablet. The clay tablets were crushed and most pieces of dry clay can be easily transported and impressed with a pencil (possibly moistened). They were used as a means of writing, writing especially in cuneiform, throughout the Bronze Age and well into the Iron Age. The tablets were used by merchants to record sales of products such as bushels of grain and scribes of leaders to record the collection of tax or other income.
Wax tablets are pieces of wood covered with a layer thick enough to record wax impressions of a stylus. Were the normal writing material in schools, accounting, and taking notes. They had the advantage of being reusable: the wax could melt and reform in white. The practice of joining several wax tablets (Roman pugillars) is a possible precursor for modern books (ie, codex). The etymology of the word codex (block of wood) also suggests that it can be developed from wooden wax tablets.


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Superman Movie Villain Revealed
The upcoming Superman movie reboot officially has its main villain. Actor Michael Shannon will play Zod, the general from Superman's home planet, Krypton as well as Superman's main enemy in the reboot. The new movie in the franchise, tentatively called "Superman: Man of Steel", will be produced by Christopher Nolan of Batman fame,written by David Goyer, and directed by Zack Synder. Henry Cavill will portray Superman, while Amy Adams has been cast as Lois Lane. Kevin Costner and Diane Lane will play Pa and Ma Kent and the film is expected to be released in December 2012. Click the image to enlarge.
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March 2017 News Bloopers Are a Cavalcade of Kooky
March came in like a laugher...and went out the same way.
March came in like a laugher...and went out the same way.
Kids are notorious for hating spelling tests, so this teacher decided to have some fun when giving one.
This is one flame-broiled prank.
The best of the best will take the court in the Final Four, but let's not forget the worst of the worst.
This bro has been out-bro'd by the unlikeliest of bros.
Guess not everyone is a fan of Tennessee Williams.
We should never know the level of fear this poor boy feels.
Getting little ones into bed can be hard. Getting them to fall asleep can be downright impossible.
You think the winter snow makes your commute a mess? You should what it does to live TV.
If you don't know a 1040 from a 10-speed, you're in luck.
We may work in different offices, but life in them is eerily similar.
It is so tough to separate your home life from your professional one.
If you're looking for work, do yourself a favor and keep your inner lunatic hidden.
The forecast calls for clouds -- gas clouds, that is.
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International Mathematics Olympiad training, Taiwan
Nathan is a math genius now among peers. His social anxieties nearly paralyze his math performance. He has trouble reading the social cues of others and flinches at the slightest physical contact with another person. Martin is the English team's coach, Zhang Mei is a Taiwanese student paired with Nathan.
Transcript from X+Y
Martin Humphreys
So… 20 random cards are placed in a row all face-down. A move consists of turning a face-down card face-up and turning over the card immediately to the right. Show that no matter what the choice of cards to turn this sequence of moves must terminate. Nathan, hiding in the back won't help you. Would you like to come up and show us?
Zhang Mei
Go on, Nathan.
Nathan Ellis
Okay, so we need to… We need to look at the cards not as cards, but as… As numbers. We can call face-down cards… One. Face-up cards… Zero. And initially it would be a sequence of ones as the cards are all face down. But after a while it would look something like that. And, as we can see, that is a binary number. And a move that consists of turning a face-down card face up and the card immediately to the right of it could be that a one followed by a one, will turn into a zero followed by a zero. That would be like that. Or it could be a one followed by a zero turning into a zero followed by a one. In either case, we can see that the number in binary is strictly decreasing.
Martin Humphreys
And that means?
Nathan Ellis
Which means that the sequence must terminate.
Martin Humphreys
Nathan Ellis
Because you can't keep taking away from a positive integer – without it turning negative.
Martin Humphreys
No, you can't. You definitely can't. Good work;. Everyone. Good work.
The Anglo-Hungarian Math Connection
In X+Y, the British team has a joint training camp with the Chinese delegation. The closest analogue is the Anglo-Hungarian training camp that is held near a picturesque but secluded lake thirty miles west of Budapest. From my experience in December 2011, this was the most enjoyable of the maths camps.
The connection between the UK and Eastern Europe is rather complicated to explain, being intimately entangled with the history of the IMO. The inaugural Olympiad was held in Romania in 1959, with the competition being only open to countries under the Soviet bloc. A Hungarian mathematician, Béla Bollobás, competed in the first three Olympiads, seizing a perfect score on the third. After his PhD, Bollobás moved to Trinity College, Cambridge, to continue his research, where he fertilised Cambridge with his contributions in probabilistic and extremal combinatorics (becoming a Fellow of the Royal Society in the process). Consequently, there is a close relationship between Hungarian and Cantabrigian mathematics.
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Hi Jennifer,
We're finished! Here is the finished quilt for the Balance theme:
This month, I decided to create my own version of a circus poster. In the middle, there's a woman who is walking a fine balance on the tightrope. She's got so many things in balance: her life, her career, her family and her artistic and intellectual thoughts and ideas.
Some days it feels like I'm in the middle of my own circus (wild animals and all!), and this quilt gave me a chance to smile about it all, while making something colourful and with a bit of bling.
Here's one of the many posters that inspired me – this one, for the figure of the woman:
1890s circus poster. Originally posted at the Circus Museum of the Netherlands.
The quilt includes a stencilled design, lots of beads, embroidery, drawing, fused applique' letters and prairie points around the edge. It's quilted onto cotton batting, and the back was left plain this month.


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Quartet 1: Well, that's it. Jim missed his train. So much for the talent show! Who ever heard of a 3-man Barbershop Quartet?!
Schemer: Aw, Jim schmimm. Forget about Jim, fellas. I am the lead singer that you're lookin' for.
(the Quartet stare at him)
Schemer: Hey, listen. We'll do the show tonight. Right, guys? And then we'll go on tour. And we will travel all around the world and never come back to this dump again! EVER!! What do you say, huh? The 4 of us? All right, what do you say, huh? (under his breath) C'mon. C'mon.
Quartet 1: Well, if you're that good... (sings) Hello!
Quartet 2: Hello!
Quartet 3: HELLO!
(the jukebox wires short out with Schemer leaning on it)
Schemer: (sings wildly) HELLO!!!!!!!
Quartet 1: You got some set of pipes on ya there, friend! You're in!
(Schemer laughs in excitement and cheers wildly)
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HOUSTON — The presidential election: some call it a miracle while others say a Trump presidency is a nightmare and even scarier to tell their children.
Houston rapper Paul Wall's wife Crystal Wall wrote a lengthy post triggered from her 10-year-old's son's fear of Trump.
My 10 year old son tossed and turned all night long in fear of Donald Trump being the President of U.S. Both of my kids cried this morning because they're worried about their friends of Mexican descent and their family members possibly being deported. They were saddened that someone could spread so much HATE and FEAR and WIN the Presidency! IM APPALLED THAT SOMEONE WHO OPENLY EXPRESSED SO MUCH DISRESPECT AND SEPARATISM TO SO MANY GROUPS OF AMERICAN CITIZENS, WILL BE OUR REPRESENTATIVE TO THE WORLD! IVE SEEN SO MANY DISGRACEFUL VIDEOS OF WHITE PEOPLE AT THE TRUMP RALLIES AND AT THE POLLS CALLING PEOPLE NIGGERS AND OTHER RACIAL SLURS AND STILL CALLING THEMSELVES CHRISTIANS SMH NEWS FLASH TO ALL THESE SO CALLED WHITE POWER CHRISTIANS JESUS OUR LORD AND SAVIOR WAS NOT WHITE YOU BIG DUMMIES!! ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. PARENTS LETS TEACH OUR CHILDREN TO RISE ABOVE BIGOTRY AND FEAR OF ONE ANOTHER BECAUSE OF SKIN COLOR, SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC STATUS, OR JUST GOING OFF OF THE THINGS OUR PARENTS AND GRANDPARENTS TAUGHT US. LETS TEACH OUR CHILDREN TO LOVE THEMSELVES, LOVE AND RESPECT THEIR OWN CULTURE AND OTHERS BELIEF SYSTEMS AS WELL. LETS TEACH OUR CHILDREN THAT BEING "TOLERANT OF PEOPLE" IS NOT ENOUGH ANYMORE. WE'RE ALL HUMAN! THE WORLD IS NOT BLACK AND WHITE!! I ENCOURAGE EVERYBODY TO TRULY BEFRIEND SOMEONE OF A DIFFERENT RACE THAN YOUR OWN, A DIFFERENT RELIGION, ECT. THEN FEAR AND "I'm really not Racist but..." RACISM CAN DISAPPEAR BECAUSE YOU'LL KNOW THE TRUTH. WE ARE ALL THE SAME
"He was really worried that someone could be so mean and so ignorant on TV and so belligerent," Wall said when speaking about her son.
"When he couldn't go to sleep that worried me, and I had to reassure him that everything would be alright," Wall said.
With the long-standing history of bullying in schools, Trump's campaign has offended a lot of people. Houston funny man and 93.7 The Beat host Rudy Rush aid laughter is the best medicine for his daughter.
"You take some good from the bad," Rush said. "I take it that Donald Trump put it out there like that lets you know that culture exists."
Parenting has never been an easy job — but parenting and politics, that's a challenge for the next term.