Those nice kitchen spice racks you have at home are probably loaded with a bunch of different spices. Some you use frequently and others you never even touch. You keep them around just in case a new recipe calls for it to be added. I know we have a few spices at my house now that I have never used or even heard of before. My kitchen at home doesn’t have a wall spice rack like most home owners or chefs have around in their kitchen. We have our spices shoved in a normal cabinet above the stove. So when we need to spice something up, we usually have to spend a little time looking for the correct spice.

I think the spice rack here (picture above) is a simple one, but one that could save you a lot of time. Keeping the spice bottles organized properly not only makes the kitchen look better, but it makes finding them a breeze. Imagine having a spice rack like this steel 3 tier spice rack in your kitchen. Then taking your spices and putting them in alphabetical order on the rack. Now you can see just how easy one of these spice racks keeps things simple in the kitchen. My blog is Creating a Simple Lifeand a nifty spice gadget like this accomplishes that.

Now let me name you a few spices we have at my house and you can let me know which ones you have too, ones you like, or ones you would never use or might be allergic to. I’m not sure what my most favorite spice is, but oregano is one I use a lot and tons of recipes call for oregano. I guess everyone uses salt the most. I know most families use salt and black pepper so much, they don’t include these popular spices in their spice racks. Here is our spices at home:

*Oregano

*Red Pepper

*Basil

*Chili Powder

*Onion Powder

*Cumin

*Nutmeg

*Turmeric

*Cinnamon

*All Spice

*Mustard Seed

*Parsley Flakes

*Taco Seasoning

Those are a few spices we have in our spice cabinet above the stove. I wished we had a spice shelf or rack out in the open, so we could arrange them in alphabetical order. You will need your spices for all those new recipes you find online. Free recipes online is another great benefit to having the Internet. My favorite online recipes are chili and I love making homemade chili. I use a variety of spices for my chili recipes. What’s your favorite spices in your kitchen?

Atlanta Braves Trade for Gold Glove 1B Derrek Lee

The Atlanta Braves have made 3 key trades this year in the 2010 Major League Baseball Season. The team’s MVP last year was shortstop Yunel Escobar. After a slow start to the season this year and getting in the doghouse of manage Bobby Cox, the tensions grew high inside the Braves locker room. Players like Tommy Hanson and Troy Glaus publicly made scenes on the baseball diamond; when they felt Yunel Escobar wasn’t focusing enough. What has become funny is that Troy Glaus got sent to the minors recently to see if he can play third base again. Glaus is an automatic out in the line up and commits way too many errors on routine plays at first base. So basically his skills are not MLB level anymore, so the Braves traded for first basemen Derrek Lee from the Chicago Cubs. For Tommy Hanson’s uncalled stare down, toward the Braves former shortstop Yunel Escobar, for a dropped fly ball,  he can’t buy a win. He continues to rack up loses or no decisions and isn’t even an average pitcher coming down the stretch. Both Tommy Hanson and Troy Glaus are facing the Yunel Escobar curse! This is a real curse and you can just ask Glaus and Hanson if they believe it exists. They asked for it and now they are both getting exactly what they deserve. You have to stick up for your players in the club house and these two failed to do it. So they are dealing with the Yunel Escobar curse.

Now turn to the Braves new shortstop Alex Gonzalez. Who is making a lot of fans in Braves Country miss their beloved SS Yunel Escobar. Gonzalez has been a direct cause for 2 Braves loses this year. He has done it with his glove too and he has without a doubt cost the Braves 2 wins and probably could make a case he has cause the Braves team 6 to 8 loses already. Alex Gonzalez is not producing at the plate, making errors at short stop, running into his left fielder and causing him pain in a collision, and just a lot of other silly and dumb plays. No one on the airwaves is calling the Gonzalez trade a bad move (yet), but clearly he doesn’t stack up to Yunel Escobar.

Each error Escobar committed in his last few weeks for the Braves team got hightlighted way too much. Joe Simpson has been the one spear-heading this campaign against Yunel Escobar. Now after bragging so much on Alex Gonzalez’s  glove work in practice and Simpson even going so far to say “I could just watch him all day long in practice at how quick his glove and hands are at shortstop“; he’s put his own self in a bad situation. His beliefs in how he is a better shortstop than Yunel Escobar couldn’t be further from the truth. Remember fans, the Atlanta Braves were cruising in the NL East Race; when the Escobar/Gonzalez trade went down. Escobar was helping the team to win with his glove and even the times Glaus and Hanson highlighted Escobar’s errors, they were not ones that lead to the team losing. Like Alex Gonzalez has already did 2 times and his errors resulted in direct loses for the team.

The Atlanta Braves did very little in their attempts to win a 15th straight N.L. East Pennant a few years back. They was unable to put any trades or jockey any guys around that year, so the Braves went out losers that year without even giving it their best try. Not the case this year, after the first place Braves traded away the team’s 2009 MVP in Yunel Escobar. The Braves front office knew they made a mistake for trading Yunel Escobar to the Toronto Blue Jays. So in order to cover up their mistake, they have made 2 more other trades. They are now sacrificing the future and giving away our minor league talent, for players like Rick Ankiel, Kyle Farnsworth, and now Derreck Lee. This first place team made a lot of changes and they didn’t even need to. Now our new GM has created a poor team in the ATL and over half of our regular starters wasn’t even with us last year or a true farm product of the Atlanta Braves minor league system. Check out this long list of people we are counting on to win games for us in the last 5 weeks of the season and just how long they been with the team:

*Eric Hinske

*Troy Glaus

*Derreck Lee

*Melky Cabrera

*Rick Ankiel

*Jason Heyward

*Alex Gonzalez

*Diory Hernandez

These players with 2 key rookie pitchers in Jonny Venters and Mike Minor; who are both expected to start games (Minor) for us now or pitch in critical innings late in the game (Venters). Bobby Cox is taking this cast of new comers and trying to mke them mesh; while he continues to bat our line-up out of order. Those line-up cards he submits before games need to be torn up and burned for good measure. Just by fixing the batting order, this team could have kept all their original players from the start of the season and would have 8 to 12 more wins already under their belt.

Key points Bobby Cox must be willing to do, if he expects to break the Yunel Escobar Curse and manage a NL Pennant East Title or wildcard birth in the 2010 baseball post-season.

1. Bat Matt Diaz 4th in every game for the rest of the year. He is the most “Barry Bonds” type of player we got, in terms of clutch hitting and just overall hard hits; where the ball finds the sweet part on his bat the most often.

2. All Star MVP Catcher Brian McCann must be guaranteed an at-bat in the first inning of every game. He’s a clutch hitter and batting him 5th is too far back. Let him hit 3rd the rest of the year.

3. Get your rookie right fielder Jason Heyward out of those top 3 spots. He’s just turned 21 years old and this pennant race is way too much pressure for the kid. Move him down.

4. Martin Prado is almost Superman, but struggles in clutch situations. He could help the team in the 2nd hole.

5. If your starting pitcher is leading off an inning in the 5th inning or later in a game that you are losing on the scoreboard; YOU MUST PINCH HIT! Letting Tommy Hanson lead off the 5th inning against the Cubs; while trailing by 5 runs is NOT acceptable. Especially in a tight pennant race in a game that is in the final 6 weeks of the season!

6. Must understand now, that there is no more tomorrows. Quit saving players (hitters and pitchers) for later in the game. It doesn’t get any later than this Bobby Cox. Our backs are against the wall and now we must play every game and every inning like it’s our last. Letting Eric Hinske pinch hit for Matt Diaz is a mistake in general, but doing this move with Brian McCann on your bench is not a smart decision! Yes B. Mac did get to swing in that 9th inning against the Cubs, but if Alez Gonzalez would have grounded into a double play, you would have lost a game, where you selected Eric Hinske over Brian McCann. That was a terrible decision to let Hinske bat and someone should have called you out for that one!

Bobby Cox has been slow to get Martin Prado and Omar Infante at-bats or high places in the batting order over the last couple of seasons. It has taken both of these guys way too long to get up in the proper places. If Chipper is still playing; then Infante is probably still riding the bench. You must bat these guys 1 and 2 in the batting order each game. The Braves top 6 spots in the line-up must remain the same from here on out!

Braves Final Batting Order for Post-Season Push 2010

1. Omar Infante

2. Martin Prado

3. Brian McCann

4. Matt Diaz

5. Derreck Lee / Jason Heyward (platoon situation based on starting pitcher being a Righty or Lefty)

6. Jason Heyward / Derreck Lee (platoon situation)

If Bobby Cox can not see this obvious 6 player batting order for his team right now. He deserves to be at home on the couch watching October baseball. No room for errors now, win or go home Braves Team!!!

While some may complain about cell phones and texting causing accidents on the highway, there are other phone accidents, where the phone is the only one who gets hurt. Hopefully consumers will be aware of their iphone warranty; when these times do creep up on us. I know some people who can’t make it through their first year with a new phone. It is common for people to drop their phones, but the people I know are the ones who drop it and several different phone parts going flying outwards. They seem to have a knack for putting it back together, but phones can only take so much. I hope future developers will make a stronger phone, so it can endure some of these dropped calls and I do mean this literally, when talking about a “dropped call“. Maybe this will cause less phone users, to have to use their phone warranties fewer times.

One of the most appealing roles in years recently came up in Hollywood. A lot of the big names in the actress department was trying for this leading role in the remake of the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. I don’t think some Hollywood actresses even knew about this part, because I think a few other people would have been good for this part too. There are no doubts this part would have been great for Natalie Portman and I really wished she would have got it.

Watching this talented actor or actress (if you will) has been great over the years. Many of us have watched a lot of actors and actresses group up on camera. Natalie Portman is a good example of that and she has been in acting for a long time. Her talents shined out as a kid and now I’m not sure why they couldn’t shine bright enough to land this part in the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. I am very curious to see who these people think are better than Natalie Portman. I would have chosen Natalie over Neve Campbell, Drew Barrymore,  and Christina Applegate, if they would have applied for this hot new role in Hollywood. Some of the people who really did try out for this part was Emma Watson and Ellen Page. So who did these directors choose as the star and leading role of this new movie about to come out? The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo will be played by a 25 year-old actress named Rooney Mara. I’m sure her and her family are very happy right now, because this is one of the biggest Hollywood roles to have come out in the last 5 years or at least going back to 2006.

The girl standing on the left and in the darker, copper colored dress is Rooney Mara. The person with the white dress and to the right side of the photograph is Kate Mara. It’s the person on the left Rooney Mara; who has just landed the biggest role in Hollywood for this year and for probably the last several. I do think Kate Mara has that look and she will be in something big in the near future too.

If you want to watch Natalie Portman, you can still see her in the new movie Black Swan. It looks like a very entertaining movie and one you will need to put your thinking caps on and try to keep up with this high paced thriller, at least that is the impression I get from watching the movie trailer of the Black Swan.

Movie Trailer Black Swan

The new 2010 Black Swan movie will be something movie lovers will have to watch this year. The Black Swan does include Natalie Portman; while the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo will not have Natalie Portman as their leading actress in this huge Hollywood movie.

I really like when the news chanel breaks into a live story. If the breaking news is a high speed car chase, you know it can last for a long time sometimes. It’s thrilling to watch news as its happening; instead of hearing reports from news; which has already took place. I just wonder what the car insurance places do; when they hear about a high speed chase? If they run to their televisions like the rest of us and try to determine if its one of their customers being chased. Is a high speed chase good or bad for an insurance company? You know the guy running from the Law probably has auto insurance. I just doubt any plan would cover any damages; in which a high speed chase with police took place. So I guess it wouldn’t hurt the insurance company at first, because they wouldn’t have to pay for any auto damages. In the long run, they would have one of their customers behind bars and they would not be able to keep up the payments on the monthly preimums; while they were serving time in jail. I guess everyone has to pay for these high speed run-ins with the Law. Even the tax payers are responsible for picking up the tab on the amount of law enforcement it took to catch one person who just would not pull over. They are still fun to watch on TV, but the costs and all the danger it puts the public in, it’s not a wise move for any one to get their self in a high speed car chase.

Once doctors have completed their medical training, they need an office or a place they can practice medicine. Over in the United Kingdom, these doctors can turn to Oxford Medical for help. Here is where a doctor can learn important skills and pick up on some tips on how to have a better consultant interview. Before they go to their first interview, they can learn what to say and what not to say. Also, learn about the different things they should be up-to-date on in the medical world.

Classes that teach the teacher are very important for anyone who wants to stick out from the competition. Often there is more than one person going through the interview process. The person who always gets selected for the job, are the ones who stand out or show something different from the other job candidates. You will be able to achieve this with the skills you learn at Oxford Medical. They offer medical management courses for those who enroll in their valuable services they provide for doctors.

Do you currently study medicine in England now? UK students who seek a job in the medical profession, will want to learn more about a consultant interview course, so they can be more prepared in their job interviews. One of the most important things Oxford Medical can teach you is confidence. It’s a lot different going in for an interview when you have that confidence factor on your side. Being a more confident person means you will be more relaxed too and this is also important for these medical job interviews. You have already completed the hard medical courses; now take the final course to insure your last step is a fruitful one.

Google Ranked Us Team Partners with China

GOOGLE SURFING TEAM OPENS 1 BILLION SPOTS FOR ALL CHINESE SURFERS

People from China don’t always have an easy time finding English based websites that welcome their online promotions. Some traffic exchanges have even went as far to ban all Chinese surfers. Why any online traffic platform would want to turn away 1 billion people, just because they call China home is beyond me. Luckily the Google Ranked Us team is not one of those business organizations who practice any bans on the country of China or any other Asian countries.

If you live in China and have a descent understanding of the English language, please come join Google Ranked Us for free, so we can help each other succeed online. We currently have a group of 25 dedicated online marketers who will gladly help and support your Chinese advertising online. The websites from China are no different than European websites or those websites in North America. The online marketers from China can gladly show up on the steps of the Google Ranked Us team and we will be more than happy to partner with you on the Net. Let’s lay down our political differences and come together for free online advertising. There is more than enough room for all China online businesses to come on over and join the world-famous Google Ranked Us surfing team for online business success. China can make easy money online and be just as wealthy as any other people online or members of the Google Surf Team.

For those of you who already own your own web servers, you probably bought them for a variety of reasons. I’m sure most servers are purchased with the intent of conducting some small to mid-size business on the World Wide Web. For a business to do really well and look professional, it has to stay up and running. You can take care or prevent future down time from happening, if you select a good colocation plan for your servers. Where an outside company will take them in and make sure they stay secured, juiced with electricity, and operate night and day in a stable temperature environment.

Superb Internet is one of these companies who offer a world-class storage facility to their customers. They bring in the servers you own, so they can provide all the shelter and security a web server needs in the 21st century. Your servers will stay up and running. These guys have plenty of back-up electricity to keep the life-blood of your servers going; which in a lot of ways is like the gasoline for our automobiles. A lot of other preventive measures have already took place, so your website or customer’s websites will never experience any down time from day 1, until the end of your colocation agreement. I would say the only thing that would bring your servers down or to a halt, would be a meteor falling from the heavens, but for all I know, they have a meteor-proof ceiling inside. But seriously, they have put a lot of extra security measures in place; which limits outages to almost impossible.

Does a service like this interest you? A technological fortress for server owners to store and keep their online servers running in tip-top shape. Perhaps you don’t own servers but know a few people who might be interested in a colcation plan?

There is an affiliate program in place and you can sign up now for free and start making these friends and online contacts aware of a service like this existing. You can earn money each time you drive traffic toward their website and they purchase a colocation service for their servers. There are two different ways to get paid and you will be able to select the one-time payment plan or receive recurring payments each time your affiliates spend money.

Affiliates will not be limited to the colocation plans only, but you can also earn commissions on a managed hosting purchase or if your referral decides to pick up a dedicated server from Superb Internet. Lots of way to earn, two ways to get paid, and its all free! What more could an affiliate marketer ask for? Give it a try, you have nothing to lose and some extra online cash to gain!

Tastiest Burger Declared in Nationwide Voting

In a recent voting poll conducted across the states, the winner for best hamburger in the country is Five Guys. The place known to have famous burgers and fries beat out every other hamburger joint in America. The hamburger isn’t the only thing they have good at 5 Guys, because their fries got 2nd place in the voting, just behind Ronald McDonald’s famous fries you can get with your Big Mac or Happy Meal. I have never tried to eat a hamburger from Five Guys restaurant, but since they are considered the best now, I will have to give them a taste-test for myself.

There must be another pretty good hamburger being served out in California. It seems the race was close and many were surprised a west coast restaurant didn’t win; which goes by the name In-N-Out Burger Restaurant. Since I live on the east coast, I haven’t had a chance to try one of these burgers with a big reputation either. I’m sure both restaurants will do well in the days ahead, since both are getting a lot of buzz online. I know I will be sending a little money toward the Five Guys burger place, unless they want to offer me a free burger and fries and I can give them a good review on one of my online blogs?  If you have ever ate a hamburger from In-N-Out Burger or from Five Guys, please let me know your opinion and do you agree with either one of these as the best burger in the country?

You gotta love the peanuts at 5 Guys! Every customer will be treated to some good ol’ fashion peanuts; while they wait for their best burger in the USA to cook. The fries are freshly cut and they are cooked in 100% peanut oil. I am a huge fan of peanut oil and I love fries cooked in peanut oil too. I always wondered why no restaurants cooked in peanut oil and now I see there is one. I am more excited to try the fries cooked in peanut oil, as I am to get my teeth into one of them sloppy but tasty looking burgers, they’re serving up over there at the Five Gentlemen place.

I am someone who likes to eat hamburger and fries. I think its the best meal in America hands down! I have a restaurant I have declared as the best place to get a hamburger. They are most famous for the hot chicken wings or Buffalo wings, but I think they created the perfect hamburger. I am talking about Buffalos Cafe; which is known for their restaurants to carry the Southwestern U.S. States theme with sayings, pictures, native Americans or Indians, and other things we associate with this part of the country. Now at Buffalos it isn’t anything fancy. You can choose to get some mushrooms or bacon on your hamburger; along with a couple of choices of cheese to choose from. I can just order their basic burger; which is called the Canyon Burger and it’s the best hamburger in my state of Georgia; in which I have tried. I will try to get over to 5 Guys one day this week and give their award-winning hamburger a taste and see how it compares to the Canyon Burger from Buffalos.

Now if you like hamburgers too and want to declare your own best and tastiest hamburger, here is your chance to do so. Let us know which restaurant you think has the best hamburger and if have tried a hamburger from Five Guys, In-N-Out Burger, or the Canyon Burger at Buffalos Restaurant. We can conduct our own survey online and see what hamburger wins in our best hamburger in America contest.

I use to work for the U.S. Postal Service and during my time there, I got trained on all of the different types of mail routes there were. In case I had to back-up for another mail carrier, I would have some knowledge on how to work or handle their specific mail delivery routes. The mailman that gets to deliver to the apartment mailboxes really has a nice route. Their mornings at the Post Office are the same as everyone else’s. They have to case mail for 400 to 800 households like the other mail delivery drivers do. However, once they get their mail cased and ready to be delivered, they really have it easy. They get to pull up to these big cluster mailboxes and just insert mail into them.

I’m sure most people have seen the way an apartment complex will have their mailboxes set up. Each resident will have their own key for unlocking their special box and getting their mail out from the front side of these CBU mailboxes. The mail carriers for the USPS will have just one master key for unlocking the back panel of these huge mailboxes and it allows him/her access to each individual box from the rear. The mailman just has to stand there and insert each person’s mail and some of these community mailboxes will be large enough for 50 people to get their mail from. As someone who use to deliver mail for a living, its a lot easier servicing 50 customers in this fashion; than trying to drive down small streets and high-traffic roads, where you have to pull in and out each time you make a drop off.

Now in my area there are a lot of apartment buildings which are located in the business districts and where you have a lot of real estate zoned for commercial purposes. The majority of residential areas that find their self in the middle of a lot of commercial real estate, are these low-income and government funded apartment buildings or you have the high-income apartment housing for the upper-class folks. So often a mail carrier working a couple of apartment buildings on their route, will also stop by a few commercial mailboxes; which usually get a lot more mail than the average home owner or person residing in an apartment complex. Each mailman, who has a route for the USPS, can only carry so much mail in their LLV or Long Life Vehicle (most common mail vehicle). Another slight luxury for the lucky few who get apartment building on their route; if they do indeed deliver to businesses too. It doesn’t take too many businesses to fill up a load, so these mail carriers get to drop off huge amounts at each commercial box on their stop; while delivering mail to dozens of others, by simply filling up a cluster box at the apartment buildings. If you plan to get a job or start working for the USPS soon, consider yourself lucky if you have an apartment or two on your route.

The basketball team that will be representing the United States this year in Turkey is almost completed. Currently there are 13 names attached to this year’s 2010 Men’s USA Basketball Team. The U.S. coaches will need to cut 1 more player before the games begin in Turkey at the end of August and will continue into the early part of September. The final cut must take place within 48 hours of the start of this year’s world basketball tournament. The top 24 countries in the World will be on display in Turkey; where each country will be playing for a gold, silver, or bronze medal. The current 13 USA basketball players are:

1. Chauncey Billups

2. Tyson Chandler

3. Stephen Curry

4. Kevin Durant

5. Rudy Gay

6. Eric Gordon

7. Danny Granger

8. Andre Iguodala

9. Kevin Love

10. Lamar Odom

11. Rajon Rondo

12. Derrick Rose

13. Russell Westbrook

A very young group of players who will be representing the teams from Group B in Turkey. A lot of these players are getting their tune-ups for the 2012 Olympic Team; which we will probably see about 5 to 8 of these players on the 2012 Olympic USA Basketball Team.

This group has only one true super star and that is Kevin Durant from the Oklahoma City Thunder. He led the entire NBA last year in scoring with over 30 points per game. He set an NBA record as the youngest player to have even won a scoring title. He was 21 years-old and will not turn 22 until later this fall. To put that in perspective, you can look at Jason Heyward for the Atlanta Braves who recently had a birthday and turned 21 years-old. Heyward hasn’t even completed his first season as a professional; while Durant has completed 3 seasons and already has a scoring title under his belt. The future is very bright for Kevin Durant and he will have many more future opportunities with the USA basketball program.

After you acknowledge Kevin Durant as the best player on this year’s 2010 basketball team, it’s hard to choose which player might be next on the list. No clear-cut choice for which other players are the best or will be the most valuable in Turkey this year. Not many big men make up this U.S. team this year and that could prove to be a problem against the bigger teams in this year’s world basketball games in Turkey.

All of the guys on the roster do have some college basketball experience, with the exception of Tyson Chandler, who never played college basketball. During college is when most of these guys learn the fundamentals of the game and this comes up big in International Basketball. It should be interesting to see if this team can win gold and if they can come back with a perfect record.

2010 USA Basketball Schedule

Saturday August 28th – USA vs Croatia

Sunday August 29th – USA vs Slovenia

Monday August 30th – USA vs Brazil

Wednesday September 1st – USA vs Iran

Thursday September 2nd – USA vs Tunisia

This is the current schedule for USA Basketball and the teams who will be playing the USA from Group B. All of these basketball games will be teams from Group B playing against other Group B teams. There are 4 groups and each group has 6 basketball teams in each group. The USA basketball team does have a couple of more games fans can see on TV before they start the games up for real. So be sure to check the U.S. basketball schedule for these tune up games to get a glimpse of the Americans; before they start playing for real in Turkey later this month.

Make no mistakes about it, math can be a very tough subject to handle at any grade or at any age. A lot of the parents do a real good job with providing their kids with some of their free time each evening. Most of the time our kids can learn a lot better from Mom or Dad and it’s because there is less pressure with them and they also probably have the time to be more patient; compared to a teacher who is trying to keep 25 or 30 students on a fast pace, one hour a day, so the class as a whole can reach a certain level of accomplishment.

Now its much different in the sports world. Your team is only as good as your weakest link, so its important for all the bigger stars to push the smaller and less talented players on the team. I guess the educational budgets in most of our states are low and the lowest pay for a college graduate, remains the teching indurstry in most U. S. states. Our financial incentives aren’t really that much for us to expect theses teachers to nourish the most valuable resource we could ever have in this country and that is our kids!

If your ready right now to connect your child to the online tutoring services of Tutorvista, please feel free to do so. All students who are in the Kindergarten level, Grades 1 -12, or currently taking college-level classes; then there are online tutors who will be there and ready to help each one of you get better grades than you previously were getting.

I’m really glad we have these home computers like we have now. I have been able to help both of my nephews with their 9th grade and senior year of homework; which both of them have troubles with. Most of the problems are in math, “so boys let’s tackle a few of these first and either try to learn it or get it over with”, often it could be a simple statement like this from me, that would put a smile on their face and relax them, for the job that was in front of all 3 of us. I had no problems with simple math equations, like how to find Diameter of circle? I could remember the fact I needed the proper math equation or a list of Algebraic expressions, so I could match the proper equation with a math task; like trying to determine what the circumference of a circle is or my original example of the diameter for this same circle. It’s been a long time since my high school days and there are no equations in which I can remember from memory alone. I was having to get on the computer and was looking and digging this stuff up, just as hard, if not harder than anyone else that evening, who may have been in search of the same formula or mathematical equation for determining the diameter of a circle.

Now I have always been able to remember the value of a math unit; which goes by the name “pi” (sounds like the same “pie” you would eat, when pronouncing it). This pi (without the”e“) equates to 3.14 and officially there are some other numbers after the “4″ in the pi value, but remembering the 3.14 is needed to solve  math problems, where the pi unit was needed. I didn’t remember using pi for any specific math problems. So once again and at the age of 37, I had to figure out; how to come up with a circle’s diameter and I did have to apply the pi value of 3.14 to come up with the correct final answer. If I didn’t have access to a computer or the Internet, I would have never in a million years remembered which equation and steps I needed to follow for solving a pretty easy and basic math question for the most part.

Now I also got challenged with my geometry skills and I have forgotten most of these things too. Working with the triangles was always something easy for most students in high school. I can remember the Equilateral, Isosceles, and Scalene triangles. This trio of triangles were in a special grouping, based on their length and how many sides were equal or not equal. Most of this knowledge on triangles I had forgotten about, so I’ve had to use the computer to help me learn more about the grouping of triangles, that get determined with special names and it all depends on the angle of the triangle; which will determine it’s correct geometrical name like an Acute triangle for example. Once you go through and determine the angles, you will have 4 different choices of names to hand out in this special grouping of triangles. I mentioned the Acute triangle is one already; the other 3 triangles are called Equiangular, Obtuse, and the Right triangle.

Once you leave school or graduate and you don’t continue to do some of these things in math. You will look back on it one day and find yourself in my shoes, with everything just being a big blur. If one of your children or just a child in general, was to bring home their homework about a Line segment in dealing with triangles and how you could classify 7 different triangles with seven different names. How many could you name off the top of your head? How much help could you assist them with? I’m sure for the majority of adults, who want to lend a hand to a student having troubles, they would need to implement a style and teaching method that would work for parent and child.

It isn’t easy for me or other Moms and Dads who want to help. It will take some level of desire and dedication, if you hope to bring help to a student, who is currently in one of those higher grades; where some parents may have quit school and have a child who has surpassed them in educational levels. Parents with the the younger age kids in school, they should start learning the math lessons their child gets each day. By taking the time to learn it now and progress from one math lesson to the next, you will have a much easier time of assiting your little Albert Einstein math genius; when they come and want you to work out a few math Indices or sit down and properly work a Square footage calculator.

Good News – Online Math Tutors Do Exist!

I really think its important for parents to work and help with the child’s studies, they bring home from school. Even after a parent decides to hire an online tutor, the educational partnership should continue, because Mom and Dad really are there to help 24 hours a day and 7 days a week.

For all of the parents out there, who seek some outside help, because it’s just too hard to help or you don’t have the time and energy due to working a full time job; then there is a superior online tutoring service you can connect withand they will assist your precious student 24 hours a day and 7 days a week. This is a real simple tutoring program to get set up and working on your end of the Internet World. You can pay a flat fee of $99.99 per month and this amount allows your child to his/her online tutor as much as they want and they will have the ability to use them for all of the school subjects and not just math!

TutorVista is a professional online service in which professionals carry out these daily academic lessons or answer weekly questions your child may be asking. These online tutors from Tutor Vista will be around each day and will assist at any hour of the day and on any day of the week. TutorVista has been recognized for their outstanding commitment to students K – 12 and provides online tutors for college-age students too. It was the two big news agencies of NBC in America and the BBC News in the UK; who both shinned a light and publicly recognized all of the wonderful work from TutorVista Tutors. All of our children and school aged kids are going to be the future doctors, policemen, fire fighters, lawyers, and teachers of course (if not online tutors). Before any of them can look this far ahead, they are going to need a strong and supportive educational family. If you have already paid for the first month’s service; then technically you are no longer needed and the tutors online will carry it home from here. I just wanted to repeat one more time; that even though the TutorVista  teaching profesionals are so good and have everything under control. I would still like to encourage these parents, guardians, or a grandparent or one of the extended members of the family like an Aunt, Uncle, or a long time neighbor or friend; who could take this educational journey with the student.  Strangers helping strangers online is fantastic, but other things can start to materialize in positive ways; when it’s kin folks sharing in an achievement or personal goal.

Black Friday and Cyber Monday Coming Soon

I believe now is a good time to start thinking about the holidays. Get a game plan in place now and start trying to save up some extra cash for Black Friday (the day after Thanksgiving) and for Cyber Monday  (1st Monday after Thanksgiving). These are the two most important shopping days for the whole entire year. What makes them the best two? The fact that every retailer in the country tries to get in on the Black Friday and Cyber Monday action and the only way they can, is by lowering prices or offering a few really good deals on a few selected items. Consumers can pay much less on these two very special shopping days, but they have to be bargain and opportunity seekers. You can’t go in with the mindset of looking for specific items or for specific gifts for specific family members. Just go ahead and throw out all of the “specifics”.  These two days are much like the wind and all we want to do as a shopper, is be the leaf floating through the air and letting the wind take us to where ever it wants.

I can really have you sitting pretty this holiday season, but you must follow a few directions and you can’t let Cyber Monday or Black Friday pass you by. After everyone has eaten their turkey dinners on that Thursday we call Thanksgiving in late November. Once all of the holiday football action is over with and we know who all the winners and losers are. It will be time to take a nice little nap and prepare for a long day on Friday. This will be the first stop on our holiday savings trip and this is the day we refer to as Black Friday.

Not sure what Wal-Mart or some of these other 24 hour retailers might do at midnight on Thursday night, but if they do plan to have some bargains at 12:00 Midnight, you will want to make sure to be there. This means going to sleep at about 4PM on Thursday afternoon and getting a good 5 or 6 hours of sleep in. Once you arrive at a Target or Wal-Mart sale, this will officially kick off the Black Friday holiday. You don’t want to go back home either (if you can help it). Try to leave straight from the Wal-Mart store and go to a place that will have a 3AM or 4AM opening on Black Friday. This is very important that you follow these directions to a “T”. Go ahead and arrive early. Be sure you get out of your car, so you can go grab a spot in line at the front door, if there is a line forming. If not, just start the line yourself! It might seem a little strange at first, when you are the only one outside standing by the door, but by the time those front doors open up, you will be the most envied person at that store’s front doors; while you go in a few minutes early or they give you a head start and make the others wait 5 or 10 minutes on it. There are some stores that will reward the first person or the first 10 people in line and give them a little boost over everyone else.

Now the store you go to 2nd, assuming Wal-Mart, K-Mart, or a Target Super Store is your first one at midnight, may not be a store you are all that excited to be at. If I gave you a choice of any store to have the first spot in line at the door; which one would you choose? If one of the Best Buy locations is your first overall choice for an early arrival on Black Friday, then you are just like 95% of all of the other shoppers. Every year people plan to be at one of the big electronic stores and since Circuit City hasn’t been doing that well, it has left Best Buy at the top attraction on the Friday after Thanksgiving. Now remember when I said to follow my directions to a “T”? Well this is the part you will have to trust me on and if you do, I think you will have the best holiday shopping ever!

What we want to do on Black Friday is to avoid Best Buy and Circuit City. Don’t close the door on Radio Shack, because they might be in a position to help those disappointed shoppers who didn’t get into a Best Buy store in the first 1 or 2 hours of opening their doors up. It really all depends on how much attention your Radio Shack location will draw in the wee hours of the morning Friday. I do want to make one thing clear. I am not avoiding Best Buy because its a bad store or company. Simply avoiding it, because this is where everyone else will be and I can be making the rounds at several stores!

You can’t go shopping on Black Friday with the intent to buy any specific item. Please keep this in mind, because its the whole trick to everything. You only go to these stores and you only buy the things that are super cheap or has a really low price in your opinion. If you will only focus on value on these Black Friday mornings and stay away from Best Buy, because the crowds and traffic will tie you up too much and waste some of those valuable shopping hours, you can walk away as the biggest winner on Black Friday.

You will still have to use a little common sense and make some of your decisions based on the holiday budget you have to spend on Black Friday. If you can come up with $3,000; then that would be a super fun event with that much cash to splurge. If your not taking more than $1,000, you probably won’t have that best shopper in the world feeling. You really need at least a grand and more than likely, you will still have money left over to buy you a steak or a hibachi dinner at one of the Japanese Restaurants. Don’t worry if you don’t have the thousand bucks right now, because I don’t either. Now is when we start eating a little cheaper, driving a little less, and spending less of our money and we will begin to build up a little next egg. We still have a full season (3 months) to start saving up for this one very special Friday in late November.

Now about the common sense. If  you see a broom and mop set that comes with a gallon of floor cleaner and you know they sell this cleaner for $5 a gallon on normal days, but this Black Friday they will give you the 1 gallon cleaner, a new broom, and a new mop for just a buck ($1). Well this package is probably worth 7 or 8 dollars at least, so picking one up for a dollar is totally fine. What if the store has 100 of these sets to sell and no limits to the number of sets you can buy. Well these might make a few nice holiday gifts for people at work or distant friends and relatives that you normally send some little gift to them. You may pick up some extra sets of this one dollar deal, but you really need to have some idea on where these brooms and mops are going, so you don’t end up with a dozen of these in a hall closet somewhere. An important rule to remember is to not over buy, because you never know when the next great deal might be around the corner.

You can win on Black Friday and be the kings of all shoppers. Just stick to a few basic rules and you might want to start jogging a little or running, so you will be in good physical shape for your hustling adventures on Black Friday.

*Save $1,000 or More Now for the Black Friday Shopping Budget. $3,000 Would Buy Every True Bargain You Will Find Before Noon Time.

*Avoid Best Buy, Circuit City, or Any Other Retailer That is Attracting Big Crowds

*Don’t Go Around Picking Out Gifts for the Family Members

*Buy the Best Bargains and Cheapest Deals Every Time (don’t over buy an item, but multiples of 2 and 3 are encouraged)

*Don’t Be Scared to Start Black Friday in the Wal-Mart Parking Lot Thursday Night

*Go Browse the Stores a Week or 2 Before the Big Day / Keep a Memory of the Prices To Compare Later

*Find a Partner! The Husband and Wife Teams Who Split Up and Take Certain Stores Are the Really Big Winners on Black Friday

*Don’t Waste Time Learning About New Products. If It Appears Cheap or the Sign Says 60% Off. Just Grab It and Figure Out What It Does Later!

*All Items Bought Should Be Snatched Up Swiftly and Continue On…

*Don’t Be Ashamed To Run or Jog In the Stores. Get To the Checkout Lines Fast and Get Out.

*Try To Visit 10 Stores or More; While Giving No Store More Than 30 Minutes of Your Time Freely. This Means 30 Minutes of Shopping and Browsing Time and Not Actual Time From Walking In and Walking Out.

*Don’t Let Any One Store or One Shopping Item Take Away Your Attention or Time Away From All Other Products and Stores That Will Be Participating in the Festivities.

*Tell Friends and Relatives Now About Your Intentions, So You Don’t Meet Up with Them That Morning and Waste Time Chit Chatting.

*Avoid All Angry, Loud Mouth, or Honking Vehicles. A Disagreement or Argument Will Only Slow You Down. This Isn’t About Whose Right or Whose Wrong. This Is Your Day To Not Give Anyone The Time of Day.

*Watches and Cell Phones Are Not Needed. Leave Them At Home or in the Car.

*Bring a Cooler & Ice for Cold Drinks. No Time To Eat.

*If Your Shopping Places Are Not Close To Your Hometown. You May Not Be Familiar with Roads and Parking Lot Designs at the Stores and Malls. Do All of This Recon Work When You Go For a Price Check on Some of the Items a Week or 2 Before. This Attention To Fine Details Can Save 1 Hour or More Over a 4AM to Noon Time Shopping Spree

Now these are some of the tips for you to have the best Black Friday ever in 2010! When and if I come up with any more tips and tricks to add to the list, I will be sure to keep it updated. Please feel free to offer your suggestions too and I will get your ideas up on the board too, for all of us Black Friday Warriors to see!

Remember, I don’t have to run faster than the bear. I just have to run faster than you!

Now let’s talk about the 2nd biggest shopping day of the year. This will be on the Monday that follows right after the fun we are going to have on Black Friday. What makes Cyber Monday so special, this is the one day of the year; when we will have more Internet Traffic online than at any other time! The reason this always happens, is because employees and workers return back to work after the Thanksgiving Holidays and once they get a little free time at the office, they always go and do a little shopping. It may be hard to believe, but once you understand how many office employees there is in this country and then multiply that out by all of the ones who have access to computers and have kids, family, or friends they want to find a little gift for or at least check some prices. Then it all equals out to a ton of people online and the majority of them visiting the places where you go to shop online. You can actually set your watch by some of these Cyber Mondays.

Like for instance, in the Eastern USA most employees and especially those in the office will be working a 9 to 5 schedule. A lot off these employees on the East Coast will begin taking lunch breaks at 11 AM . A big portion of them will have a small meal or snack and they will eat for the first 15 minutes of their hour long break. Once it gets to about 11:15 EST; the numbers start to light up all over on the World Wide Web. Just like it was a well planned out system by a bunch of people who wanted to shut down the Internet systems of the World or at least the ones in this country.

The 11:15 a.m. Cyber Monday shoppers are the first ones who really make that Monday appear like no other day of the year, in terms of the World that exists online. Now those taking lunch breaks at 11 on the eastern side will keep the traffic levels high as the lunch breaks will continue to cycle around to 2 p.m. est. By the time most lunch breaks have ended  back East, the employees on Pacific time are only beginning to take their 11 a.m. PST lunch breaks. So as some of the traffic starts to exit offline up and down the Atlantic Coast of the USA; all of those office workers with access to a computer and want to do a little online shopping, will keep the traffic numbers up when they start appearing online up and down the Pacific Coast of the USA.

Now if you thought these lunch breaks was well planned out, all across the country, then check this out. As the last employees clock their self back in from the West Coast States, as they cycle through all of their lunch hour breaks by 2 p.m. in the afternoon local time. The 5:00 o’clock whistle is a blowing loud and hard back east, for everyone to go home. When it look like the Internet Highway was going to get a break, the work day has came to an end on the Eastern Coast, so now the workers who didn’t have access to a computer on their lunch breaks, they begin to fill up the Cyber World and it’s just a non stop, heavy online traffic, for a lot of the big name websites; which the Cyber Monday crowds will be flocking too.

Remember all of those electronic stores and other high traffic places, I wouldn’t let you go to on Black Friday? Well you can now go visit a Best Buy or a Circuit City and all of the peace and relaxation you can enjoy; while the Cyber Monday crowds won’t really bother you. Usually there is always some glitch or some website that wasn’t able to hand all of the extra traffic on Cyber Mondays. In order to prevent and play it on the safe side, you do want to try and wake up early on Monday and be the first one in “cyber-line” to pick up any products that might be very limited or will sell out fast. Also, just in case all of the traffic does shut down or cripple’s their website, you will be long gone and will have completed your business with the ever-popular Best Buy!

I look forward to working with many of you this Black Friday and again online for Cyber Monday in the latter portion of the month of November. Every year it never changes. Black Friday is always the busiest shopping day of the year, for the malls and real department stores. Then just 3 short days later, when a lot of us are broke or spent most of our money the previous Friday after Thanksgiving, an amazing coincidence happens every single year and it’s the busiest day of the year for the majority of websites online. Now that online retailers have started to cut prices and create another cheap day of buying bargains online, the traffic levels have grew even more from their already elevated stages. So it’s not even close for the Monday after Thanksgiving to be the heaviest traffic day online for the whole entire year and this does include the holidays, when online viewing tends to spike up a bit here and there.

The economy could be a little stronger, but it isn’t too bad for most investments right now. Anytime you decide you want to invest in ingots, please be sure to just go ahead and do it! What are ingots? Do I own ingots now? Will the local law be knocking on my door if I have a few of these ingots lying around?

Well according to the United States Gold Bureau, an ingot is generally gold or silver of pure bullion cast in a convenient size or shape. So I think this means ingots could be a variety of small things; which are made up in gold or silver and produced in a very small size for easy handling. If you have any coins in your pocket now or those right there beside your computer; then you are already the owner of some ingots.

However, those ingots are probably going to stay-in-line with their current values. You want a more pure form of silver or gold making up your ingots. Most people know about gold prices soaring, but the silver coins and ingots is a hot investment too. The above ground stockpiles of silver bullion are low and running out fast. The world demand for silver has been more than the annual production since 1990; which is going to cause a major shortage in silver real soon.

The World War II Days are long gone and how the U.S. Government dropped tons of silver on the world markets after the war was over. All of those huge stockpiles of silver are gone and the Government can’t do what they were doing 50 years ago. In fact, the U.S. Government is trying to find where this silver has gone and they’re looking to buy it back. The problem is no one person or one country has a huge resource of silver on hand. We are just a very populous planet now and the world has got a lot bigger since those years after WWII; where silver could be found all over then. If you want a safe and secure investment for now and in the future, silver ingots would make a great choice! The U.S. Gold Bureau can get you set up with a variety of ingots and they offer competitive precious metals pricing.

Most of the homes in my state are relatively new. Maybe you have heard of a guy from the Civil War by the name of Sherman? He got happy with the matches and set off a few fires, so we don’t have a lot of those colonial-looking homes, like they do in the southern part of the state or along the coast near Savannah, GA. I really like some of those older-style homes and how they will have these victorian pedestal mailboxes out in their tiny, but level front yards.

Some friends of mine and I were down in the Savannah, Georgia area not long ago. We were all picking out which big house we would like to live in the most. I had trouble finding the perfect Savannah home, but I do remember the one I picked had one of these green victorian mailboxes in their yard and for some reason that mail box stuck out in my mind. I pictured myself going to check the mail and how it was such a short walk from the front door to the mailbox. My home now has a real steep driveway and it’s not an easy chore going to check the mail at my house. So I think I fell in love with the mailbox and just how close it was to the front door.

There are a lot of other states that also have these large colonial homes; which are 200 or more years old. Many of these homes that have the southern charm and nestled close together, can be found all along the eastern seaboard of the United States. If you currently live in one of these colonial homes or near one; do you have a mailbox nearby your front door? Maybe your mail holder is a victorian wall mailbox and it’s hanging just above the wrap-around porch, that makes a complete circle around your home? Now if you live in South Georgia and you own a big colonial home and have one of these pedestal mail boxes in the Victorian-style and it is green; then you are the lucky ones living in my dream Georgia coastal home! I think that would be pretty freaky, if the real homeowners did come online and read about me liking their house, level yard, and green mail box. It is a small world and I have seen stranger things happen, so I wouldn’t be totally surprised, but it would shock me just a little.