Margarita Stewart: Hot Apple Spiced Cider → Alcohol Free

Margarita Stewart: Hot Apple Spiced Cider → Alcohol Free: "You can of course, add alcohol to this...but for those looking for a warm hot drink without alcohol....I made this for our Halloween Part..."

Google Help : Cheat Sheet

A quick list of some popular tools to help refine and improve your search when using Google.  Check out the Google Cheat Sheet -- Google Help : Cheat Sheet

Infobarrel.com Articles

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For the Coffee Lover in Your Life

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Ever Wonder What Happened In Your Birth Year?

Have you ever wondered about the major events, happenings or trivia that occurred during the year you were born?  Find out at the what happened in my birth year website.

It takes a page from google with an extremely basic and simple home page.  Here's an example of what you'd get using the year 2000.  the website counts backwards from the current year and fades to black.  Then starts typing the information line by line until you get:

 

One bit of warning, the screen shot above is just a small portion of the results and it takes quite some time for it to complete since its printing line by line.  Here's the whole thing:

In 2000, the world was a different place.

In 2000, the year of your birth, the top selling movie was Mission: Impossible II. People buying the popcorn in the cinema lobby had glazing eyes when looking at the poster.

Do you know who won the Oscars that year? The academy award for the best movie went to Gladiator. The Oscar for best foreign movie that year went to Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. The top actor was Russell Crowe for his role as Maximus Decimus Meridius in Gladiator. The top actress was Julia Roberts for her role as Erin Brockovich in Erin Brockovich. The best director? Steven Soderbergh for Traffic.
In the year 2000, the time when you arrived on this planet, books were still popularly read on paper, not on digital devices. Trees were felled to get the word out. The number one US bestseller of the time was The Brethren by John Grisham. Oh, that's many years ago. Have you read that book? Have you heard of it? Look at the cover!

In 2000... Alan Greenspan is nominated for a fourth term as U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman. The rap-metal band Rage Against the Machine plays in front of Wall Street, prompting an early closing of trading due to the crowds. UNESCO holds the inaugural celebration of International Mother Language Day. After originating in The Philippines, the ILOVEYOU computer virus spreads quickly throughout the world. The Constitution of Finland is rewritten. George W. Bush and Al Gore emerge victorious in the Republican and Democratic caucuses and primaries of the United States presidential election. The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the government lacks authority to regulate tobacco as an addictive drug, throwing out the Bill Clinton administration's main anti-smoking initiative. In United States v. Microsoft, Microsoft is ruled to have violated United States antitrust laws by keeping "an oppressive thumb" on its competitors. Brazil officially celebrates its 500th anniversary, with protests, especially from native and black populations. The State of Vermont passes HB847, legalizing civil unions for same-sex couples. The Tate Modern Gallery opens in London. Venezuela's president Hugo Chávez is reelected with 59% of the vote. A powerful solar flare, later named the Bastille Day event, causes a geomagnetic storm on Earth. The UK fuel protests take place, with refineries blockaded, and supply to the country's network of petrol stations halted. In San Antonio, Texas, computer pioneer Datapoint files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The video game of the day was Diablo II.

That was the world you were born into. Since then, you and others have changed it.
The Nobel prize for Literature that year went to Gao Xingjian. The Nobel Peace prize went to Kim Dae Jung. The Nobel prize for physics went to Zhores Ivanovich Alferov and Herbert Kroemer from Russia and Germany for developing semiconductor heterostructures used in high-speed- and optoelectronics. The sensation this created was big. But it didn't stop the planets from spinning, on and on, year by year. Years in which you would grow bigger, older, smarter, and, if you were lucky, sometimes wiser. Years in which you also lost some things. Possessions got misplaced. Memories faded. Friends parted ways. The best friends, you tried to hold on. This is what counts in life, isn't it?

The 2000s were indeed a special decade. Globalization continues to influence the world. Islamist groups are on the rise. The European Union further integrates and expands in Europe. A global financial crisis occurs. The US leadership declares a "War on Terror". The Arab-Israeli conflict continues. The second Congo War takes place. Kosovo gains independence from Serbia. Google becomes the web's most visited site. Other sites on the rise include YouTube, Facebook and MySpace. VHS collections become replaced with DVD. Touchscreen mobile phones gain popularity. Microsoft releases operating system Windows XP. The Chinese launch their first manned space flight, Shenzhou 5. Climate change and global warming become household words, while the global temperature keeps growing. The best-selling album of the decade is the Beatles compilation album. Michael Jackson dies. The Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings films capture the imagination of audiences across the globe. Michael Schumacher wins five F1 World Championships before he retires. Taipei 101 becomes the tallest building in the world.
6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1... it's 2000. There's TV noise coming from the second floor. Someone turned up the volume way too high. The sun is burning from above. These were different times. The show playing on TV is Dora The Explorer . The sun goes down. Someone switches channels. There's Malcolm in the Middle on now. That's the world you were born in.

Progress, year after year. Do you wonder where the world is heading towards?

Two thousand years
Two thousand years
Two thousand years
Two thousand years
I have waited
To ask if I have loved you
To know if I have served you
To finally find the being
To know if I could trade you
...
That's from the song Two Thousand Years by The Who.
It's 2010.
The world is a different place.
What path have you taken?

Free Puzzle Maker

Make a puzzle from the free puzzlemaker site at discoveryeducation.com.  You can choose from word search, criss-cross, double puzzles, fallen phrases, mazes, letter tiles, cryptograms and hidden messages.

Send a Future Email

FutureMe.Org allows you to send your self or others an email at a date you specify for the future.  Send yourself reminders, schedule a birthday greeting or other event when you remember it instead of having to remind yourself over and over.

Send Someone A Standing Ovation!

Know someone who has done something great?  Want to recognize a personal hero?  Someone you look up to?  Send them a standing ovation from playfair.com. 

Get Your Name Meaning Report

Find out what your name means at this website.

When you put in your full name you get something like the following:

(Used sample name of "Anna Nicole Smith")

You entered: Anna Nicole Smith
There are 15 letters in your name.
Those 15 letters total to 67
There are 6 vowels and 9 consonants in your name.

What your first name means:

Swedish	Female	Grace.
Russian	Female	Grace.
Native American	Female	Mother (Algonquin).
Latin	Female	Variant of Anne. Biblical; devout woman who saw infant Jesus presented at the temple in Jerusalem. Daughter of Dido.
Hebrew	Female	Favour or grace. Prayer. God has favoured me. Variant of Hannah.
Greek	Female	A variant of Hannah. In Virgil's 'Aeneid', Anna was sister of Dido, Queen of Carthage. According to an apocryphal gospel, Anna was also the mother of the Virgin Mary.
English	Male	Name of a king.
English	Female	Variant of Anne, meaning favor; grace.
Biblical	Female	Gracious; one who gives.
Arthurian Legend	Female	Arthur's sister.
Anglo-Saxon	Male	Name of a king.

Your number is: 4

The characteristics of #4 are: A foundation, order, service, struggle against limits, steady growth.

The expression or destiny for #4:
Order, service, and management are the cornerstones of the number 4 Expression. Your destiny is to express wonderful organization skills with your ever practical, down-to-earth approach. You are the kind of person who is always willing to work those long, hard hours to push a project through to completion. A patience with detail allows you to become expert in fields such as building, engineering, and all forms of craftsmanship. Your abilities to write and teach may lean toward the more technical and detailed. In the arts, music will likely be your choice. Artistic talents may also appear in such fields as horiculture and floral arrangement, as well. Many skilled physicians and especially surgeons have the 4 Expression.
The positive attitudes of the 4 Expression yield responsibility; you are one who no doubt, fulfills obligations, and is highly systematic and orderly. You are serious and sincere, honest and faithful. It is your role to help and you are required to do a good job at everything you undertake.
If there is too much 4 energies present in your makeup, you may express some of the negative attitudes of the number 4. The obligations that you face may tend to create frustration and feelings of limitation or restriction. You may sometimes find yourself nursing negative attitudes in this regard and these can keep you in a rather low mood. Avoid becoming too rigid, stubborn, dogmatic, and fixed in your opinions. You may have a tendency to develop and hold very strong likes and dislikes, and some of these may border on the classification of prejudice. The negative side of 4 often produces dominant and bossy individuals who use disciplinarian to an excess. These tendencies must be avoided. Finally, like nearly all with 4 Expression, you must keep your eye on the big picture and not get overly wrapped up in detail and routine.

Your Soul Urge number is: 4

A Soul Urge number of 4 means:
With the Soul Urge or Motivation number of 4 you are likely to strive for a stable life. You tend to follow a rather orderly pattern and systematic approach in your endeavors. You have an inner desire to serve others in a methodical and diligent manner. You want to be in solid, conventional, and well-regulated activities, and you are somewhat disturbed by innovation and erratic or sudden changes. Excellent at organizing, systematizing, and managing, you have a way of establishing order and maintaining it. You are responsible, reliable and in the final analysis, practical. Highly analytical, you can see your way through all sorts of situations and generally have a clear understanding of the issues. You are a very honest, sincere, and conscientious individual.
The negative side of the 4 is rigid, stubborn and somewhat narrow-minded. There is a tendency to hide feelings, or to really not be aware of real feelings. Avoid being too rigid and stubborn in your thinking, and try to always see the big picture rather than becoming to involved with the detail. Don't be afraid to take a chance once in awhile.

Your Inner Dream number is: 9

An Inner Dream number of 9 means:
You dream of being creative, intellectual, and universal; the selfless humanitarian. You understand the needy and want to help them. You would love to be a person people count on for support and advice.

Birthday Calculator

Find out your astrological data and fun information from your date of birth at the birthday calculator.

If you were born on January 1, 2010 below is listed the information you would see... or at least the people who did the report for you since at a few months old, you probably didn't do it by yourself.  Kudos if you did.

1 January 2010

Your date of conception was on or about 10 April 2009 which was a Friday.
You were born on a Friday
under the astrological sign Capricorn.
Your Life path number is 5.

Your fortune cookie reads:
Your ability to juggle many tasks will take you far.

Life Path Compatibility:
You are most compatible with those with the Life Path numbers 1, 5 & 7.
You should get along well with those with the Life Path numbers 3 & 9.
You may or may not get along well with those with the Life Path number 8.
You are least compatible with those with the Life Path numbers 2, 4, 6, 11 & 22.
The Julian calendar date of your birth is 2455197.5.
The golden number for 2010 is 16.
The epact number for 2010 is 14.
The year 2010 is not a leap year.

Your Native American Zodiac sign is Goose; your plant is Bramble.

You were born in the Egyptian month of Famenoth, the third month of the season of Poret (Emergence - Fertile soil).

Your date of birth on the Hebrew calendar is 16 Tevet 5770.
Or if you were born after sundown then the date is 17 Tevet 5770.
The Mayan Calendar long count date of your birthday is 12.19.16.17.13 which is
12 baktun 19 katun 16 tun 17 uinal 13 kin
The Hijra (Islamic Calendar) date of your birth is Friday, 15 Muharram 1431 (1431-1-15).
The date of Easter on your birth year was Sunday, 4 April 2010.
The date of Orthodox Easter on your birth year was Sunday, 4 April 2010.
The date of Ash Wednesday (the first day of Lent) on your birth year was Wednesday 17 February 2010.
The date of Whitsun (Pentecost Sunday) in the year of your birth was Sunday 23 May 2010.
The date of Whisuntide in the year of your birth was Sunday 30 May 2010.
The date of Rosh Hashanah in the year of your birth was Thursday, 9 September 2010.
The date of Passover in the year of your birth was Tuesday, 30 March 2010.
The date of Mardi Gras on your birth year was Tuesday 16 February 2010.

As of 2/20/2010 7:16:19 PM EST
You are 0 years old.
You are 1 months old.
You are 7 weeks old.
You are 50 days old.
You are 1,219 hours old.
You are 73,156 minutes old.
You are 4,389,379 seconds old.

Celebrities who share your birthday:

Kala Sosefina Mileniume Kauvaka (2000)	Verne 'Mini-Me' Troyer (1969)	Kathleen Casey (1946)
Don Novello (1943)	Robert N. Cronk (1924)	J.D. Salinger (1919)
Barry Goldwater (1909)	Xavier Cugat (1900)	J. Edgar Hoover (1895)
Betsy Ross (1752)	Paul Revere (1735)

Top songs of 2010

Your age is the equivalent of a dog that is 1.95694716242661E-02 years old. (You're just a pup!)

Your lucky day is Saturday.
Your lucky number is 8.
Your ruling planet(s) is Saturn & Uranus.
Your lucky dates are 8th, 17th, 26th.
Your opposition sign is Cancer.
Your opposition number(s) is 2 & 7.
Today is not one of your lucky days!
There are 315 days till your next birthday
on which your cake will have 1 candles.

Those 1 candles produce 1 BTUs,
or 252 calories of heat (that's only 0.2520 food Calories!) .
You can boil 0.11 US ounces of water with that many candles.  

In 2010 there were 4,091,063 births in the US.
In 2010 the US population was approximately 281,421,906 people, 79.6 persons per square mile.
In 2010 in the US there were approximately 2,181,000 marriages (7.4%) and — divorces (3.7%)
In 2010 in the US there were approximately 2,423,000 deaths (8.3 per 1000)
In the US a new person is born approximately every 8 seconds.
In the US one person dies approximately every 12 seconds.


Your birth flower is CARNATION

Your birthstone is Garnet

The Mystical properties of Garnet

Garnet is used as a power stone

Some lists consider these stones to be your birthstone. (Birthstone lists come from Jewelers, Tibet, Ayurvedic Indian medicine, and other sources)

Emerald, Rose Quartz

Your birth tree is

Apple Tree, the Love Of slight build, lots of charm, appeal and attraction, pleasant aura, flirtatious, adventurous, sensitive, always in love, wants to love and be loved, faithful and tender partner, very generous, scientific talents, lives for today, a carefree philosopher with imagination.

There are 308 days till Christmas 2010!
There are 321 days till Orthodox Christmas!

The moon's phase on the day you were
born was waning gibbous.

Free Vedic Janma Kundali (Horoscope)

Fill in the form at the vedic horoscope site and click the submit button to get your own free Vedic Janma Kundali.

According to the website:

Your free Vedic Janm Kundli is the snapshot of the zodiac at the time of your birth. The Janm Kundali or Horoscope reveals the important trends in your life and your ultimate destiny as per the Vedic astrology system.

You can generate this chart absolutely free from this website. Just provide a few simple details and get your Vedic astrology Janma Kundali immediately. Your kundali will be generated in PDF (Portable Document Format), will be sent to your email, and can be downloaded.

Have fun!

Create Personalized Money

Create money with your face on it at the Personalized Money website. 

Turn your Photo into a Charcoal Drawing

Turn your photo into a charcoal drawing at sporkforge.com. 

Turn Your Photos into Digital Artwork

Turn your photos into digital artwork at befunky.com.  They offer over 140 photo effects.

What art will you create?

Turn Your Photo into a Blueprint

Turn your photo into a blueprint at the Blueprint Picture Effect site.

Make Your Own Dodecahedron Calendar

Make your own 12 sided calendar at this site.

One Day Calendar Generator

Have a special day or event?  Need something to announce the date?  Check out the One Day Calendar Generator.

Find Out if You Have Perfect Pitch

Do you have perfect pitch?  Find out at the Distorted Tunes Test presented by the National Institute of Deafness and Other Communication Disorders.

You will hear 26 well-known tunes (some played correctly and some not so much) and you decide which is which.

Play Piano on Your Keyboard

Play piano on any keyboard at the Virtual Keyboard site.

Choose from 9 instruments and 6 drum beats to create your own masterpiece!

Create Your Own Wanted Poster... Again

Here's another place to create your own Wanted Poster. 

Create Your Own Fake Magazine Cover

Design your own magazine cover at the Magazine Cover Generator.

Create Your Own Latin Motto or Slogan

Create your own motto or slogan in Latin at the Latin Motto Generator.

Have fun!

Create Your Own Newspaper Clipping

Make your own newspaper clips at The Newspaper Clipping Image Generator.

You pick the Name of the newspaper, the date and the title then you input your article text. 

 Have fun with the story! 

See Your Slogan on The Side of a Bus

At the Bus Slogan Generator you can get your own three line slogan on the side of a bus.

Social Networking Status Generator

Need help coming up with things to update your status lines with?  Check out the status generator.

Make Your Own Coat of Arms

Make your own coat of arms at the simply titled makeyourcoatofarms.com.

Hue Test

How well do you see color?  Find out when you take the hue test.

Heretical Rhyme Generator

Start the website off with the first line and it will create a short poem for you.  Check it out here.
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Make Your Own Comic

Make your own comic strip staring... You! Have fun at bitstrips.

Free Ebook 7 Steps to Small Business Marketing Success

When you first look into starting a home business, you’ll likely hear people tell you to base your business on something that you enjoy doing. That’s sound advice, as far as it goes. What you don’t find out until later is that no matter what kind of business you start, you are a marketer.

If you can’t successfully market your information, service, or product, you may as well not have a business. So, to help you or your readers find out more about marketing skills, you may want to download 7 Steps to Small Business Marketing Success, an overview of the Duct Tape Marketing System.

Astrology - East Meets West

Find out your astrological profile at eastwestprofile.com.

Make Travel Easier And Cheaper With Maps

When you think about warm weather travel, the first events you think of probably include spring break and summer vacation. If you have kids, you may also think about daily or weekly outings. Since almost everyone is watching their spending, it only makes sense to include travel into the budget mix. One way to make travel easier and cheaper is with maps.

Whether you are planning for a vacation or frequent outings, state and local maps can help you find cool places to visit. They can also help you plan the most economical route to take so that you save on that gas bill! To help you find the maps you need, to put this frugal plan into action, you may want to check out these map resources.

On a side note, grabbing a copy of these maps can also help you to teach your kids about places that they may never actually visit. What a way to spend your summer vacation…visiting the US without ever leaving the safety of your home!

Paper Toys

Do you like paper airplanes or origami?  If so check out check out free paper toys.

They have several categories including, airplanes, animals, boats, cartoon characters, furniture, geometry, holidays, paper dolls and transportation.

Free Metallica Concert Downloads

Are you an “experienced” rocker or have a taste for old-school rock songs? Here are some Metallica concerts that you can download for free! These concerts were originally performed between 1982 and 2003 (with one from 2009.) There are 21 downloads to choose from. If you need to get you pumped you can get some work done, this may be just the music for you.

Although the concerts and dates are listed on this page, just click a concert to see the songs that were included.

*Note: If you aren’t familiar with Metallica, you may want to preview these songs with your headset on. Some of the lyrics are not appropriate for little ones.

Free Guide To Direct Sales Success

Many people interested in starting a home business find themselves drawn to direct sales opportunities. The variety of available opportunities makes it easy for almost everyone to find products that they feel comfortable selling. However, not everyone is suited to this kind of business. It is not uncommon for misconceptions to cause many businesses to fail. The key to succeeding in direct sales is to have realistic expectations and know what you’re getting into. In other words, you need to know some of the ins and outs before you start a business.

This free Guide To Direct Sales Success will walk you through the basics. From deciding if direct sales is right for you to marketing your business, this book will give you thorough ideas of what to expect, how to avoid common pitfalls, and how to manage your business effectively.

Pick up a copy for yourself or to share with others.

Download here –> Guide To Direct Sales Success

Gangsta Name Generator

Get your very own Gangsta name at the Gangsta Name Generator. 

Old School DJ Name Generator

Get your own Old School DJ Name at the Old School DJ Name Generator.

 

 

What's Your Travel IQ?

Check out TravelPod.com's Travel IQ Challenge.  How do you score?

Fun Stuff: DVD Easter Eggs (hidden fun stuff)

Do you remember easter eggs in computer software?  DVDs have them also and this site tells you how to find them.

 

Here's a sample for the movie WALL*E

Have fun watching all the hidden items on your favorite DVDs and if you find any of your own, submit them to the site and help your fellow fans find them too.

Not Your Mother's Milk

Milk is a dietary staple for the majority of the population but there are several possible reasons why one may want, or need, to cut milk out of their dietary plan.

Perhaps they have a food sensitivity (not quite lactose intolerant but “have issues”), want to lower mucus issues, going vegan or non-milk vegetarian and a host of medical issues.

There are several very good alternatives to milk these days.  The first to come to mind is usually soy milk.  However, if you have genetically modified organism (GMO) concerns or “from China” concerns, soy milk may not be fore you.  There is also mounting evidence showing the inherent poison in the soy plant survives pasteurization and some amount of the toxin can be present in the product on your market's shelves.

Almond milk is a great alternative with at least three flavors readily available in mainstream markets.  There is regular, vanilla and chocolate (yum, chocolate!)  Many markets also have several other nut milks to choose from.  You can also make your own nut milk of you have a juicer at home.  Just check the instructions for any special requirements when using nuts.

 

For those with any nut sensitivities there is always rice milk which also comes in several flavors and is available in mainstream markets.

If none of the above work, you can always try the newly available hemp milk.  This can also be found in a regular grocery store. 

There is also coconut milk as an option.  This is a dual choice option.  There are newly created coconut milk beverages coming out on the market as well as the original ‘coconut milk’ that is really the ‘water’ from the center of the coconut.  This can be an acquired taste as authentic coconut taste is very different from the mainstream coconut that most consumers are accustomed to.

A specialty store or health food store would have a greater selection and/or additional flavors.  There is sometimes an aftertaste to these alternate milks, sometimes by brand, sometimes due to the region it was grown in. 
   
For resources or recipes check out:
 http://www.godairyfree.org/Food-to-Eat/Shopping-List/Milk-Alternatives.html

Self Assesment Tools: Free IQ Test

check out this free IQ test at Funeducation.com.

This free test is a premium psychometric exam and will measure your cognitive performance in several key areas including word analysis and spatial reasoning. This IQ test is primarily a verbal or I.Q. test containing elements of spatial reasoning. Your raw IQ score will be scaled and applied to the standard deviation to provide your IQ relative to the normal distribution of intelligence scores for this IQ testing assessment. It has only content validity and not concurrent validity.

Fun Stuff: Cartoon Yourself

Make a cartoon of yourself at cartoonme.com.

Fun Stuff: Lego Yourself

Have fun making a lego picture of yourself at the Mini-Mizer website.  You can choose different skin tones, hair, hats, outfits and things for your lego you to carry in one hand. 

Here are some examples of the choices:

 

Hair choices

 

Hat choices

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background/setting choices

And here's a screenshot of the lego I made for myself along with the instructions to save your creation:

 

 Have fun!!!

Fun Stuff: South Park Yourself

If you had fun legoizing yourself, try South Parking yourself.

Website Resource: Speedtest.net

Wondering how fast your internet connect is?  Want to find out quickly, easily and for free?  Check out speedtest.net.

Click on the blue 'begiin test' button on the top of teh map and watch it go to work.  

It doesn't take long for the test to complete and then you get several boxes on the screen showing you the results.

Turns out my connection is average.  If I was minded to, I could click on the "Too slow?" button and see if I can get something better but this works for me right now so I will stay where I am.