May 28

Google AdSense Program Policies

Publishers participating in the AdSense program are required to adhere to the following policies. We ask that you read these policies carefully and refer to this document often. If you fail to comply with these policies, we may disable ad serving to your site and/or disable your AdSense account. While in many cases we prefer to work with publishers to achieve policy compliance, we reserve the right to disable any account at any time. If your account is disabled, you will not be eligible for further participation in the AdSense program.

Please note that we may change our policies at any time, and pursuant to our  it is your responsibility to keep up to date with and adhere to the policies posted here.

 Invalid Clicks and Impressions

Clicks on Google ads must result from genuine user interest. Any method that artificially generates clicks or impressions on your Google ads is strictly prohibited. These prohibited methods include but are not limited to repeated manual clicks or impressions, using robots, automated click and impression generating tools, third-party services that generate clicks or impressions such as paid-to-click, paid-to-surf, autosurf, and click-exchange programs, or any deceptive software. Please note that clicking on your own ads for any reason is prohibited. Failure to comply with this policy may lead to your account being disabled.

Encouraging clicks

In order to ensure a good experience for users and advertisers, publishers may not request that users click the ads on their sites or rely on deceptive implementation methods to obtain clicks. Publishers participating in the AdSense program:

  • May not encourage users to click the Google ads by using phrases such as “click the ads,” “support us,” “visit these links,” or other similar language
  • May not direct user attention to the ads via arrows or other graphical gimmicks
  • May not place misleading images alongside individual ads
  • May not promote sites displaying ads through unsolicited mass emails or unwanted advertisements on third-party websites
  • May not compensate users for viewing ads or performing searches, or promise compensation to a third party for such behavior
  • May not place misleading labels above Google ad units – for instance, ads may be labeled “Sponsored Links” but not “Favorite Sites”

Site Content

While Google offers broad access to a variety of content in the search index, publishers in the AdSense program may only place Google ads on sites that adhere to our content guidelines, and ads must not be displayed on any page with content primarily in an unsupported language. Sites displaying Google ads may not include:

  • Violent content, racial intolerance, or advocacy against any individual, group, or organization
  • Pornography, adult, or mature content
  • Hacking/cracking content
  • Illicit drugs and drug paraphernalia
  • Excessive profanity
  • Gambling or casino-related content
  • Content regarding programs which compensate users for clicking on ads or offers, performing searches, surfing websites, or reading emails
  • Excessive, repetitive, or irrelevant keywords in the content or code of web pages
  • Deceptive or manipulative content or construction to improve your site’s search engine ranking, e.g., your site’s PageRank
  • Sales or promotion of weapons or ammunition (e.g., firearms, fighting Knives, stun guns)
  • Sales or promotion of beer or hard alcohol
  • Sales or promotion of tobacco or tobacco-related products
  • Sales or promotion of prescription drugs
  • Sales or promotion of products that are replicas or imitations of designer goods
  • Sales or distribution of term papers or student essays
  • Any other content that is illegal, promotes illegal activity, or infringes on the legal rights of others

Copyrighted Material

Website publishers may not display Google ads on web pages with content protected by copyright law unless they have the necessary legal rights to display that content. Webmaster Guidelines

Site and Ad Behavior

Sites showing Google ads should be easy for users to navigate and should not contain excessive pop-ups. AdSense code may not be altered, nor may standard ad behavior be manipulated in any way that is not explicitly permitted by Google.

  • Sites showing Google ads may not contain pop-ups or pop-unders that interfere with site navigation, change user preferences, or initiate downloads.
  • Any AdSense code must be pasted directly into webpages without modification. AdSense participants are not allowed to alter any portion of the code or change the behavior, targeting, or delivery of ads. For instance, clicks on Google ads may not result in a new browser window being launched.
  • A site or third party cannot display our ads, search box, search results, or referral buttons as a result of the actions of any software application such as a toolbar.
  • No AdSense code may be integrated into a software application.
  • Webpages containing AdSense code may not be loaded by any software that can trigger pop-ups, redirect users to unwanted websites, modify browser settings, or otherwise interfere with site navigation. It is your responsibility to ensure that no ad network or affiliate uses such methods to direct traffic to pages that contain your AdSense code.
  • Referral offerings must be made without any obligation or requirement to end users. Publishers may not solicit email addresses from users in conjunction with AdSense referral units.
  • Publishers using online advertising to drive traffic to pages showing Google ads must comply with the spirit of Google’s For instance, if you advertise for sites participating in the AdSense program, the advertising should not be deceptive to users.

Ad Placement

AdSense offers a number of ad formats and advertising products. Publishers are encouraged to experiment with a variety of placements, provided the following policies are respected:

  • Up to three ad units may be displayed on each page.
  • A maximum of two Google AdSense for search boxes may be placed on a page.
  • Up to three link units may also be placed on each page.
  • Up to three referral units may be displayed on a page, in addition to the ad units, search boxes, and link units specified above.
  • AdSense for search results pages may show only a single ad link unit in addition to the ads Google serves with the search results. No other ads may be displayed on your search results page.
  • No Google ad or Google search box may be displayed in a pop-up, pop-under, or in an email.
  • Elements on a page must not obscure any portion of the ads.
  • No Google ad may be placed on any non-content-based pages.
  • No Google ad may be placed on pages published specifically for the purpose of showing ads, whether or not the page content is relevant.

Competitive Ads and Services

In order to prevent user confusion, we do not permit Google ads or search boxes to be published on websites that also contain other ads or services formatted to use the same layout and colors as the Google ads or search boxes on that site. Although you may sell ads directly on your site, it is your responsibility to ensure these ads cannot be confused with Google ads.

This post confirms the
ownership of the site and that the site adheres to AdSense policies and
Terms and Conditions

Ashok Negi
http://www.articlesbase.com/advertising-articles/google-adsense-717735.html

May 25

Buying Cricut Supplies is a fun part of owning a Cricut Expression. Making your projects is the best part…but shopping for fun new tools and cartridges is easily second.

There are many places where you can buy Cricut Supplies. Provo Craft has their own website and it’s at Cricut.com. There you will find:

  • All of their products
  • Videos
  • Product news
  • Newsletters
  • A forum where Cricut crafters can trade ideas and ask each other questions.

So what kind of Cricut Supplies are there for you to buy? Let’s start with the cartridges. There are almost eighty cartridges! There are font cartridges and shapes of all kinds. Do you love Disney? They have a whole bunch of Dinsey character cartridges to choose from. Looking for just the right frilly font for a special scrap book you are making? They have them!

There are more Cricut Supplies in every corner of their website. There is a special category for consumables. You will find in this section of their website things like specially sized paper of all colors and hues. They also carry vinyl. Using vinyl you can create projects that can be transferred to your walls or even the back window of your car.

The list of Cricut Supplies includes replacement parts. Your cutting blades will eventually wear out. You’re in luck though because they are not too expensive. You’ll also find several handy tools. The easiest way to get tools is to buy them in the Essentials Toolkit. The kit includes the spatula [yep...a spatula], scissors, ruler, and various Knives and scrapers for your projects.

But where can you buy Cricut Supplies? It’s as easy as a search on the internet. Or you can go directly to their site. You might also try a cool site I found that puts it all in one place.

Cricut-Supplies.com is kind of a one-stop-shop place to get everything you need.

TRY IT TODAY!

Denton Loomis
http://www.articlesbase.com/scrapbooking-articles/cricut-supplies-726554.html

May 23

1950s newsreel clip of a mother throwing Knives at her children

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May 23

Not all inexpensive Knives are poor quality.
This is a 20+ year old knife that cost less than $20 and was a ‘go to’ knife for many years

Knife Buyers Guide
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May 23

Boar Hunter : Fixed Blade outdoor / hunting knife from Cold Steel Knives.
*Meats utilized in this video was carefully preserved and donated to the Ventura County Rescue Mission.
for a free color catalog, DVD, and more visit us at
http://www.coldsteel.com

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May 23

This is NOT my video. it belongs to William Sonoma. I found this on there website and i checked that YouTube didn’t have it. So I thought I’d put it up there. If william sonoma’s got a problem with this post, i’ll take it off.

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May 23

The SOG Seal Pup or the Gerber LMF II ?

I am going hiking/camping with my family in July and I want to make sure I have a good knife… if you have a better suggestion then the 2 Knives listed above please let me know… thanks

Neither. For camping I have several choices. For a good overall camping knife, I use a a regular fixed blade made by Buck knives. I also have a few excellent survival knives, two of which I bought at Cabela’s. One is made by Fox and is of excellent quality with a high carbon surgical steel blade. The other is a Kershaw outcast knife.
As far as folding knives, I have a buck 110 that was custom made at Buck Knife Mfg that is a very nice and versatile knife.
A cheaper folding knife made by Camelus is excellent and has a speed lever for quick opening and has held up over the years. Another site to check out is buckknives.com
This is a direct link to the Buck Knife Co. They have pretty much everything you need and have a life time warranty on on of their knives and totally stand behing the product.

I collect knives for a hobby and have had many knives in my collection. Sog isn’t bad for the money though. But for an over all good camping knife I would get something that is versatile in several aspects. I sugest checking out the web site for Cabela’s at cabelas.com

May 22

Cooking classes proves to the best way to know the basics involved in cooking, know about the skills in cooking, or improve the already known skill. They cover many topics for people to reach the goal.

The first class in cooking will cover the basics. They are divided into nutrition storage, safety. Nutrition covers the topics like charts of calories, serving of sizes, ingredients measuring, information of nutrition, way to understand the nutrition labels, and vegetables and nutrition. Storage deals with the learn books to store food and its safety, pantry stocking, charts on food storage, and foods should not be freezed. Safety deals with contacts on safety information, bacteria elimination inside the kitchen, effects of contamination, keeping eatables in safe temperatures, proper usages of eggs, and safety of foods during picnics.

Herb and spices are dealt in next section. Herbs deal with substitution of herbs, applying dried herbs instead of fresh, crushing the dried herbs, taking care of fresh herbs, fresh herbs. Spices deal with the storage of dry herbs and spices, blends of spices, peppercorn cracking, dealing with ginger, and vanilla flavored beans. This deals with topics like, marinades, dry rubs with flavor, rubs: info and tips, seeds that needs be toasted, citrus zest or peel, flavored with dry mushrooms, cooking that deals liqueurs, fruity smelling vinaigrettes, exploring vinegars, and bouquet garni.

The forth coming classes deals with the ides and techniques. They mainly deal with high heating techniques and cooking that deals with sweet and savory till miscellaneous. High heat deals with frying deeply, flavors in pan searing, and quick pan-frying. Thickeners deals with making of roux, and flour, cornstarch as thickeners. Cutting deals with chopping vs. mincing. Cooking of sweet and savory deals with phyllo dough, puff pastries, strudel dough, and grinding nuts. Miscellaneous deals with standard metric equivalents of U.S, conversion of recipes to convection ovens, high altitude cooking, hints of microwave timing, and measuring the ingredients.

The other class deals with the basic kitchen items. This mainly deals with the Knives and cookware, and other utensils. The last sections cooking charts. This deals with the basics of kitchen, seafood, greens and fruits. Kitchen basics deals with the metric conversions, timesavers in supermarkets, storage chart that deals with purchased foods and home cooked foods. Fish and seafood deals with the fish verities and its cooking and cooking chart of shellfish. The meat section deals with the roasting charts, charts of meat broiling, skillet cooking meat, grilling indoor and out. Pasta deals with fresh pasta charts, and dried pasta chart. Poultry deals with the roasting of poultry charts, charts that deal with the poultry broiling and charts on poultry microwaving. Fruits and vegetables deal with selection of fresh greens and fruits, cooking of fresh vegetables, grilling of vegetables chart, and work that deals with cooking of fresh vegetables.

Abhishek Agarwal
http://www.articlesbase.com/cooking-tips-articles/cooking-basics-improving-your-cooking-skill-step-by-step-708709.html

May 20

please help all my friends have this but i cant understand what to do when they tell me. so if you find a video or tell me how to do it i would thank you very much.

Tell your friends to quit being douchebags and PLAY THE GAME THE WAY IT’S MEANT TO BE PLAYED!

May 20

I bought my son a (swiss army knockoff) small camping knife the other day. It’s only two inches long, has small blade, nail file, scissors, etc. When I told their father that I had got it for him, he was disapproving. So, let me give some background, their dad (we are divorced 3 yrs, but get along great) tends to be the easy-going laid-back one and I tend to be the stricter, scheduled one. He usually lets them stay up past regular bedtimes and watch pg13 movies. I ask him to watch the movies first to be sure they are ok for the children to watch (other child is 5), he doesn’t see what the big deal is. Well, it really shocked me when he didn’t like the idea that I bought the knife. I’ve explained to my son how to be safe and to NEVER EVER take it to school, etc. If my son doesn’t follow the guidelines for the knife I will take it away from him, and he has been told so. I live in a very small semi-rural town in the south and it justs seems "normal" for a boy this age to have a small camping knife. Am I wrong? Which is worse, the knife or pg13 movies with scary content (which caused nightmares-I was the one up with my son in the middle of the night, thank you)???

I think it’s perfectly find for him to have the knife considering you’ve taught him how to handle it appropriately and rules and consequences of having it. He should NOT be watching pg-13 movies. It’s like my biggest pet peeve when I see parents doing that. It’s not the ’scary nightmare stuff’ that’s the worst.. its the violence! i see soo many little kids acting out because of some violence they saw on tv or a video game or a movie (ie. fighting, punching, yelling, breaking stuff.) They don’t realize that behavior is inappropriate and it’s a movie… people shouldnt act like that in real life.

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