Step#1

If you are planning to hire a baker for your cupcake business, you can skip this part of the article. But if you bake and want to make your own cupcake, make sure you are really good at it. Practice is a great way to achieve that. You might also want to try to create a cupcake made of unique ingredients just to get a competitive advantage. Most people prefer cupcakes that are baked from scratch, so try to avoid cupcake from ready-mix.

Step#2

Presentations for both cupcake and the business location have to be eye catchy. Frosting for the cake and decoration needs decent amount of skill level. Therefore, make sure you have those skill sets and proper equipments too.

Step#3

Special diets cupcakes are hot sell these days. If you are planning to cater all types of customers, it is very important that your cupcake shop offers varieties such as vegan, organic, naturally sweetened, gluten-free cupcakes etc.

Step#4

Calculating cost for the business is one of the major issues. The cost for production can be broken down as follows:

• Cost of raw ingredients
• Cost of equipments
• Cost of labor/sales associate/bakery helper etc.

The best way to calculate these costs are to make a sample batch of cupcake from scratch and use the estimated labor wages. There are also property costs which should not be included in production cost. After all cost figures, you need to decide markup for cupcake selling price. Normal business uses 25% to 50% markup on any of their finished goods.

Step#5

Market research is a vital part of the whole business idea. Take a day to make one or two batch of cupcake and take samples to local businesses and consumers to see how they react. These sources will be your main buyers so it only makes sense to get to know them beforehand. While you are there you might want to give them the news of your new cupcake business.

Step#6

You can also consider participating in local events for both promotion and business development. Attending events like bake sales, craft fairs and firmer markets should be really good for your cupcake business.

Lastly, deliver your cupcake fresh, in time and in good condition.

Abbreviation can be used in text messaging, in chat room or even in a short email. But it becomes a necessity in text messaging since cell phone system restrict the amount of characters can be used for texting.

While abbreviating it is important to make sure that the abbreviated word is understandable by others. There are many universal standards abbreviate words like “lol” (laugh out loud), “omg” (Oh my God), “idk” (I don’t know) etc.

Some of the rules for abbreviating words are:

• Try to keep it simple
• Short but meaningful
• Leaving out letters is primary; you can even leave out some words if it only makes sense.
• Vowels are easy to omit although some consonants can be leave out.
• Do not try to save space and time by omitting space too. Leave spaces between abbreviated words.
• If you come up with a new abbreviation, make sure you include a summary of it at the beginning so that you can use it later anytime.

ty – thank you

ilu- i love you

2night – tonight

u2 – you too

<3 – heart

aslp – age, sex, location, picture

asap – as soon as possible

fyi – for your information

b4 – before

brb – be right back

cya – see you

ttyl – talk to you later

bff- best friend forever

btw – by the way

cuz – because

ditto – same here

diy – do it yourself

dunno – i do not know

gf/bf – girl friend/ boy friend

g8 – great

gtg - got to go

huh – what?

Jk – just kidding

Step#1

If you do not have this popular CD burning software you can download it from http://www.nero.com. Download the software, install it, and start it from Start>Programs>Ahed Nero and select Nero-Burning Rom.

Step#2

When the Nero window opens (do not use the Nero Wizard), you should be able to see different recording types (CD, CD-ROM, DVD etc.), select the CD-ROM (ISO) icon and click on the “ISO” tab to configure your data files. Choose all the settings and click NEW.

Step#3

Drag and drop data files from the browser windows (right) to ISO1 windows, which is located on the left side of the window. After all the data selection, click the record button (11^th icon from the left)

Step#4

Once the recorder windows open, select the image recorder (in this case it will be your CD ROM), and click OK to start the process.

Step#5

Click the write CD dialog button (9^th from the left) or select Write CD from toolbar menu.

Step#6

Name your CD image and select a location to save it, click save.

Step#7

If you have followed all the above steps without any problem, the burning process should start at this stage. Once the process is successfully completed, Nero will prompt you. Click ok button to close the burning progress window.

Step#1

Thoroughly read the book and take notes of the topics that are emphasized and related to the main idea of the book. You can also use post-it flags to mark all the important pages and go back later to combine them.

Step#2

Before you start to write your report by gathering all your notes, ask yourself questions like why author wrote the book? What made you read the book? What are the key points of the book? What need to be excluded from the summary of the book? etc.

Step#3

Once you have all the answers of above, start with a brief outline of the book, followed by the main section of the book report which will include entire work from step 1 and step 2. Be sure not to go too in-depth (one page to elaborate a single topic) of any topic as well as not too brief (a complete topic in one sentence only).

Step#4

At the end, add a conclusion of the book summary you just wrote. The significance of the book, the potential contribution of the book, any negative aspects of it and about author’s opinion on the whole idea can be few things can be included in this last section of the book report.

Step#1

Create a page at the end of the paper and name it “Bibliography”.

Step#2

List and sort all author’s last names and sources used in the writing alphabetically. Author’s last name will come first, followed by a comma and then the first name followed by a period.

If the used source is from a book, write the book title in italic font style, followed by a period. You may underline the book name too.

If the used source was from an article rather than a book, cite the name of the article inside quotation marks, in place of a book title. You also need to write the journal or magazine name including its volume number if the article was a part of a journal or magazine.

Step#3

Now you need to name the location where the article or the book was published, followed by a colon.

Step#4

Include the name of the published, followed by a comma.

Step#5

Finish the bibliography entry by adding the date of publication, followed by a period.

Add number to your bibliography pages when adding page number to your paper.

At first, we need to find out the name of the author from whose website we will use content from.  The format for the name citation has to done in a specific format. Last name will come first followed by a comma and then first letter of author’s first name followed by period. If there is no individual author for the website content, you can use the website owner’s name as reference.

Step#2

Next, we need to find out the date (article publication year) of the article. Date for an article normally stated at the beginning after the authors name and should be within parentheses.

Step#3

Determine the title of the article. The name or the title of the article should be listed after the publication year and should be by capitalizing the first letter of the first word. The rest of the letters are lowercase and followed by period.

Step#4

After the title, you need to mention the access or revivals date of the article/website followed by a comma, month, date and year of access.

Step#5

List the link or URL of the webpage retrieval followed by “Retrieved from”. If there is no static/permanent link for the article, use the main website link.

Step#6

The last step is to add the complete website citation into your own content or article.

Step#1 (Download WinRAR):

Download and install the latest version of the software WinRAR (http://www.rarlab.com) on your computer and you will be ready in no time to extract or unzip a rar file along with many other compressed file formats like Zip, CAB, ARJ, LZH, TAR, GZ, ACE, UUE, BZ2, JAR, ISO, 7Z, Z.

Step#2 (Open RAR file):

RAR file open window

If you have received a .rar file in your e-mail, you might want to download it to your computer first. Once the rar file is downloaded on your computer, double click on it. It will open up a small window by WinRAR which will show you all the files that are compressed inside that rar archive/file.

Step#3 (Extract/the .rar file):

RAR file extract option

Click on the “Extract To” icon on the top navigation bar and it will ask you to select a location to extract all the files from that rar file. You can select any location you want but don’t forget the location you are about to unrar the file to.

After you select your preferred location, and click “OK”, you will see the extracting window for a short period.

Once the window is closed (automatically), your rar has been extracted completely at the location you chose in previous step.

Step#1 (Download WinRAR):

Download WinRAR

Download and install the latest version of uncompressing software WinRAR (http://www.rarlab.com) on your computer and you will be ready in no time to extract or unzip a zip file along with many other compressed file formats.

Step#2 (Open Zip file):

If you received a .zip file in your e-mail, you might want to download it to your computer first. Once the zip file is downloaded on your computer, double click on it. It will open up a small window by WinRAR which will show you all the files that are compressed inside that zip archive/file.

Step#3 (Extract/Unzip the .zip file):

Click on the “Extract To” icon on the top navigation bar and it will ask you to select a location to extract all the files from that zip file. You can select any location you want but don’t forget the location you are about to unzip the file to.

After you select your preferred location, and click “OK”, you will see the unzipping windows for a short period.

Once the window is closed (automatically), your zip has been unzipped completely at the location you chose in previous step.

To make pizza dough is easy. And once you make that dough you can freeze it so you do not have to make it every time. I will show you how to make pizza dough and after you done this what you need is just add tomato sauce and your favor toppings on it then put it in oven. This recipe is enough for 12- inch pizza.

Are you ready? Okay lets start:

Step 1

Sprinkle yeast in to the bowl that we will make dough in. Then we will put that dough onto baking sheet or baking stone when we start cooking. Then put 1 ¼ cup warm water into the bowl and mix it until yeast dissolves. Then add 2 cups of sifted flour and stir until blended. And then add another 1 ½ cups of flour and blend until too stiff with a spoon.

Step 2

Then next step is we will turn dough out onto floured surface and knead it 15 minutes.

Step 3

Now we need to put dough into another bowl, which is greased with oil. Not too much oil. Then go ahead and turn dough so oiled part will be on top.

Step 4

We almost done now what you need to do is cover dough with plastic wrap and leave it in the warm place 45 minutes.

Step 5

Once you see dough raised double size of it’s original size that means it is ready. Go ahead and place it onto floured surface and punch it down.

That is it we made pizza dough. Now what you need to do is put sauce and your toppings on it and put is into oven. Do not forget to transfer dough onto baking sheet or baking stone when you put in into oven.

Enjoy it

How to fly a kite

Flying a kite can be both fun and exercise. A windy day can be bad for flying a paper airplane outdoor but it is a perfect day to fly a kite.

Step#1

If you are planning to go for kite flying, check the weather report first for favorable weather. The best weather for flying a kite is when wind is blowing 5 to 15 mph.

Step #2

Now, find a large open space for your first kite flying lesson. A long field would be perfect place. Make sure there are no power lines or trees in that area. Because it is dangerous for both you and your kite

Step#3

Toss the kite into air lightly until the wind catches it. As we stated earlier, it will work best when wind blows moderately strong.

Step#4

Let out a small length of sting to give the kite a nice lift off, then run with the rest of it sting behind the kite until winds lifts it completely.

Step#5

Let out sting until it reaches a good height that you are comfortable with. Good height is generally considers from 50 to 100 feet.

Step#6

Kite can come crashing down because of sudden changes in wind. If the kite starts to dip, run or pull string a bit to give it some lift.

Step#7

You can bring the kite down slowly by winding sting around kite spool.
Step#8

When the kite is close to ground, reach out and grab it to avoid damage.