What is the best way to travel from Buffalo to New York ? [Opinion]

There are many way to travel from Buffalo to New York [NY]. Now it really depends on how you want to travel. I will just state some good ways if you're deciding to travel.

If it's urgent or you want the least costly deal: If you are in a hurry or you don't want to pay much then Ocean Travel is the best one. As long as I know they are standard. You will get AC, restroom facilities, seats with advanced features and TV & VCR. You will get all that for only 50$. Their bus station in buffalo is in 809 Millersport Hwy, Buffalo, NY 14226  and in NYC it is 59 Canal St cor Orchard St, New York, NY 10002.
You can book yours here.

If you are traveling for entertainment or you want see around:

Greyhound is the best solution then. I thing I like about them is that they have multiple types of tickets. So say like if you are not really sure whether you will go or not then you can buy the refundable one only for 70$.

Buy your ticket from here.

How to get into City Honors,Hutch-Tech or Frederick Law Olmsted high school [Edu Solutions] -Types of question on the test and more tips!

Out of 45 elementary and 11 high schools in Buffalo district schools three are well known for its programs,class management,curriculum & organization. Those are City Honors School At Fosdick-Masten Park, PS 156 Frederick Law Olmsted High School and Hutch-Tech Technical High School. In order to get in there is an entrance test that students need to take.

 The test is all about understanding what question is asking you. All they orare trying to test is your cognitive abilities and finding answer by looking through the references give. Let me just show you some questions that you might see on the test.

Math:
There are many Analogy questions. You know "A is to B as C is to what?" type of questions. You can find sample questions about analogy in the following links:
Here: http://www.math.com/students/kaplan/sat_intro/sample_qs/analogy_sample_qs/ana1.htm
& Here: http://www.englishforeveryone.org/Topics/Analogies.htm [Scroll Down and you will see analogy questions based on grades] 
->Some figure classification questions. You can practice yours here.->Figure analogy questions which you can find here.
->Figure analysis questions here
You can also look up online to find more practice worksheets. 
English:
I've also seen some verbal reasoning question where you're give some words and need to find a word that most likely to come next. An Example would be: Say like you are given Red,Yellow,Blue,White and then you have to select a word from some words that are give like Umbrella,Window,Green,Grass.Which one you think goes with Red,Yellow,Blue,White? Obviously every single one of them are colors so the most likely one is green.
Then there are sentence completion: How ___ make a cup of tea? A)to B)do C)for
and the answer is A [Real Easy].
You can find more about Cognitive Abilities Test (CogAT) here.Look at the type of question and search each one on google to find practice worksheets. The more you practice, the more likely that you will become good at it.
Essay:
The essay is pretty much about something general or dramatic. In 2012 it was about "a coin that been around many people..". There is not much to learn about an essay [I think] since you really don't know what it is going to be about. But they give you an extra page to make an outline of your essay which you should definitely use properly. Make a good outline and always start with the introduction. It should look something like:

 ->Introduction (1-2 paragraphs)

    Focus on explaining the topic.

 ->Body (minimum of 3 paragraphs but use as many as necessary ... several short paragraphs are better than 1-2 overly long paragraphs)

    Write your body before your write your introduction and conclusion.

    Examine all aspects of the topic. Show your knowledge and grasp of the material you have read.

        Discuss the differing opinions of the topic as reflected in the research.

        Discuss any issues or problems.

            Did you have enough information?

      Did the research raise issues you hadn't considered?

      Did the research contain confusing, incomplete or contradictory information?

    Explain how your research influenced your thinking.

    If your thinking has changed, what changed it?

          If your thinking has not changed, how did what you learned support your original opinion?

    If you're not sure about your opinion, what information might you need to form an opinion?

 ->Conclusion (generally 1 paragraph)

    The conclusion rounds off the essay.

    Refer back to your main ideas or points and reiterate your answer to the question.

    NEVER introduce new information in your conclusion.

    The conclusion moves from specific to general.

[From http://www.amyglenn.com/Courses/critical.htm]

Check this link to find out more about writing a cognitive ability test.
I think that pretty much it. Always read the direction and time yourself during the test because I've seen a lot of people ran out of time.

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Its the same as City Honors.

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Hutch-Tech Admission Test is almost the same as City Honors or F. Olmsted. The only difference is that there is no essay on the test. There are some tricky math questions are given on the hutch tech test. Some Examples would be:
-> Equation Building
-> Quantitative Relations
-> There are some questions where you are give numbers and arrows to find a number. Its almost like you are given or you choose an input and then the input goes through subtraction,division,multiplication or deciding if its odd or even.I made up a weird example just to give you an idea which you can find here: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0Bw7J3hZvPhOcN1Z0SHM5UjdwMkk/edit?usp=sharing

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Easy and free software to extract archives! -ExtractNow [REVIEW]

When it comes to compress a file and reduce the size of it the best way is to send it as .zip or compress it as .rar or any other archive format. But when it comes to extracting a like this a lot of software comes up like WinRar or Demonoid etc. Everything goes fine during the trial period but after that you need a serial key or a crack to keep the software going. Finding these serial keys or cracks is always a big waste of time and downloading cracks from torrents can sometimes harm your computer. Today I will introduce a software called ExtractNow which is simple and free. You can extract multiple archives using it within a second. Its fast and will use less memory space. So download it now from here.

Microworkers.com review + Tips & Tricks on how you can earn more!

Microworkers is a known site in the PTC & Data Entry world. It's well known for its type of works and features. To me its a simple and easy way to earn a decent amount per month. A great feature is it's a paying site. I have earn 111.53 dollars so far from microworkers. Heres the proof:

& Here are the payment proofs from PayPal:

Tips & Tricks on earning more:
Okay so to do that first you need to earn about 10$. Just do some signup,facebook,twitter,comment,click & sharing type of works. Then submit a withdraw request. They will send you a mail in your home address. That's why the address is imporant when you sign up. Now according to them you will receive your mail within 21 days but however I received my mail in the 14th day!. Okay so while you wait for it keep doing works that you are able to do. Remember you will always find works in the "click, search" section if just keep refreshing it. Now once you receive your first payment in PayPal (thats the payment method I recommend) we will do something irrelevant other then just working. We will invest that 10$ to gain more profit. Let me show you how-
First go here and then do as the following picture

After that choose a domain that is free. Then go to Namecheap.com and search the domain and buy the domain. The reason I choose Namecheap is because it supports unverified paypal account. So you can buy a domain without any kind of hassle. Remember try to buy a domain that has pagerank of 4 or over. Otherwise you wouldn't be able to do some of the works. Once you have finished buying the domain (there are a lot of tutorials and posts about buying domains from namecheap so I didn't go in details about it) make a blog or website using it. I prefer blogger.com because its easy to customize and design. Once you have created a blog or website attack your domain that you brought from Namecheap to it. Here are some tutorials on
How to Attach you domain on blogger:

Once you have done that write about 10+ posts about random stuffs. Now lets go back to Microworkers.com
Click the "Most Paying" tab and you should see some tasks like this:

Now you are able to these kind of jobs. Always remember the writing need to in proper english and related to the topic. I have earned up to 7$ in some tasks.

So Happy Earning! :)
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How can you check your regents exam scores? [SOLVED]

Before I start with the steps just to be clear that you can only do this if your school district supports the system. There are two known system as I know is being used to keep track of students progress - Infinity Campus (Buffalo) and ARIS Parent Link (NYC).
Infinity Campus: (Buffalo)

In order to sign up you need to request your guidance counselor a password and username. Sign in and then follow the pictures below (if you can see just click the picture to zoom in)

Click "Select a student" and choose your name

 

Scroll down and you should be able to see a section callen Regents exam or Final Exam and that is your regents score

ARIS Parent Link:
Its real easy. Just sign in and look at the sidebar. You will be able to guide yourself!

US telecommunication services that supports international call are breaking their promises! [EXPERIENCE]

 

Coming from a foreign country and leaving behind business and family always is makes you feel alone. The only way to communicate is by using telecommunication services. But unfortunately my country Bangladesh is not supported by two of the most known telecommunication services Verizon & Time Warner. Therefore I had to use a third party service or I should say "services". Let me just tell you my experience with the two services that I used.

1)NuEra Telecom:

So one day I received a call from a guy who claimed himself as "Pakistani" and said they have this amazing offer of calling my country for only one cent per second. I asked him where did he get my number and he said my uncle gave it to him (which is true). I was using calling cards that time so I told him I'm not interested. After a few days the same guy calls me again with the same offer. I passed and said no. But he started calling me every week and I kind of got pissed off and told him I will take his service. But a funny fact about his call was that its not from a mobile phone and you will never get the same person in call if you call them back. However everything was fine after I took the service but when I saw my bill - !!!!! It was far more than they said. Called them back at the same instance but someone else picked up and I asked about the pakistani agent who I talked to before but the customer center refused to give me a chance to talk to the agent and told me that my service allows something that charges me more and they would turn that off and next time my bill will be reduced. But the next time same thing happened and I called them to turn my service off.

2)Lingo Telecom:

The scene is kind of same at the first. Another pakistani called me and told me he has a special promotion and he is offering me a package that Lingo can't offer. I will only have to pay 27$ per month+Tax  and thats pretty much it. So I signed up and noticed something irrelevant. I can talk to him about the offer and everything but I can't sign up for the service through him. But anyway the deal was awesome. Besides for the first 40 days I will only have to pay 5 dollars (trial period). However everything was fine until they charged me 272$ for using their service for only 3 months. I called lingo and like NuEra they refused to let me talk to the agent who introduced me to the service at the first. So I called my credit card company [CapitalOne] and talked to the dispute center. They CapitalOne called Lingo.com and connected me and we had a teleconference. Lingo claims that I talked more than 3000 minutes thats why they charged me that amount when their agent told me that it's only 27$+Tax unlimited. CapitalOne agent found my statement true and fixed my balance. But they sent me another letter saying that if I don't pay them back they will do something in my credit account & they will also talk to the collection department. 

So after all that hassle I am back to my own method which is buying calling cards. 

Tutorial: How to make a proficient header for your blog or website

To attract your visitors a header that matches your sites content is always an important factor. But due to lack of proficiency and experience making a header kind of become a hard task. Let me show you step by step how you can create a "good-looking" header without having much knowledge about web designing!

The things that you need:
1) Download GIMP from here
Thats pretty much it!

Now, in this tutorial I will make a header for a musical website! The title of my website will be musical related and so the logo will be musical related too.

To find a good logo you can search online or there is a good website called iconfinder.com
So first go to (for me) iconfinder.com and because my website is music related I will search "music" (you can search for whatever you like) and this is the icon I choose:

Now open GIMP and press ctrl+N and you should see something like this:

 

Because my header is 470X70 I choose that. You can change yours and resize anytime. Press "OK" and you will see a new window with a white background. Then press ctrl+O and you open the icon you downloaded.Then...

Then press shift+T to scale and place the icon in a correct position

Once you have done that you are half way through. Now lets add some text by pressing "T" and you can change the font,color or style whatever. After I've added text in my header it looks like this: 

Now this is one of the most important part (to me) where you have to remove the background because otherwise your header will not match with the template color and therefore everything will look kinda weird. To do that its very simple. Just look at the layers and you will see a layer or, picture under you icon that say "Background". Click "Background" & then press the red button that say "Delete this layer" just as shown below: 

Almost done! Now to save in .png or .jpeg format just press ctrl+E and save it :). 

My one looks like this:

I hope you enjoyed.Remember everything I do is for beginner because I am a novice person in this field.