In one sentence, describe what the following article is about: Start your smoothie with a liquid base. It should be added to your blender first before the fruits, vegetables, or other ingredients. This helps protect the blades as well as helping things blend well.  The ratio of the liquid base to the fruits and vegetables should be for every 2 cups of liquid base, add about ¾  cup of fruit, vegetables, or other ingredients. You can add more fruits and vegetables if you want, especially if they are juicier. For a low-calorie smoothie, instead of piling in a lot of high calorie fruits, choose one or two fruits, a green, a protein, and some spices. Balance high calorie fruits, like bananas and pineapple, with lower calorie fruits, like berries. Instead of one cup of nut milk, consider using ½ cup of skim milk and ½ cup of water to reduce calories. Add ice at the end if you want to cool your drink, give it a frozen treat consistency, and thin it out. Smoothies are thick, so you should start with a thin liquid base. This can be anything liquid, such as dairy milk, soy milk, herbal teas, or nut milk. If you want to use dairy milk, make sure to use a lower calorie version, like 2% or 1%. Use unsweetened nut milks instead of sweetened nut milks or dairy milks to save calories. For low-calorie smoothies, choose low-calorie bases including:  Water Unflavored, unsweetened almond milk No sugar added coconut water or coconut milk Rice milk Green tea The produce is the main ingredient for your low-calorie smoothie. You can use frozen fruit or vegetables, but, of course, fresher is better. You can add just about any fruit or vegetable you want. For lower calorie smoothies, load up on veggies and limit fruits.  Some good ideas for vegetables include any dark leafy greens, like kale or spinach, carrots, cucumbers, tomatoes, avocados, or beets. Almost any fruit makes a good smoothie. Try berries, melons, bananas, pineapple, pears, peaches, mangos, and kiwis.  You can buy prepackaged smoothie packs in the freezer section of your grocery store. You can also freeze your own produce. Bananas, mango, berries, kale, spinach, and even melons can be frozen. Since you are just throwing them in a blender for a smoothie, you don’t have to worry about freezing them perfectly. To make a low-calorie, all around healthy smoothie, add some protein. This doesn’t mean tossing in some protein powder. There are natural, tastier ways to get protein in your smoothie. Try:  Low fat cottage cheese Low fat plain Greek yogurt Tahini, almond butter, or low-calorie, no sugar added peanut butter Nuts, such as almonds or walnuts Hemp, chia, flax, or pumpkin seeds Silken tofu You can add a lot of flavor into your smoothie without adding in extra calories. Smoothies don’t have to be just strawberry and banana or tropical. You can make any kind of smoothie you want with any flavor. Try adding spices and herbs to vary the flavor. Try:  Cinnamon Nutmeg Basil Mint Turmeric Cardamom Cilantro Thyme Cloves Ginger Cayenne
Summary: Choose the right ratio of ingredients. Start with a liquid base. Add frozen or fresh produce. Add protein. Add extra flavor.

Sometimes others will notice sarcasm from you when you don’t. By telling everyone, they can remind you if you start reverting back to old ways. Make sure that you tell people you see regularly, like a friend, co-worker, or significant other. Tell them to interject whenever they catch you speaking sarcastically.  Don't offended when people call you out for sarcasm. You need some tough love if you want to make a real change! By including others in your goal, you open yourself up to advice and encouragement. Having support from people around you can be extremely helpful when you're making a change. Create a sarcasm jar, like a swear jar, and put a dollar in it every time you say something sarcastic. By forking over cash every time you let a sarcastic comment slip, you’ll choose your words more carefully— or put a strain on your bank account! When you’ve accumulated a fair amount of money in the jar, use it for something productive, like a bill.  Don't use the money for a treat. That money a penalty payment, so it cannot be used for something fun. Place the jar somewhere you can see it, so that your goal is always on your mind. It will serve as a physical reminder to watch your words and avoid using sarcasm. Maybe you saw a friend being sarcastic and you realized how unflattering it is. Perhaps you hurt someone’s feelings unintentionally, and want to work on speaking more kindly. Whatever your reasoning, make sure you remind yourself of it regularly. You can become the person you want to become, you just have to stay focused on your goal. Try writing these reminders down and posting them somewhere that you'll see everyday. This can be something like randomly telling a friend something you really admire about them, or telling a stranger on the bus that you like their shoes or their bag. Maybe you just want to tweet something every day that makes you genuinely happy. It doesn't matter what you do, just make sure it is earnest, kind, and uplifting. Not only will you get into the habit of speaking truthfully, but you will also start creating a new image of yourself to the people around you. Even if you are having a horrible day and don't particularly want to challenge yourself, just do it. You will feel better afterwards, because kindness is contagious.
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One-sentence summary -- Tell everyone about your goal to stop being sarcastic. Create a system to penalize yourself. Remind yourself why you want to reduce the sarcasm. Give yourself an "anti-sarcasm" challenge every day.

Problem: Article: Many services provide a place to host your BBS, and generally offer guaranteed uptime, easy setup, domain names, and customer support. Many forum hosting providers now include a service that automates forum installation of 2 of the more popular forum software applications, SimpleMachines and phpBB (if so, follow your hosts instructions to install and then skip to the login portion of the instructions below). Consider free open source software that's very well supported, both in terms of development and community support. You will need this to upload your PHP content to your host. Set this up on your host through the control panel of your domain. Go to example.com/forumdirectory/install.php to install and configure your forums. In your FTP client, go to config.php > Properties and set the CHMOD settings to 666.  Follow the instructions on install.php. After finishing installation, go to the CHMOD settings of config.php and change them to 644 (if you are using phpBB 2). Delete the install and contrib directories. Go to example.com/forumdirectory/index.php. Login and go to the admin panel to customize your forum.
Summary:
Register a domain at a host who supports PHP. Download forum software. Download an FTP client. Create a MySQL database. Set up your forums. If you are using phpBB: Clean up time. Login and Customize