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How To: Make a unique paper rose

In this video we learn how to make a unique paper rose. First, grab a square piece of paper and fold it into quarters while maintaining the fold. Then, fold along the diagonals and fold lower in half twice and the top in half twice. Then, fold the halves in half and repeat the previous steps. After this, follow the folds that you created, rotating the paper as you continue to fold. After all of the lines are lined up and you have folded it, it will become a unique paper rose that you made! En...

How To: Perform the 6 o'clock in ballet

In order to perform a perfect six o'clock, you will need to, first, begin by increasing your strength and flexibility. Partner stretches may be beneficial to you, in order to increase your flexibility. This will be of additional benefit to you, if you've pushed yourself as far as you can go alone in individual stretches. When you are adequately limber, begin by stepping forward with one leg. Turn out and engage the front leg, as you transfer your weight to it. When the foot is planted, swing ...

How To: Make your bed properly

In this video, we learn how to make your bed properly. Start off by fluffing all of your pillows, then placing new pillow covers back onto them. After this, take everything off your bed and lay your sheet down onto it so it lies flat with no creases in it. After this, place your pillows at the head of your bed. Next, place the comforter on your bed and fold it at the top to slightly show your pillows where they are at. After this, press down on the bed to avoid any creases and it will look gr...

How To: Do a Turkish get up exercise with a kettlebell

Dina teaches us how to do the Turkish get up exercise with a kettlebell in this tutorial. You want to start off on the ground dong stretches to get your body prepared for this. After you are ready, you will grab the kettlebell and start to do various exercises that work all the different parts of your body. You will need to make sure you maintain control of your muscles while you are doing this, so you have the best results when you are finished and you don't pull a muscle. Do different arm a...

How To: Build a greenhouse to grow flowers or vegetables

In this tutorial, we learn how to build a greenhouse to grow flowers or vegetables. A greenhouse means the growing season doesn't have to end. You should plan the greenhouse out on paper before you begin, and allow space for walkways, location, and more. Make sure you can afford one and know that it will cost more for you to keep the climate in this preferable to grow plants. You can put a number of different glasses on the greenhouse, so pick which one you can afford and prefer the most. Pla...

How To: Prune trees into bushes

Pruning is a commong practice that involves removing certain parts of a plant to help improve or maintain its health. It also helps reduce the chances that any branches fall on people and keeping it safe from possible disease. For some trees, instead of letting them grow to giant proportions, you can actually prune them to a certain point so they instead grow to be the size of bushes.

How To: Import photos and Photoshop documents into Adobe Flash

There are a few ways to bring pictures into a Flash file. This tutorial shows one simple way to do that. You can work with the photos in many ways, which will be discuss in later tutorials. Importing a .psd directly into Flash can be very useful because it maintains the layers in CS3, making it easy to animate or apply action script later to the layer. Whether you're new to Adobe's popular Flash-development platform or a seasoned web developer looking to better acquaint yourself with Flash CS...

How To: Change Lawn Mower Oil

For some people, Spring and Summer, are two of the most busiest times for a cutting grass. The best tool to use of course, the lawn mower. These useful machines make cutting so much easier and keep your yard free of any mulch. But one of the importat aspect of owning a lawn mower, is keeping it maintained. So in this tutorial, you'll find out how to change the lawn mower oil easily. This should be done about once a year. So good luck and enjoy!

How To: Create mood with the Gaussian blur tool in Photoshop

Learn how to use the Gaussian blur tool to add mood to your digital photos while maintaining sharpness and detail. Meet the Adobe Photoshop pen tool! Whether you're new to Adobe's popular image editing software or simply looking to pick up a few new tips and tricks, you're sure to benefit from this free video tutorial, which presents a complete overview of how to use the Gaussian blur filter when touching up a photo. For more information, and to get started using the Gaussian blur tool yourse...

How To: Make an easy bean recipe for weight loss

Forget the beans jokes from childhood taunting - beans are among the cheapest and most excellent sources of protein. A great food for losing weight, beans contain 30g of fiber for each serving (compare that to 7g for cheese). They're low in calories and, because of the fiber, fill you up quickly and maintain satisfaction for several hours.

How To: Wrap hair

The best way to keep your straight hairstyle is to wrap it while you sleep. If you do not like to straighten your locks every morning, or have difficult to maintain hair, watch this instructional video and learn how to wrap it so it stays in place. This is especially useful for African American women with longer hair. So, if you do not want to wake up with wavy frizz, follow the step by step presented in this video for the best way to keep your hair in order, no matter where you lay your head.

How To: Properly clean an SLR camera lens

You will get the best images possible if you learn to maintain your camera and keep the lens clean. In this tutorial, learn how to clean the lens of an SLR camera like a professional. With a clean lens you will be able to take crystal clear photos and avoid any blur or unwanted blemishes. So, follow this step by step and keep your camera in top shape. You will save yourself tons of editing time if you just keep a tidy lens.

How To: Abseil (decend) in rock climbing

In this Outdoor Recreation video tutorial you will learn how to abseil (decend) in rock climbing. You will need some friction device for this purpose. Earlier people used to wrap the rope around their body and used the body as the friction device. That is a painful process. In the modern method, a figure 8 friction plate is used. There should be no jewelry or other hanging material around the body that can get entangled with the figure 8 plate. Also check the harness is OK. Then carefully go ...

How To: Make an awesome photomontage using Photoshop

In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to create a photo-montage using Adobe Photoshop. Begin by inserting the images into the program. Then double-click on the montage image to unlock it and select the eraser tool to remove the background. Once the background is removed, select the move tool and move the montage image to the background. To modify the dimensions, go to Edit and select Free Transformation. Hold the Shift key to maintain the proportions. This video will benefit those viewers...

How To: Make lemongrass consommé

Suzanne Tracht makes a lovely lemongrass consomme for matzo ball soup. She starts with 2 whole chickens and throws them into a pot full of water with celery and some lemon grass. The lemon grass is prepared by crushing it with the back of a knife. She next adds a lime leaf, ginger, and a coarsely chopped onion. Finally, she adds garlic, red chilies, and white parts of leeks. She puts the pot onto the stove and brings it to a simmer. She is careful to lower the heat so it maintains a simmer an...

How To: Replace a clarinet reed

Clarinets are beautiful wind instruments. They can play almost any type of music and they are fun to learn. Once you start playing your clarinet, you will need to know how to maintain it.

How To: Purge, clean, and fill a butane lighter

In this tutorial, we learn how to maintain a butane lighter. There are a variety of butane lighters available, but basics for all of them are all the same. First, adjust the flame dial all the way down to negative. Then, purge the lighter using the back of a wooden match. You will hear a hissing noise as the butane and air escape. Do this until you can no longer hear the noise. You will now clean the lighter by holding a canister of air at a 45 degree angle 3 inches away, spray a few times an...

How To: Do a one arm pushup in minutes

This video starts off with a guy doing several one-arm push-ups. He goes on by saying that since the days of rocky a lot of men have wanted to do the one arm push up. It takes a long time to develop the strength needed to be able to do the one arm push-up set. The video demonstrates a way to be able and start doing them now with the assistance of a power stretch band. Have the band tried up high and wrap the loop around the shoulder that you will not be using in the one arm push up. Press you...

How To: Thoroughly clean tile grout

In this video Rich explains how to maintain a grout and tile floor. He uses a chemical cleaner which he describes as a "grout-smart type product." For regular maintenance of the floor Rich recommends using only 1oz of the product per gallon of warm water but for really badly stained floors using up to 12oz per gallon of warm water. Rich mixes the chemical into his water then applies the mixture to the tile using an ordinary deck scrubber, he then uses an angled scrubber which has bristles tha...

How To: Calculate friction in a body without acceleration

This video shows the viewer how to calculate friction in a body that it is not accelerating. The simple answer is that the force of friction will be equal to the force needed to maintain the constant speed. This means that is you pull a wooden block along a carpet at a constant speed and a Newton meter between you and the block measures 5 Newton’s then the force of friction between the carpet and the block is exactly 5 Newton’s. If the object is accelerating then this rule does not apply.For ...

How To: Indentify problems with the ash & golden rain tree

In this how-to video, you will learn how to identify and control problems with Ash and Golden Rain Trees. If there are discolorations in the tree branch, there may be a few problems. If you see a severe orange color, this will damage the tree. You can paint the tree with a white paint to avoid this problem. Pruning cuts that have been executed poorly will also cause discoloration and rot. If the leaves have tip burn, this may mean that the air is dry and arid. If twigs on Junipers look dirty ...

How To: Do various pilate ball exercises

Get the most out of your Pilates ball, by picking up a few of these Pilates exercises outlined in this tutorial by Pilates instructor Ann Arnoult. For stability, do the plank exercise with your feet on the ball and your hands on the floor which forces you to use your abdominal muscles to maintain that position. Another exercise is to sit on the ball. You will need to sit with your back straight and tall on the ball. Bring your hands behind your back. Inhale and then exhale, but while exhaling...

How To: Do criss-cross corn rows

Criss-cross corn rows are a stylish way to maintain your hair. This video tutorial demonstrates how to braid hair with criss-cross corn rows. Begin by dividing the scalp into four parts, with one line extending from ear to ear, and the other crossing down the center of the head. To complete the hair style, continue to divide each section in half until you reach the desired amount of hair segments.

How To: Use a crochet hook to maintain dread locks

Hold crochet hook with dominate hand, needle facing toward you, hold dreadlock with left hand. In a spot with numerous loose hairs poke needle through dreadlock to other side. Grab loose hairs with needle and pull them through the dreadlock (use hands to keep loose hairs on hook if necessary and to hook more hairs). Be sure to curve crochet hook out of dreadlock so it will not pull loose hairs out the other side. Do not pull crochet needle straight out, this will rip the hair and strip it.

How To: Hit long irons

In this video tutorial, viewers learn how to hit long irons. Viewers are taught how to swings a golf club by learning how to hit long irons. The long iron involves less lofting, which tends to hit the ball farther. Users should always maintain posture. Do not shift your body when you swing. Relate yourself to a discus thrower. Feel like you left knuckle is dragging on the ground. Losing your posture will result in losing your power when you swing. This video will benefit those viewers who enj...

How To: Design parallel flower arrangements in a low container

Watch carefully as this florist moves quickly and silently through the process, grabbing a tearing different types of flowers, then putting them together in an ornamental arrangement. He starts first with some somewhat colorless bushy flowers and affixes them low within the container. Thereafter, he takes single stems of purple, yellow, and red flowers arranging them at different heights above the low-lying bushy ones. He keeps the variously colored flowers isolated in their own little area, ...

How To: Make HD/1080p videos for YouTube in Camtasia

This video lesson will show you how to make HD/1080p videos for YouTube in Camtasia. The simplest way to make this is to record your video in 1920x1080 resolution and render it in that setting. That’s all that you need to do. But, if you have a smaller screen resolution and can’t get 1080p, you can use Camtasia Studio to convert it to 1080p. first add your media to the timeline and change the width to 1920 and the height to 1080 click OK and then close the box. In the preview, you will see th...

How To: Know how long it takes to lose abdominal fat

This video describes the ways people hold onto fat. There are three main types of bodies. There are naturally skinny, round with an easy time gaining weight and overly round with a hard time losing weight. Each person is different but in certain body groups there is an easier time to maintain a lean appearance. Fat cells in your body also play a part in you getting fat and staying thin. It is said that all of your fat cells have been fully grown in your puberty years. There are some new studi...

How To: Clean your sigma makeup brush rolls

Cleaning makeup brush rolls can be quite challenging and frustrating. MakeupByRenRen teaches us an easy and quick technique on how she cleans her sigma makeup brush rolls. Things you will need: an oil-based facial cleanser or a regular olive oil and paper towel. Grab a paper towel and damp it with your oil-based facial cleanser or regular olive oil. Gently rub the paper towel on the surface of your dirty makeup brush rolls. Make sure that you go in every direction to effectively remove all th...

How To: Walk like a male / female model on the catwalk

Are you interested in fashion? Let's try a catwalk. For guys, walk straight and the feet shouldn't cross while walking. For girls, walk with one foot in front of the other, look straight forward and shoulders should pull back. Walk with your hands on the hip or let loose. There must be attitude on both the boy as well as the girl which will create a niche. This will help in launching your fashion career as well as maintain your posture.

How To: Complete the square to graph a quadratic function

In this tutorial the instructor shows how to complete the square to graph a quadratic function using transformations. You can do this by transforming your equation in a series of steps. First make the coefficient of the square term to one by pulling out its numerical coefficient. Now to complete the square of the first part add half the coefficient of the variable with a degree one. Now to maintain the original value of the equation also make sure that you subtract the same value from the equ...

How To: Changing colors of an object in Photoshop

In the tutorial, GeorgiAnastaso shows your how to change color of an object in Photoshop. First of all open the picture which you want to change. Then make a new layer and go to make adjustment layer option. There will be three options. Hue, saturation and lightness. If you change the hue amount it will change the color of your object. Saturation will maintain the color amount. After finishing this tutorial you will be enable to change any color in photoshop.

How To: Understand the secret behind vanishing tricks

In this video from Socoolscienceshow, Crazy Chris explains to us how magicians make things disappear. For this he uses a plate, cup, and a napkin. You cover the cup and plate with a napkin. He removes the napkin with the cup and shows that he taped the cup to the bottom of the plate so they are both removed at the same time. To maintain the look of the cup in that napkin when it's removed he shows that he trace the cup onto some construction paper cut it out, and tape it to the napkin. Then h...

How To: Create rounded-corner rectangles in Xara Xtreme

One must have often wondered how to create rectangles with smooth rounded corners. Open Xara Xtreme and create a rectangle on the stage. To change it to rounded corners, click on 'curved corners'. Then one can edit how much curve is required on the rectangle. If we scale the rectangle, then it will lose the curve path. So it should be converted to 'editable shapes'. This will maintain the curves, even if scaled from one angle. This will be helpful to create those party fliers.

How To: Train for boxing with a speedball

Simone Harvey's training for boxing is really an eye catcher. She teaches about the hand-eye coordination, speed and shoulder balancing. The pace of speed she maintains while kicking the speed ball is perfect. For the beginners, usage of one hand to kick the speed ball is a good method of training. This automatically leads in kicking the ball at a greater speed by using two hands. The training induces the viewers, who have less knowledge about boxing, to get trained with Simone. This is a ben...