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How To: Recognize when a papaya is ripe

Papaya's are a tropical fruit that is very healthy and a little sweet. But knowing when it's ripe is the true challenge. It boils down to a few factors that include color, smell and other visual cues. In this video you will get tips on what to look for as well as alternatives to getting your papaya to ripen.

How To: Maintain proper etiquette when road biking in groups

Like most of life's great pleasures, riding bicycles becomes more fun when you do it with groups of people. For road bikers, however, riding in groups presents its own set of challenges. This video will give you some common-sense rules to bear in mind when road riding in groups that will keep you and your friends safe and having fun.

How To: Give negative feedback to workers on the job

Need a new perspective on giving feedback in the workplace? Giving feedback can be tough, especially when you're dealing with negative feedback. It's a challenge. This video will cover some quick tips you can use to make sure both parties get the most out of the experience. It will create a better work environment, and workers will be more willing to change their ways.

How To: Improve your company's customer service

If you own your own business, no matter how efficient it is, you probably field complaints from customers. Dealing with these complaints, and using the information therein to improve your company, can be stressful and challenging. This video features a business expert outlining some simple advice for ways that you can improve the efficiency of you customer support process.

How To: Coach an Under-6 Soccer Team

Getting children under the age of 6 to do anything is a bit of a challenge, especially when you have a bunch of them in one place. This video teaches one great technique for youth sports coaches to motivate the kids, playing Simon Says. A simple game, but one that has great teaching potential when applied to a youth soccer practice, or any other youth sports practice. Can be used on older kids as well, but perhaps less effectively.

How To: Grow giant pumpkins

You've all seen them in the movies, cartoons, or on tv shows: giant pumpkins win contests. Not only is it a challenge for you and others, but it's a fun experience that you are sure to share with friends and family for years. In this tutorial, you'll find out how to grow giant pumpkins, from your own backyard. So good luck, enjoy, and may tbe spores be with you. (You'll see in the video)

How To: Build a miniature model chair out of walnut

If you have some wood to waste, this can be a cool little project that is sure to help improve your woodworking skills. In this tutorial, you'll find out how to build a cool miniature chair using walnut. This chair has some unique dimensions and corners and is sure to make people go, nice! So check out this tutorial and see if you're up to the challenge!

How To: Get the Boom Goes the Dynamite achievement in Skate 2

Much like the earlier Tony Hawk games, Skate 2 brings a much more difficult atmosphere and skating challenges to your home. This achievement tutorial will show you how to get the Boom Goes the Dynamite achievement that can be pretty difficult to get, so you may have to try over again and again. So good luck and enjoy!

How To: Coach Youth Football with Buddy Curry

Coaching youth football is a mammoth challenge for the inexperienced. In this video, NFL Rookie-of-the-Year award recipient Buddy Curry offers some tips on how to coach youth football players. These include mastering a small group of plays instead of being okay at a wide variety of plays, as well as practicing fundamentals daily and dealing effectively with the parents of your athletes.

How To: Practice Some Volleyball Positions and Skills

Volleyball is a very challenging, fun, and rewarding sport. This video demonstrates some drills that you can do, or have your athletes do, to improve their volleyball skills. It includes an explanation of the different volleyball positions. It follows this with some training techniques including having players play their unnatural positions and how to serve properly.

How To: Do the I VI II V jazz guitar exercise

Jazz guitar is one of the deepest, most challenging, and most rewarding kinds of playing. This video by Justin teaches us an jazz guitar exercise designed to work on I VI II V I chords. Some skill is definitely required, but if you're an experienced jazz player this exercise should very much help you improve your skills.

How To: Make a carrot cake with or without eggs

Carrot cake has always been among the most controversial of cakes, but for those who love it there are few finer baked goods in the world. Here, the ladies of Show Me the Curry teach us how to make an easy carrot cake either with or without eggs! As any of our vegan viewers know, making cakes work without eggs can be a challenge, so take note of this one!

How To: Draw a gangsta character

Graffiti master Wizard spit some more knowledge at us with only his hands, drawing a gangsta figure for a viewer named HQ in his signature style, working quickly in sharpie on graph paper to create something that the more clumsy-handed among us couldn't produce with a lifetime of effort. If you think you're up to the challenge though, copying Wizard's techniques on paper will greatly improve your skills before you take them to the streets, so that when you really want to leave your mark you w...

How To: Edit & delete data in PHP & MYSQL

This video describes how to edit and delete data in PHP and MYSQL. The video is about twenty minutes long and is perfect for anyone learning how to manage databases and websites with PHP or MYSQL. This video is part of a series on learning PHP and MYSQL. However, this video is not intended for anyone who is technically challenged or not a coder and should only be watched after having a good grasp on PHP syntax.

How To: Remove wallpaper with vinegar

Do you dread tackling those wallpaper remodeling tasks on your home maintenance list? Many homeowners choose to let professionals deal with the removal of their old wallpaper, but this can be an expensive choice. Learn how you can remove even the most stubborn wallpaper and wallpaper accent trim with a little white vinegar, a spray bottle and a paint scraper in just 7 minutes. Find out, too, how you can make this project a fun, family challenge by involving the little ones.