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How To: Leave a job on good terms

While it may be tempting to tell your boss where he can stick his letter opener when you’re ready to quit, it’s not a great career move. You will need a job to resign from, good stationery, acting skills (optional). Submit resignation. Submit resignation.

How To: Recognize the symptoms of food poisoning

Food poisoning, also referred to as food-borne illness, is a gastrointestinal disorder that results from eating contaminated food. . Who is at risk? Anyone can get food poisoning, especially travellers and those who live in tropical climates. Infants, elderly people, and those with serious medical conditions have the greatest risk if they get food poisoning. Pregnant and breastfeeding women also need to be especially careful. Learn about the different causes, symptoms, and treatments of food ...

How To: Avoid eating saturated fats

There's actually several different kinds of fats. You have your unsaturated fats, which are typically heart-healthy fat, which are like olive oil and canola oil. And then you have other fats like saturated fats, which are found in food such as meats, especially any animal product, fatty cuts of meats such as bacon, sausage, butter, lard, high fat dairy products, whole milk, and creams. And saturated fats have actually been linked to increased risk of heart disease. So these are things that yo...

How To: Buy vegetables at the grocery store

Vegetables are the foundation of a healthy, balanced diet, many experts recommending 3-5 servings a day. When choosing your vegetables, it's always best to choose fresh; although, frozen and canned still have nutritional value and benefits as well. Also, look for vegetables that are bright in color like this red pepper, also carrots that are brightly orange and brightly-colored green broccoli. The brighter the color, the more nutrients that are in it. Try these tips for buying vegetables in t...

How To: Cook salmon tournedo rolled in bacon

The Museum restaurant far removed from downtown Bucharest isn't a place tourists are likely to stumble upon accidentally. But for ten years, "Museum" has definitely been an out-of-the-ordinary place to dine. Watch this cooking how to video and learn how to make one of their specialties, salmon tournedo rolled in bacon. This seafood recipe is sure to be a one of your specialties too.

How To: Get bigger biceps by lifting weights

How do you get bigger biceps, the age-old quest for bigger guns. Well, first things first, more is not better. Hefting around 50-pound dumbbells as opposed to 20-pound dumbbells is not necessarily going to build you bigger biceps because what's probably happening, you're probably not using full range of motion, you're jerking a lot, you're not focusing on that muscle alone. Practice lifting weights to get bigger biceps. Learn how to increase arm strength and size in the biceps with weightlift...

How To: Exercise with hanging knee lifts

Have you tried working out with hanging knee lifts? If so, you know that they are an essential part of lifting weights and strength training. This fitness how-to video demonstrates how to work out the legs and abs with hanging knee lifts. Learn how to do knee lift exercises in this training video.

How To: Do a biceps curl in perfect form with weights

Have you tried working out with a bicep curl? Biceps curls are an essential part of lifting weights and strength training. This fitness how-to video demonstrates how to do these exercises with perfect form. Getting big biceps means doing curls and lifting dumbbell weights. Learn how to do biceps curls to workout the muscles in this weightlifting video workout.

How To: Exercise thighs with outer thigh presses

Have you tried working out with outer thigh presses? Outer thigh presses are an essential part of lifting weights and strength training. This fitness how-to video tutorial demonstrates how to increase thigh power with outer thigh presses. Learn about muscle training and exercises in this video.

How To: Maintain the RV LP gas system

Check out this instructional RV video to learn how to maintain the LP gas system on your recreational vehicle. Open up the compartment and you will see your LP tank. There is a gauge that tells you how much is inside the tank, there is also a fill station where you fill it up, always make sure the cap is returned after filling it up, so no debris gets inside. There is also a pressure release valve so when you are filling it, the pressure can escape through there so you can get the proper amou...

How To: Build hoop houses

A hoop house is greenhouse-like construct built to help gardeners grow vegetables and plants year-round. Build a hoop house with a professional organic farmer in this free gardening video series.

How To: Make party hats

Make your very own party hats! Use your home crafting skills to liven up a birthday, New Years, or kids party without spending a lot of money by watching this free online arts and crafts video taught by expert Ginny Larson.

How To: Use the simple past tense in the English language

This three part language tutorial is a grammar lesson for lower level ESL students. Learn how to use the simple past tense with this tutorial. The past simple tense, also called the simple past is used for past actions that happened either at a specific time, which can either be given by a time phrase (yesterday, last year, etc.) or understood from the context. Regular Verbs add -ed to the base form, or -d if the verbs ends with -e. Irregular verbs can change in many different ways. Watch thi...

How To: Improve video search by parsing video & text

This is a Google Tech Talk from March, 26 2008. Timothee Cour - Research Scientist lectures. Movies and TV are a rich source of highly diverse and complex video of people, objects, actions and locales "in the wild". Harvesting automatically labeled sequences of actions from video would enable creation of large-scale and highly-varied datasets. To enable such collection, we focus on the task of recovering scene structure in movies and TV series for object/person tracking and action retrieval. ...

How To: Perform CPR on a baby (British Red Cross)

The most basic and most important aspect of first aid is CPR. It's the one thing that is most likely to save a life. It's stands for cardiopulmonary resuscitation, which is the emergency medical procedure for restoring a person's normal heartbeat and breathing when experiencing heart failure or breathing impairment. But there's a different approach when dealing with and chest massages for babies under one year old.

How To: Grow orchids

Although most of us can't grow Mangoes or Avocados or some of the other plants we're looked at, most everyone can grow or enjoy Orchids. Today they're readily available and there are thousands of species and it's believed there are thousands that have yet to be been discovered. Considering the way they're propagated today and the many places they're sold there is no reason we all shouldn't be growing Orchids. Karen had a fear of growing Orchids, thinking they were difficult to grow. She recei...

How To: Grow and care for prennial plants

Our greenthumb expert Martha Cycz introduces you to whole new circle of friends, ones with exotic titles like Bretisia, Echinacea and Dicentia. But don't let the sophisticated names fool you: these are very approachable plants, ones which will return your affection year around. And just might summon a butterfly or two when they're feeling just right. Martha will tell you how to plant and care for these perennials so that you may develop rewarding relationships with all of them.

How To: Make a paper Mardi Gras mask

Get the beads and masks out... it's Mardi Gras time! Instead of buying everything from a store and spending boat loads of cash, save by making this year's mask out of paper with help from this free tutorial. Learn how to make your own homemade Mardi Gras mask with help from this video presented by Learn How To.

How To: Know the steps to becoming a US citizen

To become an American citizen you would first have to fill out an application, then take a naturalization examination. Providing that you have been a legal resident in the U.S. for more than five years, you would then have to appear at a court hearing. You have to be eighteen years old, have good moral character, and be loyal to the United States. You would need to know how to read, write, understand and speak the English language; and have a general knowledge of our country's history, our go...