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How to Choose Where to Plant Trees
Planting trees near your home has many advantages, and one of the most important is to provide shade from the sun. When placed in the right spots, trees can help cool your home, which helps lower utility costs, and they can protect your home from nature's...
How to Add Baking Soda to Laundry
Baking soda is a natural deodorizer and cleanser. Adding it to laundry is a great way to gently clean your clothes to remove tough smells and stains. Using baking soda can also help soften clothes, boost your detergent's power, and keep whites white. As a...
How to Be Honourable
To be honourable is to be kind, genuine, and empathetic without expecting a reward for your behaviour. It’s a rare combination of virtues, but with practice anyone can be honourable. Do you want to be the type of person who stands up for your beliefs inst...
How to Find Morel Mushrooms
Morel mushrooms are relatively easy to identify, not produced commercially, and taste absolutely delectable. They start cropping up in the spring, from late April through May. You can identify them by their honeycomb-like exterior. Look for them around tr...
How to Maintain Leather Shoes
You love your leather shoes, and you want to keep them beautiful and shiny for years to come. To keep your shoes looking their best, clean them regularly, particularly in harsh weather like snow and ice. Condition them every month or so to moisturize the...
How to Make Origami Paper
Origami is the art of paper folding. Most origami artists use special lightweight paper that comes in small squares. However, sometimes this paper can be difficult to find. If you don't have specialty paper on hand but still want to practice your folding,...
How to Cause a Person to Fall Asleep
Their are a variety of reasons why a person may be unable to fall asleep. It may be because of surroundings that are too stimulating, or because of stress from the previous or upcoming day. Regardless of what leads to restlessness and sleepless nights, tr...
How to Calculate the Area of a Sector
Sometimes you might need to determine the area of a sector, say for math questions or for a project you are working on. A sector is a part of a circle that is shaped like a piece of pizza or pie. To find the area of this piece, you need to know the radius...
How to Become a Medical Assistant
As a medical assistant, you’ll get to improve the lives of patients by providing empathetic and knowledgeable care. From day-to-day, your work will constantly change as new cases come in and as you switch between administrative and clinical tasks. If you’...
How to Use a High Speed Floor Buffer
Floor buffers are an upright electrical cleaning device similar to vacuum cleaners in size and shape. They are used to both clean and shine non-carpeted flooring. High-speed floor buffers are typically used in hospitals, schools and businesses because the...
How to Enable IP Routing
When using Windows NT or other operating systems, you may need to know how to enable IP routing and set up static routing tables using ROUTE.EXE. IP Routing is the process that allows data to cross over a network of computers rather than just one. Routing...
How to Make Blackberry Wine
Blackberries are typically in season during late-summer to early-autumn months, and can be found in hedgerows all across the US and Europe. They are used to make desserts, jams and teas. This article will teach you how to make delicious blackberry wine pe...
Get Closer with Your Cousins: Gaining Trust, Building Relationships & More
For some people, a cousin is like a cross between a sibling and a friend, and the relationship can be very deep and close. Others are more distant with their cousins—maybe they live far away, or there are family problems that drive them apart. Whether you...
How to Add Custom Calculated Fields to Pivot Tables in Excel
Do you want to add more information to your pivot table without altering your source data? You easily can add custom calculated fields to create formulas within the pivot table instead of adding more columns to your worksheet. Custom fields can do nearly...
How to Divide a Phlox Plant
There are many varieties of phlox plants, all of which produce fragrant flowers in a wide range of colors. The most common garden phlox variety is the tall phlox, which grows to heights of 2 to 4 feet (0.6 to 1.2 m) tall in large clusters of dense foliage...
How to Use Google Hangouts
From meetings to movie nights, Google Hangouts allows users across the world to video chat, collaborate, and share with ease. There are a lot of features packed into the Hangouts application, so follow this guide to start getting the most out of your Hang...